Art in America articles from April 2006

Art in America archives from April 2006

Spurling's Matisse commended.(Letter to the editor)
April 1, 2006... To the Editors: In your January 2006 issue, Matisse scholar and former museum director John Neff laments that Hilary Spurling in Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse, The Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954 (2005) did not write the book...

Barbara Rubin remembered.(Letter to the editor)
April 1, 2006... To the Editors: "The Vanished Prodigy," Daniel Belasco's article about Barbara Rubin [A.i.A., Dec. '05], is very interesting but left much of Barbara's story still untold. In 1962, I lived with Barbara on 84th Street and West End Avenue in...

Gardner theft explored in film.
April 1, 2006... A new documentary film about the 1990 theft of 13 masterpieces from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum will open in New York on Apr. 21, and will appear in selected cities through the summer. Directed and produced by Rebecca Dreyfus,...

Hot pots and potshots.
April 1, 2006... More contentious than contrite, Philippe de Montebello, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, convened an hour-long briefing for a small group of journalists upon his return from Italy in late February to discuss his much publicized...

Rio art heist at Carnival.(Carnival in Rio marred)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... The year's Carnival in Rio was marred by a violent armed robbery in one the city's major museums. While millions of Brazilians sambaed in the streets at the height of the festivities in February, the Chacara do Ceu museum was targeted by at...

Art Dealers host splashy "Art Show".(FRONT PAGE)
April 1, 2006... Each winter, members of the Art Dealers' Association of America, representing 70 of the nation's top galleries, gather in New York at the Seventh Regiment Armory at Park Avenue and 67th Street to present the best works they have to offer. This...

Nam June Paik, 1932-2006.(FRONT PAGE)(Obituary)
April 1, 2006... Nam June Paik was one of the major figures of 20th-century visual culture. A pioneer in the transformation of television into video art, Paik is recognized as the father of his field. His sculptures, installations, original and collaged video...

The lost art of Iraq.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... The Looting of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad: The Lost Legacy of Ancient Mesopotamia, edited by Milbry Polk and Angela M.H. Schuster, New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2005; 256 pages, $35. Thieves of Baghdad: One Marine's Passion for Ancient...

Kuh's coups.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... My Love Affair with Modern Art, by Katherine Kuh, edited and completed by Avis Berman, New York, Arcade Publishing, 2006; 332 pages, $27.50. Katherine Kuh lived a long and fascinating life in the service of modern art, having been a...

Wrapped in the State: an exhibition of World War II-era clothing with propagandistic themes illustrates the personal dimensions of home front mobilization.(DESIGN & POLITICS)
April 1, 2006... It may be difficult for many U.S. citizens living now, during the Iraq War, which directly involves such a small percentage of the population and seems so far away, to understand that there was once a time when war touched almost all aspects of...

Bling and beyond: the 35 artists in "Frequency," the Studio Museum in Harlem's recent survey of emerging African-American talent, revealed a shared interest in manipulating cultural idioms to express new--often "post-black"--realities.(REPORT FROM NEW YORK)
April 1, 2006... A lot has happened since "Freestyle," the watershed 2001 group exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem that marked the museum debut of 28, mostly terrific, African-American artists. Thanks to that show, the art world is now enlivened by a...

Flowers of friendship: a legendary beat-era artist's publication is the focus of a traveling exhibition titled "Semina Culture: Wallace Berman & His Circle.".(COUNTERCULTURE)
April 1, 2006... Some artists' lives lend themselves to mythmaking better than others. Wallace Berman's was especially conducive to the romanticizing impulse, as much when he was alive as now, 30 years after his death. Those who knew him described him as guru,...

Color pioneer: nearly three decades before MOMA conferred institutional legitimacy on color photography in the fine arts, Saul Leiter was shooting distinctly painterly, subtly modulated Kodachrome slides.(PHOTOGRAPHY)
April 1, 2006... Anative of Pittsburgh, Saul Leiter moved to New York City in 1946, at the age of 23, to become a painter. Through his friendship with Richard Pousette-Dart, he was invited to meetings of the Club, the legendary, contentious gathering of...

NY galleries.
April 1, 2006... Chelsea Bespoke Gallery 547 West 27th Street, 6th Floor, NY, NY 10001 Tel/Fax: 212.695.8201 Email: rtkubicka@bespokellc.com Website: www.bespokegallery.net Tuesday-Saturday: 11:00-6:00 April 6-26: Frank Webster, "Political Science...

On the waterfront: the second Yokohama Triennale, set in warehouses in an active port zone, had a subtext of international movement.(REPORT FROM YOKOHAMA)
April 1, 2006... When Tadashi Kawamata was asked to take over planning for the second Yokohama Triennale on short notice, he was an unusual candidate, yet perhaps uniquely prepared. He is not a curator but an artist, and not an artist who curates, a la Mike...

George Brecht, the philosopher of Fluxus: a master of self-effacement who has spent the past three decades in "accelerated creative inactivity," George Brecht, one of the core members of the Fluxus group, is reintroduced to a wide public in a comprehensive retrospective traveling in Europe.(Biography)
April 1, 2006... The whole universe interests me.--George Brecht Not one sound fears the silence that extinguishes it.--John Cage I don't believe in art, I believe in artists.--Marcel Duchamp Call me a Fluxus artist. On four different occasions I have...

James Siena's linear cosmos: in paintings, gouaches and drawings that make the most of line while remaining resolutely abstract, James Siena creates a near mystical sense of progression and abundance, even at the small scale in which he usually chooses to work.
April 1, 2006... Abstraction thrives on repetition. Even what we recognize as abstract in representational work arises out of repetition: the spatial sequencing of Poussin, Turner's endless dissolving of horizon into field, Burchfield's rhythmic marks, Seurat's...

A-Z and everything in between: Andrea Zittel has sought to redesign art and life in her experimental works, including handmade clothing, architectural "living units," breeding projects and recycling systems. A traveling survey provides a coherent look at this innovative artist's diverse projects.
April 1, 2006... Something about Andrea Zittel's work always used to put me off. I could never quite put my finger on it. It might have been the hipster hype surrounding her shows, which often makes me suspicious, or my resistance to thinking that her...

The music of chance: Larry Poons's physically lush, structurally complex and chromatically seductive new work, seen in two recent New York gallery exhibitions, sums up his evolution since the "dot" and "lozenge" paintings of the 1960s.
April 1, 2006... If there are artists somewhere making works harder to write about intelligibly than Larry Poons's recent pictures, I have yet to come across them. Poons's paintings of the past few years, seen in twin exhibitions at Jacobson Howard Gallery in...

Attack of the Cephalopods: hallucinatory battles between monstrous octopi and whirring helicopters fill Steve DiBenedetto's intensely worked paintings and drawings.
April 1, 2006... Unbeknownst to many, Steve DiBenedetto has been exhibiting his work since 1987, when his first solo show was mounted at New York's Cable Gallery. But his profile has risen considerably in the past five years as critics, curators and the art...

The last flaneur.(Raymond Hains)
April 1, 2006... Over the past four or five decades, French artist Raymond Hains, who died in Paris last October at the age of 78, had acquired a legendary status in the European art world. Following his early postwar experiments with abstract photography and...

Lichtenstein's Indian territory: linking two bodies of painting based on Native-American subjects and motifs, and supplementing them with historical objects, a traveling exhibition explores a little-known aspect of Roy Lichtenstein's career.
April 1, 2006... There are few facets of Roy Lichtenstein's Pop art production that have not been extensively exhibited and thoroughly explored critically. One important body of work from his middle Pop period, however, has thus far had little exposure. Between...

Easel pleasures: featuring a formally diverse assortment of paintings by the welsh artist and critic Merlin James, a recent exhibition highlighted the modernist-inspired versatility of his 20-year careen.
April 1, 2006... The paintings of Merlin James, on view this winter in a selective survey covering the past 20 years, are a palliative to the market's current taste for career uniformity and media-based, content-driven practices. Besides making art, James, a...

Magdalena Abakanowicz at Marlborough.(International Sculpture Center's lifetime achievement award)(sculpture exhibitions)
April 1, 2006... This exhibition of recent works by the preeminent Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz coincided with her receiving the lifetime achievement award from the International Sculpture Center in New York last fall. Titled "Confessions," the show...

Young Sun Lim at Stux.(sculpture exhibitions)
April 1, 2006... Korean artist Young Sun Lim's exhibition at Stux, titled "Midnight--Oya," included two unforgettable, pervasively mysterious kinetic installations (all works 2005). Both were multipart ensembles with a single element repeating many times in...

Steve Currie at Elizabeth Harris.(sculpture exhibitions)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... In his first show since 1998, Steve Currie presented seven modest-size sculptures from 2005. Gone are the highly crafted, mixed-medium organic forms with geometric components of his earlier work, though these recent pieces are no less...

Stanley Brouwn at Yvon Lambert.(drawings exhibition)
April 1, 2006... Born in 1935 in Paramaribo, Suriname, and now living and working in Amsterdam, Stanley Brouwn recently had his first survey in the U.S. since 1989. His work of the '60s--along with that of Sol LeWitt, Hanne Darboven and On Kawara--helped define...

David Hammons at Triple Candle.(paintings exhibition)
April 1, 2006... Surely one of the canniest artists alive, David Hammons was well served by an "Unauthorized Retrospective" organized by the Harlem-based nonprofit Triple Candie. Rather than actual artwork (which Hammons declined to make available), the show...

Helen Miranda Wilson at DC Moore.(painting exhibition)
April 1, 2006... Helen Miranda Wilson is well known for exactingly detailed and slightly surreal landscape, sky and still-life paintings. In her recent show at DC Moore, she cashiered that naturalistic style in favor of small abstract panel paintings (the...

Gordon Moore at Betty Cuningham.(paintings exhibition)
April 1, 2006... An aura of enigma emerges from Gordon Moore's new paintings and works on paper, in which veils of paint produce a shifting sense of space, and lines function simultaneously as traces of structure, narrative and movement. There is no mystery,...

Roy DeForest at George Adams.(paintings exhibition)
April 1, 2006... Within a few years of joining Robert Arneson, William T. Wiley, Wayne Thiebaud and others at UC Davis in the mid-1960s, Roy DeForest developed his signature contribution to that amazingly fertile milieu. To his pictures of wild-eyed hounds,...

Mel Leipzig at Gallery Henoch.(paintings exhibition)
April 1, 2006... Mel Leipzig is today what he set out to be 40 years ago: a committed realist, honest in his approach to portraiture. His practice is rooted in the ordinary claims of everyday life. Before 1995 most of his models were family, students and...

Paula Scher at Maya Stendhal.(paintings exhibition)
April 1, 2006... Paula Scher's large paintings of maps are so rich with information and color they seem to glow. From a distance they resemble patchwork quilts; up close their details are at once clinical and revealing. Scher succeeds in representing the basic...

Lari Pittman at Barbara Gladstone.(paintings exhibition)
April 1, 2006... Of the 11 smoothly frantic paintings in Lari Pittman's latest ensemble, only one was visible from the gallery's vacant first room. Framed by the passage to the second space, Untitled #6 (View from the Kitchen) hung on the far wall. Initially...

Laurence Hegarty at Cynthia Broan.(sculpture exhibition)
April 1, 2006... Laurence Hegarty's recent exhibition "Low, Dishonest Times" might be considered a sequel to his 2001 show "Listen to me you normals." In fact, some of the unsold small, three-dimensional figures from that show were included here, laid out in...

Raoef Mamedov at Silverstein Photography.(photo exhibition)
April 1, 2006... The compelling quality of Moscow-based Raoef Mamedov's tenebristic photographs derives from the genre and biblically themed paintings at their source as well as from the digital processes and collaborative efforts of their making. Among the...

Lynn Hershman Leeson at Bitforms.(art exhibitions)
April 1, 2006... In the 35 years since San Francisco-based artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson dedicated herself to an exploration of identity, she has come to develop role-playing as an interactive art form. It was highlighted in this survey through the...

Lee Ranaldo and Leah Singer at Gigantic Art Space.
April 1, 2006... The title of this exhibition, "Drift," was taken from the 59-minute video projection that was the show's centerpiece, but it could also be seen as a reference to the way in which the collaborative pair of Lee Ranaldo and Leah Singer move among...

Anthony Dubovsky at Cue Art Foundation.(paintings exhibition)
April 1, 2006... This ten-year survey of paintings by the Californian Anthony Dubovsky, curated by the artist Christopher Brown, was virtually, if not actually, Dubovsky's first solo show in New York. (There was an earlier show, sparsely attended, at Yeshiva...

Gary Petersen at Michael Steinberg.(paintings exhibition)
April 1, 2006... Rooted in abstract forms that allude to figuration and in stolid forms that aspire to weightlessness, Gary Petersen's intriguingly contradictory artistic personality is so familiar to observers of New York abstraction that it is hard to believe...

Jim Klein at Whirlwind.(paintings exhibition)
April 1, 2006... The artist Jim Klein, born in Little Rock, Ark., and based in New York since the early '80s, trained as a biochemist. Though he abandoned that profession decades ago, it has left traces in his approach to abstract painting. Klein sees his...

Robert Berlind at Tibor de Nagy.(paintings exhibition)
April 1, 2006... Robert Berlind is dedicated to close observation of nature and to a painterly metier that is luminous and crisp--intimate in detail, yet never fussy or pedestrian. In this selection of recent works, he demonstrates how such closely refined...

Mark Bradford at Sikkema Jenkins.(paintings exhibition)
April 1, 2006... For this stunning show, Los Angeles artist Mark Bradford constructed eight mural-size, colored-paper collages on paper or canvas supports. There was also a video of a black man walking down a Los Angeles street. It was shown on a monitor in the...

James Kelly at Katharina Rich Perlow.(paintings exhibition)
April 1, 2006... Though he lived in New York for 45 years, the late James Kelly (1913-2003) was little known in art circles in the city, having shown mainly on the West Coast. Among the generation of painters who went to the Bay Area to study on the G.I. Bill...

Davis Cone at Forum.(paintings exhibition)
April 1, 2006... From the nocturnal wattage of New York's Radio City Music Hall to the neon glow of Main Street marquees, the streamline signage of vintage theaters and movie houses remains a significant icon in the cultural life of America. It is also the...

Carolina Raquel Antich at Florence Lynch.(art exhibition)
April 1, 2006... This exhibition spoke to those who recall a childhood of endless days and seasons, little cruelties, solitude, disappointments: being small and vulnerable in an outsized world. An Argentine now resident in Venice, Italy, Carolina Raquel Antich...

Gwen Hardie at Dinter.(paintings exhibition)
April 1, 2006... Colossi are endlessly fascinating. They were produced in antiquity and revived as a form during the Renaissance. Little wonder that 20th-century totalitarian regimes were eager to have them made, for they speak of Empire. Colossi can infuse us...

Stephen Bush at Goff + Rosenthal.(paintings exhibition)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Australian artist Stephen Bush's five large, square landscapes (all 72 inches square, 2005) contrast mountainous heights with small-scale wooden shacks, the tumultuous environs representing what Bush calls a "quest for fulfillment" and the...

Yun Gee at Marlborough.(paintings exhibition)
April 1, 2006... After leaving his village near Canton, China, and arriving in the United States in 1921 when he was 15, the poet and painter Yun Gee (1906-1963) enrolled in the California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute) and quickly...

Nicolas Carone at Lohin Geduld.(paintings exhibition)
April 1, 2006... Classically trained at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League, and familiar with Italian art from first-hand contact during his Iong part-time residence in the country, painter and sculptor Nicolas Carone has always been...

Stella Waitzkin at Robert Steele and the Chelsea Hotel.(paintings exhibition)
April 1, 2006... One of a kind, the remarkable Stella Waitzkin (1920-2003) began her life's work as an Abstract-Expressionist painter, a student of Hofmann and de Kooning. By the 1960s, she turned her attention to abstract forms in melted glass that resemble...

Jon Imber at Nielsen.(paintings exhibitions)
April 1, 2006... Like Philip Guston, his mentor early on, Jon Imber has no qualms about disturbing his own esthetic status quo. Over the years, he has produced notable work in representational, figurative and semi-abstract idioms. He has been as comfortable...

Anderson Giles at the University of Maine, Reed Gallery.
April 1, 2006... "Anderson Giles, Selected Works: 1985-2005" offered 15 acrylic paintings and two color photographs by the longtime professor of art at the University of Maine at Presque Isle. While the acrylic-on-board Aroostook Dusk--Barn Study (1997)...

Billie Grace Lynn at the Lowe Art Museum.(sculpture exhibitions)
April 1, 2006... Billie Grace Lynn recently had her first solo museum show at the Lowe Museum of the University of Miami, where she has been teaching since fall 2004. Titled "Uncanny," the exhibition consisted of two bodies of work: large-scale wall pieces...

Beverly Fishman at Skestos Gabriele.(paintings exhibition)
April 1, 2006... Today's medical industry invades our personal space, claims Beverly Fishman, reducing our bodies to data and pushing dubious "feel-good" drugs at us. Fishman's semi-abstract paintings suggest medical graphics moving across a screen--the jagged...

Ron Laboray at Gallery 210 at the University of Missouri.(sculpture and paintings exhibition)
April 1, 2006... While it was possible to view the works in Ron Laboray's solo exhibition, "After C.E.," as semi-abstractions, such a cursory reading meant missing out on the intricate concepts of a particularly wily, process-based puzzle master. Eschewing the...

Tom Joyce at Evo.(sculpture exhibitions)
April 1, 2006... Although Santa Fe-based sculptor Tom Joyce recently won a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship, it was his reputation as a longtime blacksmith that gained him admission to Scot Forge, an Illinois firm that consumes 250 million pounds of metal a...

Bailey Doogan at the Tucson Museum of Art and Etherton.
April 1, 2006... Bailey Doogan has said that she feels like she's "crawling over the surface of the body" when she's painting. This intimacy may partly explain the arresting quality of Doogan's figurative paintings and drawings. But the impact of her work also...

Kirsten Everberg at 1301PE.(paintings exhibition)
April 1, 2006... In 2004, L.A. artist Kirsten Everberg contributed two memorably pretty paintings to "The Undiscovered Country" at the UCLA Hammer Museum. And the glossy oil-and-enamel canvases in her second solo show at 1301 PE are so good looking that you can...

Kaz Oshiro at Rosamund Felsen.(sculpture exhibition)
April 1, 2006... Included in "Thing," the UCLA Hammer Museum's ambitious and controversial survey of new sculpture in Los Angeles last spring, Kaz Oshiro's work was a showstopper. His Pink Marshall Stack Wall (2002) appeared to be a set of three...

Carlos Villa at SFMOMA Artists Gallery.(art exhibition)
April 1, 2006... In 1968 Carlos Villa returned to San Francisco after several years in New York, where he had made sculpture in a Minimalist mode. He then began producing ceremonial pieces that drew from Filipino and other Oceanic cultures, from Native American...

Lead Pencil Studio at the Henry Art Gallery.(art exhibition)
April 1, 2006... Lead Pencil Studio is the collective name taken by Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo, a pair of Seattle artist-architects who design functional buildings but who also make conceptual art that tracks the impulses quietly mobilized, memorialized and...

Richard Long at Haunch of Venison.(photography exhibition)
April 1, 2006... Remarkably, Richard Long has made walking the major subject of his work for 30 years. His recent exhibition, "The Time of Space," details pilgrimages across deserts, along rivers and throughout the British countryside. Long's enduring success...

O'Keeffe assets to artist's museum.(Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation)(Georgia O'Keeffe Museum)
April 1, 2006... On Mar. 6, 2006, the Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation transferred all of its assets to the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe. The nonprofit foundation was established after the artist's death in 1986 to perpetuate her artistic legacy for public...

Hayward Gallery.(Ralph Rugoff is director)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Ralph Rugoff, director since 2000 of the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco, has been appointed director of the Hayward Gallery in London.

Shelburne [Vt.] Museum.(People)
April 1, 2006... Stephan Jost, director of the Mills College Art Museum in Oakland, has been named director of the Shelburne [Vt.] Museum.

Camerawork.(Robert R. Riley is the new executive director of San Francisco Camerawork)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Robert R. Riley is the new executive director of San Francisco Camerawork. Recently head of the Nelson Gallery at UC-Davis, he succeeds longtime director Marnie Gillett, who died in December 2004.

Farnsworth Art Museum.(People)
April 1, 2006... Lora Urbanelli, assistant director of the RISD Museum in Providence since 1999, is the new director of the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Me.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.(People)
April 1, 2006... Rudolf Frieling is the new curator of media arts at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Vassar College's Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center.(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Mary-Kay Lombino, curator of exhibits at California State University's Long Beach Art Museum, has been appointed curator at Vassar College's Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. She replaces Joel Smith, who is now curator of...

Kobena Mercer, Linda Nochlin and Calvin Tompkins are the first recipients of the Clark Prize for Excellence in Arts Writing.(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Kobena Mercer, Linda Nochlin and Calvin Tompkins are the first recipients of the Clark Prize for Excellence in Arts Writing. Each receives $25,000. Established by the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass., the prize is given to writers who...

Gabriel Orozco is the winner of the second blueOrange award, worth approximately $92,500.(German Cooperative Banks)(Museum Ludwig in Cologne)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Gabriel Orozco is the winner of the second blueOrange award, worth approximately $92,500. As part of the biennial prize, given by the German Cooperative Banks and the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, the prizewinner selects an emerging artist to...

ArtTable.(Awards & Grants)
April 1, 2006... ArtTable, the national organization of women in the arts, will this month present its annual awards to Elizabeth A. Sackler and Sarah Elizabeth Lewis.

The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture recently announced the winners of its 2006 awards.(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture recently announced the winners of its 2006 awards. Skowhegan Medals go to Glenn Ligon (painting), Cildo Meireles (sculpture) and the collaborative General Idea (mixed mediums). The Gertrude...

The Guggenheim Museum in New York recently announced the shortlist for the 2006 Hugo Boss Prize.(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... The Guggenheim Museum in New York recently announced the shortlist for the 2006 Hugo Boss Prize. The artists are John Book, Tacita Dean, Damian Ortega, Aida Ruilova, Tino Sehgal and the team of Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla. The...

Obituaries.(artists)(Obituary)
April 1, 2006... Henry George Fischer, 82. Metropolitan Museum of Art curaor of Egyptian art, died on Dec. 11 in Newtown, Pa. He was instrumental in bringing the Temple of Dendur to the Met. He joined the museum staff as an assistant curator in 1958, became...

Big Bucks for Met Photos.(Metropolitan Museum of Art's deaccessioning program)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... The latest chapter in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's deaccessioning program unfolded at Sotheby's on Feb. 14 and 15, when 113 works from the Met's photo collection were auctioned, including prime examples donated to the museum by the Gilman...

Vicken Parsons at Christine Konig.(paintings exhibitions)
April 1, 2006... The evocatively titled "Your Light" was British painter Vicken Parsons's first solo show outside the U.K. She presented 15 sensitively rendered panel paintings, small works mostly no bigger than 8 by 8 inches. The paintings were either directly...

Arts in Hong Kong: on and off.
April 1, 2006... In conjunction with its 50th anniversary, the Asia Society recently announced a plan to reposition itself as a global institution instead of a New York institution with regional branches. With over $100 million in new initiatives, it will...

New director for L.A. county.(Los Angeles County Museum of Art)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has hired Michael Govan as its new director and chief executive officer. Since 1994, he served as president and director of the Dia Art Foundation in New York, where he oversaw the opening in 2003 of Dia:...

Judds for sale.(Judd Foundation to sell Donald Judd works )(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... The Judd Foundation will auction 35 Donald Judd works at Christie's on May 9 in an effort to raise $20 million for an endowment to support permanent installations in 15 buildings in and around Mafia, Tex., as well as Judd's home and studio on...

Storr named dean of Yale Art School.(Robert Storr )(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Robert Storr has been appointed dean of the Yale School of Art for a five-year period, beginning July 1. A contributing editor to A.i.A. since 1981, he will continue to serve as commissioner of the 2007 Venice Biennale and as consulting curator...

Getty trust head abruptly departs.(Embattled Getty Trust)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Embattled Getty Trust board president Barry Munitz resigned on Feb. 9, in the midst of the Italian antiquities scandal and a California state investigation into Getty finances that has roiled the foundation [see "Front Page," Mar. '06]. Munitz,...

Artists picked for SITE Santa Fe.(ARTWORLD)(Brief article)(List)
April 1, 2006... The newest edition of SITE Santa Fe, opening July 9, will contain a sparse 13 artists compared to the 54 represented in the previous installment. Titled "Still Points of the Turning World" and organized by New York-based critic and curator...