Art in America articles from May 2008

Art in America archives from May 2008

Rothko: ethnographic or classical?(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2008... To the Editors: Although Sheldon Nodelman's article on Rothko [A.i.A., Feb. '08] was well written, it is filled with interpretations that are worn and obsolete. The fact of the matter is that Mark Rothko, at the time named Marcus...

A postmodernist prince.(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2008... To the Editors: It is doubtful that Richard Prince even cares what critic Eleanor Heartney wrote about his Guggenheim Museum retrospective in her essay [A.i.A., Mar. '08]. The Prince brand is tried-and-true in the annals of postmodernist...

Kaprow's Hansa connection.(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2008... To the Editors: Having assiduously searched your two texts on the career of Allan Kaprow [A.i.A., Mar. '08], I find no reference to the Hansa Gallery (1954-59). Kaprow was one of the founders of this artist co-op whose "management," over...

Armory Show.(FRONT PAGE: Spring Art Fair Flood NYC)
May 1, 2008... The cash-bar-only Armory Show preview was a signal that this, the annual fair's 10th installment, would be one of the most well-behaved, if not sobering editions of the once raucous event. Held for the second time on Pier 94, the aisles were...

Pulse.(FRONT PAGE: Spring Art Fair Flood NYC)
May 1, 2008... What Pulse sacrificed in subway access and pedestrian convenience in its move from the 26th Street Armory to Pier 40 on the Hudson, it gained in space. The 90 exhibitors (up from 65 last year) enjoyed supplementary spaces where large works...

Scope.(FRONT PAGE: Spring Art Fair Flood NYC)
May 1, 2008... Of the 50 galleries showing at Scope New York, held at Lincoln Center, nearly two thirds were from outside the U.S. Exhibitors tended to limit the amount of work they showed in their booths, with the result that the fair felt manageable and...

DiVA.(FRONT PAGE: Spring Art Fair Flood NYC)(Digital Video Art fair, The Streets)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Curated again this year by Elga Wimmer and Thierry Alet, the fourth edition of the Digital Video Art fair (DiVA) was subtitled "The Streets" and was limited to nine international galleries displaying work in shipping containers parked...

Red Dot.(FRONT PAGE: Spring Art Fair Flood NYC)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... On three floors of the Park South Hotel on E. 28th Street, nearly 50 exhibitors from the U.S., Canada, Germany and England displayed their wares. Founded by dealers George Billis and Ned Davies and artist Art Greco, Red Dot is now in its second...

Art Now.(FRONT PAGE: Spring Art Fair Flood NYC)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Red Dot's sister event, Art Now, in its inaugural New York run, hosted a more manageable 28 dealers, hailing from the U.S. and various European nations, on two floors at Hotel 30/30 on E. 30th Street. Notable for carrying the art world's...

Volta.(FRONT PAGE: Spring Art Fair Flood NYC)
May 1, 2008... Snappily installed ON the 11th floor of an office building facing the north flank of the Empire State Building, the Volta Fair was entirely given over to solo shows, and well worth a visit. An invitational event curated by Amanda Coulson and...

Bridge.(FRONT PAGE: Spring Art Fair Flood NYC)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Chicago-based Bridge Art Fair, formerly called Nova, came to New York for the first time this year. Fifty-seven international galleries set up shop in Chelsea's block-long Waterfront building (previously home to...

L.A. Art in New York.(FRONT PAGE: Spring Art Fair Flood NYC)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Despite rumors that it would not return, L.A. Art in New York set up shop on W. 18th Street for a third year. Downsized to 15 galleries, including one from Mexico City, this was the fair's smallest edition. Mary...

Dark Fair.(FRONT PAGE: Spring Art Fair Flood NYC)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Billed as "subversive, experimental and unplugged" the Dark Fair, a two-day event at the Swiss Institute's blacked-out SoHo loft, opened Friday night with a 6-hour party that continued the following day. Long lines for the elevator attested to...

Paint it white.(PEN & INK: Commentary on the state of art)(lying)
May 1, 2008... I'm a liar. And I cheat too. I make things up and I can't be trusted. It's not my fault. I've always been a thief and started stealing when I was six years old. I took a knife from a hardware store, brought it home and when my father asked me...

The erotic eye.(Art and Obscenity; Eroticism and Art; Sex Objects: Art and the Dialectics of Desire)
May 1, 2008... Art and Obscenity, by Kerstin Mey, New York, I.B. Tauris, 2007; 168 pages, $79.95 hardcover, $24.50 paper. Eroticism and Art, by Alyce Mahon, New York, Oxford University Press, 2005; 336 pages, $37.50 hardcover, $23.50 paper. Sex...

LACMA sizes up: though LACMA's new Broad Contemporary Art Museum lacks a clear mission, its promise is rich--as is its context, a thriving L.A. art community.(REPORT FROM LOS ANGELES)(Los Angeles County Museum of Art)(Organization overview)
May 1, 2008... The opening of the Broad Contemporary Art Museum (BCAM) on the campus of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has been a bewildering event, provoking soul-searching in the local art community and the museum world at large. The status of...

The anarchive: an assembly of mostly photographic and filmic works, "Archive Fever" provides an occasion to consider the institutional uses of visual information.(PHOTOGRAPHY)
May 1, 2008... The first works one meets at the entry of "Archive Fever," Okwui Enwezor's ambitious survey of the various uses to which the photographic document has been put in contemporary art, are a cool 1960s silkscreen by Andy Warhol and a hulking...

Julian Schnabel: the eye of the mind: in his film about a man completely paralyzed but for one eye, Schnabel has skillfully interwoven his character's memories with a phantasmagoria of art-historical references and imagery.(FILM)(The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)(Movie review)
May 1, 2008... When Julian Schnabers film The Diving Bell and the Butterfly opened at the Cannes Film Festival last May, I was amazed at what a French movie the American artist had made. That brilliant cast of European and Canadian actors and actresses...

To a different drum: in the 50 years since the Color School drew international notice, D. C.'s artists have mostly worked at a slight remove from the contemporary art world at large.(REPORT FROM WASHINGTON, D.C.)
May 1, 2008... Louis and Noland are curious about what goes on in New York, they show there, and have learned a lot there. But what they have learned mostly is what they do not want to do, and how to recognize what they do not want to do. When they return to...

In the galleries.(Calendar)
May 1, 2008... Adamson Gallery 1515 14th Street NW, Suite 202 202-232-0707 May 3-June 14: Group show, "Pattern Recognition" Arlington Arts Center 3550 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Va. 703-248-6800 Through May 31: Jeremy...

A citizens' museum: following a seven-year renovation, the Detroit Institute of Arts has a pragmatic new philosophy.(REPORT FROM DETROIT)(Organization overview)
May 1, 2008... Detroit is a city that has been on our minds for decades, since the riots of the 1960s and the decline of the auto industry. Detroiters will tell you that things got even worse after the 9/11 terrorist attacks panicked the nation and stalled...

NY galleries.(Calendar)
May 1, 2008... CHELSEA Aperture Gallery 547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10001 Tel: 212.505.5555 Fax: 212.505.7527 Email: publicity@aperture.org Website: www.aperture.org Tuesday-Saturday: 10:00-6:00 March 7-May...

Private dealers.(Directory)
May 1, 2008... A.M. Barral Fine Art Advisory, LLC 357 East 57th Street, Suite 8A, New York, NY 10022 Tel: 212.308.4024 * Fax: 212.308.9133 abarral@ambarralfineart.com * www.ambarralfineart.com Specializing in Latin American client base with interests in...

Maya Lin: building nature: the artist unveils several permanent public projects this year, and a traveling exhibition of her recent studio work is now on view in San Diego.
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Much of Maya Lin's time since her 1998-99 traveling exhibition, "Topologies," has been spent on large-scale public and private commissions of art and architecture. The list of projects that she has completed since...

Spring in dystopia: lean on visual pleasure but limned with thoughtful commentary on the state of the world, the current Whitney Biennial gives a quieter than usual voice to a general malaise.
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This latest Whitney Biennial almost perfectly fits with our prevailing national mood, which is basically anxious, uncertain, filled with questions about what is happening now and what is to come, and still stubbornly...

Like life: as seen through the work of Chinese artist Cao Fei, the virtual universe of Second Life is more glamorous and seductive, and no less melancholy, than the world from which it offers escape.(Cao Fei: Whose Utopia)(i.Mirror)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Second Life is a role-playing Internet site in which people shed their "first life" characteristics and conditions for a "second life" where they roam a virtual universe in the personas of their chosen avatars....

If walls could peak: in a mazelike installation, renowned Conceptualist Michael Asher re-created the framing for every temporary exhibition wall built at the Santa Monica Museum of Art.
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Few artists have had a larger role than Michael Asher in establishing Conceptual art within both art schools and museums. A lifelong Angeleno, Asher began teaching in the famous "post-studio" program at California...

Glimpses beyond the edge: in the large, colorful paintings of his two-decade survey, Peter Doig dissolves boundaries between figure and landscape, surface and image.
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Does Peter Doig's work really belong at Tate Britain, where he recently had his largest exhibition so far (a two-decade survey of some 50 paintings and as many works on paper)? I wonder, even though it's obvious why...

Putrih's play stations: a recent survey reveals that in his short but much-acclaimed career to date, Tobias Putrih has moved from futuristic fantasies to quasi-functional constructions that mix formal sophistication with practicability.(Tobias Putrih: Quasi-Random)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Tobias Putrih's career has been on a fast track for the past several years, The Shovenian-born artist has shown his work in galleries in Ljuhlana since 1999, but began garnering more widespread attention in 2002,...

Light maneuvers: with a traveling retrospective in Europe and works in American group shows re-igniting interest in his projections and performances, Anthony McCall is enjoying a renaissance.
May 1, 2008... In life, and certainly in exhibition-going, timing can be crucial. At first, the Anthony McCall show at the Serpentine Gallery in London failed to impress. Beyond the entrance gallery, densely hung with framed drawings and photographs, the main...

Two by two: British duo Noble & Webster shared private obsessions in a SoHo gallery and erected a public sculpture in Rockefeller Center.(Polymorphous Perverse)(Tim Noble and Sue Webster)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Out in the Hampstead section of London stands the Sigmund Freud Museum. It's the large, not-as-depressing-as-you-might-suspect brick house in which the father of psychiatry lived--having fled Austria after the Nazi...

Harun Farocki at Greene Naftali.(NEW YORK)
May 1, 2008... German filmmaker and artist Harun Farocki has long been interested in examining the relationship between technology and visuality, and in analyzing the place of surveillance and control in the overlapping realms of work, warfare and everyday...

Guy Ben-Ner at Postmasters.(NEW YORK)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Most of the earlier videos by Israeli-born artist Guy Ben-Ner, such as Moby Dick (2000) and Wild Boy (2004), were filmed in his kitchen, usually with his two children and wife in starring roles. For this new work,...

Shigeko Kubota at Maya Stendhal.(NEW YORK)(My Life with Nam June Paik)
May 1, 2008... Shigeko Kubota's most notorious work was a Fluxus performance in 1965, a year after she arrived in New York from Japan. For Vagina Painting she attached a paintbrush to her underpants, hiked up her dress and repeatedly squatted over an expanse...

Ross Bleckner at Mary Boone.(NEW YORK)
May 1, 2008... Ross Bleckner's restless, slightly sinister flower-based paintings--there were six, from 2006-07, in this exhibition--comprise some of his strongest work yet. While the predominating color is red, this is not the red of roses and valentines,...

Shirley Kaneda at Danese.(NEW YORK)
May 1, 2008... Shirley Kaneda's recent crop of abstract pictures, eight oil-on-canvas paintings from 2006-07, is composed of neon-hued, wavy biomorphic forms that reference the rhythms of nature and technology. The color schemes and patterns that appear when...

Thomas Downing at Gary Snyder/ProjectSpace.(NEW YORK)
May 1, 2008... A participant in a number of important group shows at the Jefferson Place Gallery in Washington D.C. in the 1960s, Thomas Downing came to be associated with the Washington Color Field School, which included Morris Louis, Gene Davis, Howard...

James Rosenquist at Acquavella.(NEW YORK)(Time Blades)
May 1, 2008... This recent show, "Time Blades," James Rosenquist's first exhibition of new work since his 2003 Guggenheim survey, centered on themes of time and relativity. As outlined in Sarah Bancroft's excellent catalogue essay, Rosenquist, now 74, lighted...

Adam Parker Smith at Priska C. Juschka.(NEW YORK)
May 1, 2008... A Grand Guignol scene of marionette heads on pikes greeted the visitor entering Adam Parker Smith's first solo exhibition. Death was the theme here, and the more sensational the better. Seventy heads met you at eye level, each a little bigger...

Judy Rifka at the Chocolate Factory.(NEW YORK)
May 1, 2008... Judy Rifka's recent exhibition at the Chocolate Factory in Long Island City was her first solo show in the metropolitan area in over 13 years, and one wonders why this talented, volatile artist, associated with the artists' collective Colab and...

Lisa Sigal at Frederieke Taylor and P.S.1.(NEW YORK)
May 1, 2008... Materializing the spaces between and within built structures is a time-honored technique among abstractionists and conceptualists alike--it is how Robert Mangold made some of his earliest paintings, which have almost nothing to do with the many...

Bharti Kher at Jack Shainman.(NEW YORK)
May 1, 2008... "Bindi" is the red dot on a Hindu forehead, once painted, now available as a stick-on; it also comes in other forms than the traditional dot, including a sperm-like serpent. Bharti Kher (and her assistants) applied them by the thousands,...

Christopher K. Ho at Winkleman.(NEW YORK)(Happy Birthday)
May 1, 2008... "Where is the rest of it?" was a question indefatigable art people were wont to ask when walking into Christopher K. Ho's "Happy Birthday" show. There seemed to be just one sculpture, surrounded by walls of an especially delectable gray. In...

Mark Morrisroe at Clampart.(NEW YORK)
May 1, 2008... Mark Morrisroe is remembered as the exemplary member of a group of Boston area photographers who came to prominence in the late 1970s and early '80s--among them Nan Goldin, Jack Pierson, David Armstrong and the Starn Twins. Morrisroe's work is...

Katarina Burin gelatin at Andreas Grimm.(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Katarina Burin, a Berlin-based artist, makes meticulous architectural drawings and photo-based collages. They evoke modernist ideals, while acknowledging the difficulty of translating pure form into functional structures for an imperfect world....

Andrea Modica at Edwynn Houk.
May 1, 2008... Roughly 10 years ago, Andrea Modica became interested in photographing the meatpacking industry in Colorado, where she had recently moved. None of the large, industrial slaughterhouses that she contacted would give her access, presumably...

Thomas Demand at 303.
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The work for which Thomas Demand has become well known depends on a complex back-and-forth movement between three-dimensional physical reality and photographic representation on the one hand, and real-life existence...

Joyce Kozloff at DC Moore and Solo Impression.
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Less is more couldn't be farther from the truth for Joyce Kozloff. The more detail and pattern she layers into her playfully free-associative work, the more engrossing it becomes. "Voyages," an installation at DC...

Dirk Bell at Gavin Brown.
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In Dirk Bell's first major solo exhibition in New York, drawing, painting, sculpture and mixed mediums were equal players in an installation whose individual parts and sum total were quietly dazzling. Comprising...

Paul Brach at Flomenhaft.
May 1, 2008... Pale horses, some of them winged, all of them rendered in fanciful hues like rose and violet, gallop across crimson, mauve and indigo deserts and skies in many of Paul Brach's paintings. In others, the same red-to-blue shift suffuses starry...

Kati Heck at Mary Boone.
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In her first solo exhibition in New York, Kati Heck--born in Dusseldorf in 1979 and based in Antwerp, where she received an MA from the Akademie voor schone Kunsten in 2003--assembled a group of six paintings from...

Diana Puntar at Oliver Kamm/5BE.(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Forty million people in the world today are said to live in caves, so the stalagmitic and stalactitic sculptural works in Diana Puntar's exhibition "Lived Live Evil Devil" could function as highly innovative decor...

Grace Knowlton at Lesley Heller.(NEW YORK)
May 1, 2008... This exhibition considered in some depth the spherical sculptures for which Grace Knowlton is best known, artfully scattering examples in such materials as bronze, stainless steel, iron, copper and clay on the floor of the gallery's atriumlike...

John Anderson at Allan Stone.(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] John Anderson's elegant, imposing sculptures set new terms for the edgy use of wood. His floor-to-ceiling constructions embody vertical flow, with cascades of twigs and limbs strung like giant beads on metal cables,...

Jennifer Bolande at Alexander and Bonin.(NEW YORK)
May 1, 2008... The clouds on the horizon in Jennifer Bolande's fourth exhibition at Alexander and Bonin were made of smoke, and signaled not the gathering storm of Alfred Stieglitz's modernism (as represented in his iconic images of the sky) but a refined...

Rifka Milder at Merge.(NEW YORK)
May 1, 2008... Rifka Milder is an oil painter's painter. Her first major solo exhibition, this show featured abstractions of New York City's green spaces and architecture as seen reflected in urban bodies of water, ranging from puddles to a lake in Central...

Stephen Pace at Katharina Rich Perlow.(NEW YORK)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The rich palette and highly tactile surfaces that distinguished this gathering of Stephen Pace's abstract paintings from the early 1950s to the early '60s show the influence of his independent study in San Miguel...

John Stephan at Washburn.(NEW YORK)
May 1, 2008... How is it that placing a motif squarely in the center of a composition can be so satisfying? A simpler mode of building a picture can hardly be imagined. The directness of this method distinguishes it from academic models of composition, which...

Gary Komarin at Spanierman Modern.(NEW YORK)
May 1, 2008... Now in midcareer, New York-born artist Gary Komarin makes works that owe as much to Color Field painting as to his off-cited mentor, Philip Guston. While scrawled Guston-like tropes are definitely a hallmark of Komarin's work, they are balanced...

Dean Byington at Leslie Tonkonow.(NEW YORK)
May 1, 2008... Dean Byington's new canvases and collages are bursting with minute fantastical imagery. The scenes are of a type that is instantly recognizable and yet difficult to place. Based on 19th-century-style book illustrations, they are essentially...

Nancy Wolf at Marsha Mateyka.(WASHINGTON, D.C.)(Dragons Adrift: The New Chinese Landscape)
May 1, 2008... There's a bit of schizophrenia in "Dragons Adrift: The New Chinese Landscape," Marsha Mateyka's recent show of 14 works on paper by the New York-based artist Nancy Wolf. Rendered in graphite and, on occasion, gouache, these cautionary critiques...

Leon Berkowitz at Edison Place.(WASHINGTON, D.C.)
May 1, 2008... The Washington Color School put the nation's capital on the art map, and although Leon Berkowitz (1911-1987) emphatically denied being part of it, one cannot help placing him there. Not only did the nascent group cluster around the Washington...

Jiha Moon at Saltworks.(ATLANTA)(No Peach Heaven: MuRungDowan)
May 1, 2008... Jiha Moon studied both traditional Korean painting and Western painting at university in her native Korea. She furthered her knowledge of the latter in the United States, but it remains particularly telling that her early training was based in...

Calvin Burton at Branch.(DURHAM, N.C.)(Canopy)
May 1, 2008... Calvin Burton's exhibition "Canopy" featured seven paintings distinguished by their energy and diversity. The young Virginia-based artist combines abstraction with references to architecture and landscape, sometimes contrasting frosty peaks...

Scott Turri at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.(PITTSBURGH)(Poppies + Heroines)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The connection between visual and corporal pleasure is taken up by Scott Turri in his exhibition "Poppies + Heroines." This Pittsburgh-based painter once favored an intense color palette and expressionistic figures....

Miao Xiaochun at Walsh.(CHICAGO)(H2O: A Study of Art History)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] With his third solo exhibition at Walsh Gallery since 2004, Beijing-based Miao Xiaochun has become a Chicago regular. Titled "H2O: A Study of Art History," this show consisted of 16 large digital prints and one...

Nathan Mabry at Cherry and Martin.(LOS ANGELES)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The seven pieces that made up Nathan Mabry's funny and sophisticated show (all works 2008) offered a sly message veiled in blustery bravura. With his synthesis of early modernist styles and postmodernist...

Walead Beshty at China Art Objects.(LOS ANGELES)
May 1, 2008... In a recent essay titled "foRm," written for LACMA's online forum, New York-based curator Kevin Moore asks what language can describe "the phenomenon that's happening in current art photography, in which photographers seem to be exploring the...

Jonathan Hernandez at MC.(LOS ANGELES)
May 1, 2008... To say that Mexican artist Jonathan Hernandez's first solo exhibition in the U.S. was a sparse affair is to risk understatement. The only work in an otherwise silent, vacant gallery was the precise imprint of his fist in a standard white wall....

Paul Winstanley at 1301PE.(LOS ANGELES)(Republic)
May 1, 2008... London-based Paul Winstanley's latest exhibition, "Republic," continues his restrained investigation into the complex relationship of representational painting to photographic imagery. Unlike his previous work, in which selective blurring and...

Carole Caroompas at western project.(CULVER CITY)(Dancing with Misfits: Eye-Dazzler)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For over 30 years, L.A. artist Carole Caroompas has incorporated mass media images into patterned collages and paintings that comment on the impact of cultural archetypes on contemporary psychology and behavior. The...

Kate Eric at Frey Norris.(SAN FRANCISCO)(Kate Tedman and Eric Siemens)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The twosome Kate Tedman and Eric Siemens--a.k.a. Kate Eric--have been making art together since joining forces in Barcelona in 2000 (she is from Oxford, England, he from Oregon). In that brief span the now San...

Darren Waterston at the Hoffman Gallery, Lewis & Clark College.(PORTLAND, ORE.)(The Flowering (The Fourfold Sense))
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In addition to a selection of Darren Waterston's ambitious abstract paintings, this exhibition introduced "The Flowering (The Fourfold Sense)," 2007, a suite of prints and broadsides that the artist created with...

Francoise Petrovitch at Galerie RX.(PARIS)(Ne Bouge Pas Poupee (Don't Move Doll))
May 1, 2008... Few contemporary artists embrace drawing with as much fervor as Francoise Petrovitch. Rather than a means to an end, the process of laying marks down on paper (or directly on walls) is the mainstay of this 40-something French artist's esthetic...

Darren Almond at parasol Unit.(LONDON)(Fire Under Snow)
May 1, 2008... "Fire Under Snow," British artist Darren Almond's most extensive exhibition in the UK, comprised two films (one of which, Bearing, 2007, received its world premiere), a series of large-scale black-and-white photographs and a wall sculpture,...

Kirsten Pieroth at Klosterfelde.(BERLIN)
May 1, 2008... Henri Bergson famously observed, "In every wit there is something of a poet." The three new works in young Berlin-based artist Kirsten Pieroth's solo exhibition at Galerie Klosterfelde occupy the ambiguous meeting ground of humor and poetry....

The Whitney Museum of American Art recently announced that it has received $131 million from the Contemporary Art Foundation, of which Leonard A. Lauder, chairman of the museum's board of trustees, is president.(Museum News)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... The Whitney Museum of American Art recently announced that it has received $131 million from the Contemporary Art Foundation, of which Leonard A. Lauder, chairman of the museum's board of trustees, is president. The donation is the largest in...

The Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami recently announced a $5-million gift from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.(Museum News)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... The Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami recently announced a $5-million gift from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The money will be used to support the museum's exhibition and education programs, and to present three shows or...

Steven Holl Architects was recently selected by Princeton University to design a 135,000-square-foot complex on its New Jersey campus, to be known as the Design Arts Buildings.(Museum News)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Steven Holl Architects was recently selected by Princeton University to design a 135,000-square-foot complex on its New Jersey campus, to be known as the Design Arts Buildings. The project will encompass new buildings for the Lewis Center for...

Dia Art Foundation.(People)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Jeffrey Weiss has resigned as director of the Dia Art Foundation after nine months. He told the New York Times that he prefers curating to the administrative and fundraising duties required of a museum director, even at a small institution like...

Henry Art Gallery.(People)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Sylvia Wolf, head of the department of photography at the Whitney Museum from 1999 to 2004, and adjunct curator since 2004, was recently named director of the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle. She succeeds Richard Andrews, who held the post for 20...

National Museum of Women.(People)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Susan Fisher Sterling has been promoted to director of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. She had been chief curator since 1994 and deputy director since 2001.

Asian Art Museum.(People)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... The Asian Art Museum in San Francisco has appointed Jay Jie Xu as its new director, succeeding Emily J. Sano, who retired in January after 15 years. Xu, who assumes the post on June 15, has been chairman of the department of Asian and ancient...

DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park.(People)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Dennis Kois, executive director of the Grace Museum in Abilene, Tex., has been named executive director of the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln, Mass.