Art in America articles from June 2004

Art in America archives from June 2004

NY galleries.(Calendar)
June 1, 2004... Atlantic Avenue Metaphor Contemporary Art 382 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217 Tel: 718.254.9126 Email: metaphorart@aol.com Website: www.metaphorcontemporaryart.com Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, Sunday:...

Acropolis Museum delayed.(Front Page)
June 1, 2004... Dashing any hope that the Elgin Marbles would be returned to Greece for the Olympics, the Greek government recently announced that the Acropolis Museum, designed by Bernard Tschumi, would not be ready in time for the August games. Construction...

Contemporary art at the games.(Front Page)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... One of the centerpieces of the 2004 Cultural Olympiad program of the summer games is "Monument to Now," a contemporary art exhibition organized by the Deste Foundation. The show, on view June 22 to Dec. 31, will be installed at the foundation's...

Ballroom Marfa launched.(Front Page)
June 1, 2004... Ballroom Marfa, a contemporary arts center in Marfa, Tex., was officially launched on Apr. 23 with an ambitious group exhibition, "Optimo: Manifestations of Optimism in Contemporary Art," on view through June 27. Selected by New York-based...

Goldsworthy atop the met.(Front Page)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Two monumental works by British sculptor Andy Goldsworthy are currently on view on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Constructed by the artist on-site, Stone Houses consists of two 18-foot-tall, open-frame domes, 24 feet in diameter,...

New art center for Hudson Valley.(Front Page)(Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art is set to open its doors to the public on June 12. Located in Peekskill, N.Y., south of Dia:Beacon and less than an hour by train from Manhattan, the center was founded by collectors Marc Straus, an...

Baroque Villa to show new art.(Front Page)(Centro d'Arte Contemporanea at the Villa Manin)
June 1, 2004... A May 3 press conference marked the debut of Italy's newest art institution, the Centro d'Arte Contemporanea at the Villa Manin. Funded by the regional government of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, the center will host international exhibitions,...

Holland's billion-dollar baby.(Front Page)(European Fine Art Foundation Fair a.k.a. the Maastricht Fair)
June 1, 2004... One of Europe's largest art fairs, and widely regarded as one of the world's most prestigious, the European Fine Art Foundation Fair (TEFAF), also known as the Maastricht Fair, offered for sale an estimated $1 billion worth of art this year. In...

Carnegie artists announced.(Front Page)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... The Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh has released the names of artists selected for its 2004-05 Carnegie International, to open on Oct. 9. Curated by Laura Hoptman, this installment features some 200 works by 38 artists. Among them are...

Green light for MAD renovation.(Front Page)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... In April, a lawsuit attempting to block the sale of Two Columbus Circle to the Museum of Arts and Design was dismissed by a state supreme court judge in Manhattan. Three preservation groups had filed the suit to protect Edward Durell Stone's...

Santa Fe: summer preview.
June 1, 2004... In addition to the internationally recognized SITE Santa Fe biennial opening in mid-July, Santa Fe is gearing up for a culturally rich series of events being billed as "Russian Summer in Santa Fe," a city-wide festival that explores Russian...

Visiting China's Avant-Garde.(China: Art Now)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... China: Art Now, text by Michel Nuridsany, photographs by Marc Domage, Paris, Editions Flammarion, 2004, distributed by Rizzoli International Publications; 264 pages, $55. As economists wring their hands over our trade imbalance with China,...

The well-tempered Biennial: leaving behind the controversies that dogged previous editions, the 2004 Whitney Biennial placed painting at the heart of a national roundup that stressed individual expression over critical issues.(Report From New York)
June 1, 2004... It has been over a decade since the infamous 1993 "political" Whitney Biennial Curated by Elisabeth Sussman, Thelma Golden, John Hanhardt and Lisa Phillips, it attracted bilious criticism for its strident and supposedly single-minded obsession...

Cold War icons revisited: at the heart of a huge German-Russian cultural exchange, a 500-work show at the Martin-Gropius-Bau examined a half-century of confrontation between East and West.(Report From Berlin)
June 1, 2004... In the recent film Good-bye Lenin!, a nostalgic romp through the East German past, the propaganda banner is one of the most telling motifs. The banner at the start of the film depicts the Soviet hero several stories high. By its end, the device...

Art against the odds: on two recent trips to Iraq, the author found that artists are continuing to make work despite the massive upheaval in their country.(Report From Baghdad)
June 1, 2004... On a trash-lined street in the Mustansiriya District of Baghdad squats the ministry of labor and social affairs, a low-slung building unremarkable except for a 13-foot-high mural positioned near its entrance. The artwork consists of yellow,...

The mask behind the face: focusing primarily on the Weimar period, when August Sander made many of his best works, the author reconsiders the photographer's massive documentation of Germany's population. A traveling retrospective is currently on view at New York's Metropolitan Museum.(Photography)(Critical Essay)
June 1, 2004... August Sander (1876-1964) was one of the 20th century's greatest photographers. He spent his early career as a commercial portraitist in Linz, Austria, but began the huge group of photographs for which he is best remembered after 1904 or so,...

Sixty ways of looking at China: in the past decade, photography in the People's Republic has become a full-blown art form for the first time in half a century. Now two noted scholar-curators offer a major show--and, below, a wide-ranging discussion--designed to acquaint Western audiences with cutting-edge Chinese photographers and video-makers.(China)(Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China)(Panel Discussion)
June 1, 2004... Featuring the work of some 60 artists, "Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China," opens June 11 at the International Center of Photography and the Asia Society in New York, before beginning a two-year international tour....

Mainland dreams on tape: video fests at three venues in New York--MOMA and two private galleries--recently revealed the technical range and narrative quirkiness of China's restless post-Tiananmen generation.(China)
June 1, 2004... Video is the medium of the moment in China, where younger artists have embraced the rapid production capabilities of digital cameras and Final Cut Pro to keep pace with the cultural upheavals occurring in their country during the past decade....

The academy strikes back: last fall, as official taste reigned at major international surveys in Beijing and Pingyao, avant-garde artists responded with spunky alternative shows.(China)
June 1, 2004... After the demise of Soviet-bloc Communism, sentimentalists on the left did a good deal of wishful thinking about a "third way" between that vast socio-economic fiasco and what they took to be the depredations of U.S.-style capitalism gone...

Young Beijing: China's capital, once stifled by officialdom, now hosts a myriad of emerging artists, dealers and curators who are attempting to turn the mega-city into a truly global art center--at startling speed.(China)
June 1, 2004... Beijing is on the more. Venues for contemporary art are multiplying exponentially. Official attitudes have relaxed dramatically, with the government often lending support to exhibitions in the form of its imprimatur and, increasingly, its cash....

Shanghai spring: the launch of a new museum and a major commercial gallery on the Bund have enlivened Shanghai's diverse art scene, creating intense anticipation for this fall's biennial.(China)
June 1, 2004... For the past 10 years, China's contemporary art institutions have struggled to keep up with the raw talent and energy of its artists. Shanghai has been no exception, its cutting-edge galleries and museums emerging slowly and cautiously. Every...

Catching up with Bontecou: a young star of the 1960s, Lee Bontecou voluntarily dropped off the art world's radar. Now her richly imaginative art is being discovered afresh thanks to a major retrospective that arrives in New York in July.(Critical Essay)
June 1, 2004... In a variety of ways, the traveling retrospective of works by Lee Bontecou represents a healthy tonic for the contemporary art world. This is not business as usual. The exhibition--curated by Elizabeth A.T. Smith of Chicago's Museum of...

A painter in midcurrent: the recent survey of John Currin's paintings gave viewers in New York, Chicago and London an opportunity to assess the achievement of this provocative artist.
June 1, 2004... In some ways this midcareer retrospective of John Currin's paintings felt like a throwback to the 1980s, when the Whitney routinely mounted big shows of the hot artists of the moment, even though it was the Chicago MCA and London's Serpentine...

Chakaia Booker: material matters: with a mid-career survey currently on view and a show opening this month at Storm King Art Center in New York, the sculptor best known for her decade-long use of rubber tires is receiving attention for the conceptual breadth of her work.
June 1, 2004... Over the past several years, Chakaia Booker has garnered significant acclaim for sculptures made primarily from rubber tires. The 50-year-old artist and self-proclaimed "Rubber Queen" began using her trademark material in the mid-1990s, and has...

Full-throttte abstract: a current display of Julie Mehretu's canvases, some quite sweeping in scale, shows the artist's fascination with the lexicon of painting and the chaos of crowds.
June 1, 2004... I saw Julie Mehretu's traveling exhibition "Drawing into Painting" at its third venue, the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo (it was organized by Douglas Fogle and Olukemi Ilesanmi at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis). The show includes four...

Shao Yinong and Mu Chen at Goedhuis Contemporary.(New York)
June 1, 2004... Shao Yinong and Mu Chen, a husband and wife team who live and work in Beijing, utilize photography to document elements of China's history and to manipulate reality through digital enhancement. In their first show in New York, the pair offered...

Yang Yong at Goedhuis Contemporary at the Annex.(New York)
June 1, 2004... Despite their designer clothes and well-practiced air of affectless boredom, the languorous beauties who inhabit these photographs are only supporting characters. The real stars here are the strangely stagy environments that the women...

"One to one: visions--recent photographs from China" at Chambers.(New York)
June 1, 2004... This exhibition of work by eight young Chinese photographers mixed staged and more or less documentary images. Organized by Feng Boyi, a young Beijing-based curator, the show offered an intriguing cross section of thematic and stylistic...

Philippe Halsman at Howard Greenberg.(New York)
June 1, 2004... Known for the 101 covers he produced for Life magazine--more than any other photographer--Philippe Halsman (1906-1979) is celebrated for his irreverent portraits of leaping luminaries such as Salvador Dali, Richard Nixon and the Duke and...

Fang Lijun at Thomas Erben.(New York)
June 1, 2004... Now in his early 40s, the Beijing-based painter and printmaker Fang Lijun was still a student in the print department at the Central Academy of Fine Art when he participated in the landmark exhibition "China AvantGarde" (1989) at the China Art...

Jane Benson at Satellite.(New York)
June 1, 2004... Hundreds of feet of painted foil garlands provided Jane Benson with the ammo for Underbush (2004), a full-scale operation that transformed the gallery. In a dense, dramatic, swagged fashion, this intricate web of holiday readymades encompassed...

Barbara Kruger at Mary Boone.(New York)
June 1, 2004... For some observers of the social landscape, the depth of an analysis is best measured by the acid content of its findings: if you know the worst about someone or something, you know the essential truth. Barbara Kruger is of that disposition,...

Michael Snow at Jack Shainman.(New York)
June 1, 2004... The title of this exhibition, "Powers of Two," by veteran Canadian artist and filmmaker Michael Snow, points to the play with doubling, reflections and reversals found in his work. Here he created a meditation on the dualities inherent in acts...

Hong Hao at Chambers.(New York)
June 1, 2004... Hong Hao was born in China in 1965, on the eve of the Cultural Revolution, which stifled independent creative activity. An intensely witty and sophisticated graphic artist and photographer whose work celebrates the tradition of the artist's...

Gordon Terry at Mike Weiss.(New York)
June 1, 2004... Gordon Terry's retina-testing abstract paintings are materially homogenous and formally disparate. The 15 works in this exhibition vary stylistically--from splashy gestural abstractions and acrylic pours on hard plastic supports, to...

Julian Stanczak at Stefan Stux.(New York)
June 1, 2004... In 1965, the Museum of Modern Art included Julian Stanczak's abstract geometric paintings in "The Responsive Eye," the exhibition that placed Op art on the map. The movement achieved considerable popular success seemingly overnight, but was...

Stephen Ellis at Von Lintel.(New York)
June 1, 2004... Several paintings in this exhibition appropriate fragments from an untitled poem by Randall Jarrell that reads in part "Things last by being lost/Or broken: the shard is safest under the loess" (a helpful listing of text sources for this show...

Darren Waterston at Charles Cowles.(New York)
June 1, 2004... Darren Waterston's seventh exhibition at Charles Cowles, titled "Ghosts," consisted of 28 oil-on-panel paintings, ranging in size from 9 inches square to 72 by 48 inches (all 2003). The smaller works, 21 in all, were beautifully displayed in a...

Gang Zhao at Goedhuis contemporary.(New York)
June 1, 2004... Gang Zhao is a philosophical painter with a cavalier touch. His lighthearted paintings of zodiac animals, waterfalls and houses are drawn from illustrations in historical Chinese books but are rendered in a predominantly Western style. ...

Suzanne McClelland at K.S. arts.(New York)
June 1, 2004... This wonderful show could not have been the 10-year survey of works on paper promised by the chronology. K.S. Arts is too small a gallery, the selection was limited to works the size of stationery, and there was a six-year gap between 1993 and...

Thomas Nozkowski at Max Protetch.(New York)
June 1, 2004... One key to understanding the psychic tug of Thomas Nozkowski's paintings lies in the matter of size. At 22 by 28 inches, his canvases approximate the dimensions of a valise, and vouchsafe the same physical invitation to clutch and possess....

William Eggleston at Cheim & Read.(New York)
June 1, 2004... William Eggleston, the photographer most associated with the introduction of commercially processed color prints to contemporary art photography, was born in Memphis in 1939 and began to shoot in color in 1965. Moving for a time to New York...

Tiong Ang at Florence Lynch.(New York)
June 1, 2004... Like many denizens of the global art world, Tiong Ang is difficult to categorize. Born in Indonesia, Ang grew up in the Netherlands and currently resides in Amsterdam. His work has been shown in many international exhibitions, including the...

Arnie Zane at Paula Cooper.(New York)
June 1, 2004... Arnie Zane is best known as the co-founder of the Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Dance Company, but he was a photographer first, and this intimate show suggested that he was a good one. Zane, who died in 1988, studied photography at the State...

Xiaoze Xie at Charles Cowles.(New York)
June 1, 2004... A native of Guangdong who lives and works in Pennsylvania, Xiaoze Xie has painted pictures of Chinese and American newspapers for nearly a decade. Working from photographs he takes of neatly stacked newspapers that he finds in library archives,...

Dennis Kardon at Mitchell Algus.(New York)
June 1, 2004... Amid the recent resurgence of interest in figurative painting, most of the attention has gene to artists who have emerged in the last decade or so: Lisa Yuskavage, John Currin, Elizabeth Peyton. It would be great if this swing in taste could...

Wang Keping and Jeng Jundian at Marlborough Chelsea.(New York)
June 1, 2004... The title of this elegant show was "Body & Nature," referring to the carved wooden figures of Wang Keping and the painted landscapes of Jeng Jundian, respectively. Wang, who was born in Beijing and played a prominent role in the late '70s and...

Xiao Fan Ru at White Box.(New York)
June 1, 2004... The Chinese painter Xiao Fan Ru, born in Nankin, emigrated to Paris in 1983. A midcareer artist, he is of the same generation as the conceptual and installation triumvirate who have done so well in America: Xu Bing, Cai Guo-Qiang and Gu Wenda....

Norbert Bisky at Leo Koenig.(New York)
June 1, 2004... Born in Leipzig in 1970 and now based in Berlin, Norbert Bisky grew up during the waning years of East Germany's socialist regime as the son of a prominent Communist official. The large figurative paintings in Bisky's New York debut draw on his...

David Shapiro at eyewash @/Jack the Pelican.(New York)
June 1, 2004... David Shapiro's art is garbage--specifically, two years' worth of his own nonperishable trash. Taking his cue from such artists as Piero Manzoni and Warhol, who proposed that virtually anything an artist produces is art and that anything in...

Ying-Yueh Chuang and Yi Chen at Plum Blossoms.(New York)
June 1, 2004... These two young artists, one Taiwanese-born and living in Canada, the other from Beijing and residing in New York, share an obsession with the hybrid. Ying-Yueh Chuang, the former, is a ceramist whose brightly colored sculptures have the look...

Mario Dellavedova at Sperone Westwater.(New York)
June 1, 2004... A collection of individual, small-scale installations constituted the second New York exhibition by Mario Dellavedova, a midcareer Italian artist. The show carried the mysterious title "But all that remains is founded by poets. (The dopolavoro)...

Leo Villareal at Sandra Gering.(New York)
June 1, 2004... Leo Villareal has designed light shows for techno-musician Moby and an enormous strobe-laden scaffolding for P.S. 1, but for his second solo show at the gallery, he created an intimate, minimal environment. Three walls each held 20...

Mary Hambleton at Littlejohn Contemporary.(New York)
June 1, 2004... Just as each of Mary Hambleton's paintings aims to draw the viewer into close examination of its intensely detailed surfaces, so did this show as a whole seek to draw one into the artist's thronging, mostly abstract visual universe of optically...

Leon Golub at Ronald Feldman.(New York)
June 1, 2004... Six monumental canvases from Leon Golub's "Graeco-Roman Colossi" series dominated Ronald Feldman's main gallery. This selection of lacquer-on-canvas works from the late 1950s and early '60s was the largest group of Colossi exhibited within the...

Maria Hafif at Larry Becker.(Philadelphia)
June 1, 2004... A dozen serene, modestly sized paintings by Marcia Hafif--eight of them 16 by 20 inches, the remainder 18 inches square--each a single glowing color, hung at carefully considered intervals in the two equally serene rooms of Larry Becker...

Dale Kistemaker at MOCA Cleveland.(Cleveland)
June 1, 2004... Cleveland-born, San Francisco-based artist Dale Kistemaker photographs the miscellany of his childhood for his stark, carefully composed gelatin silver prints. His midcareer survey at MOCA Cleveland contained 86 works from 1994 to 2002....

Deb Lacusta at Vedanta.(Chicago)
June 1, 2004... In Deb Lacusta's multimedia exhibition "loving Brando being," the artist's obsession with the actor Marlon Brando manifests itself in several video works that merge fantasy and reality in humorous, unexpected ways. The Los Angeles-based...

Marcie Miller Gross at Joseph Nease.(Kansas City)
June 1, 2004... Over the past three years, Marcie Miller Gross has employed recycled hospital towels as a sculptural medium, folding and stacking them into massive blocks, tall towers and other geometric configurations. She also has placed stacks of towels on...

Kim Jones at ArtPace.(San Antonio)
June 1, 2004... Working ceaselessly throughout his two-month residency at the gallery, Kim Jones covered three of its walls with an intricate pencil-drawn map of an imaginary world at war. From a distance, the 1,600-square-foot work, had a hazy, cloudlike...

James Westwater at Klaudia Marr.(Santa Fe, N.M.)
June 1, 2004... This intriguing show by Brazilian-born, Santa Fe-based artist James Westwater consisted of found objects, collages, assemblages, paintings and drawings--all from 2004. In these works the artist continues to use Pop representation and abstract...

Linda Fleming at Linda Durham.(Galisteo, N.M.)
June 1, 2004... Linda Fleming's recent show, "(Dis)Integrated Ingredients," continued her long-standing exploration of how complex constructions evolve out of simple geometric forms. From the early 1970s to the mid-1980s, Fleming made assemblages of huge...

Marcin Maciejowski at Marc Foxx.(Los Angeles)
June 1, 2004... Marcin Maciejowski's first solo show in the United States--the second outside his native Krakow--included 11 paintings (all dated 2003) reflecting his ongoing preoccupations with gender symbolism, military themes, art history and Polish...

Zilla Leutenegger at Peter Kilchmann.(Zurich)
June 1, 2004... For a number of years, Swiss artist Zilla Leutenegger has made videos, animations and drawings, almost always depicting herself sleeping, running or sitting still in a corner, evoking moods hovering between playfulness and melancholy. Perhaps...

Art services.(Directory)
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Raymond Pettibon has won the 2004 Bucksbaum Award, given to an artist in the Whitney Biennial.(Awards)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Raymond Pettibon has won the 2004 Bucksbaum Award, given to an artist in the Whitney Biennial. He receives $100,000 and en exhibition at the museum in winter 2005-06.

Kara Walker is the winner of the 2004 Lucelia Artist Award, presented by the Smithsonian American Art Museum.(Awards)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Kara Walker is the winner of the 2004 Lucelia Artist Award, presented by the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The $25,000 prize goes to artists under the age of 50.

The William H. Johnson Foundation for the Arts has presented its 2003 prize, worth $20,000, to Nadine Robinson.(Awards)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... The William H. Johnson Foundation for the Arts has presented its 2003 prize, worth $20,000, to Nadine Robinson. The award is given to African-American and other minority artists early in their careers.

The International Center of Photography in New York recently presented its 2004 Infinity Awards.(Awards)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... The International Center of Photography in New York recently presented its 2004 Infinity Awards. William Eggleston was honored for lifetime achievement. Josef Koudelka received the Comell Capa Award. Fiona Tan won the prize for art photography,...

The New York-based American Academy of Arts and Letters has announced the winners of its art awards, totaling over $60,000.(Awards)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... The New York-based American Academy of Arts and Letters has announced the winners of its art awards, totaling over $60,000. The $10,000 Metcalf Award was given to Tara Donovan. Academy awards of $7,500 each were presented to Jacqueline...

The New York Foundation for the Arts recently honored Christo and Jeanne-Claude and Deutsche Bank w.(Awards)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... The New York Foundation for the Arts recently honored Christo and Jeanne-Claude and Deutsche Bank with its first annual Inspiration Awards. The awards are given to individuals and organizations for significant achievements as artists or in...

Aldrich Contemporary Art.(Museum News)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Conn., reopens June 13, after a $9-million renovation and expansion project that doubles the museum's previous size. Designed by Tappe Associates of Boston, a new granite and white clapboard...

New York's New Museum of Contemporary Art announced it will open an interim space for exhibitions while its new building, set to open on the Bowery in 2006, is under construction.(Museum News)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... New York's New Museum of Contemporary Art announced it will open an interim space for exhibitions while its new building, set to open on the Bowery in 2006, is under construction. The museum, which closed its SoHo space in mid-May, will occupy...

The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., has selected architect Norman Foster to design a courtyard enclosure for the Patent Office Building that houses both the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery.(Museum News)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., has selected architect Norman Foster to design a courtyard enclosure for the Patent Office Building that houses both the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery. Foster,...

Taft Museum of Art.(Museum News)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Cincinnati's Taft Museum of Art reopened May 15, following a $22.8-million, 2 1/2-year renovation and expansion project designed by Ann Beha. Among the new features is an area for special exhibitions that triples the size of the original space...

The Rochester Art Center recently opened its new facility near downtown Rochester, Minn.(Museum News)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... The Rochester Art Center recently opened its new facility near downtown Rochester, Minn. Designed by the architecture firm Hammel, Green and Abrahamson (HGA), the 36,000-square-foot building is a two-part structure consisting of one zinc-and...

The Austin Museum of Art has abandoned its plans to build a new $43-million, 125,000-square-foot building designed by Gluckman Mayner Architects.(Museum News)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... The Austin Museum of Art has abandoned its plans to build a new $43-million, 125,000-square-foot building designed by Gluckman Mayner Architects. The scheme was adopted in the late 1990s in the midst of a strong economic climate in Texas. But...

Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art.(Museum News)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Austin's Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art has selected artist Mel Chin and landscape architect Peter Walker to collaborate on a design for a 72,000-square-foot plaza and garden. The team's plans will be integrated with the museum's new...

Obituaries.(Artworld)(Obituary)
June 1, 2004... George Heard Hamilton, 93, professor and museum director, died Mar. 29 in Williamstown, Mass. With George Kubler, Charles Seymour and others, Hamilton was among the fresh Yale Ph.D.s who formed that university's first official art history...

Jordi Teixidor at Antonio Machon.(Madrid)
June 1, 2004... Spanish painter Jordi Teixidor's persistent, rigorous and continually surprising elaboration on the legacy of Abstract Expressionism, especially the work of Newman, Reinhardt and Rothko, is among the strongest evidence anywhere for the enduring...

Curatorial changes at the Whitney.(Artworld)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... As this issue went to press, a formal announcement was pending from the Whitney Museum of American Art about the latest changes to the curatorial staff implemented by director Adam Weinberg. Contemporary art curator Lawrence Rinder has resigned...

Looted Iraqi art still AWOL.(Artworld)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Amid the turmoil in Iraq this spring, Matthew Bogdanos, the U.S. Marine colonel in charge of recovering art looted from the Baghdad Museum last year [see "Front Page," June '03], told BBC News that he was angered by the lack of international...

Busan Biennale trifecta bid.(Artworld)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Sometimes regarded as the "other" Korean biennial city, Busan is giving the better-known Gwangju a run for its money this year with a three-phase international exposition that extends over a five-month period. The Busan Sculpture Project...

Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University.(People)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Kimerly Rorschach, director of the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago for nine years, has been named the first director of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. The $23-million museum is slated to open in...