Art in America articles from August 2007

Art in America archives from August 2007

Museum preview.(2007/2008 PREVIEW)(Calendar)
August 1, 2007... Exhibition highlights of the coming season Summer Modernist Portraits "The Mirror and the Mask: Portraiture in the Age of Picasso" explores the development of the genre in paintings and sculpture during the 20th century, as...

Art in Ohio 2007/2008.(Calendar)
August 1, 2007... ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM Oberlin College 87 North Main Street, Oberlin, OH 44074 Phone: 440 775 8665 Fax: 440 775 6841 www.oberlin.edu/allenart Greek, Cypriot, Etruscan and Roman Art from the AMAM's Collection June...

Auction highlights.(2006 IN REVIEW)
August 1, 2007... Listed below are the highlights from the spring and fall 2006 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, 2007... Bonhams & Butterfields San Francisco: 220 San Bruno Avenue, CA 94103 415-861-7500 * Fax: 415-861-8951 Los Angeles: 7601 Sunset Boulevard, CA 90046 323-850-7500 * Fax: 323-850-5843 info.us@bonhams.com * www.bonharns.com/us...

L.A. County Museum of Art.(People)
August 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Michael Govan was named director and CEO of the L.A. County Museum of Art; he had been head of NYC's Dia Art Foundation.

Bronx Museum of the Arts.(People)(Brief article)
August 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Holly Block was made executive director of the Bronx Museum of the Arts; she had been head of NYC's Art In General for 18 years.

Indianapolis Museum of Art.(People)
August 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Maxwell Anderson, former director of the Whitney Museum (19982003), became head of the Indianapolis Museum of Art.

Cleveland Museum of Art.(People)
August 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Timothy Rub, head of the Cincinnati Art Museum for six years, became director of the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Matthew Coolidge.(People)
August 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Matthew Coolidge, land-use artist, received the $25,000 Lucelia Artist Award from the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Christian Boltanski.(People)
August 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Christian Boltanski, who makes haunting photo-based works, won a $131,000 Praemium Imperiale from the Japan Art Association.

Calvin Tomkins.(People)
August 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Calvin Tomkins, art critic, won a $25,000 Clark Prize for excellence in arts writing from the Clark Art Institute.

Shirin Neshat.(People)
August 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Shirin Neshat, whose films address Muslim social themes, received the $300,000 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize.

James Cahill.(People)
August 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] James Cahill, scholar of Chinese art, won the award for lifetime achievement in art writing from the College Art Association.

Anna Schuleit.(People)
August 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Anna Schuleit, creator of socially minded public installations, was given a $500,000 MacArthur Foundation fellowship.

Yayoi Kusama.(People)
August 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Yayoi Kusama, known for formally obsessive sculptures and installations, received a $131,000 Praemium Imperiale.

Kobena Mercer.(People)
August 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Kobena Mercer, art scholar specializing in identity polities and the African diaspora, received a $25,000 Clark Prize.

Gabriel Orozco.(People)
August 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Gabriel Orozco, maker of diverse conceptual works, won the $85,000 blueOrange award from the Museum Ludwig in Cologne.

Betye Saar.(People)
August 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Betye Saar, who makes provocative found-object assemblages, won the CAA award for a distinguished body of work.

Josiah McElheny.(People)
August 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Josiah McElheny, known for his reflective-glass sculptures, received a $500,000 MacArthur Foundation fellowship.

Mark Bradford.(People)
August 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Mark Bradford won the Whitney Museum's $100,000 Bucksbaum Award for his huge collaged works using found street posters.

Linda Nochlin.(People)
August 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Linda Nochlin, pioneering feminist and professor at NYU's Institute of Fine Arts, was given a $25,000 Clark Prize.

Tacita Dean.(People)
August 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Tacita Dean, known for her photos and film installations, won the $50,000 Hugo Boss Prize from the Guggenheim Museum.

Will Barnet.(People)
August 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Will Barnet, painter and printmaker of figurative scenes and abstractions, won the CAA award for lifetime achievement in art.

Shazia Sikander.(People)
August 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Shazia Sikander, whose paintings are inspired by Persian and Indian miniatures, won a $500,000 MacArthur fellowship.

J. Paul Getty Trust.(People)(Brief article)
August 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] James Wood, head of the Art Institute of Chicago for 25 years, was roamed director and chief executive of the J. Paul Getty Trust.

Lorna Simpson.(People)
August 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Lorna Simpson, whose works address race and gender, won the $50,000 Wein Artist Prize from the Studio Museum in Harlem.

Cincinnati Art Museum.(People)
August 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Aaron Betsky, head of the Netherlands Architecture Institute for five years, was named director of the Cincinnati Art Museum.

Jerry Saltz.(People)
August 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Jerry Saltz, former art critic for the Village Voice (now at New York magazine), won the CAA Mather Award for art criticism.

Jim Hodges.(People)
August 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Jim Hodges, maker of evocative works in various mediums, was awarded a $50,000 Alpert Award from CalArts.

Public art.(2006 IN REVIEW)(List)
August 1, 2007... 1 Sarah Morris [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Robert Towne. Lever House's lobby and courtyard ceiling were painted with a fractured, geometric pattern for two and a half months, a Public Art Fund project. 2 Lee Imonen [ILLUSTRATION...

Obituaries.(2006 IN REVIEW)(Obituary)(List)
August 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Robert Rosenblum, 79, art historian, NYU professor, curator and influential author of Transformations in Late 18th-Century Art (1967). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Nam dune Paik, 73, video-art pioneer, performance...

Galleries museums & artists.(Colorado-Hawaii)(Directory)(Calendar)
August 1, 2007... Colorado ARVADA 1695. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities 6901 Wadsworth Blvd 80003 (720) 898-7200, fax (720) 898-7217 E-mail: jgilmore@arvadacenter.org Web site: www.arvadacenter.org Mon-Sat 9-6, Sun 1-5...

Galleries museums & artists.(Idaho-Maryland)(Directory)(Calendar)
August 1, 2007... Idaho BELLEVUE 2228. Gallery ALX--ArtLynX Consulting (formerly CMTG) PO Box 1185 83313 (208) 309-9020, fax (866) 205-0928 E-mail: artlynx@gmail.com Web site: www.cmtg.tv; www.artlynx.com By appt Dir: Allison...

Galleries museums & artists.(NEW YORK: ALBANY-NEW YORK: NEW ROCHELLE)(Directory)(Calendar)
August 1, 2007... New York ALBANY 3373. Albany Center Galleries 161 Washington Ave 12210 (518) 462-4775, fax (518) 462-1491 Web site: www.albanycentergalleries.org N 3374. Albany Institute of History and Art 125 Washington...

Gallery & museum index.(List)
August 1, 2007... Galleries # 1018 Art 3544 1112 Gallery/Society for Arts 2254 1301PE 1239 16 Patton 4516 2/20 Gallery 3546 20 North Gallery 4661 2x13 Gallery 3547 303 Gallery 3548 3rd Ward 3399 4 Art Inc. 2256...

Artists index.(#-K)(List)
August 1, 2007... All artists' names have been provided by galleries listed in the Guide that exhibit or represent those artists. These galleries may be located by the numbers that follow the artists' names. # 3 RIVERS 2ND NATURE 4867 A ...