Recently added articles from Art in America:
Who's on fourth?(HOMEPAGE)(Fourth Plinth, public art display)
Oct 01, 2009; Vetrocq, Marcia E. ... WHEN THE INTERNATIONAL ARTERATI descend on London at mid-month for the Frieze Art Fair, some may nip over to Trafalgar Square to catch the final hours of One & Other, Antony Gormley's project for the Fourth Plinth. Or they may have gotten their fill of the 100-day relay, thanks to ...
An African-American legacy lost to flames.(INsight)(Peggy Cooper Cafritz's modern African American art caught on fire)
Oct 01, 2009; Cash, Stephanie ... A CATASTROPHIC FIRE on July 29 gutted the home of Washington, D.C., arts patron and political figure Peggy Cooper Cafritz, known for her outstanding collection of contemporary African-American art, as well as her considerable Latin American and Asian holdings, virtually all of which were ...
Art: 21.(THE SHORTLIST)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2009; ... Set your DVR: Art:21, the popular PBS series that takes viewers into artists' studios, premieres its fifth season on Oct. 7, with additional episodes airing Oct. 14, 21 and 28. Among the 14 artists ...
Herb and Dorothy.(THE SHORTLIST)(documentary on art collectors)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2009; ... Also couch-worthy this month is Herb and Dorothy, the hour-long documentary about the unassuming collector couple. The Vegels--he a former postal worker, she a librarian-amassed an impressive collection of Minimalist and Conceptual art ...
Gagosian Gallery.(THE SHORTLIST)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2009; ... The sun never sets on Larry Gagosian's empire. Gagosian Gallery opened a new space in Athens on Sept. 25. The dealer now has nine locations: New York (3), Beverly Hills, ...
On Oct. 10, Donald Judd's 15 concrete works from the early '80s go back on view at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Tex., after a two-year restoration.(THE SHORTLIST)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2009; ... On Oct. 10, Donald Judd's 15 concrete works from the early '80s go back on view at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Tex., after a two-year ...
Guidelines for the Care and Handling of Donald Judd Works in Metal.(THE SHORTLIST)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2009; ... Windex or Fantastik? In other Judd news, the Judd Foundation has released the manual Guidelines for the Care and Handling of Donald Judd Works in Metal, by conservator Eleanora Nagy. The ...
Artists take on opera.(INsight)(Zhang Huan and Matthew Ritchie's stage design)
Oct 01, 2009; Vine, Richard ... OVER THE PAST 15 YEARS, Chinese artist Zhang Huan has gone from offering nude solo performances in Beijing's impoverished East Village enclave to conducting a worldwide career that encompasses a 2007 retrospective at New York's Asia Society [see A.i.A., Dec. '07], representation by ...
Dallas scores again.(INsight)(Dallas stadium features art)
Oct 01, 2009; Cash, Stephanie ... IN RECENT YEARS Dallas has significantly bolstered its visibility on the international art scene, from the 2008 opening of the Renzo Piano-designed Nasher Sculpture Center to the debut on Oct. 12 of the ambitious $254-million Dallas Center for the Performing Arts, comprising the Winspear ...
Preference.(REVISION NUMBER ELEVEN)(Essay)
Oct 01, 2009; Hickey, Dave ... IN MY DREAM LAST NIGHT, I was strolling past an art fair booth. An art consultant in pale couture and a Joe Pesci-type guy in a flashy Zegna suit were looking at a hideous red and blue gouache, framed, matted and set up on a white stand. Awkward daubs of paint extended out onto the framing ...
A tribute to Merce: when Merce Cunningham died last July at age 90, A.i.A. asked Tacita Dean, the last in a distinguished line of visual artists who collaborated with the legendary choreographer, to reflect on her experience of working with the master.(REMEMBERING)(In memoriam)
Oct 01, 2009; Dean, Tacita ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I AM IN THE UNIQUE position of still being able to work with Merce Cunningham. I encounter him daily, listening to him and taking my cues from him, as I spend my summer cutting the film we decided to make together last year. His death has meant I have lost ...
What keeps collaboration alive? WHW, the curators of this year's Istanbul Biennia, are four Croatian women who have been working together for a decade. Here they discuss their exhibition and the ways they galvanize their collaboration.(CURATING)(Interview)
Oct 01, 2009; Heartney, Eleanor ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] What, How & for Whom/WHW, the curators of the 11th International Istanbul Biennial ("What Keeps Mankind Alive?"), are a Croatian collective consisting of Ivet Curlin, Ana Devic, Natasa Ilic and Sabina Sabolovic. Since they joined forces in 1999, the four ...
Aurora Robson with Edward M. Gomez.(IN THE STUDIO)(Interview)
Oct 01, 2009; Gomez, Edward M. ... AURORA ROBSON IS A SELF-MADE WOMAN. Born in Toronto in 1972, she had a challenging childhood. Her parents, she recalls, were creative and eccentric "in a hippie mode"; her mother painted, and her father was "a Shakespearean actor, a writer, a photographer and a poet." He was also a drug ...
New York.(Calendar)
Oct 01, 2009; ... CHELSEA Bowery Gallery 530 W 25th St., 4th Floor, New York, NY 10001 Tel: 646.230.6655 Fax 646.230.6655 Web site: www.bowerygallery.org Tuesday-Saturday, 11:00-6:00 Through October 3: Anne Delaney, "What bleeds ...
Propaganda in the garden: proving that there are still art rules to break, a spate of green avant-gardists invent unorthodox models for growing produce n underused city spaces.(NATURE: CULTURE)
Oct 01, 2009; Lebowitz, Cathy ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] RATHER THAN WAIT for sustainable environmental policies to be implemented from the top down, increasing numbers of people are acting on a small scale and at the grassroots level--including artists, who are finding new ways of committing themselves to the ...
Earthly homage: the rugged terrain of Cappadocia, Turkey, is the site for the Australian artist Andrew Rogers's most ambitious series of earthworks.(NATURE: CULTURE)
Oct 01, 2009; Ebony, David ... JUST TWO ROADS LEAD TO Andrew Rogers's vast earthwork compound, "Time and Space," in Cappadocia, in central Turkey. Spread across an approximately 2-mile-square tract of arid, windswept mountainous terrain nearly devoid of people and trees, the complex (2007-09) of eight sprawling rock ...
Green acres: Maxwell Anderson interviewed by Stephanie Cash.(NATURE: CULTURE)(Interview)
Oct 01, 2009; Cash, Stephanie ... Maxwell Anderson took the helm of the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 2006, just as it was embarking on a series of green initiatives. A.i.A. spoke with the Prius-driving Anderson--arguably the AI Gore of museum directors--about the special challenges museums face in reducing their carbon ...
Hybrid field: Maya Lin's latest group of rolling knolls, a permanent installation at Storm King Art Center, draws on the rich legacy of Land art and culminates her own previous research.(NATURE: CULTURE)
Oct 01, 2009; Boettger, Suzaan ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] STORM KING WAVEFIELD, Maya Lin's new earthen environment at Storm King Art Center in the Hudson Highlands of New York, features a clever synthesis of forms--wavelike swells meeting verdant expanse--that just begins to suggest all the other conjunctions ...
Escape hatch: Janine Antoni in conversation with Douglas Dreishpoon.(Interview)(Cover story)
Oct 01, 2009; Dreishpoon, Douglas ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] SOME CONVERSATIONS NEVER GET beyond an introduction. Others endure, gaining momentum and interest as time goes on. I began a conversation with Janine Antoni in 2003, when she came to speak at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo. Over the past six ...
Looking for James Ensor: the Belgian artist's prodigiously eclectic oeuvre, on view in an exhibition originating at MoMA and opening this month at the Musee d'Orsay, shows him to be at once an influential avant-gardist, anarchic malcontent, traditionalist and religious visionary.
Oct 01, 2009; Kalina, Richard ... ANYONE IN SEARCH OF A CLEAR STORY line should probably stay away from James Ensor. His work reveals no rational development, stylistic consistency, focused set of concerns, or even any overriding, organizing obsession (though he did have an abiding interest in light and a well-honed ...
