Art in America articles from November 2006

Art in America archives from November 2006

Is the art book dead?(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2006... To the Editors: After reading Christopher Lyon's very important and informative essay on the state of the art book publishing scene [A.i.A., Sept. '06], I was a bit taken aback by his relegating me to a footnote of the period of the 1950s....

Corrections.(LETTERS)(Correction notice)
November 1, 2006... Sept. '06, p. 37: "Point of View: The High Price of Looking" erroneously listed the Seattle Art Museum among museums that are "always free." In fact, the institution always charges admission, except on the first Thursday of each month.

Orange County Great Park.(FRONT PAGE)(construction of commercial building)
November 1, 2006... When swords are being beaten into plowshares, it's good to have an artist on hand, as Mary Miss will be when an old military base is converted to the Orange County Great Park. The El Tore Marine Corps Air Station in southern California,...

From "Raggedy Andy" to "Drella"--Warhol for TV.(FRONT PAGE)(Television program review)
November 1, 2006... "Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film," a two-part, four-hour film directed by Ric Burns, recently made its national television debut on PBS after a limited theatrical run in New York. In his examination of the life and times of the...

Art program at Caffe Florian.(FRONT PAGE)
November 1, 2006... Caffe Florian opened its doors in Venice's Piazza San Marco in 1720 and quickly became a favorite rendezvous of Europe's artists, politicians and well-heeled Grand Tourists. It was in one of the Florian's plush salons that plans were first...

New home for N. Carolina Museum.(FRONT PAGE)(Notch Carolina Museum of Art's new building)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... The Notch Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) recently unveiled plans for a sprawling new building near Raleigh. Designed by New York architect Thomas Phifer, a South Carolina native, the 127,000-square-foot facility will house the museum's permanent...

The Parrish's low-key design.(FRONT PAGE)(Parrish Art Museum)(architects Herzog and de Meuron)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... The Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, N.Y., recently revealed the design for its new facility by Herzog & de Meuron, who are known for projects that integrate into their surroundings. The new 64,000-square-foot structure, estimated to cost...

Mental constructs.(Modern Architecture and Other Essays)(Architectural Theory: An Anthology from Vitruvius to 1870, vol. 1)(Modern Architectural Theory: A Historical Survey, 1673-1968)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Modern Architecture and Other Essays, by Vincent Scully, selected and with an introduction by Neil Levine, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 2003; 416 pages, $60 cloth, $29.95 paper. Architectural Theory, Volume 1: An Anthology...

Advocates for the other art.(Imagining the Present: Context, Content and the Role of the Critic)(The Triumph of Anti-Art: Conceptual and Performance Art in the Formation of Post-Modernism)(Book review)
November 1, 2006... Imagining the Present: Context, Content and the Role of the Critic, by Lawrence Alloway, edited and with a critical commentary by Richard Kalina, London and New York, Routledge, 2006; 306 pages, $145 cloth, $44.95 paper. The Triumph of...

What "Evidence" says about art: a recently revived exhibition of uncaptioned documentary photographs offered multiple lessons about how (and how not) to interpret artworks.(ISSUES & COMMENTARY)
November 1, 2006... 1 Over a quarter of a century ago, two young photographers, Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel, approached a number of institutions with a strange request: Let us look through your photographic archives, copy certain images and present them as...

High modernism at the altar of peace: bringing contemporary architecture to central Rome, Richard Meier's new home for Augustus's Ara Pacis integrates classical principles with contemporary design.(ARCHITECTURE)
November 1, 2006... In the same way that intellectual territory is occupied when a thinker "owns" a subject--by dint of scholarship, for example--ground can be occupied by historical, political and cultural associations. In this sense, hardly any ground is more...

Opening Salvos in L.A.: with the city's vitality as an art center ever more apparent, and more artists calling L.A. home, it's not surprising that a vigorous and expanding art market finally flourishes there. Below, the author reflects on some of this season's introductory offerings.(CRITIC'S DIARY)
November 1, 2006... Kicking off the early September art openings in Los Angeles, British graffiti artist Banksy staged an extravagant, three-day-only solo show in a huge downtown warehouse highlighted by the appearance of a live elephant painted in a red and gold...

A Helluva town: a huge, spectacular summer exhibition at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco repositioned several key figures in postwar American art.(REPORT FROM MONTE CARLO)
November 1, 2006... The legendary Ed Sullivan would have called "New York, New York," the summer survey at the Grimaldi Forum in Monte Carlo, "a really big show." That's what it was: big, bold and brash. This ambitious survey at the vast exhibition center, stocked...

Jean-Etienne Liotard: facing the enlightenment: accomplished in many mediums, but especially pastel, the 18th-century Swiss artist Jean-Etienne Liotard was highly sought after by princes, merchants and intellectuals. An exhibition at New York's Frick Collection brought his little-known work to light.(Critical essay)
November 1, 2006... The Frick Collection's recent exhibition of work by the artist Jean-Etienne Liotard (1702-1789), the first in the U.S., provided a welcome introduction to this relatively unknown but remarkable Swiss artist. Organized by the Musees d'Art et...

Picturing the Wreck, writing the disaster: in work that has recently appeared in several international exhibitions, Paul Chan explores themes that cut across politics, culture and religion. His first solo museum show, at the Blanton in Austin, featured a moody new video of dark silhouettes and a high-keyed animation whose references range from Baudelaire to Biggie Smalls.(Critical essay)
November 1, 2006... Paul Chan--who is often labeled an activist artist but says he prefers to keep his artwork separate from his political actions--seems to be everywhere these days. Last summer he was in Bangkok and then Cambodia, where he met with a former Khmer...

The school of L.A.: a major exhibition at the Centre Pompidou surveyed the art made in Los Angeles between 1955 and 1985, providing an invigorating look at the rogue energy of the West Coast scene during that legendary period.
November 1, 2006... I spent a good part of the fall of 2001 sitting in Paris cafes reading books about Los Angeles architecture. At the time, this struck me as highly ironic, given Paris's legendary status as a cultural magnet. It then occurred to me that my own...

Place matters: Los Angeles sculpture today: recent years have produced a burgeoning sculpture scene in Los Angeles, where abundant studio space, high-profile art schools and do-it-yourself confidence provide a uniquely congenial mix. Here two Paris-based sculptors interview 19 of their Southern California counterparts.
November 1, 2006... Art-world tides answer to elusive gravities and are hard to anticipate. Last fall, we were reminded of this on seeing a group show of good work by younger sculptors in a Paris gallery. Four of them came from Los Angeles, two from London and...

Speaking volumes: 19 interviews.(Interview)
November 1, 2006... Charles Ray I came here to teach in 1981. After getting my MFA at the Mason Gross School of Rutgers University, I worked for a year in the New York area on sculpture. Then I went to New Orleans and taught at the University of New Orleans....

Woodman's decorative impulse: shown in a recent retrospective at the Metropolitan, Betty Woodman's spirited ceramic works embrace theatricality and modernist fragmentation.(sculptor Betty Woodman's ceramic sculptures exhibition at Metropolitan Museum of Art)
November 1, 2006... Betty Woodman's conceptually rigorous, formally audacious ceramic sculptures and installations of the past two decades make any lingering art-world condescension toward pottery seem absurd. Given the pluralistic eclecticism of contemporary art,...

Judy Pfaff at Ameringer Yohe.
November 1, 2006... Buckets of Rain, the title of Judy Pfaff's recent installation, doesn't just invoke Bob Dylan. It also links an unprepossessing manmade object with turbulent nature, in just the kind of conjunction that powered this teeming show. Because of a...

Sarah Oppenheimer at P.P.O.W.
November 1, 2006... In her first solo exhibition at this gallery, a season opener, Sarah Oppenheimer played up the drama of entrance. Using standard sheets of plywood cladding that she bent like heavy paper, Oppenheimer transformed the space literally wall to...

Rob Wynne at Craig F. Starr.
November 1, 2006... Graced with such architectural features as a bowed wall and high ceilings, this intimate uptown gallery was well suited to Rob Wynne's mise-en-scene, each element chosen to enliven its context. Wynne, attracted by the wit and range of the...

Daughters of New York Dada at Francis Naumann.(exhibition of women painters' art)
November 1, 2006... New York Dada, with its fluid genders and genres, has been poorly served by the rigid taxonomies of art history. It was not only Duchamp, Picabia, Man Ray and Morton Schamberg who crossed paths on these shores during the First World War, as...

Kara Walker at the Metropolitan Museum and Sikkema Jenkins.(Kara Elizabeth Walker)
November 1, 2006... In After the Deluge, a harrowing project at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Kara Walker adapted the structure of the "artist's choice" exhibition by interspersing her own cut-paper silhouettes and related historical material among objects mined...

Benjamin Cottam at Gasser & Grunert.
November 1, 2006... Two kinds of ghosts haunted Benjamin Cottam's impressive recent exhibition of paintings and drawings. In the front gallery hung 16 delicate silverpoint drawings (all works untitled, 2006) of young English rocker Pete Doherty, leader of bands...

Susan Crile at Hunter College.(drawings in exhibition, "Abu Ghraib/Abuse of Power," focus on prisoner abuse)(Critical essay)
November 1, 2006... In his preface to the catalogue of Susan Crile's riveting exhibition "Abu Ghraib/Abuse of Power," New Yorker staff writer Mark Danner comments on the notorious photographs that are the source for Crile's new work: "... they made torture...

Lisa Ruyter at Team.
November 1, 2006... For "I Am a Camera," her first New York solo exhibition in nearly four years, Lisa Ruyter returned to Team, a gallery she co-founded with owner Jose Freire a decade ago. Departing from the scenes that previously occupied her--alcoholic parties,...

Mamma Andersson at David Zwirner.
November 1, 2006... Looking into people's bedrooms can be like looking into their faces; we see an intimate uniqueness that conceals as much as it reveals. Mamma Andersson's paintings, which feature more bedrooms than faces, bear traces of a subjectivity under the...

Jay Milder at Lohin Geduld.
November 1, 2006... Throughout his long career, Jay Milder has frequently pressed biblical stories and mystical literature into the service of thickly painted expressionist canvases that hover at the border of abstraction and representation. In the work here,...

Stephen Ellis at Von Lintel.
November 1, 2006... Demonstrating a new degree of freedom within a self-imposed matrix of abstract painting rules, Stephen Ellis's recent exhibition of seven new paintings marked the artist's shift toward the baroque. The show followed a somber series Ellis did...

Susana Solano at McKee.(solo exhibition includes mixed-medium works and sculpture)(Critical essay)
November 1, 2006... In her third solo exhibition at McKee, Barcelona-based Susana Solano showed seven sculptures and 12 mixed-medium works on paper. Since the late 1980s, she has experimented with metal, wire mesh, screens, glass and photography to create...

Philadelphia Wireman at Matthew Marks.
November 1, 2006... Little is certain about the life and work of the presumably deceased bricoleur of binding known as the Philadelphia Wireman besides the small, wire-wrapped works themselves and their slender provenance. Admirers and collectors of the sculptures...

Bruce Gagnier at Lori Bookstein.
November 1, 2006... Bruce Gagnier's recent sculptures are made of Hydrocal, an extremely durable casting plaster that can be shaped and molded like clay when wet, then scraped down, sanded and otherwise abraded after it dries. Gagnier fully exploited the...

Gareth James and David Joselit at Elizabeth Dee.
November 1, 2006... The commercial gallery system and its fraught artist-dealer relationships no longer promise much as subjects for critique. But in Gareth James's second show at Elizabeth Dee, an unusual collaboration with Yale art historian and critic David...

Cristian Silva at The Project.
November 1, 2006... Three discrete elements made up Die Zauberflote, an installation by Cristian Silva based on Mozart's opera. Spurred by the 250th anniversary of the composer's birth, and compelled by his own esoteric tendencies, Silva, born in Chile and living...

Tomas Vu at Von Lintel.
November 1, 2006... Aptly titled "Black Ice," Tomas Vu's first solo exhibition in New York featured eight complex 6-by-8-foot mixed-medium paintings on panel (all dated 2006, but worked on over a number of years). Their densely layered, seductive and often...

Orsina Sforza at Janos Gat.
November 1, 2006... Orsina Sforza lives and works in Rome. In this interesting and skillful show of paintings she focused on random accumulations of detritus, objects painted with a passionate regard for their innate presence as things. Four years ago, Sforza was...

Thomas Bayrle at Gavin Brown's enterprise.(artist's silkscreens explore relationships)(Critical essay)
November 1, 2006... This exhibition of Thomas Bayrle's multifarious production, his first show in the States in over 25 years, allowed a fresh look at the German Pop-era artist, an early colleague of Sigmar Polke and Gerhard Richter and an influential teacher of a...

Tony Bechara at Latin Collector and Andre Zarre.
November 1, 2006... Since the 1970s, Puerto Ricanborn, New York-based Tony Bechara has been making paintings in which he arranges small, square dabs of color in patterns resembling mosaics or pixelation. For all the artist's reliance on systems--he uses tape to...

Shen Chen at 456 Gallery.(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Shen Chen belongs to a group of Chinese artists who made their home in America, mostly in New York, after the tragic events of Tiananmen Square. Having studied at the Skowhegan School in Maine, the New York Studio School and Boston University,...

Amer Kobaslija at George Adams.
November 1, 2006... The Bosnian artist Amer Kobaslija approaches the venerable subject of the artist's studio from unexpected angles. Using a creamy touch rooted in 19th-century realist painting, Kobaslija rendered bird's-eye views of his windowless, now former...

Jane Freilicher at Tibor de Nagy.
November 1, 2006... Jane Freilicher has mainly painted still lifes and landscapes for more than 50 years, even when these traditional genres were widely disdained as outmoded and irrelevant. Given her longstanding commitment to representation, this recent sampling...

The Clayton Brothers at Bellwether.
November 1, 2006... Those of us not fortunate enough to have washers and dryers might more excitedly anticipate the trek to the local Laundromat if it resembled the Clayton Brothers' Wishy Washy, the walk-in, heavily graffitied title piece in their recent...

Joe Coleman at Jack Tilton.
November 1, 2006... As a downtown New York performance artist in the 1980s, Joe Coleman developed a circus sideshow persona, becoming notorious for performances, at the Kitchen and elsewhere, during which he bit the heads off live mice and "blew himself up" by...

Mauricio Alejo at Ramis Barquet.(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Mauricio Alejo, who was born in Mexico City and lives and works in New York, records everyday objects that he sets up in absurd arrangements, or more dramatically modifies by cutting, staining or painting them, or submitting them to laws of...

Linda Ganjian at eyewash @ Boreas.
November 1, 2006... Since receiving her MFA in 1998, Linda Ganjian hasn't accumulated a large body of work. That's because each of her tabletop sculptures is labor-intensive and can take well over a year to complete. Her sculptures are often based on Persian...

Shi Jinsong at Chambers.
November 1, 2006... The objects offered for sale in Chinese artist Shi Jinsong's "Na Zha Baby Boutique" were delightfully over the top. The "merchandise" consisted of an immaculately produced cradle, stroller and walker, plus abacus, bottles, nipples and rattles,...

Joe Zane at Allston Skirt.
November 1, 2006... This show of Joe Zane's multi-medium works from 2006 was a witty mix of homage, parody and wishful thinking. His oil-on-canvas paintings, colored-pencil drawings and sculptural objects take as their themes art fraud, sincere imitation, close...

Isaac Witkin at Locks.(Obituary)
November 1, 2006... Isaac Witkin's show in Locks Gallery's roof garden became an accidental memorial exhibition when the artist died, at age 69, only a few weeks after helping to select the work and oversee its installation. The four large welded-steel pieces,...

Mary Nomecos at Rosenfeld.
November 1, 2006... Mary Nomecos has that rare ability, which most painters long for, of knowing when to stop. More a structuralist than a sensualist, her painting decisions are unquestionably improvisational, the product of a mind totally immersed in the complex...

Stella Lai and Iona Rozeal Brown at Saltworks.
November 1, 2006... After a successful collaboration in San Francisco in 2004, Stella Lai and Iona Rozeal Brown brought their talents together again for the exhibition "When the East Is in the House." Their individual paintings filled most of the gallery, but a...

Ernestine Betsberg and Arthur Osver at Philip Slein.
November 1, 2006... Ernestine Betsberg and Arthur Osver are painters' painters who both create work that lies solidly within the modernist tradition. In their mid-90s at the time of this show, the couple, who met in 1935, long drew the respect of knowledgeable St....

Robert Lostutter at Herron Galleries, Indiana University.
November 1, 2006... This 25-year retrospective of Robert Lostutter's career comprised 49 glowing watercolor paintings and graphite drawings. His images depict men's heads transformed by fragments of foliage or plumage into strange and fantastic masklike forms....

Darcy Huebler at Inman.
November 1, 2006... In this Los Angeles artist's first exhibition in Houston, Darcy Huebler was up-front about her interest in the decorative. This is not to suggest her paintings are merely decorations, but that they critically examine the idea of decor in its...

Julianne Swartz at Lisa Sette.("Attractions, Suspensions and Dislocations," show includes installation pieces)(Critical essay)
November 1, 2006... From large, lovingly formal photographs of bubbles to an elegant little hall of mirrors she calls a "Hybrid Periscope," Arizona-born artist Julianne Swartz has pursued the translation of ordinary materials into extraordinary experiences. It's...

Akio Takamori at ASU Art Museum.
November 1, 2006... Born and raised in Japan but educated at U.S. art schools and now teaching in Seattle, Akio Takamori makes figurative clay sculptures that speak of universals in a particular way. His most persistent theme, represented in these works dating...

Claire Falkenstein at Louis Stern.
November 1, 2006... Somewhere between the heroic welding of David Smith and the serial casting of Eva Hesse lives the sculpture of Claire Falkenstein (1908-1997). Falkenstein, who is best known for her 1961 gates for Peggy Guggenheim's Venice palazzo, welded,...

Carmine Iannaccone at SolwayJones.
November 1, 2006... Landscape, though typically the province of painting and photography, finds its sculptural voice in Carmine lannaccone's "RePublic Works." Expanding on his longstanding interest in melding 2-D representation with object-making, lannaccone...

John Millei at Ace.
November 1, 2006... In this recent exhibition, "Procession," John Millei presented 114 medium-size abstract oilon-canvas paintings and numerous small ceramic sculptures arranged on four chest-high wooden plinths. These ostensibly minimalist works were inspired in...

Chris Finley at ACME.
November 1, 2006... With the humor and anarchic invention of a classic Dadaist, the always surprising Chris Finley presented in the two adjoining gallery spaces of ACME a wild funhouse of mostly interconnected abstract paintings and kinetic sculptures (all works...

Coco Fusco at MC.
November 1, 2006... Coco Fusco's characteristically challenging but unfortunately ambiguous recent exhibition stemmed from her curiosity about one of the most repulsive cultural phenomena of the present day: brutal tactics used to coerce information from Muslim...

Robin Hill with Sam Nichols at another year in LA.
November 1, 2006... Always formally and conceptually restless, sculptor Robin Hill has only amplified her experimentation with materials, formats and even disciplines since moving from New York to northern California. In the past year she has collaborated with two...

Marvin Harden at Armory Center for the arts.
November 1, 2006... Spanning four decades, this retrospective, curated by the Armory's director, Jay Belloli, surveyed more than 100 drawings, paintings and prints by the under-recognized California artist Marvin Harden. A student of William Brice and Jan Stussy...

Takeshi Murata at Ratio 3.
November 1, 2006... In his new digital video, Untitled (Silver), Takeshi Murata twists and stretches a sequence from an old movie into a psychedelic odyssey--a fitting afterlife for a 1960s horror film by the Italian director Mario Bava. The black-and-white...

Robert Hudson at the Sonoma County Museum of Art.
November 1, 2006... Although Robert Hudson is most widely known for the formally and syntactically complex polychrome steel sculpture that he executed during the 1960s and '70s, he has also distinguished himself as a painter and a ceramist, creating an expansive...

Tim Roda at Greg Kucera.
November 1, 2006... Tim Roda's second solo show in Seattle (which coincided with his New York debut at Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert) was another step forward for the 29-year-old photographer, whose 2004 M.F.A. at the University of Washington is in ceramic...

Jennifer Bornstein at Greengrassi.(etching exhibition)
November 1, 2006... Los Angeles-based Jennifer Bornstein is a filmmaker who also expertly employs other mediums. Here, she exhibited meticulous small etchings that are finely wrought and slyly evocative. Studies for films she may or may not make, they reveal...

Lucian Freud at Chatsworth.
November 1, 2006... Collecting art, along with horse-racing, was one of the passions of Andrew Cavendish, the 11th Duke of Devonshire, who died two years ago. This commemorative exhibition, in honor of the Duke and mounted at Chatsworth, the Devonshires' ancestral...

Laurent Montaron at Schleicher + Lange.
November 1, 2006... The talented young French artist Laurent Montaron employs classic cinematic techniques to produce color videos that are deceptively simple. His new exhibition centered on two short examples that combine elegant tracking shots, eerie soundtracks...

Rob Birza at Fons Welters.
November 1, 2006... The Dutch artist Rob Birza's reputation in his native country derives from his brash paintings, sculptures and installations. In his new exhibition, rather dramatically titled "Beautiful Misery," he turns his attention to the more subdued realm...

Anselm Reyle at the Kunsthalle Zurich.
November 1, 2006... This survey, titled "Ars Nova," featured 15 recent, large-scale sculptures, room-sized installations and expansive two-dimensional pieces by 36-year-old Berlin-based German artist Anselm Reyle. At first, this gaudy and cacophonous show...

John Bock at Klosterfelde.
November 1, 2006... "UNSUITABLE FOR CHILDREN" read a cardboard sign greeting visitors to John Bock's recent exhibition, "Lutte mit Rucola" (Li'l One with Arugula). On the floor nearby lay children's drawings and some crayons. It was unclear at first whether they...

Falling artworks at Pompidou.(two art objects crashed at Pompidou Center)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Two works included in "Los Angeles 1955-1985: Birth of an Art Capital" [see article, this issue] at the Pompidou Center in Paris fell off the museum's walls and were destroyed. An 8-foot-tall untitled vertical bar (1971) by Peter Alexander...

Linda Shearer, director of the Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center since 2004, abruptly resigned in September "to pursue other interests.".(People)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Linda Shearer, director of the Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center since 2004, abruptly resigned in September "to pursue other interests." She recently launched the center's $20-million fundraising campaign.

Mori Art Museum.(People)(Fumio Nanjo is the new director of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Fumio Nanjo is the new director of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo. He was formerly deputy director there. Nanjo replaces David Elliott, whose five-year tenure ended Oct. 31. Elliott is now founding director of the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art,...

Modern Art.(People)(Klaus Biesenbach appointed at Museum of Modern Art in New York)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Klaus Biesenbach has been made chief curator of media, a newly created department at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He had been a curator in the museum's department of film and media, and chief curator at the affiliated P.S.1...

Jeu de Paume.(People)(Marta Gill appointed at Jeu de Paume in Paris)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Marta Gill, former head of the department of photography and visual art at La Caixa foundation in Barcelona, is the new director of the Jeu de Paume in Paris, replacing Regis Durand.

New Museum of Contemporary Art.(People)(Massimiliano Gioni appointed at New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Massimiliano Gioni has been appointed curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, joining the recently created team of chief curator Richard Flood and senior curator Laura Hoptman. The museum will open in its new home in late...

University Art Museum.(People)(Kathryn Kanjo appointed director of University Art Museum at UC-Santa Barbara)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Kathryn Kanjo, executive director since 2000 of Artpace in San Antonio, is the new director of the University Art Museum at UC-Santa Barbara. She is replaced by Matthew J.W. Drutt, who had been chief curator at the Menil Collection in Houston...

Boston Globe.(People)
November 1, 2006... Ken Johnson, an art critic for the New York Times, has become chief art critic at the Boston Globe.

Bruce Wolmer, editor of Art + Auction for 16 years, has stepped down for health reasons.(People)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Bruce Wolmer, editor of Art + Auction for 16 years, has stepped down for health reasons. He will become editorial director, contributing a column and developing story ideas. He is succeeded by Anthony Barzilay Freund, who was the arts editor at...

Portland [Ore.] Art Museum.(People)(Brian Ferriso appointed at Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Brian Ferriso, executive director and CEO for three years of the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, recently became executive director of the Portland [Ore.] Art Museum.

CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts.(People)(Jens Hoffmann appointed)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Jens Hoffmann, director of exhibitions at the ICA in London, has been appointed director of the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts at California College of the Arts in San Francisco, effective Nov. 1. He succeeds Ralph Rugoff, who...

Benton Museum of Art.(People)(Steven Kern appointed at Benton Museum of Art )(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Steven Kern, curator of European art at the San Diego Museum of Art for nine years, is the new director of the Benton Museum of Art at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.