Art in America articles from June 2006

Art in America archives from June 2006

Minneapolis building boom.(FRONT PAGE)(Minneapolis Institute of Arts)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... A$50-million addition and renovation at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, designed by Michael Graves, opens to the public on June 11. The museum's core building was created by McKim, Mead & White in 1915; two flanking wings added by Kenzo...

Artists compete for U.S. Asylum.(FRONT PAGE)(awards)
June 1, 2006... Late last year, the Berlin-based collective Wooloo Productions was honored with a Future of the Present award--given to artists or groups that "fully exploit the properties of the Internet as an art medium"--from New York's Franklin Furnace....

Blake sale falls flat.(William Blake)
June 1, 2006... A controversial sale of a set of 19 watercolors by William Blake failed to meet expectations at a special-session auction at Sotheby's in New York on May 2. Estimated at $12-17 million, Blake's illustrations for "The Grave" a 1743 poem by the...

Watermill Center expands.(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... The newly expanded Watermill Center, in Water Mill, N.Y., will celebrate its reopening the weekend of July 14-16 with auctions, a summer benefit and free guided tours for the public. A workshop space for the development of theater and...

Point of view: the atrium that ate the Morgan.(Pierpont Morgan Library reconfigured by Renzo Piano Building Workshop)
June 1, 2006... Renzo Piano's gloriously light-filled and complexly layered atrium for the reconfigured Morgan Library and Museum, which opened Apr. 29, easily outdoes New York's other new museum "wow" space--the clunkily massive mega-space designed by Yoshio...

Designer's 100th.(Viktor Schreckengost)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... A lawn chair, a pedal car, a ceramic figurine showing a Neroesque Mussolini with Hitler and Hirohito as cherubim: all are the work of Viktor Schreckengost, Cleveland designer and sculptor whose 100th birthday is being celebrated by more than...

The great outdoors.
June 1, 2006... The intersection of Fifth Avenue and 60th Street in Manhattan may not be what it once was (the storied Plaza Hotel, which faces it, is in the unsightly process of conversion to private residences), but it's still a major crossroads of...

The real (art) world.(EchoStar Communications Corp.'s 'Artstar')
June 1, 2006... After the plethora of reality television shows bombarding our screens in recent years, featuring everything from top fashion models who critique wannabes to cleaning ladies who scrutinize the level of cleanliness in your home, it was surely...

What rhymes with Dada.(Miuccia Prada's)
June 1, 2006... Prada's downtown Manhattan store reopened Apr. 18, after a January fire in its SoHo building (also home to Art in America's still displaced offices), with an ambitious self-celebratory exhibition drawn from designer Miuccia Prada's skirt...

Art checks into Kentucky.(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Contemporary art can now be added to a list that mainly includes horse racing and bourbon as reasons to stay overnight in Louisville. In April, 21C Museum Hotel, a new boutique hotel combining luxury accommodations and a collection of...

New milestones at Maastricht.(European FineArt Fair)
June 1, 2006... The hype, hoopla and jaw-dropping statistics surrounding the European FineArt Fair (TEFAF), one of the world's largest and most prestigious art fairs, held each March in Maastricht, Holland, can get in the way of any serious discussion of what...

Allan Kaprow, 1927-2006.(Obituary)
June 1, 2006... On Wednesday, Apr. 5, Allan Kaprow, the Master of the Happening, the pathbreaking artist, thinker and theorist whose explosive career of more than 40 years of environments and performances, powerful and prophetic essays, and influential...

Santa Fe summer preview.(season's highlights include SITE Santa Fe's Sixth International Biennial)
June 1, 2006... Santa Fe's continuously evolving position within the international contemporary art arena will, once again, make itself known this summer in a swell of museum and gallery exhibitions, art events, lectures and symposia all taking place against...

The Dada diffusion.(Dada: Zurich, Berlin, Hannover, Cologne, New York, Paris)(The Dada Seminars)(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Dada: Zurich, Berlin, Hannover, Cologne, New York, Paris, edited by Leah Dickerman, Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, and New York, D.A.P., 2005; 519 pages, $65. The Dada Seminars, edited by Leah Dickerman and Matthew S....

Madison avenue ennui: after visiting the latest Whitney Biennial, a critic offers suggestions for substantial reforms of the show's format.
June 1, 2006... Above the elevators on one of the floors of the Whitney Museum occupied by the 2006 edition of its Biennial exhibition hangs an awning of the sort that graces the entrances to any number of New York delicatessens, shoe shops and stereo stores....

When bad was good: the art scene of downtown Manhattan ca. 1974-1984 is resurrected in a show that originated in New York and is now in Pittsburgh.(Biography)
June 1, 2006... These days Duncan Hannah is known for his nostalgia-ridden figurative paintings that take their inspiration from 1930s England. But 25 years ago he had a brief career as an underground film actor, appearing in a series of black-and-white movies...

Mission of the Avant-Garde: for the first time ever, a substantial selection from the Societe Anonyme collection, formed by Katherine S. Dreier and Marcel Duchamp, is traveling the country.(Biography)
June 1, 2006... In 1920, artist and social activist Katherine S. Dreier [see article this issue] met with Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray in New York to found the Societe Anonyme, the first museum of modern art in America. Initially infused with the Dada spirit,...

Dreier the painter: Katherine Dreier is best known as a patron and promoter of early modernism, but she was also an artist in her own right.(Biography)
June 1, 2006... It is a measure of the importance of Katherine Dreier to the development of modernism in America that, in a letter to her dated 1936, Alfred Barr, Jr., wrote: "No one has done more for the advancement of the more experimental movements in...

In defense of Burning Man: the controversial, anarchic arts festival, held every summer in the Nevada desert, is now in its 20th year.
June 1, 2006... Possibly the tip-off was that I was scribbling down "Art Projects That Need Your Help" from the notice board at Artery, the project HQ of Burning Man. They were: DISCO BALL STOLEN FROM "BITCH STOP" ART. BED IN YOUR HEAD needs clear...

White noise, in seven-part harmony: an international and intergenerational exhibition of sound art staged in New York honored the "Manifesto Bianco" of Emilio Prini, one of Arte Povera's cagier principals.
June 1, 2006... A Proposed perimeter of air whose method of demarcation is never specified, a unit of measurement that fluctuates from city to city, a list of never-to-be-executed actions, a tape recorder registering its own noises in an otherwise still...

Our man in Havana: Robert Mapplethorpe: when Havana's Fototeca mounted a show of Mapplethorpe's photographs this winter, it was such a hit with the general public that its run had to be extended by nearly a month.(Fototeca de Cuba )
June 1, 2006... Throughout its history, Cuba has inspired larger-than-life flights of imagination. Sometimes it's envisioned as a realm of vast primeval wealth and marauding pirates: no surprise, then, that a popular local beer is named Bucanero. Or there's...

Dada lives: the subject of an appropriately shape-shifting exhibition seen in Paris, Washington and now New York, Dada wasprod the 20th century's most all-inclusive and far-reaching art movement, rejecting nothing, no matter how vulgar, provocative or insincere. Today's art is, in many ways, its product.
June 1, 2006... Less than two decades after the 1918 Armistice--in December 1936--with global political order again falling to ruin, the seven-year-old Museum of Modern Art in New York opened "Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism," including the first-ever...

Marcel Duchamp Curates Dada: the author recalls a legendary exhibition of international Dada a half-century ago, structured city by city, at his family's New York gallery.
June 1, 2006... An international Dada exhibition presenting hundreds of works--paintings, sculptures, collages, photomontages, drawings, broadsheets, books, manifestos, pamphlets, posters, fliers, and even sheet music and a 1923 phonograph record--may sound...

Heartfield's photo-Grenades: during the European interwar period, German artist John Heartfield used satirical photomontage--mass-reproduced in newspapers and on posters--to battle the forces of reaction and hypocrisy. A current show at the Getty tracks his efforts through that tumultuous time.(Biography)
June 1, 2006... On the night of Apr. 16, 1933, John Heartfield climbed out a window of his apartment on Potsdamer Street and jumped from the first-floor balcony, narrowly escaping the SS men who pursued him. Fleeing Berlin, he crossed the Sudeten Mountains on...

Ben's spontaneous mind: since the late 1950s, French artist Ben Vautier has been offering a continuous flow of ideas through text paintings, installations, performances and conceptual art.(Biography)
June 1, 2006... "First thought, best thought," Allen Ginsberg used to say. For a poet whose work drew on Buddhism, improvisational jazz and strong helpings of drugs and alcohol, it was a perfect motto, even though it didn't always make for the best poetry....

Machines & marriage Eva Hesse and Tom Doyle in Germany, 1964-65: a brief but significant transitional phase in the work of both artists is examined in the light of their reciprocal influences and exposure to Dada during a European interlude.(Biography)
June 1, 2006... When Eva Hesse and Tom Doyle arrived for a 15 month residency in Germany in the summer of 1964, Hesse was a painter who identified strongly with Abstract Expressionism, the work of Arshile Gorky and Willein de Kooning in particular. Her husband...

Shock of the news: recent exhibitions by the Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn probed the nearly imperceptible boundaries between Western consumerism and violent world conflict.
June 1, 2006... An unusual thing happened the second time I went to see Thomas Hirschhorn's recent exhibition at Barbara Gladstone Gallery. I entered the gallery with notebook in hand, glanced at the initial works, and was immediately confronted by a woman I'd...

The body of the text: nudes and fighter planes are the subjects of three recent exhibitions by Fiona Banner, whose new work translates life drawing into prose and newsprint photos into neon.
June 1, 2006... Working from a live model generally results in visual imagery of some kind. Fiona Banner's medium, though, is words, so she undertook the exercise differently. Hiring a female model to pose nude, in several sessions starting last summer, Banner...

Muehl's new "material actions": the first U.S. solo of veteran Viennese Actionist Otto Muehl leads the author to discuss innovation and tradition, performance and behavior, art and dirt.
June 1, 2006... The dark side of the "Happenings" phenomenon, the often-extreme, occasionally scandalous mid- to late 1960s performances of the Viennese Actionists were a revolt against hidebound traditions of art as much as the social proprieties of postwar...

Sherrie Levine at Paula Cooper.
June 1, 2006... Sherrie Levine's decision to call her exhibition "Men, Women and Dogs" was both tactical and descriptive. The title is borrowed from a collection of James Thurber drawings published in 1943 with an introduction by Dorothy Parker. Dour Clement...

Anne Deleporte at Roebling Hall.
June 1, 2006... In this impressive exhibition with the unusual title "[c]," French-born New York-based artist Anne Deleporte presented a group of recent painted collages on aluminum panels, two murals and a video, which address in various ways notions of...

Burt Barr at Sikkema Jenkins.(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Running counter to the kaleidoscopic fast-cut effects favored by many MTV-inspired video artists, Burt Barr retards time in an effort to force the viewer to focus on the moment. While this approach is rife with potential for monotony, the two...

Tara Donovan at PaceWildenstein.
June 1, 2006... Tara Donovan is known for the simple transformation of vast amounts of ordinary, inexpensive products. Evocative of a bird's-eye view of flowing dunes, luminous cloud banks or rolling landscapes bathed in the blue-white light reflected by snow,...

Fred Wilson at PaceWildenstein.
June 1, 2006... This exhibition included and expanded on elements from Wilson's presentation at the American Pavilion in Venice in 2003. It featured the elaborate baroque black glass chandelier created by Murano craftsmen which formed the centerpiece of that...

Holli Schorno at Pavel Zoubok.
June 1, 2006... With surgical precision, Holli Schorno excises linear illustrations from discarded taxonomies of machine parts and how-to manuals and deploys them in abstracted constellations on luxuriant fields of white rag paper. She selects generally...

Al Hansen at Andrea Rosen.
June 1, 2006... The focus of this lively survey, Al Hansen (1927-1995), was one of the early celebrants of performance art, Happenings and Fluxus, and is best known for his collage tributes to a mostly featureless, large-breasted Venus created from the...

Brian Alfred at Mary Boone.
June 1, 2006... When the space shuttle Challenger exploded after takeoff on Jan. 28, 1986, Brian Alfred was watching it on television--along with the entire student body at his school. "Space Is the Place," his exhibition of six recent acrylic paintings (all...

Billy Sullivan at Nicole Klagsbrun.
June 1, 2006... In Billy Sullivan's previous exhibition at Nicole Klagsbrun there was a vertical painting of a figure in a shower stall that was reminiscent of Bonnard in its luminosity, patterned light and subject matter. Intimacy with a hint (or more) of...

Cy Twombly at Gagosian.
June 1, 2006... Tactility is paramount in Cy Twombly's best paintings. Their surfaces, skittish plastically as well as graphically, convey a participatory, even conspiratorial quality, a narrative of engagement, as if the artist were letting the viewer in on...

Kathleen Gilje at Francis Naumann.
June 1, 2006... Among its many pleasures, art history offers students of the discipline a kind of imaginative time travel to worlds long past. Kathleen Gilje makes this pleasure explicit in a series of portraits of well-known curators and critics substituting...

Joseph Grigely at Cohan and Leslie.
June 1, 2006... An artist who became deaf as a young child, Joseph Grigely is best known for his installations of paper scraps scribbled with fragments of conversations he has carried on with his hearing friends. Phrases, comments, jokes and questions scrawled...

Bruno Peinado at Parker's Box and the Swiss Institute.
June 1, 2006... Bruno Peinado, a French national who lives and works in France, has made a name for himself by appropriating symbols from contemporary culture, repackaging them and giving them back to us. His work is a battle against the barrage of signs we...

Jack Pierson at Cheim & Read.
June 1, 2006... "Melancholia Passing into Madness," the title of Jack Pierson's recent show at Cheim & Read, is drawn (its press release explains) from the caption of one of the many 19th-century medical photographs purporting to show the physiognomic...

Richard Pettibone at Leo Castelli.
June 1, 2006... Long before Sherrie Levine rephotographed photographs and "appropriation art" became a standard subset of postmodern art, Richard Pettibone was making copies of other artists' work. One of his favorite subjects was Warhol, who himself was a...

"Ashes to Art" at Pomegranate.
June 1, 2006... This past winter, art from war-torn Baghdad made its way to SoHo. A two-part exhibition presenting the work of nine Iraqi artists was held at Pomegranate Gallery and Cafe, a space run by Oded Halahmy, a sculptor originally from Iraq who has...

Matthew Higgs at Murray Guy.
June 1, 2006... Matthew Higgs's new exhibition proves again that conceptual work does not have to be clinical and cold to be successful, but can instead be nuanced, intimate and wry. For more than a dozen years, Higgs has, remarkably, confined his work to...

Robert Attanasio at Jim Kempner.
June 1, 2006... Robert Attanasio is a scavenger artist, forever on the lookout for the glorious absurd, whether a Chinatown restaurant business card bearing the name "Big Wang," repeated paint-by-number canvases of a cigar-chomping hobo-clown or even chance...

Sally Smart at Postmasters.
June 1, 2006... Pirates, long a romantic symbol of the subversion of authority and the rejection of accepted social mores, seem newly fashionable these days. The word piracy has infiltrated the globalist vocabulary to indicate a swashbuckling disavowal of...

Bruce Robbins at Marlborough Chelsea.
June 1, 2006... Bruce Robbins's architecturally based assemblies were inspired by the construction and weathering of walls, an extension of his interest in the relationship between sculpture, painting and architecture. With their components stacked...

Alvin Loving at Kenkeleba House.
June 1, 2006... Al Loving died in June of 2005 at age 70. This show at Kenkeleba House presented 13 of his major paintings; the opening was conjoined with a memorial gathering and service to which several hundred people came. Born in 1935, Loving belongs...

Michael Borremans at David Zwirner.
June 1, 2006... Michael Borremans's portraits of somber young men, elusively posed before muted backgrounds, create a tone of uncertainty that becomes a virtue, not an evasion. Working both large and small, he grounds his paintings (all oil on canvas) in...

Steve Tobin at OK Harris.
June 1, 2006... Steve Tobin's often-large-scale assemblies that he calls paintings, untitled and for the most part dated 2005, are monochrome fields made up of tens or even hundreds of thousands of ordinary, small objects such as plastic buttons, carriage...

Susan Wides at Kim Foster.
June 1, 2006... This exhibition, titled "Kaaterskill," featured a series of 12 recent photographs by New York artist Susan Wides that were shot near her upstate country home in the Catskills. Each of these large images (up to 50 by 60 inches) examines an area...

Solange Fabiao in Chinatown.
June 1, 2006... New York-based Brazilian artist Solange Fabiao is in the midst of an ambitious and migratory public art series she calls "Transitio." The first large-scale installment in an outdoor space took place in Beirut in 2004. It involved the projection...

Pentti Sammallahti and Alexey Titarenko at Candace Dwan and Nailya Alexander.
June 1, 2006... The storied "Northern Light" that serves as title to this exhibition--cooperatively organized by two galleries that share space on 57th Street--affects the black-and-white photographs of two artists in radically different ways. Alexey Titarenko...

Carolee Schneemann at P.P.O.W.
June 1, 2006... One summer 15 years ago, a macaque monkey sat in a special lab chair in Parma, Italy, with its inferior frontal cortex (the region of its brain responsible for hand function) wired so that every time it grasped or moved an object, a monitor...

The Garden Party at Deitch Projects.
June 1, 2006... At the putting edge of the kind of curatorial thinking that has brought us games of miniature art golf as summer nears, Jeffrey Deitch organized "The Garden Party." This loosely conceived gathering burdened a dozen too many artists with...

Group Exhibitions at Mary Boone.
June 1, 2006... This winter, Mary Boone essayed two more or less simultaneous guest-curated exhibitions intended to come across as greater than the sum of their parts: "1 Love My Scene," organized by Team Gallery's Jose Freire for her sleek Fifth Avenue space,...

Frank Stella at the Sackler Museum, Harvard University.
June 1, 2006... In "Frank Stella 1958," curators Harry Cooper and Megan R. Luke examine the paintings and assemblages Frank Stella produced in the months after he graduated from Princeton in 1958. Having selected 20 little-known works from that period, the...

Marjorie Welish and Olivier Gourvil at the Slought Foundation.
June 1, 2006... The Slought Foundation's stated purpose is to explore the visual arts through theory and politics. Opened in 2002 and situated on the ground floor of an old bank near the University of Pennsylvania, the space is broken up to allow for several...

Peregrine Honig at JET artworks.
June 1, 2006... Pen-and-ink drawings that resemble storybook illustrations corrupted by surrealist imagery are popular these days, cropping up in the work of well-known artists like Amy Cutler and Marcel Dzama. Kansas City-based artist (and gallery owner)...

Temporary Services and Angelo at I space.
June 1, 2006... The Chicago-based collaborative Temporary Services (Brett Bloom, Salem Collo-Julin and Marc Fischer) creates public work that operates within offbeat contexts and sites, redefining esthetic practice as a series of social processes and...

Christopher Leitch at Jan Weiner.
June 1, 2006... Words are animate, electrifying presences in Christopher Leitch's new works on paper (all 2005, 22 by 30 inches). To make them materialize on the page he uses a variety of mediums, some chance processes and an unusual writing procedure. As a...

Siah Armajani at Weinstein.
June 1, 2006... Siah Armajani is widely known in the community where he lives. A pedestrian bridge he designed spans the roadway next to the Walker Art Center, and there are other important works--a skyway, a garden, a covered walkway--in the Twin Cities,...

Neal Slavin at photographs do not bend.
June 1, 2006... Girners are people who make funny faces. When Neal Slavin photographed the Gary Owens Society of Girners, he grouped five of them at a table, each making his or her distinctive funny face, while Owens, the announcer for the TV program "Rowan...

Hector Ruiz at the Heard Museum.
June 1, 2006... The sculptural centerpiece of Hector Ruiz's "La Realidad (Reality)" exhibition was a gargantuan but slightly pin-headed papier-mache blonde in a black mini-dress and high heels, a broad-shouldered, cylindrical-limbed, busty vision rising 21...

Richard Artschwager at Gagosian.
June 1, 2006... One does not readily associate landscape, narrative or chromatic complexity with the work of Richard Artschwager, but all three figured in his recent show of paintings from 2004 and 2005, most of them acrylic on fiber panel, roughly 4 by 6 feet...

Xavier Veilhan at Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin.
June 1, 2006... With his inaugural exhibition at Emmanuel Perrotin, Xavier Veilhan demonstrated, once again, why he is one of the most closely watched and sought-after French artists on the contemporary art scene. Since the 1980s, he has honed his esthetic...

Gerard Traquandi at Galerie Laurent Godin.
June 1, 2006... Looking at Gerard Traquandi's elegant gestural paintings is a little like listening to a Beethoven symphony on an iPod. It's an experience that is both intimate and majestic. Traquandi formerly painted from nature and has since learned to make...

Armin Linke at Massimo de Carlo.
June 1, 2006... "Tab" was the title given to a wide-ranging assortment of color photographs that the Milanese artist Armin Linke (b. 1966) assembled for his recent show. It was a suggestive choice, considering that the keyboard "tab" key, which it is meant to...

Spinning the Web at the Museum fur Moderne Kunst.
June 1, 2006... Richard Hamilton's quintessential Pop art title, "Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?," may have been on the mind of Udo Kittelmann, director of the Museum fur Modeme Kunst (MMK), when he started bidding and...

Bettina Pousttchi at Buchmann.
June 1, 2006... For her first solo exhibition in Berlin, German artist Bettina Pousttchi presented a video sculpture and a series of photo graphs evoking the intimidation that often confronts an individual in the name of civic protection and safety. Ten video...

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L.A. artist Mark Bradford is the winner of the 2006 Bucksbaum Award, given by the Whitney Museum in New York.(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... L.A. artist Mark Bradford is the winner of the 2006 Bucksbaum Award, given by the Whitney Museum in New York. The $100,000 award is given to an artist included in the Whitney Biennial [see article this issue]. He was chosen for his large-scale...

The Smithsonian American Art Museum presented its 2006 Lucelia Artist Award, worth $25,000, to Matthew Coolidge, founder and director of the Center for Land Use Interpretation.(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... The Smithsonian American Art Museum presented its 2006 Lucelia Artist Award, worth $25,000, to Matthew Coolidge, founder and director of the Center for Land Use Interpretation, a research and educational organization that investigates the built...

The American Academy in Rome announced the Rome Prize winners for 2006-07.(Patricia Cronin, John Kelly, Joshua Mosley and Richard Rezac awarded)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... The American Academy in Rome announced the Rome Prize winners for 2006-07. The visual arts recipients, who receive a stipend, studio space and accommodations for a period of up to two years, are Patricia Cronin, John Kelly, Joshua Mosley and...

Claude Closky recently won the Prix Marcel Duchcamp, given to an artist living in France by the Centre Pompidou and Association for the International Diffusion of French Art.(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Claude Closky recently won the Prix Marcel Duchcamp, given to an artist living in France by the Centre Pompidou and Association for the International Diffusion of French Art. He receives approximately $45,000 and has work on view at the...

Obituaries.(Karel Appel)(Ian Hamilton Finlay)(Isaac Witkin)(Dimitri Hadzi)(Edward R. Broida)(Jean Fournier)(Obituary)
June 1, 2006... Karel Appel, 85, Dutch painter, died on May 3 in Zurich. A full obituary will appear in our September issue. Ian Hamilton Finlay, 80, poet and sculptor, died of cancer on Mar. 27 in Edinburgh, Scotland. The reclusive artist was best known...

Corrections.(ARTWORLD)(Correction notice)
June 1, 2006... Feb. '06, p. 117: Lenore Malen's exhibition "New Society for Universal Harmony" appeared at the Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, Feb. 28-Apr. 25, 2004 (not 2005). The photo of her performance installation Kathryn on p. 114 was taken by liana...

Smithsonian deal stirs controversy.(Smithsonian Institution signs Showtime Networks Inc.)
June 1, 2006... In a move that has angered scholars, historians, politicians, documentary filmmakers and other observers, the Smithsonian Institution revealed on Mar. 9 that it had entered into a joint venture with Showtime Networks to create Smithsonian...

Greek trouble for Getty curator.(J. Paul Getty Museum's Marion True )(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... As her trial in Rome for antiquities smuggling continues, former Getty Museum curator Marion True faces new charges in Greece on illegal possession of 29 artifacts that were found this spring in her villa on the island of Paros. As this issue...

Warhol grants for Art Writing.(Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has announced a new three-year program of grants to nonprofit art publications and individual art critics. Called the Andy Warhol Arts Writing Initiative, its self-described aim is to "promote...

Artists Space.(Benjamin Weil appointed )(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Benjamin Weil, former adjunct curator for media arts at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, is the new executive director of Artists Space in New York. He replaces Barbara Hunt, who left to head the Judd Foundation.

Atlanta Contemporary Art Center.(People)
June 1, 2006... Stuart Horodner, since 2005 gallery director of the Atlanta College of Art, has been named director of programs at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center.