Art in America articles from October 2008

Art in America archives from October 2008

Contemporary art alive and well in Kabul.(FRONT PAGE)(Living Traditions art exhibition)
October 1, 2008... Seven years after the U.S. entered Afghanistan, an international contemporary art show arrives in Kabul. "Living Traditions" is organized by Turquoise Mountain, a non-governmental organization founded in 2006 by Rory Stewart--a Scottish writer...

Giving artists a fair shake.(FRONT PAGE)(Artist Museum Partnership Act)
October 1, 2008... To garner legislative and popular support for the Artist Museum Partnership Act, which has been kicking around congress for four years, the Art Dealers Association of America has launched the "50 Artists for 50 States" initiative. Linda...

Home sweet home.(FRONT PAGE)(David Ireland's home)
October 1, 2008... The longtime home of Bay Area artist David Ireland was purchased in August by local collector Carlie Wilmans. As reported in the San Francisco Chronicle, the 78-year-old conceptual artist had to move out of the house several years ago due to...

Paik's place.(FRONT PAGE)(Nam June Paik Art Center opens to the public )
October 1, 2008... The new $26.6-million Nam June Paik Art Center opens to the public Oct. 9 with a festival titled "Now Jump" [through Feb. 5, 2009], encompassing a multiartist show, workshops, seminars and online activities. Designed by German architect Kirsten...

Outsider's private world on screen.(FRONT PAGE)(James Castle: Portrait of an Artist)
October 1, 2008... In recent years the work of James Castle (1899-1977), a deaf and mute self-taught artist living in nearly total isolation in rural Idaho, has been embraced by the art-world mainstream. Locally recognized as an artist by only a few at the time...

John Russell 1919-2008.(FRONT PAGE)(Obituary)
October 1, 2008... John Russell, prominent British-born critic who died in New York on Aug. 23 at age 89, wrote about art with eloquence, erudition and wit, voluminously, for six decades. During much of this time he was chief art critic for two major newspapers,...

Pagans.(Revision: number one)(Column)
October 1, 2008... With this issue, A.i.A. welcomes author, art critic and independent curator Dave Hickey as a regular columnist. In the coming mouths, under the heading REVISION, we'll feature his anything-but-regular observations about the visual arts, the...

I'll be seeing you.(The Theatre of the Face: Portrait Photography Since 1900)(The Art of the American Snapshot 1888-1978: From the Collection of Robert E. Jackson)(Critical essay)
October 1, 2008... The Theatre of the Face: Portrait Photography Since 1900, by Max Kozloff, London, Phaidon, 2007; 336 pages, $65.95. The Art of the American Snapshot 1888-1978: From the Collection of Robert E. Jackson, by Sarah Greenongh and Diane Waggoner,...

Godard revealed.(Everything is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard)(Book review)
October 1, 2008... Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard, by Richard Brody, New York, Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, 2008; 678 pages, $35.00. Jean-Luc Godard, like many famous, groundbreaking artists in their lifetimes, is...

Bucky lives! An exhibition about the mid-20th-century visionary Buckminster Fuller plumbed his radical notions of architecture, design, transportation and ecology.(FUTUROLOGY)
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As I strolled away from the Whitney Museum's recent exhibition "Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe," I kept thinking how unfortunate it is that the museum is so stuck within its own walls. It's not that I...

Live-work options: generous benefactors, new museum facilities and a variety of exhibition and residency programs are helping to turn this heartland city into a culture hub.(REPORT FROM KANSAS CITY)
October 1, 2008... The depth of private philanthropy in Kansas City is remarkable, and that puts a huge stamp on much of what meets the eye of the art-viewing public in this former cattle town and sometime incubator of jazz. Yet even while one senses that the...

Experiment Iceland: this year's Reykjavik Arts Festival included about 30 exhibitions in and out of the city, and an equal number of performances by creative people from many disciplines.(REPORT FROM REYKJAVIK)
October 1, 2008... Founded in 1970 as a performing arts biennial, the Reykjavik Arts Festival became an annual event in 2004 with plans for an extensive visual-arts program every three years, beginning in 2005. This year's venture, the second, was structured as a...

Out of the woods: two sculpture exhibitions in Dutch parks last summer translated their intellectual programs into compelling visual encounters.(REPORT FROM HOLLAND)(Sonsbeek 2008)
October 1, 2008... Two outdoor sculpture exhibitions on view in Dutch parks from June through September provided interest for the eyes and provocation for the mind. Sonsbeek 2008, in Arnhem, raised questions of human aspiration, while Lustwarande 08, in Tilburg,...

NY Galleries.(Directory)
October 1, 2008... CHELSEA Aperture Gallery 547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10001 Tel: 212.505.5555 Fax: 212.505.7527 Email: publicity@aperture.org Website: www.aperture.org Tuesday-Saturday: 10:00 am-6:00 pm ...

King of the Beasts: in his life-size watercolors of animals, Walton Ford fashions allegories about the violence and destruction attending human civilization.(Interview)
October 1, 2008... Chained to the deck of a sinking galleon, the massive straining beast in Walton Fords triptych Loss of the Lisbon Rhinoceros (2008) is among the most sublime of the many creatures he has painted. With a taste for perverse natural history...

China envy: the debut of Cai Guo-Qiang's midcareer survey at the Guggenheim Museum in New York melded sheer spectacle with an incisive treatment of the artist's signature transcultural themes.
October 1, 2008... Arguably the most widely recognized Chinese artist of our day, Cai Guo-Qiang (b. 1957) maintains a large studio in New York and a second in Beijing. Known to the ear of ministry officials in the People's Republic, he also heads up the Bunker...

Painting by other means.(James Bishop )(Biography)
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] One little work was enough. Sol LeWitt first mentioned painter James Bishop to James Rondeau in the late 1990s. Rondeau--then employed at Hartford's Wadsworth Athenaeum and now the curator of contemporary art at the...

Inside the Harlem Renaissance: a leading illustrator for the New Negro Movement in the 1920s, Aaron Douglas is the focus of a traveling exhibition now at New York's Schomburg Center.
October 1, 2008... The rapid rise of artist Aaron Douglas (1899-1979), in the mid-1920s, from the obscurity of teaching art at a Kansas City high school to a position at the center of the New Negro Movement in New York (later termed the Harlem Renaissance) seems...

Heirloom varieties: in Philip Taaffe's paintings and works on paper, the conceptual strategies associated with appropriation are less important than the careful cultivation of new life in old forms.
October 1, 2008... "The Life of Forms, Works 1980-2008," Philip Taaffe's current exhibition at the Kunstmuseum in Wolfsburg, Germany, is the first to fully consider the nearly 30-year span of the artist's work. The newest paintings and works on paper, in some...

Memory's Flight: Christian Boltanski's permanent installation in Bologna honors the victims of a 1980 plane crash while acknowledging the mystery that still surrounds their deaths.
October 1, 2008... Since the late 1960s, Christian Boltanski's art has taken the form of fictive archives, inventories, memorials and monuments, polemical constructs that assert the ethical necessity and sheer humanity of remembrance even as they rattle our...

The human theater of Gilbert & George: combining photoconceptualist strategies and mannered self-disclosure, Gilbert & George have made increasingly monumental work--with no concession to decorum.(Gilbert Prousch and George Passmore )
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] The British artist duo Gilbert & George has long enjoyed a unique position in contemporary art. Since defining themselves in 1969 as a single entity of "living sculpture," they have created over 2,000 works, mostly...

Jeanne Silverthorne: McKee.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2008... The surprisingly tricky philosophical problem of distinguishing the animate from the inert is a leitmotif of Jeanne Silverthorne's recent work. It circulates in the abundant tangles of electrical cords, some functional, that have run like...

"Deep Comedy": Marian Goodman.(New York)
October 1, 2008... "Deep Comedy" at Marian Goodman, curated by the artist Dan Graham with independent curator Sylvia Chivaratanond, gathered a group of artworks that promised "subversive laughter." Subversion--a concealed function of art--was a word used...

Dennis Oppenheim: Edelman arts.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Inaugurating a three-story townhouse gallery on the Upper East Side, this recent Dennis Oppenheim survey offered a limited but rewarding overview of his long and influential career. Oppenheim, who recently turned 70,...

Catherine Murphy: Knoedler.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2008... Jesus hangs on the cross while the cross hangs from a woman's neck into the shadowed space between her breasts. These details matter in Catherine Murphy's larger than life-size depiction, Pendant (2005), because the artist has articulated them...

David Altmejd: Andrea Rosen.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2008... In his second solo at Andrea Rosen, Montreal-born, New York-based David Altmejd transformed the surreal creatures of his imagination into increasingly operatic giants. Beautiful and monstrous figurative structures averaging an imposing 12 feet...

Paula Rego: Marlborough Chelsea.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2008... Drawings and "dolls," all but one dated 2007 or '08, made up Paula Rego's recent show. The dolls, made mostly of cloth and nylon stockings, appear in two dimensions in the drawings. Some are caricatures or types, such as Puto, a 3-foot-tall guy...

Kim Fisher: John Connelly presents.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2008... A diamond the size of the moon: now that's high-end. Los Angeles-based Kim Fisher is celebrated for hard-edge, high-gloss, highly chromatic paintings that fuse the glamour and pizzazz of the fashion world and the asceticism of modernist...

Ryan Johnson: Guild & Greyshkul.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2008... Befitting the paranoia endemic to our current reality, the title sculpture in Ryan Johnson's recent show, "Watchman," is decked out with the paraphernalia of surveillance and detention, including a jacket emblazoned "Security" and a heavily...

Clifford Ross: Sonnabend.(New York)
October 1, 2008... Without straining the eye, one can make out tiny footpaths seven miles away in Clifford Ross's 2005 "Mountain" series--the highest resolution landscape photographs ever created. Ross made these large-scale prints of Mount Sopris in Colorado...

Sofia Maldonado: Magnan Emrich.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2008... With the ink barely dry on her MFA diploma from the Pratt Institute, Puerto Rican artist Sofia Maldonado launched her New York career with a show of mixed-medium works referencing skateboard culture. On view were three wall-mounted...

Rachel Beach: Bespoke.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2008... Envision the trippiness of Op art combined with the solidity and vernacular references of Richard Prince's muscle-car hoods, and you might approach the work in "History Repeating," Rachel Beach's first solo show at Bespoke. Co-opting elements...

Christopher Wool: Luhring Augustine.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2008... Christopher Wool's heroically scaled enamel-on-linen paintings (2007 and '08) are at once visceral and muscular, sleek and confident in their scrubbed fields and the linear tracing that stirs each. The untitled works are uniformly presented on...

Roy McMakin: Matthew Marks.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Much studio furniture today shows off eccentric form, unorthodox materials or brilliant color. Seattle-based Roy McMakin works to quite different ends, He takes furniture as a subject and employs ordinary forms to...

Carol Hepper: Ramis Barquet.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2008... Though it sustains longstanding inclinations, Carol Hepper's work has taken a sharp turn with the recent sculptures in this exhibition, her first at the gallery (and her first solo show in New York since 2000). A new studio in rural upstate New...

Jacob Lawrence: DC Moore.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2008... For its sixth and most ambitious exhibition of Jacob Lawrence's work, DC Moore assembled 47 paintings from the artist's estate and numerous private collections, many surfacing in public for the first time in decades. Nearly all of the...

Rackstraw Downes: Betty Cuningham.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2008... Born in England, Rackstraw Downes has spent most of his life in America and currently splits his time between New York and Texas. He is a plein-air painter and the realism of his pictures leaves no doubt as to where we are. In reproduction, the...

Liu Xiaodong: Mary Boone.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2008... Liu Xiaodong, one of China's leading new-generation figurative painters, made headlines recently when his Newly Displaced Population (2004) sold at auction for a record $2.7 million. The painting, which depicts the construction of the Three...

Greg Lindquist: Elizabeth Harris.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2008... The role of industrial architecture in 20th-century American art was largely that of a generator of mighty forms and dynamic signs: think of Ralston Crawford or Stuart Davis. But the last decade of the old century and the first of the new have...

Sze Tsung Leong: Yossi Milo.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2008... Sze Tsung Leong's "History Images," 2002-05, shown two years ago at Yossi Milo Gallery, documented the way China's built environment is in the process of being erased and reconstructed. Taken during a period of accelerated industrialization,...

Eleanor Antin: Ronald Feldman.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2008... Drawn to recasting history through an operatic, largely imagined narrative, Eleanor Antin retells the epic saga of the elopement of Helen and the origin of the Trojan War in an exhibition of chromogenic prints (ali 2007) titled "Helen's...

Valerie Jaudon: Von Lintel.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2008... Consisting of jumpy, sharply delineated white shapes inscribed across the lustrous taupe of linen, Valerie Jaudon's recent paintings, meticulously executed as always, present yet another variation of her signature lexicon of forms. Six of the...

John Zinsser: James Graham & Sons.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2008... Empirical in their gestation, John Zinsser's recent paintings shine with intelligence, and the artist's enjoyment of medium and engagement with process are evident. At once vibrant and cool, the paintings included in Zinsser's first show at...

Ted Kurahara: Walter Randel.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2008... Ted Kurahara, a Seattle-born, Midwest-trained painter, has lived in New York since 1959. But he is probably better known to the students he taught at Pratt for more than 30 years and to gallerygoers in France, Italy, Sweden and Switzerland than...

Rainer Gross: Katharina Rich Perlow.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2008... An abstract painter engaged with the diptych format, Rainer Gross explores the contingency of abstraction with an often vivid palette. The "contact paintings" that dominated this exhibition of diptychs dating from 2005 to 2007 formally suggest...

William Kentridge: Marian Goodman.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2008... Anamorphosis, like any optical illusion, tips an image from a thing in the world to a process in the brain. It is a way of picturing imagination. William Kentridge has been using this visual trick (among others) for many years, and he deploys...

Jheon Soocheon: White Box.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2008... Korean artist Jheon Soocheon is known for his large public projects and installation works. He has been internationally recognized: in 1995 he received an honorable mention at the Venice Biennale; that same year he was named Artist of the Year...

Michael Salter: Jeff Bailey.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2008... The substantially amusing, busy and cohesive collection of product-oriented works that made up Michael Salter's exhibition "Are You Sure" was ornamented by a suite of slip-cast porcelain figurines (2007) that seemed to float along a gallery...

Jil Weinstock: Charles Cowles.(NEW YORK)
October 1, 2008... There is an intimacy to Jil Weinstock's work, even though it's not particularly personal. Since the early 1990s, she has suspended vintage clothing and such materials as plastic pearls, feather boas and zippers in cast-rubber forms, as if...

Howard Smith: Bjorn Ressle.(New York)
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Howard Smith is a reductivist abstract painter who has been working for over 40 years. The title of his recent exhibition, "Stroke and Structure," underscored the formal consistencies and constraints of his method....

Francine Tint: Tria.(New York)
October 1, 2008... Asked for advice by young artists, in the days before unfledged MFA candidates were guaranteed more attention than seasoned practitioners, Clement Greenberg often urged them to "live a long time." The history of van Gogh's sales, the critic...

Robert C. Morgan: Wooster Arts Space.(New York)
October 1, 2008... This show contained abstract paintings produced between 2005 and 2007, after a 16-year hiatus in Robert C. Morgan's long-time career as an artist. Prior to completing his PhD in art history and entering the field of art criticism and teaching,...

Clyde Phillip Wachsberger: Art Sites.(RIVERHEAD, L.I.)
October 1, 2008... Based on family photos, Clyde Phillip Wachsberger's watercolors are made on small sheets of handmade Twinrocker paper with deckled edges, recalling old scallop-edged snapshots. The people depicted are friends and relatives of Wachsberger--also...

Lee Musselman: David Dew Bruner.(HUDSON, N.Y.)
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Discovering a fresh talent is like suddenly stumbling upon an unfamiliar street in a town you thought you knew well. Lee Musselman, a relatively unknown quantity on the art scene, was a good choice for the debut show...

David Claerbout: MIT List Visual Arts Center.(CAMBRIDGE, MASS.)
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This first U.S. museum presentation of the works of Belgian artist David Claerbout, organized by Christine Van Assche at the Pompidou Center, travels to other museums in Europe, Canada and Australia in addition to...

Anne Wilson: Rhona Hoffman.(CHICAGO)
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Anne Wilson's evocative, highly individual practice applies traditional textile processes to other mediums, creating hybrid works that combine elements of sculpture, installation and drawing. The three new projects...

Kim Krause: Art Academy of Cincinnati.(CINCINNATI)
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Kim Krause's "Chronos/Tropos" paintings (all 2007) present brightly colored tangles of ribbons, banners, paper chains, colored discs, horns, confetti and other party paraphernalia hanging from the top of the canvas...

Brian Collier: Paragraph.(KANSAS CITY)
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Brian Collier's images of bird-filled skies call to mind Hitchcock's classic thriller, but their aim is quite different. Filled with perching and ascending flocks, Collier's project, "Teach the Starlings in Kansas...

Paul Slocum: Dunn and Brown.(DALLAS)
October 1, 2008... Paul Slocum's Pi House Generator (2008) consists of an old-fashioned hi-fi receiver and speakers connected to a computer programmed to generate house-music beats from an algorithm that continuously calculates the (famously patternless) digits...

Erin Stellmon: Main Gallery.(LAS VEGAS)
October 1, 2008... Were there a real-life Shangri-la, it might have been midcentury Las Vegas, the desert oasis where throngs flocked to watch atomic flashes, drinking themed cocktails and brushing pink fallout dust from their skin before heading off to see the...

Lauren Ben: Ace.(LOS ANGELES)
October 1, 2008... "Bees and Meat" was the title of Lauren Ben's expansive and long-running exhibition at Ace. It occupied the gallery's entire 30,000-square-foot space with primal-looking or Arte Povera-like installations focusing on the nature and the history...

Elizabeth Bryant: Solway Jones.(LOS ANGELES)
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Over the last decade Elizabeth Bryant has been questioning photography's ability to convey the complex relationship between the image and the natural world. In the mid-'90s she was incising diagrammatic, often...

Jason Dodge and Tereza Buskova: Gallery one one one.(LONDON)
October 1, 2008... Open the gallery door, and you might have thought you'd missed the two-person exhibition "Rituals" altogether. The ground-floor installation by Jason Dodge, an American artist based in Berlin, was deceptively quiet in arrangement; close...

Gil Heitor Cortesao: Suzanne Tarasieve.(PARIS)
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In "The Remote Viewer," Gil Heitor Cortesao's first solo show in France, the Portuguese-born artist exhibited nine new paintings (all 2008) from a series of the same title. Created from layers of oil assiduously...

Ann Lislegaard: Paul Andriesse.(AMSTERDAM)
October 1, 2008... The Danish artist Ann Lislegaard's two-channel video Crystal World (after J.G. Ballard), 2006, is a 12-minute 3-D animation in black and white, one of a series of works she based on science fiction novels by various authors. It's not necessary...

"Beware of the Wolf": The American Academy.(ROME)
October 1, 2008... In an interesting change for one of Rome's august foreign institutes, a three-stage exhibition organized by curators Lorenzo Benedetti and Lexi Eberspacher successfully integrated emerging Italian artists with winners of the coveted Rome Prize....

Zhao Liang: Three Shadows.(BEIJING)
October 1, 2008... Zhao Liang was the first artist featured in the 2008 series of one-person shows at Three Shadows Art Center, a leading venue for photography in Beijing (founded in 2007 by the well-known husband-and-wife team Rong Rong and Inri, and designed by...

Art Schools.(Directory)
October 1, 2008... NEW ENGLAND The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University Office of Admission, 700 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02215 617-585-6710 or 800 773-0494 x 6710 www.aiboston.edu/info/art * admissions@aiboston.edu Professional...

The California Community Foundation has awarded fellowships totaling $280,000 to 15 artists.(Awards & Grants)(Brief article)
October 1, 2008... The California Community Foundation has awarded fellowships totaling $280,000 to 15 artists. Midcereer artists receiving $20,000 are David Hullfish Bailey, Judie Bamber, Allan deSouza, Richard Hawkins, Hirokazu Kosaka, Steven Roden, Linda...

Artadia, which gives grants to regional artists, recently presented its Houston awards.(Awards & Grants)
October 1, 2008... Artadia, which gives grants to regional artists, recently presented its Houston awards. Receiving $15,000 each are Delilah Montoya, Katrina Moorhead and Floyd Newsum, Jr.

New York's MOMA.(People)(Museum of Modern Art promotes Ann Temkin as chief curator )(Brief article)
October 1, 2008... Ann Temkin, curator of painting and sculpture at New York's MOMA since 2003, has been promoted to chief curator of the department. She succeeds John Elderfield, who retired in July, becoming chief curator emeritus.

Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead.(People)(Godfrey Worsdale has been appointed director of the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, England)(Brief article)
October 1, 2008... Godfrey Worsdale has been appointed director of the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, England. In 2002, he became founding director of the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, which opened in January 2007. He assumes his new...

School of the Art Institute of Chicago.(People)(Mary Jane Jacob has been appointed as executive director of exhibitions at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago)(Brief article)
October 1, 2008... Mary Jane Jacob, former chief curator at the Chicago MCA and L.A. MOCA, has been appointed executive director of exhibitions at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she is also chair of the sculpture department. Last month, the...

San Jose Museum of Art.(People)(Susan Krane has been appoint as the new executive director at the San Jose Museum of Art)(Brief article)
October 1, 2008... Susan Krane, director of the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art and vice president of the Scottsdale Cultural Council since 2001, is the new executive director at the San Jose Museum of Art.

The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art.(People)(Cameron Kitchin has been appointed as new director of Memphis Brooks Museum of Art )(Brief article)
October 1, 2008... The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art has appointed Cameron Kitchin as its new director. Kitchin, currently executive director of the Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, assumes the post on Nov. 1. He succeeds Kaywin Feldman, who is now director...

The Wexner Center for the Arts.(People)(Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus appoints Catharina Manchanda as new senior curator and Christopher Bedford as assistant curator)(Brief article)
October 1, 2008... The Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus recently announced two curatorial appointments. Catharina Manchanda, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis, is the new senior curator, and Christopher...

James Crump.(People)
October 1, 2008... Curator, publisher, film director and producer James Crump was recently made curator of photography at the Cincinnati Art Museum.

New Mexico Museum of Art.(People)(New Mexico Museum of Art appointed Katherine Ware as curator of photography )(Brief article)
October 1, 2008... Katherine Ware has been appointed curator of photography at the New Mexico Museum of Art. She had been curator of photographs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Michael Baxandall 1933-2008.(ARTWORLD)(Obituary)
October 1, 2008... Michael Baxandall, 74, British art historian, died in London, Aug. 12. Born in Cardiff in 1933 and educated at the universities of Cambridge, Pavia and Munich, he became a junior fellow at the Warburg Institute in London (1959-61) and in 1965...

Manny Farber 1917-2008.(ARTWORLD)(Obituary)
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Manny Farber, 91, film critic and painter, died of bone cancer on Aug. 18 in Leucadia, Calif., where he lived. An advocate of such Hollywood genre directors as Howard Hawks (The Big Sleep) and Don Siegel (Dirty...

Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum.(People)(Monica Ramirez-Montagut has been appointed as new curator at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum )(Brief article)
October 1, 2008... Monica Ramirez-Montagut is the new curator at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Conn. Since 2006, she had been assistant curator of architecture at the Guggenhelm Museum in New York.

2010 Sydney Biennale.(People)(David Elliot was recently named artistic director of the 2010 Sydney Biennale)(Brief article)
October 1, 2008... David Elliot, founding director of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo and, briefly, director of the Istanbul Modern, was recently named artistic director of the 2010 Sydney Biennale.

Everson Museum of Art.(People)(Steven Kern has been appointed director of the Everson Museum of Art)(Brief article)
October 1, 2008... Steven Kern, director for 15 years of the William Benton Museum of Art at the University of Connecticut, Mansfield, has been appointed director of the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, N.Y.

Albright-Knox Art Gallery.(People)(Heather Pesanti has been named curator at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo)(Brief article)
October 1, 2008... Heather Pesanti, assistant curator of contemporary art at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh since 2005, has been named curator at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo.