Art in America articles from February 2008

Art in America archives from February 2008

NYC Museums move to secure Picassos.(FRONT PAGE)
February 1, 2008... The Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum recently joined legal forces to stave off Nazi loot claims on two prized Picassos, one belonging to each museum. The museums filed papers in the U.S. District Court of Southern New York to...

Abramovic foundation for Hudson.(FRONT PAGE)(Marina Abramovic Foundation)(Brief article)
February 1, 2008... A new venue for performance art is set to open in the town of Hudson in upstate New York. The space will also serve as the home of the Marina Abramovic Foundation. The renowned performance artist recently closed the deal on a nearly $1-million,...

Dia moves on.(FRONT PAGE)(Dia Art Foundation)
February 1, 2008... In November, the Dia Art Foundation officially vacated its Chelsea address with the sale of its West 22nd Street building for $38.55 million to an undisclosed buyer. As reported in the New York Observer, director Jeffrey Weiss said that Dia is...

Art camp at the Presidio?(FRONT PAGE)
February 1, 2008... San Francisco's Presidio, an Army post from 1776 to 1994 and now a 1,491-acre national park, may soon become home to a contemporary art museum built by Gap founders Donald and Doris Fisher, who are major San Francisco-based collectors. Dubbed...

Lux residency for artists.(FRONT PAGE)(Lux Art Institute)(Brief article)
February 1, 2008... On Nov. 7, the Lux Art Institute opened its Artist Pavilion for residencies on a 4-acre site in Encinitas, Calif., near San Diego. Designed by Renzo Zecchetto, the $6-million pavilion contains living quarters, studio and exhibition space and...

Newly energized Artissima.(FRONT PAGE)
February 1, 2008... As contemporary art fairs proliferate around the globe and competition A intensifies, organizers of these events are seeking unusual ways to grab the spotlight and the big bucks. In an effort to reinvigorate Turin's Artissima, one of Italy's...

Parsing Picabia.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... I Am a Beautiful Monster: Poetry, Prose, and Provocation, by Francis Picabia, translation and introduction by Marc Lowenthal, MIT Press, 2007; 560 pages, $39.95. The Artwork Caught by the Tail: Francis Picabia and Dada in Paris, by George...

Godot in the Crescent City: Samuel Beckett's absurdist allegory of thwarted expectations and stubborn hope found a sympathetic audience among New Orleanians still stricken by the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.(REPORT FROM NEW ORLEANS)
February 1, 2008... To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now. --Samuel Beckett Performed on a November night in 2007 in the nearly abandoned wasteland of the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Waiting for Godot was both...

Italy's Northern Lights: now in its 10th year, Luci d'Artista, a seasonal public art project in Turin, features large-scale light installations by prominent Italian and international artists.(REPORT FROM TURIN)
February 1, 2008... Sure, Paris is the City of Light, but, for at least a few months of the year, Turin can also lay claim to the title. Thanks to Luci d'Artista, an ambitious, city-wide public art project, the streets of this northern Italian city nestled at the...

Latent history: a landmark survey of British calotypes from the mid-19th century reveals the pleasures and pitfalls of curating historical photography.(PHOTOGRAPHY)
February 1, 2008... {ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum always promise to show us nothing but the best. "Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840-1860" continued in this grand tradition, presenting a truly...

Sin city slickers: critic and curator Dave Hickey, long a luminary of the Las Vegas--and international--art scene, selected work by 26 former students for an exhibition at the city's only museum for contemporary art.(REPORT FROM LAS VEGAS)(Las Vegas Diaspora: The Emergence of Contemporary Art from the Neon Homeland)
February 1, 2008... Las Vegas is many things, but a city known for its patronage of the arts it is not. Even art world insiders are surprised to learn that there is an ambitious venue for contemporary art here--no, it's not the Guggenheim branch at the Venetian...

The Italian job: some works shone and a few fizzled--in P.S.1's recent survey of contemporary art from Italy. The beleaguered project opened on schedule, but not without compromise.(IMPORT/EXPORT)
February 1, 2008... It's a routine tactic of critics--if not always a fair one--to fault a group exhibition by toting up a list of pertinent artists who have been omitted from the roster. Sometimes pointing out that a show's cup is half empty does expose a...

Op art on the street: Veteran painter Julian Stanczak's new public work is a metal relief a full block long.(REPORT FROM CINCINNATI)
February 1, 2008... An originator of the Op-art style of the 1960s, Julian Stanczak, now 79, has created Additive, a 364-foot mural of painted metal rods, for the exterior of a corporate headquarters in downtown Cincinnati. The location is a five-story office and...

NY galleries.(Directory)
February 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 Web site: www.aperture.org Tuesday-Saturday: 10:00-6:00 ...

The unknown Rothko.(Mark Rothko)
February 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Nearly 40 years after his death, and despite several major retrospective exhibitions and a growing body of scholarly and critical literature, the art of Mark Rothko remains only partially explored. That fact was...

John Armleder: slightly transformed or used verbatim.
February 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Over the last 40 years, John Armleder has been active in an expansive field, cross-pollinating the practices of painting, sculpture, design, performance, found-object assemblage, installation and curating. He seems...

Greenwold's confessions: in his psychologically fraught, dreamlike paintings, Mark Greenwold transforms photographic sources by way of the Northern Renaissance and Baroque.
February 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Mark Greenwold's diminutive, meticulously wrought paintings cast the people in his life, family and friends, in psychologically charged scenes with surreal touches. The works are at once mimetic and fantastical,...

Puryear's tall tales: a traveling survey of Martin Puryear's 30-year-long career as a sculptor highlights a narrative inclination that has become increasingly apparent in his recent work.
February 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Can the sleek corporate architecture of New York's Museum of Modern Art be enlisted to serve the purposes of a wily fabulist? Does Martin Puryear fit that description? That these questions are rendered rhetorical by...

Walkabout: Francis Alys's peripatetic actions have won him acclaim on the global scene. A traveling exhibition surveys the career of this multifaceted artist, while a New York installation makes an artwork of his own unusual collection.
February 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In a current arts situation marked by proliferation, with more and more galleries, exhibitions, biennials, collectors, art fairs, art consultants, art blogs and, well, artists, one of the more lamentable occurrences...

After the hunt: energetically wrought banisters, door handles and chandeliers are among the fixtures created by Saint Clair Cemin for the renovated Musee de la Chasse et de la Nature in Paris.
February 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] How often does an artist get a dream commission for a big design project that changes his life and snaps his work into a whole new focus? The choice of Saint Clair Cemin to design all the new bronze fittings, light...

Shipshape pictures: a traveling exhibition focuses on the early two-dimensional works of H. C. Westermann, their formally and emotionally compact construction anticipating his better known wooden sculptures.
February 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Everyone's favorite eccentric, H.C. Westermann (1922-1981) was, briefly, a painter before he began making the wooden sculptures for which he is best known. He constructed his paintings like the carpenter he was,...

Sol LeWitt at PaceWildenstein and Paula Cooper.(NEW YORK)
February 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As is well known, Sol LeWitt's monumental wall drawings are produced by other artists following his careful instructions. Thus it was possible, at PaceWildenstein and Paula Cooper this winter, to view a group of...

Keith Sonnier at Castelli.(NEW YORK)
February 1, 2008... Now that many artists are paying particular attention to the material constitution of the objects they make, it is both sobering and exhilarating to revisit a few early, major pieces by Keith Sonnier some 40 years after their initial...

Antony Gormley at Sean Kelly.(NEW YORK)
February 1, 2008... Antony Gormley has described his sculpture as aiming to "materialize the sensation of the inner space of the body." Though it included just four works, his latest New York show explored a progressively atomized conception of corporeality,...

Natalie Frank at Mitchell-Innes & Nash.(NEW YORK)
February 1, 2008... The figurative oil paintings included in this show, Natalie Frank's first at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, depict a multifarious ensemble of models who fluidly shape-shift from one work to the next, often confounding gender distinctions. Working at...

Arlene Shechet at Elizabeth Harris.(NEW YORK)
February 1, 2008... Making her debut in fired clay with an exhibition of two groups of glazed ceramic sculptures (all but one 2007), Arlene Shechet devised new forms for her long-standing exploration of the vocabularies of East and West, sacred and profane. In the...

Martin Honert at Matthew Marks.(NEW YORK)
February 1, 2008... Martin Honert's drawings and sculptures replicate in meticulous detail his own childhood sketches and give form to images from his earliest memories. Both two-and three-dimensional works faithfully reproduce each wavy, uncertain line of his...

Chris Ofili at David Zwirner.(NEW YORK)
February 1, 2008... Stylized heterosexual couples, in many of Chris Ofili's new paintings, intertwine on dance floors, enveloped by tropical nightclub atmospheres and, paradoxically, spiritual overtones. Confession (Lady Chancellor)all works 2006 or '07--depicts a...

Steve Keister at feature.
February 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Over the past 15 years, the sculptor Steve Keister has amassed an authoritative knowledge of Olmec, Maya and Toltec sculpture, owing primarily to his annual visits to archeological sites in Mexico and Central...

Kukuli Velarde at Garth Clark.(NEW YORK)
February 1, 2008... Garth Clark's penultimate show (the gallery, which opened in Los Angeles in 1981 and subsequently moved to New York, closed in August) featured Kukuli Velarde with a wickedly funny exhibition of ceramics and paintings that scored feminist and...

Collier Schorr at 303.(NEW YORK)
February 1, 2008... "There I Was," the title of Collier Schorr's show, was ambiguous. Was she speaking in the first person or from the point of view of her teenage subject? At 303 she explored the short life of Charlie Snyder through dozens of pencil drawings,...

Keith Tyson at PaceWildenstein.(NEW YORK)
February 1, 2008... Since completing Large Field Array in 2006, Keith Tyson has displayed this ambitious sculpture at the Louisiana Museum in Denmark and the De Pont Museum in the Netherlands. Only 230 of the sculpture's 300 modular units were presented in New...

Morton Bartlett at Julie Saul.(NEW YORK)
February 1, 2008... Fifteen finely sculpted, meticulously proportioned plaster dolls, plus doll parts, costumes and a number of astonishing photographs of the dolls, surfaced at a New York antiques show in 1993. The material had been stored in purpose-built wooden...

Zoe Strauss at Silverstein Photography.(NEW YORK)
February 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Zoe Strauss's first solo New York show pulled no punches. The exhibition of framed and unframed color photographs (all 2001-06) drew us up close and personal to the urban America we most want to view from a safe...

Kohei Yoshiyuki at Yossi Milo.(NEW YORK)
February 1, 2008... Consider Kohei Yoshiyuki during the 1970s, silent witness to the nighttime fervor of enthusiastic partners in some wooded Tokyo park, a source of amazement to the young photographer. Given the intense voyeurism and the passionate groping...

Steve Giovinco at Jim Kempner.(NEW YORK)
February 1, 2008... Steve Giovinco's recent C-prints document an attraction to the subtle tonalities of the incidental landscape caught by the quick-draw apparatus of a digital camera. (With one exception, all images date 2006; most are 30 by 40 or 40 by 50...

Carol Bove at Maccarone.(NEW YORK)
February 1, 2008... In "The Middle Pillar," Carol Bove extended her practice as an artist-collector and historian working in found-object assemblage and sculptural installation. The show of recent work was named for a 1938 book that, in offering a psychological...

Christian Tomaszewski at the Sculpture Center.(NEW YORK)
February 1, 2008... Christian Tomaszewski's elaborate new installation On Chapels, Caves and Erotic Misery shifted between darkness and light, the immediate and the fantastic. It was the last in his series of five large-scale works relating to the David Lynch film...

Jean-Pierre Roy at Rare.(NEW YORK)
February 1, 2008... Perhaps as a sign of our geopolitically tense times, several exhibitions opening the fall season in New York offered scenes of postapocalyptic dystopia. One of the more successful of these was "Landmarks," Jean-Pierre Roy's solo at Rare, which...

Daniel Rich at Sunday.(NEW YORK)
February 1, 2008... Daniel Rich's landscape painting has moved from cool abstraction toward increasingly precisionist-type scenes with historical overtones. Raised in Germany, where he was born in 1977, Rich began his U.S. art-school career in graphics, with...

Peter Schuyff at Nicole Klagsbrun.(NEW YORK)
February 1, 2008... In his first solo exhibition in New York since 2001, Peter Schuyff employed a collection of small found paintings as supports for new works dated 2007. Bearing the patina of age and sometimes signed and dated by their original authors, they...

Olivo Barbieri at Yancey Richardson.(NEW YORK)
February 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The lush, large-scale photographs of landscapes in this show required second and third takes to figure out what was so unnatural about them. The work of Italian artist Olivo Barbieri, who has shown regularly in...

Alejandra Icaza at Edward Tyler Nahem.(NEW YORK)(Brief article)
February 1, 2008... The joyful paintings and collages by Madrid-based Alejandra Icaza involve methods that are nearly archeological: first she covers a burlap canvas with a heavy coat of gesso and then a good layer of color, after which she uses the point of a...

Thomas Lyon Mills at Luise Ross.(NEW YORK)
February 1, 2008... In Rome over the years, Thomas Lyon Mills has obtained permission to pass countless hours in places that are not always accessible to the public: Early Christian catacombs long under lock and key; a large ancient Mithraeum adjoining tunnels...

Keith Morris Washington at Kenkeleba House.(NEW YORK)
February 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Keith Morris Washington is a painter who has been exhibiting since about 1990, mostly in the Boston area. The work shown here is part of the series "Within Our Gates: Site and Memory in the American Landscape"...

Charles Pollock at Jason McCoy.(NEW YORK)
February 1, 2008... Winningly self-possessed, the paintings and drawings of Charles Pollock's "Chapala" series adopt a major New York School gambit--exploring the continuities of drawing and writing--through impeccable technique. Kindled by impressions of Maya...

Lauren Olitksi and Jim Walsh at Sideshow.(NEW YORK)
February 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Lauren Olitski and Jim Walsh, Iongtime friends, chose to hang their paintings together in this crowded exhibition, 26 canvases in two rooms. Both painters work abstractly. Olitski's works are on a generally larger...

Susan Wanklyn at A.M. Richard.(NEW YORK)
February 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This veteran abstract painter has stuck closely to the exploration of half a dozen of painting's most basic attributes: facture, brushstroke, transparency, color, pattern and proportion. Susan Wanklyn's art can be...

Lisa Corinne Davis at June Kelly.(NEW YORK)
February 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In paintings resembling multi-layered maps with encoded, expansive narratives, New York-based artist Lisa Corinne Davis displays systemic, documentary and fabulist impulses that recall artists such as Julie Mehretu,...

Abby Leigh at Betty Cuningham.(NEW YORK)
February 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Abby Leigh's recent paintings and ink drawings (2005-07), brought together under the title "The Eye is the First Circle," cast Yayoi Kusama's obsessive infinity nets over the visionary abstraction of Arthur Dove....

Carlos & Jason Sanchez at Caren Golden and Parisian Laundry.(NEW YORK AND MONTREAL)
February 1, 2008... The Montreal-based brothers Carlos and Jason Sanchez are directors as much as they are photographers. Like fellow Canadian Jeff Wall and other photo-based artists who construct fictional scenes for the camera (Gregory Crewdson, Katy Grannan and...

Ilya and Emilia Kabakov at the Tufts Art Gallery.(MEDFORD, MASS.)
February 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Practiced diagnosticians of idealism's various strains, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov produced, in their "Center of Cosmic Energy," a project that crossed Tatlin's Monument to the Third International with a CAT scan. The...

Elana Herzog and Michael Schumacher at the Aldrich Museum.(RIDGEFIELD)
February 1, 2008... Discarded chenille bedspreads and castoff Persian rugs have been Elana Herzog's primary materials for several years; staple-gunning the textiles to the wall, and then selectively pulling pieces off, leaving staples and tatters behind, has been...

Daniel Heyman at the Print Center.(PHILADELPHIA)
February 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "The Abu Ghraib Project," an exhibition by Daniel Heyman at the Print Center, brought the stories of 17 victims of torture to light. Previously, Heyman has portrayed hooded, caped prisoners from the notorious Iraqi...

Lorraine Peltz at Gosia Koscielak.(CHICAGO)
February 1, 2008... When parents die, issues surface. The survivors try to come to terms with the life just ended, as well as with their own. In the case of artists, their work may move in new directions. Such is the case with the painter Lorraine Peltz, whose...

Jon Rajkovich at Lisa Boyle.(CHICAGO)
February 1, 2008... In his second show at Lisa Boyle, Los Angeles sculptor Jon Rajkovich has progressed significantly from his previous, jokey, highly finished works made of bright-hued latex and plastic. Fashionable wit has been supplanted by charming...

Warren MacKenzie at the Rochester Art Center.(ROCHESTER, MINN.)
February 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When he returned to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago following World War II, Warren MacKenzie happened to take a pottery class and found his future. He responded to useful objects from many cultures, and a...

Susan Silton at Solway Jones.(LOS ANGELES)
February 1, 2008... Susan Silton's first solo show at Solway Jones comprised five gregariously colorful, large-scale chromogenic prints (all 2006-07) that fuse an irresistible decorative sensibility with shrewd sociopolitical provocation. Each image presents a...

Connor Everts at Cardwell Jimmerson.(CULVER CITY)
February 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This exhibition revived interest in a neglected work by the Los Angeles artist Connor Everts (b. 1926): "Studies in Desperation" (1963), a suite of nine compelling lithographs symbolically depicting the dissolution...

Kelli Connell at Stephen Wirtz.(SAN FRANCISCO)
February 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Kelli Connell's exhibition "Double Life" explored the intricacies of sexual and gender roles through a strikingly cinematic collection of still images. The eight large-scale photographs, from a series she has worked...

Phil Collins at Victoria Miro.(LONDON)
February 1, 2008... By presenting a detailed rebuttal to the "reality" of reality TV, British artist Phil Collins has created a most provocative and challenging response to Picasso's oft-quoted dictum, "Art is a lie that tells the truth." When Collins was...

Jeff Koons at Gagosian.(LONDON)
February 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The three huge, high-ceilinged rooms of the Gagosian Gallery on Brittania Street provided a suitably serene environment to contemplate Jeff Koons's recent exhibition, "Hulk Elvis," made up entirely of large canvases...

Cy Twombly at the Collection Lambert.(AVIGNON)
February 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Stimulated by Cy Twombly's wildly exuberant flower paintings installed in the Collection Lambert's gorgeous light-filled spaces, a hapless French visitor kissed one of the artist's earlier works on display upstairs,...

Pietro Roccasalva at Galleria Civica d'Arte Contemporanea.(SIRACUSA)
February 1, 2008... A virtuoso in many mediums and with a variegated body of work to his name, Pietro Roccasalva is approaching midcareer as one of the artists to watch in Italy. Based in Milan, he was born in Modica in 1970, and recently returned to his Sicilian...

MOMA.(People)(Museum of Modern Art)(Brief article)
February 1, 2008... Paola Antonelli has been promoted to senior curator in the department of architecture and design at New York's MOMA. She joined the museum as associate curator in 1994 and has been curator since 2000.

National Academy Museum.(People)(Brief article)
February 1, 2008... Bruce Weber recently joined the staff of the National Academy Museum in New York as senior curator of 19th-century art. Since 1990 he had served as director of research and exhibitions at Berry-Hill Galleries in New York.

The French government has conferred its Order of Arts and Letters, given twice annually to individuals worldwide, to the following U.S. residents. Choreographer and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer was made Officier.(Awards & Grants)(Awards list)(Brief article)
February 1, 2008... The French government has conferred its Order of Arts and Letters, given twice annually to individuals worldwide, to the following U.S. residents. Choreographer and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer was made Officier. The rank of Chevalier was bestowed...

Renzo Piano.(Awards & Grants)
February 1, 2008... Renzo Piano has won the 2008 Gold Medal from the American Institute of Architects, the organization's highest honor.

Filmmaker Spike Lee is the winner of the Wexner Prize, given by the Wexner Center for the Arts.(Awards & Grants)(Brief article)
February 1, 2008... Filmmaker Spike Lee is the winner of the Wexner Prize, given by the Wexner Center for the Arts. Lee, who will also be included in this year's Whitney Biennial, receives $50,000. The prize is "given to an artist in any field who has been...

The 2007 Calder Prize, given by the Calder Foundation, was presented to New York-based Zilvinas Kempinas.(Awards & Grants)(Brief article)
February 1, 2008... The 2007 Calder Prize, given by the Calder Foundation, was presented to New York-based Zilvinas Kempinas. The award, presented biennially to a contemporary artist who has made exemplary work early in his or her career, includes a $50,000 grant...

Obituaries.(Obituary)(List)
February 1, 2008... Michael Goldberg, 83, Abstract Expressionist painter, died Dec. 30, as this issue was going to press. He was working in his studio and is believed to have had a heart attack. A full obituary will appear in our March issue. Ettore Sottsass,...

N.C. Art Center's state makeover.(ARTWORLD)(North Carolina Museum of Art)(Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art)(Brief article)
February 1, 2008... Due to a fiscal crisis precipitated by maintenance and repair costs, the board of the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in WinstonSalem--for some 50 years known as an "artist-friendly" independent venue that showed cutting-edge work by...

CAA awards for 2008.(ARTWORLD)(College Art Association)(Awards list)(Brief article)
February 1, 2008... The College Art Association has announced its 2008 awards for distinction, to be presented on Feb. 21 at the annual conference, this year held in Dallas. Mount Holyoke professor Robert L. Herbert receives the lifetime achievement award for art...

Met acquires Arbus archives.(ARTWORLD)(Metropolitan Museum of Art acquires Diane Arbus archives)(Brief article)
February 1, 2008... The Metropolitan Museum of Art recently announced that it has acquired the complete archives of Diane Arbus (1923-1971). Donated by the Diane Arbus estate, the gift and promised gifts include hundreds of photographs, negatives, contact prints...

Reina Sofia Museum.(People)(Brief article)
February 1, 2008... Manuel Borja-Villel, director of the Barcelona Contemporary Art Museum, has been named director of the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid. He replaces Ana Martinez de Aguilar.

John Elderfield, chief curator of painting and sculpture at New York's MOMA.(People)(Brief article)
February 1, 2008... John Elderfield, chief curator of painting and sculpture at New York's MOMA, will assume emeritus status upon his mandatory retirement (at age 65) in July 2008. He will continue to consult with the museum and work on various projects, including...

National Academy Museum & School of Fine Arts.(People)(Brief article)
February 1, 2008... Annette Blaugrund, director of the National Academy Museum & School of Fine Arts in New York, has resigned after almost 11 years at the post. She plans to complete a book and work as an art consultant.

Milwaukee Art Museum.(People)(Brief article)
February 1, 2008... Daniel T. Keegan has been named head of the Milwaukee Art Museum, succeeding David Gordon. Keegan has been executive director of the San Jose Museum of Art in California since 2000.

Santa Barbara Museum of Art.(People)(Brief article)
February 1, 2008... The Santa Barbara Museum of Art has appointed Larry J. Feinberg as its new director, effective Mar. 1. Since 1997, he was a curator in the department of medieval through modern European painting, and modern European sculpture. He replaces...

Allentown Art Museum.(People)(Brief article)
February 1, 2008... Gregory J. Perry, director since 2002 of the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, has been named executive director of the Allentown Art Museum. He succeeds David R. Brigham, who is now museum director at the Pennsylvania Academy of the...

National Gallery of Victoria.(People)(Brief article)
February 1, 2008... Alex Baker, curator of contemprary art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, is the new senior curator of contemporary art at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne.

Coleccion Patricia Phelps de Cisneros.(People)(Brief article)
February 1, 2008... Gabriel Perez-Barreiro, since 2002 curator of Latin American art at the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, Austin, has been named director of the Coleccion Patricia Phelps de Cisneros. He will be based in New York.

Arizona State University Art Museum.(People)(Brief article)
February 1, 2008... Marilyn A. Zeitlin, director and chief curator of the Arizona State University Art Museum in Tempe since 1992, has retired from the museum in order to focus on research, writing and freelance curatorial work.

BCAM debuts at LACMA.(ARTWORLD)(Broad Contemporary Art Museum at Los Angeles County Museum of Art )(Brief article)
February 1, 2008... On Feb. 16, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art opens its new Broad Contemporary Art Museum, the centerpiece of the first phase of its campus expansion and renovation designed by Renzo Piano. For the public opening weekend of Feb. 16-18, the...