Art in America articles from January 2007

Art in America archives from January 2007

Munch: modern or historical?(Letter to the editor)
January 1, 2007... To the Editors: In "The Oslo Outsider' [A.i.A., Sept. '06], Barry Schwabsky contends that the narrative content of Edvard Munch's best-known paintings of the 1890s "was always an exception in his oeuvre." This is a 20th-century rewriting...

Liotard fingers Durer.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
January 1, 2007... To the Editors: In her November 2006 article, Abigail Solomon-Godeau wonders about the meaning of Jean-Etienne Liotard's pointing finger in his self-portrait Liotard Laughing (ca. 1770). Liotard was most likely spoofing Albrecht Durer, who...

Clemente's Kalighat "crimes," part II.(Letter to the editor)
January 1, 2007... To the Editors: I'm an untrained artist who has long used A.i.A. as a means of self-education. Sometimes I'll even copy paintings in the magazine to see how they're made; but these copies are exercises that I destroy or tuck away for...

Armory redo under way.(Seventh Regiment Armory)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Control of the Seventh Regiment Armory, home of numerous art and antiques fairs, was quietly turned over to a private group on Nov. 14 [see "Front Page," Mar. '06]. The Seventh Regiment Armory Conservancy signed a 99-year lease on the facility...

Getty to Italy: basta!(J. Paul Getty Museum negotiates with Ministry of Cultural Heritage)
January 1, 2007... On Nov. 21, the J. Paul Getty Museum abruptly ended negotiations with Italy over the return of 52 objects that Italian officials say were looted from their soil. Getty director Michael Brand submitted a six-page letter to Italian culture...

Detroit gets a contemporary art museum.(contemporary Art)
January 1, 2007... The latest addition to the roster of U.S. institutions devoted to contemporary art is the Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit (MOCAD). Housed in a former auto dealership in midtown near the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), MOCAD opened its...

Collector's museum for Rome.(Carlo Bilotti)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... The Museo Carlo Bilotti opened last May in a restored 16th-century palazzo, the Aranciera, in Rome's Villa Borghese park. It is named for and founded by an Italian-American cosmetics executive who divided his time between Palm Beach, Fla., New...

Vienna museum loses a Munch.
January 1, 2007... Having recently surrendered five major Gustav Klimt paintings to Holocaust-related claims [see "Front Page" Sept. '06], the Austrian Belvedere Gallery in Vienna is now giving up another prized work from its collection, Edvard Munch's Summer...

MOMA opens education center.(Museum of Modern Art's Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Center)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Center at the Museum of Modern Art opened on Nov. 28. Marking the completion of MOMA's renovation and expansion project, the new 63,000-square-foot facility overlooks the sculpture garden...

Maki designs art complex in St. Louis.(Fumihiko Maki)
January 1, 2007... In 1960, Washington University in St. Louis commissioned a young faculty architect to design Steinberg Hall as a home for the school's highly regarded art collection. The architect, Fumihiko Maki, has more recently won a Pritzker Prize (1993)...

Fall auction results reach dizzying heights.(FRONT PAGE)
January 1, 2007... With astronomical sales levels achieved by Christie's and Sotheby's, the fall's fortnight of big evening auctions of Impressionist, modern and contemporary art at New York's three major auction houses turned out to be a historic event. In a...

Adventures in hyperspace.(Shadows of Reality: The Fourth Dimension in Relativity, Cubism, and Modern Thought)(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Shadows of Reality: The Fourth Dimension in Relativity, Cubism, and Modern Thought, by Tony Robbin, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2006; 160 pages, $40. Not long ago, the problem of space was central to artistic discourse....

The voices of geezerdom.(Letters to a Young Artist)(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Letters to a Young Artist, by Gregory Amenoff, Jo Baer, Cai Guo-Qiang, Mex Katz, John McCracken, Elizabeth Murray, Adrian Piper, Stephen Shore, Jessica Stockholder, et al., New York, Darte Publishing, 2006; 96 pages, $15 paper. A young...

NY galleries.
January 1, 2007... CHELSEA A.I.R. Gallery 511 West 25th Street, #301, NY, NY 10001 Tel: 212.255.6651 Website: www.airgallery.org Email: info@airgallery.org Tuesday Saturday: 11:00-6:00 January 10-February 3: "Made Out of the Ordinary,"...

The lost photographs of Edouard Manet: can the unusual effects in some of Manet's 1860s paintings be explained by the use of photography and artificial light? The author investigates this largely overlooked possibility.(ISSUES & COMMENTARY)
January 1, 2007... "Painting from a photograph," Gerhard Richter remarked in 1964, "seemed like the most moronic thing anyone could do." (1) Since then, of course, Richter's contrarian practice has become a commonplace. In galleries and graduate schools, nothing...

Sins of omission: Korea's sixth Gwangju Biennale defined Asian identity--and redefined political cant--via selective cultural blindness.
January 1, 2007... Among the most intriguing works recently on view at Korea's sixth Gwangju Biennale was "A Second History," an archival installation by Chinese artist Zhang Dali. The piece comprises scores of propaganda photos, as they appeared in doctored form...

Window of opportunity: the recent opening of the Hyde Park Art Center in new quarters provides Chicago with a chance, rare in any art community, to rethink the overall ecology of its art institutions and their missions.
January 1, 2007... Contemporary art (and architecture) in Chicago has gained a lively momentum with the recent opening, and revamped mission, of the new Hyde Park Art Center (HPAC). In late spring, HPAC, one of the city's longest-framing alternative spaces--it...

The death of an Emperor: Manet's sustained artistic response to Napoleon the Third's ill-considered attempt to impose a monarchist regime on Mexico is the subject of an exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art.
January 1, 2007... One of the greatest paintings produced in France in the 19th century, Edouard Manet's The Execution of Emperor Maximilian (1868-69), a canvas that is arguably the most ambitious work by the era's most important artist, was not shown publicly in...

Bartlett shows her colors: a conceptualist by origin, a painter at heart, and, increasingly, a rollicking storyteller, Jennifer Bartlett has recently received wide attention for work both old and new.
January 1, 2007... Jennifer Bartlett s lifelong commitment to widely varied, always ambitious painting is finally again drawing the attention it merits. Three recent exhibitions provided an opportunity to review her artistic development since the mid-1970s and to...

Living in a Devil Town: long an underground cult hero to musicians, Daniel Johnston has more recently captured the attention of the art world in colorful, cartoonish drawings that relate the struggle between good and evil.
January 1, 2007... Much press has been devoted of late to Daniel Johnston, an artist and songwriter residing in Waller, Tex., whose comic-book-inspired drawings were included this past spring in the Whitney Biennial and in a selected survey, from the 1970s to the...

Light masonry: since 1998, Sean Scully has been laboring on an ambitious series, now numbering some 200 works, devoted to the phenomenology of walls. In a selection installed in sky-lit galleries at the Met, these paintings, watercolors and prints take on vivid life.
January 1, 2007... Sean Scully recalls that he was sitting on a beach in Zihuatanejo--it was, he believes, in 1984, on his second trip to Mexico--enthralled, no doubt, by the glorious, absolute light of the south. There, he made a small watercolor, a relatively...

Fontana's visible cities: in an exhibition of newly assembled paintings named for Venice and New York, the artist best known for his transgressive gestures and Spatialist manifestos is shown to have had a taste for the decorative, sensuous and kitsch.
January 1, 2007... So securely positioned is Lucio Fontana (1899-1968) as a cardinal figure in histories of postwar art that it can be difficult to appreciate just how vexing an avant-garde protagonist he was. Fontana was a conundrum to many viewers and critics,...

An iconography of torture: exhibited recently in New York, Fernando Botero's Abu Ghraib series of paintings and drawings graphically depicts Iraqi prisoners undergoing abuse at the hands of their U.S. captors.
January 1, 2007... Colombian artist Fernando Botero is best known for his highly mannered, widely popular paintings and sculptures of corpulent figures: nudes, personages from famous paintings of the past, and men and women from all walks of Latin American...

Dowell's drive-by abstraction: California artist Roy Dowell is best known for hybrid compositions that mix collage and painting. A recent gallery survey of 25 years of his art, which draws frequently on billboard ads and textile design, highlighted his positive response to image overload.
January 1, 2007... In the last century the formal breakthroughs of the avant-garde were quickly incorporated into the realms of advertising and design. For product logos, typefaces and magazine layouts, sophisticated graphic designers developed styles influenced...

Anton Henning at Zach Feuer.
January 1, 2007... Writing in Artforum in 1992, Thomas McEvilley proposed that "quotational" artwork, which self-consciously employs historical forms, implied "a model of history in which Modernist linearity goes nuts: the line of progress that had previously...

Matthew Ritchie at Andrea Rosen.
January 1, 2007... "Their appearance and their work was as if a wheel within a wheel; as for their rings, they were so high they were dreadful and their rings were full of eyes, round about them four." So begins the Old Testament verse from Ezekiel I that was...

Yayoi Kusama at Robert Miller.
January 1, 2007... The legendary Yayoi Kusama traces the accumulations that characterize her works--such as dot motifs and the visceral patterns of paintings known as "Infinity Nets"--to the hallucinations that troubled her as a child. Born in Japan in 1929 to a...

Greg Bogin at Leo Koenig.
January 1, 2007... On the postcard announcing Greg Bogin's exhibition of new work, titled "Greetings Earthlings," the artist poses, hands on hips, among three brand-new, squeaky-clean canvases, wearing a spotless white workman's jumpsuit and a respirator. Bogin,...

Antoni Tapies at PaceWildenstein.
January 1, 2007... The Catalan master Antoni Tapies turned 60 three years ago and is still producing signature work at a prolific pace. This exhibition of 17 new paintings on wood and canvas displayed a range and vibrancy that has consistently characterized his...

Barnaby Furnas at Marianne Boesky.
January 1, 2007... Barnaby Furnas's new paintings toy with volatile forces that burn, puncture, explode and flood. Three jumbo paintings shown in the rear of Marianne Boesky's new gallery are called Red Sea (Parting I, II and IV), 2006, and invoke the Hebrew...

Gary Stephan at Cynthia Broan.
January 1, 2007... In this quietly impressive show (his first New York solo in five years), Gary Stephan exhibited alluringly subtle and ambiguous new abstract paintings along with sculpture and videos that extended a strain of dry wit latent in the canvases. ...

Nanette Carter at G.R. N'Namdi.
January 1, 2007... The New York-based artist Nanette Carter has been creating collages for more than 25 years. Her recent work shows a sustained penchant for fluid, textured compositions made by painting on sheets of frosted Mylar that have been cut and pieced...

Judy Glantzman at Betty Cuningham.
January 1, 2007... For Judy Glantzman, now in mid-career, figuration is a kind of imperative. In her latest, exuberant oil paintings, tiny heads are arranged in dense clusters, stacks, rows and daisy chains, their sheer multiplicity distinguishing them from...

John Salvest at Morgan Lehman.
January 1, 2007... "No Time for Sorrow," John Salvest's exhibition of sculptures from 2005-06 at Morgan Lehman, borrowed its title from a verse in William Blake's Proverbs of Hell: "The busy bee has no time for sorrow...." In the press release, Salvest connects...

Margarita Cabrera at Sara Meltzer.
January 1, 2007... Margarita Cabrera's solo exhibition, titled "Desert Dreams," was an installation of works from 2006 inspired by the journeys of illegal immigrants across the Mexico-U.S. border. The timing was perfect; Congress has been wrangling all year over...

Takeshi Kawashima at Mitchell Algus.
January 1, 2007... Some of the earliest of Takeshi Kawashima's works included in this absorbing exhibition established a grid-oriented trajectory. The show began with eight small, untitled drawings in pencil, ink and gouache dating from the mid-1950s to 1961,...

Carlo Nangeroni at Esso.
January 1, 2007... This survey chronicled the development of Milan-based Carlo Nangeroni's work from the 1940s to the present, beginning with his Italian metaphysical painting, showing his gestural abstraction of the '50s and emphasizing his highly rational...

Lorser Feitelson at Washburn.
January 1, 2007... A genuinely significant and still underknown modernist painter raised in New York City and schooled in Paris, Lorser Feitelson (1898-1978) built a long and productive career in Los Angeles, where he moved in the 1920s. A well-known figure in...

Julian Hatton at Elizabeth Harris.
January 1, 2007... Mostly, Julian Hatton's paintings are smallish windows that afford intimate views of an abstract landscape constructed of effulgent, generously fauvist hues and expansive compositions held in check by a square format. Modest in their stake in...

Isabelle Champion Metadier at the Chelsea Art Museum.
January 1, 2007... Titled "Timetrackers," the 16 large abstractions in French painter Isabelle Champion Metadier's recent exhibition are vertical compositions measuring about 90 by 51 inches (2004-05). In each, a single large, composite form fills almost the...

Ceal Floyer at the Swiss Institute.
January 1, 2007... Despite their scant material presence, three recent works by Ceal Floyer ably commanded ample spaces. A Berlin-based British artist, Floyer is known for minimalist conceptualism. I first encountered her work in P.S.1's 2001-02 exhibition...

Gudjon Bjarnason at Snug Harbor Cultural Center.
January 1, 2007... Gudjon Bjarnason's 10-year survey exhibition, consisting of paintings, architectural models and sculptures, offered a strikingly effective introduction to the American public of this prolific Icelandic artist's work. (The show originated at the...

Anita Steckel at Mitchell Algus.
January 1, 2007... Ornamented with phallic imagery, Anita Steckel's montages are studded with iconic men and women in celebration or lament of gender. A 1972 work, the symmetrically balanced 66-by-98-inch collage and photo-silkscreen on canvas titled New York...

Mary Henderson at Lyons Wier*Ortt.
January 1, 2007... There is something almost frightening about the perfectly shallow lives of the young women in Mary Henderson's small paintings and drawings (none here was larger than 11 by 14 or 14 by 11 inches). Aiming for the superficial slickness of...

Anju Dodiya at Bose Pacia.
January 1, 2007... Born and trained in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), the painter Anju Dodiya continues to live and work there. In her first solo exhibition in New York, she presented dreamlike, often mythological paintings on textiles (most of them 6 feet high) or...

Gary Monroe at CUE.(renaissance painting)
January 1, 2007... Gary Monroe's first New York solo show consised of work on paper concerned with a group of evangelical Christians who handle snakes as part of their devotional practice. Monroe lives in Knoxville, Tenn., not far from southern Appalachia, home...

Philemona Williamson at June Kelly.(figure painting)
January 1, 2007... Philemona Williamson crowds into her ample, 4-by-5-foot paintings small groups of adolescent figures, mainly girls, many of them African-American. Here they are cast into mysterious circumstances that they seem to find burdensome or...

Makoto Aida at Andrew Roth.
January 1, 2007... Over the past decade, Makoto Aida has ranked behind only Takashi Murakami and Yoshitomo Nara in the amount of attention received from the contemporary art press in Japan. To American audiences, however, his work is known mainly through a single...

Adam McEwen at Nicole Klagsbrun.
January 1, 2007... It's surprising how few contemporary artists bother to address the subject of war, or manage to do so in a compelling way, particularly when one considers how often this nation has been engaged in combat since WWII. Adam McEwen's outstanding...

Lin Yan at China 2000.
January 1, 2007... In a series of recent works, Beijing-bom, New York-based Lin Yan presented collages of white rice paper that contrasted with works of the same paper steeped in ink. In her exhibition "Echoes in the Moment," Lin addressed a process-oriented...

Robert Feintuch at CRG.
January 1, 2007... It is hard to imagine that a cartoonish, middle-aged man in underwear, naked to his spreading waist, can be beautiful and otherworldly. Yet Robert Feintuch's new drawings and small-scale panel paintings, suffused with a glowing, ethereal light...

Elizabeth Cooper at Thrust Projects.(Landscape painting)
January 1, 2007... Elizabeth Cooper's fierce and funny paintings have for some years conflated the means of process-oriented abstraction and the compositional conventions of genre subjects. Although ultimately they describe nothing but themselves, landscape is...

Amanda Church at Michael Steinberg.
January 1, 2007... Amanda Church paints undulating biomorphs that pulse with what the title of her show calls "Liquid Love." These four oil paintings (all 72 by 80 inches) and two smaller works on paper reveal Church's brand of pop abstraction to be at once comic...

Elizabeth Peyton at Guild Hall.
January 1, 2007... Elizabeth Peyton's Marc (2003), an etching with aquatint that the artist made at Two Palms Press in New York, with which she has been collaborating for the past four years, is a full-face portrait of a young man (the designer Marc Jacobs) with...

Colin Cochran at Joyce Goldstein.
January 1, 2007... Colin Cochran is an American artist who grew up on Cape Cod and is based in New York and Santa Fe; for many years, he has made mixed-medium paintings that are characterized by rich surface textures and an experimental use of pigments. Cochran's...

John O'Reilly at Howard Yezerski.
January 1, 2007... For "Contradictions: To Rimbaud-Verlaine," John O'Reilly chose 20 of his Polaroid montages from the past dozen years to explore the dualities exemplified by the 19th-century poets and lovers Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine. O'Reilly's quiet...

Margaret Evangeline at the Hilliard Art Museum and at Heriard-Cimino.
January 1, 2007... The New York-based, Louisiana-born artist Margaret Evangeline dedicated two recent exhibitions to New Orleans and the victims of Katrina and Rita, showing work that invoked the disasters both obliquely and straight on, pitting human hope and...

Kathryn Refi at Solomon Projects.
January 1, 2007... Perhaps it's not far for an artist to move--from gray scale to muted, dark color. But in Kathryn Refi's self-reflective work, it is a seismic shift. Up to now, her personal history has been distilled in a series of alternately detailed and...

Matthew Girson at Sonnenschein Gallery, Lake Forest College.
January 1, 2007... "Satellites and Scotomas, After and Above," Matthew Girson's first major painting exhibition in over five years, combined nuanced brushwork and conceptual critique to celebrate painting's sensorial delights while pointing to a kind of inherited...

Joanne Lefrak at the Center for Contemporary Arts.
January 1, 2007... Jeanne Lefrak's first solo show in Santa Fe continued an ambitious course for this young New Mexico-based artist whose striking body of new work, preoccupied with organic processes of decay and regeneration, conjures emotive themes of absence...

Michael Gonzalez at Solo Projects.
January 1, 2007... Missing in action locally for the past six years, Los Angeles artist Michael Gonzalez returned with a surprising installation of 96 small sculptures made from tubular electrical grounding braid, a material used in industry and aircraft....

Peter Voulkos at Braunstein Quay.
January 1, 2007... Peter Voutkos died in 2002 at the age of 78, but he is still celebrated for the pioneering ways he used clay as a fine-art material in the mid-1950s. He also garnered a formidable reputation for the monumentally scaled bronze sculptures that he...

Marita Dingus at Francine Seders.
January 1, 2007... A 1999 Guggenheim fellow, Seattle artist Marita Dingus has a strong track record of turning colorful fabric scraps and hardware-store products like wire and bolts into fetching representations of African-Americans in dangerous situations or...

Jun Kaneko at the Contemporary Museum at First Hawaiian Center.
January 1, 2007... Omaha-based Jun Kaneko has become so closely identified with his large-scale ceramic sculptures, called dango (a Japanese dumpling), that his fundamental grounding as a painter is sometimes overlooked. Kaneko's recent exhibition of sculpture...

Annie Pootoogook at the Power Plant.
January 1, 2007... Annie Pootoogook, born in 1964, lives and works in Cape Dorset, a remote village of 1,200 with no paved roads located on the tip of Canada's Baffin Island. Remarkably, a quarter of the inhabitants of Cape Dorset, where 98 percent of the...

Simon English at Fred.(crayon and ink works)
January 1, 2007... For Simon English's first exhibition with London's Fred gallery, the 47-year-old British artist presented 11 small crayon-and-ink works densely arranged in rows, and three 8-foot-square drawings on single sheets. Each work contains multiple...

Giuseppe Pietroniro at Fondazione Olivetti.
January 1, 2007... Residential furnishings concern Italian artist Giuseppe Pietroniro. It's as if "home," the bedrock of Italian lifestyle, were meant to be upset by his work. In an exhibition called "In_Stability," organized by the Rome-based curatorial team...

Saskia Leek at Jonathan Smart.
January 1, 2007... Saskia Leek's 13 recent paintings--each about 9 by 12 1/2 inches--in plain, white, wooden frames ran single file across the walls of Jonathan Smart's second-floor gallery. Leek depicts landscapes, sometimes with built structures (cottages, a...

Art schools.(Directory)
January 1, 2007... NEW ENGLAND The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University Office of Admissions 700 Beacon Street Boston, MA 02215 617-585 6710 toll free: 800 773-0494 x6710 www.aiboston.eau * admissions@aiboston.edu Professional...

Art services.(Directory)
January 1, 2007... ADVISORY SERVICE / CONSULTATIONS Advisory Service / Consultations To assist ARTISTS and COLLECTORS Artists- career management, publicity and promotion, resume and grant writing, and installation: 212-647-7030 Consultations to...

Elizabeth Peyton is the 2006 recipient of the $25,000 Larry Aldrich Award, given by the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, Conn.(Awards)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Elizabeth Peyton is the 2006 recipient of the $25,000 Larry Aldrich Award, given by the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, Conn. An exhibition of her work will be on view at the museum in 2008.

Wilhelm Sasnal has won the 2006 Vincent van Gogh Biennial Award for Contemporary Art in Europe.(Awards)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Wilhelm Sasnal has won the 2006 Vincent van Gogh Biennial Award for Contemporary Art in Europe. The approximately $67,000 prize is given by the Netherlands-based Broere Charitable Foundation. Works by Sasnal and the short-listed artists--Urs...

Kendall Buster recently won the $10,000 Kreeger Museum Artist Award for 2006.(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Kendall Buster recently won the $10,000 Kreeger Museum Artist Award for 2006. The biennial prize, which includes an exhibition, is given to an artist from the Washington, D.C., area.

The International Center of Photography in New York recently presented its annual Infinity Awards.(Lee Friedlander, Thomas Ruff)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... The International Center of Photography in New York recently presented its annual Infinity Awards. Among the winners are Lee Friedlander, for lifetime achievement, and Thomas Ruff, for art photography.

Obituaries.(S. Lane Faison, Robert Richenburg, Jane Schneider)(Obituary)
January 1, 2007... S. Lane Faison, 98, art historian at Williams College, died Nov. 11 at his home in Williamstown, Mass. Legendary for his ability to create enthusiasm for the history of art in students not previously so inclined, he taught an improbable number...

Benny Andrews, 1930-2006.(ARTWORLD)(Obituary)
January 1, 2007... Benny Andrews, 75, painter of Southern life and American scenes, died Nov. 10 in Brooklyn of cancer, three days before his 76th birthday. Born in Plainview, Ga., to a family of sharecroppers, he was of African-American, Scotch-Irish and...

Mose Tolliver, ca. 1919-2006.(ARTWORLD)(Brief article)(Biography)
January 1, 2007... Mose Tolliver, about 87, a key self-taught artist whose stylized figurative paintings were instrumental in gaining international recognition for Outsider artists of the American South. Born ca. 1919 near Montgomery, Ala., Mose T, as he is...

Whitney closer to downtown deal.(Whitney Museum of American Art)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Just before the Thanksgiving holiday, the Whitney Museum of American Art reached an agreement with the City of New York's Economic Development Corporation to buy a site at Gansevoort and Washington Streets in the Meatpacking District, at the...

Bill seeks to keep Barnes in place.(Barnes Foundation)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Fulfilling a campaign promise, the narrowly re-elected Republican state representative Jim Gerlach introduced a bill to prevent the Barnes Foundation from relocating to central Philadelphia from the suburb of Merion. The bill would impose a...

J. Paul Getty Trust.(appoints James N. Wood)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... The J. Paul Getty Trust has chosen James N. Wood as its new president and chief executive. Wood was director of the Art Institute of Chicago for 25 years, before retiring two years ago. He is the first Trust leader with an extensive background...

Harvard University Art Museums.(Helen Molesworth)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Helen Molesworth, chief curator since 2003 at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio, has been named curator of contemporary art at the Harvard University Art Museums. Molesworth, who replaces Linda Norden, assumes her new post on...

Contemporary Arts Museum.(appoints Toby Kamps )(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Toby Kamps is the new curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston. He had been senior curator at Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Center since 2006, and was director and assistant professor at the Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine...

San Antonio Museum of Art.(appoints David S. Rubin )(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... The San Antonio Museum of Art has appointed David S. Rubin as its curator for contemporary art. Since 2000, he had been curator of visual arts at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans.

American Federation of Arts.(appoints Janet Landay )(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... The American Federation of Arts has named Janet Landay as director of exhibitions and programs. She had been curator of exhibitions at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.