Art in America articles from October 2006

Art in America archives from October 2006

Hermitage plundered from within.(FRONT PAGE)(Hermitage State Museum)
October 1, 2006... On July 31, the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg posted a statement on its Web site announcing that 221 artworks, valued at $5 million, had been stolen from a storeroom to which only a few people had access. The main culprit was a...

Munchs recovered.(FRONT PAGE)(Munch Museum )(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Two years after their brazen theft from the Munch Museum in Oslo by two masked gunmen, Edvard Munch's The Scream and Madonna (both 1893) were recovered by authorities on Aug. 31. Police chief Iver Stensrud told the press that "the damage is...

Refreshing the Smithsonian.(FRONT PAGE)(Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery )
October 1, 2006... Having just brought their 19th-century building into the 21st century, thanks to an extensive make-over, the newly reopened Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery are also trying to update their tradition-bound art...

Met Opera enlists art stars.(FRONT PAGE)(Metropolitan Opera)
October 1, 2006... Starting this fall, there's a new place to pass the time between acts at New York's Metropolitan Opera. Gallery Met, a 1,500-square-foot nonprofit exhibition space designed by local architect Lindy Roy, opened on Sept. 22 in what was once a...

Art Cologne overhaul.(FRONT PAGE)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... The board of directors of Art Cologne recently announced some major organizational and scheduling changes for the annual event, one of Europe's oldest and largest art fairs focused on modern and contemporary works. Art Cologne will now be...

Correction.(Correction notice)
October 1, 2006... Sept. '06, p. 43: The spring auction roundup stated that proceeds from Christie's auction of Donald Judd sculptures sold by the artist's estate would benefit permanent Judd installations in New York City (which is correct), and at the Chinati...

New Koolhaas Museum in Seoul.(FRONT PAGE)(Museum of Art )(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Seoul National University inaugurated its new Museum of Art (MoA) on June 8. The 48,290-squarefoot building, with three stories above ground and three below, was designed by Rem Koolhaas, who was reportedly given esthetic carte blanche by the...

Luxembourg goes contemporary.(FRONT PAGE)(Musee d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean)
October 1, 2006... The Musee d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, a.k.a. Mudam, opened July 1 in Luxembourg, capital of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, under the directorship of Marie-Claude Beaud, former head of the Fondation Cartier (1984-94) and the American Center...

One life to paint.
October 1, 2006... Georges Braque: A Life, by Alex Danchev, New York, Arcade, 2005; 456 pages, $40. Modigliani: A Life, by Jeffrey Meyers, New York, Harcourt, 2006; 288 pages, $27. Giorgio Morandi: The Art of Silence, by Janet Abramowicz, New Haven,...

Photographic flaneurs.(Henri Cartier-Bresson: A Biography)(Brassai: An Illustrated Biography)(Lee Miller: A Life)(Jacques Henri Lartigue: The Invention of an Artist)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Henri Cartier-Bresson: A Biography, by Pierre Assouline, trans, by David Wilson, London, Thames & Hudson, 2005; 280 pages, $34.95. Brassai: An Illustrated Biography, by Diane Elisabeth Poirier, Paris, Editions Flammarion, 2005; 208 pages,...

Street life: the fourth Berlin Biennial drew on the complex history of a single street, and on art of the past 30 years, to provide a rich context for new work by an international roster of artists.(REPORT FROM BERLIN)(Of Mice and Men)
October 1, 2006... It would be safe to say that Berlin is not a city that wears its modern history lightly. Ghosts linger everywhere--from the Nazi period and the war years to be sure, but also from the hardscrabble early postwar period. Just as important is the...

A slow-motion biennial: in a striking departure from most such exhibitions, the current SITE Santa Fe Biennial focuses on a small number of artists, many of them in midcareer.(REPORT FROM SANTA FE I)(Critical essay)
October 1, 2006... A welcome alternative to the spectacularization (in the Debordian sense of "an ever-growing mass of image-objects") plaguing comparable international exhibitions, the works included in the Sixth International Biennial at SITE Santa Fe are...

Beyond the great interruption: the Institute of American Indian Arts recently sponsored the First Indigenous Biennial, featuring artists from the U.S. and Canada.(REPORT FROM SANTA FE II)
October 1, 2006... The Institute of American Indian Arts faces Cathedral Street in downtown Santa Fe, and visitors usually enter through a front door just off the sidewalk. Inside you pass through a small foyer, a well-stocked gift shop and then through...

A museum of his own: the blue-chip art collection of French businessman Francois Pinault recently debuted at the revamped Palazzo Grassi.(REPORT FROM VENICE)
October 1, 2006... It is the steadfast desire of my administration to establish a permanent home for [the Pinault] collection here in Venice in a space of great architectural and historical prestige. --Massimo Cacciari, mayor, City of Venice In...

The decollation of Saint Marcel: evoking Salome and St. John the Baptist, a critically neglected 1937 photo-tableau epitomizes Marcel Duchamp's self-defined roles as perpetual Bachelor, cultural prophet and conceptualist king.(DUCHAMPIANA)
October 1, 2006... A round the published corpus of works of Marcel Duchamp there stands like an escort a second corpus of photographs relevant to the artist, mostly of an ostensibly biographical and documentary nature. This photographic material is a visual...

Samuel Palmer's luminous garden: the subject of a recent survey at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, London-born Samuel Palmer produced intimate, hallucinatory landscapes that convey his reverence for nature during the 19th-century Industrial Revolution.(Biography)
October 1, 2006... Samuel Palmer was already an accomplished, frequently exhibited painter at age 19 when he met William Blake in London in 1824. The meeting with the artist-poet, then 67, at the height of his creative powers but nearly destitute, changed the...

The Colossus of Bolton Landing: a survey at the Guggenheim, on the centennial of David Smith's birth, served as a reminder of his formal originality and prodigious output.
October 1, 2006... According to David Smith, the inspiration for the wheels on the base of his great, red-painted steel sculpture, Sentinel III (1957), came from Hindu temple reliefs. The late art historian Edward Fry, with whom I took a course in graduate...

Protect us from what we don't know: in two recent gallery exhibitions, Jenny Holzer used declassified government documents and contemporary poetry as sources for her artworks, including an unprecedented display of oil paintings.
October 1, 2006... Familiar to many people for her scrolling L.E.D. texts that often explore authoritarian rhetoric, Jenny Holzer recently presented two new bodies of work in concurrent New York gallery exhibitions. Photographs at Yvon Lambert documented the...

An infinity of objects: in his latest works, one of them on an atypically grand scale, Josiah McElheny plays upon modernist designs to undermine the certitudes of modernity.
October 1, 2006... Josiah McElheny is a decided unusual figure in that he has chosen to work primarily in handblown glass at a time when few glass artists enjoy significant attention from the art world at large. His background includes an undergraduate degree...

The art of relationships: for Betye Saar and her daughters Lezley and Alison, making provocative art that connects personal and social history is a family tradition. Their work is the subject of two traveling exhibitions.(Critical essay)
October 1, 2006... Not so long ago, the art world was enthralled by identity. Influential shows like the 1990 "Decade" show at the New Museum and the 1993 Whitney Biennial foregrounded artists' gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity and race, setting off a...

Tides and tidings: long known for large-scale wall drawings in which raucous crowds enact allegorical tales, Nicole Eisenman recently turned her muralist bent to canvas, devising a two-part epic in which art and lesbian motherhood are cast onto a remote yet populous island.(Critical essay)
October 1, 2006... Progress: Real and Imagined, a new painting by Nicole Eisenman, was the centerpiece of her show at the Leo Koenig gallery in New York in late spring. Measuring 8 by 30 feet--her largest work to date on canvas--the vividly colored diptych...

Magical thinking: conjuring lavish visual environments from the most ordinary materials, and drawing outlandish tales from true stories, Saskia Olde Wolbers makes videos of hypnotic beauty.(Critical essay)
October 1, 2006... Saskia Olde Wolbers's studio, in London, is small and not overly tidy. There are piles of papers and books, a slightly funky empty fish tank, remnants of various synthetic fabrics and trimmings, and nothing easily identified as useful for...

Barth ranges wide: luminous hues and disorienting scale still characterize Frances Barth's paintings, which now also feature exaggeratedly horizontal formats and hints of landscape. A recent survey traveled from Dartmouth to the New York Studio School.(Critical essay)
October 1, 2006... "I tell myself stories when I paint," Frances Barth says. It's a surprising revelation from an artist whose reputation was established, in the 1970s, by abstract canvases that refuse to be about anything but themselves--about how radiant colors...

Gary Simmons at the Bohen Foundation.
October 1, 2006... Playing on the poetics of absence, Gary Simmons applied to enormous walls at the Bohen Foundation three of his signature "erased" pictures. The title of the show, "1964," provided a context for the otherwise enigmatic chalk drawings. Barely...

Joseph Marioni at Peter Blum.
October 1, 2006... With five hulking, dour paintings, each billed as "Painting, 2006" and "acrylic and linen on stretcher," Joseph Marioni somberly inaugurated Peter Blum Chelsea. As he has for decades, the artist (or "The Painter," as he identifies himself)...

Peter Rostovsky at The Project.
October 1, 2006... Over the past five years or so, Peter Rostovsky has produced "Epiphanies," an ironic, narrative-oriented series of works consisting of small, sculpted polymer-clay figures on pedestals facing wall-hung landscape paintings. In this recent...

Russell Crotty at CRG.
October 1, 2006... In the tradition of the livre d'artiste, Russell Crotty obsessively annotates hand-drawn field books and charts useful for scaling boulders and tracking celestial phenomena. (The objects shown were dated 2006.) Relatively small in the context...

Josef Albers and Yuko Shiraishi at Leonard Hutton.
October 1, 2006... What is the legacy of Josef Albers? As a teacher at the Bauhaus, Black Mountain and Yale, Albers was unparalleled in his pedagogical contribution to modernism. Yet many students famously reacted against his prescriptive color theory and...

Deborah Grant at Roebling Hall.
October 1, 2006... Deborah Grant's mother used a scavenged copy of Janson's History of Art to acquaint her children with culture; a reproduction of Guernica still hangs in a makeshift frame in the family's Brooklyn apartment. Picasso's painting protests the 1937...

Eduardo Sarabia at I-20.
October 1, 2006... In this lighthearted celebration of crime and illicit pleasure, Eduardo Sarabia, an artist who divides his time between his native Los Angeles and Guadalajara, Mexico, configured the gallery to suggest the headquarters of a smuggling operation....

Gelah Penn at Kentler and Darn, Stuhltrager.
October 1, 2006... For her third solo show, Gelah Penn constructed a site-specific installation with six large and two small drawings at Red Hook's Kentler International Drawing Space. Six drawings (2003-04) were hung in pairs in the small storefront gallery, one...

Li-lan at Jason McCoy.
October 1, 2006... For some time now, the painter Li-lan has engaged in a whimsical exploration of imagery related to postal correspondence. Letters, postcards, stamps and cancellation marks make up a vision of international communications that is not so much...

II Lee at Art Projects International.
October 1, 2006... There is an almost palpable liquidity in the dense, indigo heart of II Lee's recent production. Using common ballpoint pens, he locates a point or describes an arc or line on his paper or canvas support. The ink becomes increasingly fluid with...

Siobhan Liddell at CRG.
October 1, 2006... "Liminal," the title of Siobhan Liddell's recent one-person exhibition, is a quality that describes both the works and the experience one had walking through this thoughtfully conceived installation. To the right of the entrance was a...

Jim Toia at Kim Foster.
October 1, 2006... Artists have used all kinds of bizarre materials, from excrement and dead animals to foodstuffs and trash, but Jim Toia is certainly among the first to take the reproductive cycle of mushrooms and use it to creative advantage. In a fascinating...

Joanna Malinowska at Canada.
October 1, 2006... Joanna Malinowska's exhibition "In Search of the Miraculous, Continued..." (a title borrowed from P.D. Ouspensky's 1949 primer on mysticism) was composed of four short videos on individual monitors. Malinowska's work does not overwhelm you in...

Matthew Pillsbury at Bonni Benrubi.
October 1, 2006... Since the 19th century, photographers have employed the view camera, long exposures and available light for photographic studies of architecture and landscape. The exhibition "Time Frame"--the product of a trained, modern eye, a large-format...

Eric Mitchell at Mitchell Algus.
October 1, 2006... Arguably one of the most influential and inspirational figures of the '70s art world you've never heard of, Eric Mitchell has seen his fame rise and fall in commensurate quotient to the cultural recognition granted to his primary...

Tejal Shah at Thomas Erben.
October 1, 2006... Part documentary, part lyrical collage, the intriguingly unsettling video installation What Are You? by Tejal Shah, 27, an artist living in Mumbai (Bombay), introduces a sect of transgendered Indians that, astonishingly, dates back to the 12th...

James Barsness at George Adams.
October 1, 2006... Though less collaged than his previous work, the eight paintings that made up James Barsness's recent exhibition are still dense with obscure imagery and obsessive detail. Loaded with cryptic symbolism, they offer private narratives steeped in...

John Gibson at Gerald Peters.
October 1, 2006... John Gibson paints spheres--which is like saying that Giorgio Morandi painted bottles. In the interest of accuracy, it should be pointed out that unlike Morandi, who populated his disciplined canvases not only with bottles but also with boxes,...

Su-en Wong at Danese.
October 1, 2006... The artist Su-en Wong, who was born in Singapore and lives and works in Brooklyn, directs her meticulous technique as a painter and draftsman to mysterious and at times titillating ends. The protagonist in the 15 paintings and drawings that...

Nicola Tyson at Friedrich Petzel.
October 1, 2006... Nicola Tyson may have a signature style, but over the past decade she has pushed and tweaked it so that each new phase is richer and more interesting than the last. There has always been, in her paintings, the (mainly solitary) female...

Tracy Moffatt at Steven Kasher.
October 1, 2006... Tracey Moffatt continues to mine her signature themes of race, gender and pop culture with tongue-in-cheek aplomb. Recently, though, sociopolitical concerns--Moffatt is an Aboriginal artist with decided views on the treatment of Aborigines in...

Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao at Julie Saul.
October 1, 2006... In his ongoing series "Habitat 7," Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao, who was born in Taiwan, examines the life and forms that pop up along the number 7 subway line linking Times Square in Manhattan to Main Street in Flushing, Queens, and running high...

Sebastiaan Bremer at Roebling Hall.
October 1, 2006... The mediums of drawing and photography are mutually reinvigorated in Sebastiaan Bremer's dazzling new hybrid works. For more than five years, Bremer has been drawing ethereal, shimmering skeins of dots, lines and circles in white and colored...

Elaine Spatz-Rabinowitz at OK Harris.
October 1, 2006... The mordant quality of Elaine Spatz-Rabinowitz's recent trompe I'oeil paintings derives from the desolate nature of the images she chooses and her literal use of the gritty material she represents. Constructed on the border between two and...

Angelo Filomeno at Marianne Boesky.
October 1, 2006... The extravagant splendor of Angelo Filomeno's embroidered and bejeweled works on silk shantung, and of his ornate sculptural tableaux, was kept in check, in his first one-person exhibition at Marianne Boesky Gallery, by sobering associations...

Brendan O'Connell at Morgan Lehman.
October 1, 2006... Brendan O'Connell's experience is decidedly populist: he honed his craft during the seven years he spent as a street-portraitist in Paris, Barcelona and Rome. Since returning to the U.S., specifically to rural Connecticut, O'Connell has taken...

Natasha Sweeten at Edward Thorp.
October 1, 2006... Intricate designs and serpentine forms occupy the fields of Natasha Sweeten's 15 small, subtle, oil-on-panel paintings dated 2005, evidence of the artist's considerable attention to the strategic layering, scumbling, scraping and taping of...

Christoph Ruckhaberle at Zach Feuer.
October 1, 2006... Christoph Ruckhaberle's substantial oil paintings of slack-jawed cowboys and dazed schoolgirls are pleasingly disarming. Their success lies in the invigorating contrast of stylized, impassive subjects and incongruously chaotic interiors. The...

Eddie Martinez at ZieherSmith.
October 1, 2006... Eddie Martinez's promising solo debut is full of joyous work that creates its own entrancing world. His paintings and drawings feature a recurring cast of men in baseball hats, gliding parrots and coiled snakes who all stare at us with...

Arlene Shechet at Hemphill.
October 1, 2006... At first sight, the open and closed forms of Arlene Shechet's clear and opalescent glass vessels, stacked harmoniously on steel pedestals, are reminiscent of the clouds generated by nuclear explosions, which, in turn, resemble mushrooms, ball...

Ruth Stanford at the Mattress Factory.
October 1, 2006... In her ongoing 2004 installation What Remains, Ruth Stanford, then a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University, replaced the shattered windows of a long-abandoned row house adjacent to the Mattress Factory's main building with...

Andrew Ross at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia.
October 1, 2006... At first glance, Andrew Ross's recent installation appeared to be nothing more than a cavernous gallery space with crumpled white papers strewn across the floor. Yet hidden in and among the discarded sheets was an entire civilization of...

Glexis Novoa at the Lowe Art Museum.
October 1, 2006... In the large but delicately detailed graphite drawings shown in this exhibition, Glexis Novoa takes a very long view of history. Perhaps the viewpoint of an exile is necessarily distant: Novoa is a member of the "'80s generation" of Cuban...

Scott Stack at Monique Meloche.
October 1, 2006... At first glance, Scott Stack's large, nearly monochromatic paintings appear to have much in common with Minimalist and Color Field esthetics. Built up from thin, carefully measured horizontal bands of olive, dark pine, and chartreuse oil paint,...

Su-Mei Tse at Franklin Art Works.(Echo and The Desert Sweepers)
October 1, 2006... Luxembourg-based Su-Mei Tse's cultural background is unusually broad: she was born in Luxembourg to British and Chinese parents, her first language was German and she studied in Paris. She was awarded a Golden Lion at the 2003 Venice Biennale...

Kristen Morgin at Marc Selwyn.
October 1, 2006... Kristen Morgin creates ruins. The paradox inherent in that enterprise is compounded by her choice of materials and subjects. Each of the four pieces in her first solo show refers to something once common, now obsolete or nearly so: an old model...

Alison Saar at LA Louver.
October 1, 2006... In her first exhibition at LA Louver, Alison Saar presented eight succinctly resolved, figure-based sculptures, each with punchy impact and lyrical redolence. Aptly titling the show "Coup," Saar demonstrated the bottom-line appeal of her...

Wangechi Mutu at SFMOMA.(San Francisco Museum of Modern Art)
October 1, 2006... Kenya-born, New York-based Wangechi Mutu is known for her unsettling and evocative collage works: disturbing renderings of black female bodies under duress. Wonderfully formal objects, they double as pointed critiques of pervasive gender and...

Patrick Berube at Skol.
October 1, 2006... Patrick Berube, a young artist from Montreal, has recently shown his site-specific installations in Canada, Mexico and Argentina. He borrows from the traditions of Conceptual art. When first entering the gallery, the viewer encountered a...

Scott Burton at Albion.
October 1, 2006... With his pioneering furniture-sculpture hybrids, the American artist Scott Burton (1939-1989) questioned basic assumptions about utility in art. His chairs, benches and tables force us to confront what we expect, and want, from art objects....

Slawomir Elsner at Sutton Lane.
October 1, 2006... To mark his son's 30th birthday, Slawomir Elsner's father gave him a 1976 issue of the popular Polish magazine Panorama. The Poland-born, Berlin-based artist used it as a source of inspiration for his first solo exhibition in London, carefully...

Gerard Garouste at Daniel Templon.
October 1, 2006... Since the 1980s, amid the hurly-burly that fuels contemporary art, Gerard Garouste has maintained a steady grip on his brush, producing representational canvases of remarkable exuberance and perspicacity. An avowed traditionalist, he revels in...

Patrick Corillon at In Situ: Fabienne Leclerc.
October 1, 2006... The Belgian artist Patrick Corillon's new works are large, seductive inkjet prints on canvas. Their smooth, clean surfaces combine crisp graphics and an appealing commercial palette with otherworldly insinuation. The images, which portray...

Paolo Chiasera at Francesca Minini.
October 1, 2006... The young Bolognese artist Paolo Chiasera is deepening his inquiry into art history. Having used Velazquez's Las Meninas in one section of his 2001 video 20-Livello (the tradition of grand painting served as a cultural "vanishing point" in a...

Tony Bevan at IVAM.(Institut Valencia d'Art Modern)
October 1, 2006... Charcoal drawing forms the foundation of Tony Bevan's painting, a thick black line built up with such intensity that the crayon itself crumbles into dust, smudging and scattering from the pressure. The first major retrospective of Bevan's...

Julian Rosefeldt at Arndt & Partner.
October 1, 2006... Julian Rosefeldt's recent exhibition at Arndt & Partner comprised two video installations. One of them concludes his "Trilogy of Failure" series. Also on view was a piece created during the artist's recent stay in India. Born in 1965, he has...

Art schools.(Directory)
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The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York has announced the winners of the 2006 National Design Awards, to be presented on Oct. 18.(Awards & Grants)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York has announced the winners of the 2006 National Design Awards, to be presented on Oct. 18. Among the recipients are MOMA design curator Paola Antonelli, architect Thom Mayne, interior designer...

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Conn., has presented its 2006 Emerging Artist Award to Josh Azzarella.(Awards & Grants)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Conn., has presented its 2006 Emerging Artist Award to Josh Azzarella. He receives $5,000 and will have a solo exhibition at the Aldrich Oct. 15, 2006-March 2007.

Milan's Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro recently announced the winners of its first international competition for young (under 40) sculptors.(Awards & Grants)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Milan's Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro recently announced the winners of its first international competition for young (under 40) sculptors. First prize (approximately $12,800) was awarded to the Irish-born sculptor Claire Morgan for an...

A.i.A. corresponding editor Sue Taylor has received the 2005 Patricia and Phillip Frost Essay Award, presented by the editorial board of American Art, published by the Smithsonian American Art Museum.(Awards & Grants)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... A.i.A. corresponding editor Sue Taylor has received the 2005 Patricia and Phillip Frost Essay Award, presented by the editorial board of American Art, published by the Smithsonian American Art Museum. She was recognized for her article "Grant...

The Judith Rothschild Foundation, which gives grants to support the work of recently deceased, under-recognized artists, has presented 21 grants of $3,000 to $15,500, totaling $250,000.(Awards & Grants)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... The Judith Rothschild Foundation, which gives grants to support the work of recently deceased, under-recognized artists, has presented 21 grants of $3,000 to $15,500, totaling $250,000. The artists are Rudy Burckhardt, Paul Dickerson, Elsie...

The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston has given grants to visual artists from Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas as part of the Katrina Artists Trust Fund.(Awards & Grants)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston has given grants to visual artists from Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas as part of the Katrina Artists Trust Fund. Artists receiving $5,000 each are Marcus Akinlana, Elizabeth Bick, Blake Boyd,...

Obituaries.(Arlene Raven, Diane Shamash and Edouard Jaguer)(Obituary)
October 1, 2006... Arlene Raven, 62, art critic, theoretician, historian, poet, and above all pioneering and dedicated feminist, died on Aug. 1 of cancer. Chief art critic for the Village Voice in the 1980s, Raven was a co-founder, with Judy Chicago and Sheila de...

Julio Galan 1959-2006.(ARTWORLD)(Obituary)
October 1, 2006... Julio Galan, 46, Mexican painter, died Aug. 4 of a brain hemorrhage. He was stricken while staying in Zacatecas in Central Mexico and died on a flight back to his home in Monterrey. From the time he began exhibiting his work in the early 1980s,...

Key Iraqi culture chief resigns.(ARTWORLD)(State Board of Antiquities and Heritage)
October 1, 2006... The president of Iraq's State Board of Antiquities and Heritage (SBAH), Donny George, quit his post and fled the country in early August. Responding to his nation's ongoing instability, the precarious state of its cultural institutions and...

Lebanese museum destroyed.(ARTWORLD)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... An art museum and cultural center located in the village of Al-Kheam in southern Lebanon was nearly leveled by Israeli bombs in July. The museum building, a WWII-era bunker used over the years as a detention center by French, Lebanese and...

Contemporary art center for Portugal.(ARTWORLD)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... The Ellipse Foundation inaugurates its new building on Oct. 14, in Cascais, a seaside town near Lisbon, Portugal. Founded by businessman and collector Joao Oliveira-Rendeiro, the exhibition and study center is devoted to contemporary art and...

Christie's to sell restituted Klimts.(ARTWORLD)(Gustav Klimt)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Following the record-breaking sale of Gustav Klimt's Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907) for $135 million [see "Front Page," Sept. '06], the four other Klimt paintings recently restituted by the Austrian government are slated to be sold this fall by...

The Barnes Foundation.(Derek Gillman )(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... The Barnes Foundation in Lower Merion, Pa., has selected Derek Gillman as its new executive director and president. He had been president and CEO of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia since 1999. Gillman replaces Kimberly...