Art in America articles from April 2005

Art in America archives from April 2005

Chicago Art fair wars.(Front Page)
April 1, 2005... At the end of this month, three simultaneous art fairs in Chicago will vie for dealers, collectors and the public. Thomas Blackman Associates's longstanding Art Chicago will go head-to-head with the newly established Chicago Contemporary &...

Harald Szeemann, 1933-2005.(Swiss curator)(Biography)
April 1, 2005... Harald Szeemann, 71, Swiss curator, died Feb. 18 while hospitalized for pleural cancer in Locarno. In a career that spanned five decades, Szeemann virtually invented the role of the independent curator--ideally a peripatetic scout and intrepid...

Walker Art Center doubles size.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... On Apr. 17, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis opens a new south wing that doubles the museum's size, giving it a total of 260,000 square feet of programming and operating space (40,000 square feet of galleries). The expansion, designed by...

"Fantasy" passports seized.(Front Page)
April 1, 2005... As founder of the Viennese activist art group Sabotage, Robert Jelinek visited the U.S. in February to participate in an exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati titled "Incorporated: a recent (incomplete) history of...

The Tristan Project.(Front Page)(Opera Review)
April 1, 2005... Multimedia in nature, and with a florid, larger-than-life presence, opera would seem inherently congenial to Bill Viola's talents. Recognizing the operatic character of Viola's work, director Peter Sellars invited him to collaborate on a new...

New Nasher Museum for Duke University.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Durham, N.C., will open its new art museum, now named the Nasher Museum of Art. Designed by Rafael Vinoly, it is the first completed museum project in North America for the architect. Located on a nine-acre wooded site, the $23-million facility...

Siqueiros mural rediscovered.(Front Page)(David Alfaro Siqueiros)
April 1, 2005... During his six-month stay in the Los Angeles area in 1932, the eminent Mexican painter David Alfaro Siqueiros created three large murals. The works featured elaborate figurative compositions with dramatic themes spotlighting Socialist causes....

Columbus Circle plan OK.(Museum of Arts and Design)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... The controversial scheme proposed by the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) to overhaul Two I Columbus Circle in Manhattan recently met with preliminary approval by a five-judge panel of the Appellate Division of the State Supreme Court. Designed...

New wing for Penn Academy.(Pennsylvannia Academy of Fine Arts)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... The Pennsylvannia Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia recently unveiled a new 300,000-square-foot facility in a former office building located across the street from its 1876 landmark structure designed by Frank Furness and George Hewitt....

Art Show shines in the Big Apple.
April 1, 2005... This year, "The Art Show," the annual exhibition held by the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA), featured top-notch works from 70 of the nation's leading galleries. Held once again at New York's Seventh Regiment Armory at Park Avenue and...

Ab-ex rex.(book)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... De Kooning: An American Master, by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan, New York, Knopf, 2004; 731 pages, $35.00 cloth. In De Kooning: An American Master, Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan have gotten hold of an exceptional topic. How could you come...

Constructing a biennial: sixty-two international artists took part in last fall's first-ever Lodz Biennale, launching the manufacturing city's unconventional Artists' Museum.
April 1, 2005... Visitors last fall to the gritty Polish industrial center of Lodz, 80 miles southwest of Warsaw, had the opportunity to see not only the country's first international biennial exhibition, but the new permanent home of the International Artists'...

The persistence of history: three satellite shows accompanying the inaugural Lodz Biennale offered visitors a rare all-Polish contemporary art experience.(Report From Poland II)
April 1, 2005... When curator Aneta Szylak was offered the Poznanski Palace, now Lodz's history museum, as a venue for the first Biennale of Polish Art, she insisted on using the entire building, not just the temporary exhibition spaces. Szylak, who had worked...

Narcissus of modernism: a document-rich exhibition detailed the life of the mercurial Jean Cocteau, who helped shape visual, literary and dramatic arts in the 20th century.
April 1, 2005... Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) was one of the most prolific figures of the early 20th-century European cultural vanguard. He left behind an enormous body of work that includes books, drawings, films, plays, choreography, and set and costume designs...

NY galleries.(New York)(Directory)
April 1, 2005... Chelsea Bespoke Gallery 453 West 17th Street, 2nd Floor, NY, NY 10011 Tel: 646.642.4437 * Fax: 212.371.1770 Email: rtkubicka@bespokellc.com Website: www.bespokellc.com Tuesday-Saturday: 10:00-6:00 Through April...

Down under no more: with globalization now an art-world fait accompli, Australia has outgrown its status as a promising outpost and become, increasingly, an art center in its own right.(Report From Australia)
April 1, 2005... I'd been harboring a desire to travel to Australia and New Zealand for the past four or five years, so last spring (autumn down there), blessed with a chunk of free time, plenty of frequent-flier miles and some helpful introductions, my wife...

Body double: borrowing a conceit from Goya, photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders depicts the same subjects twice--once clothed, once not--in his recent series of porn-star portraits.(photography)
April 1, 2005... From rock stars to presidents, literary figures to actors, not to mention pretty much everyone of consequence in the blue-chip art world, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders has for some three decades now photographed celebrities, in the process...

The authority problem: in a multigenerational gathering, 27 video makers and conceptual artists confronted the question of institutional control, as well as a range of social ills.(Report From Miami)
April 1, 2005... Miami Art Central (MAC) is our youngest exhibition space. The one-year-old kunsthalle, funded by the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, deserves credit for bringing an ambitious and challenging show to its only U.S. venue, and for publishing...

Thinking, mapping, painting: over the last decade, Terry Winters has increasingly sought to translate systems of information--and the ways we think about them--into pictorial space.
April 1, 2005... When I first came across Terry Winters's paintings, in the early '80s at Sonnabend Gallery in New York, they were somber and dark, layered with accumulations of earth-toned gestural marks that seemed labored despite their lack of refinement....

Baldessari's Hollywood: continuing to work with movie images in his two latest series, "Windows" and "Columns," John Baldessari has broached a new format and a more dramatic use of color.(art exhibition)
April 1, 2005... In his activities both as an art teacher and as an internationally renowned artist, John Baldessari has long been recognized as one of the progenitors of postmodern art. While academics write unreadable tomes about the nature of representation...

De(i)fying the masters: creating anonymous, heroically scaled portraits of contemporary African-American males, Kehinde Wiley explores many grand precedents of European painting, while offering a wry critique of today's media version of black masculinity.
April 1, 2005... Depicted life-size on an ample arched panel, a young African-American man wearing a red T-shirt, a red baseball cap turned backwards, a puffy blue winter jacket and blue jeans seems to float in a deep night sky. An elaborate ornamental...

Seeing through stone: Natalie Charkow Hollander's deeply carved reliefs offer a sophisticated take on, and view into, the conceptual spaces of renowned paintings. A recent gallery survey covered more than 20 years' work.
April 1, 2005... "Sculpture doesn't leave you alone," Natalie Charkow Hollander says. "Painting stays on the wall; it doesn't always demand attention. It doesn't fall on top of you and break, or hurt you." Not that she would rather work in two dimensions. Much...

The right moves: Alfred Leslie in the fifties: although best known these days for his heroically scaled figurative paintings, Alfred Leslie spent the 1950s working in an intentionally raw Abstract-Expressionist vein. A recent show of these early works captured the brash, unfettered spirit of the era.
April 1, 2005... It seems hardly credible today--the supposed rawness, the inherent aggression, the deliberate unpalatability of Abstract-Expressionist painting, according to the rhetoric of the time. Maybe back in the 1950s such claims staked out a...

Not-so-still-life: in his recent work, Andrew Lord continues to address issues of painting through the medium of clay, as well as to shape his sculptures by unorthodox methods.(sculpture exhibition)
April 1, 2005... Andrew Lord's ceramic vases, jars, pitchers and other forms might have emerged from a nightmare. They seem to sway and tremble as they rise higher and higher. Redoubling their already uneasy character, the artist groups them into sullen...

Landscape seen and thought: a six-decade survey revealed the often sublime and always disciplined vision of Helen Lundeberg, one of L.A.'s most admired painters.(Los Angeles)
April 1, 2005... Los Angeles at last seems to be acknowledging that its art history did not begin with the Ferus Gallery, Ed Kienholz and Ed Ruscha. By the late 1940s, in fact, the area had developed a distinctive school of hard-edge geometric abstraction,...

Bryan Hunt at Mitchell-Innes & Nash.(sculpture exhibition)
April 1, 2005... Bryan Hunt is best known for cast-metal sculptures that translate the movements of streams, rivers and waterfalls into freestanding abstractions. For those viewers who, like myself, were unfamiliar with Hunt's earlier work, his recent solo show...

Verne Dawson at Gavin Brown.(painting exhibition)
April 1, 2005... Visiting a Verne Dawson show is a bit like entering a curio shop in some obscure quarter of a European city. The paintings first appear to be straightforward--if somewhat naive and cartoonish--renderings of landscapes, circus performers, the...

Oliver Herring at Max Protetch.(art exhibition)
April 1, 2005... Oliver Herring, sculptor, videomaker, performer, expert knitter, photographer and who knows what else, wisely resisted overkill in his recent exhibition at Protetch. His new video and photo-based sculptures, given ample space to breathe, marked...

David Wojnarowicz at P.P.O.W. and Roth Horowitz.
April 1, 2005... David Wojnarowicz would have turned 50 in 2004. The career-spanning P.P.O.W. show of his works incorporating texts came shortly after the November elections, a contest that hinged, we were continually told, on such "wedge issues" as gay...

Pinar Yolacan at Rivington Arms.(photography exhibition)
April 1, 2005... With "Perishables," Turkish artist Pinar Yolacan had an affecting U.S. solo debut. In a haunting series of photographs that are by turns comical and discomfiting, elderly women model peculiar Victorian-style garments the artist fashioned from...

Tanyth Berkeley at Bellwether.(art exhibition)
April 1, 2005... Tanyth Berkeley spent a lot of time in the New York City subway system cruising for unconventional beauty to make the work for her solo debut, "Love Parade" (all works 2004). Underground, she handpicked 16 striking, exotic young women (one of...

Tomoko Sawada at Zabriskie.(photographic exhibition)
April 1, 2005... In her first exhibition at Zabriskie, in 2003, Tomoko Sawada extended her permutation of self-portraiture into the world of omiai, meetings arranged by professional matchmakers to facilitate suitable marriages in Japan. The practice involves...

Carol Szymanski at Elga Wimmer.(art exhibition)
April 1, 2005... Carol Szymanski is something of a shape-shifter. She's painted "portraits" of letters of the alphabet and fabricated weirdly twisted musical instruments based on the shapes our mouths make to form certain sounds. A curious artist in both senses...

Joan Snyder at Betty Cuningham and Alexandre.(art exhibition)
April 1, 2005... Two simultaneous exhibitions--around a dozen recent paintings at Betty Cuningham ("Women Make Lists") and more than 50 works on paper at Alexandre--treated the art-viewing public to an update on the remarkable contribution of veteran painter...

Lisa Hoke at Elizabeth Harris.(art exhibition)
April 1, 2005... Lisa Hoke and her assistants spent a lot of time attaching a profusion of plastic and paper cups to a 75-foot sequence of the gallery's 11-foot-high walls for The Gravity of Color (2004), a sprawling, low-tech mosaic that had the main space to...

Torben Giehler at Leo Koenig.(painting exhibition)
April 1, 2005... For his third solo exhibition with Leo Koenig, Torben Giehler presented recent paintings (2004) that offer a broad range of angular, brightly colored, highly articulated forms, the shards and splinters of virtual, multidimensional hyperspace....

Leon Ferrari at the Drawing Room.(art exhibition)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Perhaps to be a great artist you have to be willing not only to create but also to destroy. The record of just such a process was presented at the Drawing Room of the Drawing Center in "Politiscripts," a show of 31 drawings executed during the...

Wang Tiande at Chambers Fine Art.(art exhibition)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Wang Tiande, born in Shanghai in 1960 and educated at the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou, decided early in his career to eschew the newer methodologies sought out by his colleagues, and to search instead for a way to keep ink...

Kristin Calabrese at Leo Koenig.(painting exhibition)
April 1, 2005... "Everlasting Gobstopper," the title for this exhibition of Kristin Calabrese's new paintings, is taken from the movie Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. In the film, which was the artist's childhood favorite, a Gobstopper is a candy that...

Haesook Kim at the Tenri Cultural Institute.(art exhibition)
April 1, 2005... Haesook Kim has long been interested in flowers. According to press materials, her artistic involvement with them predates her bachelor's degree from Ehwa Woman's University in Seoul in 1977. In a recent show at the Tenri, she continued her...

Kurt Lightner at Clementine.(painting exhibition)
April 1, 2005... If the Buckeye State is anything like Kurt Lightner's luscious depictions, it's no wonder that many Ohioans filed absentee ballots in the last election--they were too mesmerized by the hallucinatory vibrancy of their woodland regions to reach...

Gerome Kamrowski at Washburn.(painting exhibitions)
April 1, 2005... Born in Minnesota, Gerome Kamrowski (1914-2004) studied at the Art Students League in New York in 1933-34 and then at the New Bauhaus in Chicago. With the support of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he attended the Hans Hofmann School in Provincetown...

John Biggers at Michael Rosenfeld.(art exhibitions)
April 1, 2005... John Biggers (1924-2001) is an African-American artist whose work deserves greater recognition than it has so far received. This show of paintings, sculptures and drawings from the 1940s and '50s was a step in the right direction, presenting...

Irving Kriesberg at Peter Findlay.(oil paintings exhibition)
April 1, 2005... Judging from the vigorous sweep of 14 large oil paintings (more than half of them from 2002 to 2004) highlighted in his recent exhibition "The Dance," Irving Kriesberg hasn't missed a beat since 2001, when, at 82, he received the Lee Krasner...

Lester Johnson at James Goodman.(paintings exhibition)
April 1, 2005... After moving from Chicago to New York in 1947, Lester Johnson gained early acclaim as an Abstract Expressionist of the "second generation." During the 1950s, however, Johnson's nonobjective canvases gradually gave way to an assertive figuration...

Brice Dellsperger at Team.(video works exhibition)
April 1, 2005... Since 1995, Paris-based Brice Dellsperger (b. 1972) has been creating video remakes of movies that he refers to as the "Body Double" series. In each installment of the now 20-part series, Dellsperger chooses a brief segment from an existing...

Judith Page at Luise Ross.(art exhibitions)
April 1, 2005... The latch and padded binding of a childhood diary seem scarcely stout enough to protect the year of confidences entrusted to its pages. One such binding, splayed and coated, was the central image of Judith Page's The Memoirs of a Beast...

Richard Segalman at Katharina Rich Perlow.(paintings exhibition)
April 1, 2005... This fall exhibition was the sixth by Brooklyn-born painter Richard Segalman at Katharina Rich Perlow in as many years. The ten new oils and three watercolors of female subjects seen in dressing rooms and gardens, on beaches and streets,...

Linden Frederick at Forum.(painting exhibition)(Linden Frederick)
April 1, 2005... On a recent drive through the countryside, I kept recalling a group of paintings by the Maine-based artist Linden Frederick that had just been up at Forum (his first show there, called "Memoir"). These are the most eloquent distillations I have...

Katherine Bowling at Greenberg Van Doren.(painting exhibition)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Emergence, dislocation and reconnection were the prevailing themes in Katherine Bowling's recent exhibition "Divide," her first New York gallery show in five years. Over a dozen luminous oil-on-spackle-on-wood paintings produced between 2001...

Barry Frydlender at Andrea Meislin.(art exhibition)
April 1, 2005... The horizontal sweep of Barry Frydlender's large-format digital composites offers a novel approach to the reading of the built landscape. Extending the photograph beyond the compass of the glance into a continuum, he presents more information...

Lutz Bacher at American Fine Arts and Participant, Inc.(art exhibition)
April 1, 2005... Since the mid-1970s, Lutz Bacher has consistently sought to challenge ideas about authorship, gender, sexuality, violence and power. Hers are conceptual, multimedia projects that often appropriate found materials, ranging from self-help manuals...

Johannes Girardoni at Stephen Haller.(art exhibition)
April 1, 2005... Pairing wax colored in rich hues with wood, Johannes Girardoni has concocted a winning combination. The texture and aroma of these works are as captivating as their curved forms and dramatic colors. The titles of the pieces (all 2004) reflect...

Sook Jin Jo at OK Harris.(art exhibition)
April 1, 2005... Contemporary artists use quotidian objects to express everything from Duchampian irony and Koonsian commodity fetishism to tender recuperation. New York-based Korean artist Sook Jin Jo belongs to the latter camp. Her sculptures and...

Rainer Gross at Axel Raben.(paintings exhibition)
April 1, 2005... You can brush, trowel, throw, squirt, drip or pour paint onto a canvas, or stain it with diluted medium. It has all been done. Rainer Gross makes paint adhere to the support in yet another way in order to arrive at compelling abstract...

Alan Kleiman at Robert Steele.(paintings exhibition)
April 1, 2005... Regarded as a "painter's painter" over his more than 50 years of practice, New York artist Alan Kleiman is known for rigorous monochromatic paintings that have appeared in as many kinds of group exhibitions as there are curatorial positions to...

Cindy Sherman at the Montclair Art Museum.(photographic exhibition)
April 1, 2005... For a body of work that has loomed so large since the 1980s, Cindy Sherman's performative self-portraits possess a surprisingly mundane origin. In 1975, Sherman was an undergraduate at Buffalo State College. Teacher Barbara Jo Revelle...

Marcos Raya at the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum.(paintings exhibition)
April 1, 2005... Marcos Raya creates images from fragments of his life, putting himself and his friends into his paintings, drawings and collages, as well as his altarlike installations made from altered junkshop objects. Influenced by Bosch, the Mexican...

Daniel Raedeke at Laumeier Sculpture Park.(art exhibition)
April 1, 2005... In his recent exhibition, "Always Almost New," St. Louis artist Daniel Raedeke simultaneously critiqued and embraced the practices of corporate merchandising. Playing on the corporate use of cute cartoon characters to seduce the public, he...

Allison Stewart at Arthur Roger.(paintings exhibition)
April 1, 2005... Beset by overbuilding, subsidence and erosion, the Louisiana coastline is disappearing at an alarming rate: a total of more than 900,000 acres has been lost since the 1930s, according to the Louisiana Coastal Area Final Study Report released in...

Judy Chicago at LewAllen Contemporary.(art exhibition)
April 1, 2005... Though the mention of Judy Chicago instantly conjures up her iconic feminist installation The Dinner Party (1974-79), this show, which focused exclusively on works made between 1965 and '73, provided a rare opportunity to view the artist's...

Suzanne Scherer and Pavel Ouporov at Turner Carroll.(paintings exhibition)
April 1, 2005... American-born Suzanne Scherer and Russian-born Pavel Ouporov are a husband-and-wife artist team who met in Moscow in 1989 while both were studying at the Surikov Academy of Art. They have since produced a collaborative body of work encompassing...

Tom LaDuke at Angles.(art exhibition)
April 1, 2005... Tom LaDuke alternates between painting and sculpture, handling both mediums with equal technical skill, and attains a comparable sense of existential drama in each. Here he showed five large-scale paintings and four sculptures (all works 2004)....

Michael Knutson at Blackfish Gallery.(oil paintings exhibition)
April 1, 2005... Michael Knutson titled this exhibition of ten oil paintings (all 2004) "Convoluted Coils," after the linear devices that structure his dazzling compositions. Each canvas (as large as 6 by 9 feet) contains one or more spirals that expand beyond...

Brian Murphy at Suyama Space and Platform.(art exhibitions)
April 1, 2005... Known in the Northwest for the fleshy self-portraits that won him the Seattle Art Museum's Betty Bowen Memorial Award in 2001, Brian Murphy uses conventional subject matter to achieve unconventional results. He joins a long line of painters who...

Timothy P. Ojile at the Honolulu Academy of Arts.
April 1, 2005... Cartographers of an earlier era used the term "terra incognita" to denote land beyond the bounds of present knowing, labeled and perhaps laid claim to but still uncharted. Painter Timothy P. Ojile invokes this practice in his exhibition of...

Heimo Zobernig at Christian Nagel.
April 1, 2005... Heimo Zobernig's show of geometric abstract paintings and drawings from 2004 was a meditation on the possibilities of line, whether narrowed to a faint pencil mark or widened into a blue painted band. Works by this 45-year-old Viennese artist...

Javier de Juan at Max Estrella.
April 1, 2005... The sea is the subject of Spanish painter Javier de Juan's series of 10 large oils (the smallest is 65 by 77 inches, the largest 77 by 195 inches), called collectively "Instantes Congelados" (Frozen Moments). De Juan emerged in the mid 1980s in...

Art services.(directory)(Directory)
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High Museum of Art.(appointment)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Jeffrey D. Grove has been named curator of modern and contemporary art at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. Since 2001, he has been associate curator of contemporary art at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The High has also named Michael D. Harris...

Abington Art Center.(appointment)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Amy Lipton is the new curator of the Abington Art Center in Jenkintown, Pa. From the mid-1980s until 1995 she ran her own gallery in Manhattan, and since 1999 has been a curator for ecoartspace, a New York- and California-based nonprofit...

Minneapolis Institute of Arts.(resignation)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Evan M. Maurer, director and president of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts for 16 years, has retired because of health reasons; he has been named director emeritus.

Paris Review.(appointment)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Max Henry, freelance critic and curator, is the new art editor of the Paris Review.

Menil Collection.(appointment)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... The Menil Collection in Houston has appointed Kristina Van Dyke as the museum's first curator specializing in non-Western art. Currently she is a doctoral candidate at Harvard University.

The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) recently announced several gifts of art works and cash from various long-time museum patrons.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) recently announced several gifts of art works and cash from various long-time museum patrons. The total value of the gifts is estimated at $400 million. Marguerite and Robert Hoffman donated pieces by de Kooning,...

New York's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum recently proposed a $75-million expansion project.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... New York's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum recently proposed a $75-million expansion project. According to the New York Times, the design, based on a plan by architects Beyer Blinder Belle, calls for three new floors reaching 60 feet below...

Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum recently hired architect Renzo Piano to design a new multi-story building on a site adjacent to the existing structure, a faux-15th-century Venetian palace.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum recently hired architect Renzo Piano to design a new multi-story building on a site adjacent to the existing structure, a faux-15th-century Venetian palace. Costs for the 45,000-square-foot building are...

Recipients of the Skowhegan Awards, given by the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, have been announced.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Recipients of the Skowhegan Awards, given by the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, have been announced. Artists John Wesley, David Hammons and Elizabeth LeCompte receive the Skowhegan Medal for accomplishments in painting,...

Artists Louise Bourgeois, Helen Frankenthaler and R.B. Kitaj were each recently awarded.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Artists Louise Bourgeois, Helen Frankenthaler and R.B. Kitaj were each recently awarded the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Medal of Honor.

Kathy Halbreich, director of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and Mari Carmen Ramirez, curator of Latin American art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, are the winners of the 2005 award for curatorial excellence.(Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Kathy Halbreich, director of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and Mari Carmen Ramirez, curator of Latin American art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, are the winners of the 2005 award for curatorial excellence from the Center for...

The Penny McCall Foundation recently announced seven winners of its Penny McCall Awards for 2004.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... The Penny McCall Foundation recently announced seven winners of its Penny McCall Awards for 2004. Individuals receiving $30,000 each are artists Karl Haendel, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Evan Holloway, Patrick Killoran and Jeff Ono, and...

Architect Santiago Calatrava has received the 2005 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Architect Santiago Calatrava has received the 2005 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts from the Council for the Arts at MIT.

Gary Schneider has been presented with the $40,000 Lou Stoumen Prize.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Gary Schneider has been presented with the $40,000 Lou Stoumen Prize, given by the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego.

Fernando Botero recently established in his home country a prize for a young (under 35) Colombian artist; worth about $45,000, the Botero Prize will be given annually by the Foundation for Young Colombian Artists.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Fernando Botero recently established in his home country a prize for a young (under 35) Colombian artist; worth about $45,000, the Botero Prize will be given annually by the Foundation for Young Colombian Artists. The first recipient is Marco...