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  1. Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, curator of the Matrix program of contemporary art at the Be...
  2. Saskia Bos, artistic and managing director of the De Appel Center for Contemporary Ar...
  3. In 1974, a year after Robert Smithson's death in the crash of a small plane, the New ...
  4. Alexandra Munroe, director and senior vice president of the New York-based Japan Soci...
  5. Philippe de Montebello, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, received the CINO...
  6. The Canada Council for the Arts recently presented artist lain Baxter with its $50,00...
  7. Most artists would consider opening two prominent gallery exhibitions in Manhattan wi...
  8. Peter Millett's exhibition last season was a culminating group of sculptures rather t...
  9. Al Held, 76, prominent abstract painter and influential teacher, died July 26 at his ...
  10. The Whitney Museum of American Art recently received a green light from the New York ...
  11. I've been fascinated by Richard Jackson's work for years without ever seeing any of i...
  12. While many American artists appear to ignore the country's current state of political...
  13. At first look, the works in this show don't seem to take themselves too seriously. Ye...
  14. For her first museum solo, Seattle artist Katy Stone created a site-specific installa...
  15. "Roy McMakin: A Door Meant as Adornment" at the University of Washington's ...
  16. After it was disclosed last spring that French businessman Francois Pinault would pur...
  17. Steven Vincent, 49, investigative journalist, art critic and A.i.A. contributor, was ...
  18. Chelsea Bowery Gallery 530 West 25th Street, 4th Floor, NY, NY 10001 Tel/Fax: 6...
  19. In Jane Hammond's work, meaning is built up from strings of associations, often using...
  20. Karin Davie has made a name for herself painting stripes. For the past several years,...
  21. After completing BFA studies at Pratt Institute in 1992, John Grade (pronounced grah-...
  22. In the early 1990s, fiber artist Pat Hickman was commissioned to create a set of gate...
  23. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has again given a large sum of his own money to bene...
  24. Cecily Brown is an ambitious, historicizing artist with a taste for dynamic brushwork...
  25. Tom Waldron's oeuvre presents multiple paradoxes. The work seems simple but proves co...
  26. London-born, Berlin-based artist Tino Sehgal puts a lot of thought into his work, and...
  27. The Walton Family, whose fortune derives from the Wal-Mart chain, has announced plans...
  28. Is there a glut of international art biennials? More than 50--an average of one every...
  29. Two significant museum exhibitions in London earlier this year--"The Art of Will...
  30. "Harder than finding the painting I am going to do," Caio Fonseca said in a...
  31. In the spirit of recycling, Seattle photographer Chris Jordan has found new use for o...
  32. The young Dutch artist and rock musician Marc Bijl (pronounced "bile") has ...
  33. Olga Viso has been promoted to the position of director of the Hirshhorn Museum in Wa...
  34. Despite the unprecedented appointment of two women as visual-arts directors, the 2005...
  35. Antony Gormley is best known for making life-size figurative sculptures derived from ...
  36. Joel Shapiro is best known for humanizing the cold, impersonal forms of Minimalism. F...
  37. Pioneering conceptual artist Don Celender's generous dialogue concerning art and esth...
  38. In scruffy group shows and solo exhibitions over the past decade, Sean Duffy has been...
  39. Helga Natz, an artist born in Germany, has been exhibiting internationally for 15 yea...
  40. Lisa Corrin, deputy director of art at the Seattle Art Museum since 2001, has been ap...
  41. Leonardo Drew is very good at suggesting infinity. In his monumental reliefs, innumer...
  42. A gallery regular for the last 16 years and a Bay Area resident who rarely shows outs...
  43. Barthelemy Toguo was born in Cameroon in 1967 and studied art in Abidjan, Ivory Coast...
  44. Richard Flood, chief curator at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis since 1994, has ...
  45. Women are omnipresent in this year's Venice Biennale, beginning with the two visual-a...
  46. Although Sarah Sze has been a fixture on the international exhibition circuit for nea...
  47. Like Art Brut, Donald Baechler's seemingly ingenuous depictions of everyday objects a...
  48. Despite her iconic status as creator of the epic painting The Rose, whole bodies of w...
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  50. Mark di Suvero is the visual-art winner of a Heinz Award for the Arts and Humanities ...
  51. The director of the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad, Donny George, recently spoke ...
  52. The Guggenheim International Exhibition of 1971 was intended to be a survey of 21 con...
  53. Robert Gober's first New York exhibition in 11 years was full of Goberisms, among the...
  54. At the heart of Seattle figurative painter Joseph Park's work is suspicion about the ...
  55. The University of Wisconsin's Elvehjem Museum of Art in Madison recently announced a ...
  56. Andrea Zittel was recently presented with the 2005 Lucelia Artist Award, worth $25,00...
  57. The new Zendai Museum of Modern Art marks several firsts for Shanghai. It is the firs...
  58. Animals, as Claude Levi-Strauss put it in his study of totemism, are good for thinkin...
  59. Since 1968, Lawrence Weiner's chosen medium of expression has been language and its s...
  60. Titled "Arneson and the Object," this exhibition, which was organized by th...
  61. This small grouping of four sculptures by Scott Fife followed a larger survey at the ...
  62. William Lieberman, 82, chairman of the 20th-century art department at the Metropolita...
  63. The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation has announced the winners of its annual Space P...
  64. All three major New York auction houses chalked up strong totals for the big spring e...
  65. A mosaic made of hand-cut Jerusalem stone covered the floor at White Box for the exhi...
  66. Laid out like a frieze along a panorama of beach, water and sky, Graham Nickson's sig...
  67. As a young artist, George Quasha was liberated by John Cage's esthetic. In celebratio...
  68. Linda Shearer, former director of the Williams College Museum of Art, was named direc...
  69. Oleg Grabar, art historian and professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study...
  70. Bruce Nauman, sculptor and video installation artist, was awarded a Praemium Imperial...
  71. Francis Alys, Belgian artist known for his performances and mixed-medium works, won t...
  72. Nancy Spero, known for her socially engaged figure-and-text paintings and drawings, r...
  73. Judy Pfaff, creator of elaborate multi-medium wall sculptures and room-size installat...
  74. Xu Bing, New York-based Chinese artist, won the $75,000 inaugural Artes Mundi award, ...
  75. Kara Walker, whose wan-mounted silhouettes touch on issues of slavery, blackness, des...
  76. Raymond Pettibon, known for his murals and large-scale installations of cartoonish, h...
  77. Garth Clark, New York art dealer, ceramics expert and writer, received the College Ar...
  78. Georg Baselitz, German artist known for figurative paintings and rough-hewn wood scul...
  79. Jacques Derrida, 74, influential French philosopher known for his theory of Deconstru...
  80. Summer Tutankhamun A gathering of some 130 works from the Egyptian Museum, Cairo,...
  81. Joan Jonas, video, performance and installation artist, received the College Art Asso...
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  84. Zaha Hadid, Iraqi-born, London-based architect of the Contemporary Arts Center in Cin...
  85. Mona Hatoum, Palestinian-born, London-based maker of evocative sculptural installatio...
  86. NEW ENGLAND The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University Office of Admissions...
  87. Listed below are highlights from the spring and fall 2004 auction seasons, featuring ...
  88. Vishakha N. Desai, director of the museum of the Asia Society in New York, was promot...
  89. 1 Franz West Recent Sculptures. Seven variously sized, lacquered aluminum forms tem...
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  92. Samuel Sachs II, former director of the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Frick Colle...
  93. The German-born painter, sculptor, performance artist and musician Martin Kippenberge...
  94. The paintings in Mary Heilman's recent exhibition--her first at 303--are, as usual, c...
  95. Born in Tokyo at the height of the war in Vietnam and educated in the U.S., Jun Nguye...
  96. The five expressively figurative paintings selected for this time-capsule exhibition ...
  97. In this terrific show, Berlin-based Katharina Grosse trafficked in brilliantly hued, ...
  98. Linda S, Ferber was recently named vice president and museum director of the New-York...
  99. The Museum of Modern Art in New York recently announced that chairman emeritus David ...
  100. In this recent solo exhibition, San Francisco-based, Manila-born Robert Gutierrez sho...
  101. They favor active, participatory recreation over passive, institutionalized forms. Th...
  102. One of the most memorable scenes in Billy Wilder's 1950 film Sunset Boulevard shows t...
  103. If these paintings were not affixed with the name Damien Hirst, would there have been...
  104. What is one to make of Michael Waugh's inventive, elusively allegorical text-and-imag...
  105. An omnivorous appropriationism defined this show of works by Richard Pettibone from t...
  106. At age 91, Mary Henry, brilliant practitioner of geometric abstraction, was honored w...
  107. Frances Colpitt, art historian at the University of Texas, San Antonio, and A.i.A. co...
  108. The Ukrainian Museum recently debuted on East 6th Street in New York's East Village, ...
  109. The enthusiasm expressed in the Chinese art world for the work of Zheng Guogu, a 35-y...
  110. Greater New York 2005 took up residence at P.S.1 just in time for the opening of a fl...
  111. A first glance at press releases and public relations materials for two recent overla...
  112. Because it involves a simultaneous revivification of the immediate past and a histori...
  113. Portraiture, modernist architecture, landscape and the erotic nude--the subjects of T...
  114. In the recent paintings of Dana Schutz (all 2004), jarring, hothouse colors laid down...
  115. For Betsy Kaufman's recent show, the gallery's entry corridor was hung with six color...
  116. Primary colors, biomorphic forms and serpentine shapes spill through the abstract spa...
  117. In his first solo exhibition since 1999, the Algerian-born Eric Dalbis demonstrated t...
  118. The Institute of Contemporary Arts in London has named journalist Ekow Eshun as its n...
  119. Max Hollein, director of the Schirn Kusthalle in Frankfurt since 2001, has been named...
  120. Chelsea A.I.R. Gallery 511 West 25th Street, #301, NY, NY 10001 Tel: 212.255.66...
  121. In the three decades since Robert Kushner emerged on the national scene as a member o...
  122. In Thomas Struth's contemplative exposure of Milan Cathedral's Italian Gothic interio...
  123. Antoine Watteau has been creatively reinterpreted in recent years by artists as dispa...
  124. Intimacy of scale and delicacy of touch distinguish the graphite drawings of James Ne...
  125. One hundred years ago, Matisse and Picasso vied for the leadership of the Paris avant...
  126. For this show, Mark Staff Brandl, a U.S.-born artist who has lived in Switzerland sin...
  127. Philip Pavia, 94, a central figure in the development of American abstract sculpture ...
  128. Before it was gentrified and overrun by yuppies and trust-funded NYU students, New Yo...
  129. Three imposing diptychs completed in 2004 presided over Sperone Westwater's selective...
  130. The German Neo-Expressionist A.R. Penck came to be known in the U.S. in the 1980s for...
  131. Catherine Murphy's recent show at Lennon, Weinberg's new two-floor Chelsea space incl...
  132. Born in rural Shandong, one of China's coastal provinces, Lu Shengzhong grew up expos...
  133. Tenacity is the hallmark, alike, of Scott Kahn's paintings and his career. Two overla...
  134. Marina Karalla's retrospective at the Benaki Museum's new Piraeus Street Annex for Co...
  135. The Scottish-born artist Eduardo Paolozzi, one of the founding members of the avant-g...
  136. This exhibition of photographs by Malick Sidibe and figural sculptures by Emile Guebe...
  137. Every artist emerging in China today must decide whether to cast his lot with traditi...
  138. As Miguel Angel Rios's recent three-channel video installation A Morir ('til Death) g...
  139. Stone can be perilous for contemporary sculptors. State-of-the-art tools and methods ...
  140. Sewn with the directness of a quick sketch on pieces of cloth between 1 and 2 feet hi...
  141. As I walked through this show of mostly untitled paintings from the 1950s and '60s, I...
  142. In the 11 oil paintings and eight drawings in this show, titled "Evocative Reali...
  143. This recent exhibition, titled "Flee, You Fools!", featured 11 large abstra...
  144. After denying rumors last year that it was closing its Chelsea facility [see "Ar...
  145. Inaugurating an international art biennial in Moscow at this moment in Russia's histo...
  146. From the glancingly horizontal, jangly-cool television buzz of Odili Donald Odita's a...
  147. This was British-born Charlotte Becket's third solo exhibition in as many years at Ta...
  148. In the closing days of April, it was announced that Francois Pinault, one of France's...
  149. In Marcel Odenbach's show of early black-and-white videos and more recent work, Die e...
  150. Right now, across America, teenage boys obsessed with black clothing, nihilistic rock...
  151. The 11 works by Carolyn Harris in her first New York solo exhibition almost all depic...
  152. Australian artist Andrew Rogers has been making sculptures since 1989, both bronze pi...
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  154. An auction held on Apr. 17 at Paula Cooper Gallery in New York raised $167,700 for th...
  155. Many millions of dollars in art traded hands once again this year at TEFAF (The Europ...
  156. Blinky Palermo's eternally young, loose-limbed production has been on many people's m...
  157. Artist, designer and poet Edwin Schlossberg's conceptual "drawings" are act...
  158. Having begun last fall as an exhibition of 18 site-specific installations, the Bunker...
  159. Yoan Capote, a young Cuban artist who came to international notice in the 2001 Havana...
  160. Mark Cohen's photographs from the 1970s are fast-paced and off kilter: heads are crop...
  161. Installing a liquid-looking curtain of shining silver and gold Mylar ribbons at the e...
  162. Charcoal is James Drake's instrument the way the piano was Glenn Gould's or the clari...
  163. Peter Doroshenko, director of the SMAK contemporary art museum in Ghent, has been nam...
  164. New York-based independent curator and critic Klaus Ottmann has been selected to cura...
  165. Countless novels, films and plays have taken the life of an artist as their inspirati...
  166. Born in 1945 in Bleckede, near Luneburg, Jorg Immendorff belongs to the generation of...
  167. Jill Slosburg-Ackerman was known in the 1980s for meticulously finished, organically ...
  168. The 10 recent medium-size paintings by Anette Ziss in this exhibition featured serial...
  169. A new foundation has been established with the broad aim of supporting creativity. Es...
  170. Magnus von Plessen's paintings propose the value of a subtle, subdued palette, keen e...
  171. Combining early and late work, John Stezaker's first solo show in almost a decade rev...
  172. Tom Eccles, director and curator of the Public Art Fund in New York since 1997, has b...
  173. The Metropolitan Museum of Art recently acquired the Gilman Paper Collection of photo...
  174. If one biennial is good, four must be four times better--right? Such seems to be the ...
  175. Nancy Rubins has been scavenging and purchasing discarded airplane parts since the mi...
  176. During the 2004 presidential campaign, Outback Steakhouse gave $681,000, or 95 percen...
  177. In her most compelling works, Brooklyn-based, SUNY-Albany-trained Dawn Clements engag...
  178. Katherine Bradford's recent paintings traffic in innocent memory and an almost painfu...
  179. Lee Friedlander has won the 2005 Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photogr...
  180. Thirty-one-year-old Berliner Sergej Jensen designed his exhibition as a living room, ...
  181. Maria Ann Conelli was recently made director of the American Folk Art Museum in New Y...
  182. Controversy has arisen over the firing of National Public Radio arts reporter David D...
  183. By a unique act of esthetic photosynthesis, Venice has over the centuries converted w...
  184. Artists working in video installation have tended over the years to turn away from th...
  185. Nicky Nodjoumi's exhibition "Private Agenda" presented 17 large figurative ...
  186. The mischievous spirit of the Heinzelmannchen--the "little people" of Germa...
  187. Jane Masters continues to employ small, repetitive gestures to make labor-intensive, ...
  188. The Judith Rothschild Foundation has presented grants totaling $260,000 for 22 projec...
  189. Start Shellabarger's performances and conceptual objects center on the body, addressi...
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  191. Shortly after the Los Angeles County Museum of Art revealed new details of a renovati...
  192. All imagery that isn't pulled from the river: mere bijouterie. --Don Patterson Step...
  193. Some people go to Hawaii and come back with leis and ukuleles. Sculptor Keith Edmier ...
  194. Better known as an actor and a musician, a star in the long-running band the Lounge L...
  195. The cables, pipes and wires that serve New York lie as deep as 800 feet underground, ...
  196. A significant figure in the field of mail art, Carlo Pittore showed his work along wi...
  197. Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue recently announced the recipients of its regio...
  198. Language has long played an important role in Archie Scott Gobber's work. In his rece...
  199. Officials of CIPEA (China International Practical Exhibition of Architecture) in Nanj...