Art in America
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Articles in Jan 2007 issue of Art in America
- Maki designs art complex in St. Louis
by Mel Watkin - Anton Henning at Zach Feuer
by Brian Boucher - Carlo Nangeroni at Esso
by Edward Leffingwell - Margaret Evangeline at the Hilliard Art Museum and at Heriard-Cimino
by Lilly Wei - Giuseppe Pietroniro at Fondazione Olivetti
by Cornelia Lauf - J. Paul Getty Trust
- Tacita Dean is the winner of the $50,000 Hugo Boss Prize, given biennially by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
- Adventures in hyperspace
by David Ebony - Matthew Ritchie at Andrea Rosen
by Kirsten Swenson - Lorser Feitelson at Washburn
by Edward Leffingwell - Kathryn Refi at Solomon Projects
by Cathy Byrd - Saskia Leek at Jonathan Smart
by Roger Boyce - Harvard University Art Museums
- German artist Tomma Abts has won the approximately $50,000 Turner Prize, given by the Tate Britain in London
- The voices of geezerdom
by Raphael Rubinstein - Yayoi Kusama at Robert Miller
by Edward Leffingwell - Julian Hatton at Elizabeth Harris
by Faye Hirsch - Matthew Girson at Sonnenschein Gallery, Lake Forest College
by Susan Snodgrass - Art schools
- Contemporary Arts Museum
- The new participants in the biannual Rolex Mentor and Protege Arts Initiative have been announced
- NY galleries
- Greg Bogin at Leo Koenig
by Stephen Maine - Isabelle Champion Metadier at the Chelsea Art Museum
by Michael Amy - Joanne Lefrak at the Center for Contemporary Arts
by Sarah S. King - Art services
- San Antonio Museum of Art
- The French Ministry of Culture has conferred its medals of the Order of Arts and Letters
- Sins of omission: Korea's sixth Gwangju Biennale defined Asian identityand redefined political cantvia selective cultural blindness
by Richard Vine - Barnaby Furnas at Marianne Boesky
by David Humphrey - Ceal Floyer at the Swiss Institute
by Brian Boucher - Michael Gonzalez at Solo Projects
by Michael Duncan - 2006 Ad
- American Federation of Arts
- Paula Cooper was also recently awarded the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art Medal for her work with contemporary artists
- Window of opportunity: the recent opening of the Hyde Park Art Center in new quarters provides Chicago with a chance, rare in any art community, to rethink the overall ecology of its art institutions and their missions
by Susan Snodgrass - Nanette Carter at G.R. N'Namdi
by Jonathan Goodman - Elizabeth Cooper at Thrust Projects
by Stephen Maine - Peter Voulkos at Braunstein Quay
by Mark Van Proyen - 2006 Ad
- United States Artists has announced the winners of its first round of fellowships, totaling $2.5 million
- Bartlett shows her colors: a conceptualist by origin, a painter at heart, and, increasingly, a rollicking storyteller, Jennifer Bartlett has recently received wide attention for work both old and new
by Vincent Katz - Judy Glantzman at Betty Cuningham
by Michael Duncan - Amanda Church at Michael Steinberg
by David Humphrey - Marita Dingus at Francine Seders
by Matthew Kangas - 2006 Ad
- The Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation has announced the recipients of its annual $25,000 grants, given to women artists over age 35
- Living in a Devil Town: long an underground cult hero to musicians, Daniel Johnston has more recently captured the attention of the art world in colorful, cartoonish drawings that relate the struggle between good and evil
by Faye Hirsch - John Salvest at Morgan Lehman
by Michael Amy - Elizabeth Peyton at Guild Hall
by Faye Hirsch - Jun Kaneko at the Contemporary Museum at First Hawaiian Center
by Marcia Morse - The International Center of Photography in New York recently presented its annual Infinity Awards
- Torkwase Dyson, Suzanne McClelland and Stephen Westfall are the recipients of $25,000 grants from the Nancy Graves Foundation
- Light masonry: since 1998, Sean Scully has been laboring on an ambitious series, now numbering some 200 works, devoted to the phenomenology of walls. In a selection installed in sky-lit galleries at the Met, these paintings, watercolors and prints take on
by Lilly Wei - Margarita Cabrera at Sara Meltzer
by Anastasia Aukeman - Colin Cochran at Joyce Goldstein
by Edward M. Gomez - Annie Pootoogook at the Power Plant
by Melissa Kuntz - Obituaries
- The Chicago-based Terra Foundation for American Art has announced a new round of grants, totaling $829,000, to 14 institutions and foundations
- An iconography of torture: exhibited recently in New York, Fernando Botero's Abu Ghraib series of paintings and drawings graphically depicts Iraqi prisoners undergoing abuse at the hands of their U.S. captors
by Eleanor Heartney - Takeshi Kawashima at Mitchell Algus
by Edward Leffingwell - John O'Reilly at Howard Yezerski
by Ann Wilson Lloyd - Simon English at Fred
by Ana Finel Honigman - Benny Andrews, 1930-2006
by Stephanie Cash - 2006 Ad