Art in America articles from March 2004

Art in America archives from March 2004

Gee's Bend artistry.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2004... To the Editors: I want to thank Richard Kalina for his courageous and clear article about the quilts of Gee's Bend [A.i.A., Oct '03]. They are indeed works of high art that evoke empathetic and thoughtful responses. How refreshing not to...

Diller + Scofidio debunked?(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2004... To the Editors: It is curious that many of the reviewers of the Diller + Scofidio show at the Whitney Museum were so sympathetic and uncritical, even eulogistic, toward the architects and their work. From the New York Times to Domus,...

Sutherland and Picasso.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2004... To the Editors: I read David Ebony's piece on Graham Sutherland [A.i.A., Jan. '04] with great interest and pleasure. It felt like an instance of synchronicity--I started noticing Sutherland's work about 18 months ago and have become...

Rand's blues.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2004... To the Editors: I am writing to correct a mistake that Raphael Rubinstein made in "Whose 1980s?" [A.i.A., Dec. '03]. I did not "borrow the title" of Jay McInerney's 1984 novel for a show I organized that year at the Phyllis Kind Gallery....

Correction.(Letters)(Correction Notice)
March 1, 2004... Oct. '03, p. 141: The dimensions for Maggie Michael's Clones #19, #16, #20, #21, #17, #18 were given as 21 by 47 2/3 inches overall; in fact, each of the six pieces shown is 47 3/4 by 21 inches, while overall they measure 47 3/4 by 180 inches....

El Greco in Nazi loot dispute.(Front Page)
March 1, 2004... An early landscape by El Greco featured in the artist's recent survey at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is at the center of an unusually complex Nazi loot case. The painting, Mount Sinai (ca. 1570-72), showing a group of small figures...

WTC transport hub unveiled.(Front Page)
March 1, 2004... Spanish-born architect Santiago Calatrava recently unveiled his design for a new World Trade Center Transportation Hub commissioned by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Expected to cost approximately $2 billion, the hub will...

Art exchange reinforces French-U.S. museum ties.(Front Page)
March 1, 2004... Late this month, the French Regional American Museums Exchange (FRAME), a nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening Franco-American cultural relations, launches its most ambitious endeavor to date. A FRAME-sponsored exhibition of works...

Tate acquires Bacon trove.(Front Page)
March 1, 2004... The Tate Britain has acquired an archive of controversial material from Francis Bacon's London studio at 7 Reece Mews. It was donated to the museum by Barry Joule, the artist's friend, chauffeur and handyman. Called the Barry Joule Collection,...

Ambassador attacks artwork.(Front Page)
March 1, 2004... While touring an art exhibition at Stockholm's Museum of National Antiquities on Jan. 16, Israel's ambassador to Sweden, Zvi Mazel, physically attacked a work of contemporary installation art that featured a photo portrait of a Palestinian...

Gehry's new museum design for Toronto.(Front Page)
March 1, 2004... On Jan. 28, the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto unveiled architect Frank Gehry's plan for an extensive expansion of the museum. The design calls for a block-long, 70-foot-high glass-and-titanium canopy to be added to the facade of the...

Skowhegan audio archives donated.(Front Page)
March 1, 2004... The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine has donated its audio archives of lectures to five museums. The archives will be available to the public at the libraries of the Archives of American Art in Washington, D.C.; the Art...

Barnes board expansion OKed.(Front Page)
March 1, 2004... In his testy but well-reasoned Jan. 29 decision about the Barnes Foundation's proposal to move and to add trustees, Judge Stanley Ott of Montgomery County Orphans' Court permitted the foundation to expand its board from 5 to 15 members. He...

The battle of Venice.(Front Page)
March 1, 2004... In the second far-reaching administrative and financial overhaul in just six years, the Venice Biennale has been restructured as a cultural foundation. Formalized in a Jan. 15 decree whose provisions apply to all sections of the institution...

Can I get a witness?
March 1, 2004... A Sweeper-Up After Artists: A Memoir, by Irving Sandler, New York, Thames & Hudson, 2003; 384 pages, $29.95 hardcover. If the art world were like baseball, Irving Sandler, in his late 70s, energetic and indomitable as ever, would possess...

Close & company: a traveling survey of Chuck Close's prints and the devices used to make them offers insights into the collaborative processes of contemporary U.S. workshops.(Prints)
March 1, 2004... A wry exchange in the catalogue for the exhibition "Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration" tells us much about collaborative printmaking at its most ambitious. It comes amid a handful of interviews conducted by curator Terrie Sultan...

Reality show: an exhibition of photo-derived works from the 1960s and '70s reexamined the underappreciated innovations of "hyperrealism.".(Report From Strasbourg)
March 1, 2004... It's all too easy in today's retrospective culture to declare a new trend by sticking a "post" or a "neo" before a familiar historical term. So it seems facile for Paris-based art historian Jean-Claude Lebensztejn to assert, in the opening...

Cosmopolitan Californian: the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena honored an early benefactor, German expatriate Galka Scheyer whose collection testifies to her twin enthusiasms for European Expressionism and vanguard art of the Golden State.(Collectors)
March 1, 2004... It has been difficult for Los Angeles to live down the loss of the Arensberg Collection, a legendary private trove of 20th-century art that included 40 works by Duchamp; 17 sculptures by Brancusi; pieces by Picasso, Braque and de Chirico; and a...

Philip Guston: some thoughts: sparked by a traveling retrospective (currently at London's Royal Academy) and a recent memoir of the painter, the author proposes some new frames of reference for thinking about Guston's art.(Cover Story)
March 1, 2004... A Fantasy In my ideal world, there would exist somewhere a Philip Guston Museum, in which a generous selection of Guston's paintings and drawings would be permanently on view. Let me quickly add that I don't feel this way about every...

Funk renaissance: in the lush multi-screen projection "Baltimore," filmmaker Isaac Julien gives a postmodern, sci-fi twist to "blaxploitation" conventions of the 1970s.
March 1, 2004... A much-lauded British filmmaker, Isaac Julien creates cerebral but engaging exercises in pop-cultural analysis that manage to display the dynamic humor and sexy vitality of pop culture itself. In documentary works like Looking for Langston...

Quaytman's crossing: a recent exhibition of paintings by the late Harvey Quaytman surveyed the four-decade career of an inveterate abstractionist who explored the 20th century's geometric traditions in sublimely self-referential works.
March 1, 2004... Harvey Quaytman died in April 2002 at the age of 64, after a long struggle with cancer. Born in Queens but residing in Manhattan for most of his life, Quaytman had his first solo show in London in 1962. In the decades between that exhibition...

Becoming Man Ray.(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2004... In 1908, Emmanuel Radhitsky (1) (1890-1976) graduated from Boys' High School in Brooklyn and, to his parents' dismay, declined Columbia University's generous offer of a scholarship in architecture. From the bohemian clutter of an improvised...

Eye in the sky: in her aerial views of town and sometimes country, Yvonne Jacquette depicts a world composed as much of interweaving jots of energy as it is of tangible things.
March 1, 2004... As a stingray hovers deep down in the sea, so soundlessly I glided, scarcely moving a wing, high above the earth. --W.G. Sebald While painting so precisely their multifarious aerial landscapes, Altdorfer and Brueghel may have been...

Humorist of the everyday: a European traveling show surveys British photographer Martin Parr's work since 1972, in which ordinary people find their pleasures, define their communities and endure what they must.
March 1, 2004... Martin Parr relentlessly photographs the everyday. Food stands, spas, middleclass living rooms, flowerbeds, receptions and tourist sites have been among his subjects over the last 30 years. His images do not elevate the mundane to poetry or...

Designing women: for a new suite of paintings executed in encaustic and resin, Cheryl Goldsleger found inspiration in the often unheralded work of women architects.
March 1, 2004... Cheryl Goldsleger's recent exhibition at Atlanta's Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA) was titled "utopia." Though the name refers to the ideal communities projected by some of the women architects whom she celebrates, it might be...

Lesley Dill at George Adams.(New York)
March 1, 2004... Language as an instrument of perfect paradox, a medium of both exposure and concealment, has been Lesley Dill's subject for many years. This exhibition included work both more physically condensed and more ethereal than she has shown before....

Christine Hill at Ronald Feldman.(New York)
March 1, 2004... Just inside the entrance to Home Office, a recent performance/ exhibition by Christine Hill, a time clock was affixed to the gallery wall. Used to stamp invitations to the show's opening reception, this device was also a fitting emblem for...

Jessica Stockholder at Gorney Bravin + Lee.(New York)
March 1, 2004... For a show called "Table Top Sculpture," Jessica Stockholder invited 35 artists to share the gallery with her. Or, to set up joint housekeeping: Stockholder's sculpture, always hospitable to household appliances and dry goods, is more engaged...

Marc Swanson at Bellwether.(New York)
March 1, 2004... Marc Swanson's second solo exhibition at Bellwether, "Live Free or Die," was an anthem to crushed dreams and hopes for the future. Conceived as a four-part installation comprising individual artworks fitted into a loosely autobiographical...

Don Gummer at Salander-O'Reilly.(New York)
March 1, 2004... For a number of years, Don Gummer has been working with airy cast-metal grids, erected following models made of laminated paper materials such as cardboard and foam core. The twisting, spiraling forms tend to widen as they rise up, forming an...

Bonnie Collura at Susan Inglett.(New York)
March 1, 2004... Bonnie Collura's "Rebel Angels" are a strange marriage of baroque theatricality, 19th-century academic kitsch and the esthetics of contemporary animation. In these large, undulating sculptures, a cast of characters seems to be in the process of...

Castaneda/Reiman at DCKT.(New York)
March 1, 2004... San Francisco-based female artists Charlie Castaneda and Brody Reiman have been collaborating on projects since 1988, when they met as undergraduates at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. They went on to obtain their M.F.A.s together at...

Senga Nengudi at Thomas Erben.(New York)
March 1, 2004... Active since the 1970s, Senga Nengudi is one of those artists who seems to quietly slip through art history's cracks. Her works include performances, installations and sculptures that are often performance-based. Now living in Colorado, where...

Wim Wenders at James Cohan.(New York)
March 1, 2004... Although it is exhibited internationally, the photographic work of filmmaker Wim Wenders is not much known in the U.S. beyond a number of books. This exhibition, "Pictures from the Surface of the Earth," brought to New York audiences a...

Stephen Shore at 303.(New York)
March 1, 2004... The American vernacular landscape informs Stephen Shore's portfolio of on-the-road photography of the 1970s, "Uncommon Places," which is composed of attentive images that seem radical for the time of their making. (The images' expansive dates...

Hiroshi Sugimoto at Sonnabend.(New York)
March 1, 2004... For this recent series, Hiroshi Sugimoto traveled Europe, North America and Asia to capture architectural landmarks of the 20th century. Unlike the sharply delineated black-and-white images of empty movie theaters and seascapes for which he is...

"Our True Intent Is All for Your Delight" at Janet Borden.(New York)
March 1, 2004... Founded in 1936 by entrepreneur Billy Butlin, Butlin's Holiday Camps were designed to provide affordable vacations for England's working-class families. The camps flourished in the postwar years, and in the mid-1960s, Butlin sought out the John...

Rick Prol at Maya Stendhal.(New York)
March 1, 2004... Veteran master of gothic angst, Rick Prol began the brutally stark cycle of paintings featured in this recent show in 1986 and 1987, and completed it in 2002 and 2003. Prol first came to the forefront of new art in the salad days of New York's...

Michael Raedecker at Andrea Rosen.(New York)
March 1, 2004... In Michael Raedecker's new paintings (all 2002-03), he continues to develop his signature process of combining washes, drips and daubs of paint with blobs of yarn and embroidery stitched into the canvas, in these works, the imagery is more...

John Willenbecher at Five Myles and CUNY Graduate Center.(New York)
March 1, 2004... In the 1960s and '70s, John Willenbecher was known as a sculptor. In the mid-'70s the New York artist produced a series of structures of painted wood and plaster that draw on the forms of constellations and nebulae, often with the symmetrical...

Richard Prince at Barbara Gladstone.(New York)
March 1, 2004... It did not seem likely in the early 1980s that Richard Prince, an artist best known for appropriating advertising photographs, would ever be very interested in painting. When he did begin exhibiting paintings later that decade, the work seemed...

Susanna Heller and Gandalf Gavan at Sideshow.(New York)
March 1, 2004... This small gallery in the Williamsburg area of Brooklyn contained an energetic wall piece by Susanna Heller and equally vibrant sculptures and drawings by Gandalf Gavan. Exhibiting these artists together made perfect sense; line was the most...

Pan Xing Lei at Ethan Cohen.(New York)
March 1, 2004... Born in China in 1969, performance and conceptual artist Pan Xing Lei now lives and works in Brooklyn. In an interesting performance done early last year at this gallery, titled Imitate Guang Han Man, Pan showed his penchant for dramatic...

Josh Dorman at 55 Mercer.(New York)
March 1, 2004... In his fourth solo exhibition at 55 Mercer, Josh Dorman showed dozens of his strangely romantic, abstract landscapes (dating from 2001 to '03). From 3 inches to nearly 4 feet wide, many of the works were paintings or collages, and many more...

Arnold Helbling at Roebling Hall.(New York)
March 1, 2004... A recent series of paintings by Arnold Helbling used X-ray photographs from medical textbooks as a point of departure, and those ghostly images haunt the finished canvases. In his new 2003 series shown here, Helbling, a Swiss-born artist based...

Perla Krauze at Howard Scott.(New York)
March 1, 2004... Perla Krauze lives and works in Mexico City, her place of birth. In her abstract, almost monochrome pictures, she traps time, as she records the processes of pictorial creation. Her paintings are about memory. They are also about the making...

JODI at Eyebeam.(New York)
March 1, 2004... Operating as Internet provocateurs since the advent of the Web in 1994, JODI (artist-duo Joan Hemmskerk and Dirk Paesmans) were among the pioneers of the field now known as Net art. By creating programs that generate the look of computer...

Matthew Buckingham at Murray Guy.(New York)
March 1, 2004... Matthew Buckingham's A Man of the Crowd(2003) is a 16mm black-and-white film installation that transposes Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Man of the Crowd" from 1840s London to contemporary Vienna. Poe's dazzling tale of a man following a...

Gerald Slota at Ricco/Maresca.(New York)
March 1, 2004... In Gerald Slota's latest show of photo-collages, he found the perfect subject for his chaotic, slightly sinister imagery. His series "Fable" takes children's fairy tales--"Hansel and Gretel," "Little Red Riding Hood," "Rapunzel"--and plugs...

Helen Rousakis at Sandra Gering.(New York)
March 1, 2004... From the moment that William Henry Fox Talbot placed a leaf on a sheet of light-sensitive paper back in 1836, photography proved its effectiveness as a tool for amateur naturalists, especially those harboring esthetic ambitions. In more recent...

Claire Corey at Ten in One.(New York)
March 1, 2004... Since 1995, Claire Corey has been composing her paintings on a computer. Once the image has been improvised on-screen, Corey has it printed onto a small canvas in colored inks. She then decides whether to have the painting executed in a larger...

Cheol Yu Kim and Mark Milloff at CUE Art Foundation.(New York)
March 1, 2004... For its inaugural exhibition last fall, the CUE Art Foundation in Chelsea showed works by Mark Milloff and Cheol Yu Kim. According to its mission statement, CUE aims to display the work of two emerging or underrecognized artists every month;...

Frank Bowling at Aljira, a center for contemporary art, and Skoto.(Newark And New York)
March 1, 2004... Although he trained at the Royal College of Art in London as a contemporary of David Hockney and R.B. Kitaj, Frank Bowling has had a prime allegiance to the principles of color, scale and composition that animated the New York School. A painter...

Hannelore Baron at the Neuberger Museum and Senior & Shopmaker.(Purchase And New York)
March 1, 2004... "I have had what I must call a rather difficult time of it during my life," wrote Hannelore Baron in something of an understatement. Having escaped with her family from Nazi Germany as a teenager, she acquired some terrible memories that she...

Bill Thompson at Barbara Krakow.(Boston)
March 1, 2004... Bill Thompson's wall-mounted works probe the seductive possibilities of shape, finish and color. Each of his small, intensely fussed-over sculptures--formed of polyurethane panels with polished surfaces of acrylic urethane--are elegant but with...

Charles DuBack at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art.(Rockport, Me.)
March 1, 2004... This mini-retrospective, titled "Nature the Master Teacher," covered about 50 years of Charles DuBack's art, starting with the charming Cousins, a Matisse-influenced canvas from 1952, and ending with Mount Katahdin (Forever Wild), 2000, an...

Kendall Buster at the Kreeger Museum.(Washington, D.C.)
March 1, 2004... Kendall Buster has been aptly called the "dyna-mite" of American sculpture. She is of diminutive stature and makes monumentally powerful, often huge sculptures. A tornado of energy, she pushes a vision that varies from minimalist,...

Astrid Colomar at G Fine art.(Washington, D.C.)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Astrid Colomar, an artist who splits her time between Barcelona and Washington, makes deep blue paintings that are as uninsistently peaceful as they are somehow beckoning. Every one is dramatically different--a difficult achievement with...

Scott Ingram at Sandler Hudson.(Atlanta)
March 1, 2004... Scott Ingram's new paintings are elegant studies in color and composition. Rectangular panels of fiberboard, each painted a solid color, are juxtaposed to create works that achieve harmonic balance. Cool and sleek, they share similarities with...

Sabrina Raaf at Klein Art Works.(Chicago)
March 1, 2004... A basic preoccupation of science fiction is the often troubled relationship between humanity and other life-forms and, by extension, the role played by technology in the struggle for power and control. Similar concerns engage Sabrina Raaf,...

Gay Block at University of New Mexico Art Museum.(Albuquerque)
March 1, 2004... "Bertha Alyce: A Photographic Biography" was a multimedium exhibition of wall texts, 100-odd photos and small-screen video clips made by artist Gay Block. The show centered on her mother, who died in 1991 at the age of 78, but offered no...

Lee Miller at the Getty Museum.(Los Angeles)
March 1, 2004... Lee Miller's (1907-1977) unusual life in photography began when, as a teenager in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., she posed nude for her fathers amateur efforts. Later, in New York City, where she went to study theatrical design and lighting at the Art...

Ai Yamaguchi at Roberts & Tilton.(Los Angeles)
March 1, 2004... For her installation here, the young Tokyo artist Ai Yamaguchi painted directly on all the gallery walls (including a skylight niche) and at intervals attached small painted panels to them as well. Yamaguchi rendered her subjects, a bevy of...

Nancy Jackson at Rosamund Felsen.(Santa Monica)
March 1, 2004... Nancy Jackson brings to her depiction of the imagination's cosmos a bit of William Blake, and to her vision of a sticky psychic underworld, maybe also some Hieronymus Bosch. The fantastic intensity of her sculpted and painted scenes pushes them...

Deloss McGraw at David Zapf.(San Diego)
March 1, 2004... Deloss McGraw loves the written word. Choosing literary works that engage him closely and passionately, he teases out their themes to create a parallel vision. For the past two decades, he has responded both to historical and contemporary...

Michael Lazarus at San Francisco Art Institute and Feature.(San Francisco And New York)
March 1, 2004... If, like me, you were not familiar with Michael Lazarus's work, these bicoastal, back-to-back exhibitions provided a chance to catch up. Together, they featured over 20 paintings on wood panel as well as prints, and spanned the late '90s, when...

Travis Somerville at Catharine Clark.(San Francisco)
March 1, 2004... Travis Somerville's The Raft of the Grand Wizard (2003), from his recent exhibition "More Songs of the South," appropriates Theodore Gericault's Raft of the Medusa, the controversial painting shown at the 1819 Paris Salon. Gericault based his...

Enrique Metinides at The Photographers' Gallery.(London)
March 1, 2004... In 1946, at the age of 12, Enrique Metinides had his first photograph published on the front page of La Prensa, one of Mexico City's popular newspapers that focus on crime and mayhem. His age earned him the nickname "The Kid," and it stayed...

Roberto Cuoghi at Massimo De Carlo.(Milan)
March 1, 2004... Roberto Cuoghi's recent work denies one of the tenets of successful contemporary art, that it should be easily reproduced and immediately understood, and this, paradoxically, is what makes his objects so interesting. Ever since Pop, we have...

Callum Morton at the Museum of Contemporary Art.(Sydney)
March 1, 2004... Curator Stuart Koop reveals in his catalogue essay for Callum Morton's MCA exhibition that the Canadian-born, Melbourne-based artist entered the world on the same day that Le Corbusier drowned in 1965. This coincidence has particular resonance...

Jin Won Chung at BoSo.(Seoul)
March 1, 2004... How to embody something as formless as water was a task Jin Won Chung set for himself in his new body of work. Tiny, extruded filaments of white and colored porcelain clays make up each of the 17 sculptures shown. Without recourse to pictorial...

Art Schools.
March 1, 2004... NEW ENGLAND The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University 700 Beacon Street, Boston. MA 02215 617.585.6700 Fax: 617.585.6720 800.773.0494 Toll-free Web: www.aiboston.edu Professional college of visual arts within a larger...

Art services.
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Peggy Guggenheim Collection.(Museum News)
March 1, 2004... The Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice recently opened a new annex next to the museum's existing building, the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, on the Grand Canal. The addition features entrance facilities, a sculpture court, a museum shop and two...

San Francisco Art Institute.(People)
March 1, 2004... Chris Bratton, an artist and former dean of undergraduate studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, is the new president of the San Francisco Art Institute.

Art Gallery of Ontario.(People)
March 1, 2004... David Moos has been named curator of contemporary art at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. Since 1998, he has been with the Birmingham Museum of Art in Alabama, first as curator of painting, sculpture and graphic arts, then, since 2002, as...

Obituaries.(Artworld)
March 1, 2004... Helmut Newton, 83, fashion photographer whose works appeared in such magazines as Vogue and Playboy, died Jan. 23 after a car crash in Hollywood. Newton developed a reputation for his provocative images that mingled sexuality with a sense of...

Billy Kluver, 1927-2004.(Artworld)(Obituary)
March 1, 2004... Billy Kluver, scientist and engineer famed for his collaborations with artists, died Jan. 11, of melanoma, at his home in Berkeley Heights, N.J. He was 76. A Swedish citizen, Billy was born Johan Wilhelm Kluver in Monaco, and grew up in Salen,...

Increases for NEA and Smithsonian?(Artworld)
March 1, 2004... On Jan. 29, First Lady Laura Bush announced that President Bush would seek an $18-million increase in funding for the National Endowment for the Arts for fiscal year 2005, which begins Oct. 1. The budget would be raised from the current $121...

Jess, 1923-2004.(Artworld)(Obituary)
March 1, 2004... Jess, 80, a quietly independent artist and poet who in his paintings, collages and sculptures developed a complex synthesis of art and literary history, died Jan. 2 of natural causes in his San Francisco home. Born Burgess Collins in 1923 in...

Cuno to Chicago's Art Institute.(Artworld)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... James Cuno has been named president and director of the Art Institute of Chicago. He succeeds James Wood, who is retiring after 24 years as the museum's head. Cuno, a specialist in 19th-century French art, has been head of the Courtauld...

CAA Awards for 2004.(Artworld)(College Art Association )(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... The College Art Association recently presented its awards for 2004 during its annual conference, held this year in Seattle. The Guerrilla Girls were given the Frank Jewett Mather Award for art criticism. Hans Belting, professor at Northwestern...

On Mar. 28, the Liechtenstein Museum, containing the collection of the Prince of Liechtenstein, Hans-Adam II, debuts in the newly restored Liechtenstein Garden Palace in Vienna.(Museum News)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... On Mar. 28, the Liechtenstein Museum, containing the collection of the Prince of Liechtenstein, Hans-Adam II, debuts in the newly restored Liechtenstein Garden Palace in Vienna. Among the 250 paintings and sculptures to be shown are major...