Art in America articles from December 2008

Art in America archives from December 2008

Editor's letter.(Editorial)
December 1, 2008... In this final issue of 2008, Art in America begins a new chapter with a thoroughgoing redesign of our pages. The look is refreshed, the type updated, the illustrations more generous. Now that it's routine to turn to the Internet for instant...

Miami off to the races.(FRONT PAGE)(Calendar)
December 1, 2008... As the art world heads to Miami this December, here are some highlights worth checking out around town: FAIR GAME ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH, the main event [Dec. 4-7], takes place at the Miami Beach Convention Center. More than 240...

Financial turmoil leaves art market gyrating.(FRONT PAGE)
December 1, 2008... BLUE CHIP ARTISTS and designers such as Andy Warhol, Lucian Freud and Ron Arad failed to improve the bottom line for the October blitz of London contemporary art auctions at Sotheby's, Christie's and Phillips de Pury & Co. The chill could also...

New museum for oil-rich emirate.(FRONT PAGE)(Qatar is set to open its new Museum of Islamic Art)(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... The Gulf State of Qatar is set to open its new Museum of Islamic Art (below) in early December, following a dedication on Nov. 22. Designed by I.M. Pei, it was constructed with French limestone, American granite, German stainless steel and...

Miami art fairs feel the heat.(FRONT PAGE)
December 1, 2008... In October, with financial markets shattered globally, a bevy of dealers on both sides of the pond were reassessing their participation in the Miami satellite fairs taking place this month. In fact, rumors were rampant of fairs folding due to...

Shoot an Iraqi: the book.(FRONT PAGE)(Shoot an Iraqi: Art, Life and Resistance Under the Gun)(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In a new book coming out this month, Shoot an Iraqi: Art, Life and Resistance Under the Gun, Iraqi-born artist Wafaa Bilal details a compelling, interactive art project he undertook in 2007, weaving his account...

Sotheby's and bidder in legal battle.(FRONT PAGE)(Halsey Minor)
December 1, 2008... A CURRENT LEGAL BATTLE between Halsey Minor, founder of the technology news website Cnet, and Sotheby's could have a major impact on how auction business is conducted. Minor was the winning bidder on May 22 at Sotheby's for Edward Hicks's The...

Preparing for the worst, hoping for the best.(FRONT PAGE)
December 1, 2008... In mid-October, as financial markets tumbled, many dealers were reluctant to comment on the art market. A number of established galleries reported strong sales despite the crisis, while some smaller galleries said business was very quiet, if...

Tree houses for high-rent district.(FRONT PAGE)
December 1, 2008... Strolling through Manhattan's Madison Square Park this season, visitors have at least a dozen reasons to look up. Nestled among branches in 12 of the tallest trees are as many large improvised plywood tree houses. These elevated sculptures...

NY galleries.(Directory)
December 1, 2008... 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 Website: www.aperture.org Tuesday-Saturday: 10:00-6:00 November 8-January 29: Coinciding...

Gwangju Biennale: Sept 5-Nov 9.(BIENNIAL DIGEST)
December 1, 2008... Much was made in the Korean press of the fact that the 7th Gwangju Biennale had no ostensible theme, unlike earlier editions that were organized under concepts such as "Beyond Borders" and "Man and Space." In fact, "Annual Report: The Year in...

Busan Biennale: Sept 6-Nov 15.(BIENNIAL DIGEST)
December 1, 2008... Founded by local artists in 1981 as a showcase for themselves and their East Asian peers, the Busan Biennale went international in 2000, largely in response to--or through jealousy of--the highly popular Gwangju Biennale, which had brought...

Seoul Biennale: Sept 11-Nov 5.(BIENNIAL DIGEST)
December 1, 2008... It's been half a lifetime since Marshall McLuhan declared that "the medium is the message," and now we are blessed--if that is the word--with an entire cultural industry devoted to that once-groovy idea [see "Books" this issue]. This fall, for...

Yokohama Triennale: Sept 13-Nov 30.(BIENNIAL DIGEST)
December 1, 2008... The Third Yokohama Triennale differed from its predecessors in its emphasis on performances, and in the participation of foreign curators who could be expected to offer a fresh perspective on contemporary art to Japanese viewers. Artistic...

Singapore Biennale: Sept 11-Nov 16.(BIENNIAL DIGEST)
December 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Like the image that Singapore itself projects to the world, "Wonder," the title of the city-state's second biennial, suggested a superficial optimism. Surprise, delight and spectacle were to be expected in an...

Taipei Biennial: Sept 13-Jan 4.(BIENNIAL DIGEST)
December 1, 2008... Biennials as platforms for political agendas have become something of a cliche, particularly since Okwui Enwezor topped them all with Documenta 11 in 2002. In that show, issues of globalization, migration and post-colonialism were conveyed...

Shanghai Biennale: Sept 8-Nov 16.(BIENNIAL DIGEST)
December 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In 2000, the third--and first international-Shanghai Biennale put that city on the global art map. Like subsequent installments, it was marked by a dichotomy, with the official, state-sponsored Biennale offering a...

Beijing Biennale: July 8-Aug 12.(BIENNIAL DIGEST)
December 1, 2008... The most that can be said for the Third Beijing International Art Biennale, "Colors and Olympism," is that it happened during a significant moment in China's history. Though the Summer Olympic Games offered a unique opportunity to show off the...

Nanjing Triennial: Sept 10-Nov 10.(BIENNIAL DIGEST)
December 1, 2008... The 3rd Nanjing Triennial, titled "Reflective Asia," was held at the Nanjing Museum. Organized by the RCM Museum of Modern Art and curated by Huang Du and Li Zhenhua (both from China), Fumihito Sumitomo (Japan) and Kang Jae Young (Korea), the...

Guangzhou Triennial: Sept 6-Nov 16.(BIENNIAL DIGEST)
December 1, 2008... One striking thing about the Third Guangzhou Triennial's audacious title, "Farewell to Post-Colonialism," is its incongruity. While the surrounding region was a prime theater of the infamous Opium Wars, which forced China to open its major...

Opposites and essences: Lee Ufan: in Lee Ufan's quietly resonant work, iron and stone are arranged with the care of brushstrokes on canvas, and painted marks attain the weight of sculpture.(FOCUS ASIA)
December 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE TWO-VENUE EXHIBITION of Lee Ufan's work that opened in September at PaceWildenstein served as a significant introduction to an artist who is highly regarded in both Europe and Asia but hardly known in the U.S....

Yukinori Yanagi: darkness illuminated the installation artist's monumental, multipart artwork at a derelict industrial site raises questions about tradition and modernity in Japan.(FOCUS ASIA)
December 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] IN THE '90s, Yukinori Yanagi and his intelligent and often witty sociopolitical artworks seemed to be everywhere. The Japanese artist's World Flag Ant Farm in the "Aperto" exhibition of the 1993 Venice Biennale...

New on Naoshima.(FOCUS: ASIA)(Chichu Art Museum)(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... The newest addition to the art resort on Naoshima, the Chichu Art Museum, is an exquisitely calibrated venue with a floor area of almost 28,000 square feet, built to house eight artworks. The Tadao Ando building--concrete, of course--is mostly...

OPIE: the community of difference: Catherine Opie's surprisingly diverse and occasionally jarring photographic series are rooted in venerable documentary traditions.
December 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] CATHERINE OPIE'S CURRENT retrospective, on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, traces a specific documentary lineage for this midcareer artist. Her tightly conceived series are indebted to the Neue...

The "Naivete" of Morandi: a Russian-born New York painter offers his distinctive take on the paintings of the Italian master, currently on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.(Giorgio Morandi)
December 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] TO SEE GIORGIO MORANDI'S paintings in New York at the Metropolitan Museum is a vastly different experience from seeing them in Bologna, the city where he was born and spent his entire life (1890-1964). In Bologna,...

Sarah Morris: an interview by Cay Sophie Rabinowitz.(Interview)
December 1, 2008... Since the mid-1990s, Sarah Morris has exhibited abstract paintings and films that explore the charged psychology of various urban sites, with particular attention to architecture's visually encoded hierarchies and histories. With two...

New York: Doug Aitken.
December 1, 2008... NEW YORK DOUG AITKEN 303 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Doug Aitken's spellbinding Migration (2008), the first installment of a planned trilogy of videos called "Empire," is something of a road trip, though with no human travelers....

Rob Pruitt: Gavin Brown's Enterprise.
December 1, 2008... ROB PRUITT GAVIN BROWN'S ENTERPRISE "That could be art right there," a woman recently told her young son, walking by Gavin Brown's Enterprise. Both exterior and interior walls were wheat-pasted top to bottom with hundreds of posters in the...

Chris Johanson: Deitch Projects.
December 1, 2008... What does painting have to apologize for? No answers, but contrition aplenty, were at hand in Chris Johanson's installation "Totalities," which presented some three dozen acrylic-on-wood paintings, mounted on rough wooden supports and standing...

Andres Serrano: Yvon Lambert.
December 1, 2008... Author of the unthinkable image, Andres Serrano seems to have reached the far side of once-taboo topics with "Shit," a series of 66 chromogenic prints (all 2008). Eighteen were presented here, and let it be known that an imagined odor permeated...

Street Art, Street Life: Bronx Museum of the Arts.
December 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In a memorable exchange recorded in a recent book (Who Cares, Creative Time, 2006), artist Tania Bruguera and critic Lucy Lippard agreed that artists are not "real people." I thought of this while visiting the recent...

Gedi Sibony: Greene Naftali.(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A remarkable presence in the New Museum's "Unmonumental" (2007) and the 2006 Whitney Biennial, "Day for Night," Brooklyn-based Gedi Sibony is known for his compassionate address of discarded materials common to the...

Matthew Buckingham: Murray Guy.
December 1, 2008... For his fifth solo exhibition at this gallery, Matthew Buckingham presented two new works (both 2007), the film installation False Future and a two-screen video installation titled Everything I Need. Based on a description of the workroom of...

Boo Ritson: Bravinlee Programs.
December 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Boo Ritson's digital prints are the photographic manifestation of the idea of the living body as a support for painting. The London-based artist (b. 1969) physically transforms her subjects by applying a highly...

Dieter Roth: Barbara Gladstone.
December 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Dieter Roth, the German-Swiss artist who died in 1998, remained a provocateur in all mediums throughout his career, and made art so conceptually broad as to defy simple classification. Language and its mutability...

Joseph Smolinski: Mixed Greens.
December 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Mixed Greens's retro-futuristic interior decor was the perfect foil for Joseph Smolinski's recent New York solo debut. In drawings, digital animations and sculptures, the New Haven-based artist employs techniques...

Gregory Crewdson: Luhring Augustine.
December 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Gregory Crewdson has been a major contributor to photography's revival as a storytelling medium, doing the job painting did in another century (and still sometimes does). "Beneath The Roses," Crewdson's recent show...

Marlene McCarty: Sikkema Jenkins.
December 1, 2008... Sexual transgression is the latest page-turner in Marlene McCarty's ongoing journal of lurid sensations. Since the mid-'90s, she has delved into sexuality, obscenity and murder as topics for her work. Her most recent walk on the dark side...

Jade Townsend: Priska C. Juschka.
December 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Ambitious in scale and intention, Jade Townsend's white-painted installation titled Yardsale (2008) differed in kind from the constructed tableaux of Sandy Skoglund, Gregory Crewdson and James Casebere, artists known...

Mark Wagner: Ravel Zoubok.
December 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Mark Wagner's "currency collages" and mixed-medium constructions, composed of actual one-dollar bills, are as prescient as they are audacious. Given the unprecedented (and still unfolding) losses on Wall Street and...

Sven Kroner: Yvon Lambert.
December 1, 2008... Tender, acid, sentimental, harsh--Sven Kroner's imagined landscapes support just about any adjective, as well as referencing numerous painting styles both abstract and representational. Yet they're hardly a jumble. The 35-year-old Dusseldorf...

Patricia Smith: Front Room.
December 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Patricia Smith makes exquisitely drawn "maps" of such intangibles as psychological terrains, emotional states and locales in the societal nexus. In her second show at Brooklyn's Front Room gallery, she presented...

Edgar Bryan: Zach Feuer.
December 1, 2008... Los Angeles artist Edgar Bryan's show at Zach Feuer was a success mainly because it confirmed a post-ironic era among young painters. The paintings (all 2008) either were still lifes or had a theme of student artists and their models. The six...

Kenneth Shorr: The Brick.
December 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Kenneth Shorr, reclusive Tucson polymath--photographer, writer, and performance, book and video artist--should be better known. The Pierogi gallery in Brooklyn has shown his short videos in recent seasons, and a...

Dianne Blell: Charles Cowles.
December 1, 2008... "Desire for the Intimate Deity," Dianne Blell's vibrant cycle of miniaturist courtship imagery, arises from an appreciation of the form and erotic content of classical Hindu narratives that celebrate the love of the popular blue-skinned god,...

Louise Despont: Nicelle Beauchene.
December 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Nicelle Beauchene, a new gallery on the Lower East Side, opened with Louise Despont's "The Plant Life of Saints," the first show for the artist as well. Over the past couple of years, Despont's stop-motion animations...

Barbara T. Smith: Maccarone.
December 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In the 1950s, Barbara T. Smith received a degree in painting, got married, had three children and underwent a personal crisis in search of her true self. As her marriage disintegrated, she became actively immersed in...

McDermott & McGough: Nicholas Robinson and Cheim & Read.
December 1, 2008... Long immersed in the Victorian era, the team of McDermott & McGough has lately turned to mid-20th-century America, as could be seen in two recent shows. In "Detroit," at Nicholas Robinson, their 20 staged photographs created a fictional Motor...

Yasmine Chatila: Edelman Arts.
December 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do," wrote Diane Arbus. "And when I first did it I felt very perverse." In photographing strangers without their knowledge or consent, Yasmine Chatila deploys...

Dennis Kardon: Mitchell Algus.
December 1, 2008... Veteran artist Dennis Kardon (his first solo exhibition was in 1981) is more intellectual, in his willingness to play with painting's syntax, than such peers as John Currin and Lisa Yuskavage. And if their work has tended to broad irony, his...

Ashley Bickerton: Lehmann Maupin.
December 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The tawdry exoticism of the expat in paradise is a key theme in Ashley Bickerton's recent work, and was particularly distilled in this exhibition of eight paintings and two bronze sculptures. Having first established...

Berend Strik: Jack Tilton.
December 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Dutch artist Berend Strik, in his second solo show at Jack Tilton, presented black-and-white photographs shot mostly in Africa. These large prints (from around 2 by 4 feet to nearly wall-size) have been, in a...

Rosalind Solomon: Silverstein Photography.
December 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Appropriately titled "Inside Out" for its penetrating gaze into a wide variety of subjects, not least among them the artist herself, this small survey of the work of veteran photographer Rosalind Solomon turned on...

Mattia Biagi: Anna Kustera.
December 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The centerpiece of Italian-born, Los Angeles-based Mattia Biagi's first New York solo exhibition was Rose like a Phoenix from the Ashes (all works 2008), which features the rusted, tar-splattered body of a 1954 Buick...

Javier Pelaez: Arcadia.
December 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Based in Mexico City, Javier Pelaez, now in his 30s, has established himself in his native country as a torchbearer for painting in a realist mode. Derived from photographs he shoots himself, his oils on canvas of...

Chicago: Karen Reimer: Monique Meloche.
December 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Karen Reimer continues her search for order and meaning within the detritus of the everyday in "Endless Set" (2007-08), her recent series of fabric-based works. Using a conceptual strategy based on prime numbers, the...

Allentown: Stephen Antonakos: Allentown Art Museum.
December 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ONE OF STEPHEN ANTONAKOS'S earliest memories is of a small whitewashed chapel in Agios Nikolaos, the southern Greek village of his birth. Antonakos moved to New York in 1930 at age four and still lives and works...

Austin: Lance Letscher: D Berman.
December 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Lance Letscher called this new set of collages "industry and Design," a title that weaves itself into the exhibition on several levels (all works 2008). Letscher fabricates his work from the pages and bindings of old...

Santa Fe: Susan York: The Lannan Foundation.
December 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Susan York's reductive recent work differs dramatically from her early configurations of swept sawdust, as well as from sculptures of the late '90s involving fragile ceramic shards stacked precariously on aluminum...

Los Angeles: Silvia Kolbowski: Lax Art.
December 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Alain Resnais's 1959 Hiroshima Mon Amour, with screenplay by Marguerite Duras, remains one of the most influential films of the postwar era, inspiring numerous cinematic, literary and even pop music "covers." Itself...

Los Angeles: Rosson Crow: Honor Fraser.
December 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Rosson Crow's paintings of theatrical interiors at night are walk-in size; averaging 11 feet high, they are taller than a cowboy in a cowboy hat. And they depict places a cowboy might like: honky-tonks, back rooms of...

Santa Monica: Jim Richards: Shoshana Wayne.
December 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Los Angeles painter Jim Richards, in his fourth solo at Shoshana Wayne, as before, has made composition literal by constructing his works of independent elements. Each of the nine paintings (all 2007 or '08) starts...

San Francisco: Ed Musante: Paul Thiebaud.
December 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Ed Musante's vintage wooden cigar boxes with painted birds are not the folksy collectibles a shorthand description might suggest. This Northern California-based artist has the eye of a taxidermist coupled with a...

Berlin and Karlsruhe: Notation: Calculus and Form in the Arts: Akademie der Kunste and ZKM Center for Art and Media.
December 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] AT LEAST SINCE the late 19th century, notation and notational systems have been crucial to the arts. While their importance in music is the most obvious, their gradually increasing prominence in the other arts has...

Portland: Holly Andres: Quality Pictures.
December 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Trained as a painter, Portland artist Holly Andres has found her true metier in photography and film. Her new photographic series, "Sparrow Lane" (2007-08), focuses entirely on four girls, shown doggedly sleuthing in...

Paris: Nicolas Guiet: Jean Fournier.
December 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Nicolas Guiet is a self-described painter whose work redefines the genre's conceptual frontiers. In a recent solo exhibition, enigmatically titled "fxfgxjghckgchkk," the young French artist continued his quest with...

Paris: Sean Scully: Galerie Lelong.
December 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Sean Scully's exhibition "Painted Surface" offered a respite, in its deep composure, from the cacophony of the global contemporary art scene. The works on view--oil paintings on aluminum and on cloth, watercolors,...

Frankfurt: Terence Koh: Schirn Kunsthalle.
December 1, 2008... Following his roomful of blinding white light at the Whitney Museum last season [see A.i.A., Oct. '07], Terence Koh, in his recent Frankfurt exhibition, "Captain Buddha," offered a less assaultive, more complex white-light experience. The...

Simon Hantai 1922-2008.(ART WORLD)(Obituary)
December 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In today's globally interconnected art world it's hard to imagine a time, really not so long ago, when a major artist of one continent (let's say Europe) could be little known in another (for instance, North...

Roanoke's new museum.(ART WORLD)(Taubman Museum of Art)(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... The Nov. 8 opening of the new Taubman Museum of Art promises to make Roanoke, Va., a noteworthy art destination. Designed by Los Angeles-based architect Randall Stout, the steel, zinc and glass building's flowing and angular forms are inspired...

New Art Trust.(PEOPLE)(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... John R. (Jack) Lane, director of the Dallas Museum of Art from 1999 to May 2008, has been selected as president and CEO of the San Francisco-based New Art Trust, a private, nonprofit organization founded in 1997 by Pamela and C. Richard...

New Museum.(PEOPLE)(New Museum of Contemporary Art named Eungie Joo as foreign commissioner for the Korean Pavilion at the 2009 Venice Biennale)(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... Eungie Joo, director and curator of public programs at the New Museum in New York, has been named the first foreign commissioner for the Korean Pavilion at the 2009 Venice Biennale.

Temporare Kunsthalle Berlin.(PEOPLE)(Thomas Eller has become the first director of the new Temporare Kunsthalle Be)(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... Thomas Eller, editor of Artnet.com's German-language magazine and director of Artnet's Berlin office, has become the first director of the new Temporare Kunsthalle Berlin, which opened on Oct. 29 with a show of work by Candice Breitz [on view...

Carnegie Museum of Art.(PEOPLE)(Linda Benedict-Jones has been appointed head of the newly created photography department at the Carnegie Museum of Art)(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... Linda Benedict-Jones, executive director since 1999 of the Silver Eye Center for Photography in Pittsburgh, has been appointed head of the newly created photography department at the Carnegie Museum of Art.

Stedelijk Museum.(PEOPLE)(Bart Rutten is the new curator of the visual arts collection at the Stedelijk Museum )(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... Bart Rutten is the new curator of the visual arts collection at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. He was previously with the Stedelijk Museum in the town of 's-Hertogenbosch.

Obituaries.(Obituary)(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... Iba Ndiaye, 80, Senaglese modernist painter, died of heart failure on Oct. 5 in Paris. Born in Senegal in 1928, he went to France in 1949 to study architecture. He returned to Senegal in 1959 and established a department of plastic arts at the...

Lichtenstein foundation acquires photo archive.(ART WORLD)(Roy Lichtenstein Foundation )
December 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Roy Lichtenstein Foundation in New York recently acquired the extensive archive of Harry Shunk (1924-2006), a German-born, New York-based photographer who documented the lively European and U.S. avant-garde art...

Phillips de Pury sold to Russian Company.(ART WORLD)(Mercury Group)(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... After a year of negotiations, the Mercury Group, Russia's largest retailing firm specializing in luxury goods, acquired Phillips de Pury & Co. in October for an undisclosed sum. The auction house has changed hands a number of times in recent...

NEA head steps down.(ART WORLD)(Dana Gioia steps down from his position at National Endowment for the Arts)(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... Dana Gioia, head of the National Endowment for the Arts since 2003, has decided to leave his post in January, two years before his second four-year term was to have ended. A published poet, he will return to his writing, as well as join the...

William M. Griswold, director of the Morgan Library & Museum in New York.(AWARDS)(William M. Griswold has been made Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters)(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... William M. Griswold, director of the Morgan Library & Museum in New York, has been made Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government.

Artist Cameron Jamie received the first annual Yanghyun Prize.(AWARDS)
December 1, 2008... Artist Cameron Jamie received the first annual Yanghyun Prize, worth $100,000, given by the Seoul-based Yanghyun Foundation.

Japanese architect Toyo Ito was recently presented with the approximately $74,000 Frederick Kiesler Prize.(AWARDS)
December 1, 2008... Japanese architect Toyo Ito was recently presented with the approximately $74,000 Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts by the city of Vienna.

Artists Ellen Phelan and Joel Shapiro and art dealers Joan Washburn and Virginia Zabriskie have been honored with the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art Medals.(AWARDS)(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... Artists Ellen Phelan and Joel Shapiro and art dealers Joan Washburn and Virginia Zabriskie have been honored with the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art Medals. The Lawrence A. Fleischman Award for scholarly excellence in American art...

Peter Saul is the recipient of the second annual Artists' Legacy Foundation award.(AWARDS)(Brief article)
December 1, 2008... Peter Saul is the recipient of the second annual Artists' Legacy Foundation award. The $25,000 prize is given for achievement in painting or sculpture. Saul's retrospective is on view at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts through Jan. 4...