Art in America articles from February 2009

Art in America archives from February 2009

Punk-era Pettibon.(Letter to the editor)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] To the Editors: I can't very well hold Raphael Rubinstein accountable for missing this important bit of art history concerning Raymond Pettibon's early punk years: the artist first showed his original, 8...

Serrano works hit the fan.(Letter to the editor)
February 1, 2009... To the Editors: I am an Art in America subscriber who saw in the December 2008 issue Edward Leffingwell's review of Andres Serrano's recent "Shit" series at Yvon Lambert in New York [p. 159]. I read it through and was absolutely disgusted...

Redesign kudos.(Letter to the editor)
February 1, 2009... To the Editors: I am loving the redesign of your magazine. The pages have a fresh new look and I find myself enjoying the layout and typography changes as much as the images and articles. Congratulations on a job well done! GREG...

Byars contention.(Letter to the editor)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] To the Editors: After the opening of the James Lee Byars survey that I had organized at New York's Michael Werner, Perry Rubenstein and Mary Boone galleries in the spring of 2006, Thomas McEvilley called me to...

Corrections.(LETTERS)(Correction notice)
February 1, 2009... Jan. '09, p. 49: In the article on the Venice Architecture Biennale, Francesco Garofalo was incorrectly identified as the curator of the Italian Pavilion. He was the curator of the Pavilion of the Italians, Italy's national representation in...

L.A. MOCA accepts broad offer.(FRONT PAGE)(Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art)
February 1, 2009... Just before Christmas, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles added an emergency-red-colored front page to its website. Headlined "MOCA NOW," it kicked off a membership drive intended to open a new revenue stream for the museum, which...

All about Yves: auction in Paris.(FRONT PAGE)(Yves Saint Laurent's collections)
February 1, 2009... AT HIS DEATH LAST JUNE, the 71-year-old Yves Saint Laurent--France's erstwhile boy-couturier and Dior's dauphin--left an imperial cache of art, furnishings and antiquities to the Pierre Berge-Yves Saint Laurent Foundation, which was established...

Congo on the Thames.(FRONT PAGE)(The Double Club )
February 1, 2009... NEWS COMING OUT OF THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO has only gotten worse in the past year, focusing on the brutal ongoing rebellion in the eastern provinces. Yet in The Double Club, a new project inspired by that country, Stockholm-based...

Weak economy strong art.(FRONT PAGE)
February 1, 2009... Economic catastrophe does not afflict all art equally. While the overheated prices for works by Damien Hirst and others are now tumbling, a number of blue-chip artists are holding value, having been relatively unaffected by speculation in the...

Art boom, R.I.P.(FRONT PAGE)(Jennifer Dalton and William Powhida's collaboration on Our Condolences)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... New York artists Jennifer Dalton and William Powhida have collaborated on a new project, Our Condolences, Volume 1, that puts a darkly humorous spin on the economic decline. The duo, each known for tongue-in-cheek works skewering the art world,...

Starns go underground.(FRONT PAGE)(Doug and Mike Starn's installations)
February 1, 2009... THE STARN TWINS--47-year-old Doug and Mike--have spent the past two decades documenting the natural world. So a subway station is an odd location for their first public art project. But Lower Manhattan's new South Ferry station, which opened...

Brooklyn Museum clears its closets.(FRONT PAGE)(Brooklyn Museum of Art's collection)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] IN A COST-CUTTING MOVE, the Brooklyn Museum has entered into a collection-sharing partnership with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, transferring its 23,500-piece costume collection to the Met. The stellar array of...

Revision number five: quality.(art as luxury good)(Essay)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] IT'S NOT EASY TO REVEL IN THE TWILIGHT of one's own relevance, but, these days, I look around and happily admit that no piece of art criticism written by me or anyone else contributed a whiff of pheromone to the...

Words for art.(Solar System and Rest Rooms: Writings and Interviews, 1965-2007; Words to Be Looked At: Language in 1960s Art)(Book review)
February 1, 2009... Solar System & Rest Rooms: Writings and Interviews, 1965-2007, by Mel Bochner, Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 2008; 216 pages, $39.95. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Words to Be Looked At: Language in 1960s Art, by Liz Kotz, Cambridge, Mass.,...

Deliverance: the biennial: billed as the largest international biennial in the U.S., "Prospect.1," the first in a series headed by veteran curator Dan Cameron, brought scores of artists and myriad recovery projects to the still-battered town.(NEW ORLEANS REPORT)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "PROSPECT.1" WAS DIFFERENT in spirit from other biennials, as Dan Cameron, its artistic director, rightly pointed out at the press conference that preceded its November opening. Buoyed by an urgent, utopian sense of...

Pre-bling: three major exhibitions dramatize modern jewelry's shift from material values to visual expression.(DECORATIVE ARTS)
February 1, 2009... EXHIBITIONS OF MODERN and contemporary jewelry have been popping up everywhere, in unprecedented numbers. With its provocative fashion-craft-art-treasure range of attractions, jewelry certainly is overdue for attention. Several current shows...

Space explorers: vibrantly colored geometries and 3-D "drawings in space" characterize the pioneering abstractions of the Park Place Group.(AFFILIATIONS)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] SHARING AN ARTISTIC sensibility attuned to mysticism, mathematics kineticism and the exploration of the fourth dimension, the 10 artists affiliated with New York's Park Place cooperative gallery between 1963 and 1967...

New York.(ar exhibitions)(Calendar)
February 1, 2009... CHELSEA Aperture Gallery 547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor New York, NY 10001 Tel 212.505.5555 | Fax.: 212.505 7527 Ernail: publicity@aperture.org Website: www.aperture.org Tuesday-Saturday: 10:00-6:00 ...

Photoids: an exhibition at the Met invites reflection on truth in photography, now under siege on many fronts.(THE NEW REAL)
February 1, 2009... THE WALL LABEL at the entrance to the recent exhibition "Photography on Photography: Reflections on the Medium since 1960," at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, said that photography has been "breaking down boundaries not only between mediums but...

The Da Vinci clone: the work of art in the age of incredibly high-resolution 3-D reproduction.(THE NEW REAL)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE FILMMAKER PETER GREENAWAY likes to ruffle feathers--if not, indeed, to pluck the whole bird naked. He had ample opportunity to do both in the run-up to his "dialogue" with Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper in Milan...

California dreaming: a newly published facsimile of the leading postwar design magazine in the U.S. prompts reflections on the bold promise of an everyday modernism.(THE NEW REAL)(Arts and Architecture)
February 1, 2009... RETRO-MODERNISM is the style of the decade. Not only are buildings and artworks from the original movement being copied, but so too are some of the documents that first made modernism fashionable. The latest Taschen facsimile project, part of a...

Terry Winters: an interview.(Interview)
February 1, 2009... A CREATOR OF LUSH ABSTRACT PAINTINGS driven by a rigorously graphic sensibility, and graphite drawings of painterly depth, Terry Winters has been negotiating competing impulses for more than 30 years. The recognizable biological forms--plants...

Elizabeth Peyton: beautiful people: art-world denizens and rock 'n' roll idols inspire Peyton's portraiture. Her first retrospective is traveling internationally.(Cover story)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] AT NEW YORK CITY MUSEUMS, this has been the season of the female gaze, with three major exhibitions devoted to women who focus their keen observation on the human face and figure: "Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own...

On Italian walls: the LeWitt house in Praiano.(Sol LeWitt's works)
February 1, 2009... A gargantuan exhibition of Sol LeWitt's wall drawings opened in November at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MoCA) in North Adams: 105 large works dating from 1969 to 2007, applied to nearly an acre of specially built interior...

Alfred Kubin: mirror to a world gone awry: presented at the Neue Galerie in New York, Kubin's early drawings reveal the psychic torments of a deeply traumatized young man while reflecting Austria's fin de siecle malaise.
February 1, 2009... THE 21ST-CENTURY VIEWER of the darkling graphic art of Austrian artist Alfred Kubin (1877-1959) should suppress any impulse to see the work as occasionally lugubrious. More profitably, we should take into account the yawning chasm that...

Gino De Dominicis: P.S.1.
February 1, 2009... NEW YORK GINO DE DOMINICIS P.S.1 ON VIEW THROUGH FEB. 9 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] One of the most elusive late 20th-century artists, Rome-based Gino De Dominicis became a cult figure in Europe during his lifetime, and the...

Jeff Sonhouse: Tilton.('Pawnography' at the Tilton Gallery)
February 1, 2009... JEFF SONHOUSE TILTON [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In chess, the lowly pawn, once past enemy lines, can assume power equal to that of a queen and ultimately decide the game. Yet pawns are relatively expendable figures that are popularly...

Lisa Hamilton: Jane Kim/Thrust Projects.
February 1, 2009... LISA HAMILTON JANE KIM/THRUST PROJECTS [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Lisa Hamilton's exhibition of four large and seven small-to-medium-size paintings (all 2008), her first solo show in New York, comes as part of a wave of 20- and...

Joanna Pousette-Dart: Moti Hasson.(Moti Hasson Gallery)
February 1, 2009... JOANNA POUSETTE-DART MOTI HASSON [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Joanna Pousette-Dart's show was a landmark for lovers of painting and a boon to followers of abstraction. It was also proof that painting is something one gets better at the...

Nayland Blake: Location One.
February 1, 2009... NAYLAND BLAKE LOCATION ONE [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE WORKS SELECTED for "Behavior," a large exhibition by Nayland Blake at this alternative space in SoHo, are relatively modest--found objects strung together in loose clusters,...

Susan Hiller: The Jewish Museum.
February 1, 2009... SUSAN HILLER THE JEWISH MUSEUM [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As several critics have recently noted, the Holocaust film has become a peculiarly hardy genre. Lately, mainstream examples have tended to focus on heartwarming stories of...

Bing Wright: Paula Cooper.(Paula Cooper Gallery)
February 1, 2009... BING WRIGHT PAULA COOPER [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It seems only fitting that photographer Bing Wright, who hails from Seattle, should work so well with gray light and moisture-laden atmospheres. In the late '80s and early '90s, his...

Zheng Guogu: Chambers.('A Hundred-Year-Old Tree Blooms Again' at the Chambers Fine Art)
February 1, 2009... ZHENG GUOGU CHAMSERS [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Zheng Guogu has been known since the mid-1990s for experimental photography, large installations and public projects. "A Hundred-Year-Old Tree Blooms Again" was the title of both his...

Sarah Beddington: Dumbo Arts Center.
February 1, 2009... SARAH BEDDINGTON DUMBO ARTS CENTER [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A common observation about living in New York is how easy it is to forget that we are surrounded by water. British artist Sarah Beddington's recent show, installed in the...

Richard Artschwager: David Nolan.('Objects as Images of Objects: 1966-2008' at the David Nolan Gallery)
February 1, 2009... RICHARD ARTSCHWAGER DAVID NOLAN [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This show of Richard Artschwager's drawings and sculpture, "Objects as Images of Objects: 1966-2008/' made it quite clear that the artist is nobody's mimic. Starting in the...

Daan van Golden: Greene Naftali.(Greene Naftali Gallery)
February 1, 2009... DAAN VAN GOLDEN GREENE NAFTALI [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Referring to a painting of a silhouetted Giacometti sculpture on a white canvas, Dutch artist Daan van Golden told Modern Painters in 2005, "It took me a long time to think...

Paul Bloodgood and Michel Auder: Newman Popiashvili.('Peace Among Topographers' at the Newman Popiashvili Gallery)
February 1, 2009... PAUL BLOODGOOD AND MICHEL AUDER NEWMAN POPIASHVILI [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In "Peace Among Topographers," Paul Bloodgood's lush abstract paintings were strikingly juxtaposed with Michel Auder's two-channel video of wild weather....

Gladys Nilsson: Luise Ross.(Luise Ross Gallery)
February 1, 2009... GLADYS NILSSON LUISE ROSS [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For her first show in New York since 1987, this Chicago Imagist, one of the original Hairy Who artists of the mid-1960s, showed 11 paintings, most of them from 2007. They feature...

Joe Brainard: Tibor de Nagy.(Tibor de Nagy Gallery)
February 1, 2009... JOE BRAINARD TIBOR DE NAGY [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "The Nancys," mixed-medium collages, drawings and paintings by the writer and artist Joe Brainard (1942-1994), give us license to laugh--and laugh out loud, even in the quiet Tibor...

John Lees: Betty Cuningham.(Betty Cuningham Gallery)
February 1, 2009... JOHN LEES BETTY CUNINGHAM [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Looking at John Lees's thickly encrusted paintings, one has the sense that he wants the picture to establish its own autonomy, freed from any recognizable stroke of the hand. His...

Fanny Sanin: Latincollector.('Chromatic Journey, 1965-2007')
February 1, 2009... FANNY SANIN LATIN COLLECTOR [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] During the period covered in "Chromatic Journey, 1965-2007," Fanny Sanin's small but densely packed solo exhibition, Sanin moved from her native Colombia to New York, where she...

George Rickey: Marlborough Chelsea and Maxwell Davidson.
February 1, 2009... GEORGE RICKEY MARLBOROUGH CHELSEA AND MAXWELL DAVIDSON [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] If the term American Constructivism conjures up an image, it is most likely of one of George Rickey's tall, slender, stainless-steel kinetic...

Rebecca Horn: Sean Kelly.('Cosmic Maps' at the Sean Kelly Gallery)
February 1, 2009... REBECCA HORN SEAN KELLY [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A group of big, agitated "paintings" on paper (drawings would be the conventional term) were the main event in Rebecca Horn's recent exhibition, which was called "Cosmic Maps." All...

Anne Seidman: Schmidt-Dean.('Touching' at the Schmidt-Dean Gallery)
February 1, 2009... PHILADELPHIA ANNE SEIDMAN SCHMIDT-DEAN [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Touching," an exhibition of recent paintings and drawings by Anne Seidman at Schmidt-Dean Gallery, illustrated a transition from the intense, tightly controlled...

Danielle Roney: Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia.
February 1, 2009... ATLANTA DANIELLE RONEY MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART OF GEORGIA [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In new work melding digital technology with sensitive cultural commentary, Danielle Roney explores what it means to be a global citizen in...

Tom Denlinger: Rowland Contemporary.
February 1, 2009... CHICAGO TOM DENLINGER ROWLAND CONTEMPORARY [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In her seminal 1982 essay on 19th-century landscape photography, Rosalind Krauss differentiates between the "discursive spaces" of empirical science and...

Monica Reede and Kelly Connole.
February 1, 2009... MINNEAPOLIS MONICA REEDE AND KELLY CONNOLE CIRCA [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Though billed by the gallery as solo shows of these Minnesota-based artists, Kelly Connole's presentation of sculptures and Monica Reede's display of...

Andre Ethier and Cathy Akers: Honor Fraser.
February 1, 2009... CULVER CITY ANDRE ETHIER AND CATHY AKERS HONOR FRASER [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Two recent, loosely interrelated shows at Honor Fraser offered fragmentary, often abject, sometimes humorous views of jaded loners and amorphous...

Kristen Morgin: Marc Selwyn.(Marc Selwyn Fine Art)
February 1, 2009... LOS ANGELES KRISTEN MORGIN MARC SELWYN [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Kristen Morgin's new work moves deep into the domestic realm of personal history and childhood artifacts. Morgin sculpts in clay, reimagining comic books, popular...

The Turner Prize: Tate Britain.(Mark Leckey)
February 1, 2009... LONDON THE TURNER PRIZE TATE BRITAIN [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE ONLY SHOCK of this annual barometer of British contemporary art was that there was no shock. At best, some mild titillation was aroused by the nearly-not-there...

Julio Galan: Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso.
February 1, 2009... MEXICO CITY JULIO GALAN ANTIGUO COLEGIO DE SAN ILDEFONSO [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Should the Mexican artist Julio Galan, who died in 2006 at the age of 47, continue to be regarded as the male Frida Kahlo? He once stated, "I'm...

Roy Villevoye: Museum Boumans van Beuningen.(Roy Villevoye: Detours)
February 1, 2009... ROTTERDAM ROY VILLEVOYE MUSEUM BOUMANS VAN BEUNINGEN [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Roy Villevoye: Detours" was a provocative 18-year survey of the Amsterdam-based artist's work, consisting of paintings, installations, photographs,...

Paola Pivi: Massimo de Carlo.('It's a Cocktail Party' at the Galleria Massimo de Carlo)
February 1, 2009... MILAN PAOLA PIVI MASSIMO DE CARLO [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It was a cocktail party in the best epater-les-bourgeois tradition: shocking, frightening and ironic all at once. Originally conceived for Portikus art center in...

Peter Fischli/David Weiss: Spruth Magers.
February 1, 2009... BERLIN PETER FISCHLI/DAVID WEISS SPRUTH MAGERS [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] First dance hall, then academic auditorium, then gallery: that's a typical progression for a building in Berlin's uberhyped Mitte district. But the timing...

Julieta Aranda: Michael Janssen.('Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick' at the Galerie Michael Janssen)
February 1, 2009... BERLIN JULIETA ARANDA MICHAEL JANSSEN [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In Julieta Aranda's recent solo show, seven color photographs and a number of objects filled the room, giving the overall impression of a single work that has taken...

Plans in flux for Presidio art museum.(ART WORLD)(Contemporary Art Museum at the Presidio)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... Responding to criticism from neighbors, preservationists and some public officials, Gap stores founders and influential collectors Donald and Doris Fisher agreed in December to scale back plans for the Contemporary Art Museum at the Presidio...

Willoughby Sharp 1936-2008.(ART WORLD)(Obituary)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Willoughby Sharp, 72, artist, curator, gallery director and publisher, died in New York on Dec. 17 after a long battle with cancer. A well-known figure in New York's avant-garde art scene from the late 1960s on,...

The Kimbell Art Museum in Ft. Worth has revealed preliminary designs for a $70-million addition, which will double the museum's gallery space.(MUSEUM NEWS)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... The Kimbell Art Museum in Ft. Worth has revealed preliminary designs for a $70-million addition, which will double the museum's gallery space. Designed by Renzo Piano, the 90,000-square foot building will pay homage in height and scale to the...

The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., has received $23.5 million in endowment gifts, including the two largest donations in the museum's history: $10 million from the Sherman Fairchild Foundation and $8 million from an unnamed board member.(MUSEUM NEWS)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., has received $23.5 million in endowment gifts, including the two largest donations in the museum's history: $10 million from the Sherman Fairchild Foundation and $8 million from an unnamed board...

Obituaries.(ART WORLD)(George Brecht, Jan Krugier and Jorn Utzon)(Obituary)
February 1, 2009... George Brecht, 82, Fluxus artist and composer, died Dec. 5 in Cologne. Part of a vanguard group in the 1960s that included such figures as Geoffrey Hendricks, Dick Higgins, George Maciunas, Ben Vautier and Nam June Paik, Brecht was known for...

Tomoko Shioyasu: Scai the Bathhouse.
February 1, 2009... TOKYO TOMOKO SHIOYASU SCAI THE BATHHOUSE [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Paper cutting was once confined to traditional craft works, such as those of the Chinese, or to dexterity projects for children. But in recent years it has been...

Whitney names biennial curators.(ART WORLD)(Francesco Bonami and Gary Carrion-Murayari of Whitney Museum of American Art in New York)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York has selected veteran curator Francesco Bonami and the up-and-coming Gary Carrion-Murayari to organize its 2010 Biennial. Bonami organized the 2003 Venice Biennale and,...

P.S.1 founder steps down.(ART WORLD)(Alanna Heiss of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... Alanna Heiss, founding director of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, retired on Dec. 31 after leading the groundbreaking institution for almost 40 years. Heiss established the Institute for Art and Urban Resources in 1971 to organize exhibitions...

Ursula von Rydingsvard is the winner of the $25,000 Rappaport Prize.(AWARDS & GRANTS)
February 1, 2009... Ursula von Rydingsvard is the winner of the $25,000 Rappaport Prize, given by the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln, Mass.

Jennie C. Jones is the recipient of the 2008 William H. Johnson Prize.(AWARDS & GRANTS)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... Jennie C. Jones is the recipient of the 2008 William H. Johnson Prize. The $25,000 award is presented to African American artists by the Los Angeles-based William H. Johnson Foundation.

Jack Warren was selected by Terry Winters to receive the 2008 AXA Artist Award.(AWARDS & GRANTS)
February 1, 2009... Jack Warren was selected by Terry Winters to receive the 2008 AXA Artist Award. The prize, given by the art insurance corporation, is worth $25,000.

Joan Mitchell Foundation.(AWARDS & GRANTS)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... The Joan Mitchell Foundation has awarded its $25,000 grants to the following painters and sculptors: Laylah Ali, Eve Aschheim, Judith Bernstein, James Biederman, Nick Cave, Jenny Dubnau, Skylar Fein, Kirk Hayes, Barkley L. Hendricks, Charles...

Documenta 13.(PEOPLE)(appointment of Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev as artistic director)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, chief curator at the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art in Turin, has been appointed artistic director of Documenta 13, which will take place June 9-Sept. 16, 2012, in Kassel. She organized the 2008 Sydney...

Corinne Diserens.(PEOPLE)(Museion located in Bolzano, Italy)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... Corinne Diserens, former director of the recently opened Museion in Bolzano, Italy, was dismissed from her post in October. The official reason was overspending, but Diserens was at the center of the controversy last summer over the display of...

Las Vegas Art Museum.(PEOPLE)(executive director Libby Lumpkin)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... Libby Lumpkin, executive director of the Las Vegas Art Museum since 2005, resigned on Dec. 2. According to the Las Vegas Sun, Lumpkin quit in the face of a dwindling budget--less than $1 million for 2009, about half of what it had been--and...

The Parrish Art Museum.(PEOPLE)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... The Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, N.Y., has appointed independent curator Klaus Ottmann and Los Angeles Times art critic David Pagel to serve as joint curators.

National Gallery of Canada.(PEOPLE)(appointment of Marc Mayer as director)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... Marc Mayer is the new director of Ottawa's National Gallery of Canada. He had been director of the Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal since 2004.

Guggenheim Museum.(PEOPLE)(appointment of David van der Leer as assistant curator for Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... David van der Leer is the new assistant curator of architecture and design at the Guggenheim Museum. Previously, he was publications and exhibitions manager for Steven Holl Architects in New York, and also worked for Rem Koolhaas at the Office...

The Museum of Modern Art in New York has been given a two-year grant of an undisclosed sum by the Leon Levy Foundation to archive the institutional records of P.S.1, its affiliate in Queens.(MUSEUM NEWS)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... The Museum of Modern Art in New York has been given a two-year grant of an undisclosed sum by the Leon Levy Foundation to archive the institutional records of P.S.1, its affiliate in Queens. The grant will also support the start of an oral...