Recently added articles from Art in America:
New leaders for Major NYC Museums.(FRONT PAGE)
Nov 01, 2008; ... For months, art-world observers had made a parlor game of speculating about who would replace long-time Metropolitan Museum director Philippe de Montebello and Guggenheim Foundation head Thomas Krens. The suspense ended in September. And the winners are ... Met Curator to Top ...
Conversation with a Pop-Art Maestro.(Robert Indiana)(Interview)
Nov 01, 2008 ... EAT The Electric EAT, 1964-2007, aluminum and lights, 78 by 78 by 7 inches. All photos this article, unless otherwise noted, courtesy Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York. This interview was compiled from several conversations with the artist on the telephone and in person ...
Slippery slopes in the dolomites: a premier mechanism of cultural exchange across Europe's porous, post-Cold War borders, Manifesta has, in its seventh version, ventured to a remote region of Italy.(MANIFESTA)
Nov 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The 7th edition of Manifesta, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, consists of four exhibitions conceived by three curatorial teams led by Adam Budak, Anselm Franke and Hila eeleg, and the Delhi-based Raqs Media Collective. In all, more than 200 ...
NY galleries.(Directory)
Nov 01, 2008 ... CHELSEA Aperture Gallery 547 West 27th Street, 4th FI, New York, NY 10001 Tel: 212.505.5555 Fax: 212.5053527 Email: publicity@aperture.org Website: www.aperture.org Tuesday-Saturday: 10:00-6:00 November ...
Faith-based initiatives: curator Franklin Sirmans's look at the spiritual side of contemporary art takes its cue from a writer's vision of religious expression in folk culture.
Nov 01, 2008; ... According to Franklin Sirmans, curator of modern and contemporary art at the Menil Collection in Houston, "'NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith' grew out of a desire to examine the multiple meanings of spirituality in contemporary art." The exhibition, which features work by Janine ...
Sue Williams: David Zwirner.(NEW YORK)
Nov 01, 2008; ... In 1999, Sue Williams told Grady T. Turner, in Flash Art, "My images will probably always start with a line that's part of a body. That's the compulsion behind the line." With the seven large oil paintings and eight drawings in ink and acrylic on acetate in her latest show (all works ...
Matthew Day Jackson: Nicole Klagsbrun and Peter Blum.(NEW YORK)
Nov 01, 2008; ... Given the barrage of references--historical, literary, scientific, cultural, artistic--in this pair of exhibitions, it is a surprise that the young, Brooklyn-based Matthew Day Jackson manages to put a personal stamp on such a broad constellation of interests. But that he does, and what ...
Byron Kim: Max Protetch.(NEW YORK)
Nov 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Byron Kim's exhibition, "The UN Building, Irwin's Disc and Other Paintings," offered relief from the eyeball-sizzling juvenilia local art often feels mired in. Kim's paintings (all 2008) do not lend themselves to a one-look experience. Some degree of ...
Alix Pearlstein: The Kitchen.(NEW YORK)
Nov 01, 2008; ... Streaming across four big screens in the Kitchen's gallery space were the waxing and waning interactions of eight youngish performers locked in a circular pageant of hectic intrigue and confrontation. Alix Pearlstein's four-channel video installation After the Fall was commissioned by, and ...
Keith Edmier: Friedrich Petzel.
Nov 01, 2008; ... Imagine the opportunity to revisit your childhood home, not as it would be today but pretty much as it was when you were four years old. This is the fantasy Keith Edmier has fulfilled with "Bremen Towne," an installation produced for a recent survey of his work at Bard College and ...
Martha Rosier: Mitchell-Innes & Nash.(NEW YORK)
Nov 01, 2008; ... The problem with activist art has always been the passivity of viewers. Having considered the issue from a number of angles, Martha Rosier decided to install, for this exhibition, a turnstile requiring visitors to deposit a quarter before entering. (All proceeds go to nonprofit ...
Thomas Nozkowski: PaceWildenstein.(NEW YORK)
Nov 01, 2008; ... Veteran abstractionist Thomas Nozkowski showed some 20 paintings in the main space here, oil on linen on panel, all of them 22 by 28 inches. In an adjoining room was an equal number of oils on paper, all a uniform 22 by 30 inches. Nozkowski is acutely aware of all the ins and outs and dos ...
Helen Miranda Wilson: DC Moore.(NEW YORK)
Nov 01, 2008; ... Wilson calls her recent series of small oil-on-panel paintings, none larger than 20 by 16 inches, simply "Stripes"; but she does not embrace the minimalistic attitude this generic title implies. We learn from Hayden Herrera's catalogue essay--and can observe for ourselves--that Wilson ...
Katy Moran: Andrea Rosen.(NEW YORK)(Brief article)
Nov 01, 2008; ... The excellent young British painter Katy Moran made her solo American debut with a series of small, discreet, tasteful paintings. Rather than shout for attention with novelty, they seem meant to look--with their accomplished brushwork and refined palette--like they've existed for a long ...
Peter Tollens: Margarete Roeder.(NEW YORK)
Nov 01, 2008; ... Cologne-based Peter Tollens's nominally monochrome paintings are full of quiet dappled light. His recent New York exhibition constituted something of a survey, with works dating from 1991 to 2007. Most were very modestly sized rectangles, varying between 18 and 24 inches on a side, while ...
Sarah Braman: Museum 52.(NEW YORK)
Nov 01, 2008; ... Though she is well-known among habitues of the Lower East Side, sculptor Sarah Braman is no city slicker. In her central Massachusetts studio, she typically works in series ("batches," she calls them) that are defined by a particular unifying material, such as cardboard or colored gels ....
Sudarshan Shetty: Jack Tilton.(NEW YORK)
Nov 01, 2008; ... Mumbai-based Sudarshan Shetty, who has been showing internationally for some time, recently had his first New York solo exhibition at Tilton. The eight mechanized sculptures (all untitled, 2008) seemed to extend the scope of the automated world, offering a finely tuned tumble with the ...
Al Taylor: Zwirner & Wirth.(NEW YORK)
Nov 01, 2008; ... This elegant, witty show offered access to the early work of the late, underknown AI Taylor through an engaging assortment of found materials, including broom handles, woodshop scraps and lengths of wire variously joined, suspended, drawn taut, carpentered or cantilevered. These structures ...
Mark Dion: Tanya Bonakdar.(NEW YORK)
Nov 01, 2008; ... For his fourth show at Bonakdar, Mark Dion made a Wunderkammer--a cabinet of curiosities, an encyclopedic collection of objects, focusing on the historical, geological, archival, natural and archeological. Such collections began in the 16th century as personal endeavors and gradually ...
Larry Poons: Jacobson Howard.(NEW YORK)
Nov 01, 2008; ... Friedel Dzubas Leslie Feely [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Two recent, concurrent exhibitions--"Larry Poons: Throw, Pour, Drip, Spill & Splash, Paintings 1971-1980" at Jacobson Howard Gallery and "Friedel Dzubas: Paintings of the 1970s and 1980s" at Leslie Feely Fine ...