Art in America articles from September 2008

Art in America archives from September 2008

Editor's letter.(Editorial)
September 1, 2008... Dear Reader, Art in America was founded in 1913 by Frederic Fairchild Sherman, a poet, book publisher and art collector. A quarterly at first, the magazine debuted just as the Armory Show launched its shock and awe offensive, lobbing the...

MAD opens on Columbus Circle.(FRONT PAGE)(Museum of Arts and Design's move to Two Columbus Circle )(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Museum of Arts and Design's move to Two Columbus Circle has been steeped in controversy since 2002, when the City of New York announced plans to sell the 1962 Edward Durell Stone building (empty since 1998) to...

Biennial fever hits U.S. shores.(FRONT PAGE)
September 1, 2008... Not that travel-weary art observers have been complaining, but the United States has been conspicuously absent from the roster of nations hosting new art roundups of the sort taking place around the globe, from Venice to Sao Paulo to Shanghai....

Hong Kong's new art fair.(FRONT PAGE)
September 1, 2008... During the 11 years since Hong Kong's transition from a British colony to a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China, the city has continued to thrive. Home to some of Asia's best-educated and wealthiest individuals, Hong...

Controversy at Spertus Museum.(FRONT PAGE)
September 1, 2008... Chicago's Spertus Museum pulled the plug on its controversial exhibition "Imaginary Coordinates" in late June, more than two months before its scheduled closing date. The show juxtaposed antique maps of the Holy Land from the Spertus's...

Developing Beijing lifestyle.(FRONT PAGE)(Legation Quarter )
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] While monumental development projects are not new to Beijing, the recent inclusion of museums and galleries as centerpieces of these projects underscores how lucrative the art business has become in China and how...

New AAMD rules for antiquities.(FRONT PAGE)(Association of Art Museum Directors)
September 1, 2008... In June, the Association of Art Museum Directors refined its guidelines for the acquisition of archeological materials and ancient art. The measure comes after a number of high-profile cases in recent years in which Italy and Greece sought the...

Auction totals defy gravity.(FRONT PAGE)
September 1, 2008... A faltering U.S. economy, a seemingly endless war on two fronts, and the uncertainties of the upcoming presidential election seemed to be of little or no concern to the collectors and investors who sent auction prices soaring this past spring....

Let us now praise Robert Rauschenberg.(FRONT PAGE)
September 1, 2008... Photographs cannot capture an especially exquisite sequence from the 1/4 Mile or 2 Furlong Piece, the sprawling self-retrospective "spread" of mixed-medium paintings and sculptures that Robert Rauschenberg began to show as a work in progress by...

Conceptualizing craft.(A Theory of Craft: Function and Aesthetic Expression)(Thinking Through Craft)(Book review)
September 1, 2008... A Theory of Craft: Function and Aesthetic Expression, by Howard Risatti, Chapel Hill, N.C., University of North Carolina Press, 2007; 352 pages, $39.95. Thinking Through Craft, by Glenn Adamson, Oxford and New York, Berg, 2007; 209 pages,...

Guardians of the Avant-Garde: the exhibition "Action/Abstraction" examines Abstract Expressionism and its aftermath in light of a longstanding critical rivalry.(ISSUES & COMMENTARY)(Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976)
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Abstract Expressionism has engendered its fair share of museum exhibitions, although in recent years those shows have tended to be monographic retrospectives. It would seem difficult to come up with a new approach to...

The shape of things surreal: a show currently at the Guggenheim Bilbao surveys Surrealism's imaginative effects on material culture.(DESIGN)(Surreal Things: Surrealism and Design)
September 1, 2008... "Surreal Things: Surrealism and Design," organized by London's Victoria and Albert Museum and now at the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao [through Sept. 7], presents some 300 highly diverse objects. Curator Ghislaine Wood has turned from her triumph...

Food for thought: Trenton Doyle Hancock and Ballet Austin's rousing collaborative performance centers on a struggle between color-loving, meat-eating Mounds and misanthropic, white-skinned Vegans.(DANCE)
September 1, 2008... Trenton Doyle Hancock is known for sprawling installations that spill over gallery walls and floors in a three-dimensional torrent of handwritten words and cartoonish images. Figures tend to be fragmented and partial; space is compressed, with...

Art at land's end: concentrated at two former military sites, this year's gathering of open-air sculpture engaged land, sea and viewers 'perceptions.(REPORT FROM KEY WEST)(Sculpture Key West)
September 1, 2008... Sculpture Key West, the outdoor exhibition of contemporary sculpture at the southernmost point of the continental U.S., began in 1995 as a rather casual gathering of work by local artists. Today, it is an ambitious multisite, multimedium annual...

The Afropolitans: "Flow," the Studio Museum in Harlem's recent roundup Of African-born emerging artists, explored what it means to be an "African of the world.".(REPORT FROM THE DIASPORA)
September 1, 2008... Thanks to three revelatory surveys of emerging artists in this new millennium--"Freestyle" (2001), "Frequency" (2006) and now "Flow" (2008)--the Studio Museum in Harlem has carved out its place as one of the essential venues that give the art...

China, documented and invented: this year's FotoFest surveyed modern Chinese photography, from 1930s social documentation to today's avant-garde conceptualism.(REPORT FROM HOUSTON)
September 1, 2008... FotoFest has taken over the city of Houston every two years since 1986, when the organization held its first International Biennial of Photography and Photo-Related Art. By this past March, the festival had grown to encompass exhibitions in 105...

NY Galleries.(Directory)
September 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: 10:00-6:00 September...

Dream weaver: a survey of Louise Bourgeois's career, now spanning nearly seven decades and counting, confirms that her lively--even ferocious powers of invention remain undiminished.(Essay)
September 1, 2008... One of the myths braided into interpretations of Louise Bourgeois's vast artistic output is that her work is deeply rooted in ancient grief and rage, which stem from a traumatic childhood within a family dominated by a charismatic and...

Suspense artist: a traveling show highlights painter Suzan Frecon's skillful balance of the rational and the romantic.
September 1, 2008... In an interview in the catalogue for her exhibition at the Menil Collection of mostly recent oil paintings and watercolors, Suzan Frecon says, "When I looked at good paintings, I noticed that they were always strongly composed so as to be...

A Crass Menagerie: Known for ambitious installations and provocative statements, Tom Sachs turned a New York gallery into a labyrinth stocked with works inspired by armaments, popular music and the animal kingdom.(Cover story)
September 1, 2008... In his first New York gallery solo since 2004, Tom Sachs exhibited his distinctive rough-and-ready style and included some trademark motifs. But he also took on a new theme, as announced in the show's title: "Animals." Concurrently, a public...

In deep water: in his ambitious films and installations, Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba addresses the complexities of modern Vietnam, and of being an international artist who negotiates between East and West.
September 1, 2008... Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba is the first Vietnam-based artist to have achieved international recognition, which came with his initial film, Memorial Project Nha Trang, Vietnam: Towards the Complex--For the Courageous, the Curious, and the Cowards...

May Wilson: homespun rebel: a legendary figure in New York's art-world underground of the 1970s, May Wilson produced quirky assemblages and collages that were recently the focus of two exhibitions.
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A one-time suburban Baltimore housewife who at age 61, in 1966, left home to become a denizen of the New York art-world underground, May Wilson has remained a cult figure since the 1970s. Two recent surveys, however,...

Things the mind already knows: art dealer Gavin Brown and artist Urs Fischer conspired to turn Tony Shafrazi Gallery into a crypto-Pop, post-appropriationist portrait of itself.(Who's Afraid of Jasper Johns?)
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The photograph reproduced as the poster for "Who's Afraid of Jasper Johns?," a summer exhibition at the Tony Shafrazi gallery, depicts a glum Shafrazi. It was taken in 1974, shortly after his arrest for defacing...

Modernist at the disco: Rochelle Feinstein mixes formalist style and postmodern attitude in her darkly humorous paintings and altered objects.
September 1, 2008... Since the early 1990s, Rochelle Feinstein has been making deeply personal paintings that interrogate the legacy of modernism through the palpable framework of her own lived experience. Feinstein's dark humor and uncanny ability to find resonant...

Otto Muehl: Maccarone.(NEW YORK)
September 1, 2008... A member of the Austrian Actionist group who spent seven years in prison for sexual offenses committed at a commune he founded in 1970, Otto Muehl is clearly not one to bow to political correctness. This exhibition of his paintings from the...

Walter Robinson: Metro Pictures.(NEW YORK)(80s Paintings)
September 1, 2008... Walter Robinson's "80s Paintings" exhibition was a blast from the past--from a time of excitement and transition in the now-mythic world of "downtown" Manhattan. The lurid color and fierce undergarments of Motel Marriage (1979), for instance,...

Daniel Richter: David Zwirner.(NEW YORK)
September 1, 2008... The second New York show for Daniel Richter, who is based in Hamburg and Berlin, featured five very large figurative paintings and a group of oil-on-paper studies (all 2007-08). These new works depict a world that is either spoiled or on the...

Hilary Harkness: Mary Boone.(NEW YORK)
September 1, 2008... Aggression takes root in your mind and body as you gaze at the paintings of Hilary Harkness. And gaze you must, if you have any hope of absorbing the relentless activities of the women who inhabit them. Apocalyptic, all-girl hives give off a...

Milton Resnick: Cheim & Read.(NEW YORK)
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Milton Resnick (1917-2004) was a young member of the first generation of Abstract Expressionists and was active in the freewheeling and contentious debates of that era. Blunt and temperamental, Resnick passionately...

Nicolas Carone: Washburn.(NEW YORK)
September 1, 2008... Nicolas Carone had his first show at Washburn recently, returning to the neighborhood where, at the Stable Gallery in the mid-1950s, he had his early successes, at the height of Abstract Expressionism. Now 91, Carone has remained an...

Liam Gillick: Casey Kaplan.(NEW YORK)(The State Itself Becomes a Super Whatnot)
September 1, 2008... Liam Gillick is a British artist, critic, curator, designer and writer who claims his work addresses the implicit social, political and economic traces left on the built world by the processes of production. What he presents, though, looks...

Alison Elizabeth Taylor: James Cohan.
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] There are two entirely different subjects to each of the marquetry "paintings" (all 2007 and 2008) in Alison Elizabeth Taylor's recent show. One is narrative: the six two-dimensional works and one constructed...

Lee Bul: Lehmann Maupin.(NEW YORK)
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This show spotlighted Korean artist Lee Bul's recent evolution. Earlier, in her cyborg sculptures and karaoke pods, Lee investigated the porous boundary between the body and technology. She has since turned to the...

Jim Hodges: CRG.(NEW YORK)
September 1, 2008... Eschewing stylistic uniformity, Jim Hodges's work finds consistency in the artist's sensibility, which is at once poetic and unassuming. His projects have been the result of labor-intensive and time-consuming, repetitive processes and,...

Josephine Meckseper: Elizabeth Dee.(NEW YORK)(Total War Sales Event)
September 1, 2008... The storefront windows of Elizabeth Dee gallery were tricked out like a cheap emporium for the duration of this topical if depressing exhibition, "Total War Sales Event," by German-born, New York-based Josephine Meckseper. They contained...

Peter Coffin: Andrew Kreps.(NEW YORK)
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On a particularly bleak day, when my ratio of good shows to galleries visited was low, and when political and economic news was more discouraging still, it was a treat to enter Peter Coffin's exhibition, his third at...

Tony Feher: D'Amelio Tetras and PaceWildenstein.(NEW YORK)
September 1, 2008... When Tony Feher emerged in the early 1990s, his modest and seemingly effortless sculptures repurposed the banal detritus of consumer culture and seemed to telegraph the malaise that afflicted the art world and the broader economy. Feher's...

Marcel Dzama: David Zwirner.(NEW YORK)(Even the Ghost of the Past)
September 1, 2008... Marcel Dzama's drawings inhabit a world where it seems natural to meet masked men wielding knives and girls in kneesocks pirouetting coyly around flying bats. You'll also find girls shooting arrows, a man who looks like Napoleon and all variety...

Martha Wilson: Mitchell Algus.(NEW YORK)
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] With Martha Wilson's first-ever solo exhibition, of very early work, it becomes possible to draw a line from pioneering feminist role-playing of the late 1960s and early '70s through the media-minded photo-portraits...

Ryan McGinley: Team.(NEW YORK)
September 1, 2008... The reigning motif in Ryan McGinley's latest show was free fall. In color photographs of no particular technical ambition but enormous appeal, slender young bodies descend through space and water, roll down sand dunes, swan dive into yielding...

Duncan Hannah: James Graham & Sons.(NEW YORK)
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Much has been written about Duncan Hannah's work as an exercise in nostalgia, a kind of Proustian endeavor to reconstruct the past. His carefully wrought figurative oil paintings and works on paper, rendered with...

Duan Jianghua: China Square.(NEW YORK)
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] With its dense impasto--as though extruded from massive tubes of oil--Duan Jianghua's symmetrical painting City No. 1 does not attempt to represent the centuries-old complex of Beijing's Forbidden City as it faces...

Pieter Schoolwerth: Miguel Abreu.(NEW YORK)
September 1, 2008... The five large oil-on-canvas paintings proffered by Schoolwerth at his most recent Manhattan solo show--theatrical works that he describes as "attempts at self-portraiture," in which he repeatedly places himself in quasi-narrative,...

Charles G. Shaw: Archives of American Art, Michael Resenfeld and D. Wigmore.(NEW YORK)
September 1, 2008... Among the many American abstract painters active in New York during the interwar period, those working in Cubist-inspired veins present special problems. Charles G. Shaw (18921974), who was recently the subject of three concurrent exhibitions,...

Steven Brower: Parker's Box.(NEW YORK)
September 1, 2008... For his latest show at Parker's Box, Steven Brower brought together some eight years of work, filling the gallery with models and gadgets in vitrines, and lining the walls with corporate memos, documentary photos and project archives, all...

Alberto Burri: Mitchell-Innes & Nash.(NEW YORK)
September 1, 2008... This museum-quality survey of Alberto Burri's work was the first New York gallery exhibition of this influential Italian artist in over 16 years. Burri was born in Italy in 1915 and was stationed as a medical officer in North Africa during...

Ouattara Watts: Mike Weiss.(NEW YORK)(For Lily)
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Ouattara Watts continues to combine painterly abstract marks and fragmentary, symbolic images on very large canvases that recall the Neo-Expressionist heyday of the 1980s. But Watts, who was born in the Ivory Coast...

Chris Martin: Mitchell-Innes & Nash.(NEW YORK)
September 1, 2008... According to Irving Sandler's 1984 monograph, the late AI Held, while still a student, had the extravagant ambition to "synthesize the 'total objectivity' of Piet Mondrian with the 'total subjectivity' of Jackson Pollock." As an undergraduate...

Christy Rupp: Frederieke Taylor.(NEW YORK)
September 1, 2008... Christy Rupp's latest foray into the art of science consists of life-size, articulated skeletons of extinct birds, some perhaps died out because of their inability to fly. In her extensive vocabulary of materials, these "remade"...

Catherine Lee: Lelong.(NEW YORK)(The Mark Paintings)
September 1, 2008... This revelatory exhibition of works from the late 1970s by Catherine Lee, called "The Mark Paintings," seemed well timed, arriving with the cold weather and possessed of a winter clarity and bare-bones light. In this case "canvases" might be a...

Charlie Roberts: Kravets/Wehby.(NEW YORK)
September 1, 2008... Work by an Outsider artist, or perhaps a 1960s hippie, was the overheard speculation at Charlie Roberts's second solo exhibition at Kravets/Wehby. But Roberts, a 23-year-old artist from Kansas currently living in Oslo, Norway, is neither. The...

Hiroshi Senju: Sundaram Tagore.(NEW YORK)(Haruka Naru Aoi Hikari)
September 1, 2008... Waterfalls or their semblances have been on view of late, from Pat Steir's signature cascades of paint at Cheim & Read in December, to Olafur Eliasson's actual waterworks--public divertissements on a royal scale--that opened in late June in...

Robert Reitzfeld: John Davis.(HUDSON, N.Y.)
September 1, 2008... At first, Robert Reitzfeld's distinctive melange of Ab Ex, Pop, Op and other postwar painting styles appears to be a send-up of the source material. Among the 25 recent paintings and works on paper in this show, a number of pieces, including...

Stephanie Brody-Lederman: Islip Art Museum.(ISLIP, N.Y.)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Stephanie Brody-Lederman's art is a kind of visual poetry of souvenir and suggestion, hinting at its subject matter in evocative words and phrases, and in plainly drawn, iconic motifs--chairs, lanterns, boats, bugs--sprinkled over...

Celia Reisman: Gross McCleaf.(PHILADELPHIA)
September 1, 2008... On an abstract level, the 16 oil paintings in this exhibition were a highly complex organization of irregular shapes, rectangles and squares, contained by either hard or soft edges. Yet Celia Reisman's paintings depict suburban houses, garages...

Neysa Grassi: Locks.(PHILADELPHIA)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Neysa Grassi's paintings invite the viewer to experience moments of quiet meditation while looking deeper and deeper into layers of paint. The 19 paintings and works on paper in "Losing and Finding," her recent exhibition at Locks, revealed a...

Dan Steinhilber: G Fine Art.(WASHINGTON, D.C.)
September 1, 2008... Dan Steinhilber's show--sculptures, photographs, drawings and an installation (all untitled, all 2008)--had a wonderfully literal quality. While some art makes public statements, some aligns itself with popular culture and some turns inward to...

Justin Cooper: Gallery 400.(CHICAGO)
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Justin Cooper is an interdisciplinary artist who has enlivened the local performance scene with his anecdotal narratives, comedic stage antics and quirky readymade props. Many of his performances are situated within...

Katerina Seda: Renaissance Society.(CHICAGO)
September 1, 2008... Czech artist Katerina Seda's social interventions alter everyday realities, conferring agency upon her work's nonart participants. She belongs to a budding lineage of Central and East European artists that includes Pawel Althamer and Artur...

Ligia Bouton: Evo.(SANTA FE)
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Over the past four years, Brazilian-born, Santa Fe-based Ligia Bouton's diverse and engaging body of work has been included in a number of gallery as well as museum shows in the Southwest. She often combines...

Winston Roeth: Charlotte Jackson.(SANTA FE)(Santa Fe Assembly )
September 1, 2008... Color has long been the presiding muse for the artist Winston Roeth, its force abundantly evident in his radiant monochromatic work from the past several decades. Testifying to his unflagging pursuit of his esthetic program, this show consisted...

Barry MacGregor Johnston: Overduin and Kite.(LOS ANGELES)(Wild Knock)
September 1, 2008... You didn't have to be a playuh to score in "Wild Knock," Barry MacGregor Johnston's first solo Los Angeles show, in which, with ambiguity and wit, the artist--a recent MFA from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena--commented on the...

Marie Thibeault: Jancar.(LOS ANGELES)(Keeping Things Whole)
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Much as the Romantics painted allegorical scenes of decayed civilizations overcome by the forces of nature to express anxiety about mortality, Marie Thibeault invites contemplation of our ecological fate in "Keeping...

Anibal Catalan: Gallery 415.(SAN FRANCISCO)(free & mobile)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Anibal Catalan's exhibition, "free & mobile," consisted of 19 striking paintings. The Mexican artist's first solo in the U.S., it was an impressive showing of innovative work reminiscent of that of contemporary painters Julie Mehretu, Danielle...

Beate Gutschow: Haus am Waldsee.(BERLIN)
September 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Utopian and idyllic pictures are lodged more deeply in our minds than we would like to admit, and when someone questions them, we usually resist. Beate Gutschow stages a balancing act along the fault line between...

Luigi Ontani: Museo d'Arte Moderna.(BOLOGNA)(Sono altrove)
September 1, 2008... The greeting on Luigi Ontani's voice mail--"Sono altrove" (I am elsewhere)--could be the epigram for the artist's work throughout his 40-year career. Attracted to local handicraft traditions, as was his late friend Alighiero Boetti, Ontani has...

The McNay Art Museum in San Antonio recently opened its new Stieren Center.(Museum News)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... The McNay Art Museum in San Antonio recently opened its new Stieren Center. The 45,000-square-foot, $33.1-million modernist wing was designed by architect Jean-Paul Viguier. The new space will be used for temporary exhibitions and displays of...

Eleanor Heartney, independent critic, curator and A.i.A. contributor, and Antoine Guerrero, director of operations and exhibitions at P.S.I Contemporary Art Center in New York, have been granted the title of chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters.(Awards & Grants)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Eleanor Heartney, independent critic, curator and A.i.A. contributor, and Antoine Guerrero, director of operations and exhibitions at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York, have been granted the title of chevalier in the Order of Arts and...

Tatiana Trouve is the winner of the 2007 Prix Marcel Duchamp, given to an artist living in France by the Association for the International Diffusion of French Art in partnership with the Pompidou Center.(Awards & Grants)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Tatiana Trouve is the winner of the 2007 Prix Marcel Duchamp, given to an artist living in France by the Association for the International Diffusion of French Art in partnership with the Pompidou Center. The prize includes a show at the...

Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation.(Awards & Grants)(Susan Cross, Stephanie Smith, Kimberli Meyer, Lisa Henry, Nizan Shaked and Gloria Sutton are recipients of Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation 2008 exhibition awards)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation has announced the recipients of its 2008 exhibition awards, given to contemporary art curators in partnership with a museum or nonprofit space to fund a future show. Susan Cross of Mass MoCA receives $135,000...

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.(Awards & Grants)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation recently awarded 35 fellowships, totaling $1.2 million, to artists, scholars and scientists from Latin America and the Caribbean. The visual-art winners are New York-based Pablo Helguera and Carlos...

Marie Walsh Sharper Foundation.(Awards & Grants)(Kim Beck, Erik Benson, Michael Paul Britto, Bibi Calderaro, Michelle Carollo, Rob Carter, Cora Cohen, Franklin Evans, Christopher Gallego, Ezra Johnson, Kakyoung Lee, Kristine Moran, Eric Sall, Diane Wah and Frank Webster are 2008 participants in Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Space Program)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... The Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation has announced the 2008 participants in its Space Program, which provides 17 artists with free studio space for one year in the DUMBO section of Brooklyn. They are Kim Beck, Erik Benson, Michael Paul Britto,...

John Weber 1932-2008.(ARTWORLD)(Obituary)
September 1, 2008... When art dealer John Weber died on May 23, at the age of 75, from pulmonary problems, he was living in a modest apartment in the small upstate city of Hudson, N.Y. As his artist friend Lucio Pozzi wrote in an e-mail eulogy, Weber ended his days...

Obituaries.(ARTWORLD)(Obituary)
September 1, 2008... Bruce Conner, Bay Area artist and filmmaker, died on July 7 in San Francisco. A full obituary will appear in our October issue. Cornell Capa, 90, photojournalist and founding director of the International Center of Photography, died May 23...

In June, the Dia Art Foundation announced that it had chosen Philippe Vergne, deputy director and chief curator at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis since 2005, as its new director.(Dia's New Director)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... In June, the Dia Art Foundation announced that it had chosen Philippe Vergne, deputy director and chief curator at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis since 2005, as its new director. Dia's last director, Jeffrey Weiss, former head of modern...

Richard Armstrong.(People)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Richard Armstrong, director of the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, will retire at the end of the year. Armstrong joined the museum in 1992 as curator of contemporary art, organized the 1995 Carnegie International, and was appointed director...

Cydney Payton.(People)(Cydney Payton has announced her resignation as executive director and chief curator of Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Cydney Payton, since 2001 executive director and chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, has announced her resignation, effective at the end of October. Under her leadership, the museum constructed its first building, a...

Nan Rosenthal, senior consultant for modern and contemporary art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for 15 years, has retired.(People)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Nan Rosenthal, senior consultant for modern and contemporary art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for 15 years, has retired. Her successor is Maria Prather, curator for American art at the Tate Modern from 2005 to '07 and curator of postwar...

John S. Stanley.(People)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... John S. Stanley is the new deputy director of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. He had been chief operating officer and deputy director for programs and services at the Boston MFA since 1995.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.(People)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Gary Carrels, former chief curator and deputy director of exhibitions and public programs at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, has been appointed senior curator of painting and sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Carrels succeeds...

Guggenheim Museum.(People)(Susan Davidson promoted to senior curator at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Vivien Greene appointed to the newly created position of curator of 19th- and early 20th-century art)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... The Guggenheim Museum in New York has promoted senior curator Susan Davidson to the position of senior curator of collections and exhibitions. Assistant curator Vivien Greene has been appointed to the newly created position of curator of 19th-...

C. Griffith Mann.(People)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... C. Griffith Mann, director of the curatorial division of the Waiters Art Museum in Baltimore, is the new chief curator at the Cleveland Museum of Art. He will oversee the curatorial component of the museum's $350-million expansion and...

Juliet Kinchin.(People)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Juliet Kinchin has been named curator in the department of architecture and design at MOMA in New York. Since 2001, she has been a senior lecturer of art history at the University of Glasgow.

Terra Foundation grants for 2008.(People)(Terra Foundation for American Art announced recipients of institutional grants for 2008)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... The Chicago-based Terra Foundation for American Art recently presented two rounds of institutional grants, totaling more than $1.5 million, to support exhibition and education programs promoting American art and culture. The Courtauld Institute...