Art in America - Most Recent News Posts

Miami Museum Looks South to Go Global

Carol Strickland — Fri, 17 May 2013 17:00:00 +0100

With a new Herzog and de Meuron-designed building and a new name, the Miami Art Museum hopes to make that tropical city a center of the art world. Formerly known as the Miami Art Museum, the institution will be re-named in Pérez's honor when it reopens in December as the Pérez Miami Art Museum.

Hammer Museum Hires Curators Butler, Moshayedi

Alexandra Nasto — Thu, 16 May 2013 17:00:00 +0100

Cornelia Butler, named in April as co-curator with Michael Ned Holte of the upcoming Hammer biennial "Made in LA 2014," will assume the position of chief curator. She replaces Douglas Fogle, who left the Hammer in 2011 to be an independent curator. Aram Moshayedi, currently of REDCAT, will also join the Hammer, in the newly created position of curator.

Cooper Occupation Exceeds One-Week Mark

William S. Smith — Thu, 16 May 2013 13:00:00 +0100

In the latest development in an ongoing conflict, students at New York's Cooper Union have occupied the office of school president Jamshed Bharucha for a full week. They have vowed to continue their protest until Bharucha steps down. "It's very evident that he does not believe in the mission of the school," second-year art student Angus Buchanan-Smith told A.i.A. during a visit this week to the East Village college.

Dominic Molon Hired as Curator at RISD Museum

Sam Norton — Wed, 15 May 2013 17:00:00 +0100

Molon fills the vacancy left by Judith Tannenbaum, who stepped down in February after 13 years in the position. She will remain with the museum as an adjunct curator through the end of the year.

Venice Biennale First-Timers: The Vatican

Emily Leisz Carr — Tue, 14 May 2013 16:00:00 +0100

The Venice Biennale has finally earned a stamp of approval from the Vatican, which will have a pavilion for the first time this year, in its 55th outing.

Women Dominate Venice Biennale's 2013 International Jury

Casey Lesser — Mon, 13 May 2013 17:15:00 +0100

The 2013 jurors are Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy of Mexico, Italy's Francesco Manacorda, Jessica Morgan of Great Britain, Nigeria's Bisi Silva and Ali Subotnick of the U.S.

MoMA May Not Raze Folk Art Museum After All

Sarah Cascone — Fri, 10 May 2013 13:00:00 +0100

This new hope for the Tod Williams and Billie Tsien-designed building comes with the announcement that architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro have been commissioned to plan the MoMA's imminent expansion.

Dia Acquires Lannan Foundation Works

Anna Marcum — Tue, 07 May 2013 15:00:00 +0100

A group of 30 artworks that have been on loan to Dia:Beacon for a decade, including major pieces by Bruce Nauman, Donald Judd, Agnes Martin and Lawrence Weiner, will remain there and become part of the museum's collection, the museum announced today.

Venice Biennale Golden Lions to Maria Lassnig and Marisa Merz

Sarah Cascone — Mon, 06 May 2013 11:45:00 +0100

Both artists were selected by the Biennale's board at the suggestion of Massimiliano Gioni, curator of the international art exhibition, "The Encyclopedic Palace." The awards will be presented during the exhibition's opening.

The Museum of Everything Brings Carlo Zinelli to Venice

Leigh Anne Miller — Mon, 06 May 2013 10:00:00 +0100

An Italian artist who grew up a mere 70 miles from Venice may be one of the unanticipated stars of this year's Biennale. Little known outside of Europe, Carlo Zinelli (1916-1974) will have his Venice debut thanks to The Museum of Everything (MoE), a peripatetic, London-based museum founded by James Brett in 2009.

Met Museum To Return Looted Cambodian Sculptures

Sarah Cascone — Fri, 03 May 2013 17:30:00 +0100

The decision was made after new research revealed that the artworks had been looted in the late 1970s from the Koh Ker temple complex, an archaeological site in northern Cambodia.

Cherix Heads New MoMA Mega-Department, Butler Departs

Brian Boucher — Thu, 02 May 2013 17:45:00 +0100

Cherix will head the new department of prints and drawings, which will merge the museum's existing department of prints and illustrated books with the department of drawings, effective July 1.

LACMA: The Encyclopedic Museum of the Future?

Casey Lesser — Thu, 02 May 2013 16:55:00 +0100

In a proposal for a $650-million project that has been seven years in the works, Zumthor proposes a horizontal building along Wilshire Boulevard, east of Chris Burden's outdoor sculpture of lampposts, Urban Light (2008), that will be wrapped in glass on all sides, its exhibition spaces elevated one floor above ground level, with solar panels on the roof.

NEA Awards Twenty-Six Million in Grants

Anna Marcum — Wed, 01 May 2013 18:00:00 +0100

About $8.24 million in grants were awarded to New York arts institutions. Grants can be used for a variety of programs and purposes such as art making, education, and promoting diversity in the arts.

Jene Highstein, 1942-2013

David Ebony — Wed, 01 May 2013 16:00:00 +0100

Soft-spoken and admired for his intelligence and humor as well as his work, Highstein developed, over the course of a nearly five-decade career, a spare and evocative sculptural language. He favored monumental forms and was adept in a wide range of mediums, including stone, metal, wood, glass, concrete and resin.

Doubling Down on Simon Hantai

Elisabeth Kley — Wed, 01 May 2013 12:00:00 +0100

Inspired by Jackson Pollock's abandonment of the easel for the floor, in 1960 Hantai invented a method he called "pliage" (from the French word for folding). After violently crumpling, crushing, and sometimes even stamping on large primed canvases, Hantai tied them into bundles before applying color.

Four Million for CCL's Next Five Years

Alexandra Nasto — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:00:00 +0100

Among the program's alumni are Gary Tinterow (director, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston) Colin B. Bailey (soon to be director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco), Michael Taylor (director, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth University) and Christophe Cherix (chief curator of prints and illustrated books, Museum of Modern Art, New York).

Artist-run Glasgow

Merlin James — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:00:00 +0100

Glasgow is famous for artist-run spaces and grassroots initiatives that have been launching and sustaining careers for at least three decades.

MICA President Fred Lazarus IV To Retire

Casey Lesser — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:25:00 +0100

Lazarus is the longest-serving president of a four-year college in Maryland. Under his leadership, MICA's enrollment doubled as it became a nationally recognized institution for undergraduate and graduate fine arts programs.

African Baroque: The Sculpture of El Anatsui

David Ebony — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:00:00 +0100

Today, Anatsui is best known for enormous wall reliefs in metal, featuring a kind of glittering chainmail fabric made of thousands of found liquor bottle caps, tin can lids and other detritus, connected by bits of copper wire. He garnered worldwide acclaim for these sumptuous works with a major installation at the 2007 Venice Biennale exhibition curated by Robert Storr.