Afterimage articles from May 2000

Afterimage archives from May 2000

LETTER.
May 1, 2000... To the Editor: I liked Jeannene M. Przyblyski's article on Julia Margaret Cameron in the recent issue (Afterimage 27, no. 5). Although I love Cameron's work, Przyblyski's perspective is welcome. I too have had doubts about the women of...

2000 GUGGENHEIM GRANTS.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced the winners of its 76th annual fellowship award. One hundred and eighty-two artists, scholars and scientists selected from over 2900 applicants will receive awards totaling $6,345,000....

LIFE ENDS.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... The May issue of Life magazine will be its last. Founded in 1936 by Henry Luce, the weekly magazine "brought the world home" to American readers. It chronicled the triumphs and heartaches of the U.S. in the 1940s, 50s and 60s through picture...

BUCKSBAUM PRIZE.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... The Whitney Museum of American Art presented the first winner of the Bucksbaum Award of $100,000 and a residency to Paul Pfeiffer of Brooklyn, New York on May 1. The prize will be given every two years during the Whitney Biennial to an emerging...

NOTES FROM THE FIELD.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... On April 1, The Alternative Museum in New York City closed its exhibition space and will now only present exhibitions on the Internet. This new electronic gateway to world culture and contemporary art can be found at www.alternativemuseum.org....

NEA 2000 SECOND ROUND GRANTS.
May 1, 2000... The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has announced its second round of grants for the 2000 fiscal year. The NEA was allotted a budget of $97.6 million for Fiscal Year 2000, $79.6 million of which was designated for grantmaking. Second...

2000 SPE NATIONAL CONFERENCE.
May 1, 2000... SPE 2000: Turning 21: Celebrating Photography at the Turn of the Century Cincinnati, Ohio March 23-26, 2000 This year's Society for Photographic Education (SPE) national conference celebrated the turn of the century with a look...

ON THE BORDERLINE.
May 1, 2000... Borderline: between art and therapy Spacex Gallery Exeter, United Kingdom March 4, 2000 There is a complex connection between art and therapy. For an artist's work to be deemed "therapeutic" is a damning indictment yet to sever...

PHOTOGRAPHY AT CAA.
May 1, 2000... 88th College Art Association Conference New York, New York February 23-26, 2000 "Perspectives on Modern Art History: Identities, Institutions, and Images" The Graduate Center of City University of New York, New York February...

Maximizing Indeterminacy: On Collage in Writing, Film, Video, Installation and Other Artistic Realms (as well as the Shroud of Turin).
May 1, 2000... The truth is that my nervous system, interposed between the objects which affect my body and those which I can influence, is a mere conductor, transmitting, sending back or inhibiting movement. This conductor is composed of an enormous number...

TAKING A LONG, HARD LOOK.
May 1, 2000... Robert Heinecken, Photographist: A Thirty-Five-Year Retrospective The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Illinois October 1-November 28,1999 Los Angeles County Museum of Art Los Angeles, California February 13-April...

GLOBAL ENTERTAINMENT.
May 1, 2000... The Worlds of Nam June Paik Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York, New York February 11-April 26, 2000 The Worlds of Nam June Paik John G. Hanhardt New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2000 292 pp./$40.00 (sb)...

STILL (AND MORE TO COME).
May 1, 2000... Eileen Cowin, Work 1971 - 1998: Still (and all) Armory Center for the Arts Pasadena, California January 23-March 19, 2000 Southeast Museum of Photography Daytona Beach, Florida May 23-September 27, 2000 ...

SMITH'S STEICHEN.(Review)
May 1, 2000... Edward Steichen: The Early Years Joel Smith Princeton, NJ and New York, NY: Princeton University Press in association with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999 167pp./$ 60.00 (hb) Joel Smith's monograph Edward Steichen: The Early...

PRESERVING PULCHRITUDE.(Review)
May 1, 2000... Beefcake by Thom Fitzgerald Strand Releasing (1998) AMG: The Fantasy Factory (videotape set, complete in four volumes) Campfire Video (1990-94) During the years immediately following World War II there emerged in the United...

COUNTERPOINT.
May 1, 2000... Emergence from the Shadow: First Peoples' Photographic Perspectives Canadian Museum of Civilization Hull, Quebec, Canada October 23, 1999-January 2, 2001 It has long been accepted that the photographic gaze marks a site of...