Art in America articles from October 2005

Art in America archives from October 2005

Moving forward on the high line.(FRONT PAGE)(railroads)
October 1, 2005... Since 1999, an effort has been under way to transform the High Line--a 22-block-long, disused elevated rail line snaking through New York's Meatpacking District and Chelsea--into a 7-acre public park [see "Front Page," Feb. '03]. When Mayor...

Bamiyan Buddhas in light.(FRONT PAGE)
October 1, 2005... Just as the annual Tribute in Light commemorates the World Trade Center in New York with two beams of light, a permanent art project in the planning stages will pay tribute to the two monumental Buddhas that were destroyed by the Taliban in...

Hurricane and floods ravage cultural institutions.(FRONT PAGE)
October 1, 2005... While the horrific loss of life and property continues to be assessed in the areas hit by Hurricane Katrina, news is slowly emerging about damages to cultural property in the region. One of the hardest hit towns, Biloxi, Miss., lost a number of...

Reclusive photographer in the spotlight.(FRONT PAGE)(Eggleston, William)
October 1, 2005... A recently released documentary, William Eggleston in the Real World, offers an intimate view of the publicity-shy Mississippi-born, Memphis-based photographer known for his pioneering work in color. Directed by Michael Almereyda and released...

Arbus film in the works.(FRONT PAGE)(Diane Arbus )(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... A feature film loosely based on the life of photographer Diane Arbus [see article this issue], produced by Picturehouse and River Road Studios, is scheduled for a winter 2006 release. Directed by Steven Shainberg with a screenplay by Erin...

Madrid's Reina Sofia expands.(FRONT PAGE)(Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid's principal contemporary art museum, recently inaugurated a sleek, modernist addition designed by architect Jean Nouvel. Comprising five levels, two of them underground, the new wing...

Reading Rothko.(Mark Rothko)(The Artist's Reality: Philosophies of Art)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... The Artist's Reality: Philosophies of Art, by Mark Rothko, edited and with an introduction by Christopher Rothko, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2004; 136 pages, $25. This recently revealed treatise by Mark Rothko is a...

A marriage of trauma and kitsch: intermingling Hiroshima and Hello Kitty, the recent exhibition "Little Boy" offered a provocative look at postwar Japanese culture.(IMPORT/EXPORT)
October 1, 2005... The exhibition "Little Boy: The Arts of Japan's Exploding Subculture," seen earlier this year at New York's Japan Society, evoked contradictory responses. On one hand, it was among the most exciting and thought-provoking shows of the season. In...

Where Diane Arbus went: a comprehensive retrospective prompts the author to reconsider the short yet powerfully influential career of a photographer whose "fascination with eccentricity and masquerade brought her into an unforeseeable convergence with her era, and made her one of its essential voices.".(PHOTOGRAPHY)
October 1, 2005... For almost four decades the complex, profound vision of Diane Arbus (1923-1971) has had an enormous influence on photography and a broad one beyond it, and the general fascination with her work has been accompanied by an uncommon interest in...

NY galleries.(Directory)
October 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 October 4-29: Robert Jessel, Paintings and Sculptures. Opening...

A change of empires: as New Zealand seeks its cultural and economic identity less in the British Commonwealth and more on the Pacific Rim, a corresponding shift in its art scene is beginning to be felt.(REPORT FROM NEW ZEALAND)
October 1, 2005... Even though New Zealand is a long way from New York and has only 3 Z million people living in an area slightly larger than Oregon, it does not feel particularly remote or desolate. The country consists, for the most part, of the North Island...

Abstract generations: the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo confirms the enduring vitality of nonobjective art in "Extreme Abstraction," a museum-wide show that integrates new work with classic examples from the past.
October 1, 2005... Beginning in mid-July, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo turned over its entire exhibition space--more than 100,000 square feet altogether--to "Extreme Abstraction," a show in which works from the museum's permanent collection, including...

Matters of fact: as one of the original Photo-Realists, Robert Bechtle has been grappling with representation for some four decades.
October 1, 2005... Robert Bechtle hit upon a photo-based approach to realism in the mid-1960s, clarified his painting methods by the end of that decade and, while deepening the work over the years, has stayed firmly within the Photo-Realist fold ever since....

Plain seeing: deliberate, willing to wait--he has completed just under a score of sculptures during the last 30 years--Robert Grosvenor produces perceptually exacting work that rewards unhurried looking. His largest-ever retrospective recently appeared at Portugal's Museu Serralves.
October 1, 2005... I don't paint with ideas of art in mind. I see something that excites me. It becomes my content.--Willem de Kooning, 1959 I like things I've seen very fast and I don't remember what they are, but I remember the outline, the image. I'd like...

Climbing the walls for art: over the summer of 2004, a team of eight people painted Sol LeWitt's "Wall Drawing #1131, Whirls and Twirls" onto the walls of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford. One crew member recorded the process in a journal.(Diary entry)
October 1, 2005... "The Junius Spencer Morgan Memorial," as its facade reads, is the southernmost of the five buildings that make up the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Conn. Built with money and land given by famed financier J.P. Morgan (Junius...

April Gornik: the nature of painting: a traveling exhibition spotlights the 25-year career of April Gornik, whose ardent, even visionary, landscapes are also thoughtful considerations of the art of representation.
October 1, 2005... The more than 40 landscape paintings and drawings by April Gornik in this midcareer retrospective have a paradoxical quality. On the one hand, the works contain neither persons nor artifacts that would establish a human scale; they evoke a...

A heap of Smithson: a traveling retrospective and a number of recent scholarly studies have brought renewed attention to Earthwork pioneer Robert Smithson. Some three decades after the artist's untimely death, his visionary work continues to challenge viewers and critics alike.
October 1, 2005... In 1974, a year after Robert Smithson's death in the crash of a small plane, the New York Cultural Center presented an extensive survey of the artist's drawings. Smithson had been flying over a ranch in Texas to gain an aerial view of the site...

The shape of energy: geometry and gesture carry equal weight in the abstract paintings of Max Gimblett, a New Zealander who has lived in New York since the 1970s.
October 1, 2005... Max Gimblett's new paintings, which were exhibited recently at the Haines Gallery in San Francisco, will function, for the time being, as the capstone of his 40-year-long career. They do indeed recapitulate earlier phases of his work, while...

Walton Ford at Paul Kasmin.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2005... Walton Ford specializes in the depiction of extinct or endangered animals. His particular interest in birds, his meticulous draftsmanship and his preferred medium of watercolor, ink and gouache on paper bring to mind the work of John James...

Malcolm Morley at Sperone Westwater.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2005... In this recent exhibition, titled "The Art of Oil Painting," Malcolm Morley showed a dozen large canvases from the past three years that mark both a turning point and a new high in his long career. The works feature brilliantly colored, slick...

Pat Steir at Cheim and Read, pace prints and cook fine art.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2005... At a moment when young figurative painters just out of art school seem to be the hot ticket, three recent Pat Steir exhibitions offered exhilarating testimony to this artist's long-term commitment to and mastery of two-dimensional abstraction....

Sol LeWitt at the Metropolitan Museum, Madison Square Park and PaceWildenstein.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2005... Specifics of site intruded on three recent installations by Sol LeWitt, underscoring the increasing sensuousness of his instruction-based art. "Sol LeWitt on the Roof: Splotches, Whirls and Twirls" occupies the Cantor Roof Garden at the...

Urs Fischer at Gavin Brown's Enterprise.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2005... Swiss artist Urs Fischer expanded the idea of "playing with your food" with his charming sculpture Bread House, a life-size Alpine hut constructed largely of sourdough rolls and 6-foot-long baguettes custom-made in a Sullivan Street bakery in...

Loren Madsen at McKee.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2005... The dominant work in Loren Madsen's exhibition was an expansive installation titled gods&demons (2004). Made of strands of glass beads hanging from the ceiling in groups differentiated by color and length, the work is initially perceived as a...

Kelly Kaczynski at Triple Candie.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2005... That Kelly Kaczynski's impressive solo debut, "air is air and thing is thing," resembled a large heap of trash on first sight might have instantly tipped one off to the fact that she, like many of the past century's most intriguing artists,...

Rob Fischer at Cohan and Leslie.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2005... Aligned with the gallery's entrance were three elements signaling this Minneapolis-born, Brooklyn-based artist's central concerns. The imposing Altar (all works 2004-05) is one of Fischer's signature dumpster-based forms, variations of which...

Kim Keever at Feigen Contemporary.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2005... A turbulent, inky wash of rain cloud streaks down from an impossibly opalescent blue sky toward a meandering river that leads into the middle distance of Kim Keever's chromogenic color photograph titled River Keeper (2003). The river seems to...

Ralph Eugene Meatyard at the International Center of Photography.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2005... An optometrist by profession, Ralph Eugene Meatyard obtained his first camera on the occasion of the birth of his eldest child in 1950. Over the years, until his death from cancer in 1972 at the age of 46, he often photographed his wife and...

Nicholas Prior at Yossi Milo.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2005... Yossi Milo has developed something of a specialty in showing photographers who focus on the strange and exclusionary aspects of childhood, from Loretta Lux's wide-eyed innocents, who look unsettlingly lifelike though they are computer amalgams...

Aida Ruilova at Greenberg Van Doren.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2005... Aida Ruilova is one of a number of young artists articulating a neo-goth esthetic, and has of late been highly visible, appearing in the 2004 Whitney Biennial and P.S.1/MOMA's Greater New York 2005. In "Let's Go," Ruilova presented a group of...

Wayne Gonzales at Paula Cooper.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2005... A few years back, Wayne Gonzales tackled the tradition of history painting with a series of canvases based on photographs of Lee Harvey Oswald and the 1963 assassination of President Kennedy. Many of those paintings employed a colorful,...

Joe Fyfe at JG/Contemporary.(NEW YORK)(Jay Grimm Gallery)
October 1, 2005... While officially this was a show of only five paintings, all in the front room and made last year while New York-based abstract painter Joe Fyfe was staying in Ho Chi Minh City, there were actually 11--four rather large and seven rather...

Stanley Whitney at Esso.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2005... Each of Stanley Whitney's nine paintings on view at Esso, his first show at the gallery, tells a different story about color and its seeming ability to take on autonomous life, as distinct from the viewer as it is seductive to the gaze. Whitney...

Suzanne McClelland at Larissa Goldston.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2005... The resourceful Suzanne McClelland continues to instigate a tussle between the pictorial and the linguistic. The dainty curlicues of Bitch (2005, all paintings acrylic, oil and pastel on linen), wispy in black pastel and thinned to a gritty...

Richard Tsao at Chambers.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2005... Of Chinese parentage and raised in Thailand, Richard Tsao moved to New York in the early 1970s as an aspiring adolescent artist and has been exhibiting in Italy, New York and, more recently, Thailand for over 15 years. For this show he deployed...

Larry Zox at Stephen Haller.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2005... Larry Zox's geometric abstractions of the 1960s are as probing and engaging today as they ever were. While charged with interpenetrating planes, dynamic shapes and a strong palette, they are also free of expressive facture, the surfaces...

Pat Passlof at Elizabeth Harris.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2005... Pat Passlof has recently worked in abstract and figurative modes with equal conviction, the common elements being the suggestion of allegory and her longstanding investment in the pleasures of the loaded brush. In this show of 18 recent...

Greg Parker at Jim Kempner.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2005... Greg Parker's highly crafted paintings consist of 30 to 50 smoothed and sanded coats of oil, graphite and pigment layered over gessoed wood. He works in subdued tones, organizing his compositions into mathematically calculated areas of muted...

Eric Fischl at Mary Boone.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2005... In six "Bedroom Scenes" in oil on linen, all dated 2004 and most 6 or 7 by 8 or 9 feet, Eric Fischl depicts an apparently married and materially comfortable couple alone in their chic if sparsely furnished bedroom. In each painting, their...

Thornton Willis and James Little at Sideshow.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2005... Both Thornton Willis and James Little create large, colorful abstractions in which triangular forms often predominate. Though their paintings are superficially similar in imagery and chromatic intensity, the two artists are of different...

Sidney Geist at Jason McCoy.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2005... This vibrant survey of works from 1936 to 2004 by sculptor Sidney Geist included a variety of mediums, from cast aluminum and terra-cotta to painted wood and ink on paper. Born in Paterson, N.J., Geist studied at St. Stephen's College (today's...

Valerie Jaudon at Von Lintel.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2005... What is the function of painting, and can it still exist solely as an object of contemplation and enjoyment, just to please the eye, without narrative, without ideology, without movable parts? There are those who believe with passionate...

Chinatsu Ban at Marianne Boesky.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2005... If nothing else, Tokyo-based Chinatsu Ban's first solo show outside Japan raised one pertinent question: why does a nation with the world's second-largest economy resemble a gigantic version of Michael Jackson's Neverland? Unfortunately, Ban's...

Andre von Morisse at McKenzie.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2005... Andre von Morisse is a Norwegian-born artist who has lived in the United States since the 1980s. Like many contemporaries, von Morisse hybridizes painting and photography in his finished work--but his approach is idiosyncratic. He first invents...

Dominik Lejman at Luxe.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2005... Polish artist Dominik Lejman's thought-provoking solo show "ME counts:0.3 sec"--his first in New York--paired recent DVD projections with acrylic paintings to create what he calls "time-based" paintings. For Lejman, painting is performative,...

T.J. Wilcox at Metro Pictures.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2005... T.J. Wilcox is hooked on cinematic storytelling. Piecing together found footage, old photographs and original material, Wilcox shoots his films in 8mm and copies them onto video for digital editing (among other effects, they are artificially...

David Michalek at the Brooklyn Museum.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2005... In "14 Stations," his exhibition of large black-and-white photographs mounted in 14 lightboxes, David Michalek raises the suffering of the poorest and most vulnerable members of our society to the level of the sacred. People affiliated with the...

Nina Mushinsky at Janos Gat.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2005... New York artist Nina Mushinsky bases her psychologically complex, labor-intensive black-and-white paintings, eight of which were on view in her first solo show in the city, on photographs she takes in Central Europe. Uniting the two mediums,...

Richard Hickam at Allan Stone.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2005... In an art world obsessed with novelty and youth, it's a relief to encounter quirky, colorful, if somewhat bathetic works by an older artist with nothing to prove, no axe to grind and no after-parties to attend. That's the feeling, at least, one...

Tom Phillips at Flowers.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2005... In the late 1960s, needing a source that would serve for the cut-up technique he was then exploring, the British artist, writer and composer Tom Phillips came across an obscure late-Victorian novel, A Human Document (1892), by W. H. Mallock. He...

Yigal Ozeri at Mike Weiss.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2005... In his latest crop of paintings (all oil on linen, 2005), each depicting a single female model, Yigal Ozeri adapts the work of seminal artists like Leonardo, Caravaggio and Ingres. Ozeri's approach has changed markedly since the late '90s,...

Mark Hadjipateras at Denise Bibro.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2005... Mark Hadjipateras is an American-born Greek artist who is currently living in Greece. For this solo, he exhibited untitled watercolors and monotypes with his typically whimsical mixture of abstraction and figuration. The work is done in a...

Amy Morken at Caren Golden.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2005... Amy Morken renders the world of the dysfunctionally hip, in which self-destructive behavior and designer clothes are compulsory. Her figurative drawings are often stitched together to create long narrative scrolls. They frequently include...

Llyn Foulkes at Kent.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2005... For his first New York exhibition in 15 years, Los Angeles artist Llyn Foulkes unveiled 12 new works that serve as a summary of his major themes. The astonishing linchpin of the show, The Lost Frontier (1997-2005), is an 8-foot-tall,...

Path Soong at Richard Sena.(HUDSON, N. Y.)
October 1, 2005... A decade ago, Path Soong's paintings were intricate, hyperactive fields of black and white. Though the severity of her palette has persisted, her paint is less glossy now, and over the years pictorial incident has thinned to the point where a...

Shandor Hassan at the Jersey City Museum.(JERSEY CITY, N.J.)
October 1, 2005... A frequent theme in stories about New York is that of the out-of-towner's dream of crossing into Manhattan to discover fame and fortune. Less common are explorations of what happens when the creative talent and individuality of nearby...

Wilbur Niewald at Rider University Art Gallery.(LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J.)
October 1, 2005... Wilbur Niewald has been painting for over five decades. In the 1960s, he moved out of his early Mondrian-inspired abstraction into representation, and began drawing and painting from the figure, still life and landscape. The artist's...

Shinichiro Kobayashi and Fumimasa Hosokawa at Silver Eye.(PITTSBURGH)
October 1, 2005... The exhibition "Unspoken Ground: Two Views of Japan" at the Silver Eye Center for Photography combined the work of two midcareer photographers based in Tokyo. Shinichiro Kobayashi's rich color prints, taken between 1991 and 2000, document...

Sarah Hobbs at the Knoxville Museum of Art.(KNOXVILLE, TENN.)
October 1, 2005... Apprehension, frustration, confusion, indecision--emotions that trouble the soul--are the subject of Sarah Hobbs's photographs. The Atlanta-based artist manifests these psychological states in carefully constructed environments that she...

Anoka Faruqee and David Driscoll at Zolla/Lieberman.(CHICAGO)
October 1, 2005... The abstract paintings of Anoka Faruqee and David Driscoll pay homage to certain strains of high modernist painting (Minimalism, the Color Field school, Pattern and Decoration), while subjecting their medium to personal systems and creative...

Michael Byron at Philip Slein.(ST. LOUIS)
October 1, 2005... Like Duchamp's 1941 Boite-en-Valise, the various small works in Michael Byron's recent exhibition could have been unpacked from a suitcase. Hung in Slein's intimate side gallery, the show included 57 works on paper, most of them from five...

Robert Terry at Eugene Binder.(MARFA, TEXAS)
October 1, 2005... For more than a decade, Robert Terry has been creating a series of modest but intense portraits of Abraham Lincoln. At first glance, the exhibition suggested a treasure trove of thrift-store finds: 14 clunky, sincere homages to the Civil...

Harmony Hammond at the Center for Contemporary Arts.(SANTA FE)
October 1, 2005... With the four bravura works in her recent show, "Big Paintings, 2002-2005," Harmony Hammond investigated the nature of the diptych--whether by physically connecting canvases, as she did with strips of old metal in two instances, or by pairing...

Chiho Aoshima at Blum & Poe.(LOS ANGELES)
October 1, 2005... It is almost impossible to imagine Chiho Aoshima's work without Takashi Murakami. He included her paintings--really digital printouts--in "Superflat," "Coloriage," and "Little Boy," the exhibition trilogy that he curated for European and...

Robin Ward at Lisa Dent.(SAN FRANCISCO)
October 1, 2005... At least six different animal species were pictured in Robin Ward's "Otherkin," an exhibition of 17 graphite and gouache works (all 2003-04). The three more recent images were executed on smoothly surfaced wood panels, the rest on paper. None...

Jeremy Moon at Rocket.(LONDON)
October 1, 2005... Jeremy Moon exhibited his abstract paintings extensively in London and Germany for a decade beginning in 1962. He had solo exhibitions and was included in curated and published surveys of contemporary British art. Since his untimely death in...

Joel Croxson at Dicksmith.(LONDON)
October 1, 2005... This was the second London solo show of Joel Croxson, who has already begun to make a name for himself with paintings of cartoonlike, abstract shapes. The exhibition introduced a new body of work, drawings on found pieces of plywood, though...

Bernard Frize at Emmanuel Perrotin.(PARIS)
October 1, 2005... Bernard Frize is a man of techniques. Since the late 1970s, the French artist has explored and elaborated the processes that define painting. In order to unmask the methods and materiality of his medium, he constantly invents novel means by...

Miklos Gaal at Galerie sphn.(BERLIN)
October 1, 2005... Situated high above the city, holding a large-format camera, the Helsinki School photographer Miklos Gaal peers down toward a crowd of people reduced to ant size. He enhances the already distanced character of what he sees by blurring certain...

Art schools.(Directory)
October 1, 2005... NEW ENGLAND The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University Office of Admissions, 700 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02215 617-585-6710 or Toll Free 800-773-0494 x6710 www.aiboston.edu * admissions@aiboston.edu Professional...

Art services.(Directory)
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San Francisco's Camerawork has presented its James D. Phelan Art Awards in Photography to Sean McFarland, Arne Svenson and Amir Zaki.(Awards)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... San Francisco's Camerawork has presented its James D. Phelan Art Awards in Photography to Sean McFarland, Arne Svenson and Amir Zaki. The awards, worth $2,500 each, are given to California-born artists.

Theodore Ziolkowski is the recipient of the 2005 Robert Motherwell Book Award, given by the Dedalus Foundation, for his book Ovid and the Moderns.(Awards)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Theodore Ziolkowski is the recipient of the 2005 Robert Motherwell Book Award, given by the Dedalus Foundation, for his book Ovid and the Moderns. The prize has a purse of $20,000.

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded 36 fellowships totaling $1.18 million to artists, scholars and scientists from Latin America and the Caribbean.(Grants)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded 36 fellowships totaling $1.18 million to artists, scholars and scientists from Latin America and the Caribbean. Among the recipients are artists Arturo Herrera, Andrea Juan, Cristobal...

Twelve Pew Fellowships in the Arts, worth $50,000 each, have been presented to these Philadelphia-area artists.(Grants)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Twelve Pew Fellowships in the Arts, worth $50,000 each, have been presented to these Philadelphia-area artists: Astrid Bowlby, Pablo Colapinto, Gerald Cyrus, Jr., Cheryl Hess, Melissa Ho, Beth Kephart, Jay Kirk, Shawn McBride, Filmon Mebrahtu,...

The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation has given $25,000 grants to artists.(Grants)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... The Adolph and Esther Gotllieb Foundation has given $25,000 grants to artists Clytie Alexander, Michel Archambault, James Biederman, Kathleen Finaly, Barbara Gallucci, Gloria Klein, Allan McCollum, Herbert Migdoll, Daniel Schmidt, M. Louise...

The California Community Foundation presented 13 midcareer and emerging artists with fellowships of $15,000 each.(Grants)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... The California Community Foundation presented 13 mid-career and emerging artists with fellowships of $15,000 each. They are: Carole Caroompas, Todd Gray, Habib Kheradyar, Susan Mogul, Stas Orlovski, Susan Silton, Ruben Ortiz Torres, Carrie...

The City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department has presented its 2005 COLA Fellowships, worth $10,000 each.(Grants)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... The City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department has presented its 2005 COLA Fellowships, worth $10,000 each, to Kaucyila Brooke, Emesto de la Loza, Cheri Gaulke, Wayne Healy, William Jones, Cindy Kolodziejski, Lies Kraal, Steve Roden and...

At this writing, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is offering free admission to the thousands of evacuees from hurricane-devastated areas sheltered in the Astrodome and other Houston locales.(Museum News)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... At this writing, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is offering free admission to the thousands of evacuees from hurricane-devastated areas sheltered in the Astrodome and other Houston locales. A number of other cultural institutions in the...

San Francisco's de Young Museum reopens on Oct. 15 unveiling its new $135-million building designed by architects Herzog & de Meuron.(Museum News)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... San Francisco's de Young Museum reopens on Oct. 15, unveiling its new $135-million building designed by architects Herzog & de Meuron. Among the inaugural exhibitions is a show of ancient Egyptian art, "Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh"; also...

The Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio, reopens on Oct. 28, after completion of a three-year, $15.8-million renovation of its 1989 museum building designed by architect Peter Eisenman.(Museum News)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... The Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio, reopens on Oct. 28, after completion of a three-year, $15.8-million renovation of its 1989 museum building designed by architect Peter Eisenman. The project entailed rebuilding the skylight and...

Museums in London have reported sharp declines in attendance in the wake of the city's July terrorist bombings.(Museum News)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Museums in London have reported sharp declines in attendance in the wake of the city's July terrorist bombings. In a survey conducted by the Art Newspaper, London's National Gallery announced a 40-percent drop in the number of August visitors...

The Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, N.Y., recently announced that it has selected architects Herzog & de Meuron to design a new building.(Museum News)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... The Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, N.Y., recently announced that it has selected architects Herzog & de Meuron to design a new building. Scheduled for completion in 2009, the structure will be situated on a 14-acre site that the Parrish...

Obituaries.(ARTWORLD)(Obituary)
October 1, 2005... Donald Posner, 73, art historian, died Aug. 13 in New York of esophageal cancer. A Baroque specialist, he completed his Ph.D. in 1962 at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts, writing his dissertation on Annibale Carracci. That work was...