Art in America articles from January 2006

Art in America archives from January 2006

Cultural grants for Lower Manhattan.(Lower Manhattan Development Corp. providing finance to cultural institutions)
January 1, 2006... The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) announced on Nov. 10 that it would make available $35 million in cultural enhancement funding grants to existing and new cultural institutions south of Houston Street. Applications were due...

New Art Avenue in L.A. (and it's not the airport).(Los Angeles Art Exhibitions)
January 1, 2006... The Culver City neighborhood of Los Angeles, which is quickly becoming a destination for commercial galleries, will soon be home to a new nonprofit contemporary art space as well. On Jan. 27, LAXART opens its doors at 2640 South La Cienega in a...

Antiquities angst.(antiquites fraud included mainly United States museums)
January 1, 2006... In the ongoing antiquities scandal involving major U.S. museums, Italy has begun to strike deals while Greece continues to press claims [see "Artworld," Dec. '05]. At this writing, Metropolitan Museum of Art director Philippe de Montebello has...

Wolfsoniana on the Italian Riviera.(opens a new sister museum at Nervi)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... A sister museum to the Wolfsonian in Miami Beach, the Wolfsoniana recently opened in Nervi, on the Italian Riviera near Genoa. The brainchild of collector and Wolfsonian founder Mitchell Wolfson, Jr., the new venue features selections from his...

New Orleans Museum update.(FRONT PAGE)
January 1, 2006... Despite the heroic efforts of the staff at the New Orleans Museum of Art, many of whom stayed at their posts throughout Hurricane Katrina in late August to protect the artwork, 70 members of the museum's 85-member workforce were laid off on...

Runaway totals at fall auctions.(FRONT PAGE)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... This past autumn was a banner auction season at all three major New York houses. Record-breaking totals and prices for individual lots were realized during the fortnight of evening auctions of Impressionist, modern and contemporary works. ...

Impressionist and modern.(art auctions)
January 1, 2006... The season started out with a bang at Christie's on the evening of Nov. 1. The auction generated $160.9 million, right in the middle of its $134.9-189.3-million presale estimate, and 58 of the 63 lots offered sold. It was the company's highest...

Contemporary.(Phillips de Pury & Co. selling paintings)
January 1, 2006... On Monday evening, Nov. 7, Phillips de Pury & Co. kicked off a jam-packed week of auctions of contemporary art with a single-owner sale of cutting-edge works from the collection of Princess Gloria von Thurn und Taxis. The sale generated $7.4...

Matisse as Magus.(Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse, the Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse; The Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954, by Hilary Spurling, New York, Knopf, 2005, 512 pages, $40. When it appeared in 1998, Hilary Spurling's The Unknown Matisse was well received, and with good...

Art criticism, bound to fail: a critic confronts the inescapable limitations of writing about art and reflects on its pitfalls and privileges.(ISSUES & COMMENTARY)
January 1, 2006... The object of only fitful attention, sometimes warm but mostly exasperated, art criticism is an orphan practice, and has grown up without consistent discipline of any kind. This lack of order, rules of conduct and fixed standards for measuring...

A New de Young: Herzog & de Meuron's copper-sheathed museum is a gift to San Francisco from thousands of private donors.(REPORT FROM SAN FRANCISCO I)
January 1, 2006... After five years of construction and nearly a decade of haggling with various local interests, San Francisco's de Young museum reopened in mid-October in splendid quarters designed by the Basel-based firm of Herzog & de Meuron. At 293,000...

New and now: on the occasion of the de Young museum's reopening, the author scouted out the city's younger, always vibrant contemporary art scene.(REPORT FROM SAN FRANCISCO II)
January 1, 2006... Excitement over San Francisco's new de Young museum was obvious when 50,718 visitors attended the 31-hour free public opening on Oct. 15-16 [see article this issue]. Drawing in art and architecture professionals and enthusiasts from around the...

NY Galleries.(Calendar)
January 1, 2006... Chelsea A.I.R. Gallery 511 West 25th Street, #301, NY, NY 10001 Tel: 212-255-6651 Tuesday-Saturday: 11:00-6:00 www.airnyc.org January 10-February 4: Gallery I & II: "Being In Space," Carol Boram Hays, Lisa Cooperman,...

Reinvesting in Fake Estates: thirty years after they were purchased at auction by Gordon Matta-Clark, 15 irregular New York City lots get a new lease on life.(REPORT FROM NEW YORK)
January 1, 2006... In a return of the de-repressed, a revival has been staged of Gordon Matta-Clark's unfinished project Fake Estates, which brought to consciousness latent slivers of New York City real estate. More than 30 years ago, Matta-Clark acquired at...

Elizabeth Murray: scary funny: MOMA's current Elizabeth Murray retrospective makes a convincing case for her as one of the major painters of our time, able to synthesize many modes of modernist exploration while developing a vocabulary of domestic anxiety and pleasure.
January 1, 2006... I The antic shapes of the small separate canvases that Elizabeth Murray yanks into roughly rectangular formats in her recent paintings seem as elastic as clowns popping out of an impossibly small vehicle in the center ring of a circus....

Wood's American logic: celebrating the opening of Grant Wood's studio to public view, a traveling exhibition places his iconic paintings in their creative context--among his prints, drawings and wryly idiosyncratic works of decorative art.
January 1, 2006... "Why teach?" asked David Turner of Grant Wood in 1924. "I've got a steam-heated garage with a loft in it. You can live there." (1) Wood was an art instructor at McKinley Junior High in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, when Turner, the local mortician,...

Reading American Gothic.(American Gothic: The Biography of Grant Wood's American Masterpiece)(American Gothic: A Life of America's Most Famous Painting)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... American Gothic: The Biography of Grant Wood's American Masterpiece, by Thomas Hoving, New York, Chamberlain Bros., 2005; 165 pages, $13.95 paper. American Gothic: A Life of America's Most Famous Painting, by Steven Biel, New York, W.W. Norton,...

Seeing through sites: Erkmen's altered views: Turkish artist Ayse Erkmen is known internationally for her provocative installations. For a recent exhibition at the Sculpture Center in Long Island City, she transformed the main space with huge swaths of colored fabric, and the courtyard with digital prints of land mines.
January 1, 2006... Ayse Erkmen is hardly a familiar figure in the New York art world, or anywhere else in the U.S., for that matter. Prior to her recent exhibition at the Sculpture Center in Long Island City, she had shown only once in this country (in a 1997...

Oscar Bluemner, in living color.(Biography)
January 1, 2006... If you had to pick the best underknown American artist of the first half of the 20th century, Oscar Bluemner would have a good shot at the honor. Bluemner may be entrenched in the standard history of American modernism, and his work is...

Beyond the vanishing point: following a number of well-received exhibitions of her work in Europe, Spanish sculptor and installation artist Cristina Iglesias recently presented her first solo gallery show in the U.S.
January 1, 2006... Spanish sculptor Cristina Iglesias has shown internationally since 1984. Born in San Sebastian in the Basque region, she represented Spain at the 1993 Venice Biennale and debuted in the U.S. with a touring museum survey of her works that...

Marcia Hafif at Baumgartner.(NEW YORK)
January 1, 2006... Since her involvement with the Radical Painting group of the late 1970s and early '80s (which included Joseph Marioni and Olivier Mosset, among others), Marcia Hafif has been concerned with the possibilities of monochrome painting. The genre...

Shirley Jaffe at Tibor de Nagy.(NEW YORK)
January 1, 2006... Despite her long sojourn in Paris and the evident influence of Leger and Matisse on her abstract paintings, Shirley Jaffe can still be counted as an American painter, if only for her straightforward approach to form, color and structure. Her...

Philip Pearlstein at Betty Cuningham.(his paintings being exhibited)
January 1, 2006... Surely Philip Peadstein is pulling our leg in continuing to disavow the possibility of allegory in these allegedly realist renderings of elaborate studio set-ups (all in oil on canvas, from 2004 and '05). His just-the-facts approach confers...

Zebedee Jones at Danese.(NEW YORK)
January 1, 2006... Although painters have long maintained a fervent dialogue on the matter of monochrome painting, no single standard emerges for the long history of the practice, and considerable variety can be seen in choices such as medium, facture and...

Guenter A. Werner at Mike Weiss.(his sculptures and paintings exhibition)
January 1, 2006... German artist Guenter A. Werner makes assemblages that readily call to mind Donald Judd's definition of the "specific object" as combining the best qualities of painting and sculpture. Upon entering "Works 1998-2005," Werner's first exhibition...

Kenny Scharf at Paul Kasmin.(NEW YORK)
January 1, 2006... In "Superpop" (all works 2005), his first exhibition at Paul Kasmin, Kenny Scharf populated a retro, space-age world with consumers and the products that delight them. His huge oil-on-canvas diptych Time Flies When You're Having Fun is a...

Chris Martin at Sideshow.(all his paintings were exhibited)
January 1, 2006... Though billed as a straightforward painting show, Chris Martin's recent takeover of Sideshow's three-room gallery in Williams-burg was anything but. Two large abstract paintings were hung in one room, and a third, even bigger work dominated...

Cheryl Donegan at Oliver Kamm/5BE.(video art exhibitions)
January 1, 2006... With wit and a stylish economy of means, Cheryl Donegan explored identity, habit and desire in two short new wall-projected video loops at Oliver Kamm/5BE Gallery. Exhibited as they were in two adjacent small rooms with only a heavy fabric...

Nina Katchadourian at Sara Meltzer.(NEW YORK)
January 1, 2006... Nina Katchadourian's intelligent investigations of our relationship to an ultra-mediated world often reveal an eccentric (and sometimes nutty) streak, which makes them all the more memorable. The three works here (all from 2005) offered highly...

Jim Campbell at Bryce Wolkowitz.(NEW YORK)
January 1, 2006... Jim Campbell creates haunting light-works that combine the flickering movement of silent films with the austerity of early photography. Although he relies on 21st-century technology, Campbell eschews the cartoon-style animation and high-tech...

Kathe Burkhart at Moti Hasson.(NEW YORK)
January 1, 2006... Kathe Burkhart's "Hard Core" at Moti Hasson turned the L-shaped gallery into a combination forensic lab/retail promenade. Tall shop windows--actually, digital photos sprayed on canvas--each offered a unique horror-vacui arrangement of sex toys,...

Chi Peng at Chambers.(digital photogrpahy exhibitions)
January 1, 2006... The young artist Chi Peng (born 1981) has recently taken a leading role in China's avant-garde. He has also rapidly become internationally known, with previous showings not only at Chambers Fine Art in New York but also in France, Australia,...

Don Sunseri at the Bowery Poetry Club.(NEW YORK)(Obituary)
January 1, 2006... Many circles were closed in this re-creation of a wall installation by the late Don Sunseri. In the 1970s, before his retreat from New York to rural Vermont, Sunseri was briefly married to Elizabeth Murray, and this exhibition was mounted by a...

John Altoon at Luise Ross.(NEW YORK)
January 1, 2006... The most gifted abstract painter of the famed Ferus Gallery stable, Los Angeles artist John Altoon (1925-1969) enjoyed a larger-than-life reputation for his exuberant personality and unpredictable antics. Although one of the most charismatic...

Heidi McFall at Annina Nosei.(NEW YORK)
January 1, 2006... Heidi McFall's latest and vapidly pleasant exhibition included large-scale pastel portraits on paper of her family and friends, along with one self-portrait, all of which bear such stunning resemblance to hand-painted black-and-white...

Glen Baxter at Flowers.(NEW YORK)
January 1, 2006... Demonstrating an affinity for the clearly limned illustrations of a Hardy Boys artist of the 1940s, and for the work of Edward Gorey, the modern master of the macabre, Glen Baxter also admits to the influence of the thin-lipped, cowboy-hatted...

Petah Coyne at the Sculpture Center and Galerie Lelong.(NEW YORK)
January 1, 2006... To experience a room full of Petah Coyne's sculptures from the past 20-plus years at the Sculpture Center was not only to perceive darkly strange objects but to enter into the artist's enveloping consciousness. It is one that wrestles crude...

Rebecca Welz at June Kelly.(NEW YORK)
January 1, 2006... In her fourth solo show at June Kelly, New York City-based sculptor Rebecca Welz explored a new theme and expanded her repertoire of materials. Known for her folded and color-stained Plexiglas constructions with abstract-organic qualities, this...

Peter Schlesinger at Jason McCoy.(NEW YORK)
January 1, 2006... Peter Schlesinger's monolithic stoneware sculptures have the look of eccentric columns, as familiar in their passing resemblance to chess pieces, candle-sticks, balusters or topiary as they are suggestive of fertility totems. Schlesinger lays...

Edward Lipski at Greenberg Van Doren.(sculpture exhbitions)
January 1, 2006... Nothing appears to have been left to chance in the eight meticulous mixed-medium sculptures in Edward Lipski's first New York solo show. Composed of fiberglass cast from clay models, these hybrid animals, humans, totems and cartoon characters...

Shahzia Sikander at Brent Sikkema.(miniature painting exhibitions)
January 1, 2006... With images abstracted from Vedic mythology and Western culture, the New York-based Pakistani artist Shahzia Sikander continues her consideration of the traditions of Eastern miniature painting. Her "51 Ways of Looking" (2004), an absorbing...

Donald Owen Colley at George Adams.(NEW YORK)
January 1, 2006... The old-timey world of traveling carnivals, Wild West shows and rural barnraisings is given a nightmare treatment in the cheerfully demonic works of Chicago-based artist Donald Owen Colley. In Colley's work, visual Americana is frequently used...

Carmen Herrera at LatinCollector.(abstract painting exhibitions)
January 1, 2006... A touring museum survey at LatinCollector of paintings by the Cuban-born Carmen Herrera has provided a welcome opportunity to evaluate the career of this 90-year-old artist, who has received scant attention over the years. (The exhibition,...

Lucas Samaras at PaceWildenstein.(digital photography exhibitions)
January 1, 2006... A far cry from the Polaroid cameras that once served Lucas Samaras well, digital technology seems exactly right for his newest project, the "PhotoFlicks (iMovies) and PhotoFictions (A to Z)," pieces that continue to feature the artist himself...

Brett Reichman at P.P.O.W.(his paintings being exhibited)
January 1, 2006... Brett Reichman's second one-person show at P.P.O.W., titled "Rainbow Play Systems," offered oil paintings and works on paper from 2003-05. While there were no actual depictions of rainbows crossing the sky, a colorful toy and lush fabric,...

Don Hazlitt at Andre Zarre.(all his paintings were being exhibited)
January 1, 2006... The work of a young Don Hazlitt was included in the 1975 Whitney Biennial, and the artist has been showing steadily ever since. For years, his paintings included significant relief elements, yielding playful combinations of pictorial and...

Daisy Craddock at Fischbach.(American landscape painting)
January 1, 2006... New York-based Daisy Craddock, a Tennessee native, is known for her paintings of majestic magnolias and other natural icons of the South, as well as of the broader American landscape. In her oils on canvas, the play between dark colors used to...

David Ratcliff at Team.(stencil painting exhibitions)
January 1, 2006... David Ratcliff lives and works in his native Los Angeles, a place where churning out images is an industry unto itself. The entertainment business is increasingly focused upon the young, rich and beautiful, and Ratcliff evokes all of these,...

Herve Di Rosa at Haim Chanin.(ethnic art exhibitions )
January 1, 2006... Herve Di Rosa is a one-man compendium of the arts, from Pop to folk to funk. In the 1990s, Di Rosa began touring the continents, picking up how-tos from the most obscure corners of the ethnic art world. He learned shell intarsia and lacquer in...

Charles Cajori at David Findlay Jr.(his paintings were exhbited)
January 1, 2006... This show surveyed 20 paintings, drawings and mixed-medium works from 1955 to the 1990s by New York School painter Charles Cajori. Influenced by the architectonic brushstrokes of Cezanne and the raw color and effusiveness of de Kooning, Cajori...

Roger Rothstein at Bond.(NEW YORK)
January 1, 2006... In his provocative exhibition "Cultural Residue," New York artist Roger Rothstein showed 18 medium-scale collages in two series. Best known for elaborate scenes created on the Etch A Sketch toy, Rothstein has also used food as a medium and made...

Stephen Bitterolf at ZieherSmith.(NEW YORK)
January 1, 2006... The title of Caracas-born, Brooklyn-based Stephen Bitterolf's exhibition, "Mostly Cloudy," reflects his ambiguous forecast for the war in Iraq. All ten of the small works in colored pencil were made in 2005 and share the same title, Falluja,...

Lizbeth Mitty at Cheryl Pelavin.(her oil paintings were exhibited)
January 1, 2006... The Queensboro Plaza El and Coney Island rides served as inspiration for Lizbeth Mitty's latest oil paintings (all 2003-04). Acutely observed, remembered and then re-imagined, these futuristic scenes are not so much renditions of a specific...

Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller at Eastern State Penitentiary.(PHILADELPHIA)
January 1, 2006... Rays of sunlight streaming through skylights illuminate a crumbling cathedral-like two-story corridor with rows of cells on either side. The iron-gated cubicles contain the detritus of incarceration and neglect--rusting bed frames and lockers,...

Cameron Zebrun at Gwenda Jay/Addington.(CHICAGO)
January 1, 2006... Chicago-born, Minneapolis-based Cameron Zebrun transforms his experience of nature, specifically Yellowstone and the North Woods of Minnesota, into wall-hung, painted-wood constructions whose form, details and colors recall sky, cascading...

Garth Claassen at Stewart.(oil paintings exhibited)
January 1, 2006... A native of South Africa, where he lectured in art history, Garth Claassen has been an associate professor of art at the Albertson College of Idaho, in Caldwell, since 1994. His show of robust new paintings both continued and advanced a noble...

Marie Watt at the Institute of American Indian Arts Museum.(her works being criticised)
January 1, 2006... Before earning her MFA from Yale, Marie Watt, of Seneca descent, studied at the Institute of American Indian Arts, one of the venues for her traveling exhibition "Blanket Stories: Ladder." Its centerpiece was a group of 8-foot sculptures, the...

Mark Newport at the Arizona State University Art Museum.(his costumes being criticised)
January 1, 2006... Mark Newport has experimented with pairing the traditionally masculine (sports, porn) and the traditionally feminine (quilting, sewing) for much of his career. He has adorned football and baseball trading cards with beads and produced cotton...

Adam Cvijanovic at UCLA Hammer Museum.(his landscape paintings being exhibited)
January 1, 2006... Adam Cvijanovic's monumental floor-to-ceiling painting Glacier (2005) presents the kind of spectacular panoramic view one might expect to catch sight of from an Alaskan cruise ship or see in a dazzling IMAX nature film. Painted in acrylic and...

Tony de los Reyes at Carl Berg.(LOS ANGELES)
January 1, 2006... It may seem more than a little incongruous for a contemporary painter to emulate the gleaming look of Delftware in his art. Showing no sign of brushwork, Tony de los Reyes's crisply articulated panel paintings feature blue-and-white images of...

Slater Bradley at Berkeley Art Museum and Blum & Poe.(BERKELEY AND LOS ANGELES)
January 1, 2006... Like fellow video artists Doug Aitken and Isaac Julien, 30-year-old Slater Bradley makes monumental, wall-sized video projections that are as nimble and engaging as the best music videos. The Doppelganger Trilogy (2002-04), shown in L.A. at...

Tony Labat at new langton arts.(video art exhibitions)
January 1, 2006... At the opening of "Trust Me," the first survey show for Tony Labat, the Bay Area's own bad boy of video and performance art, the artist told me a funny story about a series of small canvases that he covered in his own feces. Only 12 remain, he...

Libby Black at Heather Marx.(and his graphic arts)
January 1, 2006... For her first solo show, Libby Black presented a kind of 3-D, life-size "dejeuner sur I'herbe"--minus nature and people. Nearly filling the floor of the small gallery was a champagne picnic spread out on a Burberry blanket and, nearby, a...

Rob Verf at Braga Menendez.(his oil paintings being exhibited)
January 1, 2006... In the Palermo district of Buenos Aires, neighborhood of Borges and Cortazar, gentrification is reviving old buildings and bringing in boutiques and galleries where once the high-heeled and well-heeled feared to tread. In November 2004, the...

Richard Patterson at Timothy Taylor.(oil paintings exhibitions)
January 1, 2006... "Paintings from Dallas" was the British artist Richard Patterson's first solo show in eight years. He presently lives in Texas. The exhibition included a group of large, meticulously rendered oils (all 2004-05) derived from photo-based images....

Victor Man at Plan B.(CLUJ, ROMANIA)
January 1, 2006... Romanian artist Victor Man produced a dark thriller for the inaugural show at Plan B, the only independent, artist-run gallery in Transylvania. "Perfect Crime" consisted of one white-on-black painting, one blackened chimney and 13 black acrylic...

Art Schools Directory.(Directory)
January 1, 2006... NEW ENGLAND The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University MFA in Visual Arts Program Office of Admissions for Graduate and Adult Baccalaureate Programs 29 Everett Street, Cambridge, MA 02138-2790 617-349-8300 or...

Art Services Directory.(Directory)
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MoCA.(Mass Moca appointed Susan Cross and promoted Nato Thompson)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... MASS MoCA in North Adams, Mass., has announced two new curatorial appointments. Susan Cross, previously an associate curator at the Guggenheim Museum, has been named curator. MoCA associate curator Nato Thompson has been promoted to curator.

San Diego's Museum of Photographic Arts.(Arthur Ollman resigning from the museum)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Arthur Ollman, director of San Diego's Museum of Photographic Arts since 1983, has announced his decision to retire. Hired as executive director of the Center for Photographic Arts, he later changed the institution's name and led it through a...

College Art Association.(Susan Ball resigns)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Susan Ball, executive director of the College Art Association for 20 years, will step down by July 1 and become director emeritus. She will continue as head of the CAA's Centennial History Project for 2011.

Eyebeam.(appointed Amanda McDonald Crowley)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Amanda McDonald Crowley is the new executive director of Eyebeam, a center for art and technology in New York. She has been a freelance arts producer, researcher and curator in Australia, and was executive producer of the 2004 International...

Museum of Contemporary Art.(appointed Cornelia H. Butler)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Cornelia H. Butler, curator since 1996 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, was recently named chief curator for the department of drawings at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

de Young museum.(appointed Christina Hellmich)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... The de Young museum in San Francisco has named Christina Hellmich curator of the Jolika Collection of New Guinea Art and consulting curator of Oceanic art. Since 2001, she had been associate curator of Oceanic art and director of collections...

Detroit Institute of Arts.(appointed Heather Ecker )(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Heather Ecker was recently appointed curator of Islamic art and head of the department of Middle Eastern, Islamic and Asian art at the Detroit Institute of Arts. She was previously assistant curator at the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar.

Cedar Rapids Museum of Art.(appointed Sean Ulmer)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Sean Ulmer has been named curator of exhibitions and collections at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art. Since 2001, he was curator of modern and contemporary art at the University of Michigan Museum of Art.

Sonoma County Museum.(appointed Tricia Watts)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Tricia Watts has been appointed chief curator at the Sonoma County Museum in Santa Rosa, Calif. She is the co-founder of Ecoartspace, a nonprofit organization operating on the East and West Coasts that specializes in environmental art.

The National Medal of Arts recipients were recently announced by President Bush and, again, visual artists are conspicuously absent.(Awards)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... The National Medal of Arts recipients were recently announced by President Bush and, again, visual artists are conspicuously absent. Winners include the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, author Louis Auchincloss, lawyer and arts patron Leonard...

Earl A. Powell III, director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., has received the Augustus Saint-Gaudens Medal for distinguished contribution to the arts.(Awards)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Earl A. Powell III, director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., has received the Augustus Saint-Gaudens Medal for distinguished contribution to the arts. The award is given by the Augustus Saint-Gaudens Memorial in Cornish,...

Artist Andrea Blum, Parker's Box gallery owner Alun Williams and art collector and benefactor Diane Ackerman have been awarded the medal of the Order of Arts and Letters.(by the French government)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Artist Andrea Blum, Parker's Box gallery owner Alun Williams and art collector and benefactor Diane Ackerman have been awarded the medal of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government.

Houston artist Eileen Maxson is the winner of the 2005 Arthouse Texas Prize for Contemporary Art, given by the Austin-based arts organization Arthouse.(Awards)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... Houston artist Eileen Maxson is the winner of the 2005 Arthouse Texas Prize for Contemporary Art, given by the Austin-based arts organization Arthouse. The $30,000 biennial prize is given to a Texas artist who has produced a significant body of...

New York-based Independent Curators International recently honored P.S.1 founder and director Alanna Heiss.(Awards)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... New York-based Independent Curators International recently honored P.S.1 founder and director Alanna Heiss with its Agnes Gund Curatorial Award, and ICI board members Gerrit and Sydie Lansing with its Leo Award for their contributions to...

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has presented its 2005 Maud Morgan Prize to painter Shelley Reed.(Awards)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has presented its 2005 Maud Morgan Prize to painter Shelley Reed. She receives $5,000 for the purchase of one of her paintings for the museum's collection. The annual prize is given to a midcareer Massachusetts...

The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York recently presented its National Design Awards.(Awards)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2006... The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York recently presented its National Design Awards. Among the winners are Diller Scofidio + Renfro for architecture, Richard Gluckman for interior design, Ned Kahn for landscape design, Stefan...