Art in America articles from March 2007

Art in America archives from March 2007

French museums Sans Frontieres.(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... As we go to press, it has been reported in the New York Times and Le Monde that the French government has finalized an agreement to open an outpost of the Louvre on Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi (though at this writing nothing has been signed),...

China's "Art in America".(Art in America: Three Hundred Years of Innovation)(National Art Museum of China)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... An extensive museum survey of American art, the first ever presented in the People's Republic of China, recently opened at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing. "Art in America: Three Hundred Years of Innovation," including some 130...

Best Shows of 2005-06.
March 1, 2007... The U.S. chapter of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) recently presented its awards for the best exhibitions of the 2005-06 season. Winning top honors for best monographic museum show nationally was "Robert Rauschenberg:...

Abu Dhabi: arts hot spot.(FRONT PAGE)(Saadiyat Island cultural district)
March 1, 2007... On Jan. 31, designs were revealed for the cultural district that will rise on Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi. On view in an exhibition at the Emirates Palace Hotel were models for the Guggenheim Museum's design by Frank Gehry, a museum for...

CAA awards for 20007.(College Art Association)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... The College Art Association recently presented its awards for distinction to artists and scholars at its annual conference, this year held in New York. The Frank Jewett Mather Award for art criticism went to Village Voice critic Jerry Saltz....

Tours of Judd facilities.(FRONT PAGE)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... The Judd Foundation is showing signs of becoming more accessible. Following a controversial auction of works from the foundation's holdings [see "Art-world," Apr. '06, "Front Page," Sept. '06], it is now offering tours of 101 Spring Street,...

Artist residency in Maine.(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... In the 1950s, artists John Heliker (1909-2000) and Robert LaHotan (1927-2002) purchased a 19th-century ship-captain's house on Great Cranberry Island, Maine. The duo bequeathed their estates (both represented by Kraushaar Gallery in New York)...

San Diego MCA expands.(FRONT PAGE)(Museum of Contemporary Art)
March 1, 2007... In January, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego opened its third venue, a Richard Gluckman-designed facility combining new construction and the adaptation of a historic building. The $25-million project rehabilitated a former baggage...

The year in feminist art.
March 1, 2007... Anchored by two ambitious touring surveys and numerous smaller exhibitions, this year marks a widespread revival of interest in the history and contemporary manifestations of feminist art. The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles steps out...

Feminism's future explored at MOMA.(Museum of Modern Art organizes two day discussion The Feminist Future)
March 1, 2007... As many speakers observed, the most remarkable thing about the Museum of Modern Art's two-day feminist talk-a-thon, "The Feminist Future" (Jan. 26-27), was that it happened at all. For MOMA, long a target of protests by women, to play host to a...

Exhibitions aid NOMA restoration.(New Orleans Museum of Art)
March 1, 2007... As world events have recently demonstrated, wherever acts of God or war destroy lives and infrastructure, cultural institutions must defer to human necessity. For the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA), extraordinary efforts on the part of...

Reading images.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... The Photobook: A History, Vols. I and II, by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, London and New York, Phaidon Press, 2004 and 2006; 350 pages each, $75 each. When Walter Benjamin wrote about photography as a radical instrument of art he was...

Money talks Mandarin: China has suddenly become the world's hottest contemporary art market. What are the effects on artists of this massive influx of cash? In a candid roundtable, three seasoned observers give their views.(Richard Vine)(Christopher Phillips)(Barbara Pollack)(Discussion)
March 1, 2007... Richard Vine: In the fall of 2000, when Shanghai held its first truly international biennial, the economic prospects for most avant-garde Chinese artists seemed meager. Many still gathered in collegial bands, as they had in the destitute...

Remapping the art world: the most recent Sydney Biennale focused on the shifting encounters--cultural, political, economic, symbolic--that increasingly characterize our globalist century.(Zones of Contact)
March 1, 2007... "Z ones of Contact," the 15th edition of the Biennale of Sydney, was a wide-ranging exhibition of 85 artists from 57 cities, but it was "without a theme," insists Charles Merewether, the show's artistic director and curator. (1) A native of...

Katrina Journal: six months after catastrophe hit the city, the artist revisited sites in New Orleans that he had drawn several years earlier; destruction had rendered many locales unrecognizable.
March 1, 2007... Saturday, March 25, 2006 In the spring of 2001 1 was invited by Richard Gruber, the director of the brand-new Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, to do a project celebrating the New Orleans landscape. The focus of the enterprise...

Education of the senses: Diller Scofidio + Renfro's splendid new home for the Boston ICA explores the relationship between culture and sight.(Institute of Contemporary Art)
March 1, 2007... It was a long and mostly quiet drive from my upstate New York home into Boston one recent December afternoon. Listening to Bach, the cruise control set, I could relax and look out through the windshield at the countryside passing by; almost...

Brightness falls: a traveling survey of Jennifer Steinkamp's mesmerizing video projections reveals that even her most abstract work involves both sophisticated illusionism and, often, implicit political and cultural references.
March 1, 2007... Imagine yourself adrift on the ocean after the god Poseidon has swirled its surface with red and other bold hues, like a craftsman preparing to marble paper. This sea rocks with swells that deny you a view of the horizon, but there is none...

Beauty and desecration: Marilyn Minter's photo-realist enamel paintings and large-scale photographs combine the brash energy of popular culture with an understated awareness of art history.
March 1, 2007... The phrase "dirty realism" may have been popularized by a 1983 issue of the literary magazine Granta, but the idea has been around at least since Caravaggio started painting his angels and pilgrims with mud and grime on their feet at the end of...

New Orleans, lost & found: in a recent exhibition and book, Robert Polidori, known for making startling images of architecture around the world, turns his camera on post-Katrina desolation.
March 1, 2007... Twenty years ago, when I was living in New Orleans, some of the livelier exchanges among architectural historians concerned pinning down the sources--Spanish, French, African, Caribbean--of the features creolized in the city's domestic...

Inventing Finland: along with a group of other progressive young Finns at the turn of the 20th century--composers, architects, industrialists, activists and fellow artists--the multi-skilled Akseli Gallen-Kallela helped to shape a cultural identity that spurred nationalistic fervor.
March 1, 2007... Seen from the rustic porch of Kalela on a midsummer's night, the pink glow of the sky conjures dramatic oranges from pine bark and paints the spruces purple along Lake Ruovesi's shore. Water laps gently against the boat dock below. A waterfowl...

Ligon's color theory: emotionally fraught passages in the cultural construction of race and gender are explored throughout Glenn Ligon's work, the subject of a traveling survey.
March 1, 2007... In one sense, Glenn Ligon is a known entity. Anyone who has paid attention to contemporary art during the past 20 years is likely to recognize his work, especially the stark, black-and-white, text-based paintings he began making in the late...

The persistence of suffering: in his painterly, often multi-paneled paintings, Jerome Witkin takes a long, hard look at human vulnerability and the cruelty, both private the historical, that it repeatedly summons into being.
March 1, 2007... Attempting to keep a distance from his protagonists, Franz Kafka once remarked that the artist is the man who has nothing to say. In a different sense, this, alas, has been true of a superabundance of recent art. But, due no doubt to the...

Morris's eye language: a recent retrospective highlighted the evocative, abstract sculptures and sumi-ink drawings of Portland modernist Hilda Morris--a body of work influenced by the art of East Asia and the indigenous forms of the Pacific Northwest.(Hilda Grossman Morris)
March 1, 2007... In 1947, Barnett Newman presented "The Ideographic Picture" at Betty Parsons Gallery, an exhibition proclaiming kinship between certain modern artists and the paradigmatic native artist of the Northwest Coast. Like the contemporary New York...

Ellsworth Kelly at Matthew Marks.
March 1, 2007... The elimination of unnecessary detail is a sometime hallmark of late-career work; de Kooning's stunned, stunning whited-out last paintings are an example. Another, no less magisterial, is a pair of recent painting suites by the octogenarian...

Serge Spitzer at Nyehaus.(art exhibitions)
March 1, 2007... Serge Spitzer's large-scale projects, which have been shown extensively in Europe, tend to move beyond the post-minimalist esthetic of the 1970s, while his smaller works--photographs and site-specific sculptures--adhere more closely to that...

John Baldessari at Marian Goodman.(art exhibitions)
March 1, 2007... A progenitor of the ever-more-visible practice of painting on photographs, John Baldessari has made hybrids of the two forms since the "Violent Space" series of the late 1970s, altering enlargements of movie stills with collage and acrylics. In...

Rebecca Purdum at Jack Tilton.
March 1, 2007... Faced with the buoyant but impenetrable clouds of color in Rebecca Purdum's new paintings, our eyes work like headlights in fog, vainly probing for clarity. Purdum applies oil paint with gloved fingers, as she has for 20 years, generally...

Pat Lipsky at Elizabeth Harris.(art exhibitions)
March 1, 2007... For some years, Pat Lipsky's point of departure has been a geometric structure of vertical bars interrupted toward their midpoints in a stepped rhythm. If this sounds rigidly systematic or detached, think again. As her recent exhibition of...

Trevor Paglen at Bellwether.(art exhibitions)
March 1, 2007... History will remember the current American administration as one marked by an obsession with secrecy and a frank commitment to torture as a tool of state. In this daunting climate, the young Trevor Paglen set out to record and display what is...

Steve Mumford at Postmasters.(art exhibitions)
March 1, 2007... In his first show of oil paintings based on his four trips to Iraq during 2003 and 2004, Steve Mumford depicts fraught scenes--a sniper on a roof, amputees practicing archery, a dying boy--in a straightforward realist style with an extreme...

Robert Colescott at Kravets/Wehby.(art exhibitions)
March 1, 2007... As an African-American born in 1925 who fought in the Second World War and then stayed on in Europe to hone his formidable painting skills under the tutelage of Fernand Leger, Robert Colescott has, to put it mildly, seen Western culture go...

Tal R at Zach Feuer.
March 1, 2007... Tal R applies paint with sloppy authority. He smears, trowels and squeezes massive quantities of thick oil color straight out of the tube to depict scenes associated with the life of an artist. Art School, Drawing Room and Model Alone in Studio...

Susan Rothenberg at Sperone Westwater.(art exhibitions)
March 1, 2007... Susan Rothenberg painted her first horse in 1974, when she was living in New York City. Fifteen years later, she learned to ride, and has lived on a ranch in New Mexico since 1990. Animals, which she once enlisted in a challenge to the...

Brian Block and Noah Khoshbin at Participant.
March 1, 2007... "How many times do I have to kill before I get my name in the paper?" a serial killer once complained, typifying a tie between crime and lust for fame that Brian Block and Noah Khoshbin studied in their show "waiting for a clean shot."...

Sean Paul at Elizabeth Dee.(art exhibitions)
March 1, 2007... Sean Paul's New York debut started off as a routine and rather toothless neo-conceptual installation, with photo-based painting and sleek vitrines (all works 2006) taking up the cause of 1980s simulationism and commodity sculpture. Seven...

Damien Hirst at Gagosian.(Damien Hirst's sketches and drawings)
March 1, 2007... Artist's sketches and preparatory drawings can be greatly revealing, suggesting the false starts, frustrations, amplifications and zigzagging thought processes that underlie a finished work of art. No doubt that idea, as well as the sales...

Ariana Page Russell at Magnan Projects.(art exhibitions)
March 1, 2007... The innocence of skin: that is the foundation of the photographs, collages and installation that comprised Ariana Page Russell's first exhibition outside the West Coast. Pinks predominated. Their warmth drew the body close to each piece, and,...

Esko Mannikko at Yancey Richardson.(art exhibitions)
March 1, 2007... Esko Mannikko's chromogenic images of his native rural Finland and other sites are suffused with warmth and understanding, his trained eye finding the inherent grace and eccentricity of his subjects. Mannikko, who uses a medium-format camera...

Kate Gilmore at Pierogi.(art exhibitions)
March 1, 2007... Kate Gilmore, a young New York-based artist, makes straightforward videos about uncomfortable situations, She stars in simple, demanding performances that are physically grueling, and absurd enough to be almost funny. One, included in "Greater...

Chris Twomey at Tribes.(art exhibitions)
March 1, 2007... Chris Twomey's "Madonna" series, consisting of works from 2006, is based on her photographs of fellow moms holding young children. (Twomey herself is a mother of three.) In some cases, the photos were ink-jet printed at large scale and pasted...

Carlos Garaicoa at Lombard-Freid.(art exhibitions)
March 1, 2007... There have now been two generations of Cuban artists actively probing the lyric tragedy of their island country's recent history. Carlos Garaicoa, romantic poet of urban architecture and decay, has emerged as one of the most eminent. His...

Abelardo Morell at Bonni Benrubi.
March 1, 2007... The fabricated mise-en-scene of opera was central to "Furthermore," Abelardo Morell's seventh exhibition at Bonni Benrubi. His most recent experiments with the camera obscura and the photogram were also included. In 2005, Morell, a Cuban-born,...

"Contested Spaces" at Baruch College and "Into the Future" at Plus Ultra.(art exhibitions)
March 1, 2007... "Contested Spaces" was an exhibition of post-Soviet art primarily from Russia. Curator Elena Sorokina says that the title refers to the spaces left behind by an empire that no longer exists, spaces that various forces are now vying to control....

Leo Velledor and Mario Yrisarry at Mitchell Algus.(art exhibitions)
March 1, 2007... Titled "The Filipino Roots of Minimalism: Leo Valledor and Mario Yrisarry," this exhibition brought together the works of two abstract painters of Filipino descent who were active in New York during the 1960s, showing with Sol LeWitt, Robert...

Lindsay Brant at Haswellediger.(art exhibitions)
March 1, 2007... For her second solo exhibition in New York, Los Angeles-based Lindsay Brant continued to explore the medium of stained glass, introducing colored gemstones, quartz crystals, shaped slabs of mica and beach-glass shards into flat fields of clear...

Jim Long at CUE Art Foundation.(art exhibitions)
March 1, 2007... In this recent exhibition, curated by Rackstraw Downes, the viewer encountered four enormous tondos, each 126 inches in diameter. These allover compositions consist of thousands of precise veinlike lines of taupe paint, at once suggesting...

Cleve Gray at Ameringer Yohe.
March 1, 2007... During the last three decades of the 20th century, Abstract-Expressionist painting mostly looked tired, which is another way of saying that over-familiarity had desensitized the art public to its strengths. Out of the spotlight for so long,...

Laurie Fendrich at Katharina Rich Perlow.(art exhibitions)
March 1, 2007... Laurie Fendrich's paintings are dense and rich, small feasts for anyone whose taste runs to unexpected variations on geometric abstraction. Influences from several regions of modernism, including Constructivist graphics, Deco design and classic...

David Driskell at DC Moore.(art exhibitions)
March 1, 2007... The influence of tribal art on the early modernists is well known. David Driskell, who is both an artist and a leading authority on African-American art, takes the mix a step further, blending the visual language of modernism with forms, colors...

Judith Murray at Sundaram Tagore.(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Veteran abstractionist Judith Murray is known for placing thick, discrete brushstrokes side by side over large areas of her paintings. She often restricts her palette to a relatively limited range of reds, yellows, whites and blacks. In this...

Allen Uzikee Nelson and George Smith at Wilmer Jennings.
March 1, 2007... Allen Uzikee Nelson was born in Mississippi and studied engineering at the University of Southern Illinois at Carbondale, where he began making welded sculptures. Later he moved to Washington, D.C., and has taught engineering and practiced...

William Anastasi and Lucio Pozzi at White Box.(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... On a January Sunday in Chelsea, American artist William Anastasi and his Italian-born colleague Lucio Pozzi sat down to an eight-hour graphic duel, from 11A.M. to 7P.M. Facing each other across two large metal tables, they created dozens of...

Joan Jonas at Dia: Beacon.(Theater review)
March 1, 2007... Those who missed the acclaimed 2005 presentation of Joan Jonas's The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things in the cavernous basement at Dia:Beacon recently had a welcome second chance with a run of encore performances. This work grew out of a...

Bill Sullivan at the Albany Institute of History & Art.
March 1, 2007... This retrospective exhibition of one of New York City's key realists coincides with the publication of a Groundwater Press biographical catalogue written by the Colombian-American novelist Jaime Manrique, who has been associated with the...

Sharon Booma at Arden.(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... A veteran of the abstract art scene since her earliest exhibitions in 1986 around southern New England, Sharon Booma has long pitted feelings of chaos--colors and shapes run amok--against her heightened sense of order, a contrast drawn out by...

Josh Garber at Zolla/Lieberman.(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Josh Garber recently exhibited 11 welded aluminum sculptures ranging in height from 9 to 75 inches. The artist constructs a light metal framework, welds to it short lengths of tubular aluminum rod that protrude at an angle, and fills the spaces...

Larry Krone at the Contemporary Art Museum.
March 1, 2007... St. Louis-born, New York-based artist Larry Krone is known for the humorous country-and-western-themed objects and performances in his recent midcareer survey. The exhibition looked like a celebrity auction preview consisting of stage props,...

Andy Moses at McClain.(Vuelta)
March 1, 2007... A quintessential Los Angeles artist, Andy Moses has been exhibiting his paintings since the late '80s. In the last few years, he has developed an abstract version of seascape painting indebted to the precedents of Finish Fetish and Light and...

Nancy Evans at Dangerous Curve.(Keeping Body and Soul Together)
March 1, 2007... After a long absence from exhibiting, Nancy Evans returned with a surprising show of cast-bronze sculptures: primitive symbolic figures made initially from plant materials taken mostly from her community garden in Venice, Calif. Titled "Keeping...

Steve Hurd at Rosamund Felsen.(Untitled (Outburst series))
March 1, 2007... In his first solo exhibition in seven years, Steve Hurd is back with a vengeance, propagating several new directions for his quirky brand of hand-painted neo-Pop. Best known for his drippy renditions from the mid-'90s of Women's Day magazine...

Coleen Sterritt at D.E.N. Contemporary.
March 1, 2007... Coleen Sterritt has always forced form into impure acts: in the '80s she slathered anthropomorphic Calderesque forms with tar and straw; in the '90s she folded and layered studio waste and cannibalized her old sculptures to create organic...

Ronald Hall at the University of Puget Sound.
March 1, 2007... Ronald Hall's exhibition of 10 oils at UPS's Kittredge Gallery is a powerful collection of narratives based on African-American history. Updating Jacob Lawrence, the 40-year-old Pittsburgh native, now based in Seattle, draws upon a variety of...

Franziska Furter at Schleicher + Lange.(Drift)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... The young Swiss artist Franziska Furter makes vividly realistic, black-and-white ink drawings and paper sculptures that blur the distinction between two and three dimensions. The focal point of the exhibition "Drift" was Monstera (all works...

Carole Benzaken at Nathalie Obadia.(Land of the Sun)
March 1, 2007... In her recent exhibition "Land of the Sun," Carole Benzaken continued her engaging exploration of the dominance of visual culture in structuring the contemporary human condition. The show of work from 2005-06 featured 20 large- and small-format...

Ricarda Roggan at Eigen+Art.(Schacht)
March 1, 2007... German painting with a Leipzig provenance is currently booming; American museums bid for the paintings of Neo Rauch, Matthias Weischer and Martin Eder, all of them artists represented in Germany by the gallery Eigen+Art, which has locations in...

Architect and urban planner Denise Scott Brown was recently honored with a 2007 Vilcek Foundation Prize.(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Architect and urban planner Denise Scott Brown was recently honored with a 2007 Vilcek Foundation Prize, given to foreign-born individuals who have made outstanding contributions in the U.S. in the areas of biomedical research and the arts and...

The 2006 Mitchell Prize for the best art history book for 2005-06 went to British Museum curator Mark P. McDonald for The Print Collection of Ferdinand Columbus.(Eric Mitchell Prize)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... The 2006 Mitchell Prize for the best art history book for 200506 went to British Museum curator Mark P. McDonald for The Print Collection of Ferdinand Columbus. He receives $10,000. The Eric Mitchell Prize for best exhibition catalogue, also...

Doug Dubois is the winner of the Gutmann Photography Fellowship, given by the San Francisco Foundation.(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Doug Dubois is the winner of the Gutmann Photography Fellowship, given by the San Francisco Foundation. The prize, worth $10,000, is given to an emerging artist.

Ambreen Butt recently won the 2006 Maud Morgan Prize, given annually to a female Massachusetts-based artist by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Ambreen Butt recently won the 2006 Maud Morgan Prize, given annually to a female Massachusetts-based artist by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She received $5,000 for a work that goes into the MFA's collection, and an exhibition at the museum....

The Foundation for Contemporary Arts has awarded 10 grants, worth $25,000 each, to individuals in various fields.(Grants)
March 1, 2007... The Foundation for Contemporary Arts has awarded 10 grants, worth $25,000 each, to individuals in various fields. Kimsooja is the visualarts recipient.

The George Sugarman Foundation recently announced 23 grants totaling $33,095 for 2006.(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... The George Sugarman Foundation recently announced 23 grants totaling $33,095 for 2006. The winners are Cynthia Consentino, Meghan Cox, Fletcher Crossman, Joan Green, Caspar Henselmann, Jasmine Hernandez, Dale Horstman, Elizabeth Insogna, Edgar...

The Rotterdam-based Jaap Bakema Foundation has given its inaugural fellowship for research on terrorism and its impact on architecture to Tim S. de Boer.(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... The Rotterdam-based Jaap Bakema Foundation has given its inaugural fellowship for research on terrorism and its impact on architecture to Tim S. de Boer. He receives approximately $13,100.

The Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, Calif., opened its new Dorothy and Donald Kennedy Wing on Feb. 18.(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... The Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, Calif., opened its new Dorothy and Donald Kennedy Wing on Feb. 18. Designed by the California-based firm Robert R. Coffee Architect and Associates, the $15-million, 30,000-square-foot expansion doubles the...

The Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland recently selected the London-based firm Foreign Office Architects to plan a new home for the museum.(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... The Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland recently selected the London-based firm Foreign Office Architects to plan a new home for the museum. The $25-million project, initiated with a $2.1-million grant from the George Gund Foundation as well...

The Baltimore Museum of Art recently announced a $10-million promised gift from museum trustee Dorothy McIlvain Scott, the largest individual donation in the museum's history.(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... The Baltimore Museum of Art recently announced a $10-million promised gift from museum trustee Dorothy McIlvain Scott, the largest individual donation in the museum's history. The funds will be used to endow operations and programs for the...

Obituaries.(Dan Christensen)(Rosie Lee Tompkins)(Henry Pearson,)(Obituary)
March 1, 2007... Dan Christensen, 64, painter, died in East Hampton of polymyositis, a muscle disease. Best known for large-scale abstract works with vibrant colors and simple, ethereal shapes, Christensen was one of the early proponents of Color Field painting...

NYC arts groups get a breather.(New York)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Arts groups in New York can hang up their boxing gloves for now, thanks to arts-friendly Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his conciliatory relationship with new city council speaker Christine Quinn. In the past, groups have had to lobby for funding...

Palm Springs Art Museum.(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Steven Nash, inaugural director of the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, has left to become executive director of the Palm Springs Art Museum. Nash became head of the Nasher in 2001, prior to its opening in 2003.

Denver Art Museum.(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... The Denver Art Museum has named Christoph Heinrich as its new curator of modern and contemporary art, effective in September. He is currently chief curator of contemporary art, collection and exhibitions at the Hamburg Kunsthalle. Heinrich...

Brooklyn Museum.(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... The Brooklyn Museum has announced three curatorial appointments. Joan Cummins, who specializes in the art of India, is the new curator of Asian art; she was recently assistant curator at the Boston MFA. Patrick Amsellem, formerly of the Rooseum...

Walker Art Center.(Creative Time)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Peter Eleey, curator and producer at the New York-based public art organization Creative Time since 2002, has been named visual arts curator at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. He is replaced by the curatorial team of Nato Thompson,...

The UCLA Hammer Museum.(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... The UCLA Hammer Museum recently announced some curatorial changes. Russell Ferguson, chief curator and deputy director of exhibitions and public programs, has become chair of UCLA's art department but will remain with the Hammer as adjunct...

Elizabeth Thomas, independent curator and former associate curator at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, has been appointed curator of the MATRIX program for contemporary art at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Elizabeth Thomas, independent curator and former associate curator at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, has been appointed curator of the MATRIX program for contemporary art at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. She...

Storefront for Art and Architecture.(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Joseph Grima, architect, and editor and writer at the Milan-based Domus since 2003, has been named director of the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York. He succeeds Sarah Herda, who left to become director of the Graham Foundation...