Art in America articles from May 2005

Art in America archives from May 2005

Mayne wins Pritzker Prize.(FRONT PAGE)(Architectual award)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... Los Angeles architect Thom Mayne, co-founder and principal of the firm Morphosis, was recently awarded the $100,000 Pritzker Prize for 2005, given by the Hyatt Foundation. He is the first American recipient in 14 years. Mayne's designs are...

Met acquires Photo Cache.(FRONT PAGE)(Metropolitan Museum of Art)(Howard Gilman Foundation collection)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... The Metropolitan Museum of Art recently acquired the Gilman Paper Collection of photographs, containing some 8,500 items. Part purchase, part gift of the Howard Gilman Foundation, the works were assembled by Gilman, chairman of the paper...

NPR reporter fired after MOMA complaint.(FRONT PAGE)(National Public Radio)(Museum of Modern Art)
May 1, 2005... Controversy has arisen over the firing of National Public Radio arts reporter David D'Arcy for a piece he did on the news show "All Things Considered" involving New York's Museum of Modern Art and an Egon Schiele painting allegedly looted by...

Changes at the L.A. County Museum.(FRONT PAGE)(Los Angeles County Museum of Art)(Broad Contemporary Art Museum)
May 1, 2005... Shortly after the Los Angeles County Museum of Art revealed new details of a renovation and expansion plan, this time by Renzo Piano, it was announced that Andrea Rich, president and director for almost 10 years, is resigning. She will step...

Sound Art Museum opens in Rome.(FRONT PAGE)(Association for Contemporary Art Zerynthia)
May 1, 2005... Lodged in a spacious apartment in an unassuming 19th-century building on Rome's busy Piazza Vittoria, the new Sound Art Museum is both a public venue and the realized dream of Dora Stiefelmeier and Mario Pieroni, the founders of Zerynthia, a...

International new art invades New York.(FRONT PAGE)(The Armory Show)(The Scope Art Fair)(DiVA Fair, digital and video art)(The Armory Show)
May 1, 2005... The Armory Show, the annual international fair of new art, once again brought together some of the world's most prominent contemporary galleries to show off cutting-edge works in the super-heated New York market. Held Mar. 11-14 at Piers 90 and...

Reykjavik Festival honors Dieter Roth.(FRONT PAGE)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... The late Dieter Roth [see A.i.A., Sept. '04], the German-born Swiss artist who also lived and worked extensively in Iceland, will be celebrated at the 2005 Reykjavik Arts Festival, marking the first time this 35-year-old event will emphasize...

Surrealism at Sea.(Ghost Ships: A Surrealist Love Triangle)(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... Ghost Ships: A Surrealist Love Triangle, by Robert McNab, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2004; 266 pages, $40. For those of us who like to travel, part of the thrill is adjusting to new environments and strange situations that...

Her all-seeing eye: a lively retrospective of New Orleans artist-preacher Sister Gertrude Morgan demonstrates her burning engagement with the language and imagery of Christian redemption.(GRASSROOTS ART)
May 1, 2005... Upon viewing the fascinating exhibition of the art of Sister Gertrude Morgan (1900-1980), first mounted at the American Folk Art Museum in New York last year, I found myself recalling the early medieval manuscripts I studied years ago: in...

Biennial anxiety: amid growing questions about the purpose of large-scale international shows, the recent Gwangju and Busan Biennales underscored the limitations as well as the strengths of such projects.(REPORT FROM KOREA I)
May 1, 2005... The Gwangju Biennale With an estimated 200-plus international biennials vying for public attention, an exotic location and a roster of globally distributed artists are no longer enough to guarantee art-world notice. Increasingly, it seems...

NY galleries.(New York)(Directory)
May 1, 2005... Chelsea A.I.R. Gallery 511 West 25th Street, #301, NY, NY 10001 Tel: 212.255.6651 * Fax: 212.255.6653 Email: info@airnyc.org * Website: www.airnyc.org Tuesday-Saturday: 11:00-6:00 May 3-28: Judy Cooper, Leigh Craven,...

Game on: Media_City Seoul 2004, the capital's third electronic-arts biennial, examined the social and psychological implications of today's video saturation and digital gaming.(REPORT FROM KOREA II)
May 1, 2005... If one biennial is good, four must be four times better--right? Such seems to be the thinking in Korea lately, where last fall major international art conclaves took place in Gwangju and Busan [see p. 72] and the World Ceramics Biennale is...

Venetian morphology: the visual fluidity of Venice was reflected in a show of Turner's watercolors and the city's latest building-design biennial.(ARCHITECTURE)(Museo Correr)
May 1, 2005... By a unique act of esthetic photosynthesis, Venice has over the centuries converted wealth into lasting architectural beauty. But in the 25 years that Venice has played host to architecture biennales, there has always been a disconnect between...

To scavenge and transform: in his recent sculptures, Charles Long utilizes detritus from the Los Angeles River, numerous layers of plaster and pale-hued paint, and tiny lightbulbs. These abstract, formally complex, historically resonant works are the subject of a traveling exhibition.
May 1, 2005... All imagery that isn't pulled from the river: mere bijouterie. --Don Patterson Stepping into a survey show of Charles Long's recent work at Brown University's David Winton Bell Gallery, I felt at first that I was entering a room full of...

Picturing modernity, then and now: an international exhibition aruges that, from the 19th century to the present, "modernity" has been most richly expressed not by abstraction but by portrayals of human experiences that are quintessentially urban.(Faces in the Crowd)
May 1, 2005... "Faces in the Crowd," a lively and ambitious exhibition that debuted at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, suggests an imaginative, open alternative to the neatly arranged, tightly pigeon-holed categorization of modern art offered by New York's...

Creature pleasures: "Aggressive Endearments," a series of animal silhouette paintings by Robert Rahway Zakanitch, presents fresh possibilities for combining high and low, formalist rigor and folksy charm.(Critical Essay)
May 1, 2005... There is" something about these images... these patterns, these funny silhouettes, that strikes me very deeply... it is somehow very American. I know they can be found everywhere in the world... but still, the idea of it is very American to...

Reconfiguring Barry Le Va: deceptively modest, occasionally violent, always challenging, the concept-driven oeuvre of Barry Le Va was fully considered in a four-decade retrospective at the Philadelphia ICA.(Institute of Contemporary Art)(Critical Essay)(Cover Story)
May 1, 2005... In an opening-day walk-through of the big. densely installed and (in both senses) straining survey of his work at the ICA in Philadelphia. Barry Le Va offered this insight: "Ultimately it becomes a question of, can you tell the difference...

Barry Le Va's secret sculpture: the Walker Art Center's former director recalls a moment in that museum's history when ephemeral art institutional expansion made strange yet compatible bedfellows.
May 1, 2005... In March 1969, Barry Le Va realized a haunting work in the original 1927 Walker Art Center building, which was about to be demolished in order to make room for the museum's next incarnation, a brick-sheathed modernist structure designed by...

A Chicago eulogy: in recent collages combining vintage matchbooks, poetry and a personal iconography derived from his prints and drawings, Chicago artist Tony Fitzpatrick has fashioned an homage to his storytelling father and the hometown they shared.
May 1, 2005... Tony Fitzpatrick, 47, denizen of Chicago, artist, actor, poet, tattooist, musician and ex-boxer, is busy these days making collages, among them an ongoing series called "The Wonder," a paean to his hometown. This is a departure for Fitzpatrick,...

Dali in Duchamp-land: the Philadelphia Museum's extensive Duchamp holdings provide a richly instructive foil to the centennial Dali retrospective currently on view there.
May 1, 2005... By the time I got to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, around 11:30 on Saturday morning, Feb. 19, the Dali centennial exhibition was sold out for the day. Every room of the thoughtfully installed show was packed tight with viewers patiently...

States of stability: in Nobu Fukui's expansive allover canvases, heterogeneous elements--invented and found, figural and abstract, painted and collaged--coexist in fluctuating harmonies.(New York)
May 1, 2005... With acrylics, Nobu Fukui sends wide, airy currents of color flowing over the surfaces of his recent canvases. For density, he turns to oil paint, applying it in small disks of various hues. Pencil and ruler in hand, he establishes an allover...

Nancy Rubins at Paul Kasmin.(New York)
May 1, 2005... Nancy Rubins has been scavenging and purchasing discarded airplane parts since the mid-'80s, when, moving to the Mojave Desert where such materials were plentiful, she began using them in her sculpture. She has incorporated aeronautical refuse...

Diana Thater at David Zwirner and Zwirner & Wirth.(New York)
May 1, 2005... Artists working in video installation have tended over the years to turn away from the single screen, formally fragmenting or dispersing projections and, more crucially, engaging the world outside the piece. With Bruce Nauman, Bill Viola and...

Keith Edmier at Friedrich Petzel.(New York)
May 1, 2005... Some people go to Hawaii and come back with leis and ukuleles. Sculptor Keith Edmier went there and returned with research on lava, prehistoric plants, pregnant male animals and weeds that proliferate in fire-charred terrain. And this, in turn,...

Rainer Ganahl at Baumgartner.(New York)
May 1, 2005... Nearly everything in Rainer Ganahl's engrossing show, four years' worth of work dissecting "terror" as an ideology of power and control, furthered conceptual tasks and themes this Austrian-born, New York-based artist has pursued since the early...

Raqs Media Collective at Bose Pacia.(New York)
May 1, 2005... Based in Delhi, Raqs Media Collective was formed in 1991 by Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula and Shuddhabrata Sengupta. They are co-founders of the Sarai Media Lab, which serves as their studio, hosts workshops and maintains www.sarai.net, an...

Steve McQueen at Marian Goodman.(New York)
May 1, 2005... The powerful grouping of four works in Steve McQueen's recent show offered strongly opposed views of humanity, continuing the quasi-documentary cast of his earlier work while adding found material to his repertoire. Once Upon a Time (2003)...

Annika Larsson at Andrea Rosen.(New York)
May 1, 2005... At the heart of Annika Larsson's artistic project is an obsession with masculinity or, more precisely, "homosociality," an often-cited term coined by literary scholar Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick to refer to the subtle erotic tension underlying...

Julio Larraz at Marlborough.(New York)
May 1, 2005... A sardonic narrative threads through Julio Larraz's extravagant, light-filled paintings of life lived in a Valhalla reserved for the powerful and vicious. The Casabianca Compact (2004) introduces a white-gloved, white-jacketed white servant as...

Damian Elwes at Francis M. Naumann.(New York)
May 1, 2005... The son and grandson of British portrait painters, Damian Elwes was born in England in 1960 and now lives and works in Santa Monica, Calif., where he occasionally exhibits and is widely collected by the entertainment elite. A natural for the...

William Steiger at Margaret Thatcher.(New York)
May 1, 2005... By reducing landscape to simplified forms, New York-based William Steiger creates stark, cool paintings of often-archetypal subject matter. The 11 works (all 2004) in this show depict cable cars, grain elevators, a mill, an aerial landscape or...

Jules de Balincourt at Zach Feuer (LFL).(New York)
May 1, 2005... During the 2004 presidential campaign, Outback Steakhouse gave $681,000, or 95 percent of its political donations, to Republicans. Kmart donated $621,000 to the GOP--86 percent of the company's contributions. Tricon (not a defense contractor,...

Nicky Nodjoumi at Mike Weiss.(New York)
May 1, 2005... Nicky Nodjoumi's exhibition "Private Agenda" presented 17 large figurative oil or acrylic paintings that show surrealist tendencies coupled with a refreshing narrative inclination. Nodjoumi's muted palette and dry application of paint pay...

John Lurie at Roebling Hall.(New York)
May 1, 2005... Better known as an actor and a musician, a star in the long-running band the Lounge Lizards, John Lurie was sidelined by an illness several years ago and exchanged his sax for a paintbrush as his primary means of expression. Judging by the 46...

Laylah Ali at 303.
May 1, 2005... At once endearing, twisted and sophisticated, Laylah Ali's work has long played on the ways we type people--whether by skin color, costume or behavior. Her compelling gouache paintings feature figures in a generally cheerless and nicely...

Benjamin Edwards at Greenberg Van Doren.(New York)
May 1, 2005... Like a spectacular TV commercial, Benjamin Edwards's paintings represent not only the sleek image of contemporary life but also the very spirit of postmodern capitalism. His disjointed images of chain stores, fast-food joints and visionary...

Robert Rauschenberg at PaceWildenstein.(New York)
May 1, 2005... Tires, painted notices, graffiti and traffic signs trail like random spoors across the romantic, ruined landscapes of Robert Rauschenberg's ongoing series of the large-scale paintings he calls "Scenarios." Rather than using collage, frottage,...

Peter Campus at Leslie Tonkonow.(New York)
May 1, 2005... Ever since his groundbreaking videos of the early '70s, including Double Vision (1971) and Three Transitions (1973), Peter Campus has used technology as a means for exploring the self, especially his own. Few artists, however, have remained so...

Jacco Olivier at Marianne Boesky.(New York)
May 1, 2005... The ability to edit films on home computers has given new direction to the Cubo-Futurist desire to paint images of movement. In his recent show, the young Dutch painter Jacco Olivier showed seven animated projections (2003-04) based on...

Keith Sonnier at PaceWildenstein.(New York)
May 1, 2005... The most interesting of Keith Sonnier's recent neon wall works include conglomerations of found objects and detritus, with glowing, glitzy tubes of color wing with more quotidian elements for dominance. The largest of these pieces, at over 5...

Philip Pavia at O.K. Harris.(New York)
May 1, 2005... Best known for abstract sculpture in a variety of materials, Philip Pavia also helped to run the Club, the legendary gathering of downtown Abstract Expressionists that served as intellectual hothouse and dance party in the late 1940s and '50s....

Dawn Clements at Pierogi and Feigen.
May 1, 2005... In her most compelling works, Brooklyn-based, SUNY-Albany-trained Dawn Clements engages a warped, telescoping conception of domestic interiors and the psychic freight of inhabitants' belongings. Frequently these interiors are derived from soap...

Bendix Harms and John Bock at Anton Kern.(New York)
May 1, 2005... The mischievous spirit of the Heinzelmannchen--the "little people" of German myth and fable--was present in "Which Feeder?", an exhibition of paintings by Hamburg artist Bendix Harms and sculpture and video by Berlin-based John Bock. Unlike...

Dannielle Tegeder at Priska C. Juschka.(New York)
May 1, 2005... The cables, pipes and wires that serve New York lie as deep as 800 feet underground, we're told, prompting the question: what does the world beneath a city look like? Artist Dannielle Tegeder assays one fanciful answer through drawings that use...

Nelson Leirner at Roebling Hall.(New York)
May 1, 2005... In 1967, Brazilian conceptual artist Nelson Leirner submitted to the Brasilia National Salon a piece consisting of a large stuffed pig in a crate, its neck attached by a chain to a side of ham. O Porco was accepted. But the real corker came...

David Reed at Max Protetch.(New York)
May 1, 2005... Whether David Reed, now in his fourth decade as a painter, is refining his exquisite visual vocabulary or merely spinning his wheels was the hot topic raised by his recent solo show. Undeniably beguiling, the unmistakable look of his paintings...

Judie Bamber at Gorney Bravin + Lee.(New York)
May 1, 2005... How closely should we scrutinize for allegorical content a group of 11 views of an ever-changing, nearly featureless ocean vista, simplified to abstraction, by a loud-and-proud feminist heretofore known for her challenging, personal subject...

John Greer at George Billis.(New York)
May 1, 2005... This show featured 15 recent abstract works by New York painter John Greer. These meticulous, hard-edge, acrylic-on-wood or -canvas compositions, all untitled, are made of interweaving lines and interlocking geometric shapes, thickly painted in...

Audra Skuodas at Moti Hasson.(New York)
May 1, 2005... This was Ohio-based Audra Skuodas's first solo show in New York, despite a career spanning four decades. Thematically cohesive, "Vibrational Vulnerabilities" featured two artist's books in the form of large portfolios with unbound pages;...

Jorge Galindo at Ramis Barquet.(New York)
May 1, 2005... The Spanish artist Jorge Galindo, who lives and works in Madrid, used collage and paint to create the preparatory studies for his latest series of paintings (all tempera on canvas, 2004), which adopt incongruity and a fragmented look to...

Martha Diamond at the New York Studio School.
May 1, 2005... Because they are about being a painter in the city, Martha Diamond's paintings are autobiographical. This was especially evident in the selection of her works from the 1980s to the present that was shown recently in the gallery of the New York...

Katherine Bradford at Sarah Bowen.(New York)
May 1, 2005... Katherine Bradford's recent paintings traffic in innocent memory and an almost painful intensity of self-examination. They are reminiscent of the work that could be seen in many New York painters' studios in the late 1970s and early '80s,...

Jane Masters at Miller Block.(Boston)
May 1, 2005... Jane Masters continues to employ small, repetitive gestures to make labor-intensive, symmetrical patterns, frequently covering large surfaces. In the past, she has hung whole rooms with her own silkscreened wallpaper, the paper covered with...

Carlo Pittore at ICON Contemporary Art.(La Galleria dell' Occhio)(New York)
May 1, 2005... A significant figure in the field of mail art, Carlo Pittore showed his work along with that of Bern Porter, Ray Johnson and others at his La Galleria dell' Occhio on New York's East Tenth Street in the 1980s. Pittore, who lives in Bowdoinham,...

Ted Victoria at the Butler Institute of American Art.(Ohio)
May 1, 2005... What began as an image in a dark box in the times of Leonardo and Vermeer has come full circle in the work of New York artist Ted Victoria. Using determinedly low-tech methods such as camera obscuras, lightboxes, lenses, rear-screen projectors...

Stan Shellabarger at Western Exhibitions.
May 1, 2005... Start Shellabarger's performances and conceptual objects center on the body, addressing issues of temporality. His quasi-ritualistic actions test the limits of his own body and attention span in ways that prompt the viewer in turn to question...

Archie Scott Gobber at Dolphin.
May 1, 2005... Language has long played an important role in Archie Scott Gobber's work. In his recent show, words took center stage in a series of signs, placards and posters inspired by the phraseology and themes of last November's presidential election....

Jo Smail at Heriard-Cimino.
May 1, 2005... "Degrees of Fluency" was an exhibition of nine bright canvases, ranging from 36 by 48 to 80 by 60 inches, all the work of South Africa-born artist Jo Small, now a resident of Baltimore. The show was curated by New York artist Margaret...

Meridel Rubenstein at LewAllen Contemporary.
May 1, 2005... This quarter-century retrospective (1980-2004) of Meridel Rubenstein's photography spanned several bodies of work linked by the artist's engagement with the issues of race, community, the environment, war and technology. Rubenstein began by...

Evan Holloway at Marc Foxx.
May 1, 2005... Evan Holloway belongs to a young generation of LA.-based artists who have questioned the autonomy of modernist sculptural traditions. His formally rigorous sculptures combine an impressive range of abstract tropes with figural elements,...

Pauline Stella Sanchez at Rosamund Felsen.
May 1, 2005... Describing Pauline Stella Sanchez's recent work is somewhat like making a Hollywood pitch: Hitchcock meets Greek mythology meets Theosophy meets High Modernism meets Chinatown.... Her show "It's Busted" (all works 2004) opened with Apollo and...

Tom Bills at B. Sakata-Garo.
May 1, 2005... The sculptures Tom Bills showed here were substantially smaller than his usual fare. All new, the 14 works included are approximately 2 to 3 feet high and insistently frontal--meaning in this instance that they can be viewed from front or back...

Jim Dine at Washington State University Museum of Art.
May 1, 2005... This exhibition presented an overview of mainly large bronze sculptures Dine has produced over the last 20 years at the Walla Walla Foundry in Washington State. It documented the relationship between artist and craftspersons and coincided with...

John Stezaker at The Approach.
May 1, 2005... Combining early and late work, John Stezaker's first solo show in almost a decade revealed how effectively his intimate photographs reenergize the modernist fascination with an urban uncanny. Presented in a freestanding display case were...

Sergej Jensen at Galerie Neu.
May 1, 2005... Thirty-one-year-old Berliner Sergej Jensen designed his exhibition as a living room, which he filled with paintings, a sequined tableau, collaged-sack pieces, carpets and a video (all 2004). At the same time, he stripped the bourgeois interior...

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Officials of CIPEA (China International Practical Exhibition of Architecture) in Nanjing recently broke ground for a new Contemporary Architecture Museum designed by New York-based architect Steven Holl.(Museum News)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... Officials of CIPEA (China International Practical Exhibition of Architecture) in Nanjing recently broke ground for a new Contemporary Architecture Museum designed by New York-based architect Steven Holl. The approximately 32,000-square-foot...

Obituaries.(ARTWORLD)(Kenzo Tange)(Obituary)
May 1, 2005... Kenzo Tange, 91, Japan's leading architect in the postwar period, died Mar. 22 of heart failure. After graduating from architecture school in Tokyo, Tange worked for Kunio Maekawa, a major architect who had apprenticed to Le Corbusier. Tange...

Walter Hopps, 1932-2005.(ARTWORLD)(Obituary)
May 1, 2005... Walter Hopps, 72, museum curator and director and independent curator, died in a Los Angeles hospital from pneumonia. He was known internationally for organizing numerous influential traveling exhibitions and for introducing to the mainstream...

Budget cuts at the Albright-Knox.(ARTWORLD)(Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo )(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... In March, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo was forced to lay off 20 people from its staff of about 100 and reduce its hours of operation due to severe cuts in funding from Erie County. The cuts also affected other cultural institutions,...

Public art rescued from scrap heap.(ARTWORLD)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... Several components of a large-scale abstract bronze sculpture, The Ides of March (1963) by Philip Pavia, were recovered shortly after they were reported missing from a Manhattan office building in late March. The four-part, 10-foot-tall work,...

University of Chicago's David & Alfred Smart Museum of Art.(People)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... Anthony G. Hirschel has been appointed director of the University of Chicago's David & Alfred Smart Museum of Art. Since 2001, he had been director and CEO of the Indianapolis Museum of Art.

SITE Santa Fe.(People)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... Laura Steward Heon, curator since 1998 at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Mass., is the new director of SITE Santa Fe.

Center for Curatorial Studies.(People)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... Tom Eccles, director and curator of the Public Art Fund in New York since 1997, has been named executive director of the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. He replaces Norton Batkin, who will continue as...

American Folk Art Museum.(People)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... Maria Ann Conelli was recently made director of the American Folk Art Museum in New York. She was previously dean of the school of graduate studies and acting dean of the school of art and design at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Conelli...

Milwaukee Art Museum.(People)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... Joseph D. Ketner II, director of the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., has been named chief curator at the Milwaukee Art Museum.

Smith College Museum of Art.(People)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... Jessica F. Nicoll, chief curator at the Portland [Me.] Museum of Art since 1995, has been appointed director of the Smith College Museum of Art in Northampton, Mass. Nicoll, who assumes the post Aug. 1, replaces Suzannah Fabing, who is retiring...

Delaware Art Museum.(People)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... Danielle Rice, associate director of programs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, is the new executive director of the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington, effective June 1. She succeeds Stephen T. Bruni, who is retiring after 20 years in the top...

Katonah [N.Y.] Museum of Art.(People)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... Neil Watson, executive director of the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts in Wilmington, is the new director of the Katonah [N.Y.] Museum of Art.

Christo and Jeanne-Claude are the winners of the annual Doris C. Freedman Award for their presentation of The Gates in Central Park.(Awards & Grants)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... Christo and Jeanne-Claude are the winners of the annual Doris C. Freedman Award for their presentation of The Gates in Central Park. The prize acknowledges individuals or organizations for their artistic contributions to the City of New York.

Santiago Calatrava was recently presented with the 2005 Gold Medal by the American Institute of Architects.(Awards & Grants)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... Santiago Calatrava was recently presented with the 2005 Gold Medal by the American Institute of Architects. The award is given in recognition of a significant body of work.

Lee Friedlander has won the 2005 Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography, given by the Erna and Victor Hasselblad Foundation in Goteborg, Sweden.(Awards & Grants)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... Lee Friedlander has won the 2005 Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography, given by the Erna and Victor Hasselblad Foundation in Goteborg, Sweden. He receives approximately $70,000.

The Judith Rothschild Foundation has presented grants totaling $260,000 for 22 projects that support the work of recently deceased, underrecognized artists.(Awards & Grants)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... The Judith Rothschild Foundation has presented grants totaling $260,000 for 22 projects that support the work of recently deceased, underrecognized artists. The grants are given for museum exhibitions, catalogues, acquisitions and research...

Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue recently announced the recipients of its regional grants for artists in Houston and Chicago.(Awards & Grants)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue recently announced the recipients of its regional grants for artists in Houston and Chicago. Houston artists receiving $15,000 each are Amy Blakemore, Wesley Heiss, Laura Lark, Aaron Parazette and Robert...