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Articles in March, 2007 issue of Art in America

• Best Shows of 2005-06
• Money talks Mandarin: China has suddenly become the world's hottest contemporary art market. What are the effects on artists of this massive influx of cash? In a candid roundtable, three seasoned observers give their views
  by Richard Vine
• Morris's eye language: a recent retrospective highlighted the evocative, abstract sculptures and sumi-ink drawings of Portland modernist Hilda Morris—a body of work influenced by the art of East Asia and the indigenous forms of the Pacific Northwest
  by Sue Taylor
• Susan Rothenberg at Sperone Westwater
  by Nancy Princenthal
• "Contested Spaces" at Baruch College and "Into the Future" at Plus Ultra
  by Thomas McEvilley
• Joan Jonas at Dia: Beacon
  by Gregory Volk
• Franziska Furter at Schleicher + Lange
  by David Coggins
• The Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland recently selected the London-based firm Foreign Office Architects to plan a new home for the museum
• Storefront for Art and Architecture
• The year in feminist art
  by Leigh Anne Miller
• New Orleans, lost & found: in a recent exhibition and book, Robert Polidori, known for making startling images of architecture around the world, turns his camera on post-Katrina desolation
  by Marcia E. Vetrocq
• Trevor Paglen at Bellwether
  by Brian Boucher
• Kate Gilmore at Pierogi
  by David Coggins
• David Driskell at DC Moore
  by Eleanor Heartney
• Nancy Evans at Dangerous Curve
  by Michael Duncan
• Ambreen Butt recently won the 2006 Maud Morgan Prize, given annually to a female Massachusetts-based artist by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• Brooklyn Museum
• CAA awards for 20007
• Katrina Journal: six months after catastrophe hit the city, the artist revisited sites in New Orleans that he had drawn several years earlier; destruction had rendered many locales unrecognizable
  by Wolf Kahn
• Serge Spitzer at Nyehaus
  by Saul Ostrow
• Sean Paul at Elizabeth Dee
  by Marcia E. Vetrocq
• Lindsay Brant at Haswellediger
  by Edward Leffingwell
• Sharon Booma at Arden
  by Colin Fleming
• Ricarda Roggan at Eigen+Art
  by Matthias Harder
• Obituaries
• Paul Master-Karnik, director for more than 22 years of the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln, Mass., has announced his resignation
• San Diego MCA expands
  by Leah Ollman
• Beauty and desecration: Marilyn Minter's photo-realist enamel paintings and large-scale photographs combine the brash energy of popular culture with an understated awareness of art history
  by Barry Schwabsky
• Pat Lipsky at Elizabeth Harris
  by Karen Wilkin
• Esko Mannikko at Yancey Richardson
  by Edward Leffingwell
• Laurie Fendrich at Katharina Rich Perlow
  by Nancy Princenthal
• Andy Moses at McClain
  by Frances Colpitt
• Doug Dubois is the winner of the Gutmann Photography Fellowship, given by the San Francisco Foundation
• Denver Art Museum
• Floodwall's originality challenged
• French museums Sans Frontieres
  by Stephanie Cash
• Exhibitions aid NOMA restoration
  by Faye Hirsch
• Ligon's color theory: emotionally fraught passages in the cultural construction of race and gender are explored throughout Glenn Ligon's work, the subject of a traveling survey
  by Matthew Guy Nichols
• Robert Colescott at Kravets/Wehby
  by Sarah Valdez
• Carlos Garaicoa at Lombard-Freid
  by Carey Lovelace
• Allen Uzikee Nelson and George Smith at Wilmer Jennings
  by Thomas McEvilley
• Coleen Sterritt at D.E.N. Contemporary
  by Constance Mallinson
• The Rotterdam-based Jaap Bakema Foundation has given its inaugural fellowship for research on terrorism and its impact on architecture to Tim S. de Boer
• The UCLA Hammer Museum
• Netherlands Architecture Institute
• China's "Art in America"
• Reading images
  by Andy Grundberg
• The persistence of suffering: in his painterly, often multi-paneled paintings, Jerome Witkin takes a long, hard look at human vulnerability and the cruelty, both private the historical, that it repeatedly summons into being
  by Peter Selz
• Tal R at Zach Feuer
  by David Humphrey
• Abelardo Morell at Bonni Benrubi
  by Edward Leffingwell
• William Anastasi and Lucio Pozzi at White Box
  by Brian Boucher
• Ronald Hall at the University of Puget Sound
  by Matthew Kangas
• The Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, Calif., opened its new Dorothy and Donald Kennedy Wing on Feb. 18
• Elizabeth Thomas, independent curator and former associate curator at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, has been appointed curator of the MATRIX program for contemporary art at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
• Abu Dhabi: arts hot spot
  by Stephanie Cash
• Remapping the art world: the most recent Sydney Biennale focused on the shifting encounters—cultural, political, economic, symbolic—that increasingly characterize our globalist century
  by Lilly Wei
• Ellsworth Kelly at Matthew Marks
  by Nancy Princethal
• Brian Block and Noah Khoshbin at Participant
  by Brian Boucher
• Leo Velledor and Mario Yrisarry at Mitchell Algus
  by Michael Amy
• Bill Sullivan at the Albany Institute of History & Art
  by Alfred Corn
• Carole Benzaken at Nathalie Obadia
  by Paul B. Franklin
• The Baltimore Museum of Art recently announced a $10-million promised gift from museum trustee Dorothy McIlvain Scott, the largest individual donation in the museum's history
• Foundation of Self-Taught American Artists
• Feminism's future explored at MOMA
  by Nancy Princenthal
• Inventing Finland: along with a group of other progressive young Finns at the turn of the 20th century—composers, architects, industrialists, activists and fellow artists—the multi-skilled Akseli Gallen-Kallela helped to shape a cultural identit
  by Joe Martin Hill
• Steve Mumford at Postmasters
  by Cathy Lebowitz
• Chris Twomey at Tribes
  by Carey Lovelace
• Judith Murray at Sundaram Tagore
  by Jonathan Goodman
• Steve Hurd at Rosamund Felsen.
  by Michael Duncan
• The George Sugarman Foundation recently announced 23 grants totaling $33,095 for 2006
• Walker Art Center
• The Foundation for Contemporary Arts has awarded 10 grants, worth $25,000 each, to individuals in various fields
• Tours of Judd facilities
• Education of the senses: Diller Scofidio + Renfro's splendid new home for the Boston ICA explores the relationship between culture and sight
  by Tom McDonough
• John Baldessari at Marian Goodman
  by Stephen Maine
• Damien Hirst at Gagosian
  by Eleanor Heartney
• Jim Long at CUE Art Foundation
  by Melissa Kunz
• Josh Garber at Zolla/Lieberman
  by Victor M. Cassidy
• Architect and urban planner Denise Scott Brown was recently honored with a 2007 Vilcek Foundation Prize
• NYC arts groups get a breather

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