Art in America articles from September 2006

Art in America archives from September 2006

Clemente's Indian sources.(Letter to the editor)
September 1, 2006... To the Editors: In response to "Demon Iconographer" by Brooks Adams [A.i.A., May '06], I wish to draw your attention to the similarity of some of Francesco Clemente's works to Kalighat paintings, and to note the writer's failure to...

Picabia's L.H.O.O.Q. rediscovered, again.(Letter to the editor)
September 1, 2006... To the Editors: I was wrong in "Dada Lives" [A.i.A., June/July '06] to claim that Picabia's bungled 1920 reproduction of Duchamp's L.H.O.O.Q. (1919) was lost to posterity. Indeed, I am happy to report that the work, in its present altered...

Siena vs. the Mbuti.(Letter to the editor)
September 1, 2006... To the Editors: Yes, as Stephen Westfall points out, the work of James Siena [A.i.A., Apr. '06] is very beautiful. Unfortunately it is not original but totally derivative of West African textiles and the bark paintings of the Mbuti and...

Danto's Brillo Boxes.(Letter to the editor)
September 1, 2006... To the Editors: In Ken Johnson's review of Arthur Danto's book Unnatural Wonders [A.i.A., Mar. '06], I was struck by the claim of discernible differences between Warhol's notorious Brillo Boxes and the real-life counterparts. I am not...

Talbot, inventor.(Letter to the editor)
September 1, 2006... To the Editors: It was good to see the magazine devoting significant space to an article on the daguerreotypes of Southworth & Hawes [A.i.A., Mar. '06]. However, I must point out a factual error. In January 1839, William Henry Fox Talbot...

Guggenheim in the Middle East?(Guggenheim Foundation on a new museum in United Arab Emirates)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Ever the subject of rumors of new, often unrealized, global outposts, the Guggenheim Foundation is now eyeing Abu Dhabi, the glitzy, oil-rich capital of the United Arab Emirates, as a potential site for a new museum, according to the New York...

Klimt portrait priciest painting ever sold.(Gustav Klimt's painting Adele Bloch-Bauer I sold)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... For the second time this year, Gustav Klimt's painting Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907) made big news. In January, an Austrian arbitration court awarded ownership of the portrait to Bloch-Bauer's 90-year-old niece, Maria Altmann, a U.S. citizen who...

Point of view: the high price of looking.(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... In July, New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that it would raise its recommended admission fee from $15 to $20, sparking a flurry of think pieces, news stories and letters from art lovers to publications, sounding off on the...

Terrorism victims sue for museum artifacts.(FRONT PAGE)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... A number of 2,500-year-old cuneiform tablets and fragments, on loan from Iran to the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute since 1937, are now caught up in a terrorism reparations case stemming from a 1997 Hamas bombing in a Jerusalem...

Revamp at Brooklyn Museum.(Arnold Lehman)
September 1, 2006... The Brooklyn Museum this summer announced a new personnel plan that will do away with its traditional historical and regional departments, such as Egyptian art and European painting, and reorganize its curatorial staff into two divisions, one...

Green Museum for Grand Rapids.(Grand Rapids Art Museum to relocate)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... The new Grand Rapids Art Museum, scheduled to open in fall 2007, will be the first certified "green" museum in the world. Designed by L.A.-based Kulapat Yantrasast of Workshop Hakomori Yantrasast (wHY), who honed his skills working with Tadao...

Two Serras for California.(The Orange County Performing Arts Center, Museum of Contemporary Art renovates)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Southern California will soon have two newly commissioned sculptures by Richard Serra. The Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa and the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego mark the openings of major expansion projects with the...

Dealer launches Beijing residency.(Tilton Gallery opened by Merlin Carpenter)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... A mid the rush of foreign dealers opening facilities in China these days, New York's Tilton Gallery has established a nonprofit enclave in the recently designated TongXien arts district on the outskirts of Beijing. Set on a 3-acre plot...

Merz foundation in Turin.(Mario Merz)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Before he died in late 2003, Italian artist Mario Merz chose an industrial building in Turin as the site of a foundation bearing his name. Located in the Borgo San Paolo section on the west side of the city, the Fondazione Merz, which opened...

Cape Town hosts show of new African art.(Cape Africa Platform)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Cape Africa Platform, an arts organization formed to study the feasibility of a biennial-type event in Cape Town in the wake of the failed Johannesburg Biennale, has announced a large-scale, one-month exhibition showcasing the contemporary art...

Sao Paulo fair results.(art museums)
September 1, 2006... The second edition of the Sao Paulo-based fair of modern and contemporary art, SP Arte 2006 [May 3-7], reported estimated sales exceeding $6 million, roughly double last year's figure, and an uptick in participating galleries. The growing...

Auction boom continues apace.(FRONT PAGE)(Phillips de Pury & Company)
September 1, 2006... It was an exceptionally successful spring season for the three major New York houses, Sotheby's, Christie's, and Phillips de Pury & Company, as prices for Impressionist, modern and contemporary art skyrocketed. The auction market, whose current...

The art book's last stand? Drawing on interviews with numerous industry insiders, the author perceives a mounting crisis in art book publishing.(ISSUES & COMMENTARY)
September 1, 2006... The Potemkin Bookcase Many of the three million or more people who have visited the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan since it reopened in November 2004 must have felt that they suffered a momentary hallucination. Looking through the...

City of Cineastes: "Cinema(s)," a recent exhibition in Grenoble, brought together three generations of artists who have explored video- and film-based imagery.
September 1, 2006... Over the past several years we have been bombarded by what has come to be called "projected image" work--by the all-pervasive presence of the video screen and its concomitant modes of production, display and address--without really having had...

Cities on the make: reflecting China's runaway building boom, the second Guangzhou Triennial examined the forces driving today's urban development and globalized art.
September 1, 2006... The first Guangzhou Triennial, held at the Guangdong Museum of Art (GMA) in 2002, was conceived as a cultural milestone [see A.i.A., Sept. '03]. Organized by Wu Hung--a Chinese-born, U.S.-based scholar fully versed in both traditional and...

Within the revolution, everything--a little while longer: the 9th Havana Biennial brought together work from 52 countries this spring, proving once more that art need not be commercial to thrive.
September 1, 2006... The overwhelming impression I had after looking at the work of over 200 contributors to the latest Havana Biennial is that art is alive and well outside of the marketplace. A team of eight curators sought, as is this show's preview,...

NY Galleries.
September 1, 2006... Chelsea Aperture Gallery 547 W. 27th Street, 4th Fl, NY, NY 10001 Tel: 212.505.5555 Fax: 212.505.7527 Email: publicity@aperture.org Website: www.aperture.org Tuesday-Saturday: 10:00-6:00 September 7- November 2: Lola...

Mullican's magnetic fields: from his Surrealist-influenced beginnings in the Dynaton group to his late "Guardian" paintings, West Coast artist Lee Mullican favored an approach to abstraction that acknowledged spiritual forces. His career was recently examined in a traveling museum exhibition.
September 1, 2006... In an artworld obsessed with youth, fashion and politics, discussions of spirituality seem almost taboo. Presumably embarrassed by New Age beliefs and the dumbing-down of organized religions, most art historians seem now to focus on formal...

Reasons to be Happy: Huyghe's "Celebration Park": as shown in a survey that originated this spring in Paris and is now in London, Pierre Huyghe has ranged widely--the frozen wastes of Antarctica, the visual arts center at Harvard--to explore questions of creative prerogative, cultural novelty and ordinary pleasure.
September 1, 2006... As its title suggests, Pierre Huyghe's exhibition "Celebration Park" begs indulgence of a little optimism. But it's an orphan sentiment in these perilous times, and Huyghe makes it run a gauntlet of equivocations in this survey, first shown at...

Schapiro's material girls: a mini-retrospective of Miriam Schapiro's work over the last 30 years on the theme of dolls and dancers included fabrics and images from an abundance of sources.
September 1, 2006... In a statement published on the occasion of a recent survey of Miriam Schapiro's work at Flomenhaft Gallery in New York, the artist remarks, "In our country we don't feel about dolls as Europeans, Africans or Asians do," and then relates a...

From thin air: a Markus Raetz survey: creating dazzling illusions from the slightest of materials, Raetz maneuvers with exceptional agility between thought and vision, percept and object. A selection of installations, sculptures and works on paper made over the past 35 years was recently on view at the Musee d'art contemporain in Nimes.
September 1, 2006... In the sense that it generally depends on the active engagement of a viewer, Markus Raetz's work is phenomenal. But it is steadfastly unspectacular. Faces, bodies, even whole landscapes are brought to life with little more than a few twigs, a...

The Oslo outsider: two recent museum exhibitions, in New York and London, provided opportunities to view Edvard Munch's work in depth and to consider the factors that continue to prevent a full appreciation of his artistic achievement.
September 1, 2006... The Scream has not been the only Munch painting recently missing from Oslo. But this is not another case for the police--rather, it's good news for anyone who cares to understand the roots of modern painting. Edvard Munch has always been...

Martin Creed, artful Dodger: known for his defiantly literal objects and gently mocking humor, the British artist conjured up an unexpectedly complex and distinctly moody installation in the heart of Milan.
September 1, 2006... Milan's charmless Palazzo dell'Arengario is one of the twin pavilions that flank the via Marconi entrance to the Piazza del Duomo, establishing a transverse Ks across the cathedral's lacey facade to the arcaded opening of the Galleria Vittorio...

The world in brief: for 30 years, Andrew Spence has playfully wielded a minimalist vocabulary to convey the essence of ordinary objects. His recent, chromatically intense paintings tend to guard their sources.
September 1, 2006... Andrew Spence is one of several under-heralded, mid- to late- career painters who presented excellent, sure-handed shows at New York galleries this spring. (I'm thinking of, in three very different modes, Louise Fishman at Cheim & Read, Lois...

Looking at the Levant: "made in Palestine," a traveling exhibition of work by 23 established and emerging contemporary Palestinian artists, recently appeared at a temporary gallery in New York City.
September 1, 2006... When "Made in Palestine" opened at Houston's Station Museum in 2003, it was the first museum exhibition of Palestinian art to take place in the United States. The show, which included 23 artists who work in a variety of mediums, was the...

Richard Serra at Gagosian, Mark di Suvero at Paula Cooper, Tony Smith at Matthew Marks.
September 1, 2006... In an instructive coincidence, exhibitions of three sculptors associated with the monumental geometry that emerged in the middle of the 20th century appeared in New York galleries at the same time this spring (Richard Serra at Gagosian, Mark di...

Tobias Rehberger at Friedrich Petzel.
September 1, 2006... A hulking, angular, black wooden form seemed to peer menacingly around the corner at visitors entering Friedrich Petzel's gallery last spring. Even the bright orange hardware dotting its surface did little to soften its ominous appearance....

Amy Sillman at Sikkema Jenkins.
September 1, 2006... Unless I am missing something, Amy Sillman delivered, in her seventh solo show in New York, one wholly abstract painting. Like the nine other works in the show, it is oil on canvas, dated 2006. Its foundation of fanning, roughly horizontal...

Bernard Cohen at Flowers.
September 1, 2006... Seven acrylic-on-linen paintings of recent vintage reintroduced Bernard Cohen to a New York audience. Though his only previous solo here was at Betty Parsons in 1967, Cohen has been a presence on the London art scene since the early 1960s, when...

Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe at Gray Kapernekas.
September 1, 2006... Comprising four paintings made between 2001 and 2005, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe's first exhibition in New York since 1994 demonstrated that an analytic approach to abstract painting need not be reductive or didactic, but can be formally complex,...

Stephen Westfall at Lennon, Weinberg.
September 1, 2006... For the last decade or so, Stephen Westfall has taken misaligned grids as his signature structure, fondly skewering the modernist visual vocabulary in a stew (a reduction, really) of Minimalism and Pop. During the same period, his color has...

Hans Josephsohn at Peter Blum.
September 1, 2006... This exhibition marked the American debut of 85-year-old Hans Josephsohn. An excellent monograph on the artist by Gerhard Mack recounts that at age 17 this Jewish-German sculptor traveled to Florence to see the work of his hero, Michelangelo....

Jonathan Thomas at Phillips de Pury & Co.
September 1, 2006... This recent exhibition was a memorial survey of works by Jonathan Thomas, a New York-based artist who died last year at age 59, after a long battle with cancer. His partner of 32 years, the playwright Edward Albee, organized this extensive show...

Steve Pyke at Flowers.
September 1, 2006... In "Post Partum Post Mortem," English-born photographer Steve Pyke presented a recent series of still-life images focused on the weighty themes of birth and death. Better known for his journalistic photography, especially his widely published...

Whitfield Lovell at DC Moore.
September 1, 2006... Artifacts of a bygone era--barn doors, a spinning wheel, tin snips, playing cards, a revolver, a tin cup--are culled by Whitfield Lovell for his tableaux. All are worn smooth by the hands of individuals long dead, for whom these were means of...

Thomas Helbig at Bortolami Dayan.
September 1, 2006... In "Last World," his first New York solo exhibition, Berliner Thomas Helbig offered Frankenstein's-monsterlike assemblages of found parts and cosmic-abstraction paintings. Titles such as Beseelt (Animated), Erster Tag (First Day) and Schopfung...

Ranbir Kaleka at Bose Pacia.
September 1, 2006... Born in 1953 in Punjab, Ranbir Kaleka is based in Delhi. In the '90s he became known for intensely hued Neo-Expressionistic paintings with dense, libidinal narratives, recalling the work of Sandro Chia. Since the late '90s Kaleka has also...

Mika Rottenberg at Nicole Klagsbrun.
September 1, 2006... Five women, among them one who is monstrously fat and another gaunt and tall with fingers like long twigs, populate a bizarre assembly line in the video that was the focus of Mika Rottenberg's exhibition "Dough." The seven-minute loop is an...

Michal Rovner at Pace Wildenstein.
September 1, 2006... Abstraction in video art does not have much of a history. It was largely practiced by early, technologically oriented artists (Ed Emshwiller, the Vasulkas, Nam June Paik), and its formalist appeal has not found much welcome in recent decades....

Karen Gunderson at Artists Space.
September 1, 2006... This modest exhibition, titled "Mountains and Constellations," featured four large all-black paintings by Karen Gunderson that conjure vast landscapes and celestial vistas through the deft working of surface texture alone. Over the past 18...

Pia Lindman at Luxe.
September 1, 2006... Finnish artist Pia Lindman, who divides her time between New York and Cambridge, Mass., creates performance and video works that often investigate the intersection of public and private, personal and political. The focal point of her recent...

Dan Fischer at Derek Eller.
September 1, 2006... Mutual poachings between photography and drawing are part of a continuing exploration of the nature of perception, raising questions about the artifice of the photographic way of seeing. This practice underlies the work of artists like Chuck...

Dylan Graham at RARE.
September 1, 2006... Traditional craft-making and the underbelly of history made an attractive pair in "Anthem," Dylan Graham's recent exhibition and first solo in New York. The New Zealand-born, Amsterdam-based artist presented six large-scale, monochromatic paper...

Ga Hae Park at Bronx River Art Center.
September 1, 2006... For her recent exhibition, the Korean-born artist Ga Hae Park showed what she calls "music drawings," here represented by ten works in cut paper and ink, among them a nine-piece series titled "Poem (Music Drawings)" and a 36-piece suite based...

Pollock & Krasner at Robert Miller; Pollock at Washburn; Pollock & Louis Comfort Tiffany at Tilton.
September 1, 2006... Marking the 20th anniversary of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Robert Miller Gallery brought together a selection of works by Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner to suggest an artistic dialogue between the two. It was, in a way, reminiscent of...

Milton Resnick at the Studio School.
September 1, 2006... During his last years, Milton Resnick (1917-2005), unable to stand for long periods due to arthritis, painted exclusively on paper. Though he was only able to do so for a few hours each day, he left hundreds of these works, from which the...

Jake Berthot at Betty Cuningham.
September 1, 2006... Artist Jake Berthot is self-taught, he has said, mostly from looking at paintings in museums. He acknowledges the late Abstract Expressionist painter Milton Resnick as a mentor. At the beginning of his career in the post-Minimalist period, he,...

Yvonne Thomas at Lohin Geduld.
September 1, 2006... Yvonne Thomas's recent show at Lohin Geduld, "The Yellow Paintings," spotlighted a group of medium-size and large abstract geometric and biomorphic paintings that the artist, born in France in 1913 but living for many decades in the U.S., made...

Cora H. Roth at OK Harris.(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Cora Roth's big, highly textured paintings gather energy slowly, with the artist building their impenetrable surfaces bit by bit. Composed of small units of thick, nearly tubular strokes, the paintings are deeply tactile. Executed in horizontal...

Noriko Sakanishi at June Fitzpatrick.
September 1, 2006... Twenty-two acrylic and mixed-medium wall works made up Noriko Sakanishi's seventh solo at June Fitzpatrick's space at the Maine College of Art. Using a subtle palette and simple geometric configurations, the Japanese-born, Portland-based artist...

Charles Burwell at Swarthmore College and Sande Webster Gallery.
September 1, 2006... Charles Burwell is one of those artists who, having set what might seem to be narrow boundaries for himself, continues to find challenges and room for evolution within them. Thus, the mini-retrospective of 19 works at Swarthmore College's List...

Don Cook and Kevin MacDonald at Creative Alliance.
September 1, 2006... Friends for over 20 years, Maryland-based painters Kevin MacDonald and Don Cook have been transforming our vernacular culture, from old neighborhoods to new movie theaters, into quiet, deadpan images with undercurrents of folk legend, as seen...

Marcus Kenney at Marcia Wood.
September 1, 2006... The collage paintings of Savannah-based artist Marcus Kenney reference landscape painting, Pop and visionary art, and are haunted by such oddities as an original typed sermon and cancelled checks, trading stamps, marble dust, wallpaper and...

Shona Macdonald at the Chicago Cultural Center and Skestos Gabriele.
September 1, 2006... Shona Macdonald's ethereal landscapes are collectively titled "Inscapes," a term coined by the British poet Gerard Manley Hopkins to describe inner landscapes of the mind. Macdonald's "Inscapes" are equally poetic. The artist traces images from...

John Pomara at the Dallas Center for Contemporary Art.
September 1, 2006... Although reminiscent of Peter Halley's paintings of the 1980s, which were intended to represent social phenomena of late capitalism, John Pomara's abstract paintings are more manifestly referential. They reflect the increasingly...

Linda Stark at Angles.
September 1, 2006... In "Oracles, Pyramids and Rotations," Linda Stark continued to show the kind of highly iconic, small-scale relief paintings she has been known for since the late '90s. Now she's added tantric kitties, crones, snakes, tattoos, pyramids and...

Julius Hatofsky at the Triton Museum of Art.
September 1, 2006... Julius Hatofsky (1922-2006) had a long career that received little critical attention. He began painting in New York during the 1950s and moved to San Francisco in 1961 to teach at the San Francisco Art Institute, eventually retiring in 2001....

Paryse Martin at Circa.
September 1, 2006... Paryse Martin lives and works in Quebec City and has been exhibiting in Canada and abroad since 1992. In early works Martin utilized materials as diverse as wood, egg tempera, wrought iron and ceramic. Her recent exhibition showcased sculptures...

Joao Pedro Vale at Galeria Leme.
September 1, 2006... Among the world's most populous cities, Sao Paulo is a 3,000-square-mile sprawl of high rises, residential neighborhoods and favelas. At a distance from the city's tony gallery precincts, today's destination gallery is Galeria Leme, an...

Cecily Brown at Gagosian.
September 1, 2006... In the erotic expressionist oil paintings that have made Cecily Brown one of contemporary art's most admired and controversial painters, she camouflages coupling couples in coats of cake-icing-thick paint. The treatment delays the viewer's...

"Out of Beirut" at Modern Art Oxford.
September 1, 2006... In the mid-1980s on New York's art-friendly Lower East Side, there was a bar called Downtown Beirut, named in hip cynicism (or utter innocence) for a conflict that seemed terminally confusing and, above all, very far away. That the civil war in...

Miquel Mont at Galeria dels Angels.
September 1, 2006... Originally from Barcelona, Miquel Mont has lived and worked in Paris since 1989. While still in Spain, he made industrial films and studied film theory, becoming aware, he told me, of film as an object and as material. His experiences in the...

Tatsumi Orimoto at Die Neue Aktionsgalerie (DNA).
September 1, 2006... Tatsumi Orimoto's photographs of his mother can at times remind us of our own family albums, but the series "Art Mama," which he began in 1996, is more than an assortment of mementos. It is a merciless and sometimes touchingly funny public...

Leta Peer at the Augsburg Museum for Contemporary Art.
September 1, 2006... In Leta Peer's first major museum solo, she displayed eight oil paintings and five photos of installations at the Augsburg Museum and created an interaction at the nearby Schaetzler Palais. Peer creates luscious, naturalistic paintings of...

The board of trustees of the Dia Art Foundation in New York recently elected Nathalie de Gunzburg as its new chairman.(Holly Block at Bronx Museum of the Arts)(Barry Bergdoll at the Museum of Modern Art )(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... The board of trustees of the Dia Art Foundation in New York recently elected Nathalie de Gunzburg as its new chairman. A member since 2004, she succeeds Leonard Riggio, who had served as chair since 1998. Holly Block, executive director of...

Creative Capital Foundation has announced its grants for 2006 to 61 artists making 43 projects in various fields; the initial awards are $10,000, with the possibility of receiving up to $50,000 as projects develop.(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Creative Capital Foundation has announced its grants for 2006 to 61 artists making 43 projects in various fields; the initial awards are $10,000, with the possibility of receiving up to $50,000 as projects develop. The visual arts winners are...

Mark di Suvero was presented with the 2006 Public Art Network Award, given by Americans for the Arts.(Olafur Eliasson, Jim Hodges )(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Mark di Suvero was presented with the 2006 Public Art Network Award, given by Americans for the Arts, a nonprofit organization for advancing culture in America. Danish artist Olafur Eliasson is the winner of the 2006 Austrian Frederick...

Obituaries.(Jason Rhoades, Luis Jimenez, Barbara Schwartz)(Obituary)
September 1, 2006... Jason Rhoades, 41, Los Angeles installation artist, died on Aug. 2, as we went to press. A full obituary will appear in our October issue. Luis Jimenez, 65, El Paso-born sculptor, died June 13 in a studio accident. One of three parts of a...

Karel Appel 1921-2006.(painter)(Obituary)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Karel Appel, 85, Dutch expressionist painter and one of the founders of the postwar Cobra movement, died of unspecified causes on May 5 at his home in Zurich. In 1948, with his compatriots Constant and Corneille, Appel founded the Dutch...

Nezaket Ekici at Elgiz Museum and Karsi Sanat.
September 1, 2006... Nezaket Ekici (born 1970) is a Turkish performance artist who lives and works in Germany, where she moved with her family at age three. Ekici trained under Marina Abramovic, and one can see her mentor's influence. Using a small set of highly...

Lower Manhattan group to disband.(Lower Manhattan Development Corporation services)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Created by the state and city just after the Sept. 11 attacks "to help plan and coordinate the rebuilding and revitalization of Lower Manhattan," the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation will disband this fail. Its 54 employees learned on...

Sotheby's buys Noortman.(Noortman Master Paintings)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... One of Europe's most prestigious old master dealers, Noortman Master Paintings, based in Maastricht, Holland, was recently purchased by Sotheby's. The auction house agreed to pay gallery owner Robert Noortman $56.5 million in Sotheby's stock,...

Looted statue returned to Iraq.(lost museum object recovered)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... U.S. government officials recently recovered a stone statue of Sumerian King Entemena (ca. 2430 B.C.), which was a key object looted from the Iraq Museum, Baghdad, in spring 2003, following the U.S.-led invasion. Stored since early June in a...

Splashy new art school digs.(Eli and Edythe Broad Art Center opens)(University of Iowa opens its new Art & Art History Building )(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Center opens its doors on Sept. 14. Located on the UCLA campus, the modernist structure, designed by architect Richard Meier, houses the university's School of Arts and Architecture and encompasses the New Wight...

New York ups culture budget.(New York City Council)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... The New York City Council approved a budget over the summer for fiscal year 2007 that increases funds to cultural institutions. The 34-member Cultural Institutions Group, which includes the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum and...

Tate Modern isn't big enough.(expansion)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... London's massive, and massively popular, Tate Modern has announced an expansion plan intended to relieve crowding at the museum, which last year received 4.1 million visitors--double what the building was intended to accommodate and almost...

A reflective moment on Fifth Avenue.(Anish Kapoor's Sky Mirror sculpture)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... A new work by British sculptor Anish Kapoor goes on view this month at Rockefeller Center in New York. Titled Sky Mirror, the 35-foot-diameter curved disk has a seamless, polished stainless-steel surface, like the artist's permanent Cloud Gate...