Art in America articles from April 2008

Art in America archives from April 2008

Fabiola, Queen of the Belgians?(Letter to the editor)
April 1, 2008... To the Editors: I read with interest Gregory Volk's article on the work of Francis Alys [A.i.A, Feb. '08]. However, I believe that Mr. Volk's discussion of the display of Alys's collection of St. Fabiola portraits at the Hispanic Society...

Mies: Nazi or not?(Letter to the editor)
April 1, 2008... To the Editors: Franz Schulze in his review of Martin Filler's book Makers of Modern Architecture: From Frank Lloyd Wright to Frank Gehry [A.i.A., Jan. '08] takes issue with Filler's claim that Mies van der Rohe was perfectly willing to...

Corrections.(LETTERS)(Correction notice)
April 1, 2008... Dec. '07, p. 35: The Photo Miami lectures by Andres Serrano, Enrique Martinez Celaya and Carrie Mae Weems took place at the Miami Art Museum in December 2006, not 2007. Sept. '07, p. 67: Dawoud Bey was inadvertently omitted from the list...

Selling art to fund operations.(FRONT PAGE)
April 1, 2008... As Fisk University and Randolph College have found themselves short on funds, their boards have turned to their art collections as financial cure-alls. Both sales are being contested. O'Keeffe v. Fisk, Round 2 The battle over Fisk...

Art Chicago comeback.(FRONT PAGE)
April 1, 2008... Art Chicago, the annual international fair of modern and contemporary art (on view Apr. 25-28 at the Merchandise Mart), promises to reclaim a place among prominent competitors. Building on the success of last year's fair and the expertise of...

AIDS Altarpiece tours U.S.(FRONT PAGE)
April 1, 2008... Human tragedy tears communities apart or brings them together. Sometimes it generates remarkable works of art. Witness the Keiskamma Altarpiece, which has been touring North America since 2006, hosted primarily by cathedrals. It was inspired by...

Nazi loot show in France & Israel.(FRONT PAGE)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... The result of an unprecedented collaborative effort of France and Israel, "Looking for Owners: Custody, Research and Restitution of Stolen Art in France during World War II" is an exhibition that traces the story of Nazi loot in France. On view...

Presenting the New School collection.(FRONT PAGE)
April 1, 2008... The new Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at New York's Parsons/The New School for Design joins four century-old buildings that the New School has occupied since the 1970s. The university is spread among a number of downtown Manhattan buildings,...

Dealers aim high at the Art Show.(FRONT PAGE)
April 1, 2008... This year marked the 20th anniversary of the Art Show, a 5-day extravaganza of blue-chip art hosted by the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA). Seventy members of the prestigious organization from across the country gathered in New York,...

Art and science, on speaking terms.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Signs of Life: Bin Art and Beyond, edited by Eduardo Kac, Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 2007; 399 pages, $34.95. The Prosthetic Impulse: Prom a Posthuman Present to a Biocultural Future, edited by Marquard Smith and Joanne Morra, Cambridge,...

Eyes wide shut: in the film "The Science of Sleep" and a related installation, Michel Gondry played with scientific findings that have recently engaged other artists interested in dreams and unconscious behavior.(ART & SCIENCE I)(Movie review)
April 1, 2008... In the groves of academe, at least those where art historians (and not a few artists) dally, the big trees in psychology are still Freud and Lacan. Unconscious processes, as reflected in the production, content and reception of visual art, are...

Mind and matter: "Common Senses" brings together more than a dozen artists who have examined the mind-body problem using the insights--and imaging technology--of brain science.(ART & SCIENCE II)
April 1, 2008... "Common Senses" is the second in a series of three exhibitions organized by Exit Art to explore connections between art and science. ("Paradise Now: Picturing the Genetic Revolution," in 2000, examined genetic engineering, while the upcoming...

Risks and rewards on the Bowery: in which the new New Museum of Contemporary Art is viewed as an urbanistic success with somewhat less happy consequences for the galleries inside.(MUSEUMS I)
April 1, 2008... With museum architecture nearly a blood sport in today's heated cultural climate, the advent of a new museum in Manhattan ranks as a banner event. Few museum buildings have been more avidly anticipated than the new New Museum of Contemporary...

Make it new: with a four-part show inaugurating its sleek facility on the Bowery, the once-scrappy New Museum faces a tough question: can its cutting edge stay sharp?(MUSEUMS II)
April 1, 2008... When Marcia Tucker founded the New Museum of Contemporary Art in 1977, following a dustup with the board of the Whitney Museum in which she lost her curatorial position, she wanted to create a radically different kind of institution. In the...

Double birth: the new Ullens Center for Contemporary Art opened with a survey of the '85 New Wave, China's first nationwide avant-garde movement.(REPORT FROM BEIJING)
April 1, 2008... With the inauguration, this past November, of the nonprofit Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in the 798 arts district of Beijing [see "Front Page," Nov. '07], the global dialogue about new art in China was given a substantial boost. The...

NY galleries.(Calendar)
April 1, 2008... CHELSEA Aperture Gallery 547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10001 Tel: 212.505.5555 Fax: 212.505.7527 Email: publicity@aperture.org Website: www.aperture.org Tuesday-Saturday: 10:00-6:00 March...

Multiple Indias: a traveling show of contemporary Indian art, now at Rutgers, addresses political, social and personal issues on the subcontinent.(IMPORT/EXPORT)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The social and cultural complexities of India are exposed in "New Narratives: Contemporary Art from India," an ambitious traveling exhibition that maps personal, political and historical narratives from the...

An unsettled eye: the most expansive exhibition ever of Lee Miller's photographs reveals little-known aspects of a career intensely lived.(PHOTOGRAPHY)
April 1, 2008... In 1985, when Antony Penrose published the first book about his mother, The Lives of Lee Miller, its subject was a shadowy figure remembered mainly as Man Ray's muse--the successor to Kiki de Montparnasse--and perhaps as the beautiful statue in...

The geometry of sight: five major installations were commissioned for a survey of work by Robert Irwin, who pioneered the use of art as a tool for shaping the experience of space.
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The critic's only valid function is to clear away the extraneous considerations and return us, naked, to the experience before us. --Robert Irwin, "Some Notes on the Nature of Abstraction" Robert Irwin's...

The breath of sculpture: current scholarship has restored to the Quattrocento master Desiderio da Settignano works long attributed to others. A small but significant exhibition revealed the striking modernity of his vision.
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The recent exhibition of Desiderio da Settignano was the first of its kind anywhere, ever, yet this joint endeavor of the Louvre, the Bargello and the National Gallery in Washington had no motive other than...

In memoriam: as long as American troops continue to be killed in Iraq, artist Jane Hammond will honor them in an open-ended installation.
April 1, 2008... A generation of men is like a generation of leaves, the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth--and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another...

In freely associative states: Jeremy Blake's last, unfinished DVD--a kaleidoscopic portrait of a pop-culture maven--was the centerpiece of two recent exhibitions of his new-media work.
April 1, 2008... Compelling in their complex imagery, vivid palette and sequential moments of pure visual exhilaration, Jeremy Blake's time-based digital portraits have attracted a legion of admirers, and the late artist's career promised further remarkable...

Where words go: Lawrence Weiner's essentially nomadic oeuvre has paused for a time in a voluble retrospective that explores many aspects of his language-based career.(Cover story)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The 40-year retrospective Lawrence Weiner: As Far As the Eye Can See," which was installed at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York this winter and opens later this month at the Museum of Contemporary Art in...

Process, image and elegy: a number of exhibitions have lately turned the spotlight on Jack Whitten, whose 40-year career is a vital link between Ab-Ex painterliness and a more contemporary engagement with unorthodox processes and Internet inspirations.
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Jack Whitten's paintings have been shown regularly since the late 1960s. He was recognized with both a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art (1974) and a 10-year retrospective at the Studio Museum in...

Line analysis: an artist of the accumulative, Diana Cooper uses craft materials to create simple geometric shapes whose wild proliferation, however playful, lends her work an Orwellian cast.
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Daphne (2006) is an arresting, abstract collage and mixed-medium drawing that was situated near the entrance of the exhibition "Beyond the Line: The Art of Diana Coopers" recently seen at the Museum of Contemporary...

Pat Steir at Cheim & Read.
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Pat Steir is well known for her "waterfall" paintings, which she began to create in the late 1980s. The eight large canvases (all 2007) in her recent solo show may be described with the same general term, as they...

Bridget Riley at PaceWildenstein.(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Bridget Riley's recent paintings maintain the strictly vertical, horizontal, diagonal and curving lines that have structured her work for over four decades. However, after long being attuned to how the slightest move affects the viewer's...

Carl Ostendarp at Elizabeth Dee.
April 1, 2008... In the last days of the 1980s, exaggerated form began to overtake abstract painting. Steven Parrino exhibited mangled shaped canvases, Fabian Marcaccio carved stretcher bars into knotlike shapes, and Carl Ostendarp poured out thick slabs and...

Kristin Lucas at Postmasters.
April 1, 2008... Kristin Lucas takes technology personally. In her split-screen video Involuntary Reception (2000), she presented herself as an overcharged technophile who found it almost impossible to function in the world due to excessive sending and...

Fassbinder: Berlin Alexanderplatz at P.S.1.( Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
April 1, 2008... If, say, 3:10 to Yuma, based on a 25-page story by Elmore Leonard, lasts just over two hours, how long, then, should be the film adaptation of a 410-page novel? Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz, from the 1929 Alfred Doblin...

David Adamo at Fruit and Flower Deli.
April 1, 2008... An inventory of the contents of "untitled (Louli)," the first solo show at this tiny new Lower East Side gallery by young New York artist David Adamo, would run thus: On the wall to the left inside the gallery's storefront window was a canvas,...

Robert Olsen at Plane Space.(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... The intimate oil-on-panel paintings of nighttime scenes in Robert Olsen's exhibition, "Empty Cities," are based on photos he's taken of gas stations and bus stops. Tenderly depicted in sharply contrasting darks and lights, they give a human...

Willem de Kooning at L&M and Gagosian.
April 1, 2008... Willem de Kooning ignored the insulting bafflement of old age as he plunged into a last decade of explosive productivity; between 1983 and 1985 he produced more than 50 paintings a year. The airborne radiance of that work was celebrated this...

Willem de Kooning at Allan Stone.
April 1, 2008... This thoughtful survey of Willem de Kooning drawings was the 11th exhibition at Allan Stone of the late artist's work (de Kooning was born in Rotterdam in 1904 and died in 1997). Figures abounded as the show traced stylistic concerns from as...

Steven Charles at Marlborough Chelsea.
April 1, 2008... One of two shows inaugurating Marlborough Chelsea's new two-story space was English-born, Texas-raised, Brooklyn-based Steven Charles's debut at the gallery. Charles paints in overwhelmingly minute detail, and this was his first solo exhibition...

Jill Moser at Lennon, Weinberg.
April 1, 2008... In her first exhibition at this Chelsea gallery, Jill Moser included two dozen oil paintings (2006 or '07) and two etchings (2008), abstractions all, showing her signature looping, calligraphic, indigo-blue forms suspended in whitish grounds....

Alfonso Ossorio at Michael Rosenfeld.
April 1, 2008... Born in 1916 into a wealthy Filipino family and educated at Harvard, Alfonso Ossorio, who died in 1996, played a significant role as both an artist and a personality in the art world of the 1940s and '50s. A good friend to both Jackson Pollock...

Heather Rowe at D'Amelio Tetras and the Whitney at Altria.
April 1, 2008... For her second solo exhibition at D'Amelio Terras, Heather Rowe, a New York-based artist in her mid-30s, presented a skeletal suburban residence that is a memory palace of sorts. Called On Returning (2007), it narrows to a delicate prow made of...

John Simon Jr. at Gering & Lopez.
April 1, 2008... No one makes groovier digital imagery than John Simon Jr., and unlike most of his nearest peers (notably the late Jeremy Blake), Simon, a true computer whiz, writes his own programs. The patterns pulse, spiral, weave and fade in infinitely...

Mounir Fatmi at Lombard-Freid.
April 1, 2008... "Fuck Architects: Chapter 1" was the title of Moroccan-born, Paris-based Mounir Fatmi's first solo exhibition in New York. Writ large outside the gallery, the title's summary command stayed very much on one's mind as one stepped over a mass of...

Not Vital at Sperone Westwater.
April 1, 2008... The Swiss artist Not Vital--his real and un-ironic name--offered a fascinating and ambiguous selection in his recent exhibition. The allusive or symbolic works raise questions of values and the measure of lives, yet it's hard to escape the...

Javier Pinon at ZieherSmith.
April 1, 2008... Javier Pinion's collages of cowboys in desert settings address the appeal of the Western frontier and its underlying myth of America's power. Pinon, who was raised in Texas and now works in New York, uses images from mid-century road-trip...

Ashley Hope at Tilton.
April 1, 2008... A small crimson bloodstain painted in immaculate illustration-style detail soaks the camisole of a woman slumped on a couch, her hand resting motionless in a bag of hair curlers cradled in her lap. A plump, lifeless blonde is propped against a...

Yishai Jusidman at Yvon Lambert.
April 1, 2008... "The World This Week" section of the Economist magazine contains encapsulated stories of events accompanied by thumbnail pictures. Yishai Jusidman took images from that source for this midcareer show, titled "The Economist Shuffle." Born in...

Anne Harris at Alexandre.(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Anne Harris's portraits go back at least 20 years, to paintings she made of herself and others in graduate school. Attracted to both hazy atmospheres and searing honesty, she has pursued an ambitious program. Accomplished technique supports the...

Guillermo Kuitca at Gallery Met.
April 1, 2008... The centerpiece of Guillermo Kuitca's "Stage Fright," the first one-person show in the Metropolitan Opera's ground-floor exhibition space, was a 32-part series of small works on paper (2007) reproducing seating plans from opera houses around...

John Himmelfarb at Luise Ross.
April 1, 2008... In his tenth New York show, including works of three decades, Chicago artist John Himmelfarb showcased what he does so well: schematic mark-making that suggests different image languages and systems of thought. Indeed, the show's title, "John...

Afi Nayo at Skoto.
April 1, 2008... Afi Nayo was born in 1969 in Lome, Togo, and moved to Paris at a young age. She studied briefly at the Ecole nationale superieure des beaux-arts and has exhibited in galleries in Europe and Africa since 1994. This, her first exhibition in New...

Domenico Zindato at Phyllis Kind.
April 1, 2008... The Italian autodidact Domenico Zindato has packed more than a few lives into his four decades: artiste de nuit and party organizer on the 1980s Berlin music-club scene, wide-eyed traveler in India and, now, disciplined draftsman cloaked in the...

Hugo Bastidas at Nohra Haime.
April 1, 2008... Hugo Bastidas's new work suggests that in spite of the trendy wave of cute-bad art in New York galleries, a return to tradition is always an option. "Bridges, Paths and Portals" consisted of six black-and-white oil paintings from 2007, focusing...

Richard Tuttle at Sperone Westwater.
April 1, 2008... Cast shadows have been an intermittent feature of Richard Tuttle's work at least since his brilliant wire pieces of the early 1970s. They figure again in the 60 new works (all dated 2007) seen in "Memory Comes from Dark Extension" at Sperone...

Liz Craft at Marianne Boesky.
April 1, 2008... The view of Liz Craft's show from the gallery's front door looked like something out of Alice in Wonderland: not playing cards come to life but little white boxes turned into creepy crawlies waving angular-spiral arms, poised on...

Hanno Otten at Janet Borden.
April 1, 2008... In his previous exhibition at Janet Borden, Berlin-based photographer Hanno Otten showed unique chromogenic photograms that looked like collaged translucent bars of colored light. They were made without a camera, using light projected through...

Lori Nix at Randall Scott.
April 1, 2008... Brooklyn-based photographer Lori Nix, faced with a tiny new studio and inspired by a how-to book on building model railroad sets, stopped photographing her room-size installations and started to make miniature tableaux. It's a good thing she...

Alec Soth at Martin Weinstein.
April 1, 2008... Alec Soth's "Sleeping by the Mississippi" (2004) is a compelling series of photographs that captures a vast range of American experience. His latest series, "Dog Days, Bogota" (2003, printed 2007), focuses not on the U.S. but on Colombia, and...

Ernest A. Bryant III at Franklin Art Works.
April 1, 2008... Minneapolis artist Ernest A. Bryant III's first solo exhibition captured the colors of local street life while employing only minimal marks on assembled found materials. The show's 10 wall pieces primarily consisted of fragments of clothing of...

Gary Justis at the Elmhurst Art Museum.
April 1, 2008... For 30 years, Gary Justis has made kinetic sculptures from aluminum sheet and extrusions, small electric motors, wire and plastic. Often anthropomorphic in appearance, his contraptions explode into action, stop unpredictably and seem sometimes...

James Stephens at Oakland University Art Gallery.
April 1, 2008... James Stephens came of artistic age in Detroit in the early 1980s, just after the first tsunami of deindustrialization hit the city, leaving a ruined landscape in its wake. He moved to Chicago in 1990, but his paintings have retained a sense of...

Michael Bise at Moody.
April 1, 2008... Michael Bise titled this exhibition "Birthday," but the announcement card, which the artist reproduced as a small wall drawing at the gallery, showed a grave marker commemorating Michael William Bise, Sr., who died at the age of 50 on Oct. 12,...

Rebekah Bogard at the Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, Univ. of Nevada.(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Rebekah Bogard's fantastic ceramic animals combine cat and rabbit ears, sweet snouts, rams' horns, curving wings and undulant, slender tails; her shrubs are stacks of bubble shapes and her outsized toadstools are capped by a circle of plump...

Stuart Arends at James Kelly Contemporary.
April 1, 2008... Stuart Arends is a New Mexico-based artist whose sensually appealing, reductivist work has been the subject of numerous shows over the past three decades, both in the U.S. and abroad. His spare vocabulary of serial forms stems from the...

Reverse Trash Streams: The Junk Mail Project At L.A. Contemporary.
April 1, 2008... The sensation of swimming in trash, or junk, seems quintessentially modern--a consequence of insatiable appetites for new products and the attendant proliferation of packaging and advertising. The genres of collage and found-object...

Thomas Woodruff at the California State University Art Museum.
April 1, 2008... With his penchant for fantasy, strange whimsy and illustrative draftsmanship, Thomas Woodruff is sometimes lumped with willfully low figurative artists, such as Mark Ryden and Robert Williams. But Woodruff offers more than their brand of...

Sylvia Fein at the Bakersfield Art Museum.
April 1, 2008... Once a member of the underrated group of surrealists in postwar Wisconsin [see A.i.A., February '06], 78-year-old Sylvia rein has lived what seems a storybook life, regularly traveling through France on a barge for months at a time while...

Emerson Woelffer at Hackett-Freedman.
April 1, 2008... Emerson Woelffer died in 2003 at the age of 88. For four decades, he was a mainstay of the Southern California art scene, regularly exhibiting his paintings while exerting a great deal of influence as a teacher and administrator at the Otis Art...

Jamie Vasta at Patricia Sweetow.
April 1, 2008... Imagine punked out Pre-Raphaelites up to no good and you have an idea of Jamie Vasta's meticulous paintings in acrylic and glitter on wood (all 2007). Tangled branches of leafless trees marble the backgrounds of scenes dominated by monumental,...

Gabriel de la Mora at OMR.
April 1, 2008... Gabriel de la Mora is a 39-year-old Mexican artist who works in the conceptualist vein (often laced with humor or social commentary) that dominates much contemporary art production in his homeland. Within this esthetic-intellectual context, he...

Shezad Dawood at Paradise Row.
April 1, 2008... In his first major London show, "If I Should Fall from Grace with God," Shezad Dawood does not make didactic statements for, against or even about the war in Iraq. But the half-Indian, half-Pakistani, London-based artist's show of paintings and...

Martin Klimas at Cosar.(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... In a plain and simple provocation, the young Dusseldorf photographer Martin Klimas blows bourgeois conventions to pieces. The main objects in his pictures are arrangements of flowers in vases: tulips or carnations, orchids or amaryllis. They...

Cincinnati Art Museum.(People)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Aaron Betsky, director of the Cincinnati Art Museum, has been selected to direct the 2008 Venice Architecture Biennale, which runs from Sept. 14 to Nov. 23.

Art in General.(People)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Art in General has appointed Eva Diaz as a curator overseeing the New Commissions and artist residency programs. Diaz is an art historian and critic who was recently on the faculty of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.

Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art.(People)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Claire Schneider has been appointed senior curator at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art. She was a curator at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo for 10 years.

Critics' faves of 2006-07.(ARTWORLD)
April 1, 2008... The U.S. chapter of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), comprising roughly 400 members, recently presented the awards for its favorite exhibitions of the 2006-07 season. The Kara Walker retrospective organized by the Walker Art...

Menil plans for drawing institute.(ARTWORLD)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... The Menil Collection in Houston is currently hosting an exhibition, "How Artists Draw," that is a preview of the museum's planned Drawing Institute and Study Center, which will focus on modern and contemporary drawing. Though the building...

AICA Lifetime Achievement Award.(Awards & Grants)
April 1, 2008... Art historian Irving Sandier was recently presented with the AICA Lifetime Achievement Award by the U.S. chapter of the International Association of Art Critics.

Brazilian artist Cildo Meireles and Hammer Museum curator James Elaine are the recipients of the 2008 Ordway Prize, given by Creative Link for the Arts (formerly the Penny McCall Foundation) and the New Museum of Contemporary Art.(Awards & Grants)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Brazilian artist Cildo Meireles and Hammer Museum curator James Elaine are the recipients of the 2008 Ordway Prize, given by Creative Link for the Arts (formerly the Penny McCall Foundation) and the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Each receives...

Brooklyn-based artist Xaviera Simmons is the winner of the 2008 David C. Driskell Prize, worth $25,000.(Awards & Grants)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Brooklyn-based artist Xaviera Simmons is the winner of the 2008 David C. Driskell Prize, worth $25,000. Given by the High Museum in Atlanta, the prize goes to an early or midcareer artist or scholar in the field of African-American art or art...

The 2008 Skowhegan Awards will be presented this month.(Awards & Grants)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... The 2008 Skowhegan Awards will be presented this month. Artists Kerry James Marshall, Carrie Mae Weems and Krzysztof Wodiczko will receive Skowhegan Medals for, respectively, painting, photography and sculpture. Susan Sollins, founder of Art21...

The George Sugarman Foundation recently gave its 2007 grants, totaling $50,000, to 40 artists.(Awards & Grants)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... The George Sugarman Foundation recently gave its 2007 grants, totaling $50,000, to 40 artists. They are: Sophia Ainslie, Marlene Aron, Laura N. Atkinson, Becca Bernstein, Aaron Mongan Brown, Crystal Campbell, Ke-Hsin Jenny Chi, Morgan Craig,...

Obituaries.(ARTWORLD)(Obituary)
April 1, 2008... Boris Lurie, 83, Russian-born artist who made his career in New York, died Jan. 7 in Manhattan. In 1960, he co-founded, with Sam Goodman and Stanley Fisher, the politically engaged NO!art group, which used an irreverent avant-garde vocabulary...

Krens resigns from the Guggenheim.(ARTWORLD)(Thomas Krens)
April 1, 2008... As this issue was going to press, the art world was stunned by the news on Feb. 28 that Thomas Krens, director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, was resigning his post after nearly 20 years. He will continue to serve as senior advisor...

NEA funding whiplash.(ARTWORLD)(National Endowment for the Arts)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... We knew it couldn't last. Following eight years of creeping increases for the National Endowment for the Arts, including a $20.3-million boost for fiscal year 2008, passed in late December, President Bush's proposed budget for FY 2009 contains...

Grants for arts writers.(ARTWORLD)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Creative Capital and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts have announced the recipients of their second round of grants for arts writers. The three-year pilot program recognizes writing about contemporary art that is "intellectually...

Artnet relaunches online auctions.(ARTWORLD)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Eyeing the current auction boom, the online art services site Artnet recently restarted its online auction program (www.artnetonlineauctions. com). Initiated in the late 1990s with an approximately $12-million investment, the company's auction...