Art in America articles from December 2006

Art in America archives from December 2006

Getty's new rules on acquisitions.(FRONT PAGE)(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... As the trial of former Getty Museum curator Marion True resumed in Rome, the Getty announced on Oct. 26 that it would no longer buy or accept as gifts works whose provenance cannot be verified back to Nov. 17, 1970, when Unesco prohibited...

World Monuments Fund honors Indian royal.(FRONT PAGE)
December 1, 2006... India's Maharaja Gajsinghji II of Jodhpur recently visited New York to accept the 2006 Hadrian Award from the World Monuments Fund (WMF) and to discuss that organization's recent efforts to preserve and restore historical sites in his homeland....

Yale revamps Kahn landmark.(FRONT PAGE)(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... On Dec. 10, the Yale University Art Gallery unveils its renovation of a campus building designed by Louis Kahn. The $44-million, three-year project was organized by Duncan Hazard of Polshek Partnership Architects. The aim was to upgrade the...

Miami's new center for performing arts.(FRONT PAGE)(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... Early October saw the opening of the Carnival Center for the Performing Arts in Miami, a 570 000-square-foot complex comprising a new ballet and opera house, concert hall, studio theater, education center, outdoor plaza and performance space,...

Another place for Another Place?(FRONT PAGE)
December 1, 2006... An ambitious installation by Antony Gormley on a two-mile stretch of beach near Liverpool is at the center of a dispute between art lovers, who want to keep the work in situ permanently, and a group of protesters from the local community....

Iraq collection to be dispersed?(FRONT PAGE)(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... Causing alarm for museum professionals and antiquities experts throughout the world, reports from Baghdad say that government-appointed cultural authorities may be planning to break up the collection of the Iraq Museum. Coming within weeks of...

Revised plan for Queens Museum.(FRONT PAGE)(Queens Museum of Art)(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... Almost two years after abandoning its Eric Owen Moss-designed expansion plan, the Queens Museum of Art has revealed a new expansion and renovation scheme by Grimshaw Architects, working in conjunction with Ammann & Whitney. Where the Moss...

Boston's new ICA opens.(FRONT PAGE)(Institute of Contemporary Art)(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... Initially scheduled to debut in September and postponed due to construction delays, the new building for Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) is now set to open to the public on Dec. 10. Overlooking Boston Harbor, the $41-million,...

Miami preview.
December 1, 2006... The fifth edition of the international fair Art Basel Miami Beach (Dec. 7-10) once again offers visitors a cornucopia of citywide exhibitions and events geared to cutting-edge art. At the Miami Beach Convention Center, the principal venue, some...

The art of politics.
December 1, 2006... Art of Engagement: Visual Politics in California and Beyond, by Peter Selz, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2006; 320 pages, $60 cloth, $29.95 paper. Are there stranger bedfellows than art and politics? Political art is often...

What is art worth?(Book review)
December 1, 2006... Art Incorporated: The Story of Contemporary Art, by Julian Stallabrass, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004; 240 pages, $25. Talking Prices: Symbolic Meanings of Prices on the Market for Contemporary Art, by Olav Velthuis, Princeton,...

Recent books by A.i.A. authors.(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... Bathers, Bodies, Beauty: The Visceral Eye, by Linda Nochlin, Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 2006; 342 pages, $35 cloth. The Invisible Flaneuse? Gender, Public Space, and Visual Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris,...

The future, as it was: for 50 years, Isamu Noguchi and Buckminster Fuller shared dreams of a world improved by visionary technology, as seen in a recent exhibition.(REPORT FROM LONG ISLAND CITY)
December 1, 2006... Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi met in 1929 at a downtown New York tavern called Romany Marie's. Fuller, a loyal patron, helped Marie design her Minetta Street establishment, covering the walls with aluminum paint to boost its sense of...

Sculpture on the edge: "Sculpture Key West 2006" brought together 80 artists with widely divergent practices and backgrounds. But the town's insouciant character was felt throughout the show.(REPORT FROM KEY WEST)
December 1, 2006... At land's end, where the tip of Florida's curving archipelago meets the open sea, an enterprising group of Key Westers regularly mount an exhibition of public sculpture. This year, the 11th, they faced down the damage caused in 2005 by...

Inventing Tijuana: an ever-expanding cultural laboratory that thrives on unpredictability, Tijuana exudes raw energy. This hybrid vigor is on ample display in a current survey of art and design from the area.(REPORT FROM SAN DIEGO)
December 1, 2006... Exhibitions on and about the U.S./Mexico border have proliferated in San Diego and Tijuana since the 1980s, but the traveling show "Strange New World: Art and Design from Tijuana," recently seen at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego's two...

NY galleries.(Directory)
December 1, 2006... CHELSEA A.I.R. Gallery 511 West 25th Street, #301, NY, NY 10001 Tel: 212.255.6651 Email: info@airgallery.org Website: www.airgallery.org Tuesday-Saturday: 11:00-6:00 December 5-January 6: Gallery I: Kathleen...

Compound pleasures: Robert Rauschenberg made more than 80 Combines during a singularly productive decade, starting in the mid-1950s. A traveling exhibition of this work shows him changing from an energetic provocateur to a self-aware, mature artist.
December 1, 2006... Expertly organized by Paul Schimmel, chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, "Robert Rauschenberg: Combines" offers an engaging reappraisal of the artist's seminal works. The museum's permanent collection includes no...

Lorna Simpson: echoes of the unspoken: currently the subject of a midcareer retrospective, Lorna Simpson uses photography, video and text to raise social questions in works whose power, carefully calibrated, is only amplified by what she keeps to herself.
December 1, 2006... Lorna Simpson has spent her career as a photographer and videographer objectifying forces latent in the culture, questioning the semiotics of looking, exploring the construction of difference, asserting the interconnectedness of human beings...

Biedermeier unbound: a traveling museum survey, currently on view in Milwaukee, highlights the courtly patronage and new bourgeois values behind the 19th century's "simple" but visually rich Biedermeier movement.
December 1, 2006... In addition to its considerable beauty, the Milwaukee Art Museum's exhibition "Biedermeier: The Invention of Simplicity" [on view through Jan. 1] is notable for two major contributions to scholarship. In its catalogue, the art of the...

Louise Lawler looks back; in conceptually and visually elegant work both old and new, installed at the Wexner Center with great sensitivity to its eccentric architecture, Lawler illuminates the business of showing and owning art.(Cover story)
December 1, 2006... Twenty-one years ago, artist Andrea Fraser speculated on how Louise Lawler's career might unfold, writing in these pages: "If Lawler manages to escape both marginalization and incorporation, it is because, whatever position she may occupy, she...

Pop's high modernist: two recent exhibitions, bracketing Wesselmann's long career, celebrated a sometimes overlooked Pop painter whose sensuous but disciplined work owes as much to Matisse as to mass-media imagery.
December 1, 2006... Tom Wesselmann, one of the original Pop artists, died in 2004. This past spring two nearly simultaneous gallery exhibitions in New York were devoted to his work. L&M Arts presented "Tom Wesselmann: The Sixties," which featured his earliest Pop...

Light industry: a retrospective profiling sculptor Forrest Myers, creator of "The Wall" in SoHo, displayed a vast range of works--from kinetic to minimalist, from political to musical.
December 1, 2006... At the forefront of contemporary art practice for over 40 years, Forrest Myers is known for his innovative work in light and with metal, woven wire and bent pipe, and also as a maker of idea-driven sculptures that commingle form and function;...

Eye on the transcendent: New Mexico artist Florence Pierce, now in her late 80s, is best known for luminescent paintings made of pigmented resins on reflective surfaces. Her interest in abstraction began in the 1930s, when she was an associate of the Transcendental Painting Group.
December 1, 2006... Asserting that "experience matters," New York Times critic Holland Cotter recently hailed a spate of exhibitions by mid- to late-career artists whose work "has developed over time and maintained its presence for a number of years." Among these...

Rereading Anastasi: working in an impressive variety of mediums, William Anastasi brings to bear on his Conceptual work a wide-ranging formal inventiveness and a Duchampian wit.
December 1, 2006... A mini-retrospective of work by William Anastasi at New York's Bjorn Ressle Fine Art stressed the artist's ongoing concern with foundational principles of Conceptual and Minimal art. A first-generation Conceptualist, Anastasi continues to...

History, a multiplicity: an exhibition currently at the Museum of Modern Art surveys the past 45 years of European art through prints, artist's books and multiples, revealing them often to have been the mediums of choice to convey the preoccupations of the era.
December 1, 2006... Mounting a survey exhibition in the U.S. of art made in Europe since 1960 is so daunting a task that it's never been done. Pop art, Fluxus, Nouveau Realisme, Conceptual art, Arte Povera, Capitalist Realism, Neo-Expressionism, Samizdat, Vienna...

Ursula von Rydingsvard at Galerie Lelong.
December 1, 2006... Ursula von Rydingsvard's sculpture is most often made of blocks or strips of blond cedar wood pieced together to form large, deceptively simple shapes on a monumental scale. This has been her signature style for some 30 years. With their...

Robert Watts at Leslie Tonkonow.
December 1, 2006... In 1963, at an exhibition of his oddball kinetic sculptures, Robert Watts (1923-1988) said, "I feel that my work is not 'categorable' and I intend to keep it that way." Watts kept his promise, challenging the usual definitions of Pop,...

Rivane Neuenschwander at Tanya Bonakdar.
December 1, 2006... This was the first solo gallery exhibition in New York for Brazilian Rivane Neuenschwander, who has been receiving lots of inter national attention, including an appearance in the Arsenale exhibition at the 2005 Venice Biennale and a nomination...

Dona Nelson at Thomas Erben.
December 1, 2006... What, exactly, constitutes an image, and how that image might be coaxed or coerced into being, are key concerns of Bona Nelson, one of the very few painters with the fortitude to confront Pollock head-on. Since the 1970s, Nelson has worked in...

Andrew Chin at Westwood.
December 1, 2006... Using a distinctive, hyper-stylized, Pop manner, Andrew Chin paints large, colorful pictures of stuffed toys, morsels of food and lit cigars. Occasionally part of a human figure might appear, as in the bright red lips seen in profile in a...

Alexi Worth at DC Moore.
December 1, 2006... If photography and painting have become a middle-aged couple, the accumulated tensions within their relationship count as good theater for Alexi Worth. His new, modestly scaled, emphatically handmade paintings don't mimic the appearance of...

Peter Agostini at Salander-O'Reilly.
December 1, 2006... A sense of arrested motion pervades much of the sculpture of Peter Agostini (1913-1993), embodying a defiance of gravity and yet a final surrender to its tug. This affectionate survey included three versions of Agostini's bronze horses from as...

Vik Muniz at Sikkema Jenkins.
December 1, 2006... In a well-established conjuring act, Vik Muniz takes seemingly straight photographs of what appear to be ordinary objects but are actually painstakingly hand-wrought trompe I'oeil images, fashioned with everything from chocolate syrup to dust....

Stephen Posen at the Drawing Center.
December 1, 2006... Stephen Posen designed a complex, ebullient installation called Dancer/Mirror to engage the six surfaces of the 12-by-40-foot, high-ceilinged Drawing Room space. From the street outside, scroll-shaped sweeps of yellow and blue paint baited a...

James Brown at Fisher Landau Center for Art.
December 1, 2006... While James Brown has worked extensively in painting, sculpture and book- and print-making, unique works on paper have been central to his production. They have functioned as vehicles of experimentation, though not as studies per se. This...

Hitoshi Nomura at McCaffrey Fine Art.
December 1, 2006... Long overdue, this remarkable exhibition is the first American solo of the rigorously conceived photographs of Japanese artist Hitoshi Nomura. As a young man Nomura came to consider science a relevant source of art, Unknown to such...

Monica Majoli at Gagosian.
December 1, 2006... With their subtly modulated tones and deep subject matter, Monica Majoli's watercolors were odd ducks in the 2006 Whitney Biennial, lost in the screaming banter of brat videos, poseur attitudes and abject tchotchkes. Known for obsessively...

Christian Hellmich at Lehmann Maupin.
December 1, 2006... In Christian Hellmich's captivating exhibition, "Arrangement," eight paintings of imagined but anonymous architectural settings--a refreshment stand, a construction site, a rooftop and so on---offered a metaphor for the constructed nature of...

Jackie Gendel at Jeff Bailey.
December 1, 2006... Jackie Gendel is a young painter who finds ways of combining an arch attitude with forthright paint handling. She is already a veteran of a number of group and solo exhibitions. Several years back she was making ink and wax paintings that...

Irving Petlin at Kent.
December 1, 2006... Incorporating the sweep of time and space into a commentary on the tragedy of the current Iraq war, Irving Petlin has produced a set of modern-day history paintings. Like their art-historical antecedents, they strive for poetry rather than...

Bo Bartlett at P.P.O.W.
December 1, 2006... There is a pervasive darkness at the heart of Bo Bartlett's impressive, troubling paintings, which are populated with figures caught up in surreal dreamlike events. (The works described here were painted in 2006.) At the center of this...

Olafur Eliasson at Tanya Bonakdar.
December 1, 2006... For an artist, change and growth involve continually working against one's strengths--having the courage to abstain from the tricks that have worked in the past in order to explore fresh possibilities. In contrast to many artists who,...

Paul Etienne Lincoln at Christine Burgin.
December 1, 2006... The elegant machinery of Paul Etienne Lincoln's "Two Mechanical Symphonies for Two Cities" supports musical portraits of New York City and Turin. Twenty years in the making and now nearing completion, New York New York (1986-2006) draws on an...

William Earl Kofmehl III and Jacob Feige at Lombard-Freid.
December 1, 2006... A veritable turn-of-the-century neighborhood inhabited Lombard-Freid's roomy Chelsea gallery for "At the End of the Day, We're All Sooty." It snaked around exposed wood pillars and ceiling sprinklers in an idiosyncratic Gesamtkunstwerk, a...

B. Wurtz at Feature.
December 1, 2006... The sculptural pursuit of negligibility has had, ironically enough, a substantial following ever since Richard Tuttle began exploring the threshold of the visible. But few artists make work quite as provocatively insubstantial as B. Wurtz's. A...

Kambui Olujimi at Gallery 138.
December 1, 2006... Twenty-nine-year-old artist, curator and poet Kambui Olujimi dedicated his solo gallery debut, 'Walk the Plank," to the legacy of the cantankerous, outspoken diva Nina Simone and her musical journey through the "ephemeral nature of racism to...

Judith Joy Ross at Pace/MacGill.
December 1, 2006... The photographer Judith Joy Ross is known for her intimate portraits of a range of subjects, from visitors to the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial in Washington, D.C., to members of Congress, to children at a swimming hole. Her best-known series is a...

Gwenn Thomas at Yvon Lambert.
December 1, 2006... A series of strikingly crisp photographs taken in 1974 by painter and photographer Gwenn Thomas for Avalanche (the short-lived art publication that exemplified the improvisational spirit of the 1970s avant-garde) was the summer offering at Yvon...

J. Bennett Fitts at Julie Saul.
December 1, 2006... Motel swimming pools are an apt subject for a summer exhibition, but those depicted in "No Lifeguard on Duty," J. Bennett Fitts's first New York solo show, are far from light summer fare. This tidy group of large-scale C-prints is the result of...

Miki Lee at Lyons Wier*Ortt.
December 1, 2006... When Miki Lee exhibited her paintings at this gallery in 2002 and 2004, she was tweaking high modernist abstraction just enough to render her work unique. Those earlier canvases can be summarily described as stripe paintings with a twist, since...

Serge Clement and Marina Kamena at Allan Stone.
December 1, 2006... French-born Serge Clement and his wife, Marina Kamena, from Belgrade--both now based in Westport, Conn.--collaborate on an idiosyncratic body of work that consists of paintings, shadow boxes, tabletop sculptures and erotic drawings. Clement and...

James Harrison at Luise Ross.
December 1, 2006... The visionary paintings of James Harrison (1925-1990) invite attentive viewing and empathy for the complexity of his mark-making, layering of images and implicit battle between darkness and light. The palette is somber, the surfaces heavily...

Eva Struble at Lombard-Freid.
December 1, 2006... The pockmarked post-and-lintel wood beams in Lombard-Freid's two-room space added an appropriate sense of decay to Eva Struble's recent exhibition of seven paintings of postindustrial wastelands, ranging from an 82-by-100-inch close-up to a...

Bosco Sodi at Neuhoff.(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... Mexican-born artist Bosco Sodi, now living in Barcelona, paints thickly encrusted canvases, mainly with broad, roughly edged striations arrayed in verticals across the canvas. Sodi builds up the surface by painting over an accumulation of...

Susan Bee and Miriam Laufer at A.I.R.
December 1, 2006... Susan Bee has been active on several fronts in the contemporary arts. A painter of eclectic habit, she has published six artist's books, some of them collaborations with well-known poets such as Charles Bernstein (her husband) and Jerome...

Stephanie Rose at Nicole Fiacco.
December 1, 2006... In Stephanie Rose's paintings, lengths of bright red drapery billow into view from above or hover, sinuously swagged, along the upper edge of the canvas. Velvety in texture, they have the look of theater curtains. Curling, swooping and...

Annabeth Rosen at Fleischer Ollman.
December 1, 2006... Quantity seems to be Annabeth Rosen's central theme. It's perhaps her comment on the nature of ceramics, which are so often produced in large numbers even by individual potters. Or perhaps it was an innate attraction to excess that drew her to...

Gavin Perry and Mette Tommerup at Fredric Snitzer.
December 1, 2006... This pair of strongly contrasting but oddly compatible solo exhibitions brought together two leading Miami artists who started their careers elsewhere, Gavin Perry in Philadelphia and Metre Tommerup in Denmark. Perry's visually dazzling...

Kevan Smith at Stewart.
December 1, 2006... In the eight years since Boise artist Kevan Smith jettisoned his irreverent, computer-generated, Pop-influenced imagery to take up the paintbrush and palette knife he had earlier abandoned, he has eliminated narrative/figurative references in...

Janet Lippincott at Karan Ruhlen.
December 1, 2006... This recent exhibition, titled "The Early Years in New Mexico," presented a cross-section of Janet Lippincott's work, including her Cubist-inspired paintings from the '40s--interiors, cityscapes and figures--as well as mixed-medium abstractions...

Delia Brown at Margo Leavin.
December 1, 2006... The idea of investing in certain social relations in hopes of economic gain is hardly new, and Delia Brown has aptly reminded us that such stratagems work especially well for corporations interacting with the glamorous likes of museums and...

Hank Willis Thomas at Lisa Dent.
December 1, 2006... Hank Willis Thomas's exhibition "Unbranded: Reflections in Black by Corporate America" was a poignant and layered exploration of racial typing in our era of hypercapitalism. Consisting of 10 largescale Lightjet prints, a sculptural pendant and...

Grayson Perry at Victoria Miro.
December 1, 2006... The attention that came to Grayson Perry after he won the 2003 Turner Prize notched up once it was known that he belongs to the growing ranks of straight men who have come out of the closet as transvestites. Britain loves eccentrics, and...

Stephane Bordarier at Jean Fournier.
December 1, 2006... This exhibition focused on the same period as the recently published monograph Stephane Bordarier Peintures 1996-2005. Bordarier, who has exhibited with Galerie Jean Fournier since 1989, is distinguished by his use of a single color per canvas....

Patrick Tuttofuoco at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo.
December 1, 2006... This ambitious show, titled "Revolving Landscape," centered on a 3-month trip to 18 international cities made by Italian artist Patrick Tuttofuoco. Accompanying Tuttofuoco were two film directors (Mattia Matteucci and Damaso Queirazza) and an...

Christine and Irene Hohenbuchler at Barbara Weiss.
December 1, 2006... The Viennese twin sisters Christine and Irene Hohenbuchler are known for their social and community-based projects that involve a mix of handicraft and design. For Documenta X, a collaboration with prisoners and psychiatric patients produced a...

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Carnegie Museum of Art.(People)(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... Jason T. Busch is the new curator of decorative arts at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. Since 1999 he was associate curator of architecture, design, decorative arts, craft and sculpture at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

The Miami-based Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO), established by Ella Fontanals Cisneros, has presented its inaugural grants to 10 emerging Latin American artists, whose works were on view at the CIFO Art Space Oct. 5-Nov. 12.(Grants)(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... The Miami-based Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO), established by Ella Fontanals Cisneros, has presented its inaugural grants to 10 emerging Latin American artists, whose works were on view at the CIFO Art Space Oct. 5-Nov. 12. The...

The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation recently announced the recipients of free studio space in the Tribeca neighborhood of Manhattan.(Grants)(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation recently announced the recipients of free studio space in the Tribeca neighborhood of Manhattan. This is the last group of artists to use the current building; the foundation is negotiating for a new...

The New York Foundation for the Arts recently granted 117 New York artists NYFA Fellowships of $7,000 each.(Grants)(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... The New York Foundation for the Arts recently granted 117 New York artists NYFA Fellowships of $7,000 each. In the field of architecture/environmental structures, winners include Michael Bernstein, Pabro Castro & Jennifer Lee, Janet Echelman,...

Lorna Simpson is the inaugural recipient of the $50,000 Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize.(Awards)
December 1, 2006... Lorna Simpson is the inaugural recipient of the $50,000 Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize, given by the Studio Museum in Harlem.

The Irish American Arts Awards, to be given annually to artists of Irish ancestry, were presented for the first time at a ceremony in New York.(Awards)(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... The Irish American Arts Awards, to be given annually to artists of Irish ancestry, were presented for the first time at a ceremony in New York. Brooklyn-based Paul Rowley, selected from the category of finalists under age 35, is the overall...

Manuel Neri has received the 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sculpture Center.(Awards)
December 1, 2006... Manuel Neri has received the 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sculpture Center, based in Hamilton, N.J.

Gabriel Orozco, selected last February as the winner of the 2006 blueOrange Prize (about $90,000), has chosen French painter Emmanuel Van der Meulen as the emerging-artist winner of the blue-Orange.(Awards)(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... Gabriel Orozco, selected last February as the winner of the 2006 blueOrange Prize (about $90,000), has chosen French painter Emmanuel Van der Meulen as the emerging-artist winner of the blue-Orange. Sponsored by the German Cooperative Banks,...

The Pew Charitable Trusts recently awarded Fellowships in the Arts to 14 Philadelphia-area poets, performance artists, and sculpture and installation artists, who each receive $50,000.(Awards)(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... The Pew Charitable Trusts recently awarded Fellowships in the Arts to 14 Philadelphia-area poets, performance artists, and sculpture and installation artists, who each receive $50,000. Among the winners are Nadia Hironaka, Pepon Osorio and...

The American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York recently announced its awards.(Awards)(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... The American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York recently announced its awards. Thomas Nozkowski won the $10,000 Award of Merit Medal for Painting. The $10,000 biennial Willard L. Metcalf Award in Art went to Gedi Sibony. Elizabeth King,...

Correction.(ART WORLD)(Correction notice)
December 1, 2006... Nov. '06, p. 180: In the Thomas Houseago interview in "Place Matters: Los Angeles Sculpture Today," the name of L.A. dealer David Kordansky was mistranscribed from audiotape as David Kaminsky. The editors apologize to David Kordansky (whose...

Marcia Tucker, 1940-2006.(ART WORLD)(Obituary)
December 1, 2006... Marcia Tucker, outspoken and controversial curator and museum director, died of cancer at her home in Santa Barbara on Oct. 17 at age 66. In the 22 years she directed the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, from its founding in 1977 to...

Dia scraps move to the High Line; Whitney considers.(ART WORLD)
December 1, 2006... The Dia Art Foundation has pulled out of plans to relocate to a building at Gansevoort and Washington Streets in New York, at the entrance of the High Line, an abandoned elevated railway running from the Meatpacking District through Chelsea,...

The Miami Art Museum recently announced that it has selected architects Herzog & de Meuron to design its new facility.(Museum News)(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... The Miami Art Museum recently announced that it has selected architects Herzog & de Meuron to design its new facility. The $120-million commission calls for a 125,000-square-foot building situated in Museum Park (formerly Bicentennial Park)...

The Hessel Museum of Art debuted on Nov. 12 on the campus of Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.(Museum News)(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... The Hessel Museum of Art debuted on Nov. 12 on the campus of Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. The 17,000-square-foot facility designed by architects Goettsch Partners houses the collection of Marieluise Hessel on permanent loan to...

New York University's Institute of Fine Arts.(People)(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... Thomas Crow, director of the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles since 2000, has been named the Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts. He replaces Robert Storr, who left the institute to...

Guggenheim Museum.(People)
December 1, 2006... Jennifer Blessing has been named the first curator of photography at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. She has been with the museum since 1989.