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Articles in April, 2008 issue of Art in America

• Risks and rewards on the Bowery: in which the new New Museum of Contemporary Art is viewed as an urbanistic success with somewhat less happy consequences for the galleries inside
  by Joseph Giovannini
• Process, image and elegy: a number of exhibitions have lately turned the spotlight on Jack Whitten, whose 40-year career is a vital link between Ab-Ex painterliness and a more contemporary engagement with unorthodox processes and Internet inspirations
  by Saul Ostrow
• Willem de Kooning at Allan Stone
  by Edward Leffingwell
• Yishai Jusidman at Yvon Lambert
  by Michael Harvey
• Alec Soth at Martin Weinstein
  by David Coggins
• Jamie Vasta at Patricia Sweetow
  by Melissa E. Feldman
• Brooklyn-based artist Xaviera Simmons is the winner of the 2008 David C. Driskell Prize, worth $25,000
• James Gallery
• Eyes wide shut: in the film "The Science of Sleep" and a related installation, Michel Gondry played with scientific findings that have recently engaged other artists interested in dreams and unconscious behavior
  by Nancy Princenthal
• The breath of sculpture: current scholarship has restored to the Quattrocento master Desiderio da Settignano works long attributed to others. A small but significant exhibition revealed the striking modernity of his vision
  by Brandt Junceau
• Fassbinder: Berlin Alexanderplatz at P.S.1
  by Brian Boucher
• Mounir Fatmi at Lombard-Freid
  by Michael Harvey
• Hugo Bastidas at Nohra Haime
  by Denise Carvalho
• Reverse Trash Streams: The Junk Mail Project At L.A. Contemporary
  by Kirsten Swenson
• Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
• Grants for arts writers
• Nazi loot show in France & Israel
• Corrections
• Double birth: the new Ullens Center for Contemporary Art opened with a survey of the '85 New Wave, China's first nationwide avant-garde movement
  by Phyllis Tuchman
• Pat Steir at Cheim & Read
  by Matthew Guy Nichols
• Jill Moser at Lennon, Weinberg
  by Faye Hirsch
• Guillermo Kuitca at Gallery Met
  by Jonathan Gilmore
• James Stephens at Oakland University Art Gallery
  by Vince Carducci
• Shezad Dawood at Paradise Row
  by Ana Finel Honigman
• The George Sugarman Foundation recently gave its 2007 grants, totaling $50,000, to 40 artists
• Wave Hill
• Mind and matter: "Common Senses" brings together more than a dozen artists who have examined the mind-body problem using the insights—and imaging technology—of brain science
  by Eleanor Heartney
• Where words go: Lawrence Weiner's essentially nomadic oeuvre has paused for a time in a voluble retrospective that explores many aspects of his language-based career
  by Faye Hirsch
• Willem de Kooning at L&M and Gagosian
  by David Humphrey
• Ashley Hope at Tilton
  by Casey Ruble
• Lori Nix at Randall Scott
  by Sidney Lawrence
• Emerson Woelffer at Hackett-Freedman
  by Mark Van Proyen
• Brazilian artist Cildo Meireles and Hammer Museum curator James Elaine are the recipients of the 2008 Ordway Prize, given by Creative Link for the Arts and the New Museum of Contemporary Art
• Ullens Center of Contemporary Art in Beijing
• Art and science, on speaking terms
  by Nancy Princenthal
• The American Craft Council
• An unsettled eye: the most expansive exhibition ever of Lee Miller's photographs reveals little-known aspects of a career intensely lived
  by Barry Schwabsky
• Kristin Lucas at Postmasters
  by Michael Rush
• John Simon Jr. at Gering & Lopez
  by Nancy Princenthal
• Domenico Zindato at Phyllis Kind
  by Edward M. Gomez
• Stuart Arends at James Kelly Contemporary
  by Sarah S. King
• Art in General
• NEA funding whiplash
• AIDS Altarpiece tours U.S
  by Steven C. Dubin
• Mies: Nazi or not?
  by Peter Selz
• In freely associative states: Jeremy Blake's last, unfinished DVD—a kaleidoscopic portrait of a pop-culture maven—was the centerpiece of two recent exhibitions of his new-media work
  by Edward Leffingwell
• Robert Olsen at Plane Space
  by David Coggins
• Javier Pinon at ZieherSmith
  by David Coggins
• Hanno Otten at Janet Borden
  by Edward Leffingwell
• Sylvia Fein at the Bakersfield Art Museum
  by Michael Duncan
• Menil plans for drawing institute
• Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford
• Dealers aim high at the Art Show
  by David Ebony
• Make it new: with a four-part show inaugurating its sleek facility on the Bowery, the once-scrappy New Museum faces a tough question: can its cutting edge stay sharp?
  by Eleanor Heartney
• Line analysis: an artist of the accumulative, Diana Cooper uses craft materials to create simple geometric shapes whose wild proliferation, however playful, lends her work an Orwellian cast
  by Lilly Wei
• Steven Charles at Marlborough Chelsea
  by Brian Boucher
• Anne Harris at Alexandre
  by Jonathan Goodman
• Gary Justis at the Elmhurst Art Museum
  by Victor M. Cassidy
• Gabriel de la Mora at OMR
  by Edward M. Gomez
• The 2008 Skowhegan Awards will be presented this month
• Blaffer Gallery
• In memoriam: as long as American troops continue to be killed in Iraq, artist Jane Hammond will honor them in an open-ended installation
  by Faye Hirsch
• David Adamo at Fruit and Flower Deli
  by Brian Boucher
• Not Vital at Sperone Westwater
  by Janet Koplos
• Liz Craft at Marianne Boesky
  by Janet Koplos
• Thomas Woodruff at the California State University Art Museum
  by Michael Duncan
• Critics' faves of 2006-07
• Artnet relaunches online auctions
• Presenting the New School collection
  by Janet Koplos
• The geometry of sight: five major installations were commissioned for a survey of work by Robert Irwin, who pioneered the use of art as a tool for shaping the experience of space
  by Leah Ollman
• NY galleries
• Bridget Riley at PaceWildenstein
  by Catherine Spaeth
• Alfonso Ossorio at Michael Rosenfeld
  by Saul Ostrow
• John Himmelfarb at Luise Ross
  by Jonathan Goodman
• Michael Bise at Moody
  by Charles Dee Mitchell
• Martin Klimas at Cosar
  by Matthias Harder
• Obituaries
• Selling art to fund operations
  by Stephanie Cash
• Richard Tuttle at Sperone Westwater
  by Stephen Maine
• AICA Lifetime Achievement Award

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