Art in America articles from February 2002

Art in America archives from February 2002

Enron collapse impacts art world. (Front Page).(fate of art collection and cultural institution support)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The stunning and abrupt demise of the once-mighty Enron Corp., which recently rocked the financial community, has raised questions concerning the fate of its much-ballyhooed art collection and of the cultural institutions that relied heavily on...

Venice Biennale power play. (Front Page).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The mid-December announcement in the New York Times that Robert Hughes had been approached to serve as the visual-arts director of the 2003 Venice Biennale caught most art-world readers by surprise. Time magazine's longtime critic acknowledged...

LACMA plans to expand. (Front Page).(L.A. County Museum of Art)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... In early December, the L.A. County Museum of Art revealed preliminary plans for a striking new facility, to be designed by Pritzker Prize-winning Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas. The museum's 20-acre campus presently contains six architecturally...

Atlanta art district set for makeover. (Front Page).(Woodruff Art Center)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The Woodruff Art Center in Atlanta recently announced a $100-million expansion and renovation project designed by architect Renzo Piano. Encompassing the High Museum of Art, the Atlanta College of Art, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the...

High line and TWA terminal threatened. (Front Page).(historic properties in New York)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The Preservation League of New York State has released its "Seven to Save" list, an annual selection of threatened historic properties. Included is Manhattan's High Line, the retired, 1.45-mile elevated rail line that runs through Chelsea [see...

Brass art hits sour note. (Front Page).(Cornelia Parker's installation Breathless)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... British artist Cornelia Parker, known for sculptures made from exploded and crushed objects, recently received some noisy feedback for her site-specific installation Breathless. Part of a recently inaugurated wing at London's Victoria and...

Mold invades Swedish museum. (Front Page).(Moderna Museet)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... A mysterious mold has attacked Stockholm's new Moderna Museet, which was designed by architect Rafael Moneo and inaugurated only three years ago. The building was recently closed after a number of museum staff members came down with illnesses...

New relief fund for artist victims of WTC attack. (Front Page).(New York Foundation for the Arts/September 11th, 2002)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
February 1, 2002... The New York Foundation for the Arts has spearheaded the establishment of the New York Arts Recovery Fund to provide monetary relief to artists and arts organizations in Lower Manhattan affected by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. With startup...

Corporations say arts support will be stable. (Front Page).(Business Committee for the Arts)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
February 1, 2002... There may be some good news for the arts in these bleak economic times. According to a recent survey conducted by the Business Committee for the Arts, a nonprofit group founded in 1967 by David Rockefeller to encourage corporate funding of the...

Sugarman foundation gives first grants. (Front Page).(George Sugarman Foundation, financial assistance to artists)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
February 1, 2002... The recently created George Sugarman Foundation has announced its first grants, totaling $40,000, to nine artists in the U.S. and France. The foundation is named for sculptor George Sugarman, who died in 1999 at the age of 87 [see "Artworld,"...

Art issues folds. (Front Page).(Los Angeles, California publication)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The Los Angeles-based publication Art Issues has folded after a 13-year run. Founded and edited by Gary Kornblau, the bimonthly magazine was known for its distinctive appearance and adventurous articles by such writers as Dave Hickey,...

AICA picks top shows for 2000-01. (Front Page).(International Association of Art Critics, United States)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The U.S. chapter of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) recently presented its awards for the best shows of the 2000-01 season. Some 400 members cast ballots for their top picks. The William Kentridge exhibition, organized by...

Drawn & Quartered. (Reviews of books: poets and painters).
February 1, 2002... Drawn & Quartered, by Robert Creeley and Archie Rand, New York, Granary Books, 2001; 100 pages, $15.95. The most recent golden age of American poet-painter collaborations was nearly half a century ago, in New York City in the late 1950s and...

To Repel Ghosts.
February 1, 2002... To Repel Ghosts, by Kevin Young, Cambridge, Mass., Zoland Books, 2001; 350 pages, $26. The most recent golden age of American poet-painter collaborations was nearly half a century ago, in New York City in the late 1950s and early 1960s....

Purloined: A Novel.
February 1, 2002... Purloined: A Novel, by Joseph Kosuth, Cologne, Salon Verlag, 2000; 120 pages. The most recent golden age of American poet-painter collaborations was nearly half a century ago, in New York City in the late 1950s and early 1960s. This was...

A Book of the Book: Some Works and Projections About The Book and Writing.
February 1, 2002... A Book of the Book: Some Works and Projections About The Book and Writing, edited by Jerome Rothenberg and Steven Clay, New York, Granary Books, 2000, 537 pages; $44.95 cloth, $28.95 paper. The most recent golden age of American...

Poetry Plastique.
February 1, 2002... Poetry Plastique, edited by Jay Saunders and Charles Bernstein, New York, Marianne Boesky Gallery and Granary Books, 2001; 96 pages, $20. The most recent golden age of American poet-painter collaborations was nearly half a century ago, in...

Snap judgments: exploring the Winogrand archive: drawing on a vast trove of the photographer's posthumous material, curators of a recent exhibition at Tucson's Center for Creative Photography had to negotiate an ethical minefield. (Issues & Commentary).
February 1, 2002... One day in 1983, Garry Winogrand called up the director of the Center for Creative Photography (CCP) at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Would the center be interested, the photographer wanted to know, in a gift of more than 10,000 of his...

Speaking for themselves: "Art:21," a new four-part series on PBS, brings viewers into artists' studios and lets them explain their work--without historical or critical contextualization. (Art On TV).
February 1, 2002... Robert Hughes's 1980 PBS series "The Shock of the New" created a fresh model for the presentation of art on television. Bristling with ideas and opinions, the show offered a challenging picture of the rise of modern art against the turbulent...

Jewel in the rough: the annual Contemporary Art Month reveals a city with a dynamic and increasingly progressive art scene. (Report From San Antonio).
February 1, 2002... No longer the sleepy little village of Western-movie fame or the military town that once boasted five bases, San Antonio is now known as a tourist destination. It is also a hot spot of contemporary art, drawing more and more art-world visitors...

The art weed flourishes: while the art world has suffered during Japan's protracted recession, the Tokyo scene remains lively in both galleries and museums. (Report From Tokyo).
February 1, 2002... Those who remember the pain of the early '90s in New York's art world should multiply those bad years times four to get a feel for the long, gloomy decade Japanese artists, dealers and curators have experienced, with four official recessions...

Wayne's world: from tasty still lifes to breathlessly pitched landscapes, Wayne Thiebaud's paintings body forth a realm of inexhaustible visual delight. A comprehensive retrospective followed the half-century career of this durable figure of American painting.
February 1, 2002... Wayne Thiebaud started a lifelong romance with paint in the 1950s, revitalizing representational subject matter with a bold palette and the bravura brushwork of the Abstract Expressionists he most admired. The few paintings of that decade...

Transmodern Yoko: a retrospective organized by New York's Japan Society Gallery, now touring, maps out Yoko Ono 40-year oeuvre of conceptual instruction pieces, objects, installations, performances, films, music and more.
February 1, 2002... Conceptual artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach. --Lawrence Weiner, "Sentences on Conceptual Art," 1969 At the time I don't think the public liked Yoko very much... It may have...

Who was Cleopatra? Supplementing ancient art works with later representations, an exhibition now at the Field Museum in Chicago explores the interpenetration of Greek and Egyptian styles--and the conflicting propaganda efforts by Cleopatra and her enemies in Rome that created the dualistic persona of history's most alluring queen.
February 1, 2002... The current installation at the Field Museum in Chicago--after previous appearances at venues in Rome and London--of a large-scale exhibition of ancient art centered upon the personality and historical role of the last Macedonian queen of Egypt...

Nests, wounds and blossoms: Long known for her unstinting, even reckless engagement with painting's expressive possibilities, Joan Snyder pushes the medium still further in a recent group of grid-based abstractions that address common life experiences.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... I am for an art that takes its form from the lines of life itself, that twists and extends and accumulates and spits and drips, and is heavy and coarse and blunt and sweet and stupid as life itself. --Claes Oldenburg, 1961 Joan...

A journey to China: after seeking political asylum in Australia in 1990, Ah Xian discovered, in an old medium, a new way to express his experience of the Chinese diaspora and the reconciliation of his past and present lives.
February 1, 2002... An orange butterfly is draped across he nose of a gleaming porcelain bust of a woman, its wings covering her eyes, the fine curve of its antennas echoing that of her naturalistically stippled eyebrows. A yellow blossom rests against her lips...

Coney Island apocalypse: drawing on world history and his own American childhood, figurative painter Arnold Mesches has long combined a collage-based esthetic with expressionist color and classically inspired compositions. A traveling show focuses on his "Anomie" series, a kaleidoscopic chronicle of the 20th century.
February 1, 2002... Now that the 20th century is behind us, efforts are emerging to make some sense of its bewildering combination of tragedy, villainy, progress, hope and failure. The best of them may be those that acknowledge how events experienced close-up are...

Jenny Holzer at Cheim & Read. (New York).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Ascending to a height of almost 25 feet, the four towering LED signs in Jenny Holzer's Blue Spike produced an awe-inspiring, chapel-like environment that was as eloquently appropriate for the inaugural exhibition of Cheim & Read's new space as...

Keith Sonnier at Location One. (New York).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... One sensed danger, walking into the ground-floor loft housing Keith Sonnier's "02=03:Fractured Oxygen=Ozone." Floor-to-ceiling gridded wire webs hewed the space into ample Minimalist cages. Tiny lightning-bolt warning signs and strips of...

Tim Litzmann at Mary Boone. (New York).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Tim Litzmann renders the immaterial visible. His new works consist of translucent sheets of cast acrylic, which are mounted on slender stretchers and thus appear to float in front of the wall. The back of each panel is painted evenly in one...

Michelle Lopez at Deitch projects. (New York).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... In Michelle Lopez's "Adventures in the Skin Trade," leather pods were arrayed on an expanse of dunes, with sand transforming the main room of Deitch's Grand Street gallery into a preternatural landscape. In the background, New Age-y music...

Gene Beery at Mitchell Algus. (New York).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... This exhibition of 11 text-based acrylic paintings by Gene Beery, only his second solo exhibition in New York in nearly 40 years, spanned his career to date and reminded us why the 1960s were so much fun (when they weren't pure hell). We could...

Ward Shelley at Pierogi. (New York).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... During the past several years, Ward Shelley has garnered attention for, among other things, his hilariously kinetic household appliances and an intricate hand-drawn chart chronicling the advent and development of the Williamsburg, Brooklyn art...

Linda Matalon at Cohan Leslie & Browne. (New York).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... In her first solo exhibition since 1997, Linda Matalon showed three bodies of related work: frail sculptures made of wax and wire called "Axel," a slightly more robust series of sculptures cast in bronze called "Mettle" and a group of untitled...

William Baziotes at Joseph Helman. (New York).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... A selection of almost 40 works on paper offered a concise overview of the career of Abstract Expressionist painter William Baziotes (1912-1963). The retrospective began with a few works of the 1930s: the earliest, somewhat mawkish pieces evoke...

Robert Mangold at PaceWildenstein. (New York).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Signaling, perhaps, a more luminous and revelatory phase, the newest abstractions by veteran minimalist Robert Mangold give star billing to a slender, long-stemmed spiral motif. The "Curled Figure Paintings" continue his exploration of line,...

Sean Scully at Knoedler and Galerie Lelong. (New York).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Over the years, Sean Scully has remade the stripe painting into his own image. Considered by many to be one of the foremost painters of the present time, he has disclosed--just when you thought you knew all you needed to know about his...

Damian Loeb at Mary Boone. (New York).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... There are intriguing similarities between detective writer Raymond Chandler's prose and Damian Loeb's recent grouping of cinematic, wide-format oil paintings. Chandler, in his L.A.-based stories, tinges his meticulously described, rather...

Wayne Thiebaud at Allan Stone. (New York).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... At the beginning of his career, Wayne Thiebaud was grouped with Pop artists because of his interest in painting commercial displays of cakes and other sweets. But as time went by, one could see that Thiebaud is his own man, rendering, like...

Carolyn Brady at Nancy Hoffman. (New York).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Carolyn Brady has temporarily abandoned her immaculate round-the-house still lifes, her inside/outside interior and exteriors, and her glimmering English and French gardenscapes to concentrate on a subject that fascinates almost everyone: food,...

Joan Vennum at Sundaram Tagore. (New York).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Meridian (2001) is a 5-foot tondo with a soft black horizontal line across its middle. Above that line are multitudes of tiny, curving, white and yellow brushstrokes over red and black; below the division are cooler white lines over more black,...

Jack Youngerman at Washburn. (New York).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... In the years immediately following the Second World War, Jack Youngerman, like his friend and colleague Ellsworth Kelly, took advantage of the G.I. Bill to live and work in Paris. There he discovered the joyous late paper cutouts of Matisse and...

Nicola De Maria at Sperone Westwater. (New York).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Italian artist Nicola De Maria, who possesses an exquisite facility and a penchant for arcane process, has shown regularly in the U.S. since the late 1970s. In his most recent New York appearance, he wove together on-site painting with found...

Francine Tint at Atelier A/E. (New York).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Francine Tint approaches painting as an act both visceral and cerebral, with a signature brushstroke that is at once explosively energetic and pensive. Her principal influences are Hans Hofmann, Jackson Pollock and Jules Olitski, but her...

Terence La Noue at David Beitzel. (New York).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The tessellated passages of Terence La Noue's abstractions emerge from dense matrices of material riven into shards and exuberantly reassembled into complex, layered fields. In constructing them, La Noue continues to draw upon an abiding...

Frank Holliday at Debs & Co. (New York).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... In Frank Holliday's recent show, titled "Trippin' in America," Jackson Pollock's emotive automatism seemed to be in joyous, campy collision with an unabashed belief in the power of hallucination. Holliday has been exhibiting since 1980,...

Nicholas Nixon at Zabriskie. (New York).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Among the "New Topographics" photographers of the 1970s who reintroduced the somewhat cumbersome large-format view camera in pursuit of the dispassionate and descriptive image, Nicholas Nixon is known for the apparent spontaneity of a...

RADI Design at Sandra Gering. (New York).(Recherche, Auto-production, Design Industriel)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The French design group RADI (Recherche, Auto-production, Design Industriel) came together almost 10 years ago and have gotten considerable attention in Europe. For their first solo show in the U.S., the group (Florence Doleac, Laurent...

Oliver Payne and Nick Relph at Gavin Brown's enterprise. (New York).(Driftwood)(House & Garage)(Jungle )
February 1, 2002... Oliver Payne and Nick Relph are two young British artists (born in 1977 and '79, respectively) who work collaboratively, and whose short films Driftwood, House & Garage and Jungle recently had their U.S. debut at Gavin Brown. Together, these...

Taylor Davis at The Gallery at Green street. (Boston).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... There's a Victorian parlor trick in which a small sheet of paper is delicately filleted into a strip that can encircle a room. In the hands of Taylor Davis, plywood, intricately sawed and dissected, can be as expansive as that bit of paper....

Catherine Kehoe at Barton/Ryan. (Boston).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Catherine Kehoe's small oil-on-wood portraits and figure studies, all dated 2000, have a liquid, nostalgic quality. Partly it is their intimate scale--the largest is only 6 by 8 inches--that makes them seem like high-contrast, slightly...

Lois Dodd at Caldbeck. (Rockland, Maine).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Lois Dodd's loosely abstracted landscapes depict the East Coast and New England, ranging from her native New Jersey to Vermont and Maine. While surroundings play an important role in her recent "Women at Work" paintings, the nude takes top...

E.K. Huckaby at Solomon projects. (Atlanta).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... With his ironic, intelligent brand of conceptual art, E.K. Huckaby has established a corner on postmodernist Southern gothic, as was evident in his most recent exhibition of found-object art works. Aporia, for example, is a full-scale replica...

Roy Dowell at Finesilver. (San Antonio).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Roy Dowell's collages are reminiscent of Pop art's cheerful embrace of the two-dimensional world of advertising. His saturated palette, which includes bright, opaque reds, yellows, blues and greens, recalls Lichtenstein's paintings, as do his...

Georges Jeanclos at Frank Lloyd. (Santa Monica).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Every sculpture in this selection from Georges Jeanclos's final 20 years featured the human figure except for one. That work, Urne (1977), managed, nevertheless, to be just as emotionally dense as the rest, and just as resonant with the...

Warren Neidich at the Laguna Art Museum. (Laguna Beach).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... In 1995, Warren Neidich made a geeky/neo-hippyish literary pilgrimage across the country, following the route of the character Sal in Jack Kerouac's On the Road. The unexpected pot of gold at the end of his cross-country journey, in southern...

Julia Fenton at Mark Woolley. (Portland, Ore.).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... In Purity and Danger (1966), anthropologist Mary Douglas analyzed pollution sociologically, showing how taboos express anxieties in the body politic. Preserving social hierarchies, concepts of filth function symbolically; in the caste system,...

R.H. Ives Gammell at the Maryhill Museum. (Goldendale, Wash.).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Academically trained and inclined, Boston painter R.H. Ives Gammell (1893-1981) was resolutely out of step with his times. Vehemently antimodern, he devoted his considerable resources to preserving a tradition embraced by the 19th-century...

Anton Henning at Wohnmaschine. (Berlin).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Over the past decade, German artist Anton Henning has pushed painterly pastiche in dizzying directions. Gleefully mixing motifs and stylistic traits associated with diverse modern masters (van Gogh, Matisse, Magritte, Lichtenstein), he also...

Albert Weis at Lintel & Baumgart. (Munich).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Upon entering the young German artist Albert Weis's first solo show, visitors found their movements determined by atomique, a huge angled structure that resembled a ramp in an underground parking garage. Cutting diagonally across the room, this...

Peter Noser at Galleria Turchi. (Montalcino, Italy).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Peter Noser's objects display a thorough interaction with the art world, but not in the form of a cynical examination of its politics. Rather, in wall pieces that are trenchant yet appreciative, Noser allusively pays tribute to artists who are...

"5th Biennial of Hawaii artists" at the Contemporary Museum. (Honolulu).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The Contemporary Museum's biennial, showcasing the work of six artists, demonstrated that Hawaii's geographic isolation does not preclude the creation of stirring, relevant works of art. One of the artists, Japanese-born Masami Teraoka, is well...

Daisuke Nakayama & Tsuyoshi Ozawa at the Taro Okamoto Museum. (Kawasaki, Japan).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... This museum near Tokyo, which commemorates the mid-20th-century artist Taro Okamoto, has begun to occasionally feature the work of young, experimental artists. Sharing the first such exhibition were two who make works with a psychological or...

Obituaries. (Artworld).(Brief Article)(Obituary)
February 1, 2002... Naomi Vine, 52, museum director, died Dec. 24 in Long Beach after a battle with cancer. Vine held a Ph.D. in art history from the University of Chicago and an MBA from Emory University in Atlanta. She had served as director of education at the...

Mercedes Matter, 1913-2001. (Artworld).(Obituary)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Mercedes Matter, artist, author, founder and dean emeritus of the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, died in Manhattan on Dec. 4, age 87. The school, now nearly 40 years old, does not grant degrees and has an unusual...

Parrish Art Museum.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, N.Y., has named Katherine Crum as Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman chief curator of art and education, a newly created position. Crum was formerly director of the Mills College Art Museum in Oakland.

London's Institute of Contemporary Art.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Matthew Higgs, associate director of exhibitions at London's Institute of Contemporary Art, has been named curator of art and design at the newly renamed CCAC Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts at the California College of Arts and Crafts...

University Art Museum.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Christopher Scoates has been selected as chief curator of the University Art Museum at UC-Santa Barbara. He most recently served as director of the Atlanta College of Art Gallery.

Photographic Resource Center.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Leslie Brown has been named Curator at the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University. For the past two years, she was associate curator of education at the Cheekwood Museum of Art in Nashville.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Joseph Rosa is the new curator of architecture and design at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. For the past two years, he served as curator at the Heinz Architectural Center at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh.

Norton Museum of Art.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach has selected Roger Ward as chairman of its curatorial department and curator of European art. He was recently a curator at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. The Norton's new curator of...

San Jose Museum of Art.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... JoAnne Northrup has been appointed senior curator at the San Jose Museum of Art. From 1995 to 2001, she was curator of exhibitions and collections at the de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University.

National Gallery of Canada.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Stephen Borys, assistant curator of European art at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, is now curator of Western art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College.

Cheekwood Museum of Art in Kansas City.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Rusty Freeman, curator at the Cheekwood Museum of Art in Nashville, has been named curator of the Plains Art Museum in Fargo, N.D.

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.(appoints curator)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Gaylord Torrence is the first Fred and Virginia Merrill curator of American Indian art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City.

New NEA head. (Artworld).(Michael P. Hammond)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... On Dec. 20, Michael P. Hammond was confirmed as the new chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, replacing William Ivey. Since 1986, Hammond, who was educated at Oxford in philosophy, psychology and physiology, had been dean of the...

NEA rescinds grant for performance artist's show. (Artworld).(National Endowment for the Arts)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... In its recent announcement of grants for fiscal year 2002, the National Endowment for the Arts left off the list two awards that had received preliminary approval. One of these grants, $60,000 to the Berkeley Repertory Theater Company for a...

Bush budgeters aim to halt museum renovation. (Artworld).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The Bush administration's office of management and budget has proposed to suspend the $214-million restoration of the historic building that houses the National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in the nation's capital....

McCall Awards announced. (Artworld).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The Penny McCall Foundation has announced the winners of the newly renamed Penny McCall Awards. These are the first grants made since 1999, when McCall was killed in a car accident in Kosovo. The recipients were selected by the foundation's...

NEA grants for 2002. (Artworld).(list of receipients)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The National Endowment for the Arts, which has a current budget appropriation of $115.2 million, recently announced its first grants for fiscal year 2002. Over $19.4 million was awarded through 819 grants in the categories of Creativity (726...

Awards. (Artworld).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Martin Creed is the recipient of the approximately $29,000 Turner Prize for 2001, given by the Tate Britain in London. The award, sponsored by Channel 4, is given to a British artist under 50 years of age for an outstanding exhibition in the...

University Art Gallery.(appointment at New Mexico)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Charles M. Lovell, director of the University Art Gallery at New Mexico State University in Albuquerque since 1995, was recently named director of the UNM Harwood Museum in Taos. He replaced Robert Ellis, who retired last June.

Bellevue [Wash.] Art Museum.(appointment)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Kathleen Harleman is the new executive director of the Bellevue [Wash.] Art Museum. She was previously director and CEO of the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale.

Georgia State University's School of Art and Design.(appointment)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Cathy Byrd, critic and curator, has been appointed gallery director at Georgia State University's School of Art and Design in Atlanta.