Art in America articles from May 2003

Art in America archives from May 2003

Real world Biennale. (Front Page).(politics shake up the Venice Biennale)
May 1, 2003... Contrary to the first expectations, the first political tremor to shake the upcoming Venice Biennale [June 15-Nov. 2] did not concern the conflict in Iraq but rather the presidency of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. On Feb. 21, just weeks after being...

Asian Art Museum opens in San Francisco. (Front Page).
May 1, 2003... On Mar. 20, the Asian Art Museum opened in its grand new home in the heart of San Francisco's Civic Center. Housed in the Old Main Library, a 1917 Beaux-Arts building that underwent extensive retrofitting and a renovation designed by Italian...

Meeting of the marbles? (Front Page).
May 1, 2003... Despite the hard line it has assumed publicly, the British Museum may attempt some quiet diplomacy with the New Acropolis Museum regarding the controversial division of the Parthenon marbles between London and Athens. A recent cordial exchange...

Architectural icecapades. (Front Page).(Artists and architects team up to create structures of snow and ice)
May 1, 2003... In March, a sneak preview of the Snow Show was held in the towns of Rovaniemi and Kemi in Finnish Lapland [see "Front Page," Jan. '03]. Set to take place beginning in late February 2004, the show was conceived by New York art dealer Lance Fung,...

Art Chicago preview. (Front Page).
May 1, 2003... May in Chicago is synonymous with Art Chicago, the annual fair of modern and contemporary art produced by Thomas Blackman and Associates (TBA), held this year May 9-12 at Chicago's Navy Pier. Celebrating its 11th year amid a weak economy and...

NYC fairs provoke and promise. (Front Page).(174 contemporary art galleries feature works and raise money for MOMA)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... This year's "Armory Show: The International Fair of New Art," held in New York, Mar. 7-10, at Hudson River Piers 88 and 90, featured works from 174 contemporary art galleries. Its opening-night gala raised $200,000 to benefit MOMA's exhibition...

Hooping art up in San Antonio. (Front Page).(Major collection of contemporary art housed in the new SBC Center)
May 1, 2003... Demonstrating an unusual and extensive commitment to art by a professional sports organization, the new SBC Center, home of the San Antonio Spurs basketball team, includes a major collection of contemporary art. Assembled by San Antonio art...

Russian trophy art still in flux. (Front Page).
May 1, 2003... Yet another attempt by the Russian ministry of culture to return hundreds of old-master drawings to their pre-WWII home at Germany's Bremen Kunsthalle appears to have failed. The two paintings and 362 drawings by Delacroix, Durer, Goya, Titian,...

Valencia Bienal announced. (Front Page).
May 1, 2003... With a theme ("the ideal city") that is slightly less vague and pretentious than those of most international biennials, the second Bienal de Valencia opens in Spain's third largest city on June 8, following a two-day press preview. Taking a...

Lam's Caribbean modernism.(Wilfredo Lam and the International Avant-Garde, 1923-1982)(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Wifredo Lam and the International Avant-Garde, 1923-1982 by Lowery Stokes Sims, Austin, University of Texas Press, 2002; 311 pages, $39.95. Sometime in the spring of 1961, I received a letter from my grandmother, who lived in South Bend,...

An Irish lament: integrating spare architectural forms with pastoral elements transplanted from the Irish countryside, New York's newest memorial is dedicated to the victims of Ireland's Great Famine. (On Site).
May 1, 2003... 1846 was the date, and not without reason Shall it be remembered until the end of time Scarcity, poverty, mouths without feeding There never has been so desperate a scourge. --from "The White Potatoes" by Peatsai O Callanan Written in...

Israel's "Guernica": a complex, metaphorical installation by Sigalit Landau is, for the author, "a work of endless lamentation, "summing up the nation's pervasively bleak mood. (Report from Tel Aviv).(Critical Essay)
May 1, 2003... Current Israeli art rests in the hands of a remarkable group of women who have come to artistic maturity during the past 10 years. A few of them are reasonably well known outside Israel--Yehudit Sasportas, for example, has shown widely in...

NY galleries.(exhibitions)(Calendar)
May 1, 2003... Chelsea Denise Bibro Fine Art 529 West 20th Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10011 Tel: 212.647.7030 * Fax. 212.647.7031 Email: Bibroart@aol.com Website: www.dbibrofineart.citysearch.com Tuesday - Saturday: 11:00 - 5:00 or by...

Feminism at 40: recent overlapping exhibitions in New York City and East Hampton explored first-generation feminist art and its legacy. (Art & Politics I).(Critical Essay)
May 1, 2003... An important historical survey of what is arguably the late 20th century's most significant art movement was mounted last summer and fall at Guild Hall Museum in East Hampton, in the leafy far reaches of Long Island. "Personal & Political: The...

"The dinner party" revisited: with the Brooklyn Museum's acquisition of Judy Chicago's 1970s feminist icon, the author gives the piece a new critical look. (Art & Politics II).(Critical Essay)
May 1, 2003... It's not yet 30 years since Judy Chicago started working--alone--on The Dinner Party, a monumental labor that came to involve 400 people producing a symbolic representation of the history of significant women in Western civilization. (1) How...

Private dealers.(Directory)
May 1, 2003... George Belcher 3145 Geary Blvd. # 302 San Francisco, CA 94118 Tel/Fax: 415.668.1239 Email: ggbelc@yahoo.com * Website: www.gbgallery.com Buying Asian & Latin American Artists from China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Philippines,...

White, hot & cool: Jo Baer's austere early canvases, currently on view in New York City at the Dia Center for the Arts, recall a time when abstraction was still a vehicle for passionate polemic.
May 1, 2003... Walking into the Dia Center's exhibition of Jo Baer's early work, created in the 1960s and early '70s, can be something of a shock because at first, glance there appears to be hardly anything there. Your expectation of paintings as...

The adventures of Jo Baer: in a wide-ranging discussion, the artist touches on her beginnings as a painter in California and New York, explains some of the fine points of her best-known works, and hints at new directions.(Interview)
May 1, 2003... Born Josephine Kleinberg in Seattle in 1929, Jo Baer attended the University of Washington (1946-49), where she majored in biology. While there, she enrolled in a few art classes. Following a short first marriage and a six-month stint on an...

Spanish France.(Manet/Velazquez: the French Taste for Spanish Painting )(Critical Essay)
May 1, 2003... "Manet/Velazquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting" is not just a dazzling show but a necessary one. Organized by the Musee d'Orsay in Paris and New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, this critical survey of artistic influence across...

The art of public disturbance: William Pope.L consistently provokes visceral responses from viewers, especially with his street performances. A traveling survey of his work titled "eRacism" arrives this month in Portland, Ore.(Critical Essay)
May 1, 2003... More than a decade after artists such as Lorna Simpson, Fred Wilson and Glenn Ligon gained institutional support for inserting race into the "identity politics" discourse, William Pope.L, a contemporary of these artists by age but a provocateur...

Frank Moore's ecology loss: Moore, who died last year at the age of 48, consistently used his paintings to address personal tragedies and pressing social crises. A recent retrospective helped clarify the artist's place in the larger history of American painting.(Critical Essay)
May 1, 2003... I was fortunate to see Frank Moore's posthumous retrospective, "Green Thumb in a Dark Eden," at the second of its two venues, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo. It was organized by Sue Scott, adjunct curator of contemporary art at the...

In a silent season: while often working in a multiplicity of mediums concurrently, Cuban-born artist Enrique Martinez Celaya remains acutely aware of the limitation of each. A recent retrospective and a new cycle of paintings highlight the contradictory impulses at the core of his enterprise.(Critical Essay)
May 1, 2003... They say each person is an island, but it's not true, each person is a silence, yes, that's it, a silence, each of us with our own' silence, each of us with the silence that is us. --Jose Saramago, The Cave Enrique Martinez Celaya's...

Jimbo Blachly at the Sculpture Center. (New York).
May 1, 2003... To inaugurate the Sculpture Center's new home in a soaring, brick-walled, steel-framed former trolley-repair shop in Long Island City, Jimbo Blachly created About 86 Springs, a meditation on history and scale. Dozens of small balsa-wood...

Tracey Emin at Lehmann Maupin. (New York).
May 1, 2003... In this large show that inaugurated Lehmann Maupin's new Chelsea space, Tracey Emin offered up the brash provocations that brought her fame, but she also extended the character of her frank musings to incorporate new insight and a gentle...

Dennis Hollingsworth at Nicole Klagsbrun. (New York).
May 1, 2003... Dennis Hollingsworth's mission is to find ways to produce abstract paintings without using a brush. In doing so, the artist gets rid of the brushstroke and its intimations of gesture, authorship and good taste. His easel paintings consist of...

Arman at Marlborough. (New York).
May 1, 2003... While American Pop artists like Andy Warhol and James Rosenquist were reimagining the postwar consumer culture of the 1960s as a field of seductive advertising promises, their French contemporaries were more interested in the decaying detritus...

Andrew Masullo at Joan T. Washburn. (New York).
May 1, 2003... Insouciant yet earnest, Andrew Masullo's seriously witty new paintings combine the intellectual rigor of geometric abstraction with the crisp visual hooks of graphic art. Most of the works contrast curvaceous biomorphic shapes with more...

Kikuo Saito at Stephen Haller. (New York).
May 1, 2003... Born in Tokyo in 1939, Kikuo Saito moved to New York at the age of 27. He studied with Larry Poons and worked as an assistant to Poons and Kenneth Noland. He has also worked in the theater with Robert Wilson and Peter Brooks. Saito, who has...

Monique Prieto at Cheim & Read. (New York).
May 1, 2003... Art once claimed to offer entry into a world alternative to the everyday one, a world superior because spiritual or purified of the accidents that hide essence. Monique Prieto's paintings belong to a historical period in which such claims are...

Peter Soriano at Lennon, Weinberg. (New York).
May 1, 2003... Working mostly with polyester resin, Peter Soriano has created a series of crypto-functional biomorphs that thrive on category confusion: you're as likely to wonder what they do as what they mean. Cheerful and buoyant, Soriano's hypnotically...

Elisa D'Arrigo at Elizabeth Harris. (New York).
May 1, 2003... There is nothing tricky about Elisa D'Arrigo's sculptures. The effort involved in their creation is abundantly evident, from the painstakingly hand-stitched seams that hold their cloth units together, to their gently tumbled placement on walls...

Betsabee Romero at Ramis Barquet. (New York).(collection of photographs, works on paper, and ceramic sculptures)
May 1, 2003... For her second New York solo show, titled "Body Shop," Mexico City artist Betsabee Romero, 40, continues an exploration of the clash between Mexican cultural traditions and the fast-paced changes of modernity. On view were 14 recent works in a...

Franco Mondini-Ruiz at Frederieke Taylor. (New York).
May 1, 2003... Tejano artist Franco Mondini-Ruiz's latest exhibition, "Nacho de Paz," is a festive, kitschy gathering of 56 sculptural assemblages (all 2002). Fifty-four of the often intricate vignettes were arranged on white boxlike platforms around the...

Kevin Landers at Elizabeth Dee. (New York).
May 1, 2003... Kevin Landers so consistently hits the spot that, sooner or later, people will have to stop describing his photographs as "snapshots." Although his images have the spontaneity and haphazard composition of an untrained amateur's, they are too...

Rob Fischer at Elizabeth Dee. (New York).
May 1, 2003... In a Brooklyn warehouse room the size of his gallery, Rob Fischer built an extravagant, Mad Max sort of prairie schooner made up of oddly potent, scavenged things. When the untitled 2002 work was finished, he disassembled it and trucked it to...

John Isaacs at Feigen Contemporary. (New York).
May 1, 2003... Part bad-boy perversity, part mock-science, part neo-romantic fantasy, this exhibition of work by British artist John Isaacs presented a mix of themes and mediums that didn't quite coalesce. Nevertheless, individual parts were compelling. Most...

Rebecca Horn at Sean Kelly. (New York).
May 1, 2003... In this elegiac show (all works 2002), Rebecca Horn orchestrated light, movement and sound to evoke human insignificance in the face of cosmic time. The title work, Heartshadows, depends on the play of light reflected by a pair of mirrors, one...

Song Dong and Yin Xiuzhen at Chambers Fine Art. (New York).
May 1, 2003... This exhibition by two Chinese artists who have previously only worked solo was a team effort. Their show addressed the radical social and physical changes currently under way in Beijing (where they live), Western stereotypes about China, and...

"Galerie Huit: American Artists in Paris 1950-52" at Studio 18. (New York).
May 1, 2003... This deliciously recherche exhibition reunited 21 American painters and sculptors who showed together in Paris a half century ago. Galerie Huit was located in a very small studio at 8, rue St. Julien le Pauvre, across the river from Notre Dame....

Gyorgy Roman at Janos Gat. (New York).
May 1, 2003... Handicapped by deafness--a consequence of suffering meningitis at the age of two--and a survivor of fascism, the painter Gyorgy Roman (1903-1981) became one of Hungary's most important 20th-century artists. Roman was more or less an autodidact,...

Joyce Pensato at Elga Wimmer. (New York).
May 1, 2003... Joyce Pensato's latest drawings of cartoon characters--Felix on the Run, Donald as a Crossdresser, Marge from Hell--are alternately violent, tender, ghoulish, joyful and flat-out goofy; they have enough physical and psychic energy to make...

Carol Diehl at Gary Snyder. (New York).(collection of six paintings and six drawings)
May 1, 2003... The work of New York artist Carol Diehl possesses the intimacy of a personal journal at the same time that it is made impenetrable by her abstract style and refusal to provide the key to her encrypted symbolism. Indeed, the matrices of signs...

Michael Scott at Kagan Martos. (New York).
May 1, 2003... Known for his 2001 series of large-scale portraits of professional athletes constructed entirely of Lego blocks, Michael Scott continued to explore relationships among sport, art and popular culture in his recent solo exhibition. Only Mythos...

Benny Andrews at ACA. (New York).
May 1, 2003... Born in 1930, one of 10 children in a Georgia farming family, Benny Andrews grew up desperately poor. After serving in the U.S. Air Force, he studied at the Art Institute of Chicago on the G.I. Bill. He differed from his fellow students, mostly...

Kit Rank at David McKee. (New York).
May 1, 2003... Kit Rank is a 53-year-old painter, mostly self-taught, from Texas. Her first exhibitions took place in the mid-1980s, and she had her first New York show in 1999. Her resume suggests wanderlust: she studied woodcut and screenprinting with a...

Maria Lassnig at Friedrich Petzel. (New York).
May 1, 2003... Maria Lassnig, an artist in her 80s, is a prominent link in an unbroken chain of Austrian artists--from the Vienna Secessionists and Actionists to current exemplars, such as Franz West and Heimo Zobernig--who employ the body to dilate on the...

Brian Maguire at White Box. (New York).
May 1, 2003... Irish artist Brian Maguire has developed a process-based art that exemplifies what Joseph Beuys called "social sculpture." The process begins with Maguire visiting prisons to run art sessions with inmates. These are not exactly...

Valdir Cruz at Throckmorton. (New York).(photographs of the Yanomami Indians in northern Brazil)
May 1, 2003... Since 1994, Valdir Cruz has taken photographs of the Yanomami Indians, a native tribe of both northern Brazil and remote regions of Venezuela. Their culture and their lives have been damaged and threatened by the encroachments of the modern...

David Levinthal at Paul Morris. (New York).(a series of photographs of female figurines)
May 1, 2003... Photographer David Levinthal has long fixated on toys as signifiers of cultural myths, employing toy soldiers, cowboys and Indians to deconstruct historic icons through the prism of 1950s boyhood. In recent years, Levinthal has moved from boys'...

Chris Cunningham at P.S. 1. (New York).(four video recordings)
May 1, 2003... Over the past 15 years, British artist Chris Cunningham has worked on feature films, commercials and music videos. In 2000, he decided to pursue a career as an independent artist and filmmaker. The exhibition at P.S. 1 included four of his...

Chuck Close at PaceWildenstein. (New York).(collection of paintings and daguerreotype photographs)
May 1, 2003... In this show of recent work, Chuck Close exhibited paintings and daguerreotypes together for the first time. By now, his efforts in both mediums are familiar, but the juxtaposition yielded the most revealing view yet of his lifelong project to...

Arne Svenson at Julie Saul. (New York).(41 black-and-white photographs of sock monkeys)
May 1, 2003... This show, titled "Sock Monkeys," featured 41 recent works by California-born, New York photographer Arne Svenson. Identical in size (24 by 20 inches), these black-and-white, portraitlike close-ups of sock monkeys are part of a multifaceted,...

Yoshitomo Nara at Marianne Boesky. (New York).
May 1, 2003... Yoshitomo Nara's pouting doll-girls dominated this show, occupying plates, paintings, drawings and a large-scale sculptural relief. Though their expressions and hairdos vary, they are generally endowed with large crescent eyes, minimal noses...

Tam Ochiai at team. (New York).
May 1, 2003... Like his peers Takashi Murakami and Hiroshi Sugito, Japanese artist Tam Ochiai is influenced by pop culture, but his work seems more obsessed with childhood than theirs. At the same time, he is very much a painter, someone who is clearly...

Sidney Tillim at Usdan Gallery, Bennington College. (Bennington, VT.).
May 1, 2003... Although I came to know Sidney Tillim's work fairly well after I met him in 1981 (he died in 2001), even I was surprised by the variety, as well as the quality, of this retrospective memorial exhibition. The figurative paintings and geometric...

Thomas Downing at Conner Contemporary and Howard Mehring at the Catholic University. (Washington, D.C.).
May 1, 2003... With the rekindling of interest in the connotations and implications of color--for art history, theory and contemporary practice--the experiments of the so-called Washington Color School of the 1960s have taken on a new relevance. In these...

Michael Northuis at Heriard-Cimino. (New Orleans).
May 1, 2003... With subjects that range from sci-fi Annunciations to portraits of junkies and hookers, and influences that include Masaccio and Velazquez, Otto Dix and Joe Coleman, Michael Northuis's exhibition of 12 small-and medium-scale oil paintings on...

Angelina Gualdoni at Vedanta. (Chicago).
May 1, 2003... Angelina Gualdoni's richly nuanced paintings, six of which made up her impressive solo debut "Demo," explore notions of progress and decline by presenting images of utopian architecture in a state of ruin. These works, all acrylic and oil...

Candida Alvarez at TBA. (Chicago).
May 1, 2003... Memory and personal history suffuse the quirky drawings that made up Candida Alvarez's first solo exhibition in Chicago, as much a meditation on viewing art as it was an act of remembrance. Included were three small works on paper, five fabric...

Don Gahr at Thomas Barry. (Minneapolis).(wooden sculptures)
May 1, 2003... Don Gahr's hand-carved and painted wooden sculptures are positioned precisely on the divide between folk-art simplicity and art-school sophistication and between representation and fantasy. Well, maybe "precisely" is a misleading word, because...

Melissa Longenecker at Sala Diaz. (San Antonio).(exhibit combines the genres of performance, video and installation)
May 1, 2003... Melissa Longenecker's The Great Wide Fluorescence (2002) brilliantly combines the genres of performance, video and installation, transcending the bland video-documentary format of '70s performance artists while retaining their aura of...

Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset at Emmanuel Perrotin. (Paris).
May 1, 2003... You entered the semipublic space of the gallery as if trespassing. A group of handsome young men were busy with something normally done in private: they were writing in their diaries. Sitting at five uniformly white desks, the surfaces covered...

Despina Meimaroglou at the Rethymnon Centre of Contemporary Art. (Rethymnon, Crete).(art works based on digitally modified photos)
May 1, 2003... Despina Meimaroglou's exhibition at the Rethymnon Centre, a former soap factory in the town's medieval section, encompassed 18 photo-based works created between 1993 and the present. All drawn from the Zacharias Portalakis collection, the...

Mitsukuni Takimoto at Tokyo. (Tokyo).
May 1, 2003... Mitsukuni Takimoto's dozen sculptures, shown in two rooms, ranged from tiny tabletop works in Plexiglas boxes to a floor piece more than 20 feet long. This variety is, however, unified visually by the material and the technique: carved wood,...

Art Services.(Directory)
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Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. (People).(new director Willard Holmes)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Willard Holmes is the new director of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford. He had been deputy director and chief operating officer at the Whitney Museum of American Art since January 1994. He ,replaces Kate Sellers Markert, who is...

Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art. (People).(Karl Willers named curator)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Karl Willers has been named curator of exhibitions at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNYNew Paltz. He was previously chief curator at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach.

Milwaukee Art Museum. (People).(new curator Britt Salvesen)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Britt Salvesen is the new curator of prints, drawings and photographs at the Milwaukee Art Museum. She was associate editor of scholarly publications at the Art Institute of Chicago for the past nine years.

Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography. (Awards).(Malick Sidibe is 2003 winner)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Malian photographer Malick Sidibe has been named the winner of the 2003 Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography. He receives a gold medal and approximately $58,000. An exhibition of his work opens at the Hasselblad Center,...

Institut Valencia d'Art Modern. (Awards).(International Prize"Julio Gonzalez" awarded)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Anish Kapoor is the recipient of the third International Prize "Julio Gonzalez," given by the Institut Valencia d'Art Modern (IVAM).

George and Helen Segal Foundation. (Awards).(five sculptors)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... The George and Helen Segal Foundation of New Jersey has announced the winners of its first awards to five sculptors, each of whom receives $10,000. They are Pura Cruz, E. Gyuri Hollosy, Patrick McClanahan, Brian Scott and Basada Yakoub.

Canada Council for the Arts. (Awards).(winners of the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts )(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Seven winners of the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts have been announced by the Canada Council for the Arts in Ottawa. Artists receiving approximately $10,200 each are Robert Archambeau, Alex Colville, Gathie Falk, Betty...

Marian and Andrew Heiskell Visiting Critic and Journalist Award. (Award).(awarded to Jed Perl, art critic of the New Republic)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Jed Perl, art critic for the New Republic, is the first recipient of the Marian and Andrew Heiskell Visiting Critic and Journalist Award, given by the American Academy in Rome.

Judith Rothschild Foundation. (Grants).(over $270,000 for 22 grants to support work of 24 deceased under-recognized artists)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... The Judith Rothschild Foundation has announced 22 grants totaling over $270,000 for projects to support the work of 24 deceased, under-recognized artists. The grants, which range from $5,000 to $30,000, can be used for such purposes as...

The Nevada Museum of Art in Reno opens on May 24. (Museum News).(designed by architect Will Bruder)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... The Nevada Museum of Art in Reno opens on May 24. Designed by architect Will Bruder, the museum features a 68-by-250-foot torqued exterior wall made of steel columns and zinc plates. The structure encompasses 13,500 square feet of exhibition...

Obituaries.(Jack Goldstein, Felix Landau, Emerson Woelffer and Colin de Land)(Obituary)
May 1, 2003... Jack Goldstein, 57, artist, committed suicide on Mar. 14 at his home in San Bernardino, Calif. One of the first graduates of CalArts, he is known for his experiments in film, sound and performance art. He moved to New York in 1974 and had his...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
May 1, 2003... Mar. '03, p. 152: Kate M. Sellers, who now goes by Kate Sellers Markert, was wrongly identified as the new director of the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. She is, in fact, associate director for external affairs and operations on a two-year...

Art blooms in Beacon. (Art World).(Dia Art Foundation new gallery in Beacon, New York)
May 1, 2003... On May 18, the Dia Art Foundation opens its vast new facility in a converted printing plant on a 31acre site on the banks of the Hudson River [see "Front Page," May '99] in Beacon, N.Y. Located some 60 miles north of Manhattan, Dia:Beacon...

Cleveland Museum overhaul. (Art World).(design by architect Rafael Vinoly)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Architect Rafael Vinoly recently unveiled his design for a $225-million expansion and renovation project for the Cleveland Museum of Art. The plan calls for a restoration of the original 1916 Beaux-Arts building as well as a 1971 Marcel Breuer...

MOMA names two top curators. (Art World).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... The Museum of Modern Art in New York recently announced two major curatorial appointments. John Elderfield is the new chief curator of painting and sculpture. He succeeds longtime curator Kirk Varnedoe, who left in January 2002 to join the...

Iraqi Museums bombed. (Art World).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... As we go to press, UNESCO, which prior to the war urged the U.S. to safeguard Iraqi heritage sites during its military attacks on the country, says it has information indicating that a number of Iraq's cultural institutions have sustained...

Auction house price-fixing case settled. (Art World).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... The European antitrust class-action suit against Sotheby's and Christie's was settled in midMarch. The agreement comes two years after the settlement of a similar suit in the U.S. [see "Artworld," Apr. '01]. According to the ruling, which is...

San Francisco Art Schools stay separate. (Art World).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... After months of discussion about the possibility of a merger between the San Francisco Art Institute and the California College of Arts and Crafts, the two schools decided in February that they would remain separate. Last November, the...