Art in America articles from January 2008

Art in America archives from January 2008

Museum project contracts: unneeded?(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
January 1, 2008... To the Editors: The Sept. 21 verdict in the Mass MoCA vs. Christoph Buchel case ["Front Page," Nov. '07] has created a storm in the art world and left no museum professional or artist indifferent to the issues of contracts, artist/museum...

Curators as directors: a bad dream?(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
January 1, 2008... To the Editors: Faye Hirsch's "Tomorrow's Museum Directors" ["Front Page," Sept. '07] reported the launch of the Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL), co-founded by Elizabeth Easton, curator for 18 years at the Brooklyn Museum and former...

Reclaiming the Ninth Street Show.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
January 1, 2008... To the Editors: Intellectuals tend to talk about the same things because they read one another's books. Given this hall of mirrors phenomenon, an error can be repeated over and over, and become accepted as an axiom. One example is the...

Crusading for Kurtz.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
January 1, 2008... To the Editors: Thank you for your "Front Page" article [Dec. '07] on Lynn Hershman Leeson's film, Strange Culture, about the federal prosecution of artist Steve Kurtz, which Lynn wrote, produced, directed, edited, and is largely...

Corrections.(LETTERS)(Correction notice)
January 1, 2008... Dec. '07, p, 182: Curator Richard Kendall and former A.i.A. senior editor Raphael Rubinstein were awarded the rank of Chevalier in the French government's Order of Arts and Letters, not in the Legion of Honor. Oct. '07, p. 115: Sue Hajdu's...

Abu Dhabi Guggenheim agreement.(FRONT PAGE)(Abu Dhabi Tourism Development & Investment Company)
January 1, 2008... Since the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation announced plans in 2006 to open a 450,000-square-foot branch in Abu Dhabi as part of a large cultural development on Saadiyat Island [see "Front Page," Mar. '07], questions have been raised as to how...

Legal action shutters gallery.(FRONT PAGE)(Salander-O'Reilly gallery)
January 1, 2008... New York's Salander-O'Reilly gallery, established in 1976, was recently closed by the State Supreme Court in the face of a barrage of litigation. According to the New York Times and other sources, the gallery and its principal, Lawrence...

Surrealist Eden to be restored.(FRONT PAGE)(Las Pozas)
January 1, 2008... Thanks to a sizable inheritance, the English poet and patron of the Surrealists Edward James (1907-1984) was 'able to realize his vision of an ideal garden in the jungles of Mexico. He moved to Mexico in the late 1930s after being vilified by...

Print fairs thrive.(FRONT PAGE)(International Fine Print Dealers Association)
January 1, 2008... Now in its fifth year, New York's Fine Art Print Week is the key annual event for seeing and buying prints of all periods, from old master to contemporary. Gallery exhibitions, auctions at the major houses and two large international fairs, one...

Fall auction totals soar to nearly $2 billion.(FRONT PAGE)
January 1, 2008... Against an autumn backdrop of a shaky Wall Street, trepidation about the ongoing war in Iraq and the political uncertainties of the upcoming presidential election year, the booming auction market was expected by many to quiet down. Instead,...

Makers of Modern Architecture: From Frank Lloyd Wright to Frank Gehry.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Makers of Modern Architecture: From Frank Lloyd Wright to Frank Gehry, by Martin Filler, New York, New York Review Books, 2007; 323 pages, $27.95. The longtime architecture critic for House and Garden and a frequent contributor to the New...

Optimism on the Bosporus: the artists assembled by Istanbul Biennial curator Hou Hanru addressed a range of local and global ills. His stance? Art can be a tool for change.(REPORT FROM ISTANBUL)
January 1, 2008... Just prior to the September opening of the 10th Istanbul Biennial, Turkey was in the news because of the election of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, leader of the pro-Islamic Justice and Development Party, as prime minister. While editorials in the...

Spatial overtures: four masters of the postwar era are represented in an exhibition that examines the multifarious--and multimedium--evocations of space in American and European vanguard art.(REPORT FROM FORT WORTH)
January 1, 2008... Celebrating its fifth anniversary in an elegant concrete building designed by Tadao Ando, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth fairly brims with the expansive canvases included in "Declaring Space" [on view through Jan. 6]. Works by Americans...

Committed to ink: the third Chengdu Biennale tested the boundaries of traditional Chinese ink painting, revealing an exuberantly varied contemporary practice.(REPORT FROM CHENGDU)
January 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] For many decades, the conventional critical tendency, in both East and West, has been to treat ink painting and modern art as categorical contraries. In Chinese academies, the two have separate departments of study,...

NY galleries.
January 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 January...

Thinking in images: with a show of 100 works at the Casino Luxembourg, French curator Regis Michel proposed an expansive new view of today's key "anti-medium.".(VIDEO)
January 1, 2008... The recent exhibition "L'oeil-ecran ou la nouvelle image: 100 videos pour repenser le monde" (Eye-Screen or the New Image: 100 Videos to Rethink the World), organized by Regis Michel at the Casino Luxembourg, provided an excellent opportunity...

Use what sinks: Allora & Calzadilla's collaborative work combines sculpture, video, and live and recorded music to address issues of cultural identity and political resistance--with a recent focus on militarism in the contemporary world.
January 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla's Sweat Glands, Sweat Lands (2006) might be thought of as a perverse excursion into the realm of the music video. Its roughly 2 1/2-minute length is dictated by the song that...

Taiwan Vigil: in videos that move at a glacial pace, Taiwanese artist Chen Chieh-jen explores the faltering of capitalism in a once-vital economy. His players are the unemployed, his setting the abandoned workplace.
January 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Taiwan is regarded in the West as one of Asia's great economic success stories, having leaped in a few short decades from poverty and international obscurity to its later status as one of the so-called "Asian...

Hans Josephsohn's lateness: a solitary figure among European modernists, Hans Josephsohn has produced imposing works in bronze for more than six decades. At 87, the German-born, Swiss-based sculptor remains focused on the expressive possibilities of the human form.(Biography)
January 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Edward Said's posthumously published book On Late Style (2006) addresses not only advancing age but also exile, solitude and a contradictory relationship to the established social order. Late styles, such as we find...

The Finch effect: since the early 1990s, Spencer Finch has made diverse minimalist works dealing with color, light and perception. A midcareer survey, layered with historic and literary references, is currently on view at Mass MoCA.
January 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Spencer Finch's deceptively minimalist works, stripped-down ill appearance but not ill content, are poetic in both the literal sense--he has referenced Emily Dickinson and Henry David Thoreau, among others--and the...

The world of Mrs. N: in the first major museum retrospective since her death in 1988, Louise Nevelson, whose flamboyant persona often upstaged her work during her lifetime, is now revealed to be, just as the she claimed, "the grandmother of environments.".
January 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Guests remember how, at a 1975 dinner given by the Israel Museum in honor of Louise Nevelson, the sculptor stood up and said, "First U of all, I want to thank... myself." (1) No one was more aware of the extent of...

The taxonomy of ruin: in Leonardo Drew's recent work, an ongoing negotiation between minimalism and African-American history is complicated by references to natural disasters, and to post-catastrophe catalogues of their remains.(Brief biography)
January 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Leonardo Drew eschews descriptive titles for his mixed-medium sculptures. Since the late 1980s, when his work began to appear in various group shows in New York, he has simply labeled his sculptures with sequential...

North country progressive: modernist esthetics meet nature and ethnography in the work of painter-writer Emily Carr, now examined in a museum retrospective in her native Canada.(Biography)
January 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] An iconic, legendary figure, artist and writer Emily Carr (1871-1945) has been an object of extraordinary fascination for Canadians. There are seven biographies, including major studies by Maria Tippett and Doffs...

Anthony Caro at Mitchell-Innes & Nash.(NEW YORK)
January 1, 2008... Having in recent years tackled terra-cotta, wood and paper, among other materials, Anthony Care continues to create imposing sculptures in a variety of mediums. Now 83, he returned to steel in his latest sculptures, shown recently in both of...

Mel Kendrick at David Nolan.(NEW YORK)
January 1, 2008... An unassuming show in a small gallery, Mel Kendrick's "Red Blocks" was stealthily potent. In the main room, five sculptures stood in a row on the floor, their rectangular bottoms squared with the wall. Two more faced an adjacent wall, forming a...

Ugo Rondinone at Matthew Marks.(NEW YORK)
January 1, 2008... The Swiss-born artist Ugo Rondinone's theatrical, multi-medium installations often seem to explore his own elusive moods. Rondinone displays a notable command of the many skills used by today's technically proficient art producers in his...

Aleksandra Mir at Mary Boone.(NEW YORK)
January 1, 2008... "Newsroom 1986-2000," Aleksandra Mir's first solo show at Mary Boone, employed a team of assistants who were busily at work in the gallery during its run. Expending many Sharpie markers (long a favorite utensil of Mir's), they re-created by...

Yan Pei-Ming at David Zwirner.(NEW YORK)
January 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Yan Pei-Ming is well known in Europe and Asia for his massive, monochromatic, serial oil portraits of subjects that include himself as well as Chinese cultural icons, peasants, prostitutes and the Buddha. Two of the...

Deborah Kass at Paul Kasmin.(NEW YORK)
January 1, 2008... In Deborah Kass's celebrated "Warhol Project" (1999-2001), she transposed the star-struck gaze of Warhol portraits--the product of a gay man who seemed to have adored and identified with famous women--through the lens of a feminist, lesbian,...

Daniel Joseph Martinez at The Project.(NEW YORK)
January 1, 2008... In Guatemala, the Guerrilla Army of the Poor formed in 1972 to attack the autocratic government; its attacks killed seven people and wounded two, including civilians and officials. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of the Sahara, a Nigerian...

Bill Beckley at Dorfman Projects.(NEW YORK)
January 1, 2008... The petals of the many varieties of gerbera daisy boast a rich palette: densely hued aortic reds, pure white, intense yellow, several magentas and less common colors. Their long, leafless stems are smooth and all but perfect, the stamen cropped...

Tom Sandberg at P.S.1.(NEW YORK)
January 1, 2008... Oslo-based Tom Sandberg's large black-and-white photographs from the past 17 years of his roughly 30-year career have the moodiness, depth of feeling and formal rigor I associate with the films of his Nordic neighbor Ingmar Bergman. The range...

James Welling at David Zwirner.(NEW YORK)
January 1, 2008... Over the last 30 years, four overlapping strategies have come to be employed by artists using photography: documentary (e.g., Carrie Mae Weems, Andy Goldsworthy), staged narratives (e.g. Jeff Wall, Gregory Crewdson), consumer-critical...

Joe Lewis at Kathleen Cullen.(NEW YORK)
January 1, 2008... "Clairvoyance: Future Works by Joe Lewis" was an indication, perhaps, of how this still-prolific multi-medium artist sees the future. Based on his view of the past--themes of race and social injustice were recurrent--during the years when he...

Armando Reveron at MOMA.(NEW YORK)(Museum of Modern Art )
January 1, 2008... For those unfamiliar with Venezuelan modernism, the recent Armando Reveron retrospective at MOMA offered a compelling encounter with a key painter of the first half of the 20th century. Organized by MOMA chief curator John Elderfield, the show...

Cornelia Foss at DFN.(NEW YORK)
January 1, 2008... Cornelia Foss keeps the art of landscape alive in elegant paintings of eastern Long Island that capture its big skies, long horizons and luminous waters. Foss has been painting in the region for many years, creating works that demonstrate her...

Christopher Winter at Neuhoff Edelman.(NEW YORK)
January 1, 2008... Although the British-born, Berlin-based painter Christopher Winter titled his exhibition "Songs of Innocence," the children and young adolescents he portrays convey a sensibility that can hardly be called naive. His figures wear traditional...

Richard Baker at Tibor de Nagy.(NEW YORK)
January 1, 2008... Richard Baker's carefully observed still-life paintings explore the genre's traditional themes of timelessness and mortality. Yet he departs from convention by filling his work with visual incongruities and impossible perspectives. Precise...

Clemens Weiss at Ronald Feldman.(NEW YORK)
January 1, 2008... Several years have passed since the German-born, New York-based Clemens Weiss last besieged these galleries, filling walls and pedestals with a narrative of his own devising. A series of drawings with inscribed fragments of preexisting text, as...

Laura Battle at Lohin Geduld.(NEW YORK)
January 1, 2008... The highly organized graphite drawings that Laura Battle makes with her own hands might have been produced in printed versions, saving months of labor, if she'd simply given instructions to a computer programmer. That she didn't take that...

Wilhelm Sasnal at Anton Kern.(NEW YORK)
January 1, 2008... The Polish artist Wilhelm Sasnal gained prominence in part with deceptively simple paintings and graphic drawings. Their quick execution and intriguing imprecision drew comparisons with the atmospheric mannerism of Luc Tuymans. But in this...

Bodo Korsig at Tenri.(NEW YORK)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Bodo Korsig keeps two studios, one in Trier, Germany, and the other in New York. His internationalism is also borne out in the glyph-like, enigmatic forms that make up his visual vocabulary. Working in a variety of mediums and modes, including...

Liz Deschenes at Miguel Abreu.
January 1, 2008... In her first solo show at Miguel Abreu's spare space, Liz Deschenes presented six large framed photographs (2007) of black-and-white moire patterns. The process of their creation is fairly straightforward: the artist photographs a sheet of...

Annalies Strba at Jason McCoy.(NEW YORK)
January 1, 2008... The Swiss artist Annalies Strba began taking photographs of her children in the '70s, when they were small, and although the images were not all conventional, she at first didn't think of them as art. A comparison to Sally Mann might seem apt,...

Nicholas Sperakis at Mitchell Algus.(NEW YORK)
January 1, 2008... Now living in Bogota, Colombia, Nicholas Sperakis (b. 1943) was a member of Rhino Horn, a New York-based neo-expressionist group of the early '70s that was dedicated to an art of social critique and the human figure. Sperakis's paintings are...

Enrico Baj at Friedrich Petzel.(NEW YORK)
January 1, 2008... This selection of work by Enrico Baj (1924-2003) made one long for an in-depth museum survey of this fascinating artist's career, which is too little known outside of Europe. Baj rejected the purity of geometric abstraction in favor of a raw,...

Catherine Howe at Claire Oliver.(NEW YORK)
January 1, 2008... In a 1997 article for this magazine, Barry Schwabsky linked John Currin, Lisa Yuskavage and Catherine Howe for their provocative paintings of female subjects that manipulated form to the verge of kitsch. Less known than her colleagues today,...

Wei Dong at Stefan Stux.(NEW YORK)
January 1, 2008... Wei Dong was born in Chifeng, Inner Mongolia, two years into Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution (1966-76), but he is old enough to remember the effects of that massive attempt to turn back the clock. Now he lives in Hoboken, New Jersey, where he...

Jeff Shore and Jon Fisher at Clementine.(NEW YORK)
January 1, 2008... Tiny surveillance cameras linked the niftily mirrored worlds of Reel to Reel, Jeff Shore and Jon Fisher's all-puns-intended installation. Placed inside the otherwise largely inaccessible interiors of two wall-mounted dioramas, and aimed at...

Haim Steinbach at Sonnabend.(NEW YORK)
January 1, 2008... Hailed in the 1980s as one of the standard bearers for the practice of commodity critique, Haim Steinbach has since refined but not substantially changed his approach to art. He continues to arrange mass-produced objects on elegant Donald...

Elisa D'Arrigo at Elizabeth Harris.(NEW YORK)
January 1, 2008... Most of Elisa D'Arrigo's constructed canvases feature irregular gradations of one color of acrylic paint, often coupled with marble dust. The colors sing: radiant, sunny yellows; intense blues, both Mediterranean and nocturnal; Easter and baby...

Futoshi Miyagi at Daniel Reich.(NEW YORK)
January 1, 2008... Young Okinawa-born Brooklyn resident Futoshi Miyagi's second solo show, "Island of Shattered Glass," combined sculpture, photography and installation to explore childhood memories of family, longing and loss. The exhibition's title refers to...

Adam Helms at Marianne Boesky.(NEW YORK)
January 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Outlaws, rebels and renegades, from idealistic revolutionaries to romantic gun-slingers, provided Adam Helms with the source for his first solo exhibition in his home city. The gallery's first room, a kind of...

Rune Olsen at Sampson Projects.(BOSTON)
January 1, 2008... In this solo exhibition, Norwegian-born, New York-based Rune Olsen continues to explore animal urges, this time with four near-life-size sculptures, all from 2007. Like past works of his seen at this gallery, most are pairs of creatures in...

Stanley Lewis at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey.(SUMMIT, N.J.)
January 1, 2008... This exhibition of 17 paintings and five large drawings is a smaller version of a retrospective that originated at American University in Washington, D.C. It focused on the past 10 years of Stanley Lewis's development, a period during which he...

Natalie Alper at Seraphin.(PHILADELPHIA)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Natalie Alper's recent paintings on canvas and paper burst the boundaries of abstraction. Densely painted and drawn in acrylic, metallic pigment and pencil, her works reference the turmoil of natural forces in the act of creating the universe....

Whitney Stansell at TEW.(ATLANTA)
January 1, 2008... Whitney Stansell presented an incredibly strong body of work in her commercial gallery debut. The 14 small- to medium-size paintings (all 2007) in the exhibition were inspired by her mother, who regaled Stansell with personal stories of...

Noel Martin at Carl Solway.(CINCINNATI)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... This 40-year survey of the work of Cincinnati abstract painter Noel Martin was a salutary introduction to the 85-year-old artist's considerable accomplishments. Also a graphic designer whose work has been exhibited at New York's Museum of...

Myungkeun Koh at Andrew Bae.(CHICAGO)
January 1, 2008... Korean artist Myungkeun Koh's laminated-photo sculptures are unusual and magical. His show of recent work, "Stone Body," played on the dichotomy between the solidity of the stone sculptures Koh photographs, which date from classical antiquity...

Erik Spehn at Schmidt Contemporary Art.(ST. LOUIS)
January 1, 2008... St. Louis artist Erik Spehn's breakout exhibition, his third at this gallery, consisted of 12 deceptively simple-looking but intensely detailed paintings (all works 2007). In each one, thin, not-quite-perfect horizontal and vertical stripes...

Gretel Stephens at Jan Baum.(LOS ANGELES)
January 1, 2008... With refreshing forthrightness, in her first major solo gallery exhibition, 62-year-old artist Gretel Stephens presented handsome abstract oil paintings on linen with rich metaphorical associations. Wearing on her sleeve her reverence for Mark...

Katherine Ace at Froelick.(PORTLAND, ORE.)
January 1, 2008... "Shattered" might have been an apt title for Katherine Ace's exhibition of mostly still-life paintings (all 2006), many depicting broken dinnerware in beautiful profusion. Strewn throughout these works are pages cut from art-history texts or...

Tivon Rice at Lawrimore Project.(SEATTLE)
January 1, 2008... Lawrimore Project--a 6,500-square-foot space that was formerly a sign shop--has in the year since its founding proven to be a pioneering venue for visual art in Seattle. The artist-architect team Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo, known as Lead...

Jordi Boldo at Museo de la Secretaria de Hacienda.(MEXICO CITY)
January 1, 2008... Jordi Boldo was born in Barcelona in 1949 and, as a boy, emigrated to Mexico. Trained as an economist, with a background in book design and production, Boldo did not formally study painting or art history; he began making art in his 30s,...

Dawn Mellor at Studio Voltaire.(LONDON)
January 1, 2008... If the glossy tabloids offer us gilded and tarnished icons of the gods and goddesses of the pop-star pantheon, then Dawn Mellor's scrappy, witty and brutal celebrity portraits are a voodoo retelling of our mass-media cultural mythology. The...

Marlene Mocquet at Alain Gutharc.(PARIS)
January 1, 2008... Born in 1979, the pixieish French painter Marlene Mocquet graduated with honors in June 2006 from Paris's illustrious Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Barely four months later, 25 of her works were gobbled up at FIAC (Foire Internationale d'Art...

Tomas Schmit at Museum Ludwig and Michael Werner.(COLOGNE)
January 1, 2008... Tomas Schmit, arguably Cologne's best-known Fluxus practitioner and one-time art-world bad boy, who died in October 2006 in Berlin at age 63, was remembered recently in a concise and illuminating overview of his work held concurrently at two...

Fabio Mauri at II Ponte Contemporanea.(ROME)
January 1, 2008... The exhibition "Arte Negre" offered a penetrating view of Fabio Mauri's diverse art production from the 1960s and '70s. Like many European conceptual artists, Mauri (b. 1926) moves back and forth between text-based strategies and imagery, both...

Auction Boon for New Museum.(ART WORLD)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... The New Museum in New York raised its profile and its endowment fund this fall. Just two weeks before the Dec. 1 debut of its well-received new $50-million building, designed by Sanaa architects (Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa), the museum...

National Gallery in London.(People)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Nicholas Penny, since 2002 senior curator of sculpture and decorative arts at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., has been named director of the National Gallery in London, where he was previously curator of Renaissance painting for 12...

Dayton Art Institute.(People)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... The Dayton Art Institute has appointed Janiee Driesbach as director and CEO. She had been director of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, since 2000. Driesbach succeeds Alex Nyerges, who is now executive...

Boston MFA.(People)(Boston Museum of Fine Arts)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... The Boston MFA has announced Edward Saywell as the first director of the West Wing, a new initiative to transform the 23,000-square-foot space into a contemporary art venue as part of its current building project, to be completed in 2010....

Fields Sculpture Park.(People)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Amy Lipton, former art dealer and, for the past three years, curator at the Abington Art Center and Sculpture Park near Philadelphia, has been named director of the Fields Sculpture Park at Art Omi International Arts Center in Ghent, N.Y.

University of Houston's School of Art.(People)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Raphael Rubinstein, who has been on staff at A.i.A. since 1994, for the last 10 years as a senior editor, has left the magazine to become professor of critical studies at the University of Houston's School of Art. He will also continue to teach...

The 2007 Turner Prize, given by the Tate Britain to a British artist under 50, has been awarded to Mark Wallinger.(Awards & Grants)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... The 2007 Turner Prize, given by the Tate Britain to a British artist under 50, has been awarded to Mark Wallinger. The artist, who receives about $51,000, won for his antiwar installation of 600 banners and posters re-creating Brian Haw's...

Winners of the 2007 National Medal of Arts were recently selected by President Bush.(Awards & Grants)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Winners of the 2007 National Medal of Arts were recently selected by President Bush. Among the nine honorees are painters George Tooker and Andrew Wyeth and arts patron Roy R. Neuberger.

Laurie Anderson is the winner of the 2007 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize.(Awards & Grants)
January 1, 2008... Laurie Anderson is the winner of the 2007 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize. The $300,000 award is given in various artistic fields for outstanding contributions.

Houston-based Trenton Doyle Hancock is the winner of the $50,000 Joyce Alexander Wein Art Prize for 2007.(Awards & Grants)
January 1, 2008... Houston-based Trenton Doyle Hancock is the winner of the $50,000 Joyce Alexander Wein Art Prize for 2007, given by the Studio Museum in Harlem.

The Nancy Graves Foundation recently presented grants of $25,000 each to R.M. Fischer, Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison, and William Pope.L.(Awards & Grants)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... The Nancy Graves Foundation recently presented grants of $25,000 each to R.M. Fischer, Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison, and William Pope.L. The funds go to artists exploring new techniques or mediums other than the one for which they are primarily...

Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue, a New York-based organization that provides support to regional artists, has announced its grants to Bay Area artists.(Awards & Grants)
January 1, 2008... Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue, a New York-based organization that provides support to regional artists, has announced its grants to Bay Area artists. Sergio De La Torre, Chris Sollars and the collective Center for Tactical Magic each...

Obituaries.(ARTWORLD)(Obituary)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Abram Lerner, 94, former Hirshhorn Museum director, died of heart failure on Oct. 31 in Canaan, Conn. An art historian and painter, he was working at a New York gallery in 1955 when he met Joseph H. Hirshhorn, who purchased works from him and...

Paul Brach 1924-2007.(ARTWORLD)(Obituary)
January 1, 2008... Paul Brach, 83, painter, educator and A.LA. contributor, died Nov. 16 of prostate cancer in East Hampton, N.Y. Brach was known as a vivid colorist whose work evolved from a loose Ab-Ex style to a nongestural, proto-Minimalist esthetic. In the...

Greece drops Getty case.(ARTWORLD)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... On Nov. 27, a Greek appeals court in Athens dismissed the criminal case against former Getty Museum antiquities curator Marion True, who was brought up on charges of trying to acquire a looted gold funerary wreath. The Getty, which had...

Randolph College auction postponed.(ARTWORLD)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Four paintings from the collection of the Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College were pulled from the Nov. 19 and 29 auctions at Christie's after a group of students and alumnae, along with the nonprofit Preserve Educational Choice, filed an...