Art in America articles from December 2007

Art in America archives from December 2007

New museum to the Bowery.(FRONT PAGE)(New Museum of Contemporary Art's new own building)
December 1, 2007... For the first time since its founding 1977, New York's New Museum of Contemporary Art will occupy its very own building as of Dec. 1. For almost 20 years the museum was housed on the lower levels of a 12-story high-rise in SoHo. After...

Art and politics: a strange brew.(FRONT PAGE)(Steve Kurtz and Strange Culture)
December 1, 2007... More than three years after the death of his wife led to his briefly becoming a bioterrorism and murder suspect in the eyes of the U.S. government [see "Front Page," Sept. '04], artist and professor Steve Kurtz is the subject of continuing...

Stealth moves at Randolph College.(FRONT PAGE)
December 1, 2007... Museum deaccessions can be controversial affairs, eliciting impassioned accusations of cultural liquidation. But few are carried out in a cloak-and-dagger style that leads to the abrupt resignation of the museum director, which is what happened...

Biloxi museum on the mend.(FRONT PAGE)(Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art)(Brief article)
December 1, 2007... The Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art, a Frank Gehry-designed campus in Biloxi, Miss., that was under construction when Hurricane Katrina hit two years ago, has resumed building after a $15-million insurance settlement. The museum is named for...

Miami's Ocean of Art.(FRONT PAGE)(Art Basel Miami Beach and other art exhibitions)
December 1, 2007... Art Basel Miami Beach, now in its sixth round, opens its doors at the Miami Beach Convention Center this year (Dec. 6-9) to an international selection of 200 galleries showing modern and contemporary work by over 1,500 artists. Recent efforts...

NYU and Louvre in Abu Dhabi.(FRONT PAGE)(New York University's international branch)(Brief article)
December 1, 2007... New York University and Abu Dhabi have announced an agreement to found a branch of the school in the Mideast emirate. The news coincides with the French government's approval of Abu Dhabi's $1.3-billion bid to create a Jean Nouvel-designed...

Castelli Archives to Smithsonian.(FRONT PAGE)(Leo Castelli Gallery, Smithsonian Archives of American Art )(Brief article)
December 1, 2007... The archives of the Leo Castelli Gallery have been given to the Smithsonian Archives of American Art by his children, Jean-Christophe Castelli and Nina Castelli Sundell, and his widow, Barbara Bertozzi Castelli. The records, comprising more...

Courtyard links D.C. museums.(FRONT PAGE)(Smithsonian's Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard )(Brief article)
December 1, 2007... The Smithsonian opened its Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard on Nov. 18. Named for local philanthropists and art collectors, the 28,000-square-foot courtyard was designed by Norman Foster of Foster + Partners in cooperation with Seattle-based...

Pen & ink.(Comic)(Cartoon)
December 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "WE DON'T HOLD WITH NO SITE-SPECIFIC WORKS ROUND THESE PARTS, STRANGER" WARNED THE CURATOR. Visual commentary on the state of art. This issue: Glen Baxter.

King of the curators.(Harald Szeemann: with by through because towards despite)(Book review)
December 1, 2007... Harald Szeemann: with by through because towards despite, edited by Tobia Bezzol and Roman Kurzmeyer, Zurich, Editon Voldemeer, and New York, Springer Wien, 2007; 759 pages, $100. Being a curator of contemporary art has always been a tough...

Chris Marker: gazes and relationships: the legendary but elusive filmmaker went into his archives for "Staring Back," an exhibition that combined photos and text, the personal and the political.(PHOTOGRAPHY)(Chris Marker: Staring Back, photograph collection )
December 1, 2007... He was born in 1921 at the outer reaches of the world, in what was then called Niislel Khuree by its inhabitants, but known in the West as Urga, and now as Ulan Bator, capital of the relatively recently independent state of Mongolia. Or he was...

Art by Southwest: the visual arts are finally coming into their own in the Texas capital, with a growing roster of galleries and artist-sponsored activities joining the city's museums.(REPORT FROM AUSTIN)(City overview)
December 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Think of Austin and you probably think of music: Willie Nelson, Lyle Lovett and Stevie Ray Vaughan all hail from this central Texas city. The 30-year run of PBS's "Austin City Limits" has cemented the image of the...

Through Austrian eyes: in a show at SITE Santa Fe, installation artist Hans Schabus reflected on the American West, past and present.(REPORT FROM SANTA FE)(Deserted Conquest)
December 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] In his widely varying sculptures, architectural interventions and performances, Hans Schabus poetically addresses themes of migration, the dislocations of cultural and social life and the transformation of...

NY galleries.(New York)(Calendar)
December 1, 2007... 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 Web site: www.aperture.org Tuesday-Saturday: 10:00-6:00 Paris--New...

The labors of Narcissus: a show at New York's Asia Society recaps the galvanizing performances and current industrial-scale art production of China 's pioneering Zhang Huan.
December 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] The legend of Zhang Huan, as endorsed by the current retrospective at New York's Asia Society, goes like this. In 1994, abjectly poor and disdained by China's cultural officialdom, the 29-year-old artist made his...

The utopian angle: a traveling exhibition provides a new look at Latin American geometric abstraction by artists both renowned and lesser-known.
December 1, 2007... In criticizing the Fourth Bienal de Sao Paulo of 1957, Brazilian writer Mario eedrosa berated the international jurors for identifying as "indigenous" those elements of Latin American art that displayed "primitivism, romanticism,...

The fictive spaces of Richard Serra: a recent survey brought early and recent work together, demonstrating the vigor with which this widely celebrated artist continues to engineer new structural provocations.
December 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Richard Serra was a Minimalist for only a few short seasons in the late 1960s, yet literalism--that Minimalist virtue--found a permanent place in his esthetic. So it was literally fitting that three of Serra's very...

Decoding O'Doherty: the multifarious and perplexing work of Brian O'Doherty--who has made art as "Patrick Ireland" since 1972--was the subject of a formally diverse show mounted in Dublin and New York.
December 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Beyond the White Cube," organized by Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, consists of a representative selection of works produced over the last 40 years by the proto-Minimalist, conceptual artist and polymath Brian...

An artist and her alter egos: role-playing and fanlike obsessions have long fed Karen Kilimnik's art. A current survey brings together early chaotic installations and subsequent historicist paintings.
December 1, 2007... Once upon a time Karen Kilimnik was an unknown artist who made wistful drawings and piecemeal installations that covered the floor of her small Philadelphia apartment. But in keeping with her mostly glamorous subjects--ranging from Viennese...

Faustroll's special agent: retreating from contemporary art scenes, Philadelphia artist Thomas Chimes has, in successive phases, conducted a decades-long dialogue with the literary and artistic avant-garde of a century ago.
December 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The latest work in Thomas Chimes's recent retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art was a grid of 25 small white panel paintings, each around 3 inches square, presenting enigmatic figures and emblems. What...

Blasted allegories: Huma Bhabha burrows deep into history for the sources of her haunting figure fragments, represented in sculptures, photographs, photogravures and woodcuts.
December 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For Huma Bhabha's work to have been scattered among four farflung New York galleries this fall seemed right: it is nomadic in its imagery, hybrid in its mediums and gives evidence of hard passage among cultures...

Michael Goldberg at Knoedler.(NEW YORK)(Brief article)
December 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This painter is now 82 years old. He studied with Hans Hofmann before and after serving in the army in North Africa and Burma during World War II. Goldberg is considered a "second-generation" Abstract Expressionist,...

Paul Henry Ramirez at Caren Golden.(NEW YORK)(Chunk)
December 1, 2007... If previous figures of comparison for Paul Henry Ramirez included Aubrey Beardsley and Lari Pittman, his current work triangulates Carroll Dunham and Ellsworth Kelly. Buoyant, funny, sharp but not so it hurts, Ramirez's new paintings,...

Gregory Amenoff at Alexandre.(NEW YORK)(Brief article)
December 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Gregory Amenoff's aim, consistent over three decades, has been to capture in his paintings the sublime feeling of awe before nature. This pursuit, recalling that of the Stieglitz group almost a century ago, is...

Jules de Balincourt at Zach Feuer.(NEW YORK)(We Warned You About China)
December 1, 2007... Three big paintings dominated the front room of Jules de Balincourt's third solo exhibition here, and they are all glorious. We Warned You About China (all works 2006 or 2007) is a schematized map pulsing with color that is further invigorated...

Andy Goldsworthy at Lelong.(NEW YORK)(White Walls )
December 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The white porcelain clay Andy Goldsworthy chose as medium for the labor-intensive installation White Walls (2007), his sixth exhibition at Lelong, was shipped to New York from Cornwall, England, where the artist was...

Alexander Lee at Clementine.(NEW YORK)(Brief article)
December 1, 2007... After this, his first New York solo exhibition, "The Departure of the Fish: Redux," Alexander Lee had to dismantle some of the sculptures included in his nicely crafted but unintelligible installation. Some parts were made on the premises to...

Robert Whitman at PaceWildenstein.(NEW YORK)
December 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A participant in the first of Allan Kaprow's Happenings, co-founder with Robert Rauschenberg and others of E.A.T. (Experiments in Art and Technology) and recognized for his projected images in combination with live...

Jim Lee at Freight + Volume.(NEW YORK)(Brief article)
December 1, 2007... In an exhibition filled with works that hovered somewhere between painting and sculpture, it seemed appropriate that the extra wall Jim Lee added to the gallery's interior could almost be mistaken for one of the works itself. Placed a few feet...

Stephen Wilkes at ClampArt.(NEW YORK)
December 1, 2007... Stephen Wilkes here showed two striking groups of color photographs: selections from "Ellis Island" (1998-99) and from his more recent, ongoing "China" series, begun in 2005. As "Ellis Island" has been widely seen and discussed, I will focus...

Jill Magid at Gagosian.(NEW YORK)
December 1, 2007... To create the works in her recent show, "With Full Consent," artist Jill Magid recruited several unlikely collaborators. She unlawfully shadowed a New York transit cop, was voluntarily monitored by surveillance cameras in Liverpool, and signed...

Bradley McCallum & Jacqueline Tarry at Caren Golden.(NEW YORK)(Brief article)
December 1, 2007... Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry, who form an artistic partnership, are married to each other. He is white and she is black. In their work, these artists deal with issues of race and social injustice, of which, as a "mixed couple," they...

James Casebere at Sean Kelly.(NEW YORK)
December 1, 2007... James Casebere is one of a number of artists who, beginning in the '70s, took up the Surrealists' challenge and, by using a medium that ostensibly documents reality to record images of fantasy, explored photography's ironic possibilities. But...

Peter Reginato at Heidi Cho.(NEW YORK)
December 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Peter Reginato's signature compositions in lively, acrylic-painted steel reflect the exuberance of early 20th-century modernism--the lyricism of early Kandinsky and of Matisse's late cutouts. After 40 years of...

Barbara Bloom at Tracy Williams.(NEW YORK)
December 1, 2007... For her first exhibition at Tracy Williams, Barbara Bloom related her work to the gallery's architecture (which is old-fashioned and residential), in keeping with her ongoing interest in the properties of absence and the resonance of detail. In...

Peter Soriano at Lennon, Weinberg.(NEW YORK)
December 1, 2007... In his recent exhibition, Peter Soriano showed two bodies of work created over the past year. One was a series of small architectural models neatly laid out on the floor of the gallery. The other consisted of sculptures, mostly wall-mounted,...

Claudia DeMonte at June Kelly.(NEW YORK)
December 1, 2007... Claudia DeMonte's career began in Washington, D.C., in the late 1970s, and she gained recognition in New York in the '80s as part of the vital East Village scene, showing feminist-themed sculptures and two-dimensional works, often at Gracie...

Nancy Brooks Brody at Virgil de Voldere.(NEW YORK)
December 1, 2007... It took Brooklyn-based artist Nancy Brooks Brody untold hours spread over two years to create the largest work in her recent breakout exhibition. Lucky Corners (2004-06), an undulating, hand-drawn graphite grid on a 4-foot-square panel of...

Andrea Belag at Mike Weiss.(NEW YORK)
December 1, 2007... Modest and arch, Andrea Belag's recent paintings, most from 2007, locate delicately wrought, spare scaffoldings of line in zones of intensely saturated or darkly overcast color. Her abstract syntax involves an expressive collision of chromatic...

Nicholas Krushenick at Marianne Boesky.(NEW YORK)
December 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In the 14 paintings from 1969 to 1998 included in this exhibition, Nicholas Krushenick (1929-1999) revisited a century's worth of dilemmas about pictorial truth and illusion in quirky, cartoonish, abstract form....

Marc Handelman at Sikkema Jenkins.(NEW YORK)
December 1, 2007... In his second New York solo show, "Empire of the Eye," Marc Handelman presented billboard-sized canvases (all 2006) in which he grapples with the various legacies of large-scale painting--Rosenquist et al.--while confronting how digital imagery...

Sandy Winters at George Adams.(NEW YORK)
December 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Sandy Winters's recent paintings present a world blooming in a toxic environment. The semi-domesticated wilderness of exurbs, with picket fences, cornfields and small ponds, becomes the stage for trippy scenes of...

Oscar Oiwa at P.P.O.W.(NEW YORK)
December 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Oscar Oiwa is a Brazilian of Japanese descent who has in recent years lived in Tokyo, London and now New York. His large, multipanel oil paintings assemble imagined apocalypses that could be inspired by any or all of...

Lamar Peterson at Fredericks & Freiser.(NEW YORK)
December 1, 2007... Lamar Peterson features tales-from-the-crypt imagery in his vividly colorful exhibition 'qwisted," an onslaught of smart and ultimately likable easel-size paintings, collages and works on paper. As an ensemble, they seem informed by the...

Daniel Dove at Jack Shainman.(NEW YORK)(Assembly)
December 1, 2007... Southern California-based artist Daniel Dove creates what at first glance appear to be realistic paintings of urban and suburban settings. In his New York solo debut, titled "Assembly," he presented five paintings--two focusing on abandoned,...

Leonard Koscianski at OK Harris.(NEW YORK)
December 1, 2007... A veteran of the New Figuration movement that thrived in the mid 1980s, Leonard Koscianski is best known for large canvases featuring images of one or more snarling, ferocious dogs--a mixed breed of German shepherd and pit bull. A Cleveland...

Ellen Harvey at Luxe.(NEW YORK)
December 1, 2007... Ellen Harvey's recent exhibition, "The Museum of Failure," was another installment in her critique of the museum as an institution. It is an ongoing project--part of Harvey's obsession with art about art; with authenticity, fakes and cultural...

John Beech at Peter Blum.(NEW YORK)
December 1, 2007... John Beech's latest show situated discarded soft objects in minimal sculptures made from industrial materials, to delightfully absurd effect. Artists have been dirtying up the Minimalist cube for decades, but Beech does so lovably, by...

Zilvinas Kempinas at Spencer Brownstone.(NEW YORK)
December 1, 2007... It can be thrilling to see artists use unorthodox materials to produce their art. Lithuanian-born, New York-based Zilvinas Kempinas has been experimenting with unspooled videotape for some years now. In 2006, he produced one work consisting of...

Jonathan Monk at Casey Kaplan.(NEW YORK)(Brief article)
December 1, 2007... Jonathan Monk's wide-ranging work is unified by a sense of playfulness and a genuine affection for art history. His latest exhibition, "Some Kind of Game Between This and That," expanded on an ongoing dialogue with Conceptualist forerunners....

Jan Dibbets at the Miami Art Museum.(MIAMI)
December 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In this concise exhibition (11 photographs plus one painting), Jan Dibbets continued to explore the secrets of linear perspective, a project he began in 1969 with a photographic series called "Perspective...

William Conger at Roy Boyd.(CHICAGO)(Brief article)
December 1, 2007... Taking in this show of 21 oils by William Conger, Chicago's senior abstract painter, can feel like squinting at a series of topographical maps or aerial photographs of the city. Heavy blue-black lines cut diagonally across fields of color,...

Lynus Young at Review Studios.(KANSAS CITY)(The Necklace)(Brief article)
December 1, 2007... Lynus Young is known for extensive installations as well as conventional paintings and works on paper. In this exhibition, titled "The Necklace," he combined these mediums, tying them together with meandering strands of spray-painted paper...

Francesca Fuchs at the Contemporary Art Museum.(HOUSTON)(Brief article)
December 1, 2007... Baby Up Close (2006) dominated the intensely personal body of paintings Fuchs showed here (all 2006 or '07). Working with washes of pastel-colored acrylics, Fuchs depicts an infant's head on an 80-by-120-inch canvas. Too young to be...

Daniel Bozhkov at the University of North Texas Art Gallery.(DENTON, TEX.)
December 1, 2007... Following a summer at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1990, Bulgarian artist Daniel Bozhkov relocated to New York and received his MFA from Hunter College. His conceptual projects, typically involving pop cultural traditions...

Jorge Fick at Eric Firestone.(SCOTTSDALE)
December 1, 2007... The painter Jorge Fick (1932-2004) began his art education in his hometown of Detroit but soon departed for an art school in Ajijic, Guadalajara. There, he changed his name from George to Jorge in homage to Hispanic culture. Returning to the...

Charles Ray at Regen Projects II.(LOS ANGELES)
December 1, 2007... Charles Ray's latest sculpture arrives 10 years after his last major statement, Unpainted Sculpture--the stunning fiberglass replication of a wrecked car painted uniformly in flat, industrial gray. Like the earlier work, Hinoki recreates the...

Thomas Kiesewetter at Roberts & Tilton.(LOS ANGELES)
December 1, 2007... Poised, sturdy little legs supporting a wacky mash-up of matte black slabs, rods, cylinders and cones make the most anthropomorphic of Thomas Kiesewetter's sculptures look like a pint-sized, neoconstructivist warrior ready to defend the honor...

Don Suggs at LA Louver.(LOS ANGELES)
December 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The show "Concentric" at LA Louver provided yet another piece of the puzzle that is Don Suggs's highly eclectic artistic practice. Suggs began his career as a geometric hard-edged abstractionist, and a cursory look...

Gustavo Godoy at The Happy Lion.(LOS ANGELES)
December 1, 2007... Gustavo Godoy's exhibition 'What's the Big Idea?" was the Los Angeles-based artist's first solo show, an ad hoc urban playground that was as visually arresting as it was conceptually shrewd. With the doors of this heart-of-the-city gallery...

Robert Walker at Solway Jones.(LOS ANGELES)
December 1, 2007... Since the '80s and '90s, when he was hanging daubs of pigment on gridded nets, Robert Walker has been exploring how painting and sculpture can support and subvert each other, His show titled "Appropriate Technologies" featured work made since...

Merion Estes at Cardwell Jimmerson.(SANTA MONICA)
December 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As was clear from her 30-year survey in 2006, every successive body of Merion Estes's work pushes her formal and thematic boundaries. For the past several years, abstraction and figuration, reproduction and the...

Whitney Bedford at Cherry and Martin.(VENICE, CALIF.)
December 1, 2007... Whitney Bedford's second solo show at Cherry and Martin comprised five full-length portraits on paper of Harry Houdini in various degrees of constraint, and a diptych panel painting with a theatrical maritime scene installed in the small rear...

Taravat Talepasand at Heather Marx.(SAN FRANCISCO)
December 1, 2007... Taravat Talepasand's first solo exhibition featured small egg-tempera panel paintings that revisit the techniques and style of the Persian miniaturists who practiced during the time of the Safavid caliphs (15021722), with perhaps just a bit...

Clinton Fein at Toomey-Tourell.(SAN FRANCISCO)
December 1, 2007... Clinton Fein currently exhibits horrifying high-resolution C-prints depicting (through carefully staged reenactments) the torture of prisoners by the American military at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. For some time Fein's political images have...

Margie Livingston at Greg Kucera.(SEATTLE)(Brief article)
December 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The 53-year-old Seattle artist Margie Livingston exhibited 17 large and small abstract oil paintings that developed from a series of string, branch and stick installations hung in her studio. Setting colored, angled...

Philippe Perrin at Piece Unique.(PARIS)
December 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Philippe Perrin is an agent provocateur in the world of French contemporary art. Since the early 1990s, the boisterous, macho artist has both captivated and infuriated critics with his Pop sculptures of gigantic if...

Gregor Schneider at K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen.(DUSSELDORF)
December 1, 2007... In his past installations, Gregor Schneider has examined human interaction with space in terms of domesticity, creating labyrinthine environments that evoke dark, sequestered living quarters. Despite their grandiose dimensions, recent pieces...

Erwin Olaf at Reflex Modern.(AMSTERDAM)
December 1, 2007... Since an array of artists and filmmakers have unearthed the sinister subtexts lurking beneath suburbia's disinfected surfaces (I'm thinking of The Stepford Wives, Peyton Place and David Lynch's oeuvre along with the work of Gregory Crewdson),...

Paolo Canevari at Studio Stefania Miscetti.(ROME)
December 1, 2007... Paolo Canevari's exhibition "Continents" consisted of a 17-minute video (2005) and large drawings extrapolated from it. Almost immediately, the images emanating from the LCD screen are pretty hilarious. From a fixed perspective, slightly off to...

Marion Thieme at Casado Santapau.(MADRID)
December 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Coagulation is the transformation of a liquid into a semisolid or solid mass. With her aptly named series "Coagula," the Madrid-based German painter Marion Thieme seems to have found a way to unite the various...

Iole de Freitas at Laura Marsiaj Arte Contemporanea.(RIO DE JANEIRO)
December 1, 2007... This past summer Brazilian artist Iole de Fraitas showed a two-part installation at Documenta 12, in Kassel. Part of the work was located within the Fridericianum Museum, while the other part was hung from the building's facade, seeming to...

Ileana Sonnabend 1914-2007.(ARTWORLD)(In memoriam)
December 1, 2007... Ileana Sonnabend, 92, influential dealer who championed the international avant-garde, died at her home in New York on Oct. 21. At her gallery in Paris, she was instrumental in introducing a number of important American artists to Europe, and...

Herbert Muschamp 1947-2007.(ARTWORLD)(In memoriam)
December 1, 2007... Herbert Muschamp, 59, architecture critic for the New York Times from 1992 to 2004, died of lung cancer on Oct. 2 in Manhattan. A writer of uncommon verve, he marshaled poetry, politics, abstruse cultural theory and pop culture references in...

Dahesh Museum.(Museum News)(Brief article)
December 1, 2007... New York's Dahesh Museum recently vacated its premises at 580 Madison Ave. The 12-year-old institution, focused on 19th- and early 20th-century academic art, will continue to operate for the next two years out of its Manhattan offices and...

Museum of Contemporary Art.(People)(Brief article)
December 1, 2007... Madeleine Grynsztejn has been appointed director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, effective early spring 2008. Since 2000, she has been senior curator of painting and sculpture at San Francisco MOMA. Grynsztejn succeeds Robert...

The Minneapolis Institute of Arts.(People)(Brief article)
December 1, 2007... The Minneapolis Institute of Arts has appointed Kaywin Feldman as director and president of the museum, effective Jan. 1, 2008. Since 1999, she has been director of the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. She replaces William M. Griswold, who was...

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum.(People)(Brief article)
December 1, 2007... David R. Brigham is the new director of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum in Philadelphia. He was formerly director of the Allentown Art Museum for five years. Alex Baker, curator of contemporary art at the Academy, has become...

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.(People)(Brief article)
December 1, 2007... Harry Cooper is the new head of the department of modern and contemporary art at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Cooper, who replaces Jeffrey Weiss, was curator and head of the department of modern art at the Harvard University...

Brooklyn Museum.(People)(Brief article)
December 1, 2007... Eugenie Tsai has been appointed curator of contemporary art at the Brooklyn Museum. A former curator at the Whitney Museum, she has been director of curatorial affairs at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center since 2005.

Cleveland Museum of Art.(People)(Brief article)
December 1, 2007... Paola Morsiani has been named curator of contemporary art at the Cleveland Museum of Art, effective Jan. 1, 2008. She has been with the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston since 1999, most recently as senior curator.

Manifesta 7.(People)(Brief article)
December 1, 2007... Adam Budak, Anselm Franke, Hila Peleg and the Raqs Media Collective have been named curators of Manifesta 7, the itinerant European biennial, scheduled to take place in the region of Trentino, Italy, July 19-Nov. 2, 2008.

The 2007 Arthouse Texas Prize, worth $30,000, has been given to Katrina Moorhead.(Awards)(Brief article)
December 1, 2007... The 2007 Arthouse Texas Prize, worth $30,000, has been given to Katrina Moorhead. Shortlisted artists were Dawolu Jabari Anderson, Justin Boyd, Margarita Cabrera and Bill Davenport [see Austin article, this issue].

The 52nd Venice Biennale announced its remaining Golden Lion awards in October (Malick Sidibe was recognized for lifetime achievement in June).(Awards)(Brief article)
December 1, 2007... The 52nd Venice Biennale announced its remaining Golden Lion awards in October (Malick Sidibe was recognized for lifetime achievement in June). Harvard art historian Benjamin Buchloh was presented with an award for his overall contribution to...