Art in America articles from September 2007

Art in America archives from September 2007

What's wrong with art schools.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
September 1, 2007... To the Editors: I found your piece on the state of arts schools [A.i.A., May '07] interesting and relevant, albeit one-sided. As a third-year undergraduate art student at UCLA, however, I am fairly accustomed to one-sidedness. Though...

Corrections.(LETTERS)(Correction notice)
September 1, 2007... June/July '07, pp. 211,212: Our caption and exhibition review misidentifled artist Philip Livingston as Robert. June/July '07, p. 90" In the caption and text devoted to the blueprint drawing Gorky and His Mother, the last name of artist...

Big mess at MASS MoCA.(FRONT PAGE)(Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art)
September 1, 2007... The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art and Swiss artist Christoph B0chel have been feuding since late last year over the artist's huge installation, which was originally to have opened on Dec. 16, 2006, in the museum's football-field-size...

Albright-Knox rakes it in.(FRONT PAGE)(Albright-Knox Art Gallery auctions off contemporary art pieces)
September 1, 2007... The last of a series of controversial sales of works deaccessioned from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo took place on June 8 at Sotheby's New York, with results far exceeding expectations. At $67 million, garnered for around 200 works...

Tomorrow's museum directors.(FRONT PAGE)(Center for Curatorial Leadership's training programs)
September 1, 2007... Early June saw the launch of the Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL), an organization that seeks to train art-museum curators in the financial and managerial skills required of a museum director, with the purpose of encouraging their...

More exiting museum director.(FRONT PAGE)(Lisa Dennison, Timothy Potts, Jay Gates, John R. Lane, and Jessie Otto Hite)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Guggenheim Museum director Lisa Dennison has announced that she will resign from the museum to join Sotheby's this month. After 29 years with the Guggenheim, including nearly two years as director, Dennison will be the auction house's vice...

John Szarkowski 1925-2007.(FRONT PAGE)(Obituary)
September 1, 2007... John Szarkowski, the influential director of the Museum of Modern Art's photography department for nearly 30 years and a champion of the medium's potential as art, died July 7 of complications from a stroke he had suffered in February. He was...

Spring auctions shatter records.(FRONT PAGE)
September 1, 2007... Will the boom last forever? Many observers of the over-heated auction world predicted a cooling-off period after last fall's feverish art sales [see "Front Page" Jan. '07]. But this past spring's auctions at all three major New York houses...

What Kirstein wrought.(The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein, by Martin Duberman, New York, Knopf, 2007; 736 pages, $37.50. A dynamo of the arts, Lincoln Kirstein (1907-1996) promulgated his independent thinking and classical taste with exceptional chutzpah. In a...

It's not made by great men: the traveling exhibition "High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1967-1975" recovers a lost artistic moment in all its diversity and experimentalism.(ANNALS OF PAINTING)
September 1, 2007... History, runs an old cliche, is written by the victors. This is as true in art history as it is in geopolitics. At any given moment, the walls of major museums, the covers of glossy art magazines and the pages of standard textbooks are filled...

Moses in Gotham: a three-part exhibition last spring reevaluated the contributions of Robert Moses, a visionary long vilified for running roughshod over New York City neighborhoods.(URBAN PLANNING)(Robert Moses and the Modern City)
September 1, 2007... For more than a generation, few urban planners were more excoriated than Robert Moses (1888-1981), who, as longtime commissioner of the Department of Parks in New York City and chairman of the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority--among many...

Light fantastic: electric light produced uncommon effects in a Virginia show of works by seven international artists.(REPORT FROM RICHMOND)(Artificial Light)
September 1, 2007... "Artificial Light," the illuminating, illuminated exhibition at Virginia Commonwealth University conceived by John B. Ravenal, curator of modern and contemporary art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, was inspired by man-made light and its...

NY galleries.
September 1, 2007... CHELSEA Aperture Gallery 547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10001 Tel: 212.505.5555 Fax: 212.505.7527 Emaih publicity@aperture.org Web site: www.aperture.org Tues-Sat: 10-6 Sept 7-Nov 1: "Lisette Model...

Documenta 12: a dense weave.
September 1, 2007... This summer in Kassel, at the twice-a-decade art bonanza that is Documenta, the whole undertaking seemed, from certain angles, a last vestige of feudal Europe--a throwback to market day at the town square, where, under the shadow of princely...

Ai Weiwei's humane conceptualism: with a bevy of new sculptural projects, as well as a massive living intervention at Documenta, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei brings his brand of cunning, humorous--but ultimately compassionate--provocation to the global scene.
September 1, 2007... Fairytale, Beijing artist Ai Weiwei's expansive piece at Documenta, began as a simple idea: invite 1,001 Chinese guests to come and stay temporarily in Kassel, Germany. Yet, as in much of Ai's work, what initially appeared to be an appealing,...

Stingel's eclectic playlist: a traveling survey, which changed substantially at the second of its two stops, reveals that Rudolf Stingel's sociable works actively shape each other's meaning. Viewers are welcome to enter the process.(Cover story)
September 1, 2007... Piety. Dissipation. Formal invention. Community engagement. Gleeful bad-boy provocation. One by one. the positions Rudolf Stingel has taken plot the coordinates of the field of visual culture, ca. 2007. Conceptually tidy on its oxen, each...

Peter Young: easy rider of abstraction: the journeys, both stylistic and geographic, of a nomadic American painter in the 1960s and '70s are retraced in a survey now on view at P.S.1.(Teter Young: 1963-1977)
September 1, 2007... Two recent exhibitions of paintings by Peter Young continue to broaden our understanding of how ambitious artists made their way through the multivalent decades of the 1960s and '70s. Paradoxically, in an era when painting had reached its...

The Venice Biennale, all'americana: while the big curated show (heavy on Americans and on painting) is somewhat streamlined this year, new national pavilions are taking root citywide. Add a multitude of ancillary exhibitions, and you have the 52nd edition of this venerable event--the largest yet.
September 1, 2007... There have been three occasions in the history of the Venice Biennale when the nature of American cultural influence has emerged as a central issue. The first was in 1964, when Robert Rauschenberg took home the Biennale prize for painting, a...

A day in the life: with a new color video and a group of large paintings of heads, Sadie Benning moves beyond her reputation as the enfant terrible of Pixelvision, the toy-camera medium she used to wry, diaristic effect in the '90s.(Critical essay)
September 1, 2007... Sadie Benning's most recent video, Play Pause (2006), is a departure for this artist, who came to public attention in the early '90s as a teenager making precocious live-action shorts in her bedroom. Unlike her best-known works, shot with a toy...

Jane Wilson's book of days: for over 20 years, Wilson has been depicting the changing skies of Long Island, bringing to landscape painting the kind of transcendent luminosity often seen as abstraction's province.
September 1, 2007... The past 50 years or so have been enriched by the advent and evolution of several art movements that opened up whole areas of practice by means of new materials and ways of seeing. It is thus understandable that during the same time hardly...

Mel Chin at Frederieke Taylor.(NEW YORK)
September 1, 2007... Long a student of cross-cultural history, Mel Chin, in his recent work, demands that attention be paid to the survivors of conquest--here natives of the Congo, Sierra Leone and North America. In checklist notes for the pieces in the exhibition,...

Pierre Bismuth at both Mary Boone galleries and Team.(NEW YORK)(Most Wanted Men)
September 1, 2007... Three shows of work by the Brussels-based French artist Pierre Bismuth revolved around themes of fame, advertising and brand recognition in the art world. No stranger to celebrity himself--he shared an Oscar for the screenplay of Eternal...

Andy Yoder at Winkleman.(NEW YORK)
September 1, 2007... Light-conductive lead crystal gives to the newest sculptures of Andy Yoder a translucency appropriate to these playful digs at the less-than-transparent monied classes. The glass elements of the project--fragile portrait busts--were said to be...

Andreas Kocks at Jeannie Freilich.(NEW YORK)
September 1, 2007... This was a show made entirely from paper--paper as sculpture, paper as relief, paper as installation. But never paper as mere drawing surface. In delicate "paperworks," as he calls them, German artist Andreas Kocks repurposes the medium; his...

Daniel Buren at Bortolami-Dayan.(NEW YORK)
September 1, 2007... This installation of eleven 1966 canvases by Daniel Buren was a revelation, a kind of missing link in the career of the French painter turned conceptualist. Under the influence of Art Informel, Buren had liberally splashed and stained his...

Tony Cragg at Marian Goodman.(NEW YORK)
September 1, 2007... Tony Cragg showed 14 sculptures in the three rooms of Marian Goodman Gallery. The large works, in bronze, wood, steel or diabase (an igneous rock related to basalt), played on the tension between the natural, organic connotations of their...

Robert Irwin at PaceWildenstein.(NEW YORK)
September 1, 2007... To create a templelike stillness with massive slashes of primary color might seem impossible, yet the dominant feature of Robert Irwin's installation at PaceWildenstein's Chelsea warehouse space (formerly occupied by the Dia Art Foundation) was...

May Stevens at Mary Ryan.(New York)
September 1, 2007... In continuing her exploration of landscape begun over a decade ago, May Stevens here created an environment in which water scenes became sites of memory as well as representations of place. The centerpiece of her exhibition, which included...

Ray Parker at Washburn.(New York)
September 1, 2007... This exhibition of large abstract oils and smaller ink drawings by Ray Parker, ranging from 1968 through 1975, presented a lesser-known side of this artist's work. By the late 1950s, Parker had arrived at his signature imagery, which consisted...

Jorg Immendorff at Michael Werner.(New York)
September 1, 2007... It is hard to look at the late Jorg Immendorff's recent work without thinking about his robust 40-year career or the challenge of making the very large paintings while suffering from advanced Lou Gehrig's disease (amyotrophic lateral...

Robert Kushner at DC Moore.(New York)
September 1, 2007... One of a number of dissenters from the austerities of Minimalist and much Post-Minimalist art of the '70s, Robert Kushner played a key role in the Pattern and Decoration movement, exploring the suspect realm of sheer sensuous pleasure while...

Adi Nes at Jack Shainman.(New York)(Biblical Stories)
September 1, 2007... Adi Nes is a photographer drawn to the tableaux of narrative cinema. His exhibition "Biblical Stories" explored tales from the Old Testament redolent of adventure, love and betrayal. The images show an appreciation for young men keyed to the...

Qiu Zhijie at Chambers.(New York)(24 Seasons)
September 1, 2007... A savvy melding of ancient and contemporary art forms, Qiu Zhijie's "24 Seasons" series brings together Chinese calligraphy, landscape and photography. The works were created by making calligraphic characters with a "light brush," actually a...

Justine Kurland at Mitchell-Innes & Nash.(New York)
September 1, 2007... There is always something a little too perfect, deliciously so, about Justine Kurland's high-keyed, large-format C-prints. In her most recent series, "Of Woman Born" (2005-06), tribes of nude young mothers and tots, gamboling in light-dappled...

Anna Conway at Guild & Greyshkul.(New York)
September 1, 2007... The subjects of Anna Conway's paintings are generally men reduced to tiny figures by settings that, if not actually hostile, render them absurd. The surroundings suggest metaphors for inner states but do so ambiguously, and the works guard...

Priscilla Roberts at Lois Wagner.(New York)
September 1, 2007... Priscilla Roberts (1916-2001), an intriguing Magic Realist, seems to have fallen through the cracks of American art history along with the once well-known venue that regularly showed her haunting still lifes, Grand Central Galleries. She was...

Nassos Daphnis and Ernest Briggs at Anita Shapolsky.(New York)(Opposing Forces)
September 1, 2007... The exhibition "Opposing Forces" presented works by two painters with very different artistic temperaments. Ernest Briggs's loose, brushy abstractions take us back mostly to the heyday of Abstract Expressionism, of which the artist (1923-1984)...

Jean Miotte at the Chelsea Art Museum.(NEW YORK)(Jean Miotte: Spirit of Defiance)
September 1, 2007... Since opening in 2002, the Chelsea Art Museum has hosted numerous enlightening exhibitions. It has also been the home of the Miotte Foundation, which is devoted to archiving and conserving the work of Jean Miotte, a French painter, now 81, who...

Joe Fyfe at JG Contemporary.(NEW YORK)
September 1, 2007... Eschewing "easel painting decisions" for a collagelike process that allows for great procedural flexibility, Joe Fyfe elicits emotional fine points from deceptively broad gestures. Generally, his paintings fall into two size ranges. They are...

Wolf Kahn at Ameringer & Yohe.(NEW YORK)(Wolf Kahn: Sizing Up)
September 1, 2007... "Wolf Kahn: Sizing Up," a two-part exhibition of the artist's recent work (accompanied by a two-volume publication with an essay by critic Karen Wilkin), featured 15 large-scale oil paintings followed by a second show of 21 smaller related...

Ron Ehrlich at Stephen Haller.(NEW YORK)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Painter Ron Ehrlich dedicated this show of splashy, slashing paintings to the late Stanley Kunitz, a noted visionary poet. Ehrlich's splotches, splatters, sprays, drips and spills enact a visual correlative to the poet's words. A thoroughgoing...

Isidro Blasco at DCKT Contemporary.(NEW YORK)(The Middle of the End)
September 1, 2007... Photographic representation of space colludes with sculptural reality in the tough, elegant work of Spanish-born New Yorker Isidro Blasco to form a hybrid with an affinity to architectural models. The artist photographs apartment buildings and...

Daniel Douke at OK Harris.(NEW YORK)
September 1, 2007... Daniel Douke's carefully observed and meticulously rendered paintings replicate the common commercial carton. More than trompe l'oeil, this Pasadena-based artist's deadpan works achieve a level of scuffed verisimilitude exceeding the...

Brent Green at Bellwether.(NEW YORK)(Paulina Hollers, Carlin, Hadacol Christmas )(Movie review)
September 1, 2007... The animations of self-taught filmmaker Brent Green are marked by morbid topics and quivering imagery paired with discordant indie-rock sound tracks. They've gained attention in the art and film worlds for the good reason that they are easy to...

J. Morgan Puett at Alexander Gray.(NEW YORK)(J. Morgan Puett / Wholesale/ To the Trade Only)
September 1, 2007... In Alexander Gray's Chelsea space, enterprising installation artist and fashion designer J. Morgan Puett filled two rooms with various objects, many tidily sealed in fragrant beeswax, from the SoHo clothing store/workshop she operated until...

Keith Mayerson at Derek Eller.(NEW YORK)
September 1, 2007... Keith Mayerson's paintings have never been big on craft, but he received deserved acclaim in the early '90s for his acerbically funny and delicately rendered small-scale drawings, as in a series called "Pinocchio the Big Fag," which explores a...

Hannah van Bart at Boesky.(NEW YORK)
September 1, 2007... For her second New York exhibition, midcareer Dutch painter Hannah van Bart showed large, simply drawn figures that seem almost childlike in their innocent, illustrative whimsy. People with animal heads and oversized hands, enormous features...

Cameron at Nicole Klagsbrun.(NEW YORK)
September 1, 2007... The meticulous art of California visionary Marjorie Cameron Parsons Kimmel (1922-1995) recently received its first New York exhibition. Forty-four works on paper, mainly in ink but also in colored pencil, gouache and casein, stimulatingly...

Darina Karpov at Pierogi.(NEW YORK)
September 1, 2007... For her first New York solo show, Darina Karpov exhibited 14 works on paper, the majority of them in watercolor, supplemented sporadically by ink and acrylic. Karpov paints a largely abstract tangle of tiny details, with bits of recognizable...

Veron Urdarianu at Mitchell-Innes & Nash.(NEW YORK)
September 1, 2007... The Romanian born, Amsterdam-based Veron Urdarianu makes pale oil paintings that portray a world of overwhelming isolation, and also small, lovingly constructed sculptures of buildings. The surfaces of the paintings are thick and seductive....

Peter Saul at David Nolan and Leo Keenig.(NEW YORK)
September 1, 2007... In this two-gallery exhibition Peter Saul presented a broad selection of recent paintings that are at once grotesque, profane, violent, obscene and offensively funny. They mine the dark side not only of society but of the artist's own demented...

David Ording at Bernard Toale.(BOSTON)
September 1, 2007... The six oil-on-canvas paintings, dating from 2005 through 2007, in David Ording's latest show are skillfully executed quotations of famous works of Western art from the Renaissance through the 19th century. Ording aims at homage to the...

Hannah Cole at Alpha.(BOSTON)
September 1, 2007... Boston-based painter Hannah Cole's first solo show at Alpha consisted of 20 oils on canvas and panel, ranging in size from 51/2 by 10 1/2 to 37 by 44 inches, all dated 2006. Most of the paintings feature landscapes as viewed through a car...

Aya Takano at Emmanuel Perrotin.(MIAMI)
September 1, 2007... Called "Wild dogs, hawks, owls, cats, a landfill the size of 44 and a half Tokyo Domes, the stratosphere," Aya Takano's recent solo show was curiously lovely, considering the subject: a garbage dump on the outskirts of Tokyo in a place once...

Delilah Montoya at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary.(DALLAS)(Malcriadas)
September 1, 2007... In Spanish, to call a woman malcriada is an insult suggesting that she has not been well brought up. The term is applied to badly behaved adolescent girls, ill-mannered servants, and in general to women who do not know their place. It is...

Molly Briggs at Zg.(CHICAGO)
September 1, 2007... Landscape is Molly Briggs's point of departure for explorations of paint, color and composition. Her images of tree silhouettes in empty landscapes recall photography and film as they suggest memory and dream. Briggs starts with a wood panel,...

William Lewis at J. Crist.(BOISE)
September 1, 2007... William Lewis opened his longoverdue exhibition of new art with an impressive display of more than 100 works, most dating from 2006, ranging from wall-spanning oils on canvas to unframed, postcardsize gouaches on paper. The fact that it was his...

Robin Mitchell at Jancar.(LOS ANGELES)
September 1, 2007... In this group of small gouaches on paper done over the last six years, Robin Mitchell draws from a lexicon of abstracted florals, vines, branches, sunbursts, buds, pods, microscopic life, ganglia and spermatozoa, all afloat on washy grounds of...

Ariel Erestingcol at Togonon.(SAN FRANCISCO)(Please Stand By... )
September 1, 2007... In his exhibition "Please Stand By... ," which included two distinct bodies of work, Ariel Erestingcol toyed with the ways that mediated images can sometimes seem more real than reality itself. Borrowing visual and aural elements from...

Matti Braun at Esther Schipper.(BERLIN)(LOTA)
September 1, 2007... Matti Braun creates and investigates systems of cross-cultural reference. His recent show, "LOTA," his third solo at Esther Schip per, studied traditional patterns and objects from India as well as the mutual stimulation of European and Indian...

Jorge Molder at Fundacion Telefonica.(MADRID)
September 1, 2007... A harshly lit, impeccably dressed man in a dark suit and tie stands reading a newspaper against an indeterminate black background; a man surrounded by darkness peers down at his brightly lit mirror image; a face is distorted by turbulence as it...

Ernesto Deira at Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes.(BUENOS AIRES)
September 1, 2007... The 20th anniversary of Ernesto Deira's death occasioned this major retrospective featuring 122 of the Argentine painter's works from 1960 through '86. Deira (1928-1986), who began his professional life as a lawyer, turned to painting in his...

The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation recently gave its individual support grants, worth $25,000 each, to 12 mature painters, sculptors and printmakers.(Grants)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation recently gave its individual support grants, worth $25,000 each, to 12 mature painters, sculptors and printmakers. The winners are Jill Baroff, Heiner Blumenthal, Paul Bowen, Stephen Davis, Lucy...

The New York-based Art Matters foundation has resumed its activities after a 10-year hiatus by initiating a grant-making program.(Grants)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... The New York-based Art Matters foundation has resumed its activities after a 10-year hiatus by initiating a grant-making program. It recently presented $150,000 in amounts ranging from $3,000 to $10,000 to artists whose works foster...

Olafur Eliasson has won the 2007 Joan Miro Prize, given by the Fundacio Joan Miro in Barcelona and sponsored by the Fundacio Caixa Girona.(Awards)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Olafur Eliasson has won the 2007 Joan Miro Prize, given by the Fundacio Joan Miro in Barcelona and sponsored by the Fundacio Caixa Girona. He receives $95,000.

Walid Raad, known for his politically charged works produced under the name The Atlas Group.(Awards)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Walid Raad, known for his politically charged works produced under the name The Atlas Group, is the visual-arts recipient of the $75,000 Alpert Award in the Arts presented by the California Institute of the Arts and the Herb Alpert Foundation.

Emily Rafferty, president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was recently honored by ArtTable.(Awards)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Emily Rafferty, president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was recently honored by ArtTable, the national women's organization for arts leaders, for her distinguished service to the visual arts.

The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation has given three awards, worth $10,000 each, to Chicago-area artists.(Awards)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation has given three awards, worth $10,000 each, to Chicago-area artists. Judy Ledgerwood and Gaylen Gerber received awards for career achievement, and Philip von Zweck won the emerging artist prize.

The MCA Denver has presented artist, publisher and collector Devon Dikeou.(Awards)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... The MCA Denver has presented artist, publisher and collector Devon Dikeou with its 2007 Sue Cannon Award, which honors individuals for their leadership roles in the visual arts.

Obituaries.(ARTWORLD)(Obituary)
September 1, 2007... John Szarkowski, longtime photography curator at the Museum of Modern Art, died on July 7. His obituary appears on p. 37. Luciano Fabro, 70, Italian artist, died of a heart attack in Milan on June 23. A key figure in the Arte Povera group,...

Jeremy Blake 1971-2007.(ARTWORLD)(Obituary)
September 1, 2007... Jeremy Blake, 35, video artist, is believed to have taken his own life by drowning at a beach in the Rockaways in New York on July 17. A New York police department spokesperson said that his body was found 4 1/2 miles away in the waters off Sea...

Warhol Foundation sued for market dominance.(ARTWORLD)(Andy Warhol Foundation)
September 1, 2007... A lawsuit was filed in mid-July in federal district court in Manhattan against the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Andy Warhol Authentication Board, and the Estate of Andy Warhol and its exclusive sales agent, Vincent Fremont....

Museum Curator Awards for 2006.(ARTWORLD)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... The Association of Art Museum Curators recently announced its member-selected awards for excellence for 2006. Receiving awards for best exhibition or installation were Elisabeth Sussman and Catherine de Zegher for "Eva Hesse Drawing" at the...

The Morgan Library & Museum.(People)(new director Charles E. Pierce, Jr. )(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... The Morgan Library & Museum in New York has named William M. Griswold as its new director, replacing Charles E. Pierce, Jr., who is retiring after 20 years. Griswold was a curator at the Morgan for six years before becoming associate director...

Museum of Fine Arts.(People)(Willard Homes is appointed associate director of administration)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Willard Holmes has been appointed associate director of administration, a newly created position, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Earlier this year, he resigned from his post as director and CEO of Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of...

Getty Museum.(People)(new curator of antiquities Karol Wight)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Karol Wight has been appointed curator of antiquities at the Getty Museum, replacing Marion True. Wight, an ancient glass specialist, has been with the Getty for 22 years and was named acting curator in 2005 when True resigned; True's trial for...

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.(People)
September 1, 2007... After three years, Tom Healy has resigned from his post as president of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council to pursue other projects.

New York's Museum of Modern Art.(People)(new chief curator Ranjendra Roy )(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Rajendra Roy has been named chief curator of the department of film at New York's Museum of Modern Art, effective July 2007. He was with the Hamptons International Film Festival since 2002, most recently as artistic director. He succeeds Mary...

New Museum of Contemporary Art.(People)(new director and curator Eungie Joo)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Eungie Joo, director and curator of CalArts' REDCAT gallery in Los Angeles for four years, has been appointed the first director and curator of education and public programs at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York.

Bruce Museum.(People)(new adjunct curator Kenneth E. Silver)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... NYU professor and A.i.A. contributing editor A.i.A. contributing editor Kenneth E. Silver has been named adjunct curator at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Conn. He retains his post at NYU.

Guggenheim Awards for 2007.(ARTWORLD)
September 1, 2007... The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation recently announced 189 artists, scholars and scientists as winners of fellowship awards totaling $7.6 million. The artist recipients are SoHyun Bae, Rosalyn Bodycomb, Jennifer Bolande, Robert Bordo,...

Jorg Immendorff 1945-2007.(ARTWORLD)(Obituary)
September 1, 2007... Jorg Immendorff, 61, German artist best known for his provocative Neo-Expressionist paintings, died of Lou Gehrig's disease on May 28 at his home in Dusseldorf. Immendorff was born in Bleckede, outside Hamburg. In 1963, he enrolled in the...