Art in America articles from November 2004

Art in America archives from November 2004

Flick show draws attacks.(Front Page)
November 1, 2004... Amid controversy surrounding a dark family history, a blockbuster exhibition of contemporary art opened Sept. 21 in Berlin's Hamburger Bahnhof, a former train station converted into a museum. Scheduled to remain up through Jan. 23, 2005, the...

MOMA returns to Manhattan.(Front Page)(Museum of Modern Art)
November 1, 2004... Coinciding with its 75th anniversary, the Museum of Modern Art reopens at its midtown location in Manhattan on Nov. 20. The much-anticipated unveiling of the $425-million renovation and expansion project designed by Japanese architect Yoshio...

Film highlights Henry Darger's Art and Life.(Front Page)(Movie Review)
November 1, 2004... Recently making its New York debut at a benefit evening for the Folk Art Museum, In the Realms of the Unreal: The Mysterious Life and Art of Henry Darger is a feature-length film focused on the prolific painter and writer who is arguably...

Perils of public art: art vs. religion & commerce.(Front Page)
November 1, 2004... In two recent cases, public artworks have been at odds with religion and the almighty dollar. At Stanford University, plans to acquire a work by Dennis Oppenheim were recently thwarted due to religious sensitivities. The 25-foot-tall sculpture,...

Going home again.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Family Business, by Mitch Epstein, Gottingen, Steidl, 2003; 295 pages, $50. Spectacular falls taken by corporate titans may deliver an unbeatable combination of schaden-freude and sanctimony, but more life-size tales of humble starts,...

A textual vanitas.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Day, by Kenneth Goldsmith, Great Barrington, Mass., The Figures, 2003; 836 pages, $20. The challenge that faces every esthetically ambitious artist is not simply to create individually successful works but to develop over time in...

True colors: Seurat and "La Grande Jatte": issues of glazing, framing and color shift--plus the inclusion of a full-scale replica of Seurat's Pointillist icon in "rejuvenated" hues--prompt the author's reflections on a recent Chicago show.(Issues & Commentary)
November 1, 2004... Urban park art was this summer's theme in Chicago. With Frank Gehry's bandshell adding sparkle and flutter to the city's lakeside skyline, Millennium Park opened in July as a downtown magnet for outdoor public relaxation. Only weeks before, the...

Sunday afternoon in the Cyber-Age Park: the city's new greensward features Frank Gehny's latest, plus "interactive" sculptural works by Jaume Plensa and Anish Kapoor.(Report From Chicago I)
November 1, 2004... In March 1998, Chicago's mayor, Richard M. Daley, announced plans for a lakefront project consisting of two elements: a new parking garage to be built over the old Illinois Central railroad tracks and, on its roof, a 16 acre park with space for...

Lakeshore modernists: for its final exhibition, the Terra Museum revisited the early days of Chicago's modest art scene, when stylistic diversity and unruly spirits flourished.(Report From Chicago II)
November 1, 2004... "It's a Rube Town!" lamented Walt Kuhn in 1913 in a letter from Chicago's Blackstone Hotel. (1) As one of the organizers of the historic Armory Show, which appeared at the Art Institute of Chicago in March and April that year, Kuhn was dismayed...

Everything in excess: the expressive possibilities of extreme imagery are explored in the works selected by Robert Storr for "Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque," the latest SITE Santa Fe Biennial.(Report From Santa Fe)
November 1, 2004... Writing around 20 B.C.E., the Roman poet Horace acknowledged that "Poets and painters... / have the right to do whatever they dare to do." But he knew where to set the limit: "Suppose some painter had the bright idea / Of sticking a human head...

Frank Gehry, public artist: a year after its opening, Disney Hall is a huge popular success, a spectacular icon that draws crowds to downtown Los Angeles. Here, the author highlights the building's many virtues, but not all aspects of the design go unquestioned.(Architecture)
November 1, 2004... Now that the Walt Disney Concert Hall has passed its acoustics tests, revealing a bright and detailed yet blended, mellow sound and a democratic reach to its 2,400 seats, it is possible to exult, without caveat or apology, in the sheer beauty...

Rediscovering Ana Mendieta: the traveling Mendieta retrospective currently at the Hirshhorn Museum comes nearly 20 years after the artist's death. At the core of the show are photographs and little-seen films documenting her ritualistic, visually searing performances.
November 1, 2004... The last New York retrospective exhibition of Ana Mendieta's work opened at the New Museum in 1987, when the controversy over the circumstances surrounding her death two years earlier was still red hot. The show was overshadowed by an air of...

Circuitries of color: a pioneer of the postwar avant-garde in Japan, Atsuko Tanaka has pursued the idea of circuits and linkages using light, sound and performance as well as conventional painting materials. A traveling exhibition introduces her to North American audiences.
November 1, 2004... In 1955, in the Osaka area of Japan, the avant-garde Gutai group held the first of several outdoor art events, the 13-day, 24-hour "Experimental Outdoor Exhibition of Modern Art to Challenge the Midsummer Sun." These exhibitions were full of...

Seeing Hammersley whole: the octogenarian Frederick Hammersley was rediscovered by contemporary audiences at the SITE Santa Fe Biennial in 2001. With two exhibitions this fall and a retrospective in the works, the veteran abstract painter will be a well-kept secret no more.(Four Abstract Classicists)
November 1, 2004... Allying link to a pivotal moment in Los Angeles art, Frederick Hammersley came to prominence in the 1959 exhibition of hard-edge painting called "Four Abstract Classicists"--the title a deliberate contrast with "Abstract Expressionists"--which...

Watching the skies: Luca Buvoli and Holly Zausner share an interest in film, sculpture and airborne forms. Buvoli's most recent animated short explores the poetics and politics of flight. Zausner's 35mm film features rubber figures in slow motion above Berlin.
November 1, 2004... Luca Buvoli: Fear of Flying At times, Luca Buvoli seems like a one-man art collective. It's not unusual for an exhibition of his work to include the mediums of sculpture, drawing, animated film and the artist's book, each component...

Urban meditations: in her recent cityscapes and still lifes, painter Jane Freilicher displays a new liberty with the facts, making them the vehicle for reverie.
November 1, 2004... One senses a state of grace affecting the recent paintings of Jane Freilicher, a selection of which was recently on view at Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New York. This does not mean that their mood is unremittingly check. In fact, there is an...

Philosophy in the land: since the 1960s, Agnes Denes has been exploring the relationship between nature and culture through a variety of mediums. A show documenting her public art concludes its tour at New York's Chelsea Art Museum.(biography of Agnes Denes)
November 1, 2004... Formerly this plain was the richest of the fields that give life, but at this time it gave no life at all, lying waste, barren, and all leafless. But in a little while, by Demeter's plan, as the springtime progressed, it would be waving long...

Bliss over all: whether in his dense drawings or his architectonic sculptures of glazed terra-cotta, Austrian artist Elmar Trenkwalder deploys sexually referential ornament and detail in exuberant profusion.
November 1, 2004... The 44-year-old Austrian sculptor and draftsman Elmar Trenkwalder has shown widely in Europe over the past decade, yet his oeuvre shares little with that of other artists now in international view. Trenkwalder stands out for making work...

Ellen Phelan at Ameringer & Yohe and Laurence Miller.(New York)(Family Romance)(painting exhibitions)
November 1, 2004... The paintings assembled for Ellen Phelan's show, "Family Romance," for the most part dated 2004, are based on old snapshots, the faded images filtered through painterly sfumato that suggests a veil drawn between past and present. The compelling...

Eric Holzman at Jason McCoy.(New York)(abstract painting exhibition)
November 1, 2004... The first adjective that comes to mind to describe Eric Holzman's new paintings is "slow," meaning both slow to be taken in and, evidently, slow to create (a number encompass spans of two to five years). They seem to have come into being...

Robert Indiana at Paul Kasmin.(New York)(modern painting exhibition)
November 1, 2004... During the Vietnam War, Robert Indiana's LOVE motif became categorically linked with the peace movement. By 1963, Indiana had also incorporated the inverted trident of the universally recognized peace symbol in paintings with text that include...

Joanna Pousette-Dart at Charles Cowles.(New York)(painting exhibition)
November 1, 2004... Joanna Pousette-Dart's recent exhibition in Chelsea--her first solo in nine years--sparkled with the high spirits of a holiday. A painter for over three decades, Pousette-Dart has a deft hand and a light touch that combine art and design in the...

Dora Maar at Dorsky.(New York)(photography exhibition)
November 1, 2004... The first U.S. retrospective of Dora Maar's photography, this exhibition shifts focus from her association with Picasso to her accomplishments as an artist. Professionally active in Paris from the late 1920s to the late '30s, Maar was a...

Magali Nougarede at Rosenberg + Kaufman.(New York)(photography exhibition)
November 1, 2004... It might have been the preponderance of liver-spotted hands, firmly grasped purses and sensible clothing, but the 17 photographs in Magali Nougarede's first U.S. solo exhibition conveyed a spirit of resilience rather than the simple obedience...

Janaina Tschape at Brent Sikkema.(New York)(painting and photography exhibition)
November 1, 2004... Distinguished by their casual elegance and propelled by the confrontation of artifice with the boundlessness of nature, Janaina Tschape's six large Cibachromes and two videos were central to "The Sea and the Mountain," the first New York solo...

Hans Breder at Mitchell Algus.(New York)(sculpture exhibition)
November 1, 2004... Forty years ago, German-born Hans Breder immigrated to New York and became an assistant to sculptor George Rickey. Bringing with him European influences that included Constructivism and the experiments of Group Zero, Breder found a congenial...

Francis Cape at Murray Guy.(New York)(painting exhibition)
November 1, 2004... If architecture is, in origin, a defense against environmental uncertainties, Francis Cape's quasi-architectural recent work lives in the art world by taking monochrome painting as protective coloration. Ama, the most formidable piece in this...

Richard Deacon at Marian Goodman.(New York)
November 1, 2004... Made up of evocative loops and curves, the two elements of Richard Deacon's oak and stainless-steel Red Sea Crossing (2003) nearly filled Marian Goodman's north gallery. Three planks wide, these complex, ribbonlike components, each of which...

Kirsten Hassenfeld at Bellwether.(New York)(sculpture exhibition)
November 1, 2004... It seems likely that many auction-house employees develop an ironic appreciation of luxury goods. While their work may involve close contact with fine art, estate jewelry and other expensive objets, their paychecks probably preclude easy...

Will Ryman at Gasser & Grunert.(New York)(painting exhibition)
November 1, 2004... This wistful, troubling exhibition explored the mysteries of childhood by dramatizing the inequities of scale endured by children in a grown-up world. Constructing narrative through a sequence of tableaux dated 2003, Will Ryman explores...

Jeffrey Scher at Maya Stendhal.(New York)(film exhibition)
November 1, 2004... Animators traditionally advance their claim to viewers' attention by hand and one frame at a time, employing a kind of copy stand to project and enlarge sequences of movie frames onto a surface so that they can be traced, then filmed again....

Tom Burckhardt at Tibor de Nagy.(New York)(painting exhibition)
November 1, 2004... Several works in Tom Burckhardt's second solo at Tibor de Nagy evoke our era of Superfund sites, mercury emissions, water pollution and other crimes against the environment. In Haz Mat Shan II (2003), for example, figures in industrial...

Tom Uttech at Alexandre.(New York)(painting exhibition)
November 1, 2004... Tom Uttech's paintings of the North American wilderness offer surreal riffs on the Hudson River School. Their quality of light, palette, attention to detail and sometimes grand scale remind one of works by Bierstadt and Church, who found the...

Lucien Freud at Acquavella.(New York)(painting exhibition)
November 1, 2004... This show of Lucien Freud's recent work caused a stir when it debuted at London's Wallace Collection earlier this year. Fans there lined up around the block to examine the 22 oils and works on paper produced over the past four years by the...

Bari Kumar at Bose Pacia.(New York)(painting exhibition)
November 1, 2004... Born in Andhra Pradesh in 1966, Los Angeles-based painter Bari Kumar studied at the Rishi Valley School, founded by the philosopher J. Krishnamurti, then moved to L.A. in his late teens to pursue graphic design at Otis/Parsons School of Design....

David Storey at CUE Art Foundation.(New York)(painting exhibition)
November 1, 2004... Although all the paintings in this exhibition were finished recently, some of them were started as long ago as 1985. But it's a key to the flavor of David Storey's work that these share the unlabored look of the just-made pictures, which, in...

Joan Linder at Mixed Greens and White Columns.(New York)(exhibition of drawings)
November 1, 2004... Courageous persistence pervades the large pen-and-ink works Joan Linder has been making for some years now. A recent solo exhibition at Mixed Greens featured two drawings in accordion books. Displayed on waist-high shelves, Ramification (2004)...

Olav Christopher Jenssen at Tracy Williams Ltd.(New York)(painting exhibition)
November 1, 2004... Perhaps I read too many newspapers, but looking at Olav Christopher Jenssen's show of nine acrylic-on-canvas paintings reminded me of the European Union. Not that the artist's first solo New York show was ponderous, elitist or bland--it was...

Paul Henry Ramirez at Mary Boone.(New York)
November 1, 2004... Funny, smart and extravagantly seductive abstractions wired into a circuit board that charts longing and desire, Paul Henry Ramirez's newest paintings, all of them dated 2004, romance the arabesques and curls of Aubrey Beardsley out of the...

Joseph Lawton at OK Harris.(New York)(photography exhibition)
November 1, 2004... On the streets of Luxor, St. Petersburg, Benares, Daytona Beach and Syracuse, Joseph Lawton approaches the urban landscape with a highly developed sense of place. As a result, the 18 black-and-white photographs taken between 1985 and 1999...

Ian Wallace at American Fine Arts.(New York)
November 1, 2004... Since the mid-1980s, the Canadian artist Ian Wallace has engaged in a conceptualist practice that combines two seemingly incompatible artistic paradigms: documentary photography--often featuring sites of urban development--and abstract...

Coco Fusco at the Project.(New York)
November 1, 2004... Coco Fusco's Latest effort, "a/k/a Mrs. George Gilbert," is an extraordinarily adept take on the history of racial politics in the U.S. and the harsh realities of global capitalism in the information age. The exhibition comprised three...

Pipilotti Rist at Luhring Augustine.(New York)
November 1, 2004... With a show that opened Sept. 11, Pipilotti Rist intended this installation as an expression of healing, a slightly belated gift of visual balm for a wounded city. Happily, its effect is more complicated than that. Titled Herbstzeitlose (which...

Kevin Wixted at Lohin Geduld.(New York)
November 1, 2004... In previous exhibitions, Kevin Wixted's luminous compositions recalled ancient Roman wall paintings. He was preoccupied with semiabstract works featuring a lively interplay of geometric patterns and delicate floral and vegetal shapes, all set...

Gajin Fujita at Kravets/Wehby.(New York)
November 1, 2004... Los Angeles-based, Japanese-American graffiti aficionado Gajin Fujita began each of the five paintings (all 2003) in his recent show by coating wood panel with gold leaf. On top of the gold, which could be construed as garish or holy, or...

Rita Ackermann at Andrea Rosen.(New York)
November 1, 2004... It has been over a decade since Rita Ackermann left behind the laptop- and syringe-toting nymphets of her earliest canvases. Subsequently, she made intricate ballpoint pen drawings of monsters and paintings based on family snapshots. In this...

Alfred DeCredico at Mike Weiss.(New York)
November 1, 2004... In "Stealing from the Dead," his recent exhibition of paintings and sculptures, Alfred DeCredico presents himself as an unabashed maximalist. More is more indeed, to rephrase Mies's famous dictum. DeCredico's paintings contain a plethora...

Woong Kim at Howard Scott.(New York)
November 1, 2004... The Korean-born, New York-based painter Woong Kim studied at the School of Visual Arts, where he worked with Robert Mangold and developed a love of abstraction. Although influenced by such artists as Mangold, Agnes Martin and Brice Marden, Kim...

Anton Vidokle at Massimo Audiello.(New York)
November 1, 2004... In the beginning was the logo. The work of Russian-born artist Anton Vidokle brings the corporate logo, lingua franca of international capitalism, full circle, as it were, to comment on the kind of high-modernist, mid-20th-century abstract art...

Martin Mull at Spike.(New York)
November 1, 2004... Played out on postwar lawns, Martin Mull's suburban scenarios have a latent hysteria that suggests location stills for family sitcoms gone seriously awry. The deep shadow of an unseen observer falls on a recumbent young couple dressed in khakis...

David Hilliard at Yancey Richardson.(New York)
November 1, 2004... David Hilliard's 11 multipart color photographs from 2003 are packed with narrative incident and formal invention. Scenes of small-town life celebrate commonplace pleasures--a shiftless teenager filling a water pail from a hose, a hunk posed...

"Counter Culture" on the Bowery and vicinity.(New York)
November 1, 2004... When you move to a new home, it's friendly to introduce yourself to the neighbors. With the exhibition "Counter Culture," curated by Melanie Cohen, the New Museum of Contemporary Art did just that before construction of its new facility at 235...

Johnnie Winona Ross at Stephen Haller.(New York)
November 1, 2004... Johnnie Winona Ross must grow weary of critics who invoke Agnes Martin when discussing his work. Yet the comparison is hard to resist. Not only do both artists paint pale horizontal stripes across roughly square canvases, but they also share...

Roger Hilton at Flowers.(New York)
November 1, 2004... The British artist Roger Hilton (1911-1975), one of the members of the St. Ives School, a group that included Ben Nicholson, Patrick Heron and Barbara Hepworth, among others, began as a figurative painter in the 1930s but turned to abstraction...

Kanishka Raja at Allston Skirt.(Boston)
November 1, 2004... In his recent gallery installation, "Birth of an Earth," Kanishka Raja showed three large paintings (60 by 84 inches each, oil on canvas over panel) and one smaller piece (26 by 35 1/2 inches, oil on inkjet print on canvas). In addition, he...

Jennifer Bartlett at Locks.(Philadelphia)
November 1, 2004... Jennifer Bartlett's recent exhibition, titled "At Sea," was a reprise of three large murals, the last with sculptural elements, that range in date from 1979 to 1985. Together they probe reality, explore subjective perception and evoke a world...

Jason Gubbiotti at Fusebox.(Washington D.C.)
November 1, 2004... Early 20th-century Russian Constructivism supported the belief that a new world order could be based upon esthetic structures. There are qualities in Jason Gubbiotti's abstractions that echo that utilitarian intent, without so simple a hope and...

Irene Siegel at the Art Institute.(Chicago)
November 1, 2004... A painter for most of her life, Irene Siegel is also an accomplished photographer. For "Field.wrk: Digital Ground," her recent show at the Art Institute of Chicago, she exhibited 49 digital inkjet prints ranging from 9 inches to over 4 feet...

Esther Parada at Gallery 312.(Chicago)(photographic exhibitions)
November 1, 2004... There is a haunting beauty to Esther Parada's "When the Bough Breaks," her potent multimedia requiem to the American elm, which has all but vanished from the urban landscape due to Dutch elm disease. Known for its hearty wood and grand arcing...

Benjamin Jones at Gray Matters.(Dallas)
November 1, 2004... What's most disturbing about Benjamin Jones's figure drawings are the arms. It's not the slightly lumpy, bald heads on the predominantly female characters. Nor is it the staring eyes or the two rows of evenly spaced square teeth that are often...

Allan Graham at James Kelly Contemporary.(Santa Fe)
November 1, 2004... For Allan Graham, whose work has ranged from bumper stickers to coffee mugs and prefabricated doors, this show was particularly focused and coherent: 15 graphite drawings and graphite-and-oil paintings, all composed entirely of words. So dense...

Terry Allen at L.A. Louver and the Santa Monica Museum of Art.(Venice & Santa Monica, Calif.)
November 1, 2004... Following Juarez in the 1970s and Youth in Asia in the 1980s, Terry Allen's "Dugout" (2000-02) is as deeply layered with meaning and introspective humor as his previous epic considerations of America's psyche. Instead of border crossings or the...

Tom Marioni at Yerba Buena Center.(San Francisco)
November 1, 2004... This very selective survey of the work of Bay Area conceptual artist Tom Marioni was first and foremost an exercise in balanced understatement. Titled "The Golden Mean," the show comprised three distinct components that were carefully...

Laurie Reid at Mills College Art Museum.(Oakland)
November 1, 2004... Laurie Reid makes watercolors, but this Berkley-based artist's choice of mediums is not obvious at first glance. We tend to think of watercolors as being small, representational and colorful, but Reid's are big--up to 10 by 7 feet--abstract and...

Gerald Ferguson at Wynick/Tuck.(Toronto)
November 1, 2004... Gerald Ferguson is perhaps best known to Canadian art viewers for his 1,000,000 Grapes installation at the National Gallery of Canada in 2000. In that work the artist designed a stencil of 40 grapes, borrowing the composition of the fruit from...

Mike Nelson at the Modern Art Museum.(Oxford)
November 1, 2004... British artist Mike Nelson has made his name as the king of salvage installation. This magpie frequenter of flea markets and thrift stores utilizes everything from reclaimed doors to discarded telephones and broken toys to create his...

Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla at Chantal Crousel.(Paris)
November 1, 2004... "Ciclonismo," a term invented by this artist team, is the study of the effect of natural phenomena, such as cyclones, on social movements in the Caribbean. "Histories of power, colonization, and cross-cultural exchanges can be told through wind...

Pip Culbert at SoFA.(Christchurch, N.Z.)
November 1, 2004... Pip Culbert's wall installations come together at the seams. Her work is composed, for the most part, of sewn cloth strips--attenuated remnants left after trimming away the opaque panels of time-worn tents, trunk covers, awnings and cushion...

Alberto Garutti at Magazzino d'Arte Moderna.(Rome)
November 1, 2004... Over the last decade, Alberto Garutti has become a prominent advocate of community-sensitive, anti-monumental public art. An influential teacher at Milan's Accademia di Brera, his projects have included a modest cubic pavilion on the periphery...

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American Indian Museum opens.(Artworld)(Smithsonian's National Museum )(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian opened on Sept. 21 in Washington D.C. Designed by Douglas Cardinal, the museum is located on the Mall, on a 4.25-acre site between the National Air and Space Museum and the U.S. Botanic...

Pollock-Krasner Foundation.(People)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Samuel Sachs II has been named president of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, succeeding Eugene Victor Thaw, who becomes president emeritus. Sachs was director of the Frick Collection in New York from 1997 to 2003.

Metropolitan Museum of Art.(People)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Emily K. Rafferty has been elected president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, replacing David E. McKinney, who plans to retire in January 2005. She has been with the museum for 28 years, since 1999 as senior vice president for external...

White Columns.(People)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Matthew Higgs is the new director and chief curator of White Columns in New York. He was formerly curator at the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts at the California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco. He replaces Lauren Ross, who...

Francois Pinault Foundation.(People)
November 1, 2004... Philippe Vergne, senior curator at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, has been appointed director of the Francois Pinault Foundation for Contemporary Art, a new arts center scheduled to open in Paris in 2007. Vergne will remain at the Walker...

Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery.(People)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... John Weber, since 1993 curator of education and public programs at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, has been appointed director of the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

Sydney Biennale.(People)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Charles Merewether, collections curator at the Getty Center in Los Angeles since 1994, has been appointed curator of the 2006 Sydney Biennale.

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation today named 23 new MacArthur Fellows for 2004.(Awards & Grants)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation today named 23 new MacArthur Fellows for 2004. Each will receive $500,000 in support over the next five years. Visual-arts winners include sculptor Judy Pfaff, glass technologist/ designer James...

The American Federation of Arts this month is presenting three individuals with its Cultural Leadership Awards.(Awards & Grants)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... The American Federation of Arts this month is presenting three individuals with its Cultural Leadership Awards. The honorees are artist/filmmaker Shirin Neshat, James Wood, outgoing director and president of the Art Institute of Chicago, and...

Robert Rauschenberg has been selected to receive the Julio Gonzalez International Prize in recognition of his contribution to the arts.(Awards & Grants)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Robert Rauschenberg has been selected to receive the Julio Gonzalez International Prize in recognition of his contribution to the arts. The prize is given by IVAM in Valencia, Spain.

Amanda M. Burden, chair of the New York City Planning Commission, has been chosen to receive the design patron award, given by the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum as part of its National Design Awards.(Awards & Grants)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Amanda M. Burden, chair of the New York City Planning Commission, has been chosen to receive the design patron award, given by the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum as part of its National Design Awards. The award for lifetime achievement...

New York-based sculptor David Opdyke has received the Aldrich Emerging Artist Award.(Awards & Grants)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... New York-based sculptor David Opdyke has received the Aldrich Emerging Artist Award from the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Conn., where his work is on view through Jan. 5, 2005; the award is worth $3,000.

The Austrian Frederick Kiesler Prize was recently awarded to Asymptote, the husband-and-wife design team of Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture.(Awards & Grants)
November 1, 2004... The Austrian Frederick Kiesler Prize was recently awarded to Asymptote, the husband-and-wife design team of Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture. The approximately $66,000 biennial prize is given alternately by the Republic of Austria and the city...

Polish artist Pawel Althamer is the winner of the Vincent award, presented by the Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht.(Awards & Grants)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Polish artist Pawel Althamer is the winner of the Vincent award, presented by the Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht. A show of his work is on view there through Jan. 17.