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Articles in Feb, 2008 issue of Art in America

• Godot in the Crescent City: Samuel Beckett's absurdist allegory of thwarted expectations and stubborn hope found a sympathetic audience among New Orleanians still stricken by the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
  by Sally Heller
• Walkabout: Francis Alys's peripatetic actions have won him acclaim on the global scene. A traveling exhibition surveys the career of this multifaceted artist, while a New York installation makes an artwork of his own unusual collection
  by Gregory Volk
• Steve Keister at feature
  by Joe Fyfe
• Jean-Pierre Roy at Rare
  by Casey Ruble
• Lisa Corinne Davis at June Kelly
  by Lilly Wei
• Connor Everts at Cardwell Jimmerson
  by Michael Duncan
• The 2007 Calder Prize, given by the Calder Foundation, was presented to New York-based Zilvinas Kempinas
• Allentown Art Museum
• Art camp at the Presidio?
  by Stephanie Cash
• NY galleries
• Natalie Frank at Mitchell-Innes & Nash
  by Stephanie Gonzalez-Turner
• Kohei Yoshiyuki at Yossi Milo
  by Edward Leffingwell
• Keith Morris Washington at Kenkeleba House
  by Thomas McEvilley
• Lorraine Peltz at Gosia Koscielak
  by Victor M. Cassidy
• MOMA
• John Elderfield, chief curator of painting and sculpture at New York's MOMA
• Renzo Piano
• Parsing Picabia
  by Jori Finkel
• Greenwold's confessions: in his psychologically fraught, dreamlike paintings, Mark Greenwold transforms photographic sources by way of the Northern Renaissance and Baroque
  by Faye Hirsch
• Chris Ofili at David Zwirner
  by David Humphrey
• Christian Tomaszewski at the Sculpture Center
  by David Coggins
• Susan Wanklyn at A.M. Richard
  by Joe Fyfe
• Susan Silton at Solway Jones
  by Christopher Bedford
• Filmmaker Spike Lee is the winner of the Wexner Prize, given by the Wexner Center for the Arts
• Santa Barbara Museum of Art
• Latent history: a landmark survey of British calotypes from the mid-19th century reveals the pleasures and pitfalls of curating historical photography
  by Geoffrey Batchen
• Shipshape pictures: a traveling exhibition focuses on the early two-dimensional works of H. C. Westermann, their formally and emotionally compact construction anticipating his better known wooden sculptures
  by Nancy Princenthal
• Collier Schorr at 303
  by Leigh Anne Miller
• Peter Schuyff at Nicole Klagsbrun
  by Edward Leffingwell
• Carlos & Jason Sanchez at Caren Golden and Parisian Laundry
  by Jean Dykstra
• Phil Collins at Victoria Miro
  by Ana Finel Honigman
• N.C. Art Center's state makeover
  by Stephanie Cash
• Coleccion Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
• Dia moves on
  by Stephanie Cash
• Op art on the street: Veteran painter Julian Stanczak's new public work is a metal relief a full block long
  by Ruth K. Meyer
• Antony Gormley at Sean Kelly
  by Brian Boucher
• Zoe Strauss at Silverstein Photography
  by Debora Kuan
• Thomas Lyon Mills at Luise Ross
  by Michael Amy
• Daniel Heyman at the Print Center
  by Anne R. Fabbri
• Pietro Roccasalva at Galleria Civica d'Arte Contemporanea
  by Cornelia Lauf
• Reina Sofia Museum
• Puryear's tall tales: a traveling survey of Martin Puryear's 30-year-long career as a sculptor highlights a narrative inclination that has become increasingly apparent in his recent work
  by Nancy Princenthal
• Newly energized Artissima
  by David Ebony
• John Armleder: slightly transformed or used verbatim
  by Joe Fyfe
• Martin Honert at Matthew Marks
  by Brian Boucher
• Carol Bove at Maccarone
  by Brian Boucher
• Lauren Olitksi and Jim Walsh at Sideshow
  by Julian Kreimer
• Warren MacKenzie at the Rochester Art Center
  by Janet Koplos
• The French government has conferred its Order of Arts and Letters, given twice annually to individuals worldwide, to the following U.S. residents. Choreographer and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer was made Officier
• Milwaukee Art Museum
• Italy's Northern Lights: now in its 10th year, Luci d'Artista, a seasonal public art project in Turin, features large-scale light installations by prominent Italian and international artists
  by David Ebony
• After the hunt: energetically wrought banisters, door handles and chandeliers are among the fixtures created by Saint Clair Cemin for the renovated Musee de la Chasse et de la Nature in Paris
  by Brooks Adams
• Kukuli Velarde at Garth Clark
  by Janet Koplos
• Daniel Rich at Sunday
  by P.C. Smith
• Abby Leigh at Betty Cuningham
  by Susan Rosenberg
• Kelli Connell at Stephen Wirtz
  by D.C. Murray
• Obituaries
  by Stephanie Cash
• National Gallery of Victoria
• Lux residency for artists
• The unknown Rothko
  by Sheldon Nodelman
• Arlene Shechet at Elizabeth Harris
  by Faye Hirsch
• Steve Giovinco at Jim Kempner
  by Edward Leffingwell
• Charles Pollock at Jason McCoy
  by Susan Rosenberg
• Jon Rajkovich at Lisa Boyle
  by Mark Staff Brandl
• National Academy Museum
• National Academy Museum & School of Fine Arts
• NYC Museums move to secure Picassos
• Sin city slickers: critic and curator Dave Hickey, long a luminary of the Las Vegas—and international—art scene, selected work by 26 former students for an exhibition at the city's only museum for contemporary art
  by Kirsten Swenson
• Sol LeWitt at PaceWildenstein and Paula Cooper
  by Michael Amy
• Keith Tyson at PaceWildenstein
  by Matthew Guy Nichols
• Olivo Barbieri at Yancey Richardson
  by Stephanie Cash
• Ilya and Emilia Kabakov at the Tufts Art Gallery
  by Nancy Princenthal
• Jeff Koons at Gagosian
  by James F. Schlatter
• CAA awards for 2008
• Arizona State University Art Museum
• Abramovic foundation for Hudson
  by David Ebony
• The Italian job: some works shone and a few fizzled—in P.S.1's recent survey of contemporary art from Italy. The beleaguered project opened on schedule, but not without compromise
  by Marcia E. Vetrocq
• Keith Sonnier at Castelli
  by Stephen Maine
• Morton Bartlett at Julie Saul
  by Edward Leffingwell
• Alejandra Icaza at Edward Tyler Nahem
  by Jonathan Goodman

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