Art in America articles from November 2003

Art in America archives from November 2003

Goldsworthy's Living Memorial.(Front Page)(Garden of Stones)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Andy Goldsworthy's installation Garden of Stones, a memorial dedicated to the victims and survivors of the Holocaust, was recently unveiled at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Lower Manhattan. The $1-million project was a collaboration between...

Contemporary Art's new home in St. Louis.(Front Page)
November 1, 2003... On Sept. 20, the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, previously the Forum for Contemporary Art, opened in its new home. Formerly housed in an old automobile showroom two blocks away, the institution has commissioned a facility for the first time...

Barnes clears hurdle in relocation battle.(Front Page)
November 1, 2003... The Barnes Foundation is making slow but steady progress in its bid to relocate its renowned and beleaguered collection from founder Albert C. Barnes's former mansion in Lower Merion, Pa., to a site in central Philadelphia, just down the street...

Farnsworth House on the block.(Front Page)(Cover Story)
November 1, 2003... Despite attempts by architectural preservationists to purchase Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House, the modernist icon located in Plano, Ill., will go on the auction block on Dec. 12 at Sotheby's in New York. Since 1971, the house has been...

Saint Phalle's final garden.(Front Page)(Cover Story)
November 1, 2003... The last sculptural environment created by Niki de Saint Phalle--and the only one in the U.S.--has opened posthumously in Escondido, Calif., about 30 miles north of San Diego. Four years in the making, Queen Califia's Magical Circle was about...

Aldrich art for auction.(Front Page)
November 1, 2003... The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, Conn., will auction 310 works from its permanent collection on Nov. 9 at the Showplace in Binghamton, N.Y. The sale includes items by 301 artists, including Stephen Antonakos, Jennifer...

Archives cache to Forth Worth.(Front Page)(Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Landlocked scholars no longer have to travel to the East or West Coasts to consult the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art. The Archives, which consists of some 15 million documents including artists' letters, sketches and...

Prague museum rebounds.(Front Page)(Museum Kampa)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... The Museum Kampa, a venue in Prague that houses international contemporary art and an important private collection of Czech modernist works, was inaugurated this past September after long delays. Located along the banks of the Vltava River in a...

Bellevue museum shuttered.(Front Page)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... The Bellevue [Wash.] Art Museum made a surprising announcement in late September that it would close due to financial difficulties, The museum shut its doors on Sept. 30, three days after the opening of what turned out to be its last...

Muybridge in Motion.(River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West)(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West, by Rebecca Solnit, New York, Viking, 2003; 305 pages, $25.95. It's easiest to say what this book is not. It is not a conventional biography of the 19th-century...

Hadid in America: a lightness of being: with the completion of her Contemporary Arts Center building in Cincinnati and the unveiling of her plans for the Price Tower Arts Center in Bartlesville, Okla., Zaha Hadid adds two strong designs to her growing oeuvre.(Architecture)
November 1, 2003... The white cube, virtually unchallenged as the reigning' museum and gallery paradigm, is a relatively recent, largely postwar phenomenon, perpetuated by the argument that it provides the ideal neutral background for viewing art. No environment,...

Focus on Cuba: a recent exhibition of works by 14 photographers presented intimate studies of the island nation on the threshhold of change.(Photography)
November 1, 2003... Cuba's economy today is in tatters, barely supported by tourism and the limited growth of private enterprise. The former Soviet Union has long since withdrawn its aid, and the island nation continues to face the ongoing trade embargo and...

A noble legacy: soon after the Museum of Modern Art in York was founded, the bequest of Lillie P. Bliss (1864-1931) played a crucial role in establishing a permanent collection for the fledgling institution.(Patrons)(Biography)
November 1, 2003... The heart of the Museum of Modern Art has long been its unrivaled collection of painting and sculpture. The collection's original core was the gift of one of the museum's founders, Lillie P. Bliss. When the Modern opened its temporary facility...

Fast forward on the Persian gulf: the youthful director of the Sixth Sharjah International Biennial, Sheikha Hoor Al-Qasimi, expanded the event's scope to include cutting-edge art from over 24 countries.(Report From The U.A.E.)
November 1, 2003... Many visitors attending the opening of the Sixth Sharjah International Biennial in early April agreed: this was not your typical vernissage. For starters, no one was able to partake of the wine generally ubiquitous at such events. The most...

Working things out: there was nothing preordained about Donald Judd's path from his early quasi-representational canvases to his acclaimed Minimalist sculptures. As a recent exhibition revealed, this move came after years of tackling the practical and philosophical problems of painting.(Biography)
November 1, 2003... What intrigued me about the exhibition "Donald Judd: Early Work 1955-1968," and prompted my trip to the Menil Collection in Houston, was the prospect of seeing not only Judd's first sculptures but also his rarely exhibited paintings. Fifteen of...

8 painters: New York: these eight individualistic, New York-based painters embrace a wide range of approaches and styles, from figurative to abstract. Among the elements appearing in their recent work have been cartooning, video, assemblage, found poetry, kitsch imagery and biblical narratives.
November 1, 2003... On a Personal Note I'm trying to figure out why it has taken me so long--five years!--to write a sequel to my last roundup article on contemporary painting. My silence may be partly explained by strictly personal concerns: a few months...

Following the money: Mark Lombardi was making art about the shadowy worlds of global money laundering, corporate malfeasance and international terrorism long before 9/11 and the Enron scandal. A traveling show of the late artist's drawings is currently on view in New York at the Drawing Center.(Biography)
November 1, 2003... Like other conceptual works that map complex systems, such as Sol LeWitt's "Incomplete Open Cubes," Mark Lombardi's flowchart drawings at first seem perceptually hard to grasp and, as LeWitt has said of his own work, "emotionally dry." (1) But...

Hartley's indicative objects: a recent exhibition spotlighted the still lifes of Marsden Hartley, finding in them a metaphorical complexity and emotional range to rival that of his better known landscapes and abstractions.
November 1, 2003... We know him best for the groundbreaking abstractions done in Berlin in 1914 and '15, and the flinty Maine and Nova Scotia landscapes, as well as the figure paintings done near the end of his career. Because of this prodigious outpouring of...

Elements and essence: in her meticulously worked paintings of a natural world not so much idealized as distilled, Sharon Ellis attains a physical intensity that shades undiminished into the spiritual. Two recent shows, a 10-year survey and a series of new works, reveal this L.A. artist at her devotions.(Biography)
November 1, 2003... For the past 10 years, Sharon Ellis has been making paintings of nature transfigured. Each blade of grass in her landscapes yearns sinuously upward; each leaf strikes a graceful, balletic pose. Every raindrop is articulated individually as a...

Janine Antoni at Luhring Augustine.(New York)
November 1, 2003... One could well appreciate Janine Antoni's excellent new sculpture To Draw a Line without having witnessed her tightrope performance an hour before the opening. On the other hand, I'm glad I was there. Two looming 9-foot steel reels faced each...

Tony Oursler at Metro Pictures.(New York)
November 1, 2003... Tony Oursler's recent show included seven video-sculptures, all from 2003. A variation on the artist's angst-ridden dolls, they consist of DVD projections on clusters of rounded fiberglass shapes. Unlike his ranting mannequins, however, these...

Do-Ho Suh at Lehmann Maupin.(New York)
November 1, 2003... As weightless as dreams and as elusive as their meaning, Do-Huh Suh's installation The Perfect Home II conjures the vulnerabilities of apartment life, where outside noise penetrates our living space, and our walls and windows betray our...

Allen Ruppersberg Gorney Bravin + Lee.(New York)
November 1, 2003... In his recent exhibition titled "The Singing Posters," Allen Ruppersberg created a maximalist environment with a minimum of means. The walls of the gallery were lined top to bottom with placard-size posters like the cheap ones you see stapled...

Kori Newkirk at The Project.(New York)
November 1, 2003... In his second solo show at The Project, Kori Newkirk continued to explore identity politics and personal history in sculptures and site-specific installations. Perhaps best known for his beautifully constructed pony bead paintings--colorful,...

Tim Davis at Brent Sikkema.(New York)
November 1, 2003... When I visited the Louvre as a teenager, I stood before the Mona Lisa with a throng of other tourists and snapped several pictures of her famous smile. The resulting photographs were unremarkable and revealed my dim reflection in the Plexiglas...

Tom Friedman at Feature.(New York)
November 1, 2003... The distinction of "art" from "life" established around 1800 led, within 100 years, to demands from various sides that the two be brought together. It is not the least striking sign of Tom Friedman's intelligence that he has managed to do...

William Anastasi at white box annex.(New York)
November 1, 2003... In late 1966, when resistance to the war in Vietnam was beginning to roil, Conceptual artist William Anastasi presented Blind to the Dwan Gallery as part of a series of site-specific projects that posited the space of the gallery as an...

Richard Pettibone at Leo Castelli.(New York)
November 1, 2003... Based on reproductions of paintings famous in part because of the frequency of their reproduction, the works by Richard Pettibone included in this show are smaller than the images they reflect, and often bear painted legends providing the...

Nancy Becker-Pettibone at Francis M. Naumann.(New York)
November 1, 2003... Nancy Becker-Pettibone's meticulous watercolors fall within the generous embrace of appropriation art. The watercolors included in this thoughtfully installed exhibition faithfully, and sometimes magically, draw on a range of modern and...

John Newman at Von Lintel.(New York)
November 1, 2003... John Newman's new sculptures are like picaresque novels. They carry us from volumetric episode to episode, allowing us to savor a series of abrupt but apt transitions as they swing from rough to smooth, biomorphic to geometric, flashy to...

Lawson Oyekan at Garth Clark/Long Island City.(New York)
November 1, 2003... This exhibition at Garth Clark's new outpost demonstrated why the gallery needs a supplement to its 57th Street headquarters. Lawson Oyekan's installation of 10 earthenware sculptures around 6 feet tall and up to 3 feet wide could not have been...

Nola Zirin at June Kelly.(New York)
November 1, 2003... Color was the driving force behind Nola Zirin's eight abstract canvases made during the past two years, seen in a recent exhibition at June Kelly. Zirin juxtaposes monochrome planes of undisturbed color with agitated areas that contrast in hue...

Peggy Cyphers at The Proposition.(New York)
November 1, 2003... Peggy Cyphers's abstract, mixed-medium paintings often seem to have been created through organic processes of erosion and growth, but actually make reference to the artist's real-life surroundings. Her latest exhibition included 12 paintings,...

Greg Bogin at Mary Boone.(New York)
November 1, 2003... Greg Bogin navigates between the rock of hard-edge painting and the hard place of the shaped canvas. Although resolutely cheerful in his reworking of genres, he retains traces of the anxiety and high-minded intent of his predecessors. These...

Zao Wou-Ki at Marlborough.(New York)
November 1, 2003... This recent show was the first New York exhibition since 1986 for Chinese-born, Paris-based painter Zao Wou-Ki. Known since the mid-1950s for exuberant abstract canvases featuring brilliant colors and bravura brushwork, Zao made an important...

Tom Wesselmann at Maxwell Davidson and Robert Miller.(New York)
November 1, 2003... Tom Wesselmann and his fellow Cincinnatian Jim Dine, as well as Larry Rivers, Claes Oldenburg, John Wesley and Andy Warhol, have been routinely characterized as "superb draftsmen." Yet Wesselmann is the only practitioner of this group of Pop...

Thomas Ruff at David Zwirner.(New York)(exhibition of the artist's work)
November 1, 2003... Enlivening the solitary practice of Net surfing, Thomas Ruff created the estheticized, soft-focus photographs he refers to as "Nudes"--a series begun in 1999--by downloading pornographic images from the Internet and altering them to achieve...

Lyle Ashton Harris at CRG.(New York)(exhibition of artist's work)
November 1, 2003... The howling figures of Francis Bacon's caged and martyred men resurface in Lyle Ashton Harris's recent suite of 12 unique 20-by-24-inch Polaroid self-portraits. In this startling guise, Harris, fetishized with the attributes of a...

Charles Seliger at Michael Rosenfeld.(New York)(exhibition of the artist's work)
November 1, 2003... Emerging as a young artist in the 1940s, Charles Seliger circulated among Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock and other titans of Abstract Expressionism. The relative obscurity of Seliger's paintings may be partially attributed to their modest...

Tom Levine at Washburn.(New York)(exhibition of the artist's work)
November 1, 2003... After some 20 years of exhibiting regularly in Europe, Tom Levine had his first solo show in New York at Washburn, presenting 12 oil paintings and an etching. Clearly Levine draws inspiration from Mark Rothko's luminous fields. However, by...

Sophie Matisse at Francis M. Naumann and Mike Bidlo at P.S. 1.(New York)(exhibitions of the artists' works)
November 1, 2003... Known in the art world for appropriating famous paintings and selectively removing their primary figures or central objects, the painter Sophie Matisse recently drew wider comment (including an article in the New Yorker) for her own colorized...

Miguel Trelles and Juri Kim at Taller Boricua.(New York)(joint exhbition of the artists' works)
November 1, 2003... In an unlikely but intriguing pairing, Latino painter Miguel Trelles and Korean-born Juri Kim showed together at this alternative space in Spanish Harlem. Trelles, of Puerto Rican and Cuban descent but educated in the U.S., offered a series of...

Nalini Malani at the New Museum.(New York)
November 1, 2003... Nalini Malani was in the forefront of a generation of Indian artists who, in the 1980s, moved into international focus. At that time she was a figurative painter whose works powerfully raised issues of race, class and gender, primarily in...

Dan Devine at Hofstra Museum.(Hempstead, NY)
November 1, 2003... This exhibition brought together four of Dan Devine's sculptures made since 1998. Even within this small group, there was a striking range of materials and techniques. Devine, who teaches at Hofstra University and shows regularly at Pierogi in...

Sharon Engelstein at Elias.(Boston)(exhibition of the artist's work)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Sharon Engelstein's two very large, flesh-colored balloon sculptures initially resemble pinkish bubbles that have emerged from their blowpipe in contiguous clumps. Then gradually, B'bleb (2002, 10 by 18 2/3 by 15 feet) and Triplet (2001, 9 1/8...

Artists' Wallpaper at the RISD Museum and the Fabric Workshop.(Providence And Philadelphia)(exhibition at Rhode Island School of Design)
November 1, 2003... Two "companion" exhibitions, curated by Judith Tannenbaum of the RISD Museum, examined the phenomenon of artist-designed wallpaper from 1966 (the year of Andy Warhol's Cow Wallpaper) to the present. Some 23 artists were represented at RISD,...

Edna Andrade at ICA and Locks.(Philadelphia)(exhibition of the artist's work at Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania)
November 1, 2003... "Edna Andrade: Optical Paintings, 1963-1986" at the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, provided a welcome affirmation of Andrade's place in the Optical art movement of the 1960s. Still vital at 86, Andrade, because of...

Beverly McIver at Grimaldis.(Baltimore)
November 1, 2003... On first view, the image on the gallery announcement for Beverly McIver's exhibition "Mammy, how I love you" looks like a photo-based, facile, almost illustrative painting. Still, you are drawn to the fascinating vignette of a black woman...

Ray Charles White at David Adamson.(Washington, D.C.)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... The specific clarity of Ray Charles White's photo-derived, editioned silkscreen views of moving water--and water plants standing fixedly and poetically in the liquid--gave the entire gallery a cool ambiance. These remarkable works,...

Gretchen Hupfel at Marcia Wood.(Atlanta)
November 1, 2003... "I took this picture a long time ago. It's different now. I'm not supposed to use airplane imagery anymore," Gretchen Hupfel spelled out in vinyl letters across her large-scale close-up photograph of a plane in flight. Trespassing (2002)...

Teresita Fernandez at Miami Art Museum.(Miami)
November 1, 2003... In her installation last season at MAM, Teresita Fernandez continued her minimalist reveries on the art and idea of landscape. Over the past several years she has exhibited frequently in the U.S. and abroad; her recent pieces tend to evoke the...

Robert Miller at Dorsch.(Miami)
November 1, 2003... Robert Miller, owner of one of New York's leading galleries, was originally trained as a painter. During his gallery career, he maintained a studio and continued to paint. Over the course of the past decade, as an illness affecting his spine...

Joseph Marioni at Charlotte Jackson.(Santa Fe)
November 1, 2003... Over more than three decades, Joseph Marioni has refined his beautiful and intelligent monochromes, nine of which from 2000-03 comprised this show. One large and two small works bore the title Red Painting; two each were called Yellow Painting...

Katie Grinnan at ACME.(Los Angeles)
November 1, 2003... A slew of sculptors have emerged in Los Angeles in the last few years, but most seem stuck in either constrictive formalism or murky surrealism. In her second solo show, Katie Grinnan presented work that feels fresh--formally intricate...

Charles Long at Shoshana Wayne.(Santa Monica)
November 1, 2003... Charles Long's amiable, spacey sculptures and interactive play stations are quintessential examples of 1990s cyber-inflected biomorphic abstraction. His haunting new work marks a radical departure in both style and mood. Long creates intricate...

Frank Lobdell at the Legion of Honor and Hackett-Freedman.(San Francisco)
November 1, 2003... Frank Lobdell first came to public notice as one of the generation of artists who created a San Francisco school of abstract painting in the years just after World War II. Still active in his 80s, he was recently honored with a...

Davis Birks at Nina Menocal.(Mexico City)
November 1, 2003... Davis Birks is a 45-year-old Seattle native who lives and works in Guadalajara, Mexico. While one piece in this show specifically addressed the issue of U.S./Mexican relations, the work generally covered a wide range of themes, using various...

David Timmons at Rocket.(London)
November 1, 2003... This was the first U.K. solo show for Dublin-born artist David Timmons. Titled "Deep Surface Wall Units," the exhibition featured seven medium-size relief paintings, along with a series of works on paper (pieces of black sandpaper mounted on...

Gerhard Doehler at Vismara Arte.(Milan)
November 1, 2003... The white, wooden, three-dimensional works of Gerhard Doehler are based on simple geometric forms. He arranges thin rectangles, squares, triangles and trapezoids in complex patterns on the wall. The units function individually and, taken...

Harvard University Art Museums.(People)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Thomas W. Lentz, director of the international art museums division at the Smithsonian Institution, is the new director of the Harvard University Art Museums; he succeeds James Cuno, who is now director of the Courtauld Institute in London....

Contemporary Arts Center.(People)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Charles Desmarais, director of the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati for eight years, has stepped down to become curator-at-large at the museum. During his tenure he oversaw the planning and construction of the center's new Zaha...

Art Institute of Chicago.(People)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... James N. Wood has announced his intention to resign within the year as director and president of the Art Institute of Chicago, a post he has held for almost 25 years. He decided to step down before construction begins on a new wing, designed by...

Norton Museum of Art.(People)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Art historian Mark Rosenthal has been named adjunct curator of contemporary art at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, where he will develop the permanent collection and exhibitions.

Yerba Buena Center.(People)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Kenneth J. Foster was recently named executive director of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, replacing John Killacky. Foster had served as executive director of an international performing-arts presenting program at the...

Pulitzer Foundation.(People)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Matthias Waschek has been appointed director of the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts in St. Louis. For the past 11 years, he has been head of academic programs at the Louvre in Paris.

Smithsonian American Art Museum.(People)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Eleanor Jones Harvey is the new chief curator of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, which will reopen on July 4, 2006, after extensive renovations. She joined the staff last January as curator for the Luce Foundation Center for American Art....

Downtown design destination.(Artworld)(Center for Architecture, New York)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... With the Oct. 7 opening of the 12,000-square-foot, $2.5-million Center for Architecture, New York has a new design destination. Located at 536 LaGuardia Place between West 3rd and Bleecker Streets, the venue was conceived by the firm Andrew...

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation recently announced 24 recipients of its $500,000 grants.(Awards and Grants)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation recently announced 24 recipients of its $500,000 grants, paid in five annual checks of $100,000. Among the visual-arts fellows are Sarah Sze, Ned Kahn, Tom Joyce and Daisy Youngblood.

German painter Markus Lupertz has been awarded the International Prize "Julio Gonzalez" by the Institut Valencia d'Art Modern in Valencia, Spain.(Awards and Grants)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... German painter Markus Lupertz has been awarded the International Prize "Julio Gonzalez" by the Institut Valencia d'Art Modern in Valencia, Spain. He receives a limited edition sculpture by Gonzalez.

Maine-based sculptor John Bisbee is the winner of the $20,000 Rappaport Prize.(Awards and Grants)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Maine-based sculptor John Bisbee is the winner of the $20,000 Rappaport Prize, given by the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln, Mass., and the Jerome Lyle Rappaport Charitable Foundation.

The Edstrand Foundation, based in Malmo, Sweden, has presented its Edstrandska Prize to four young Scandinavian artists.(Awards and Grants)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... The Edstrand Foundation, based in Malmo, Sweden, has presented its Edstrandska Prize to four young Scandinavian artists. The winners are the team of Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset (about $52,000), and Johanna Billing and Maria Hedlund...

ArtTable, a national organization of women visual-arts leaders.(Awards and Grants)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... ArtTable, a national organization of women visual-arts leaders, has presented its first Creative Force Award to L.A.-based architect Brenda A. Levin.

The Smithsonian American Art Museum recently awarded its $2,000 Eldredge Prize.(Awards and Grants)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... The Smithsonian American Art Museum recently awarded its $2,000 Eldredge Prize for distinguished scholarship in American art to Richard Meyer for his 2002 book Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century American...

The Whitney Museum of American Art recently inaugurated a new conservation studio.(Museum News)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... The Whitney Museum of American Art recently inaugurated a new conservation studio. Located on the building's fourth floor, facing Madison Avenue, the studio was part of architect Marcel Breuer's original 1966 plan for the museum, but the space...

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art recently announced that it has received 11 major 17th-century paintings from the Dutch "Golden Age," donated by LACMA trustee Hannah L. Carter and her late husband, Edward W. Carter.(Museum News)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... The Los Angeles County Museum of Art recently announced that it has received 11 major 17th-century paintings from the Dutch "Golden Age," donated by LACMA trustee Hannah L. Carter and her late husband, Edward W. Carter. Among the highlights of...

The Santa Monica Museum of Art has received $1 million from the Annenberg Foundation and an equal sum from the Good Works Foundation, a Los Angeles-based charitable organization.(Museum News)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... The Santa Monica Museum of Art has received $1 million from the Annenberg Foundation and an equal sum from the Good Works Foundation, a Los Angeles-based charitable organization. The former gift is to be paid out over four years, while the...

The Latino Cultural Center, a new art, performance and education facility designed by architect Ricardo Legorreta, recently opened in Dallas.(Museum News)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... The Latino Cultural Center, a new art, performance and education facility designed by architect Ricardo Legorreta, recently opened in Dallas. A complex of buildings that feature sweeping geometric forms in colored stucco and brick, the center...

Obituaries.(Brief Article)(Obituary)
November 1, 2003... Terry Frost, 87, British abstract painter, died of cancer at his home in Newlyn, Cornwall, on Aug. 31. Known for large, spare, colorful compositions, Frost was one of the leading artists of the St. Ives School, along with Ben Nicholson, Barbara...

Supreme Court to Consider Klimt Lawsuit.(Artworld)
November 1, 2003... The U.S. Supreme Court recently announced that it would hear an appeal by the Austrian government in a case involving the ownership of six important paintings by Gustav Klimt, The paintings, which are at present in the Austrian Gallery in...

Hometown museum for Picasso.(Artworld)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... A new museum devoted to Pablo Picasso opened in Malaga, Spain, on Oct. 25. Picasso was born in the Mediterranean port city on that day in 1881. The museum's holdings feature some 200 paintings, drawings, sculptures, ceramics and graphic works...

Congress ups indemnity coverage.(Artworld)(Arts and Artifacts Indemnity Program)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... To help museums defray skyrocketing insurance rates affected by the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the U.S. Congress voted in September to increase the amount of indemnity insurance available to museums through the Arts and Artifacts Indemnity...

MOMA names two curators.(Artworld)(Ann Temkin and Joachim Pissarro )(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... New York's Museum of Modern Art has appointed Ann Temkin and Joachim Pissarro as curators in the department of painting and sculpture. Both will work directly with chief curator John Elderfield, who is beginning to staff the department as the...

New architects for ground zero.(Artworld)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... A number of well-known architects have recently signed on to assist in rebuilding Lower Manhattan. In September, Santiago Calatrava was tapped to design a new transportation hub for the downtown area [see "Artworld," Oct. '03]. In early...