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Articles in Oct, 2006 issue of Art in America

• Art Cologne overhaul
• Tides and tidings: long known for large-scale wall drawings in which raucous crowds enact allegorical tales, Nicole Eisenman recently turned her muralist bent to canvas, devising a two-part epic in which art and lesbian motherhood are cast onto a remote y
  by Faye Hirsch
• Eric Mitchell at Mitchell Algus
  by Carlo McCormick
• Ruth Stanford at the Mattress Factory
  by Leigh Anne Miller
• Paolo Chiasera at Francesca Minini
  by Angelo Capasso
• Photographic flaneurs
  by Andy Grundberg
• Gary Simmons at the Bohen Foundation
  by Eleanor Heartney
• Nicola Tyson at Friedrich Petzel
  by Faye Hirsch
• Su-Mei Tse at Franklin Art Works
  by Janet Koplos
• The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York has announced the winners of the 2006 National Design Awards, to be presented on Oct. 18
• Met Opera enlists art stars
  by Leigh Anne Miller
• The art of relationships: for Betye Saar and her daughters Lezley and Alison, making provocative art that connects personal and social history is a family tradition. Their work is the subject of two traveling exhibitions
  by Eleanor Heartney
• Matthew Pillsbury at Bonni Benrubi
  by Edward Leffingwell
• Natasha Sweeten at Edward Thorp
  by Edward Leffingwell
• Patrick Corillon at In Situ: Fabienne Leclerc
  by David Coggins
• Correction
• Li-lan at Jason McCoy
  by Jonathan Goodman
• Alison Saar at LA Louver
  by Michael Duncan
• The Barnes Foundation
• Gelah Penn at Kentler and Darn, Stuhltrager
  by Leigh Anne Miller
• Glexis Novoa at the Lowe Art Museum
  by Paula Harper
• Christie's to sell restituted Klimts
• Russell Crotty at CRG
  by Edward Leffingwell
• Christoph Ruckhaberle at Zach Feuer
  by David Coggins
• Key Iraqi culture chief resigns
• Luxembourg goes contemporary
• Barth ranges wide: luminous hues and disorienting scale still characterize Frances Barth's paintings, which now also feature exaggeratedly horizontal formats and hints of landscape. A recent survey traveled from Dartmouth to the New York Studio School
  by Karen Wilkin
• Su-en Wong at Danese
  by Michael Amy
• Scott Stack at Monique Meloche
  by Susan Snodgrass
• Julian Rosefeldt at Arndt & Partner
  by Axel Lapp
• New Koolhaas Museum in Seoul
• Magical thinking: conjuring lavish visual environments from the most ordinary materials, and drawing outlandish tales from true stories, Saskia Olde Wolbers makes videos of hypnotic beauty
  by Nancy Princenthal
• Tejal Shah at Thomas Erben
  by Carey Lovelace
• Andrew Ross at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia
  by Rebecca Dimling Cochran
• Tony Bevan at IVAM
  by Lyle Rexer
• Refreshing the Smithsonian
  by Lee Rosenbaum
• An infinity of objects: in his latest works, one of them on an atypically grand scale, Josiah McElheny plays upon modernist designs to undermine the certitudes of modernity
  by Gregory Volk
• Joanna Malinowska at Canada
  by David Coggins
• Angelo Filomeno at Marianne Boesky
  by Susan Harris
• Slawomir Elsner at Sutton Lane
  by Jane Neal
• Obituaries
  by Stephanie Cash
• A museum of his own: the blue-chip art collection of French businessman Francois Pinault recently debuted at the revamped Palazzo Grassi
  by Marcia E. Vetrocq
• Jim Toia at Kim Foster
  by Leigh Anne Miller
• Art schools
• College Art Association
• Protect us from what we don't know: in two recent gallery exhibitions, Jenny Holzer used declassified government documents and contemporary poetry as sources for her artworks, including an unprecedented display of oil paintings
  by Cathy Lebowitz
• Brendan O'Connell at Morgan Lehman
  by Joe Fyfe
• Julio Galan 1959-2006
  by Raphael Rubinstein
• Jason Rhoades 1965-2006
  by Stephanie Cash
• Eduardo Sarabia at I-20
  by Eleanor Heartney
• Arlene Shechet at Hemphill
  by J.W. Mahoney
• Contemporary art center for Portugal
• Street life: the fourth Berlin Biennial drew on the complex history of a single street, and on art of the past 30 years, to provide a rich context for new work by an international roster of artists
  by Richard Kalina
• Joseph Marioni at Peter Blum
  by Stephen Maine
• Tracy Moffatt at Steven Kasher
  by Lilly Wei
• Kristen Morgin at Marc Selwyn
  by Leah Ollman
• The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Conn., has presented its 2006 Emerging Artist Award to Josh Azzarella
• Munchs recovered
• The decollation of Saint Marcel: evoking Salome and St. John the Baptist, a critically neglected 1937 photo-tableau epitomizes Marcel Duchamp's self-defined roles as perpetual Bachelor, cultural prophet and conceptualist king
  by Sheldon Nodelman
• II Lee at Art Projects International
  by Edward Leffingwell
• Elaine Spatz-Rabinowitz at OK Harris
  by Edward Leffingwell
• Scott Burton at Albion
  by David Coggins
• The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston has given grants to visual artists from Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas as part of the Katrina Artists Trust Fund
• One life to paint
  by Peter Plagens
• Siobhan Liddell at CRG
  by Anna Blume
• Gerard Garouste at Daniel Templon
  by Paul B. Franklin
• Cincinnati Art Museum
• Josef Albers and Yuko Shiraishi at Leonard Hutton
  by Kirsten Swenson
• Eddie Martinez at ZieherSmith
  by David Coggins
• Lebanese museum destroyed
  by Christopher Kuhl
• Samuel Palmer's luminous garden: the subject of a recent survey at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, London-born Samuel Palmer produced intimate, hallucinatory landscapes that convey his reverence for nature during the 19th-century Industrial Revolution
  by David Ebony
• James Barsness at George Adams
  by Cary Levine
• Art services
• Newcomb Art Gallery
• A slow-motion biennial: in a striking departure from most such exhibitions, the current SITE Santa Fe Biennial focuses on a small number of artists, many of them in midcareer
  by Frances Colpitt
• Peter Rostovsky at The Project
  by Edward Leffingwell
• Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao at Julie Saul
  by Michael Amy
• Wangechi Mutu at SFMOMA
  by D.C. Murray
• Milan's Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro recently announced the winners of its first international competition for young sculptors
• The Colossus of Bolton Landing: a survey at the Guggenheim, on the centennial of David Smith's birth, served as a reminder of his formal originality and prodigious output
  by Kenneth E. Silver

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