Art in America articles from July 2003

Art in America archives from July 2003

Leider on Baer's facts. (Letters).(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2003... To the Editors: I enjoyed reading Jo Baer's lively interview [A.i.A., May '03], but must correct one or two errors. First, neither Leo Castelli nor anyone else remarked to me on Ms. Baer's letter to Artforum. Second, Clem Greenberg was...

The need for critical responsibility. (Letters).(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2003... To the Editors: As a painter, I can well relate to Raphael Rubinstein's arguments in "A Quiet Crisis" [A.i.A., Mar. '03]. I must agree that, in addition to art schools and curators, critics are partially responsible for the current vacuous...

For a new feminism. (Letters).(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2003... To the Editors: I'd like to thank Carey Lovelace for her article on feminism [A.i.A., May '03], a topic chronically underrepresented in the arts community. I look forward to her forthcoming book on feminist art. However, I believe the...

Whose ribbon? (Letters).(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2003... To the Editors: In her excellent article about Frank Moore and his work [A.i.A., May '03], Faye Hirsch reported that "in his capacity as an activist in Visual AIDS, the artist wing of ACT UP, he invented the red ribbon as the movement's...

A right to remembrance. (Letters).(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2003... To the Editors: We at Studio 18 Gallery were pleased that you included in your May 2003 issue a review by Adrian Dannatt of our recent exhibition "Galerie Huit: American Artists in Paris 1950-52," which we believe to have been of...

Innocent images? (Letters).(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2003... To the Editors: In your April 2003 report on the international photo festival in Pingyao, China, Richard Vine refers to Cui Xiunwen's images of "two naked young children" as "disturbing" and "frighteningly lubricious." Possibly Mr. Vine's...

Corrections.(Correction Notice)
July 1, 2003... Feb. '03, p. 65: The Polish Hamlet, Portrait of Aleksander Wielopolski (1903) was painted by Jacek (not Jan) Malczewski. Apr. '03, p. 39: Our review of Patricia Cornwell's Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper, Case Closed quotes from the...

Whitney director resigns. (Front Page).
July 1, 2003... In a surprise announcement, Maxwell Anderson, director of New York's Whitney Museum of American Art since 1998, resigned his post on May 12. The news came shortly after the museum scrapped its plans for a $200-million, Rem Koolhaas-designed...

Madrid's "museum mile". (Front Page).(major expansions of art museums, the Prado, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia and the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza)
July 1, 2003... Long-standing, ambitious plans to boost Madrid's art offerings are finally bearing fruit. Major expansions are now under way at the Prado, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia and the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza. By happy coincidence, all...

Cellini Salt Cellar stolen. (Front Page).(theft from Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... One of the best-known works of Italian Renaissance art, Benvenuto Cellini's Saliera (Salt Cellar), was recently stolen from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. The elaborate 1540s salt and pepper holder, commissioned by French king Francois...

New editor for Artforum. (Front Page).(Tim Griffin promoted)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Jack Bankowsky, editor of Artforum, resigned his post in May after almost 11 years. Beginning with the September issue, he becomes editor-at-large in charge of special projects. He told the New York Times that he will put together one or two...

Invisible Man monument in Harlem. (Front Page).(sculpture commemorating Ralph Ellison, commissioned by City of New York Parks & Recreation Department)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... On May 1, Elizabeth Catlett unveiled her monumental sculpture honoring the late author Ralph Ellison. Catlett, whose work often addresses issues of race, ethnicity and gender, presented a rectangular bronze slab 15 feet high and 10 feet wide,...

War, terrorism and SARS fail to sink spring auctions. (Front Page).(price record of individual impressionist, modern, and comtemporary art works)(activity at Christie's, Sotheby's and Phillips de Pury & Luxembourg )
July 1, 2003... Against a backdrop of global uncertainties, not to mention the sputtering U.S. economy, expectations were low at the start of this season's big-ticket sales of Impressionist, modern and contemporary art in New York. The evening auctions at the...

Visual provocation.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Transgressions: The Offences of Art, by Anthony Julius, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2003; 272 pages, $35.00. Anthony Julius's Transgressions is a taxonomy buttressed by a history and supporting, in its turn, a glum judgment about...

Looking east: a revelatory survey traces the history of photography in Japan, from the reticent culture of the Chrysanthemum Throne to the consumer-driven society of today. (Photography).
July 1, 2003... In 1854, Commodore Matthew Perry sailed into Tokyo Bay and initiated what many Japanese would later call "the unprecedented national difficulty." The phrase referred to the opening of Japan to Western influence after nearly two centuries of...

Southern visions: shared experiences and individual expressions are revealed in a current museum show featuring 27 black Outsider artists from the Deep South. (Grass-Roots Art).(Exhibition)(Review)
July 1, 2003... "Testimony: Vernacular Art of the African-American South," a museum exhibition touring through 2004, contains more than 70 pieces by 27 contemporary self-taught African-American artists of the Deep South, mainly from Alabama, Georgia,...

The museum as time machine: in "Russian Ark," a new, audaciously conceived film by Alexander Sokurov, the Hermitage Museum is at once the setting and the protagonist. (Film).(Movie Review)
July 1, 2003... Alexander Sokurov is little known in the United States, but he is a veteran filmmaker with more than a dozen features and 25 documentaries to his name. His work has won numerous international prizes and earned praise from prominent cinephiles...

Becoming Corbusier: a recent exhibition traced the development of this seminal 20th-century figure from provincial designer to modern architectural master. (Architecture).
July 1, 2003... "He lives in the extraordinary world of the acrobat" was how Le Corbusier referred to himself, describing his profession of architecture in My Work (published in 1960, five years before his death). Throughout the half century that he practiced,...

Diversity Down Under: the most recent Asia Pacific Triennial highlighted three internationally acclaimed artists, along with a selective sample of talents from across the region. (Report From Brisbane).
July 1, 2003... Since 1993, Queensland Art Gallery's Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT) has established itself as the leading event of its kind in the southern hemisphere, focusing on art and artists from Asia, Australia and the Pacific....

Rise west, set east: confounding expectations comes naturally to choreographer Sarah Michelson. "Shadowmann," her recent "site-specific anti-epic," revealed the spectacle that animates even ordinary human activities. (Dance).(Dance Review)
July 1, 2003... British-born, New York-based dancer and choreographer Sarah Michelson, age 38, mixes earnestness, irreverence, rigor, humor, aggressiveness and subtlety in often stark avant-garde work that, for the past decade, has been turning upside down...

Style and substance: Gainsborough: widely recognized and affectionately regarded, Thomas Gainsborough is the subject of a first comprehensive exhibition in the U.S. It's an occasion to revisit the critical appraisals of his contemporaries and to consider the fresh insight offered by more recent scholarship.
July 1, 2003... "Matisse Picasso" fever was raging in New York the week I went to Washington, D.C., to view the Gainsborough exhibition at the National Gallery. That fueled my urge at the end of the show to see how Reynolds's works in the museum stacked up...

A day at the races: Tom Sachs's casually megalomaniacal installation offered a joyride around a slot-car course studded with modernist and Pop icons. The quintessential guys' pastime became a kinetic meditation on cultural malaise.(Exhibit)(Review)
July 1, 2003... Growing up in the pre-video-game era of the early '80s, I spent a fair amount of my after-school hours slot-car racing in my friend's attic. You'll remember slot cars: the black plastic track with a channel for each lane; the little plastic...

Dia:Beacon: the imperturbables: with 240,000 square feet of exhibition space, Dia's new Hudson River facility shows off its permanent collection to suitably monumental effect, making the case for its anointed masters from the 1960s forward, presenting their achievement as towering, timeless and unassailable. (Cover Story).(overview of the works of several artists)(Cover Story)
July 1, 2003... Vast, open, illuminated almost entirely by natural light, Dia:Beacon is monumental in the way of cathedrals, or, in some of its deeply shadowed spaces, certain kinds of funerary architecture. A massive testament to the power of mostly big,...

John Coplans: exposures: Coplans's photographs of his own bare flesh, assembled in quasi-abstract compositions, are the subject of a new book and an installation currently traveling in Europe.(exhibition in Berlin, at Martin-Gropius-Bau, "Warum! Bilder diesseits und jenseits des Menschen" Why! Images of and Beyond Man)(exhibition and publication Serial Imagery )
July 1, 2003... The formal grace and visual logic that link John Coplans's recent series of large-format photographic images to the preceding series have not changed, but in some respects the subject has. Collected in the latest of his several artist's books,...

An art of tender recuperation: a 20-year survey of work by painter-turned-installation-artist Jin Soo Kim was recently seen in Chicago. Functioning as a single environment that incorporated pieces of earlier works, the show explored Kim's interest in recycled objects and psychic repair.
July 1, 2003... This spring, two very different exhibitions inhabited the galleries of the Chicago Cultural Center, an arts complex housed in the grand Neo-Classical building that once served as the city's main library. One was a mini-retrospective of...

Bill Jensen at Mary Boone. (New York).(Art exhibits)
July 1, 2003... Bill Jensen's new paintings fought the lowered ceiling, stonewashed-gray walls and deep shadows of Mary Boone's uptown space to a draw for several rounds, and delivered a knockout blow with an amazing painting that was given pride of place in...

Anne Truitt at Danese. (New York).(installation sculpture exhibition)
July 1, 2003... The superb installation of Anne Truitt's recent sculptures transformed Danese into a sanctuary. Rarely have I seen a gallery exhibition as perfect in pitch and placement; and never have I seen Danese's space as fully realized as it was peopled...

Sherrie Levine at Paula Cooper. (New York).(small sculpture works and plywood knot paintings)
July 1, 2003... Spectacle is the order of the day for many younger artists, and even formerly difficult sculptors like Richard Serra are producing increasingly viewer-friendly works. Not Sherrie Levine. Her recent show at Paula Cooper adds virtually nothing to...

Elizabeth Murray at PaceWildenstein. (New York).(oil-on-canvas-on-wood works exhibition)
July 1, 2003... With these 11 loosely rectangular compositions (1999-2003), Elizabeth Murray has doubled back on her usual disregard for traditional painting formats. However, these oil-on-canvas-on-wood works are more fragmented than their predecessors,...

Donald Sultan at Knoedler. (New York).(exhibition of poppy paintings)
July 1, 2003... Donald Sultan's massive new poppy paintings extend beyond the familiar address of fruit and flowers that preceded them. The largest of these physically intense, enveloping works are painted on grids of ordinary vinyl flooring tiles that are...

Margaret Evangeline at Paul Rodgers/9W. (New York).
July 1, 2003... New York-based painter Margaret Evangeline's show at Paul Rodgers/9W was a tale of two rooms. Situated around the first, the better of the two, was a suite of paintings made of pools of oil paint pushed about the flat, gleaming surface of...

Emily Eveleth at Danese. (New York).(exhibition of works that depict doughnuts)
July 1, 2003... Emily Eveleth found the sublime in a jelly doughnut. The Massachusetts painter first showed at Danese in 1999, offering isolated doughnuts spiritually illuminated from on high. Her 2001 exhibition there, depicting the backs of bald men's heads,...

Paul Thek at Alexander and Bonin and with Edwin Klein at Janos Gat. (New York).(Art exhibits)
July 1, 2003... Some of the best paintings shown in New York this past season dated from the mid-1980s and were done by an artist who mostly worked in other mediums. Paul Thek, who died of AIDS in 1988, first gained notice with his Technological Reliquaries...

Andrew Spence at Edward Thorp. (New York).(Art exhibits)
July 1, 2003... In his work, as it has evolved over the last nearly 30 years, Andrew Spence has managed to make unlikely partners of both severity and wit. These are austere paintings, in that they employ large monochromatic areas and uncomplicated images, yet...

Dan Walsh at Paula Cooper. (New York).(Art exhibits)
July 1, 2003... The main gallery of Paula Cooper's ground-floor Chelsea space resembles a grand museum chamber. This impression was abetted by Dan Walsh's low-slung, monumentally horizontal paintings. Averaging 60 by 90 inches and hung 6 inches from the floor,...

Stefan Gritsch at Margarete Roeder. (New York).(Art exhibits)
July 1, 2003... Taking to an absurdist extreme the notion that the unique qualities of a medium should dictate its form, Swiss artist Stefan Gritsch produces three-dimensional objects that are composed solely of layers of acrylic paint. Painstakingly built up...

Valerie Jaudon at Von Lintel. (New York).(Art exhibits)
July 1, 2003... As an artist associated with the Pattern and Decoration movement of the late 1970s, Valerie Jaudon remains committed to painting that is at once abstract, geometric and ornamental. She is deeply attached to symmetry, and thus to the repetition...

Chloe Piene at Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert. (New York).(Art exhibits)
July 1, 2003... Treating the beast that lurks in the human heart with casual familiarity, Chloe Piene's half a dozen charcoal drawings and two video installations showed sexual pleasure to be mortifying, decadent and recklessly silly, in equal measure and...

Robert Boyd at Schroeder Romero. (New York).(Art exhibits)(Review)
July 1, 2003... Robert Boyd's "The Virgin Collection" was an impressive multidisciplinary exhibition combining costumery, objects, photography, video and performance. In works concerned with history, fascist power, homophobia, social suppression and...

Peter Campus at Leslie Tonkonow. (New York).(Art exhibits)
July 1, 2003... In Three Transitions, a pioneering videotape of 1973, Peter Campus appears, by turns, to slash through his body, erase his face and burn it to a cinder. This and two related tapes featured at Leslie Tonkonow emphasize the artifice of video...

"A Civilian Occupation: The Politics of Israeli Architecture" at Storefront for Art and Architecture. (New York).(Exhibition)(Review)
July 1, 2003... Since 1948, the Israeli program has largely remained the same--to establish a Jewish state in a predominantly non-Jewish area. Architecture and urban planning, fundamental to the Zionist project, were endowed with both practical and symbolic...

Doug Hall at Feigen Contemporary. (New York).
July 1, 2003... In "Opera Houses," Doug Hall's recent exhibition of large, richly saturated color photographs (all 2002), the artist presented a series of Italian opera house interiors for our contemplation. Hall has an abiding interest in Italy as a place...

Rosie Lee Tompkins at Peter Blum. (New York).(Quilts exhibits)
July 1, 2003... It is no longer revolutionary to suggest that work in craft mediums may attain the status of high art. Nevertheless, the formal sophistication and modernist esthetics of Rosie Lee Tompkins's quilts have placed her oeuvre in contexts where...

Laura de Santillana at Barry Friedman. (New York).(Art exhibits)
July 1, 2003... Laura de Santillana studied graphic design at New York's School of Visual Arts and began her career working at Vignelli Associates. But in 1977 she yielded to her history and returned to Venice, her birthplace; she comes from a family of...

Lisa Corinne Davis at June Kelly. (New York).(Art exhibits)
July 1, 2003... Lisa Corinne Davis is a New York-based artist who creates mostly gridded works consisting of small increments of painted or drawn imagery, collaged snippets of newspaper or diminutive digital photographs. Accumulated faces dominate the...

Robert Jack at Cristinerose/Josee Bienvenu. (New York).(Art exhibits)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Robert Jack's second solo exhibition consisted of 10 large and two small works on paper, each matched by a nearly identical twin. Jack, whose first show included small grids with tiny burn marks in the center of the squares, here produced...

Christopher Tanner at Pavel Zoubok. (New York).(Art exhibits)
July 1, 2003... Since the late 1980s, Christopher Tanner has created exuberant paintings and drawings with flashy, trashy materials. By coating surfaces with sequins, faux jewels and other glittering notions, the artist literally foregrounds artifice as the...

Alice Dalton Brown at Fischbach. (New York).(Art exhibits)
July 1, 2003... Alice Dalton Brown's eighth solo exhibition at this gallery in roughly double that number of years reaffirmed the durability and appeal of her realist paintings. Brown's subject matter ranges from American-style bucolic--the staid beaches of...

Stephen Dean at Henry Urbach. (New York).(Art exhibits)
July 1, 2003... A pulsing trumpet voluntary introduces the riot of found color that is Volta (2002-03), Stephen Dean's exuberant new single-channel DVD and fabric installation named for a soccer offense leading to a spectacular goal. Shot in Brazil at a dozen...

Jaume Plensa at Galerie Lelong. (New York).(Art exhibits)
July 1, 2003... First there was the sound of water, a constant that never really seemed to change, as thin tubes of pulsing neon lights described the roughly 9-foot cube that is the mise-en-scene of Jaume Plensa's Primary Thoughts (2001). In the midst of this...

Max Ernst at Carosso, LLC. (New York).(Art exhibits)(Review)
July 1, 2003... This show of 32 paintings, works on paper and sculptures drew from Max Ernst's works of the mid-1920s through the 1950s. The exhibition, titled "A Natural History of the Mind," presented Ernst's art works as inherently psychological studies, in...

Sydney Drum at 55 Mercer. (New York).(Art exhibits)
July 1, 2003... Sydney Drum's new multipanel paintings are methodical in structure. Across a horizontal length of 88 inches stretch four attached canvases, each 22 inches square. Each oil-on-linen panel hews strictly to its own imagistic formula. For example,...

Anne Wilson at Massachusetts College of Art. (Boston).(the artist expands her media beyond hair and domestic fabric)
July 1, 2003... For much of the 1990s, the Chicago-based artist Anne Wilson worked with fabric and human hair. The textiles were often used household linens or pale rectangles of cloth; the hair was sewn into delicate edgings around existing holes,...

Janet Biggs at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. (Ithaca, N.Y.).(Art exhibits)
July 1, 2003... Risperidone is an antipsychotic medication prescribed to patients with a tendency to obsessive, self-abusive behavior. Janet Biggs chose it as the title of her three-channel video installation at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell...

June McAdams at Gallery 222. (Leesburg, Va.).(Art exhibits)
July 1, 2003... This memorial exhibition of 32 small to medium-size oil paintings and watercolors by June McAdams (1921-2002) reminded us that examples of her portraits, landscapes and cityscapes have been viewed in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Virginia for...

Flora Cohen at Bernice Steinbaum. (Miami).(Art exhibits)
July 1, 2003... The depiction of religious experience is unusual in contemporary art. It's a difficult and complex subject, fraught with potential controversy, mostly off-limits in polite conversation and publicly funded art. Given religion's centrality in the...

David Remfry at Boca Raton Museum of Art and Elaine Baker. (Boca Raton).(Art exhibits)
July 1, 2003... Boca Raton recently saw two exhibitions of work by the watercolorist David Remfry, a British artist who has been living and working in New York's Chelsea Hotel since 1995. The exhibition at the Elaine Baker Gallery, which consisted primarily of...

Janet Lippincott at Karan Ruhlen. (Santa Fe).(Art exhibits)
July 1, 2003... A small retrospective of the works of Janet Lippincott in conjunction with her 85th birthday in May revealed several things about the artist, and also about art in America and the Southwest. Lippincott was born and raised the privileged...

Vicky Colombet at Evo. (Santa Fe).(Art exhibits)(Review)
July 1, 2003... This was French-born, New York-based artist Vicky Colombet's first solo U.S. show, and it comprised 23 abstract paintings from 2002, all oil, alkyd and wax on canvas, ranging from 8 inches square to 79 by 76 inches. Generally, these...

Gary Komarin at Peyton Wright. (Santa Fe).(Art exhibits)
July 1, 2003... At first viewing, Gary Komarin's recent show of mixed-medium works on canvas and paper seemed preoccupied with overt references to the paintings and imagistic lexicon of his influential teacher Philip Guston, for whom he also worked as a studio...

Ciel Bergman at R.B. Stevenson. (San Diego).(Art gallery)
July 1, 2003... Ciel Bergman, formerly known as Cheryl Bowers, started her career in San Francisco in the 1970s in a vibrant artistic milieu with artists such as Joan Brown, Jay DeFeo, Robert Hudson and William T. Wiley. After many years as a professor of...

Irving Norman at Santa Monica Community College. (Santa Monica).(Art exhibits)
July 1, 2003... Bay Area artist Irving Norman (1906-1989) created large-scale visionary paintings of a dystopian future with fiery conviction and an eye for mind-bending detail. Leading a one-man revolt against American conformity, big business and...

Hassel Smith at the Sonoma County Museum. (Santa Rosa).(Art exhibits)
July 1, 2003... This succinct survey of 28 works, curated by Peter Selz, unleashed the furtive, iconoclastic spirit of Hassel Smith, known as a West Coast underground legend despite the fact that he has spent much of the last 40 years in England. (Among the...

Wright Morris at the Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University. (Palo Alto).(Art exhibits)(Review)
July 1, 2003... PALO ALTO Wright Morris recognized in his texturally evocative writing the qualities of photography, and in photography's descriptive capacity, the expansiveness of prose. Morris (1910-1998) excelled at both mediums, though his wider...

Jack Smith at Flowers Central. (London).(Art exhibits)
July 1, 2003... British painter Jack Smith, now 75, has had an extraordinary career spanning five decades and encompassing an unusually dramatic migration from expressive figuration to hard-edge abstraction, He gained considerable notoriety in Britain in the...

Wade Saunders at Corinne Caminade. (Paris).(Art exhibits)(Review)
July 1, 2003... Wade Saunders has drawn inspiration from materials as varied as California vans and Indian silks, and seems to have found it most recently in the basement of BHV, the colossal do-it-yourself emporium in Paris (the American artist currently...

Art services.(Buyers Guide)
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Awards & grants. (Artworld).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... The City of New York recently presented its Doris C. Freedman Award to former mayor Ed Koch, who signed the city's Percent-for-Art law in 1982. Robert Rosenblum, New York University professor and adjunct curator at the Guggenheim Museum,...

Racine Museum grows. (Artworld).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... The Wustum Museum in Racine, Wis., opened a new building under its new name--the Racine Art Museum--on May 11. Located since 1941 in the 1856 Italianate former home of Jennie and Charles Wustum, a 13-acre site that includes a formal garden, the...

Obituaries.(Obituary)
July 1, 2003... Gerrit Henry, 52, poet, critic and frequent A.i.A. contributor, died in Manhattan on May 1 of a heart attack. A full obituary will appear in the September issue. Skunder Boghossian, 65, African artist whose works blend European modernist...

Pierre Restany, 1930-2003. (Artworld).(Brief Article)(Obituary)
July 1, 2003... Pierre Restany, 72, French art critic, died in Paris on May 29 of a heart attack. Although he had a long and varied career, Restany remained best known for championing the artists he dubbed the Nouveaux Realistes in a 1960 manifesto. Dismissing...

Farnsworth House for sale? (Artworld).
July 1, 2003... A real-estate deal made in 2001 to preserve Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House in Piano, Ill., came undone earlier this year, a victim of electoral politics. British real-estate developer and collector Peter Palumbo, who has owned the house...

Greece's Marbles: foiled again. (Artworld).(Elgin Marbles)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Greece's attempts to get the British government to return the Elgin Marbles have met another roadblock, this time from within. The country's highest court recently rejected the initial plans for the New Acropolis Museum, designed by Bernard...

Arts group sues for lost funds. (Artworld).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... The Washington, D.C.-based arts-advocacy group Americans for the Arts filed a lawsuit in May against National City Bank of Cleveland, alleging negligence and breach of fiduciary duty with regard to a gift of $86 million it received from Ruth...

Major expansion plan for the Clark. (Artworld).(Tadao Ando heads renovation plans for the Clark Institute of art)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... The Clark Art Institute in Willliamstown, Mass., recently unveiled plans for its renovation and expansion program, designed by Tadao Ando. The project will add 95,000 square feet of exhibition space, much of which (62,300 square feet) will be...

"Cremaster" a blockbuster. (Artworld).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Completing its international tour at New York's Guggenheim Museum on June 11, Matthew Barney's exhibition "The Cremaster Cycle" goes on record as the best-attended single-artist show ever held at that venue. After stops in Cologne and Paris,...

Center for Creative Photography. (People).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Douglas R. Nickel, photography curator at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art since 1997, has been appointed director of the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson. He will assume his new post in August.

CalArts Gallery. (People).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Eungie Joe, a New York-based writer and curator, has been named director of the CalArts Gallery at REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater), to open in October in the Disney Concert Hall complex in downtown Los Angeles.

Baltimore Museum of Art. (People).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Chris Gilbert, associate curator at the Des Moines Art Center for the last two years, has been named curator of contemporary art at the Baltimore Museum of Art.

Fifth Gwangju Biennale. (People).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Yongwoo Lee, executive director of the New York Center for Media Arts since 1999, has been appointed general artistic director of the Fifth Gwangju Biennale, scheduled for the fall of 2004. He also served in that position for the first Gwangju...

Mint Museums. (People).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Mark Leach has been appointed deputy director of the Mint Museums, comprising the Museum of Art and the Craft + Design Museum, Charlotte, N.C. He is the founding director of the Craft + Design Museum, which opened in January 1999.

Santa Fe.(Art galleries calendar)(Calendar)
July 1, 2003... (1) A * Corso * Paintings 622 Canyon Road, #C Santa Fe, NM 87501 Tel: 505.992.8610 corso@acorso.com www.acorso.com Oil on canvas and works on paper by Antony Corso: horses, nudes, portraits, landscapes, botanicals,...