Art in America
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Articles in April 2005 issue of Art in America
- Harald Szeemann, 1933-2005
by Marcia E. Vetrocq - Constructing a biennial: sixty-two international artists took part in last fall's first-ever Lodz Biennale, launching the manufacturing city's unconventional Artists' Museum
by Christopher Lyon - Seeing through stone: Natalie Charkow Hollander's deeply carved reliefs offer a sophisticated take on, and view into, the conceptual spaces of renowned paintings. A recent gallery survey covered more than 20 years' work
by Karen Wilkin - Tomoko Sawada at Zabriskie
by Edward Leffingwell - Gerome Kamrowski at Washburn
by Edward Leffingwell - Lutz Bacher at American Fine Arts and Participant, Inc
by Maura Reilly - Suzanne Scherer and Pavel Ouporov at Turner Carroll
by Sarah S. King - Minneapolis Institute of Arts
- Architect Santiago Calatrava has received the 2005 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts
- The Franz and Virginia Bader Fund has awarded grants totaling $50,000 to three artists over the age of 40 in the Washington, D.C., area
- Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art
- Walker Art Center doubles size
by Janet Koplos - The persistence of history: three satellite shows accompanying the inaugural Lodz Biennale offered visitors a rare all-Polish contemporary art experience
by Christopher Lyon - The right moves: Alfred Leslie in the fifties: although best known these days for his heroically scaled figurative paintings, Alfred Leslie spent the 1950s working in an intentionally raw Abstract-Expressionist vein. A recent show of these early works cap
by Richard Kalina - Carol Szymanski at Elga Wimmer
by Sarah Schmerler - John Biggers at Michael Rosenfeld
by Jonathan Goodman - Johannes Girardoni at Stephen Haller
by Tracey Hummer - Tom LaDuke at Angles
by Constance Mallinson - Paris Review
- Gary Schneider has been presented with the $40,000 Lou Stoumen Prize
- Obituaries
- "Fantasy" passports seized
by Faye Hirsch - Narcissus of modernism: a document-rich exhibition detailed the life of the mercurial Jean Cocteau, who helped shape visual, literary and dramatic arts in the 20th century
by Peter Gallo - Not-so-still-life: in his recent work, Andrew Lord continues to address issues of painting through the medium of clay, as well as to shape his sculptures by unorthodox methods
by Janet Koplos - Joan Snyder at Betty Cuningham and Alexandre
by Susan Harris - Irving Kriesberg at Peter Findlay
by Elisa Decker - Sook Jin Jo at OK Harris
by Eleanor Heartney - Michael Knutson at Blackfish Gallery
by Sue Taylor - Menil Collection
- Fernando Botero recently established in his home country a prize for a young Colombian artist; worth about $45,000, the Botero Prize will be given annually by the Foundation for Young Colombian Artists
- Increase for NEA in Bush budget
- The Tristan Project
by Arden Reed - NY galleries
- Landscape seen and thought: a six-decade survey revealed the often sublime and always disciplined vision of Helen Lundeberg, one of L.A.'s most admired painters
by Michael Duncan - Lisa Hoke at Elizabeth Harris
by Stephen Maine - Lester Johnson at James Goodman
by Matthew Guy Nichols - Rainer Gross at Axel Raben
by Michael Amy - Brian Murphy at Suyama Space and Platform
by Suzanne Beal - The Dallas Museum of Art recently announced several gifts of art works and cash from various long-time museum patrons
- Charles Guilbert and Serge Murphy were recently presented with the $10,000 Bell Canada Award in Video Art
- Terra Grant for American Art Archives
- New Nasher Museum for Duke University
by Stephanie Cash - Down under no more: with globalization now an art-world fait accompli, Australia has outgrown its status as a promising outpost and become, increasingly, an art center in its own right
by Richard Kalina - Bryan Hunt at Mitchell-Innes & Nash
by Matthew Guy Nichols - Torben Giehler at Leo Koenig
by Edward Leffingwell - Brice Dellsperger at Team
by Catherine LaSota - Alan Kleiman at Robert Steele
by Edward Leffingwell - Timothy P. Ojile at the Honolulu Academy of Arts
by Marcia Morse - New York's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum recently proposed a $75-million expansion project
- The Pasadena-based Flintridge Foundation has presented 10 biennial awards of $25,000 each to visual artists in California and the Northwest who have produced consistently high quality work for at least 20 years
- CAA Awards for 2005
- Siqueiros mural rediscovered
by David Ebony - Body double: borrowing a conceit from Goya, photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders depicts the same subjects twice—once clothed, once not—in his recent series of porn-star portraits
by Sarah Valdez - Verne Dawson at Gavin Brown
by Steven Vincent - Leon Ferrari at the Drawing Room
by Lyle Rexer - Judith Page at Luise Ross
by Edward Leffingwell - Cindy Sherman at the Montclair Art Museum
by Daniel Belasco - Heimo Zobernig at Christian Nagel
by Arden Reed - Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum recently hired architect Renzo Piano to design a new multi-story building on a site adjacent to the existing structure, a faux-15th-century Venetian palace
- The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture has announced the winners of its Iris Foundation Awards for outstanding contributions to the decorative arts
- New Museum for northern Spain
by David Ebony - Columbus Circle plan OK
- The authority problem: in a multigenerational gathering, 27 video makers and conceptual artists confronted the question of institutional control, as well as a range of social ills
by Paula Harper - Oliver Herring at Max Protetch
by Michael Rush - Wang Tiande at Chambers Fine Art
by Jonathan Goodman - Richard Segalman at Katharina Rich Perlow
by Catherine Bindman - Marcos Raya at the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum
by Victor M. Cassidy - Javier de Juan at Max Estrella
by Terry Berne - Recipients of the Skowhegan Awards, given by the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, have been announced
- The Mitchell Prize, given biennially for outstanding scholarship in the visual arts, was recently awarded to Colin B. Bailey
- Studio Museum
- New wing for Penn Academy
- Thinking, mapping, painting: over the last decade, Terry Winters has increasingly sought to translate systems of information—and the ways we think about them—into pictorial space
by Carol Diehl - David Wojnarowicz at P.P.O.W. and Roth Horowitz
by Faye Hirsch - Kristin Calabrese at Leo Koenig
by Joe Fyfe - Linden Frederick at Forum
by Faye Hirsch - Daniel Raedeke at Laumeier Sculpture Park
by Mel Watkin - Art services
- Artists Louise Bourgeois, Helen Frankenthaler and R.B. Kitaj were each recently awarded
- Artist Pierre Bismuth, along with co-writers Charlie Kaufman and Michel Gondry, won the Academy Award