Art in America articles from May 2004

Art in America archives from May 2004

Preserving the Barnes.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
May 1, 2004... To the Editors: The fiction that the Barnes Foundation is not welcome in Lower Merion, Penn., is a constant theme of those who wish to remove Barnes's collection from its home in order to create a tourist attraction in Philadelphia ["Front...

Guston and Dylan, tangled up in blue.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
May 1, 2004... To the Editors: I just read Raphael Rubinstein's article on Philip Guston [A.i.A., Mar. '04], which I enjoyed very much. As a student of Philip's at Boston University in the '70s, I was extremely fortunate to be able to spend long hours...

Reason and spirit, Diller + Scofidio.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
May 1, 2004... To the Editors: I am writing in response to Tom McDonough's reply to my letter about Diller + Scofidio [A.i.A., Mar. '04]. In my original correspondence, I challenged the widespread selective reading of 19th- and 20th-century art and...

Reading Gay Block's mind?(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
May 1, 2004... To the Editors: An unsettling discomfort washed over me as I read Arden Reed's review of Gay Block's recent multimedia exhibition held at the University of New Mexico Art Museum [see A.i.A., Mar. '04]. The show, "Bertha Alyce: A...

Jenny Saville and the C-word.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
May 1, 2004... To the Editors: I'm a liberal guy. I believe in freedom of the press, reject the death penalty, vote Democratic, belong to the ACLU. And I have been a subscriber to Art in America for at least 20 years, during which I have never previously...

Corrections.(Letters)(Correction Notice)
May 1, 2004... Mar. '04, p. 100: The Harlem facility where Man Ray, early in his career, studied life drawing with Robert Henri and George Bellows was the Ferrer Center, not the Ferris Center. Apr. '04, p. 125: In an exhibition review of the work of Steve...

Hermitage Amsterdam debuts.(Front Page)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... A satellite of the State Hermitage Museum St. Petersburg recently opened in Amsterdam. The new Hermitage Amsterdam is housed in the vast Amstelhof building, a recently restored 17th-century structure that was once a home for the elderly....

Museums team up for new art.(Front Page)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Three major national museums have joined forces to support the work of emerging artists. The New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and the UCLA Hammer Museum have formed the "Three M Project," an...

Zaha Hadid wins Pritzker.(Front Page)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Iraqi-born, London-based Zaha Hadid is the recipient of the prestigious $100,000 Pritzker Architecture Prize, given annually by the Hyatt Foundation. She is the first woman to win the award in its 26-year history. A former student of Rem...

Millennium Park to open in Chicago.(Front Page)
May 1, 2004... More than seven years in the making, Chicago's belated Millennium Park is finally scheduled for completion, with a ceremony planned for July 16. The 25-acre park is situated along the city's bustling Michigan Avenue, just north of the Art...

Britain's 9/11 memorial for NYC.(Front Page)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... An English garden will soon be taking shape in Lower Manhattan as part of a memorial honoring the 67 British victims of the Sept. 11 attack in New York City. Located at Hanover Square in the Financial District in Lower Manhattan, the British...

Studio program seeks support.(Front Page)(Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... The future of the Space Program, a project of the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, is again in question. When its rent was doubled three years ago, the program, which provides free artists' studios in New York's Tribeca neighborhood, was on...

Edgy Armory Show in the spotlight.(Front Page)(The ARCO Forum at the Armory Show)
May 1, 2004... Once again this year, the "Armory Show," the annual international fair of new am managed to add some heat to a particularly chilly and dreary New York winter. Held Mar. 12-15 on Manhattan's Hudson River Piers 90 and 92, the fair featured works...

The mastery of Matisse.(Bibliography)
May 1, 2004... Matisse, by Pierre Schneider, new edition, New York, Rizzoli, 2002; 752 pages, $100. The Joy of Life: The Idyllic in French Art, circa 1900, by Margaret Werth, Berkeley and London, University of California Press, 2002; 330 pages, $60. ...

The Cairo effect: during the 9th Cairo Biennale a striking contrast prevailed between the staid official event and several livelier satellite exhibitions.(Report From Egypt)
May 1, 2004... The 9th Cairo International Biennale opened on the night of Dec. 13, 2003, with a convocation of Egypt's official art world and other artists, academics, press and government types. Among those on hand were the U.S. ambassador to Egypt, David...

Portrait of an architect: in a subtle and sensitive documentary, Louis Kahn's son chronicles his search for the architect-father he never really knew.(Film)
May 1, 2004... Penelope was not alone in her longing for Odysseus. Their son, Telemachus, embarked on his own journey to find his long-absent father, establishing one of literature's oldest themes, the son's search for Dad. In one of the most poignant...

Howtan.(Advertisement)
May 1, 2004... An Interior designer with an eclectic personality, today he focusses with an incisive expressiveness his talent and passion, commitment and creativity through the camera's lens. The artist, of Italian-Persian origin, is starting to make his...

Diaspora and its quandaries: Frederic Brenner's 25-year odyssey took him from Jerusalem to Manaus, Tajikistan, Johannesburg and Las Vegas, to make photographic portraits of Jews, mostly in groups.(Photography)
May 1, 2004... My entire project is about breaking an emblematic representation of the Jew... There are as many ways to be a Jew as there are ways to be a man or woman among the peoples of the earth. --Frederic Brenner The characters in Frederic...

Drawn to dance: since the 1960s, dancer and choreographer Trisha Brown has repeatedly called upon artists to create sets and costumes for her performances.(Dance)(Critical Essay)
May 1, 2004... In the company of a group of young dance students, choreographer Trisha Brown recently strolled through "Dance and Art in Dialogue, 1961-2001," a traveling exhibition devoted to her work, in its incarnation at Manhattan's New Museum....

Art above the city: located atop a skyscraper, the Mori Art Museum opened with a thematic show of works from East and West, past and present.(Report From Tokyo)
May 1, 2004... Like the character Bill Murray plays in the recent film Lost in Translation, the Mori Art Museum, which opened in Tokyo last fall, suffers from a mild case of dislocation. As a privately run contemporary-art venue with international ambitions,...

In Mockbee's memory: a traveling show about the late architect Samuel Mockbee and his visionary Rural Studio program comes this month to Washington's National Building Museum.(Architecture)
May 1, 2004... Of all the arts, architecture most directly impacts human well-being. Few contemporary architects understood this better than the late Samuel Mockbee, co-founder of the Rural Studio, the now legendary Auburn University program located 160 miles...

Costantino Nivola: public and private: a selection of Nivola's sculptures, soon to leave the U.S. for a permanent home in a museum devoted to the artist in Sardinia, provided a rare overview of his work at the Parrish Museum.(Report From Southampton)
May 1, 2004... Costantino Nivola's father was a stonecutter, and Tino learned the trade while still a youth in the town of Orani in Sardinia, where he was born in 1911. Later he went to art school in Milan and studied painting. He also developed an interest...

Mortal coils: a large survey of Kiki Smith's prints and multiples at the Museum of Modern Art showed the vital role collaboration has played in her multifaceted career.
May 1, 2004... "I could just make prints and be satisfied," Kiki Smith told Wendy Weitman, curator of the artist's retrospective of prints and multiples, "Kiki Smith: Prints, Books & Things," recently on view at the Museum of Modern Art in Queens. Vast at 150...

Zucker's color constructions: perhaps best known for his paint-soaked cotton-ball works of the 1970s, Joe Zucker continues to invent new ways of "building" a painting. Three recent gallery, shows revealed him at his most spirited.
May 1, 2004... Joe Zucker has been a synthesizing original right from the outset. The homespun quality of his materials and processes reveals, rather than masks, a keen formal and historical sensibility, while also serving his devastating wit and cold eye for...

Line readings: Arshile Gorky's drawings: an acknowledged pioneer of Abstract-Expressionist painting, Gorky was also a dedicated draftsman. His remarkably vigorous graphic oeuvre, encompassing independent works and preparatory studies, is the focus of a museum survey for the first time.(Critical Essay)
May 1, 2004... In one of Gorky's two paintings of himself as a child with his mother, the boy's sleeve touches hers. In the other, more famous version, it doesn't. The problem is graphic, since it concerns contiguity and the resolution of spatial...

A house of parts: admiration for the resourcefulness shown by the beleaguered populations of overcrowded communities shapes Marjetica Potrc's major new work and the traveling exhibition that showcases it.
May 1, 2004... The problems of cities--sprawl, crime, congestion and insufficient services being among them--have inspired numerous solutions over the last century. Some of these, like Robert Moses's grandiose plans for New York and Lucio Costa and Oscar...

Alabama assemblage: last summer, in the walled garden of the Birmingham Museum of Art, Lonnie Holley turned a dumpster full of junk into dozens of striking sculptures. These works (and the dumpster) remain on view through May.
May 1, 2004... For its exhibition series titled "Perspectives," the Birmingham Museum of Art invites artists to create new works that remain on view in the museum for an extended period of time. Recent participants include conceptual wordsmith Lawrence...

Roberto Juarez: conjuring elsewhere: Juarez's paintings of tropical gardens and urban locales commingle imagination with personal memory. A Miami retrospective surveyed two decades of his work.
May 1, 2004... Roberto Juarez has shown at the Robert Miller Gallery in Manhattan almost every year since 1981, and his exhibitions have been regularly reviewed, providing a useful yet fragmentary record. But the midcareer survey mounted recently at the...

Dove Bradshaw: between science and poetry: both technical and artistic explanations attach to this New York artist's process works, which are perhaps most deeply influenced by John Cage's engagement with change and chance.
May 1, 2004... The exhibition "Dove Bradshaw: Formfoormlessness 1969-2003," mounted at the Mishkin Gallery of Baruch College in New York, covered a great deal of ground in its 29 works, done in mediums from gold to photography to video. There was a...

Toland Grinnell at Mary Boone.(New York)
May 1, 2004... Art as commodity, shopping as identity, the satisfaction of outlandish desires as a raison d'etre--the themes sounded by Toland Grinnell's work speak to present-day escapism, when dire news is momentarily displaced by an obsession with Carrie...

Robert Cottingham at Forum and Dieu Donne Papermill.(New York)
May 1, 2004... In his latest show at Forum, Robert Cottingham depicted a favorite subject, manual typewriters, in seven watercolors and gouaches, two graphite drawings on vellum and five large (as high as 7 feet) oil paintings on canvas--three years' work....

Tracy Miller at Feature.(New York)
May 1, 2004... In her second show at Feature in as many years, Tracy Miller continued her disarming and exuberant exploration of excess, in still-life paintings of food (mostly) that were the pretext for a smorgasbord of painterly techniques--cornucopias of...

Glenn Ligon at D'Amelio Terras.(New York)
May 1, 2004... Glenn Ligon is best known for his appropriations of texts, from anonymous slave narratives to excerpts by famous authors like James Baldwin, who was the source for the painting series "Stranger" (2001). Stenciling and gluing coal-encrusted...

Ward Shelley at Pierogi.(New York)
May 1, 2004... Brooklyn artist Ward Shelley, whose work often mixes abject sculptural objects with stamina-based performance, has never quite found his niche in the art world--that is, until he carved one out for himself, quite literally, in this...

Momoyo Torimitsu at Deitch Projects and the Swiss Institute.
May 1, 2004... Billed as an international competition of three life-size robots of American, European and Asian businessmen, Momoyo Torimitsu's Inside Tracktrans-formed Deitch Projects into an arena for corporate battle. The gallery's entranceway set the...

Jeff Koons at Sonnabend.
May 1, 2004... As an art-world brand name, Jeff Koons has become synonymous with the elevation of bad taste into high art. The most interesting aspect of this recent show was the way in which it illuminated the artist's own history. Koons's early floating...

Peter Saul at George Adams and Nolan/Eckman.
May 1, 2004... Peter Saul is one of those artists who never seems out of date because he has never completely been in sync with the dominant trends. A child of California funk, kin to Chicago's Hairy Who and kissing cousin of R. Crumb, his impudent,...

Milena Dopitova at Ronald Feldman.
May 1, 2004... In her New York solo debut, Milena Dopitova, a 40-year-old Czech artist from Prague who has shown extensively in her home-land, audaciously presented for youth-obsessed America a show about growing old. Titled "Sixtysomething," the exhibition...

Andrea Stern at Ricco/Maresca.
May 1, 2004... In recent decades, photographers have frequently turned their cameras on their families and close acquaintances, finding rich visual and psychological subject matter in naked offspring, vulnerable relatives, friends with their guards let down....

Joel Sternfeld at Luhring Augustine.
May 1, 2004... "American Prospects and Before," Joel Sternfeld's exhibition at Luhring Augustine, featured two by now historic sets of photographs. "Rush Hour," the earlier, is a series of mediumsize, highly informal color prints from 1976 recording men and...

Edward Burtynsky at Charles Cowles.
May 1, 2004... For the past two decades, Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky has been producing large-scale color images of what we might call "manufactured landscapes": sites, ranging from abandoned quarries in New England to ship-breaking operations on...

Ron Nagle at Garth Clark.
May 1, 2004... The words I associate with Ron Nagle's sculptures are: Bay Area, Finish Fetish, tiny, ceramic and cup. For decades, Nagle has toyed with the conventions of the cup, pushing the form to the point of abstraction, retaining it perhaps merely as a...

Paula Hayes at Salon 94.
May 1, 2004... "Forest" was conceptual artist and gardener Paula Hayes's first show in New York since 1997. Hayes works in many mediums, including landscape and garden design, sculpture, performance and drawing. She has been privately commissioned to execute...

Lisa Capone at Kristen Frederickson.
May 1, 2004... Lisa Capone's small-scale sculptures are talismanic. Suspended in air, wall mounted or displayed in vitrines, they gleam attractively while inspiring unease. At the center of this exhibition, a footlong silver lance or dart, Untitled (Closer...

Jane Schneider at June Kelly.
May 1, 2004... Jane Schneider found the wood she used for the evocative works in her recent exhibition, "Bare Bones," in the fields where she lives in upstate New York. She aggressively cuts and scrapes her raw materials, then paints their surfaces. In the...

Barbara Schwartz at St. Peter's Church.
May 1, 2004... Tucked into the northwest corner of the Citibank Building at 54th and Lexington Ave., St. Peter's Church has long had an ongoing program of displaying serious contemporary art in its lobby and hallways, and artists have responded by taking...

Gudrun Mertes-Frady at Rosenberg + Kaufman.
May 1, 2004... Gudrun Mertes-Frady's commitment to the material pleasure of paint and her expanding vocabulary of formal interests have recently resulted in a remarkable change from the saturated swirls and shingled grids that characterize her work of the...

Anna Pedersen at Schroeder Romero.
May 1, 2004... The 15 abstract drawings, paintings and sculptures (all works 2003) included in Anna Pedersen's first solo show, "The Skin of My Teeth," have an eerie resemblance to various things corporeal and organic. Pedersen fills her enamel-onMylar...

Theresa Chong at Danese.
May 1, 2004... Surrendering to the control of a steady hand, Theresa Chong's pencil glides and loops through computer-generated, batiklike fields of quarter-inch-square boxes randomly deployed on 25-by-33-inch and 38-by-46-inch sheets of rice paper. The paper...

Alfredo Martinez at the proposition.
May 1, 2004... It's not uncommon for artists to inhabit galleries for the duration of their exhibitions nowadays, more often than not as a gesture that they mean business. Alfredo Martinez, on the other hand, consented to being locked in a gallery in 1999...

Karen Finley at the Kitchen.
May 1, 2004... The Kitchen's gallery was moody with votive candles. In the oracle's back room, a long table was covered with butcher paper, on which pastels and watercolors were set out. I was there to have my aura channeled into a Psychic Portrait by Karen...

Janet Malcolm at Lori Bookstein.
May 1, 2004... Writer Janet Malcolm here presented 33 collages, each about the size of a sheet of typing paper or smaller. The exception was a 30-by-38-inch photographic print, America 1950 (2002-03), a grid of 28 vintage headshots of corporate executives....

Fletcher Benton at Neuhoff.
May 1, 2004... The ancestry of Fletcher Benton's abstract sculptures goes back to Russian Constructivism and the Machine Age by way of pure, hard geometric form and the art of assemblage. Using this modernist vocabulary, Benton achieves a dynamic balance...

Jerome Powers at Margaret Thatcher Projects.
May 1, 2004... "Glue Factory," Jerome Powers's first exhibition in New York, comprised 15 paintings consisting of multiple superimposed layers of Elmer's glue. This artist does not drip the glue, as Mark Tobey had done. Instead, he pours it onto canvases that...

Chie Fueki at Bill Maynes.
May 1, 2004... Chie Fueki, a young New York painter who was born in Japan, honors the artistic customs of her birthplace. Fueki paints on sheets of rice and mulberry paper mounted on wooden panels, representing cranes, chrysanthemums, and other subjects...

Gina Werfel at Prince Street.
May 1, 2004... Over the past two decades, Gina Werfel has developed a way of painting that tantalizingly walks the line between landscape and abstraction. In recent works from 2002-03, the scale of her marks makes them difficult to interpret as elements of a...

Thordis Adalsteinsdottir at Stefan Stux.
May 1, 2004... This was the first New York solo exhibition for Thordis Adalsteinsdottir, an impressive Icelandic painter fresh out of the graduate program at the School of Visual Arts. Adalsteinsdottir's 11 spare acrylic paintings on canvas or wood panel, all...

Margaret Grimes at Blue Mountain.
May 1, 2004... These seven new landscapes in oils, the largest 6 feet wide, were painted directly from life, outdoors or through windows. Though solidly representational, they are also, in a sense, action paintings--painterly resolutions of the chaos of dense...

Vincent Geyskens at Thomas Erben.
May 1, 2004... Vincent Geyskens is a young Belgian painter who recently had his first New York solo exhibition. Titled "Intrusion and Separation," the show included 12 oil paintings of various sizes. Equally versed in abstraction and figuration, Geyskens is...

Carol K. Brown at Nohra Haime.
May 1, 2004... As she declares in the press release for her exhibition of Lambda prints and a video at Nohra Haime, Carol K. Brown is ambivalent about the use of new technologies to create art. In her opinion, technology reduces the physical labor required to...

Walter Anderson at Luise Ross.
May 1, 2004... The year 2003 was the centennial of Mississippi modernist Walter Anderson's birth, and in addition to a large retrospective organized by the Walter Anderson Museum of Art in Ocean Springs, Miss., on view at the Smithsonian Institution's...

Domingo Barreres at White Box.
May 1, 2004... Employing the bravura manner of the master painters of the 17th century, and particularly Velazquez, the Spanish-born, Boston-based painter Domingo Barreres has produced a commanding, thoroughly modern series of paintings rich with dark homage...

Michael Joo at MIT List Visual Arts Center.(Cambridge, Mass.)
May 1, 2004... This first museum survey of the Korean-American artist Michael Joo was organized by the List Visual Arts Center and curated by its director, Jane Farver. Joo, who was born in Ithaca, N.Y., in 1966, represented South Korea with Do-Ho Suh in the...

Barry X Ball at Mario Diacono at Ars Libri.(Boston)
May 1, 2004... (Matthew Barney), 2000-03, an installation shown in isolation, is the latest example of Barry X Bali's evolving series of sculptural portrait heads, which so far are drawn primarily from the art world. Here he literally skewers Matthew Barney's...

Neil Goodman at Klein Art Works.(Chicago)
May 1, 2004... Neil Goodman wants to build the Savannah Center Sculpture Garden on the campus of Indiana University Northwest in Gary, where he teaches. He plans to make nine bronze castings up to 8 feet tall, which will be installed singly or in groups among...

Pablo Helguera at Julia Friedman.(Chicago)
May 1, 2004... Like his contemporaries Fred Wilson, Mark Dion and Janet Cardiff, Pablo Helguera is engaged in the practice of institutional critique, exploring the relationship between objects and their visual display. Here, in fact, Wilson narrated the...

Lynn Geesaman at Thomas Barry.(Minneapolis)
May 1, 2004... Lynn Geesaman's recent show of C-prints conveyed the well-known Minneapolis-based landscape photographer's fascination with the stereotypically genteel gardens of Europe. Hinton Ampner, England (2000), for instance, depicts a vast English...

Earl Stroh and Tony Magar at Harwood Museum of Art.(Taos)
May 1, 2004... There are a fair number of serious artists living and working in northern New Mexico, and the local Harwood Museum happily paired two of them in a recent show. Earl Stroh and Tony Magar represent two different generations and modes of artistic...

Catherine Opie at Regen Projects.(Los Angeles)
May 1, 2004... Catherine Opie has always been interested in using her photography to inspect the ways various marginal communities live, as well as how they signify themselves and differentiate from others. Her status as an unflinching social documentarian...

Michael C. McMillen at L.A. Louver.(Venice, Calif.)
May 1, 2004... Visitors to Michael McMillen's captivating show passed through a squeaky screen door into a space whose darkness and indigo walls made it feel like the outdoors at night. A small painting of natural catastrophe (Marine Landscape) hung on one...

Stella Lai at Lizabeth Oliveria.(San Francisco)
May 1, 2004... Like a young skater at the Olympics, this San Francisco-based Chinese artist made sure to cover the compulsories in her solo debut. From text pieces and architectural dioramas to gouaches and a 3-D cutout paper doll--all made in 2003--Stella...

Frederick Hayes at Patricia Sweetow.(San Francisco)
May 1, 2004... Ever since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the city has become an emotionally loaded subject for artists. Frederick Hayes's six untitled cityscapes, executed in ink, graphite and charcoal on thick paper, register an ominous aura of impending...

"In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" at "Tate Britain.(London)(Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas and Angus Fairhurst)
May 1, 2004... An ambitious collaborative effort by Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas and Angus Fairhurst, "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" competes with Olafur Eliasson's recent Weather Project" at late Modern as the most striking installation in London this season. It is the...

Txomin Badiola at Soledad Lorenzo.(Madrid)
May 1, 2004... Cultural references abound in the constructivist installations of Basque artist Txomin Badiola. In the recent Cuando la Meirda Llegue al Ventilader (When the Shit Hits the Fan) disparate, fragmentary objects and images resonate in discordant,...

Serkan Ozkaya at Galerist.(Istanbul)
May 1, 2004... Serkan Ozkaya, an Istanbul-based artist who is also pursuing a Ph.D. in German studies, showed a number of his offbeat, post-Duchampian projects in a recent exhibition that coincided with the Istanbul Biennial. Conceptually oriented, the nine...

Shintaro Miyake at Tomio Koyama.(Tokyo)
May 1, 2004... Shintaro Miyake, 34, is the latest star to pop from the Tomio Koyama Gallery, and he seems ready for the gallery's international push, since he has called himself Shintaro Star in previous performances. Like his stable-mates Takashi Murakami...

Art services.(Directory)(Directory)
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Awards & grants.(Artworld)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... Chinese-born, New York-based artist Xu Bing has won the inaugural Artes Mundi Prize, given by the National Museum and Gallery of Wales in Cardiff. The biennial prize, worth approximately $75,000, is for work that addresses the human form or the...

Obituaries.(Artworld)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
May 1, 2004... Bates Lowry, 80, art and architectural historian and museum director, died Mar. 12 in Boston of pneumonia. While chairman of the Brown University art department, in 1966, he established the Committee to Rescue Italian Art (CRIA) in the wake of...

Milton Resnick, 1917-2004.(Artworld)(Obituary)
May 1, 2004... Milton Resnick, a pioneer of Abstract Expressionism known for heavily impastoed, near monochrome canvases, committed suicide on Mar. 12, age 87. Born Rachmiel Resnick of Jewish parents in Bratslav in the Ukraine in 1917, Resnick was, as a...

LACMA revives expansion plans, thanks to Broad.(Artworld)(Los Angeles County Museum of Art )
May 1, 2004... Since its radical, highly publicized expansion and reconfiguration plan designed by Rem Koolhaas was cancelled last year due to prohibitive costs and difficulty raising funds, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has refrained from making any...

WPS1 debuts.(Artworld)(P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center.)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... A new Internet radio station was launched on Apr. 19 by P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center. The brainchild of P.S. 1 director Alanna Heiss, who serves as executive producer, www.wps1.org is billed as the first art radio station. Programming...

Asia Society promotes director.(Artworld)(Vishakha N. Desai )(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... The Asia Society in New York has named Vishakha N. Desai as its new president, effective July 1. She is the first woman and the first Asian-American to lead the institution founded in 1956 by John D. Rockefeller III to foster understanding...

Beijing's new art district holds fest.(Artworld)
May 1, 2004... The first Dashanzi International Art Festival--comprising visual arts, music, theater, film, dance and sound art--is being held Apr. 24-May 23 in Beijing's Chaoyang District (about halfway between downtown and the city airport). Organized by...