Art in America articles from August 2005

Art in America archives from August 2005

Museum preview 2005/2006.
August 1, 2005... Summer Tutankhamun A gathering of some 130 works from the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" features 50 celebrated objects found in the tomb of the young king. A collaborative curatorial effort...

Art in Ohio 2005/2006.
August 1, 2005... BUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART 524 Warwick Avenue, Youngstown, OH 44502 330-743-1711 Peter Plagens: Paintings (Trumbull branch) August 7-October 2, 2005 Alan Bean: An Artist on the Moon October 2-December 31,2005...

2004 in review: auction highlights.
August 1, 2005... Listed below are highlights from the spring and fall 2004 auction seasons, featuring works of Impressionist, modern and contemporary art from five of New York's most prominent auction houses. Each entry provides the artist's name, title of...

Auction house directory.(Directory)
August 1, 2005... CALIFORNIA Bonhams & Butterfields San Francisco gallery: 220 San Bruno Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94103 Tel: 415.861.7500 Fax: 415.861.8951 Los Angeles gallery: 7601 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90046 Tel:...

Contemporary Arts Center.(People)(Linda Shearer, new director)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Linda Shearer, former director of the Williams College Museum of Art, was named director of the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Bruce Nauman, sculptor and video installation artist.(People)(Award winner)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Bruce Nauman, sculptor and video installation artist, was awarded a Praemium Imperiale, worth approximately $135,000, by the Japan Art Association. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Nancy Spero, known for her socially engaged figure-and-text paintings and drawings.(People)(Award winner)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Nancy Spero, known for her socially engaged figure-and-text paintings and drawings, received the award for lifetime achievement in art from the College Art Association. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

National Museum and Gallery.(People)(Xu Bing, award winner)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Xu Bing, New York-based Chinese artist, won the $75,000 inaugural Artes Mundi award, given by the National Museum and Gallery, Cardiff, Wales, for his work using dust collected from Ground Zero. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Raymond Pettibon.(People)(Award winner)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Raymond Pettibon, known for his murals and large-scale installations of cartoonish, humorous drawings, won the $100,000 Bucksbaum Award, given to an artist in the Whitney Biennial. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Georg Baselitz, German artist known for figurative paintings and rough-hewn wood sculptures.(People)(Award winner)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Georg Baselitz, German artist known for figurative paintings and rough-hewn wood sculptures, received a Praeminm Imperiale, worth approximately $135,000, from the Japan Art Association. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Joan Jonas, video, performance and installation artist, received the College Art Association's award.(People)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Joan Jonas, video, performance and installation artist, received the College Art Association's award for a distinguished body of work. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Zaha Hadid, Iraqi-born, London-based architect of the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, won the $100,000 Pritzker Architecture Prize.(People)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Zaha Hadid, Iraqi-born, London-based architect of the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, won the $100,000 Pritzker Architecture Prize from the Hyatt Foundation. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Asia Society.(People)(Vishakha N. Desai, new president)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Vishakha N. Desai, director of the museum of the Asia Society in New York, was promoted to president of the society. She is the first woman and the first Asian-American to hold the post. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Pollock-Krasner Foundation.(People)(Samuel Sachs II, new president)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Samuel Sachs II, former director of the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Frick Collection, was named president of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation in New York. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Oleg Grabar, art historian and professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J.(People)(Award winner)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Oleg Grabar, art historian and professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., was honored for lifetime achievement in art writing by the College Art Association. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Federal Association of German Cooperative Banks.(People)(Francis Alys (award winner))(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Francis Alys, Belgian artist known for his performances and mixed-medium works, won the blueorange award from the Federal Association of German Cooperative Banks, and gave the $86,000 to a children's center in Mexico City, where he lives. ...

Judy Pfaff, creator of elaborate multi-medium wall sculptures and room-size installations.(People)(Award winner)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Judy Pfaff, creator of elaborate multi-medium wall sculptures and room-size installations, was awarded a $500,000 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Smithsonian American Art Museum.(People)(Kara Walker (award winner))(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Kara Walker, whose wan-mounted silhouettes touch on issues of slavery, blackness, desire and the Old South, won the $25,000 Lucelia Artist Award from the Smithsonian American Art Museum. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Garth Clark, New York art dealer, ceramics expert and writer.(People)
August 1, 2005... Garth Clark, New York art dealer, ceramics expert and writer, received the College Art Association's Frank Jewett Mather Award for art criticism. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Mona Hatoum.(People)(Sonning Prize from the University of Copenhagen)
August 1, 2005... Mona Hatoum, Palestinian-born, London-based maker of evocative sculptural installations, was the first visual artist to win the approximately $167,000 Sonning Prize from the University of Copenhagen. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

2004 in review: public art.(United States listings)(Directory)
August 1, 2005... 1 Franz West Recent Sculptures. Seven variously sized, lacquered aluminum forms temporarily sited in front of Lincoln Center in New York, a project of the Public Art Fund. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 2 Martin Blank Repose in...

2004 in review: obituaries.(artists, critics, curators, historians, philosophers)(Obituary)
August 1, 2005... Jacques Derrida, 74, influential French philosopher known for his theory of Deconstruction. He published The Truth in Painting in 1987 and co-wrote The Secret Art of Antonin Artaud (2000). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Milton Resnick, 87,...

2005 guide: galleries museums & artists.(Directory)
August 1, 2005... The Guide is a comprehensive alphabetical listing, arranged by state and city, of U.S. museums, galleries, university galleries, nonprofit exhibition spaces, corporate consultants, private dealers and print dealers. Included are addresses,...

2005 guide: galleries museums & artists.(Directory)
August 1, 2005... The Guide is a comprehensive alphabetical listing, arranged by state and city, of U.S. museums, galleries, university galleries, nonprofit exhibition spaces, corporate consultants, private dealers and print dealers. Included are addresses,...

2005 guide: galleries museums & artists.(NEW YORK: NEWBURGH-NEW YORK: YONKERS)(Directory)
August 1, 2005... The Guide is a comprehensive alphabetical listing, arranged by state and city, of U.S. museums, galleries, university galleries, nonprofit exhibition spaces, corporate consultants, private dealers and print dealers. Included are addresses,...

Art schools.(International and United States listings)(Directory)
August 1, 2005... NEW ENGLAND The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University Office of Admissions 700 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02215 617-505-6700 or 800-773-0494 toll-free Fax: 617-585-6720 www.aiboston.edu * admissions@aiboston.edu ...

Art services.(United States listings)(Directory)
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