Art in America articles from December 2005

Art in America archives from December 2005

Quinn marble for Trafalgar Square.(Marc Quinn)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... British artist Marc Quinn recently unveiled in the heart of London Alison Lapper Pregnant, a nearly 12-foot-high, 12-ton white Carrara marble statue. The sculpture was commissioned by a government-appointed panel and is part of a series of...

Guggenheim & Pompidou outposts.(Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... A friendly rivalry between the Pompidou Center in Paris and the Guggenheim Museum in New York has the museums competing and collaborating on two separate projects that would provide the institutions with new branches. In mid-October, the...

Picasso lawsuit resolved.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... Picasso's 1922 portrait Woman in White will remain in the hands of Chicago collector Marilyn Alsdorf, at a hefty price. In response to a lawsuit filed two years ago, Alsdorf has agreed to pay $6.5 million to Thomas Bennigson, a California man...

Walking through art history.(art exhibition at Henry Art Gallery)
December 1, 2005... On view at the University of Washington's Henry Art Gallery in Seattle through Feb. 26, "150 Works of Art" is an exhibition that stops you dead--and not just because your first impression might be a field of gravestones. This "from the...

Saatchi Gallery gets the boot.(Shirayama Shokusan won the legal battel over museum)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... London's Saatchi Gallery has lost a major court battle with the landlords of its current London County Hall location on the Thames. The museum was ordered to vacate the premises and pay more than $10,000 in fines, plus the landlord's legal...

Contemporary cache to MOMA.(Museum of Modern Art gets donation from Edward R. Broida)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... The Museum of Modern Art recently announced that it has received a gift of 174 works of contemporary art from Los Angeles-based collector Edward R. Broida. Valued by experts at around $50 million, the donation includes 108 paintings and...

China: the final (auction) frontier.(Christie's International PLC teamed up with Forever)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... In order to capitalize on the booming art market in China, Christie's auction house recently signed an agreement to begin holding auctions in Beijing. Because of government restrictions on foreign businesses holding independent auctions, the...

Miami hosts the art world.(artists and art museums conducting art exhibitions in Miami; Miami Performing Arts Center, Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami, Miami Art Museum, Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach, Wolfsonian-Florida International University)
December 1, 2005... In its fourth year, the international fair Art Basel Miami Beach (Dec. 1-4) once again offers visitors a plethora of opportunities to view cutting-edge art. The principal venue is the Miami Beach Convention Center. A few blocks away, in Art:...

American Art "Icons" on PBS.('Imagining America: Icons of 20th-Century American Art Imagining America: Icons of 20th-Century American Art program by public broadcasting services)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... "Imagining America: Icons of 20th-Century American Art," an upcoming two-hour program on PBS, presents a concise introduction to a number of important artists, along with an overview of some of the major movements and ideas in art of the last...

Sixties esthetics.(The Rise of the Sixties: American and European Art in the Era of Dissent, The Infinite Line: Re-making Art After Modernism, Chronophobia: On Time in the Art of the 1960s)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... The Rise of the Sixties: American and European Art in the Era of Dissent, by Thomas Crow, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2004; 200 pages, $19.95, paperback. The Infinite Line: Re-making Art After Modernism, by Briony Fer, New Haven,...

Artists in the city: engagement with the urban environment and the local public was the theme of this year's Istanbul Biennial.(9th International Istanbul Biennial )
December 1, 2005... With international biennial exhibitions now numbering in the hundreds, their curators seem increasingly anxious to inoculate themselves against charges of redundancy, irrelevance and pandering to the demands of cultural tourism. Frequently,...

The vanished prodigy: at 19, Barbara Rubin created "Christmas on Earth," an erotically charged classic of 1960s underground cinema. Here, the author recounts an all-too-brief career and life.(FILM)(Biography)
December 1, 2005... Barbara Rubin's 29-minute Christmas on Earth is the filmic record of an orgy staged in a New York City apartment in 1963. This double projection of overlapping images of nude men and women clowning around and making love is one of the first...

Taking liberties: the erosion of civil freedom in the U.S. since 9/11 was the theme of a multi-venue exhibition mounted by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
December 1, 2005... At Ground Zero, names say it all: Reflecting Absence is still on the books, but the Freedom Center is no more. That is, an intentionally self-effacing memorial to the victims of the 2001 World Trade Center attacks--geometric voids, falling...

Dynamic domesticity: with an emphasis on sewing and handicraft, a recent group show offered a low-tech alternative to consumerist flash.(REPORT FROM MIAMI)
December 1, 2005... "Hanging by a Thread," a big, lively group show of 29 artists from all over the world, continued the trend in Miami toward ever more cosmopolitan exhibitions, accelerated since 2002 by the impact of the yearly Art Basel fairs in Miami Beach....

Empirical endeavors: working for just eight intense years, Britain's Roger Fenton expanded the range of early photography and helped to professionalize the field.(PHOTOGRAPHY)
December 1, 2005... In his very short and very active career, Roger Fenton (1819-1869) took photography from London and pastoral Britain to the edge of battle in the Crimea. Supported in his endeavors by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, Fenton helped establish...

Video comes to the 'Stans: a lively video festival in Almaty, Kazakhstan, has helped fuel the rapid spread of the medium across the republics of Central Asia.(REPORT FROM CENTRAL ASIA)
December 1, 2005... To the Western art world, Central Asia might seem the Last Mystery. Since the 1989 exhibition "Magiciens de la Terre," we have seen work from throughout Africa, Latin America and Asia, but we know nothing of the vast and historic steppes of...

The other truth: some 20 years before the appropriationists of the 1980s, Sturtevant was making replicas of iconic works by Warhol, Lichtenstein, Johns and others, extracting meanings that were very much her own.
December 1, 2005... There is a delicious absurdity in being first among simulators. But Elaine Sturtevant, no epicure, would never describe herself that way. "The brutal truth of the work is that it is not copying," she said in a statement prepared for a public...

Facing the facts: ranging from the first century A.D. to the present, "Retratos," an exhibition of portraits that travels this month to Washington, reflects the complexity of Latin American history and cultural identity.
December 1, 2005... Driven by the engines of identity, status and culture, portraiture in a considerable variety of forms contributes to the ongoing development of artistic expression in Latin America. The product of a complex, multi-institutional endeavor, the...

The subjective object: while showing an enduring preference for the casual touch, deliberately creaky facture and modest materials, Richard Tuttle has over the last 40 years created an exceptionally varied body of work, as a current traveling retrospective makes clear.
December 1, 2005... In September 1966 two important shows opened on the same day in the same building on 57th Street in New York--"Eccentric Abstraction," curated by Lucy Lippard at the Fishbach Gallery, which introduced Post-Minimalism, and "Ten," a key show from...

Rehabilitating Rebay.
December 1, 2005... In the summer of 1939, the Museum of Non-Objective Painting presented its inaugural exhibition, "Art of Tomorrow," in a former automobile showroom on East 54th Street in New York City, close to Rockefeller Center and the Museum of Modern Art....

The faces of work: Latino day laborers are the exclusive subject of painter John Sonsini, who grants his models the prominence--perhaps even the permanence--associated with the tradition of the portrait in oil.
December 1, 2005... Seemingly coming from left field, Los Angeles artist John Sonsini has given new vigor to the traditional practice of painting portraits from the model. His subjects are not political leaders, celebrities or affluent families but Latino day...

Duckworth's volumes and planes: a traveling retrospective examines the 60-year career of sculptor Ruth Duckworth, whose reductive vessels and blocky figures reflect the coolness of international modernism.
December 1, 2005... The term retrospective has lost much of its impact in recent years through casual use, but Ruth Duckworth's exhibition, which debuted at the Museum of Arts & Design in New York and is now traveling, is a reminder of just how editing a review of...

Airborne abstraction: embracing indeterminacy and chance, Jackie Matisse sends her abstract forms aloft on kites. Painted kite tails, assemblages, photo and film documentation, and an electronic simulacrum of kite-flying were recently on view in a New York gallery.
December 1, 2005... On her way by taxi to the airport in New York in 1962, Jackie Matisse saw an object in the sky that changed her life--a kite flying over Harlem. She says she "saw a line drawn in the sky," inspiring her to use the heights as a canvas. She had...

Through a glass, darkly: Larry Bell's glass sculptures and related drawings, featured in two recent gallery shows in New York, present intriguing perceptual conundrums.("Larry Bell: The Sixties" viewed at PaceWildenstein and "Larry Bell: New Work" appeared at Jacobson Howard )
December 1, 2005... Best known for his glass cube sculptures from the 1960s, Larry Bell has often been labeled a Minimalist. While the geometric clarity and industrial manufacture of his work may partially justify this designation, Bell tends to reject the literal...

Candice Breitz at Sonnabend.(video art exhibition)
December 1, 2005... Coincidentally enough, two of the best works at the last Venice Biennale were by South African video artists, William Kentridge and Candice Breitz. Breitz's recent exhibition at Sonnabend featured the New York debut of her two-part video...

Omer Fast at Postmasters.(NEW YORK)
December 1, 2005... Colonial Williamsburg is a re-creation of the town as it flourished in the 18th century, from period buildings to actors playing historical characters. In his recent show at Postmasters (concurrently on view at London's Institute of...

Sally Gall at Julie Saul.
December 1, 2005... This condensed survey of work by Sally Gall, ranging from 1978 to 2005, was a potent reminder that photographs don't have to be big to cover a lot of ground. Almost all in black and white, and none bigger than 38 by 37 1/2 inches (most are...

Phong Bui at Sarah Bowen.(art exhibition)
December 1, 2005... From the beginning of July until the middle of October, the interior of Sarah Bowen Gallery, a two-room space on a quiet street in Williamsburg, was taken over by artist Phong Bui and transformed into a walk-in installation in the tradition of...

Merrill Wagner at Sundaram Tagore.
December 1, 2005... Through this thoughtful gathering of recent wall panels assembled from found scraps of cold-rolled steel, selectively painted, Merrill Wagner continues to advance one of the basic concerns of the painter's process: the imaginative application...

Sam Durant at Paula Cooper.
December 1, 2005... Any artist who considers pissing on the Washington Monument an interesting analysis and critique of that national icon's function deserves a good long look, and that's what Los Angeles artist Sam Durant's ambitious second solo show in New York,...

Paul Brach at Flomenhaft.(art exhibition)
December 1, 2005... In title and composition, a number of Paul Brach's abstractions of the last 10 years or so allude to the Pythagorean concept of the music of the spheres--palpable manifestations of the notion that heavenly bodies emanate sounds in their...

Frances Stark at CRG.(NEW YORK)
December 1, 2005... There was something very appealing about Frances Stark's fourth exhibition at CRG, "In and On an Unergonomic Mind," but there was also something determinedly elusive about that appeal. L.A.-based Stark, as an artist and author (her collected...

Melissa Meyer at Elizabeth Harris.
December 1, 2005... By opening its season with a show of abstract paintings by Melissa Meyer, the Elizabeth Harris Gallery offered a visual analogue to the unseasonably warm weather that recently stretched well into October. All nine of these medium to large oils...

Pierre Soulages at Robert Miller and Haim Chanin.
December 1, 2005... Two concurrent Pierre Soulages shows were the first substantial New York exposure for this towering figure in, astonishingly, nearly 30 years. For decades routinely compared, in this country, to Kline, Soulages returned with tough, textured...

Tobias Putrih at Max Protetch.
December 1, 2005... When Tobias Putrih debuted his work here in 2003, the sculpture that generated the most critical chatter was a cardboard-and-plaster construction that resembled two opposing movie screens hung against rocky cliffs. Though rich with formal...

Os Gemeos at Deitch Projects.(twin brothers Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo)
December 1, 2005... The identical twin brothers Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo--"Os Gemeos" means "the twins" in Portuguese--made their name in international graffiti circles painting tags and yellow-skinned figures on walls and buildings in their native Sao Paulo....

Jon Pylypchuk at Friedrich Petzel.(art exhibition)
December 1, 2005... Jon Pylypchuk's sense of humor is pitch black, and won't tickle everyone's funnybone. But its provocations aim wide. A Canadian-born, UCLA-educated, ex-Royal Art Lodge member previously known (sometimes) as Rudy Bust, Pylypchuk has a much...

Jim Drain at Greene Naftali.
December 1, 2005... Jim Drain, a former member of the disbanded art collective Forcefield, fearlessly tackles elements of Surrealism, Pattern and Decoration, high-modernist abstraction, Op and psychedelic art, all at once. The sensual, rambunctious and...

Larry Rivers at Marlborough and Marlborough Chelsea.
December 1, 2005... A pair of exhibitions collectively titled "Larry Rivers: Paintings and Drawings 1951-2001," recently presented at Marlborough's two Manhattan galleries, provided an opportunity to reconsider the artist's career. The 57th Street gallery showed...

Robert Moskowitz at Peter Blum.(art exhibition)
December 1, 2005... This exhibition included paintings and works on paper from the last two years, plus two paintings from the 1990s. The paintings, oils on canvas, were large, and the paper works, also done in oil, were more painted than drawn. Following his...

Sean Scully at Galerie Lelong.
December 1, 2005... Entering Sean Scully's first New York show since 2001 was like slipping into a warm bath, so sensuous and reassuringly familiar are the pleasures afforded by immersion in his work. Doggedly painting wet-into-wet with his matter-of-fact hand and...

Luc Tuymans at David Zwirner.(art exhibition)
December 1, 2005... Alone in the gallery's front room was a mid-size canvas bearing smudges of colored grease--oil paint--defying identification. This might be year-old cotton candy, or lint from a clothes dryer, or something from underfoot. At lower left, what...

Charles Hinman at Wooster Arts Space.(art exhibition)
December 1, 2005... Charles Hinman has been exploring the shaped support and three-dimensionality in abstract painting for over 40 years. His recent exhibition at Wooster Arts Space, focusing upon the past decade, included, in the first gallery, small relief...

Pavel Kraus at Bond.(art exhibition)
December 1, 2005... This recent exhibition featured six new shaped paintings, two sculptures and a group of works on paper by the Czech-born New York artist Pavel Kraus. Dominating the display were large paintings on transparent Mylar, collectively titled...

Mangelos at Peter Freeman.(Dimitrije Basicevic's works exhibited)
December 1, 2005... Dimitrije Basicevic (1921-1987), a Croatian art historian, critic and curator who lived in Zagreb for much of his life, was also an artist who, although he began making work in the 1940s, did not show until the late '60s, under the pseudonym...

Lindsay Brant at Haswellediger.(exhibition)
December 1, 2005... Like artists David Altmejd and Liza Lou, Lindsay Brant uses craft to create a certain emotional distance from horrific subject matter. One pauses from the contemplation of mayhem and decapitation to admire the delicate skin of broken eggshells...

Chris Ofili at the Studio Museum in Harlem.
December 1, 2005... Most of the time it makes sense to approach an exhibition considering first what an artist intended to accomplish and then to what degree he or she succeeded. This idea goes out the window, however, in the case of Chris Ofili's recent...

Orlan at Stefan Stux.(digitally altered photographs exhibition)
December 1, 2005... With little consideration for the faint of heart, the self-styled "carnal" artist Orlan has shaped her career, her body and her face through radical cosmetic surgery, following a course that few would imagine, much less undertake. From 1990 to...

Phyllis Galembo at Sepia International.(photographs exhibition)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... Since the mid-1980s, Phyllis Galembo has produced an impressive body of photographs documenting the physical character, costumery and rituals of African religious practices and their diasporic manifestations in the Caribbean and South America....

Peter Gallo at White Columns.(art exhibition)
December 1, 2005... On a work in this show, Peter Gallo scribbled "I wish I could draw like Joseph Beuys" across a small watercolor-and-graphite rendering of one man giving a blowjob to another. It's a strange but compellingly personal juxtaposition of a sex act...

Zhou Xiaohu at Ethan Cohen.(art exhibition)
December 1, 2005... Zhou Xiaohu started working in video in 1997. In this, his first solo exhibition in America, Zhou showed a group of paintings and several recent videos. Most of them claymations, the videos address, among other issues, the role of the media and...

Jansson Stegner at Mike Weiss.(art exhibition)
December 1, 2005... Sex, violence and strange idylls are the subjects of Jansson Stegner's weirdly compelling solo debut, "Dig Me No Grave." The show is titled after his 2004 painting of a motorcycle crash on rolling hills through which bodies fly through the air....

Janet Fish at DC Moore.(art exhibition)
December 1, 2005... Janet Fish's recent oil-on-canvas still lifes testify to her regard for formal nuance and her unwavering ability to direct the viewer's attention through complex compositions. Fish's orchestration of light and shadow not only emphasizes the...

Gerard Mosse at Kathryn Markel.(art exhibition)
December 1, 2005... Gerard Mosse's brand of abstraction is still in thrall to formal elements--color, shape, scale, space, materiality, mark and (in particular) light--elements that have long constituted the phenomena of his meticulously constructed paintings. In...

James Gobel at Kravets/Wehby.(art exhibition)
December 1, 2005... "Ridicule is Nothing to be Scared Of" is the reassuring title of James Gobel's recent solo show, as well as the name given to the largest, most complex work in the exhibition. Born in Portland, Oregon, Gobel studied art in Las Vegas and Santa...

Vinod Dave at Gallery ArtsIndia.(art exhibition)
December 1, 2005... Though Vinod Dave has been based in New York since 1983, his imagination still lives in Chital, a small village in Gujarat. Dave's paintings reference Bollywood kitsch, comic books and the gods and goddesses whose images are found on common...

Jonas Mekas at Maya Stendhal.(film archives exhibited)
December 1, 2005... Jonas Mekas, the 82-year-old filmmaker and guiding spirit of Anthology Film Archives in Manhattan's East Village, has exhibited widely in Europe in the past decade, including at Documenta 11 in 2002. His first solo show at the Maya Stendhal...

David Bradshaw at Mad Brook Farm.(sculpture exhibition)
December 1, 2005... On July 9, 2005, David Bradshaw, an artist of unusual means and implementation, put on an outdoor performance in northern Vermont called a "Fulmination Sculpture." The site was Mad Brook Farm, close to the Canadian border, a surviving outpost...

Karen Rich Beall at Solomon Projects.
December 1, 2005... In the past, Karen Rich Beall has taken a literal interest in nature. Out of varied materials, including silicon, modeling compound, velvet and papier-mache, she has created 3-D jellyfish, Venus flytraps, floating lilies, deer antlers and other...

Hildur Asgeirsdottir Jonsson at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
December 1, 2005... Born and raised in Iceland, Hildur Asgeirsdottir Jonsson draws upon the awe-inspiring glacial landscape of her homeland, creating startlingly beautiful weavings that hover precariously between realism and abstraction. Based in Ohio, she has...

Barbara Crane at Flatfile.
December 1, 2005... In the late 1960s, Barbara Crane, the Chicago photographer, was handling a sheet of 35mm contact prints. Intrigued by the patterns that the images made on the page, she began to tape negatives to heavy glass and print the configurations using...

Ezio Martinelli at Robert Henry Adams.(art exhibition)
December 1, 2005... Ezio Martinelli (1913-1980), an almost completely forgotten gestural artist of the New York School, dealt with conflict, struggle and the horrible in his work, which makes it painfully relevant to our time. His monumental drawings of the early...

Elizabeth Ockwell at Gallery Mornea.(art exhibition)
December 1, 2005... Elizabeth Ockwell revels in ornate architecture. Baroque ornamentation, marble cupids and gold leaf are her cup of tea. She makes pen, pencil and watercolor drawings of the Ca'd'Oro in Venice, the Paris Opera (Palais Gamier) staircase and...

Rosalyn Bodycomb at Mulcahy Modern.(art exhibition)
December 1, 2005... The men who come and go in Rosalyn Bodycomb's seven-painting series titled "Military, Venice" (2004-05, all 20 by 15 inches) are pictured at night and from above. Their faces are obscured; they wear dark clothing but for white caps, which catch...

Milton Avery at Riva Yares.(art exhibition)
December 1, 2005... "Connections over Time" paired works by Milton Avery (1885-1965) with similar subjects but separated in time by a decade or more--a premise facilitated by the artist having returned repeatedly to the same motifs. Comprising 62 paintings,...

Adam Ross at Angles.(painting exhibition)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... Adam Ross's pictures have a futuristic feel that is conveyed through elegant combinations of abstract and architectural motifs drawn from modernist traditions as diverse as the dreamscapes of Yves Tanguy and the visionary designs of Bruno Taut....

Maura Bendett at Roberts and Tilton.
December 1, 2005... Maura Bendett's materially seductive sculptures subscribe to what could be called a "post-nature" attitude of representing nature through wholly cultural or artificial imagery. Synthetic and reconstituted, this is nature consumed and...

Soo Kim at Sandroni Rey.(art exhibition)
December 1, 2005... Soo Kim's new series, "A Week Inside Two Days," might make you think of painting and sculpture more than other photographs. The series features pictures of trees in the winter stripped of their leaves by the elements. On top of that, Kim has...

Tauba Auerbach at New Image Art.(art exhibition)
December 1, 2005... In this quietly stunning debut show Tauba Auerbach presented works on paper of invigorating simplicity, restoring the connection between written language and the hand that shapes it. She also invites us to savor the consonance and friction...

Olafur Eliasson at the Jamie Residence.
December 1, 2005... For a project titled "Meant To Be Lived In (Today I am Feeling Prismatic)," Olafur Eliasson transformed a modernist house, the Jamie Residence in the Pasadena hills, into an even more rarefied visual experience: a kind of auratic pavilion of...

Alex Hartley at Miro.(art exhibition at Victoria Miro gallery)
December 1, 2005... Alex Hartley's latest show at Victoria Miro gallery featured a series of large-format landscape photographs of raw wildernesses and desolate vistas. These were inspired by his involvement in the Cape Farewell Project, a British initiative that...

Stephane Pencreac'h at Anne de Villepoix.
December 1, 2005... In his recent exhibition "Sublimation: Life during War," French artist Stephane Pencreac'h conjured captivating meditations on sex and death, themes with which he has been obsessed since the early 1990s. His 10 large-format oils and two...

Per Kirkeby at Galleri Bo Bjerggaard.(art exhibition)
December 1, 2005... You might say it has taken Per Kirkeby an entire career to accept his artistic calling. That calling, as this exhibition of a dozen recent paintings made clear, is as a landscape painter, one of the most complex and expressive working today....

New York Foundation for the Arts.(Michael L. Royce appointed)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... Michael L. Royce is the new executive director of the New York Foundation for the Arts, replacing Ted Berger, who had served in that post since 1980. Royce was deputy director of the New York State Council on the Arts from 1996 to 1999.

Museum of Modern Art.(Cornelia H. Butler appointed at Museum of Modern Art, New York)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... Cornelia H. Butler, curator since 1996 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, was recently named chief curator for the department of drawings at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

The Praemium Imperiale awards, given by the Japan Art Association in Tokyo, were recently presented to five individuals in the arts; each receives approximately $135,000.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... The Praemium Imperiale awards, given by the Japan Art Association in Tokyo, were recently presented to five individuals in the arts; each receives approximately $135,000. The winners include Robert Ryman (painting), Issey Miyake (sculpture),...

Tara Donovan is the winner of the inaugural $50,000 Calder Prize, given by the Calder Foundation.(Awards)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... Tara Donovan is the winner of the inaugural $50,000 Calder Prize, given by the Calder Foundation. As part of the biannual prize, the foundation will facilitate the placement of a work by the winner in a major public museum.

Artist Francisco Toledo is the recipient of the $257,000 Right Livelihood Award for his efforts to protect the cultural heritage of his native state of Oaxaca, Mexico.(Awards)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... Artist Francisco Toledo is the recipient of the $257,000 Right Livelihood Award for his efforts to protect the cultural heritage of his native state of Oaxaca, Mexico. The award was established by Jakob yon Uexkull to address areas not covered...

The Indianapolis Museum of Art recently opened its new contemporary art galleries.(Museum News)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... The Indianapolis Museum of Art recently opened its new contemporary art galleries. The 25,000-square-foot space is located on the third floor of the museum building designed by local architects Browning Day Mullins Dierdorf. The $74-million...

The University of Florida's Harn Museum, in Gainesville, recently unveiled a new addition.(Museum News)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... The University of Florida's Ham Museum, in Gainesville, recently unveiled a new addition. The 18,000-square-foot pavilion, designed by Florida-based architects Kha Le-Huu and Partners, features 6,500 square feet of exhibition space as well as...

Obituaries.(ARTWORLD)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
December 1, 2005... Esther Parada, 67, Chicago artist, died Oct. 19 of gastrointestinal cancer. Parada worked as an art instructor for the Peace Corps in Bolivia in the 1960s and remained socially engaged throughout her career. Her early photo-based works layered...

William Bartman 1946-2005.(executive director of Art Resources Transfer)(Obituary)
December 1, 2005... William Bartman, 58, founder and executive director of Art Resources Transfer (A.R.T.), died in New York City on Sept. 15 of multiple organ failure. Bartman was a creative, unconventional philanthropist whose outsize, high-energy personality...

No rest for the weary Getty, and Met targeted.(J. Paul Getty Museum)
December 1, 2005... Woes continue for the J. Paul Getty Museum. With one of its former curators, Marion True, on trial in Italy for trafficking in artifacts looted from Italian sites [see "Artworld," Nov. '05], the Italian government seeking the return of some 40...

Calder Museum canceled.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... Plans for the Calder Museum, which was to have occupied a prominent site along Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin Parkway, have been withdrawn. Nearly half of the funds needed for the $70-million project had already been pledged from public and...