Art in America articles from February 2003

Art in America archives from February 2003

Bellmer complex. .(Letter to the Editor)
February 1, 2003... To the Editors: I would like to clarify a number of misconceptions in Abigail Solomon-Godeau's review of my book Behind Closed Doors: The Art of Hans Bellmer ["Dark Night of the Doll," A.i.A., Sept. `02]. Contrary to the writer's claim, it...

Have a little faith. .(Letter to the Editor)
February 1, 2003... To the Editors: Eleanor Heartney's misconceptions about the purposes of the Museum of World Religions in your October 2002 issue go to the very reason for its existence. Ms. Heartney believes that the museum has left out "unsettling...

Help Save E.1027. .(Letter to the Editor)
February 1, 2003... To the Editors: I appreciated reading about James Lord's travails in "Saving Cezanne's Studio" [A.i.A., July `02]. As the project director of an organization working to preserve another house in France--Eileen Gray's magnificent E....

Bully for the brits.(Letter to the Editor)
February 1, 2003... To the Editors: Having visited London for a few months in the spring, I found Carol Kino's "Life After YBA-mania" [A.i.A., Oct. `02] to be quite accurate. The art was generally youthful, compared to that of the veteran artist population...

Corrections.(Correction Notice)
February 1, 2003... Nov. `02, p. 130: Our article on the traveling Eva Hesse retrospective failed to state that the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art was not only the show's first venue but the organizing institution. Dec. `02, p. 55: The correct date for...

Museum project: on and off. (Front Page).(throughout the U.S.)
February 1, 2003... The rocky economy is having a decidedly mixed impact on various museum projects. The New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York has announced plans for a new building. The museum will move to a nearby site, currently a parking lot, on the...

Designers propose bold future for WTC site. (Front Page).
February 1, 2003... On Dec. 18, the public got its first look at second-round proposals for the World Trade Center site. In an event hosted by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) at the Winter Garden, just steps from ground zero, models and designs...

Acconci on the Mur. (Front Page).(floating exhibition space in Graz, Austria)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Island in the Mur, a floating exhibition and performance space designed by Vito Acconci and situated in the middle of the Mur River in Graz, Austria, opened to the public on Jan. 11. Produced in collaboration with Austrian curator Robert...

Cosmos in Kansas City. (Front Page).(work by Walter De Maria at Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... In October, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City unveiled a major permanent installation by Walter De Maria. Titled One Sun, 34 Moons, the work was designed in collaboration with architect Steven Hell, who is heading up a $140-million...

Museum heads say: hands off our staff. (Front Page).(controversy over the Elgin Marbles continues)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Shortly after the British Museum once again rebuffed attempts by the Greek government to repatriate the Elgin Marbles, 18 directors of major international museums signed a statement in December affirming their institutions' rights to keep...

Venice Biennale takes shapes. (Front Page).
February 1, 2003... The title and guiding theme of the 50th Venice Biennale [June 15-Nov. 2] were formally announced in December by visual arts director Francesco Bonami: "Dreams and Conflicts: The Dictatorship of the Viewer." The 63 participating countries will...

Museum boom in Holland. (Front Page).
February 1, 2003... This has been a season of new museum openings and plans for expansion in the already museum-rich Dutch nation. The Hague recently saw the debut of several new facilities affiliated with the municipal Gemeentemuseum. In Amsterdam, both the...

High line update. (Front Page).(turning an unused elevated rail line into green space)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Things are looking up for the High Line, the 1.45-mile railroad viaduct in Chelsea whose future as an elevated public promenade seemed doomed by possible demolition in fall 2001 [see A.i.A., Oct. `01]. Friends of the High Line, an organization...

Self-Portrait in words.(Book Review)
February 1, 2003... Claude Cahun: Ecrits, edited by Francois Leperlier, Paris, Editions Jean-Michel Place, 2002; 787 pages, 43 euros. This is a very big book--almost 800 pages--and it's in French, so only the hardiest, Claude Cahun-obsessed individuals should...

The Guggenheim regroups: The Story Behind the Cutbacks: in financial crisis, and with its downtown NYC expansion plan deferred or defunct, the Guggenheim museum continues to explore ambitious new global projects. (Art & Money).
February 1, 2003... The most recently envisioned new Guggenheim Museum, a Jean Nouvel-designed project for Rio de Janeiro, is partly underwater--an apt metaphor for a museum empire that's been drowning in deficits. No sooner had he acceded in December to demands...

AIPAD The Photograph Show February 7-9, 2003 New York Hilton, Midtown, NYC. (Mark Your Calendar).(Calendar)
February 1, 2003... The World Premier Exposition of Fine Art Photography with Eighty International Dealers Exhibitions Friday, February 7 and Saturday, February 8, 12-8pm Sunday, February 9, 11am-6pm $20/One day; $30/Three days (Include AIPAD's...

Modernity and revolution: a recent show of Iranian art focused on the turbulent time from 1960 to 1980, juxtaposing formally inventive works of art with politically charged photographs and posters. (Art & Politics).(Between Word and Image: Modern Iranian Visual Culture)
February 1, 2003... Among the challenges to American complacency posed by the events of Sept. 11 has been an awareness that concepts which we consider unequivocally good--among them modernity, democracy and individual liberty--are often considered far more...

Cyber City: despite budget woes, Media City Seoul 2002 effectively showcased the promise--and limitations--of high-tech art work from around the globe. (Report From Seoul).
February 1, 2003... As the Whitney Museum's "BitStreams" exhibition recently reminded New York viewers [see A.i.A., Sept. `01], new-media shows tend to be based on two fallacies: one, that today's advanced technology provides a perceptual experience unprecedented...

"A history in pictures: a traveling exhibition of major art works from Polish collections opens a door to the country's tumultuous political past. (Report From Milwaukee).(Leonardo da Vinci and the Splendor of Poland)
February 1, 2003... While the genre of exhibition commonly called a "masterpiece show" is likely to pull in the crowds, more than attendance numbers are required to attract lasting attention. The Milwaukee Art Museum has had the good fortune--founded on good...

Jeffrey Chiplis's found neon art: ranging from altered signs to images both pictorial and abstract, works by this self-styled semi-outsider are as likely to be found in neighborhood bars as in conventional exhibiting venues. (Report From Cleveland).
February 1, 2003... After Jeffrey Chiplis graduated from art school, with a B.F.A. in sculpture, some 25 years ago, he didn't make art works for six or seven years. He was not disenchanted with art, but with some of the conditions under which it is practiced and...

Two for the road: the prolonged and productive rivalry between Matisse and Picasso fills a major chapter in the history of 20th-century modernism. As a dual exhibition arrives in New York, Matisse's biographer speculates on his perpetual runner-up status in the popular ranking of the two avant-garde titans.
February 1, 2003... The last great confrontation of their lifetime between Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso took place in 1945 on the walls of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Matisse was 75 years old, Picasso 64. "I can just imagine the gallery with my...

Chen Zhen's legacy: the last works of this noted Chinese artist are the focus of an exhibition opening in New York this month. Through sculptures, installations and an unrealized project for a Zen garden, Chen explored themes of illness, exile and cultural difference.
February 1, 2003... Chen Zhen was a rising presence on the international scene when he died quite suddenly in December 2000 of complications relating to his lifelong struggle with autoimmune hemolytic anemia. In recent years, his work has been on view in Venice,...

Edwin Dickinson: waking visions: known equally for his single-take landscapes and his shadowy, "symbolical" machines, Edwin Dickinson was the dark horse of American representational painting well into the 1950s and `60s. A traveling retrospective provides an in-depth look at this idiosyncratic artist.
February 1, 2003... A poet writes always of his personal life, in his finest work out of its tragedy, whatever it be, remorse, lost love, or mere loneliness; he never speaks directly as to someone at the breakfast table, there is always a phantasmagoria. ...

When bubbles burst: in a recent exhibition of small-scale, highly detailed ink drawings, Roland Flexner evoked everything from fictive landscapes and distant planets to fractal geometry and Japanese prints.
February 1, 2003... When you encounter one of Roland Flexner's recent works on paper for the first time, you may be puzzled as to what you're looking at. Is it a drawing? A print? A photograph? Is it concerned with geological evidence, the beauty of landscape,...

Obsessive congregations: Alfonso Ossorio drew upon Surrealism, Art Brut, Abstract Expressionism, folk art and collage for the paintings, sculptures and assemblages recently shown in a 50-year survey.
February 1, 2003... Although he moved from Manila to the U.S. at the age of 14, attended Harvard University and served in the U.S. Army, Alfonso Ossorio (1916-1990) produced a body of work that remained consistently international in scope. His early work evinced a...

Tucker's Metamorphoses: two New York exhibitions--one of recent sculptures, the other of drawings--confirmed William Tucker's standing as a wry modernist who endows his "traditional" forms and materials with abstracted, tragicomic physicality.
February 1, 2003... William Tucker's sculptures are emphatic in their sheer, physical presence and at the same time oddly, mysteriously self-absorbed. In their various states, as small studies, large plaster-over-wire-mesh versions, or bronze castings, they are...

Thomas Hirschhorn at Barbara Gladstone. (New York).
February 1, 2003... The installation Cavemanman, Pans-based Thomas Hirschhorn's first solo exhibition in New York, immersed the visitor in the environment of a fictitious hermit who has retreated from the iniquities of the world. The gallery was totally absorbed...

Pascale Marthine Tayou at Lombard-Freid. (New York).
February 1, 2003... For this installation titled Brazilisme, Cameroonian artist Pascale Marthine Tayou crafted a maze of children's playhouses and dog kennels made from fruit crates and other lowly materials. All was covered by mounds of shredded magazines and lit...

Siah Armajani at senior & shopmaker. (New York).
February 1, 2003... Siah Armajani has long been concerned with creating "neighborly" public sculptures--including bridges, gazebos and reading rooms--that are both physically and psychologically accessible. In striking contrast, his new work, which is at least...

Avigdor Arikha at Marlborough. (New York).
February 1, 2003... Avigdor Arikha, who survived the concentration camps and fought in Israel's War of Independence, is steadily, scrupulously attentive to the things of this world and has depicted them memorably over the decades. Now 73 and still prodigiously...

Edwin Dickinson at Tibor de Nagy. (New York).
February 1, 2003... Edwin Dickinson is often called a "painter's painter," a term implying that his art is an acquired taste, fashionably obscure, appreciated mainly by the cognoscenti. But this exhibition, which might be thought of as a partial summary of the...

Robert Mangold at Peter Freeman. (New York).
February 1, 2003... We rarely get to see a large selection of a mature artist's earliest work except in museum retrospectives. In that context, with the more familiar material just around the corner, so to speak, we tend to judge those early, and sometimes...

Walter E. Thompson at Amos Eno. (New York).
February 1, 2003... For years, Walter Thompson painted precise, geometric compositions. But in the 12 paintings dated 1997 to 2002 that made up this recent show, he seems to have buried that clarity under veils of dense squiggles that pull you up close to examine...

Andrew Forge at Robert Miller. (New York).
February 1, 2003... Andrew Forge's elegant paintings present an erudite synthesis of developments from Post-Impressionism through 20th- century abstraction. The methodological clarity of his pointillist technique may owe as much to his early study with William...

Dominic McGill at Debs & Co. (New York).
February 1, 2003... Titled "Tomorrow," this show was the New York solo debut for English-born New York artist Dominic McGill. Known for humorous, thought-provoking street performances in and around New York during the `90s, McGill, 39, presented five sculptures...

Beth Campbell at Roebling Hall. (New York).
February 1, 2003... Beth Campbell first received broad attention for her quirky textual drawings in which a single narrative event written at the bottom of the page branches upward and outward into many possible scenarios, some lovely and some dire, some mundane...

Deborah Masters at Maurice Arlos and Smack Mellon. (New York).
February 1, 2003... Deborah Masters, the Brooklyn-based artist whose monumental 28-panel installation "New York Streets" was commissioned for the new terminal at Kennedy Airport, recently had two simultaneous exhibitions, in Tribeca and Dumbo. The former, at the...

Angel Orensanz at the Orensanz Foundation. (New York).
February 1, 2003... Spanish artist Angel Orensanz is probably best known as the fellow who purchased an extraordinary, formerly abandoned synagogue on Norfolk Street on Manhattan's Lower East Side in the 1980s and, along with his brother Al, transformed it into a...

Louis I. Kahn at Salander-O'Reilly. (New York).
February 1, 2003... Much of the drama of the career of architect Louis I. Kahn (1901-1974) lies in the amalgamation of the academic conventions that he had absorbed as a student with the modernist innovations he came to appreciate. Trained in the Beaux-Arts...

Sang Nam Lee at Elga Wimmer PCC. (New York).
February 1, 2003... For the past 30 years, 22 of them while a resident in New York, Korean-born painter Sang Nam Lee has exhibited internationally to respectful, if sometimes mystified, critical notice. The reasons are not far to seek. His surfaces--usually layer...

Hugo Bastidas at Nohra Haime. (New York).
February 1, 2003... In his new exhibition titled "Omens in Grisaille," the Ecuadorian-born Hugo Bastidas referenced origins and displacement, both cultural and natural. He presented eight oil-on-linen canvases (all 40 by 60 inches, 2002) with a washed-out quality...

"Variations of ink: a dialogue with Zhang Yanyuan" at Chambers fine art. (New York).
February 1, 2003... The scholar and curator Wu Hung, trained at Beijing's Central Academy of Fine Arts and at Harvard, and now teaching at the University of Chicago, brought together five artists whom he sees as "providing synchronized `post-modern' visual...

Toshiko Takaezu at Charles Cowles. (New York).
February 1, 2003... Born in Hawaii in 1922, Toshiko Takaezu is recognized for applying the expressive potential of traditional ceramics to the realm of nonfunctional sculpture. Clustered on the hard cement floor of this Chelsea venue, the 28 large- and...

Jude Tallichet at Sara Meltzer. (New York).
February 1, 2003... "All-Star," Jude Tallichet's third solo show at the gallery, was a floor installation that comprised translucent Plexiglas models of well-known edifices: the Trylon and Perisphere from the 1939 New York World's Fair, Seattle's Space Needle, the...

Iran do Espirito Santo at Sean Kelly. (New York).
February 1, 2003... This recent exhibition of quasi-minimalist sculptures and installations was the impressive U.S. gallery solo debut of Iran do Espirito Santo, a 39-year-old artist from Sao Paulo. In accord with other Brazilian artists of his generation, such as...

Bruno LaVerdiere at John Elder. (New York).
February 1, 2003... Bruno LaVerdiere's rectangular ceramic container titled Etruria II (2000) seems unquestionably to represent a relic box, but like all the sculptures and drawings in his recent show, it also seems to refer to architecture. Its footprint measures...

Luis Cruz Azaceta at Ramis Barquet. (New York).
February 1, 2003... Luis Cruz Azaceta began as an abstract painter in the 1960s, but became known in the 1980s for expressionist figuration that was saturated with empathy for those affected by homelessness, exile and AIDS. In recent years, Azaceta has...

Kiki of Montparnasse at Zabriskie. (New York).
February 1, 2003... No figure better embodies the heady, freewheeling artistic culture of 1920s Montparnasse than the legendary model, painter and cabaret singer Kiki. This show documented her nearly ubiquitous presence in that period of creative ferment,...

Ophrah Shemesh at Baumgartner. (New York).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... The large oil paintings of Israeli-born, New York-based painter Ophrah Shemesh are eroticized psychological studies of faces and female figures. The gazes of her women are assertive to the point of aggressiveness, as are their splayed legs and...

Clifford Odets at Michael Rosenfeld. (New York).
February 1, 2003... Among Clifford Odets's plays, Paradise Lost (1938) was his favorite. It also provided the title for the recent Odets exhibition at Michael Rosenfeld, his second at the gallery. The show featured the small, richly colored, faux-naif paintings on...

Anne Harris and Cynthia Knott at DC Moore. (New York).
February 1, 2003... Anne Harris disturbs as much as she charms. A figurative painter of considerable skill, she has concentrated in the past five years on self-portraits and pictures of her young son, Max; the compositions glow with transcendent light, but her...

Linn Meyers at George Billis. (New York).
February 1, 2003... Quietly exploiting the translucency of her materials, Linn Meyers draws on small sheets of Mylar and nylon. Her trembling abstractions are usually two-tiered, allowing the viewer to perceive faint washes of color behind graphic scrims of lines,...

William Fields at Luise Ross. (New York).
February 1, 2003... "A Visionary's Universe," William Fields's first New York exhibition, featured 11 large drawings executed since 1997 using Prismacolor, pastel and pencil (all vertical compositions, 30 1/4 by 22 3/4 inches). These works belong to the...

Ross Neher and Jeff Way at Mitchell Algus. (New York).
February 1, 2003... At first glance this exhibition of work by two very different kinds of painters--one a barbarian, the other an esthete--seemed to demonstrate no thesis except perhaps that opposites attract. Yet the pairing told a revealing and important story...

Arturo Herrera at Brent Sikkema. (New York).
February 1, 2003... Caracas-born, New York-based artist Arturo Herrera, who multi-tasks in several mediums, including painting, drawing, photography and sculpture, concentrated on works on paper for his recent Chelsea exhibition. Recalling the magical...

Lynn Sures at Gallery K. (Washington, D.C.).
February 1, 2003... Lynn Sures's work has always been constructed with paper that she makes herself, whether creating two-dimensional pieces or reliefs. This recent exhibition was the breakthrough show that many of her admirers had been anticipating for years....

Bill Radawec at Shaheen Contemporary. (Cleveland).
February 1, 2003... Bill Radawec was living in Los Angeles when the big earthquake of 1994 hit. His apartment developed cracks in the walls at about 40 places. He decided to make an art work of the earthquake damage. Ascending a ladder, carrying a drawing board,...

Jack Sloss at Donald Young. (Chicago).
February 1, 2003... Two installations by the Chicago-based Jack Sloss humorously explore the dynamics of human relationships, exposing private moments shared by a couple (the artist and his wife). Sloss works in sculpture, video and sound, and the works presented...

Carl E. Kurtz at Southwest Missouri State University. (Springfield, MO.).
February 1, 2003... Carl E. Kurtz, a professor at Kansas City Art Institute, uses his virtuoso calligraphic skills to create works that call up everything from illuminated manuscripts to German Fraktur wedding certificates. In this exhibition at Southwest's Art...

Anne Sugnet and Laura Stack at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. (Minneapolis).
February 1, 2003... This two-person show, the latest installment of the MIA's long-running Minnesota Artists program, was an exceptionally sympathetic pairing of sculptures by Anne Sugnet and drawings by Laura Stack. Both make allusive abstract forms that can...

Paul Horn at Texas. (Houston).
February 1, 2003... Walking into Paul Horn's installation was like walking into a Wal-Mart wonderland, with every plastic object of desire enveloped in crystallized sugar coating. The young artist's first exhibition in a gallery (previous shows were staged in...

Gottfried Helnwein at modernism. (San Francisco).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Gottfried Helnwein's extensive 1997 retrospective at the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg gave visitors an overview of his work going back to his street actions in Vienna in the 1970s, his grimacing iconic self-portraits that suggest...

Michihiro Kosuge at Laura Russo. (Portland, Ore.).
February 1, 2003... This exhibition comprised six abstract sculptures by the consummate stone carver of the Pacific Northwest. Michihiro Kosuge is known throughout the region for public commissions in granite and basalt, often incorporating flowing water with the...

Lauren Grossman at Esther Claypool. (Seattle).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Lauren Grossman's earliest works were figurative sculptures in glazed and enameled ceramic. During her gradual reconfiguration of Old and New Testament iconography over a decade, the artist has created tall statues of the Virgin Mary, Eve, St....

Eldon Garnet at Christopher Cutts and MOCCA. (Toronto).
February 1, 2003... Because of their explicit images of sex and decay, Eldon Garnet's large, multipanel photographic works have sometimes been dismissed as obscene or horrific. But the 10 pieces exhibited this fall at Christopher Cutts Gallery and the Museum of...

Richard Wentworth at 66 York Way. (London).
February 1, 2003... Richard Wentworth, English sculptor, photographer, teacher and streetwise flaneur, has lived in the King's Cross area of London for 25 years. His latest project, "An Area of Outstanding Unnatural Beauty," commissioned by the public-art enablers...

Johannes Karhs at Almine Rech. (Paris).
February 1, 2003... Johannes Karhs is a young Berlin-based artist who forages among film stills and documentary photographs, making paintings and charcoal drawings after the images he finds. It's hardly a new idea, but as his recent "Drunken Boat" exhibition...

Fransje Killaars at Galerie de Expeditie. (Amsterdam).
February 1, 2003... Since the early `90s, commercial fabrics have been Fransje Killaars's medium. Many of her works involve intensely colored fringed bedspreads that are woven to her specifications. A particularly large and dazzling arrangement of these cloths,...

Charl van Ark at Phoebus. (Rotterdam).
February 1, 2003... The main room at Phoebus might well have been an installation. The nine works--actually independent pieces dated 1994-2002, the oldest and newest titled Poetics of Space--deconstructed painting and furniture. Similar forms, materials and...

Katerina Vincourova at Jiri Svestka. (Prague).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Fresh from her DAAD fellowship in Berlin, Katerina Vincourova, one of the most respected young Czech artists, presented in this recent exhibition titled "New Heroes," large sculptures and an installation piece that examine notions of capitalist...

Dumb Type at the ICC. (Tokyo).
February 1, 2003... Dumb Type is a collaborative established by some students at a Kyoto art school in 1984. Celebrated in Japan for performances, installations, videos and musical compositions dealing with life in a technological environment, the group was seen...

"Emotional Site" at the Shokuryo Building. (Tokyo).
February 1, 2003... The group show "Emotional Site" was a bittersweet farewell to the Shokuryo Building, a three-story former rice and food market built in 1927 that had served as one of Tokyo's alternative-art mainstays for nearly 20 years and a center of...

Art services.(Directory)
February 1, 2003... Dynacolor Graphics Inc. P.O. Box 699037 Miami, FL 33269-9037 800.624.8840 ext. 322 Web: www.dynacolor.com Dynacolor Graphics is one of the fine art industry's leading printers of full color gallery announcement cards and...

Tate profits from stolen Turners. (Art World).
February 1, 2003... The Tate Britain recently announced that two stolen J.M.W. Turner paintings have been safely returned to London. The works were stolen in 1994 while on loan to an exhibition at Frankfurt's Schirn Kunsthalle. Also taken was a Kaspar David...

Awards. (Art World).
February 1, 2003... Art critic and writer John Berger is the winner of a Lannan Literary Award for Lifetime Achievement for 2002. The $200,000 prizes are presented by the Lannan Foundation. British architect Cedric Price has won the third annual Austrian...

Fuchs resigns from Stedelijk. (Art World).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Just after Amsterdam's mayor and aldermen announced approval of a plan to expand the Stedelijk Museum on its current Muse-umplein site [see p. 37], museum director Rudi Fuchs surprisingly announced his retirement, effective Jan. 1. Fuchs, 60,...

Whitney Museum of American Art. (People).(2004 Biennial)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... The Whitney Museum of American Art has selected three of its own curators as the organizers of its 2004 Biennial. They are Chrissie lies, curator of film and video; Shamim M. Momin, branch director and curator of the Whitney at Philip Morris;...

Manifesta 5. (Art World).(curatorial team for the European biennial)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... The curatorial team has been announced for Manifesta 5, the 2004 installment of the itinerant European biennial, to be held in San Sebastian in the Basque region of Spain. They are: Massimiliano Gioni, critic, curator and director of the Nicola...

Art in Hartford Conn. (Art World).(Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Kate M. Sellers, director of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Conn., resigned the position on Jan. 31, after serving less than two years.

Obituaries. (Art World).(Obituary)
February 1, 2003... Glen Seater, 46, sculptor and installation artist, died Dec. 21 in Brooklyn. He fell to his death while working on the chimney of his three-story house. Seater's idiosyncratic hybrid works fused Minimalist sculpture, architecture and...

Setback for Austria in klimt case. (Art World).
February 1, 2003... In an important legal victory, 86-year-old Los Angeles resident Maria Altmann has won the right to sue the Republic of Austria and the Austrian Gallery in Vienna for the return of six works by Gustav Klimt, which she claims were stolen from her...

Mass MoCA as TV star. (Art World).(Downside Up)(Television Program Review)
February 1, 2003... On Feb. 25, as part of its "independent Lens" series, PBS will air a new documentary that explores the economic impact of MASS MoCA on North Adams, Mass., and the art center's reception by the area's mostly working-class residents. Called...

Turner prize ruckus. (Art World).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Keith Tyson is the winner of the 2002 Turner Prize, worth approximately $32,000, given by the Tate Britain in London. Other artists shortlisted for the prize were Liam Gillick, Fiona Banner and Catherine Yass. A favorite target for critics who...

Andre Breton's collection on the block. (Art World).
February 1, 2003... Impending sale of the contents of the home and studio of writer and Surrealist leader Andre Breton has sparked controversy in scholarly circles. After Breton's death in 1966, his widow, Elisa, and daughter, Aube, carefully preserved the...