Art in America articles from October 2007

Art in America archives from October 2007

Giving Aboriginal art its due.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
October 1, 2007... To the Editors: It was with great interest that I received your April issue and found Richard Kalina's excellent article about Australian Aboriginal art. I remember well his "Report from Australia" in April 2005, and have been looking...

In defense of double-duty critics.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
October 1, 2007... To the Editors: I write about art and architecture for the Rocky Mountain News, a daily newspaper in Denver. This is a belated thank you for Peter Plagens's thoughtful appraisal of the current condition of art criticism in general interest...

Placing Barela.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
October 1, 2007... To the Editors: It was refreshing to read Sarah S. King's article on Patrocino Barela in the April issue of Art in America. Her accurate characterization of Barela's sculptures as a "brilliant anomaly" is a reminder that this self-taught...

More drawers.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
October 1, 2007... To the Editors: Having read the "Artworld" article "Floodwall's Originality Challenged" [A.LA., Mar. '07], I found the debate about ownership of an idea very interesting, particularly because in 1995--two years before Sook Jin Jo and nine...

New Orleans ghost house.(FRONT PAGE)(Lower Ninth Ward )(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... How to raise awareness of Hurricane Katrina's lasting physical and emotional toll on New Orleans, almost two years after the fact? New York-based Japanese artist Takashi Horisaki's answer: "re-erect" a damaged Lower Ninth Ward shotgun-style...

At last, Athens's New Acropolis Museum.(FRONT PAGE)
October 1, 2007... The long delayed New Acropolis Museum in Athens, some 30 years in the making, is set to open next year in its Bernard Tschumi-designed building. Construction has been completed on the $175-million, 226,000-square-foot structure in the...

Arts boost in NYC schools.(FRONT PAGE)(art education in New York City public schools)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... In late July, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a plan to enhance arts education for the 1.1 million students in New York City's public schools. Instead of increasing the city's budget for arts education, administrators have implemented a new...

China's new attitude.(FRONT PAGE)(Sichuan Province's cultural policy)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... Just how radically times have changed in the Chinese art world was evident in a cultural-tourism announcement made recently in Sichuan Province. Dujiangyan, a metropolitan county of 622,000 residents, has pledged to invest $13 million to erect...

Restored WPA mural in L.A.(FRONT PAGE)(Work Projects Administration, Los Angeles )(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... Commissioned in 1939 by the Work Projects Administration to create a mural for Los Angeles's Inglewood district, Pasadena-based artist Helen Lundeberg (1908-1999) produced an expansive and ambitious composition, The History of Transportation....

The Clark @ MASS MoCA.(FRONT PAGE)(The Clark Art Institute, Massachusetts Museum Of Contemporary Art)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass., has entered into a long-term lease agreement with MASS MoCA in nearby North Adams. For an undisclosed amount reported to be in the seven figures, the Clark will lease 29,000 square feet of...

Art:21 on the air.(FRONT PAGE)(Television program review)
October 1, 2007... The fourth season of the engaging PBS series "Art:21," which airs biennially, will begin broadcasting new episodes in late October. Created by curator Susan Sollins, the show spends time with artists in their studios and at various sites, often...

Elizabeth Murray 1940-2007.(FRONT PAGE)
October 1, 2007... It was widely known that Elizabeth Murray was gravely ill with complications from lung cancer, but her death at her upstate New York home on Aug. 12 at the age of 66 still came as a blow. Until treatment left her frail, Murray seemed younger...

A trade in black and white: the author recalls a time when New York School artists were willing to swap paintings for cars--even if they didn't drive.(SHORT SUBJECTS)
October 1, 2007... During the early '60s, my late husband, Harold Diamond, a private dealer in New York, was doing a lot of business with Willem de Kooning. In 1964, the painter moved to his new studio in the village of Springs, near Easthampton, joining Jackson...

Megacollecting, Family-Style.(Mellon: An American Life; The Clarks of Cooperstown: Their Singer Sewing Machine Fortune, Their Great and Influential Art Collections, Their Forty-Year Feud)(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Mellon: An American Life, by David Cannadine, New York, Knopf, 2006; 778 pages, $35. The Clarks of Cooperstown: Their Singer Sewing Machine Fortune, Their Great and Influential Art Collections, Their Forty-Year Feud, by Nicholas Fox Weber, New...

A magnet for the with-it kids: for a brief time in the 1960s, an unlikely mix of personalities and circumstances made New York's Jewish Museum the city's leading showcase for avant-garde art.(MUSEUMS)
October 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For almost the entire decade of the 1960s, New York's Jewish Museum was consistently grouped with the Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art as one of the...

Alive and well: the Centre Pompidou today: with a satellite outpost due to open in Metz, plans to annex two vacant floors at the Palais de Tokyo and consistently inventive programming, the Pompidou turns 30 with grace.(REPORT FROM PARIS)
October 1, 2007... Thirty years ago, Paris's Centre Pompidou was the new kid on the block. These days, it's flexing its muscles with confidence. Like architects Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano--Young Turks in the early '70s, when they designed this iconic...

After "unofficial": at the second Moscow Biennale, a far-flung assortment of supplementary shows stirred the greatest viewer interest.(REPORT FROM MOSCOW)
October 1, 2007... The Russian winter, famous for its severity (weather is generally seen as the deciding factor in the defeats of Napoleon and Hitler by the Russian army), might not seem the ideal time for a multivenue international biennial designed to send...

Found objects to sound objects: eleven Pacific Northwest venues presented a selection of inventive sound-generating installations by the Seattle-based artist Trimpin.(REPORT FROM SEATTLE)
October 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A technological revolution has provided artists with digital tools that erase not only the need but sometimes the desire for a source grounded in the physical world. Yet the Seattle-based artist who goes by the...

Outside the system: despite continuing problems with officialdom, the ongoing Saigon Open City exhibition series reveals the vitality of Vietnam's contemporary art scene.(REPORT FROM HO CHI MINH CITY)
October 1, 2007... Ho Chi Minh City, the largest city in Vietnam--which many locals still call by its former name, Saigon, especially when referring to the downtown district--has an economy that is expanding faster (10 to 12 percent annually) than markets in any...

The expanded field: Munster's latest decade: the fourth installment of sculpture Projects Munster, a series of exhibitions held every 10 years, was a freewheeling affair in which finding the works was as diverting as looking at them.
October 1, 2007... It was a fascinating, and for me entirely refreshing, experience to move from Documenta 12 in Kassel to the Sculpture Projects Munster exhibition three or so hours away by train. These dual events in Germany constituted two of the stops on a...

The long shadows of slavery: since the mid-1990s, Kara Walker has been crafting willfully transgressive cut-paper murals of life in the antebellum South. A traveling survey that arrives at the Whitney this month examines the full range of Walker's art.(Whitney Museum)
October 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Despite the outcry last spring over radio shock jock Don Imus's on-air denigration of the Rutgers University women's basketball team, the incident was a reminder, if one were needed, that racist cliches still have a...

Into the woods.(Neil Welliver's works)
October 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Shortly after Neil Welliver died in 2005, New York's Alexandre Gallery, which represents his work, held a memorial exhibition of his landscape paintings, but the show didn't really amount to a full-fledged...

Martin Ramirez: narratives of displacement and memory the term Outsider, often applied to Ramirez, poorly serves an artist whose work meets the highest standards of mainstream modernism on both formal and expressive grounds.
October 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Martin Ramirez's marvelously expressive and formally inventive drawings of horseback riders, animals, landscapes, trains and tunnels, as well as the Madonna and other religious subjects, have been known to the art...

Good-life Ada: a recent exhibition generously sampled Alex Katz's many portraits of his wife, Ada, providing a synopsis of the artist's career and a microcosm of an era.
October 1, 2007... An exhibition at New York's Jewish Museum of Mex Katz's portraits of his wife, Ada Katz, offered unique testimony in the annals of postwar modernism to the healthy persistence of that seemingly moribund chestnut: a muse. The show spanned almost...

Memory's residue: a survey of Howard Hodgkin's paintings from the past 15 years shows his reach continuing to grow, even as he retains his fidelity to events recollected and reworked.
October 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In December 1981, Howard Hodgkin delivered the William Townsend Lecture on "How To Be an Artist" at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. (1) It was a misanthropic jeremiad. The situation of the English artist, he...

Facing the nation: Harold Stevenson's "The Great Society," a monumental suite of portraits depicting residents of the artist's hometown, Idabel, Okla., was recently exhibited after languishing in storage for 40 years.
October 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Surprisingly, the genre of American Scene painting--so often associated with cornball Americana and homespun myths--was named after an urbane, sophisticated source, Henry James's collection of essays, The American...

"Philosophy of Time Travel" at the Studio Museum.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Entering the recent exhibition "The Philosophy of Time Travel" was like stumbling upon a demolition site or the aftermath of an earthquake. A massive column had apparently burst through the ceiling and crashed...

Tetsuya Yamada at Francis M. Naumann.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2007... Duchamp and Brancusi, one a rational anti-esthete, the other a visionary devoted to the spiritual dimensions of his craft, are submitted to an unlikely pairing in Tetsuya Yamada's new work. The 45 ceramic sculptures in this show are...

Anthony McCall at Sean Kelly.(NEW YORK)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Anthony McCall's Line Describing a Cone, created in 1973, was one of the highlights of the Whitney Museum's 2001 exhibition "Into the Light: The Projected Image in American Art 1964-1977," curated by Chrissie Iles....

Terence Koh at the Whitney.(NEW YORK)(Whitney Museum of American Art)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... A guard's injunction at the entrance to Terence Koh's untitled, near-blinding installation of white light for the Whitney's lobby gallery recalled the admonition to a child forbidden even a glance at a solar eclipse. An intense 4,000-watt light...

Dash Snow and Dan Colen at Deitch.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2007... There is one thing that can be said for the "hamster nest"--a room filled knee-deep with 2,000 shredded telephone books and liberally graffitied with strangely humorless slogans and obscene vignettes--that was installed over several party-on...

William Powhida at Schroeder Romero.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2007... Extending the mockery of New York magazine's notorious "Children of Warhol" issue (Jan. 15, 2007) and the young artists it lionized and ridiculed, William Powhida nominates one of them, partier and graffiti artist Dash Snow, for particular...

Dan Perjovschi at the Museum of Modern Art.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2007... Romanian artist Dan Perjovschi brought his "indoor graffiti" to the 110-foot-high atrium wall at the Museum of Modern Art this spring and summer. Dozens of very funny and bitingly satirical line drawings in black permanent marker constituted...

Miles Coolidge at Casey Kaplan.(NEW YORK)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... L.A.-based Miles Coolidge, who studied under Bemd and Hilla Becher at the Kunstakademie Dusseldoff, has in the past taken a cue from them by serially documenting the interiors of various suburban garages in bright, clear color photographs. His...

Darby Bannard at Jacobson Howard.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2007... Princeton must have been lively in the mid-1950s, when Frank Stella, Michael Fried and Walter Darby Bannard were art-obsessed undergraduates. Imagine these three ferociously smart young men, devouring Clement Greenberg's criticism, traveling to...

Robert Mangold at PaceWildenstein.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2007... Robert Mangold calls his new series "Column Structure Paintings," but I'd be more inclined to call them drawings or planar compositions rather than adopt his nomenclature. Yes, each work in the series consists of color on canvas. Yet the...

Myron Stout at Washburn.(NEW YORK)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Myron Stout (1908-1987) was a slight, modest man who was known to his more famous and flamboyant friends--Ab-Exers and Pop artists--for the almost compulsively perfectionist quality of his small abstract drawings and...

Heide Fasnacht at Kent.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2007... For years, Heide Fasnacht has been depicting explosions of various sorts, ranging from sneezes and shattering champagne bottles to fireworks, imploding skyscrapers and nuclear fission. She has worked both on paper, in intricate graphite and...

Rosemarie Castoro at Hal Bromm.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2007... This exhibition gathered four decades of mixed-medium work by Rosemarie Castoro in a small downtown gallery, supplemented by two offsite installations. Castoro's palette of black, white and gray focused attention on material and form. Featured...

Nicolas Carone at Lohin Geduld.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2007... Over the past three decades, painter and sculptor Nicolas Carone has been carving heads from rocks he finds around his studio in Umbria. For his second show at Lohin Geduld, the gallery brought a large group of these sculptures to the U.S. for...

Rosemarie Trockel at Gladstone.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2007... Rosemarie Trockel's previous show of new work in New York (in 2003-04) felt like a postmodern dungeon, dominated by dark aluminum walls set at sharp angles throughout the large shadowy space of the old Dia in Chelsea. Blades and triangles of...

Tom Evans and Bill Bollinger at Mitchell Algus.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2007... This revelatory show revisited the New York art world of the early 1970s, when process art was widely practiced and approaching critical mass. Rather than round up the usual suspects of that era, Mitchell Algus presented several paintings by...

Muntean/Rosenblum at Team.(NEW YORK)(Markus Muntean and Adi Rosenblum)
October 1, 2007... Combinations of high and low culture, delicious ambiguities between sincerity and irony, and deadpan remaking of historical art in modern garb--such are the pleasures of recent work by Markus Muntean and Adi Rosenblum, the Austrian/Israeli...

"Project for a Revolution in New York" at Matthew Marks.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2007... Most summer group shows are either offerings from the gallery's stable or gatherings of promising young artists. "Project for a Revolution in New York" was an exhibition of a wholly different order. Curated by Mitchell Algus, who runs his own...

Philip Pearlstein at Betty Cuningham.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The octogenarian master realist Philip Pearlstein--at the top of his game--ornaments and enlivens his recent paintings (dating from 2006 and 2007) with arresting emblems. Here Pearlstein supplies his typically...

Jo Baer at Alexander Gray.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2007... That Jo Baer has thought long and hard about the nature of painting is clear. In her early (1960s-'70s), radically minimal and superbly elegant paintings, defined by their empty, glowing white centers and edged by simple bands of black and...

Tina Barney at Janet Borden.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Member of and court photographer to a privileged, distinctly American social milieu, Tina Barney in 1996 turned her large-format portrait camera on a European elite that similarly required special access. The result...

Sergio Prego at Lehmann Maupin.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2007... A postindustrial sensibility united the diverse video projections and large-scale three-dimensional pieces in this exhibition (all work 2006). Sergio Prego's sculptural materials and the images he captures with time-based mediums have the feel...

Thomas Struth at Marian Goodman.(NEW YORK)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... Thomas Struth's latest big color photographs of museum visitors, taken in the Prado and the Hermitage, perfectly suit our endlessly observing, increasingly self-aware culture. But the new series, "Making Time" (2005), is also a testament to...

Picasso, Braque and Early Film in Cubism at PaceWildenstein.(NEW YORK)(Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque)
October 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Although Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque were famously uncooperative when it came to explaining the origins of Cubism, most art historians agree that its chief catalysts were Cezanne and African tribal art. Without...

Ian Davis at Leslie Tonkonow.(NEW YORK)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Ian Davis has a good feel for the absurdity of life. His faux-naif figurative paintings have the visual elan and comic succinctness of successful New Yorker covers. Davis is interested in repetition and in patterns...

Nader Ahriman at Friedrich Petzel.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2007... De Chirico, Dali and Ernst all applied an academic style of painting to impossible, Surrealist scenarios as a way to express deeply disquieting premonitions of war. In 2006, Nader Ahriman revisited this mode of oblique, anxious social...

Nina Kuo at Cheryl McGinnis.(NEW YORK)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Chinese-American painter Nina Kuo is a New York artist who has been active in local Asian arts organizations such as the Asian-American Arts Center and Godzilla. She has explored both her personal past--her father,...

John Evans at Gallery Henoch.(NEW YORK)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... John Evans is a Boston-based painter of seascapes and landscapes; his subjects range from the coast of Cape Cod and the North Shore of Massachusetts to the meadows of central France. Painting in oil, often on large canvases, Evans offers what...

Chuck Connelly at DFN.(NEW YORK)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... Knowing Chuck Connelly's backstory--he is a prolific painter of many kinds of subjects who came to prominence in the '80s as a Neo-Expressionist--does little to change the effect of his recent jaunty, good-natured pictures of Victorian houses....

Judy Ledgerwood at Tracy Williams.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I was once introduced to a choreographer at a party. In the course of the conversation I asked her who her influences were. She loftily answered, "Well, George Balanchine," seeming to indicate that no one else but...

Ted Riederer at Nicole Klagsbrun.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2007... "The Resurrectionists" was musician/artist Ted Riederer's smart if only partially successful recent exhibition of new work. In what is already a second New York solo for this freshly minted MFA, Riederer presented an initially inscrutable but...

Pia Fries at CRG.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2007... The mixed-medium compositions in Pia Fries's ongoing project, "Loschaug," were impelled by a book about insects and plants illustrated by Maria Sibylla Merian. A 17th-century naturalist, Merian demonstrated that metamorphosis from a...

Kelli Williams at Leo Koenig.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Kelli Williams applied a virtuosic hand to less-than-virtuous subject matter in her solo debut at Leo Koenig Inc. The artist's meticulously rendered, modestly scaled paintings and drawings depict orgiastic scenes in...

Mel Bochner at the Art Institute of Chicago, Spertus Institute and Werner H. Kramarsky.(CHICAGO AND NEW YORK)
October 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Mel Bochner: Language, 19662006" was a selection of text-based work by the artist--some 50 drawings, printed materials, paintings and installations--that was part of the "Focus" series at the Art Institute. Among...

Melissa Ichiuji at Irvine Contemporary.(WASHINGTON, D.C.)
October 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Nasty Nice" was the apt title for Melissa Ichiuji's show at Irvine Contemporary. This first solo gallery presentation included 16 recent sculptures (2006 and 2007), mostly tableaux of gawky, long-legged,...

Robert Raczka at the Center for the Arts.(PITTSBURGH)
October 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The abundance of imagery in this exhibition of photographs by Pittsburgh-based Robert Raczka did not overwhelm the viewer as one might expect, perhaps because the various scenes seem comfortably familiar. The 42...

Ann Mikolowski at Center Galleries.(DETROIT)
October 1, 2007... Ann Mikolowski (1940-1999) was an active artist her whole life, though she was better known in literary circles. For some three decades, she and her husband, poet Ken Mikolowski, ran the Alternative Press, publishing broadsides, chapbooks and...

Patrick Duegaw at the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center.(KANSAS CITY)
October 1, 2007... If the unexamined life is not worth living, Patrick Duegaw has nothing to worry about. In his recent exhibition, "Swimming Through Interiors," the Wichita-based artist subjected his own life--friends, fears, skittish girlfriend, even his...

Norman Bluhm at the Station Museum.(HOUSTON)
October 1, 2007... Norman Bluhm (1921-1999) is perhaps best known for his gestural abstractions of the 1950s and '60s, canvases that range from dense fields of glowing color to dramatic compositions of jagged shapes and skittering lines sparring across finely...

Samantha Fields at Kim Light/LightBox.(LOS ANGELES)
October 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Environmental drama of Shakespearean proportions is the best way to describe the unrestrained atmospheric landscapes that constituted Samantha Fields's major solo exhibition, "This Land." The nine medium-size...

Iva Gueorguieva at Carl Berg.(LOS ANGELES)
October 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] There is a lot to like about the expansive, turbulent canvases of Ira Gueorguieva, from their varied and inventive brushwork to their radiant, Romantic palette to the stealthy presence of ghostly, humanoid creatures...

Sean Higgins at sixspace.(CULVER CITY)
October 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A University of Pennsylvania graduate making his solo debut, Sean Higgins crafts photo-based hybrids that yield appealing if deliberately vague depictions of water-bound land masses. Most of the works shown at...

Karen Carson at Rosamund Felsen.(SANTA MONICA)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Karen Carson's awesome, joyous, hilarious paintings of Pegasus-filled skies are virtuosic testaments to her medium and the culmination of several bodies of work made since she began spending part of each year in Big...

Judy Fiskin at Angles.(SANTA MONICA)
October 1, 2007... In her recent show in a darkened space at Angles, Judy Fiskin presented a grainy black-and-white Super-8 film titled The End of Photography (2006). As the declarative title suggests, much is at stake in this project. At only two minutes and 14...

Jeff Brouws at Robert Koch.(SAN FRANCISCO)
October 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] San Francisco-based, self-taught photographer Jeff Brouws has spent the past 20-some years wending his way around the United States, taking pictures of what he calls "readymades": found landscapes at once...

Fay Jones at the Hallie Ford Museum.(SALEM, ORE.)
October 1, 2007... Central to Fay Jones's enterprise is a common predicament. As Hollis Sigler ruefully inscribed on a painting in the 1980s, "I've got this job of being a woman," and for Jones this has entailed multiple roles: artist, intellectual, faculty wife...

Cathy de Monchaux at Fred.(LONDON)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In her recent solo show, Cathy de Monchaux went from making dark and sensual work celebrating aggressive sexuality to a mostly white show protesting violent politics. De Monchaux's large-scale sculptural triptych...

Tim Braden at Arquebuse.(GENEVA)
October 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The inspiration behind young British artist Tim Braden's exhibition on the theme of exploration was a 2005 story in the New Yorker about Col. Percy Harrison Fawcett, an Englishman who disappeared in the Brazilian...

Walter Obholzer at Rolf Hengesbach.(COLOGNE)
October 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Viennese painter Walter Obholzer does not exhibit often. The works (all tempera on aluminum) in his recent show at Rolf Hengesbach dated from 1988 to 2000. Obholzer uses paint to create maximum illusion--Magritte and...

Laura Horelli at Barbara Weiss.(BERLIN)
October 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This past spring, everyone in Berlin was hot for Knut, the first polar bear cub born in the city zoo in 30 years. At dinner parties, people discussed Knut's inarguable cuteness, exchanged links to Web sites where one...

Wolfram Hahn at C/O.(BERLIN)
October 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Unspectacular at first, Wolfram Hahn's half-length photographic portraits of 13 children and adolescents manifest a dark, abysmal brilliance at second glance. The motionless protagonists, aged three to 12 and...

Gilberto Zorio at Oredaria.(ROME)
October 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Gilberto Zorio's installation was conceptually, physically and visually stunning. Working with the five-pointed star, Zorio created an itinerary for the viewer that tracked the star both as a political symbol and as...

Derek Lardelli at SoFA.(CHRISTCHURCH, N.Z.)
October 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Derek Lardelli, whose daylong performative exhibition was staged at the University of Canterbury's School of Fine Arts Gallery in April, is an internationally celebrated ta moko artist (face and body tattooist, for...

Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons has won the 2007 Rappaport Prize from the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln, Mass.(Awards & Grants)
October 1, 2007... Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons has won the 2007 Rappaport Prize from the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln, Mass. She receives $25,000.

Kerry James Marshall is the recipient of a residency award from the Wexner Center for the Arts.(Awards & Grants)
October 1, 2007... Kerry James Marshall is the recipient of a residency award from the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio.

Marti Cormand is the winner of the $5,000 Emerging Artist Award given by the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Conn.(Awards & Grants)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... Marti Cormand is the winner of the $5,000 Emerging Artist Award given by the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Conn. His work is on view at the museum through Feb. 24.

The Judith Rothschild Foundation has given 21 grants, ranging from $5,000 to $25,000, to benefit the work of recently deceased, under-recognized artists through exhibition or publication support, acquisitions, research and various projects.(Awards & Grants)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... The Judith Rothschild Foundation has given 21 grants, ranging from $5,000 to $25,000, to benefit the work of recently deceased, under-recognized artists through exhibition or publication support, acquisitions, research and various projects. The...

The New York-based Artadia, which gives grants to regional artists, has presented its Boston awards of $15,000 each.(Awards & Grants)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... The New York-based Artadia, which gives grants to regional artists, has presented its Boston awards of $15,000 each to Helen Mirra, the National Bitter Melon Council, and Mary Ellen Strom.