Art in America articles from November 2005

Art in America archives from November 2005

International Freedom Center scrapped.
November 1, 2005... Asserting that the proposed International Freedom Center had drawn "too much opposition" and caused "too much controversy," New York governor George Pataki on Sept. 28 scrapped plans for the institution at the World Trade Center site. "The IFC...

Smithson's Island Floats at last.(Robert Smithson's dream of Floating Island became true)
November 1, 2005... In 1970, Robert Smithson sketched an idea for a public artwork to be called Floating Island to Travel Around Manhattan Island. There were a number of failed attempts to make that idea a reality, some during the artist's lifetime and some since...

Two Columbus Circle battle continue.(Landmark West filed lawsuits against Museum of Arts & Design to prvent the renovation of Two Columbus Circle )
November 1, 2005... As we go to press in early October, work is scheduled to begin in a few days on the transformation of Two Columbus Circle into the future home of New York's Museum of Arts & Design (MAD). The 1964 Edward Durell Stone building, originally...

Connecticut judge rules on Red Elvis ownership dispute.
November 1, 2005... In a complex three-year lawsuit concerning title to an important early painting by Andy Warhol, Red Elvis (1962), Judges Chase Rogers ruled on Aug. 29 in Connecticut Superior Court in Stamford that the disputed painting's rightful owner is...

Performance biennial for NYC.(RoseLee Goldberg plans for the exhibition series called "Performa")
November 1, 2005... Another new biennial has joined the international art circuit, but this one has an unusual focus. Called Performa, the exhibition series is the brainchild of RoseLee Goldberg, long known as a historian, critic and curator of performance-based...

MOMA refreshes contemporary galleries.(Museum of Modern Art )
November 1, 2005... Even though the Museum of Modern Art inaugurated its new building just one year ago, it doesn't want visitors to grow complacent about the permanent-collection displays. MOMA plans to completely reconfigure and rehang the second-floor...

Shanghai gets contemporary.(Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art launched)
November 1, 2005... The new Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, which opened in People's Park on Sept 24, seems intended to reach China's mainstream public. Located in the park's old greenhouse, strikingly redesigned by Liu Yuyang, a Rem Koolhaas collaborator,...

A bumper crop of urban corn.(a large earthwork by artist Lauren Bon at North Spring Street near Chinatown)
November 1, 2005... One area of downtown Los Angeles looks a bit like rural Kansas these days, with a 32-acre cornfield growing in the shadow of skyscrapers. The patch of green is the work of Los Angeles sculptor and conceptual artist Lauren Bon, who converted a...

Tate accused of cowardice.(Tate Britain officials misunderstood John Latham's sculpture)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2005... Citing the July 7 terrorist bombings in London, Tate Britain pulled a work from a show just prior to the exhibition's opening on Sept. 12 for fear of offending Muslims. The survey of works by John Latham from 1954 to the present was to have...

Beleagured City.(New Orleans: after Hurricane Katrina)
November 1, 2005... New Orleans will have to reconsider its joyful mottoes, "The City That Care Forgot" and "The Big Easy," after that fateful day--August 29. Our beloved city, including its well-established arts community, sustained two devastating blows within a...

On the death of New Orleans.(impact of Hurricane Katrina)
November 1, 2005... One month after my rapid exodus from New Orleans, I return to a city dead. Yet there are familiar sights in the maze of debris: I see the work of Leonardo Drew in the matted rolls of wet housing insulation, Cy Twombly scratches in the enamel of...

Calamitrees.(after Hurricane Katrina...)
November 1, 2005... It was Sunday morning, before the storm. I woke by 6, clicked on the TV, and there it was: a perfect compact mass, a category 5 hurricane, hovering above our coastline. I make it a rule never to evacuate, but I was feeling ambivalent. By 9...

Storm stories.(impact of Hurricane Katrina on artists at New Orleans)
November 1, 2005... The soul and souls of New Orleans and the Mississippi River delta are snaking across America. Hurricane Katrina was like a stone dropped in water, a stone bigger than a mountain-sized boulder pushed down hard and heavy on the 90-degree-hot Gulf...

"Category 5": a conversation.(reconstructing art studios after Hurricane Katrina)(Panel Discussion)
November 1, 2005... Robert Tannen is an artist, urban planner and one of the founders of the New Orleans Contemporary Art Center. Noel Fisher is a young sculptor born and raised in New Orleans. Tina Girouard, a Louisiana native, has Wed there for over 30 years....

Crescent City rising.(Mobile's Centre for the Living Arts to conduct exhibitions on the visual arts of New Orleans)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2005... Last June, Mobile's Centre for the Living Arts chose New Orleans to be the first subject in a projected series of exhibitions on the visual arts in cities of the Southeast. The show was scheduled for Nov. 4, 2005, through Jan. 8, 2006, at Space...

Post-Katrina resources for artists.
November 1, 2005... State and local arts agencies, foundations and other philanthropic organizations have moved quickly to identify and respond to the needs of artists affected by the Gulf Coast hurricanes. The following list of resources is offered as a starting...

The October Century.
November 1, 2005... Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism, by Hal Foster, Rosalind Kranss, Yve-Alain Bois and Benjamin HWD. Buchloh, New York, Thames and Hudson, 2005; 688 pages, $85. Over the last 30 years, Rosalind Krauss has established...

Nordic odyssey: in its first edition devoted to the visual arts, the Reykjavik Arts Festival paired a retrospective devoted to the late Dieter Roth with a nationwide exhibition of 35 mostly European and Scandinavian artists responding to Roth's work.
November 1, 2005... Ascreening of Screaming Masterpiece (2005), an exhilarating documentary directed by Ari Alexander Egis Magnusson about Iceland's high-voltage music scene, was one of the opening salvos of the 2005 Reykjavik Arts Festival. This year, for the...

Regional Renaissance: eight years after the opening of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, the art scene in the Basque Country is thriving.
November 1, 2005... From all appearances, the visual arts in the Basque Country are flourishing as never before. This tiny region in northern Spain is experiencing a boom in museums and not-for-profit art venues that kicked off in 1997 with the opening of the...

Haitian spirits: the complexities of Haiti's cultural history--and current socioeconomic distress--were reflected in a museum survey of highly inventive indigenous work.(REPORT FROM MIAMI)
November 1, 2005... "Lespri Endepandan: Discovering Haitian Sculpture," presented at the Patricia and Philip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University in Miami, sought to shed light on a neglected aspect of Haitian art and to celebrate its independent...

Private dealers.(Directory)
November 1, 2005... Evelyn Aimis Fine Art Miami, FL Tel: 305.792.0300 * Fax: 305.792.0391 eaimis@aol.com * www.evelynaimisfineart.com Specialize in 20th-century modern and contemporary masterworks from Artschwager, Avery, Chagall, Dine, Dubuffet, Katz. Johns,...

NY galleries.(Directory)
November 1, 2005... Chelsea Bowery Gallery 530 West 25th Street, 4th Floor, NY, NY 10001 Tel/Fax: 646.230.6655 Website: www.bowerygallery.org Tuesday-Saturday: 11:00-6:00 November 1-26: Aaron Brooks, "Time & Other Uncertainties: Portrait and Clock...

Infinite passages: Serra in Bilbao: challenging architectural dominance, a vast new installation by Richard Serra now permanently occupies the largest gallery at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.
November 1, 2005... The serpentine cantilevers and gleaming titanium cladding of Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum Bilbao appeared this past summer to be even more exaggerated and expressive than they did on my first visit, soon after the museum opened eight years...

Oteiza's protocols of sculpture: a recent museum exhibition traced the course of one prolific and conceptually charged decade in the career of the elusive Basque sculptor Jorge Oteiza.
November 1, 2005... It's not entirely a mystery why the Basque sculptor and theoretician Jorge Oteiza was all but unknown on this side of the Atlantic until 2005, two years after his death at the age of 92. Even in his native Spain, this stubborn individualist was...

Intelligent design: the art of Carol Ross: a New York exhibition spotlights the latest work of this veteran painter-turned-sculptor.
November 1, 2005... In the mid-1980s, inspired by conversations with John Coplans, Carol Ross made a rapid, incremental transition from painting (of which she had produced a substantial oeuvre during the previous decade) to sculpture. This segue commenced with the...

A bond of steel: di Suvero and Bellamy: the prescient art dealer Richard Bellamy was singularly devoted to the work of Mark di Suvero. An exhibition at Storm King of di Suvero's sculptures and Bellamy's photographs of them chronicles this productive partnership.
November 1, 2005... "You've been (springboard?) (wings?) (slingshot?) to my art," Mark di Suvero wrote to his long-time friend Richard Bellamy, searching for the best kinetic metaphor to describe the dealer's role in his career, in the course of a heartfelt letter...

Urbanist at large: with his large-scale outdoor sculptures on view in many parts of the world, Mark di Suvero is particularly attentive to the way they animate urban spaces. Here, he recounts his roving youth and eventful career, shedding light on his diverse activities as sculptor, painter, steelworker, erstwhile political activist and mentor of younger artists.(Interview)
November 1, 2005... Marco Polo di Suvevo was born Sept. 18, 1933, in Shanghai, to Venetian parents who had moved to China the year before. The family relocated to San Francisco in 1941, where di Suvero, soon to be called Mark, attended elementary and high school....

Genzken's open city: German artist Isa Genzken addresses urban vulnerability in her recent work, as seen in a New York gallery exhibition that included painted airplane scraps and towerlike pedestals lavishly arrayed with found materials.
November 1, 2005... Sleek white towers liberally adorned with a mass-market miscellany--modernist icons remade as consumer fetish objects--have dominated Isa Genzken's work for several years, as was evident in her recent exhibition at David Zwirner in New York....

Krzysztof Wodiczko at Lelong.(NEW YORK)(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2005... Picking up on the primal creepiness of a current official spy-on-your-neighbor campaign, Krzysztof Wodiczko's If You See Something... (2005) is a decorously scary quartet of video vignettes projected in a darkened room. All feature one or two...

Tom Burckhardt at Caren Golden.(NEW YORK)(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2005... What an artist fundamentally needs to carry on with work, besides space and intellectual resources, is the kind of question that burrows deep when self-doubt takes root. Tom Burckhardt, a painter of meticulous but buoyantly hectic abstractions,...

Yoshitomo Nara at Boesky.(NEW YORK)(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2005... Yoshitomo Nara is a very successful artist by any standard, and wildly popular in Japan. Like Takashi Murakami, with whom Nara is often associated, he is responsible for a range of products from paintings to plush toys (Nara-designed items...

Julian Schnabel at C&M Arts.(NEW YORK)(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2005... Consisting of 20 pieces ranging from 1978 to 2001 and accompanied by a 60-page color catalogue with an essay by Robert Pincus-Witten, the recent Julian Schnabel exhibition at C&M Arts would have made a fine small museum survey. The show...

Robert Morris at Castelli.(NEW YORK)(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2005... In the mid-1950s, Robert Morris produced gestural paintings, a practice he abandoned as he turned to reductive forms and materials in the construction of simple objects. During the 1960s, Morris became associated with social concerns and the...

Monique Prieto at Cheim & Read.(NEW YORK)(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2005... In departing abruptly from the vocabulary of abutting, eccentric shapes for which she is known, Monique Prieto has apparently decided that it is time for a change, and it is not hard to agree. Likable enough, the earlier work consisted of...

David Diao at Postmasters.(NEW YORK)(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2005... David Diao's concern for the modernist residence as endangered species is the central theme in his recent exhibition, "Demolished/At Risk," in which he lists a number of examples of domestic modern architecture in New Canaan, Conn., that have...

Thomas Schutte at Marian Goodman.(NEW YORK)(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2005... What are the minimum requirements of a home equipped for bare-bones living? This seems to be the question raised by Thomas Schutte's exhibition of "One Man Houses." With Schutte, however, one suspects that there are other, larger issues waiting...

Joseph Zito at Lennon Weinberg.(NEW YORK)(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2005... Given that Joseph Zito's subject here was war and its effects, the sculptures in this exhibition (all 2004-05) had a surprisingly light touch. The best are like haikus, simple gestures that reverberate outward, evoking pity, pathos, grief and...

William Tucker at McKee.(NEW YORK)(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2005... Five gnarled blobs in dark, glistening bronze were arrayed on a white plinth near the gallery's entrance. Knotted yet sleek, they seemed to flop about like fish. Close perusal of these works revealed them to be hands, life-size (for a grown...

Michael Rakowitz at Lombard-Freid.(NEW YORK)(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2005... Brooklyn-based artist Michael Rakowitz made a strong impression with this show, his first New York solo. Recognized over the last few years for his inflatable homeless shelters and other actions in public space that address deep-rooted social...

Alan Sonfist at Paul Rodgers/9W.(NEW YORK)(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2005... Since 1978, a piece of precolonial forest has been growing on the northeast corner of Houston Street and LaGuardia Place in New York's Greenwich Village. The 40-by-200-foot plot of land is the site of Alan Sonfist's Time Landscape. The artist...

Brian McKee at Mitchell-Innes & Nash.(NEW YORK)(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2005... Selections from "Urbanus," a series of approximately 71-by-57-inch photographs taken last year in India, constituted Brian McKee's auspicious American debut at Mitchell-Innes & Nash. Just a few years out of Yale graduate school, the 27-year-old...

Fiona Tan at the New Museum of Contemporary Art.(NEW YORK)(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2005... Power, and specifically the power inherent in the gaze, is a palpable theme in Indonesian-born Fiona Tan's installation Correction (2004). The first in a series of works by emerging artists commissioned jointly by the Museum of Contemporary Art...

Gregory Crewdson at Luhring Augustine.(NEW YORK)(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2005... Fourteen of the 20 coldly beautiful pictures constituting Gregory Crewdson's new series, "Beneath the Roses," were included in this show (opening simultaneously with exhibitions in Los Angeles and London). Appropriating the frictionless visual...

Frank Stella at Paul Kasmin.(NEW YORK)(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2005... Frank Stella's dramatic and drawn-out turn toward the Baroque has until now been more successful in his writing than in his own painting and sculpture. His vigorous series of Norton Lectures, collected in the book Working Space (1986),...

Ian Kiaer at Tanya Bonakdar.(NEW YORK)(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2005... What might Ian Kiaer mean with his abject evocations of utopian architecture? Often based on research into relatively obscure 20th-century visionary architects, Kiaer's works restate his predecessors' grand schemes on a tiny scale. Are these...

Ron Gorchov at Vito Schnabel.(NEW YORK)(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2005... This exhibition, Ron Gorchov's first in over a decade, offered an overview of the painter's work since the 1970s. The 75-year-old Gorchov started his career in New York in the late 1950s, making Abstract Expressionist-derived paintings....

Rirkrit Tiravanija at the Guggenheim.(NEW YORK)(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2005... The celebrated Thai artist Rirkrit Tiravanija was the 2004 recipient of the Hugo Boss Prize, chosen from a shortlist that included competitors from Germany, Brazil, the Netherlands, the U.K. and China. Born in Buenos Aires and based in New...

Tabaimo at James Cohan.(NEW YORK)(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2005... In an appealing New York solo debut, the young Tokyo-based artist Tabaimo (Ayako Tabata) turned James Cohan's main space into a virtual bathhouse. Japanese Bathhouse--Gents (2000) was the featured video installation, shown on three walls that...

Qiu Shihua at Chambers.(NEW YORK)(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2005... At first glance, Qiu Shihua's debut American solo appeared to be that of a minimalist, comprising 12 uniformly beige-toned monochromatic paintings, all untitled and of similar dimensions--usually 50 1/2 by 94 inches. But as with the black...

Changha Hwang at Massimo Audiello.(NEW YORK)(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2005... In his second show at Massimo Audiello, Korean-born, New York-based Changha Hwang presented complex, large-scale abstract paintings containing a multiplicity of candy-colored grids, painterly squares and rectangles, and planes of vibrant, flat...

Jack Goldstein at Metro Pictures and Mitchell-Innes & Nash.(NEW YORK)(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2005... Jack Goldstein was born in Montreal in 1945 and as an adolescent moved with his family to Los Angeles, where he took degrees from Chouinard and CalArts; he died a suicide in California in the spring of 2003. In the early 1980s, Goldstein...

Mark Lewis at Triple Candle.(NEW YORK)(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2005... "Video art" has become an increasingly diffuse category among artists. Across a spectrum that includes the digital gamesmanship of Cory Arcangel and the cinematic installations of Isaac Julien, Mark Lewis's short-form films occupy a spot...

Jim Torok at Pierogi.(NEW YORK)(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2005... Because they use simple words and pictures, Jim Torok's largely autobiographical acrylic-and-oil paintings and ink drawings can seem like chapters from some kind of Artworld for Dummies. In this show there were works titled A Day in the Life of...

Betty Tompkins at Mitchell Algus.(NEW YORK)(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2005... It was Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart who in 1964 articulated this famous definition of pornography: "I know it when I see it." One wonders what the good judge would have made of painter Betty Tompkins's salacious exhibition of seven...

Unica Zurn at Ubu.(NEW YORK)(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2005... Already established as a journalist and an author of short fiction in Berlin, Unica Zurn moved to Paris and turned to the visual arts after she became the lover and collaborator of Hans Bellmer, whom she met in 1953. During the following decade...

Rachel Feinstein at Marianne Boesky.(NEW YORK)(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2005... In contemporary art, references to Baroque and, even more so, Rococo painting and sculpture tend to serve as shorthand for decadence. Like Jeff Koons, Matthew Barney and Bonnie Collura, New York artist Rachel Feinstein draws on such sources...

Amy Gartrell at Daniel Reich.(NEW YORK)(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2005... The works in "Hot Hands Cold Heart," Amy Gartrell's solo show, express a lingering nostalgia for the awkward relationships of adolescence, as if each work were inspired by a page torn from a recently unearthed middleschool diary. Gartrell...

Arnold Helbling at Von Lintel.(NEW YORK)(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2005... Arnold Helbling's new paintings are large (only eight filled the gallery), opulent, generous, insistent and alive. You walked in and they hailed you with their light, discordant colors, the contradictory thrusts and velocities of their forms,...

Alison Fox at ATM.(NEW YORK)(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2005... "The world is too much with us," wrote Wordsworth--and he never had to live in a Manhattan apartment. The sense of physical clutter is implicit in the paintings of Alison Fox, whose jumbled, semi-recognizable forms and clashing colors convey...

Marvin Israel at Cheim & Read.(NEW YORK)(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2005... Marvin Israel (1924-1984) enjoyed a considerable reputation as a painter, art director, photographer, graphic designer and teacher. From a series of works completed in the 1970s, the nine drawings that made up this macabre exhibition seem...

Craig McPherson at Forum.(NEW YORK)(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2005... In this recent exhibition, "Steel/ Stage," Craig McPherson presented two distinct bodies of work. The seemingly incongruous grouping featured images of steel mills in wintry landscapes hung beside interior views of theater stages, some empty,...

Johan Nobell at Pierogi.(NEW YORK)(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2005... Johan Nobell's oil-on-linen paintings (all approximately 20 inches square) seem meant to stir in the viewer some unconscious memory or long-forgotten thought. This exhibition mixed surreal landscapes with tableaux of strange, abstract forms,...

John Zurier at Larry Becker.(PHILADELPHIA)(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2005... It may take some time before John Zurier's paintings reach the wider audience they deserve. This is richly rewarding work but it pays out slowly, depending as it does upon a few key aspects of the painting act, chiefly the brushstroke and the...

Carolyn Healy and John Phillips at Philadelphia Live Arts Festival.(PHILADELPHIA)(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2005... This installation of light and sound overlaid on objects, in a darkened room of an abandoned commercial building, became a kind of model of Plato's cave for our digital age. Visitors to Healy and Phillips's Limbic Pentameter at the Philadelphia...

Dan Graham and collaborators at Art Basel Miami Beach.(MIAMI)(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2005... Puppets have a way of turning us all back into children, so it was quite savvy of conceptual artist Dan Graham to conceive of his hallucinatory meditation on youth culture, Don't Trust Anyone Over Thirty, as a puppet opera. Based on the 1960s...

Inigo Manglano-Ovalle at the Art Institute of Chicago.(CHICAGO)(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2005... At the core of Inigo Manglano-Ovalle's hybrid practice is an interest in the diversity and simultaneity of social experience, whether rooted in community, scientific and architectural systems or, more recently, the natural environment. In...

Robert Wilbert at Susanne Hilberry.(FERNDALE, MICH.)(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2005... Realist painter Robert Wilbert is known and loved as a teacher in the Detroit art community (prior to his retirement, he taught painting at Wayne State University for 40 years). This exhibition of 36 recent oil paintings and watercolors...

Jim Sajovic at Belger Arts Center.(KANSAS CITY)(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2005... Ghostly abstracted figures float or tumble across iridescent colored backgrounds in Jim Sajovic's "Dreamer-Ecstasy" series. Spanning the past five years, the 13 paintings on view here feature allover compositions, achieved by repeating and...

Gerry Snyder at the Center for Contemporary Arts.(SANTA FE)(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2005... Gerry Snyder is a painter who has been showing his work for more than 25 years. This intriguing exhibition featured semi-narrative scenes of expansive landscapes populated with anthropomorphic creatures rendered in oil on wood panel. Continuing...

Ryan McGinness at Quint.(LA JOLLA)(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2005... Ryan McGinness made the shift from graphic designer to gallery artist without much retooling. His work appears on T-shirts, skateboards and soccer balls, in numerous books and in a steady schedule of solo and group exhibitions. Taking the...

Fred Williams at LA Louver.(LOS ANGELES)(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2005... Highly esteemed in his native Australia but little-known in the U.S.--a 1977 solo exhibition at MOMA notwithstanding--Fred Williams (1927-1982) took the dramatic landforms of the Outback as the subject of his most interesting paintings. "Fred...

Jared Pankin at Carl Berg.(LOS ANGELES)(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2005... Jared Pankin's inventive new sculptures probe the increasingly murky distinction in our culture between the natural and the artificial, the raw and the cooked. In his works, finely detailed models of palm and fir trees are installed on...

Connie Jenkins at Craig Krull.(LOS ANGELES)(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2005... The most relevant landscape painting today confronts our increasingly compromised experience of nature. Our relationship to nature is custodial, either in terms of managing endangered places and species or in manipulating and exploiting the...

Michael Wingo at Cache Contemporary.(SAN FRANCISCO)(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2005... The 11 abstract paintings in Michael Wingo's recent exhibition, executed between 2002 and 2004, are roughly half of a body of work called "The Cross Series." Executed in oil, alkyd, acrylic, gesso and charcoal, the series is united by the...

Donald Mitchell at Creative Growth Art Center.(OAKLAND)(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2005... An unusual art center in an unlikely location--downtown Oakland's "auto row"--Creative Growth provides studio space and a small gallery for self-taught artists with physical or mental disabilities. In one of their occasional solo shows, the...

Sybille Berger at the Newlyn Art Gallery.(PENZANCE, U.K.)(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2005... Not far from Barbara Hepworth's home and studio, on the Western tip of Cornwall, there is a villa near the sea called the Newlyn Art Gallery. Its upstairs room, flooded with daylight, proved to be an ideal location for Sybille Berger's recent...

Andre Cadere at Art: Concept.(PARIS)(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2005... Andre Cadere is probably the most important artist of the 1970s whom you've never heard of. A Romanian who lived and worked primarily in Paris, Cadere died in 1978, at the age of 45. Since then, his work has acquired a cult following, primarily...

Eva Marisaldi at S.A.L.E.S.(ROME)(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2005... An exile in Argentina during World War II, Roger Caillois--philosopher, anthropologist, natural scientist, renegade Surrealist--in 1942 published the first of his many evocative essays on the subject of rocks in social ritual and myth. Six...

Teresita Fernandez and Julie Mehretu are among the 25 individuals named as 2005 fellows by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.(Awards & Grants)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2005... Teresita Fernandez and Julie Mehretu are among the 25 individuals named as 2005 fellows by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The awards are given for creativity in the arts and sciences. Each winner receives $500,000 in support...

The advocacy group Americans for the Arts recently presented its National Arts Awards for leadership.(Awards & Grants)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2005... The advocacy group Americans for the Arts recently presented its National Arts Awards for leadership. Among the honorees was John Baldessari, who received the award for lifetime achievement. Eli Broad won the award for philanthropy.

The Nancy Graves Foundation has presented three grants, worth $25,000 each, to visual artists who are exploring a technique, medium or discipline different from their primary one.(Awards & Grants)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2005... The Nancy Graves Foundation has presented three grants, worth $25,000 each, to visual artists who are exploring a technique, medium or discipline different from their primary one. The winners are Robert Chambers, Gillian Jagger and Michael...

Obituaries.(ARTWORLD)(Obituary)
November 1, 2005... Pietro Consagra, 85, Italian sculptor, died in his sleep July 16 in Milan. A prominent figure in the postwar Italian art scene, Consagra was a co-founder, along with Piero Dorazio, Carla Accardi and others, of the Forma group; their 1947...

Patrick Caulfield 1936-2005.(ARTWORLD)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
November 1, 2005... Patrick Caulfield, 69, prominent British Pop painter, died of cancer Sept. 29 in London. He had been known since the early 1960s for brightly colored canvases that often feature imaginative interiors or still lifes combining crisp, hard-edge...

Corrections.(Correction Notice)
November 1, 2005... Oct. '05, p. 174: The illustration of Joe Fyfe's abstract painting Library (2004) was flopped, top to bottom and left to right. Sept. '05, p. 56: Christo and Jeanne-Claude paid Deutsche Bank interest of $2,239,000--not just $239,000--on a...