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Books Published by CAA Members
posted by CAA — June 15, 2012
Publishing a book is a major milestone for artists and scholars—browse a list of recent titles below.
Books Published by CAA Members appears every two months: in February, April, June, August, October, and December. To learn more about submitting a listing, please follow the instructions on the main Member News page.
June 2012
Andrew Stephen Arbury. About Art, 3rd rev. ed. (Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt Publishing, 2012).
Claude Cernuschi. Barnett Newman and Heideggerian Philosophy (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2012).
Irina D. Costache. The Art of Understanding Art: A Behind the Scenes Story (Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012).
Lennert Gesterkamp. The Heavenly Court: Daoist Temple Painting in China, 1200–1400 (Leiden, the Netherlands: Brill, 2011).
Donna Gustafson. Serena Bocchino: Fever (Milburn, NJ: Greg Smith Exhibit A Fine Art and Editions, 2012).
Deborah Martin Kao and Michelle Lamunière, eds. Instituting Reform: The Social Museum of Harvard University, 1903–1931 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Art Museums, 2012).
Andreas Marks. Kamisaka Sekka: Rinpa Traditionalist, Modern Designer (San Francisco: Pomegranate, 2012).
Rosemary O’Neill. Art and Visual Culture on the French Riviera, 1956–1971 (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012).
Donald Preziosi and Claire Farago. Art Is Not What You Think It Is (Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012).
William S. Rodner. Edwardian London through Japanese Eyes: The Art and Writings of Yoshio Markino, 1897–1915 (Leiden, the Netherlands: Brill, 2012).
James L. Yarnall. John La Farge, a Biographical and Critical Study (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012).
Philip Zuchman. Summer on the Hill: Paintings by Philip Zuchman (New York: Abingdon Square Publishing, 2012).
Solo Exhibitions by Artist Members
posted by CAA — April 22, 2012
See when and where CAA members are exhibiting their art, and view images of their work.
Solo Exhibitions by Artist Members is published every two months: in February, April, June, August, October, and December. To learn more about submitting a listing, please follow the instructions on the main Member News page.
April 2012
Abroad
Sue Johnson, Uncontained. 2011, watercolor on paper, 22 x 30 in. (artwork © Sue Johnson)Sue Johnson. Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, United Kingdom, January 24–June 10, 2012. The Nature of Curious Objects: Sue Johnson’s Paper Museum. Painting.
Joan Marie Kelly, Kolkata’s Welcome, 2012, oil on canvas, 60 x 34 in. (artwork © Joan Marie Kelly)Joan Marie Kelly. Visual Arts Gallery, Habitat Center, New Delhi, India, April 11–17, 2012. Initial Encounters. Painting and drawing.
Mid-Atlantic
Invitation card for Margaret Murphy, A Ten-Year SurveyMargaret Murphy. Kresge Foundation Gallery, Ramapo College of New Jersey, Mahwah, New Jersey, March 28–May 2, 2012. Margaret Murphy, A Ten-Year Survey; Decoding the Marketplace: Coupons, Dollar Stores, and eBay. Painting.
Margaret Murphy. Harold B. Lemmerman Gallery, New Jersey City University, Hepburn Hall, Jersey City, New Jersey, January 30–March 7, 2012. Margaret Murphy, A Ten-Year Survey; Decoding the Marketplace: Coupons, Dollar Stores, and eBay. Painting.
Midwest
Michelle Grabner. Green Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, January 21–February 26, 2012. Cottage Work. Painting.
Julie Green, Texas 15 June 2010 Four eggs, four chicken drumsticks, salsa, four jalapeno peppers, lettuce, tortillas, hashbrowns, garlic bread, two pork chops, white and yellow grated cheese, sliced onions and tomatoes, a pitcher of milk and a vanilla shake, 2011, cobalt blue mineral paint kiln fired on 12-inch ceramic plate (artwork © Julie Green)Julie Green. UNO Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Omaha, Nebraska, January 13–February 8, 2012. The Last Supper. Painted ceramic plates and video.
Sharon Louden. Burnet Gallery, Le Méridien Chambers, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 1–May 6, 2012. Movement and Gesture. Painting, drawing, sculpture, and animation.
Northeast
Invitation card for Ellen Carey’s Struck by LightEllen Carey. Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, New York, March 3–April 11, 2012. Struck by Light. Photography.
Nayda Collazo-Llorens, Locus Rackets Hypnotic #2 (from the Test Series), 2012, mixed media on canvas, 50 x 70 in. (artwork © Nayda Collazo-Llorens)Nayda Collazo-Llorens. LMAKprojects, New York, March 16–April 22, 2012. Across Doom Hopes the Guiding Fever. Drawing.
Steel sculptures by Janet Goldner (artwork © Janet Goldner)Janet Goldner. Corridor Gallery, Interchurch Center, New York, March 15–April 13, 2012. i ni ce, thank you, merci. Sculpture.
Eve Ingalls. SOHO20 Chelsea Gallery, New York, February 28–March 24, 2012. Out of Place and Time. Sculpture.
Debra Ramsay, Forgotten Day, 2012, wax on MDF board, 6 x 6 in. (artwork © Debra Ramsay; photograph by Andy Wainwright)Debra Ramsay. Blank Space Gallery, New York, April 19–May 19, 2012. Desire Lines. Painting.
Linda Stein. Flomenhaft Gallery, New York, May 17–June 23, 2012. The Fluidity of Gender: Sculpture by Linda Stein. Sculpture.
Marianne Weil, Abbraccio, 2011, cast bronze and blown glass, 10 x 6 x 5 in. (artwork © Marianne Weil)Marianne Weil. Kouros Gallery, New York, May 3–31, 2012. Fusion: Glass and Bronze. Sculpture.
South
Leigh-Ann Pahapill, view of the installation Likewise, as technical experts, but not (at all) by way of culture, 2012.Leigh-Ann Pahapill. Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, January 28–May 13, 2012. Likewise, as technical experts, but not (at all) by way of culture. Installation.
West
Michael Darmody, installation view of House of Cards, 2012, 3,600 souvenir Indian postcards mounted on foam board squares on four walls of a 12 x 18 x 10 ft. space (artwork © Michael Darmody; photograph by the artist)Michael Darmody. New Mexico Arts Centennial Project Space, Santa Fe, New Mexico, January 13–February 17, 2012. House of Cards. Installation.
Gerit Grimm, Village Tree, 2011, stoneware, 55 x 23 x 23 in. (artwork © Gerit Grimm; photograph by the artist)Gerit Grimm. Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California, March 15–July 8, 2012. Gerit Grimm: Beyond the Figurine, Contemporary Inspirations from the Museum’s Collection. Ceramic sculpture.
Ellen Mueller, Ladder 1, 2012, digital photograph, 24 x 36 in. (artwork © Ellen Mueller)Ellen Mueller. Pueblo Fine Art Gallery, Colorado State University, Pueblo, Colorado, March 9–April 6, 2012. Ladders in the Desert. Video, photography, and installation.
Olga Ponomarenko, Romantic Punk after Botticelli, 2011, oil on canvas, 24 x 18 in. (artwork © Olga Ponomarenko)Olga Ponomarenko. 825 Gallery, Los Angeles Art Association, Los Angeles, California, March 10–April 2, 2012. Romantic Punks. Painting.
Ruth Weisberg, Ravished, 2011, oil and mixed media on unstretched canvas,Ruth Weisberg. Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, California, February 18–June 30, 2012. Ruth Weisberg: Now & Then. Painting, drawing, and printmaking.
Edie Winograde. Robischon Gallery, Denver, Colorado, March 29–May 5, 2012. Appropriated Histories: Recent and Past Photographs. Photography.
Angela Young, detail of a drawing in Human Nature, 2011, powered graphite and charcoal, 42 x 152 in. (artwork © Angela Young; photograph by the artist)Angela Young. Gallery 100, Tempe Center, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, April 23–27, 2012. Human Nature. Printmaking and drawing.
People in the News
posted by CAA — April 17, 2012
People in the News lists new hires, positions, and promotions in three sections: Academe, Museums and Galleries, and Organizations and Publications.
The section is published every two months: in February, April, June, August, October, and December. To learn more about submitting a listing, please follow the instructions on the main Member News page.
April 2012
Academe
Luba FreedmanLuba Freedman, a scholar of Italian Renaissance art and a member of the Renaissance Studies editorial board and the Sixteenth Century Journal editorial committee, has been promoted to the rank of full professor in the History of Art Department at Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel.
Scott Johnson, a sculptor, photographer, and installation artist, has received tenure in the Art Department at Colorado College in Colorado Springs.
Susan Yelavich, a longtime faculty member at Parsons the New School for Design in New York, has been appointed director of the master of arts in design studies program at her school.
Museums and Galleries
Emily Beeny (photograph provided by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)Emily Beeny will join the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in June 2012 as assistant curator of nineteenth-century painting in Art of Europe. Beeny is presently a doctoral candidate completing a year in Paris on the Rudolf Wittkower Dissertation Fellowship from Columbia University in New York.
Olivier Meslay (photograph provided by the Dallas Museum of Art)Olivier Meslay, senior curator of European and American art and Barbara Thomas Lemmon Curator of European Art at the Dallas Museum of Art in Texas, has been named associate director of curatorial affairs at his institution.
Joanne Pillsbury (photograph provided by Getty Communications)Joanne Pillsbury, formerly director of Precolumbian studies at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, DC, has been named associate director of scholarly programs at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, California.
Joel Smith (photograph provided by the Morgan Museum and Library)Joel Smith, currently Peter C. Bunnell Curator of Photography at the Princeton University Art Museum in Princeton, New Jersey, has been appointed curator of photography at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York. Smith begins his new position in September 2012.
Institutional News
posted by CAA — April 17, 2012
Read about the latest news from institutional members.
Institutional News is published every two months: in February, April, June, August, October, and December. To learn more about submitting a listing, please follow the instructions on the main Member News page.
April 2012
South view of the Michigan Avenue façade of the Art Institute of Chicago (photograph provided by the Art Institute of Chicago)The Art Institute of Chicago in Illinois has received a $500,000 grant from the Indian government in support of a four-year exchange program with museums in India. The Art Institute is the first American museum to receive the grant, named the Vivekananda Memorial Program for Museum Excellence, in honor of Swami Vivekananda, an Indian musician, playwright, and philosopher.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has taken steps to make its digital-image collection more comprehensive and accessible to the public by integrating staff from the analogue-image library into the digital-media department.
The Rhode Island School of Design in Providence has partnered with the US Department of State’s Office of Art in Embassies to create a permanent, large-scale outdoor artwork for the future American embassy in Rabat, Morocco. An artist and RISD alumnus, Jim Drain, spearheaded the project with a special six-week course called “Art in Embassies: Morocco,” which he taught in winter 2012, collaborating with students and a visiting Moroccan artist. The artwork will debut on November 30, 2012, at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.
Grants, Awards, and Honors
posted by CAA — April 15, 2012
CAA recognizes its members for their professional achievements, be it a grant, fellowship, residency, book prize, honorary degree, or related award.
Grants, Awards, and Honors is published every two months: in February, April, June, August, October, and December. To learn more about submitting a listing, please follow the instructions on the main Member News page.
April 2012
Craig ClunasCraig Clunas, a professor of art history at the University of Oxford in England, will deliver the sixty-first A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. Clunas’s six-part lecture series, titled “Chinese Painting and Its Audiences,” will take place on Sundays from March 11 to April 22, 2012.
Brianne Cohen, a doctoral student at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, has been awarded a grant from the National Committee for the History of Art to attend the thirty-third International Congress of the History of Art in Nuremberg, Germany, taking place July 15–20, 2012.
Jennifer Cohen, a PhD candidate at the University of Chicago in Illinois, has received a grant from the National Committee for the History of Art to attend the thirty-third International Congress of the History of Art in Nuremberg, Germany, taking place July 15–20, 2012.
Dana Cowen, a doctoral candidate at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, has accepted a travel grant from the National Committee for the History of Art. She will apply the funds to attend the thirty-third International Congress of the History of Art, to be held July 15–20, 2012, in Nuremberg, Germany.
Vidya J. Dehejia, the Barbara Stoler Miller Professor of Indian and South Asian Art at Columbia University in New York, has received a Padma Bhushan award from the government of India. Equivalent to British knighthood, the award recognizes the distinguished service of an individual to the nation, in any field.
Muriel Hasbun, encarnado: embodied (carne/meat), 2011, archival pigment print (artwork © Muriel Hasbun)Muriel Hasbun, a photographer and associate professor at the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, DC, has been awarded a 2012 Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award in Photography for encarnado: embodied, a series of color photographs taken in a Mexican slaughterhouse.
John Hawke, a New York–based artist who creates public art installations, has been chosen to attend the 2012 Art and Law Residency, a program developed by Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts in New York. The residency provides a platform for artists, writers, and curators to examine their visual practice and critical writing in the context of contemporary and historical legal issues.
Jill Holaday, a doctoral student at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, has been awarded a grant from the National Committee for the History of Art to attend the thirty-third International Congress of the History of Art in Nuremberg, Germany, taking place July 15–20, 2012.
Jennifer A. Morris, a PhD candidate at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, has earned a travel grant from the National Committee for the History of Art. She will use the funds to attend the thirty-third International Congress of the History of Art, which takes place July 15–20, 2012, in Nuremberg, Germany.
Stephanie E. Rozman, a PhD student at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, has received a grant from the National Committee for the History of Art to attend the thirty-third International Congress of the History of Art in Nuremberg, Germany, taking place July 15–20, 2012.
Diana Shpungin, a Brooklyn-based artist who works in installation, drawing, and animation, will take part in the Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts’ 2012 Art and Law Residency. The residency, taking place in New York, provides artists, curators, and writers with an opportunity to examine their art practice and critical writing within a framework of historical and contemporary legal issues.
Erin Sullivan, a PhD student at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, has been awarded a grant from the National Committee for the History of Art to attend the thirty-third International Congress of the History of Art in Nuremberg, Germany, taking place July 15–20, 2012.
Exhibitions Curated by CAA Members
posted by CAA — April 15, 2012
Check out details on recent shows organized by CAA members who are also curators.
Exhibitions Curated by CAA Members is published every two months: in February, April, June, August, October, and December. To learn more about submitting a listing, please follow the instructions on the main Member News page.
April 2012
Cover of the exhibition catalogue for Notations: The Cage Effect TodayJoachim Pissarro, Bibi Calderaro, Julio Grinblatt, and Michelle Yun. Notations: The Cage Effect Today. Hunter College Time Square Gallery, Hunter College, City University of New York, New York, February 17–April 21, 2012.
Pierre-Joseph Redouté, Plum Branches Intertwined, 1802–4, watercolor on vellum, 31.9 x 26.3 cm. Frick Collection, bequest of Charles A. Ryskamp, 2010 (artwork in the public domain; photograph by Michael Bodycomb)Anne L. Poulet, Colin B. Bailey, and Susan Grace Galassi. A Passion for Drawings: Charles Ryskamp’s Bequest to the Frick Collection. Frick Collection, New York, February 14–April 8, 2012.
Books Published by CAA Members
posted by CAA — April 15, 2012
Publishing a book is a major milestone for artists and scholars—browse a list of recent titles below.
Books Published by CAA Members appears every two months: in February, April, June, August, October, and December. To learn more about submitting a listing, please follow the instructions on the main Member News page.
April 2012
Anna Sigrídur Arnar. The Book as Instrument: Stéphane Mallarmé, the Artist’s Book, and the Transformation of Print Culture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011).
Sarah Betzer. Ingres and the Studio: Women, Painting, History (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012).
Frederick N. Bohrer. Photography and Archeology (London: Reaktion Books, 2011).
Christine Hult-Lewis and Weston Naef. Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photographs (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011).
Lynn F. Jacobs. Opening Doors: The Early Netherlandish Triptych Reinterpreted (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011).
Anne Leader. The Badia of Florence: Art and Observance in a Renaissance Monastery (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011).
Véronique Plesch, Catriona MacLeod, and Jan Baetens, eds., Efficacité/Efficacy: How To Do Things with Words and Images? (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011).
Donald A. Rosenthal. An Arcadian Photographer in Manhattan: Edward Mark Slocum (Portsmouth, UK: Callum James Books, 2012).
Vanessa Bezemer Sellers. Gijsbert van Laar’s “Magazijn van Tuin-sieraaden” or “Storehouse of Garden Ornaments” (New York: Foundation for Landscape Studies, 2012).
Vivian Tsao. Paintings by Vivian Tsao (Taipei City, Taiwan: National Museum of History, 2009).
Solo Exhibitions by Artist Members
posted by CAA — February 22, 2012
See when and where CAA members are exhibiting their art, and view images of their work.
Solo Exhibitions by Artist Members is published every two months: in February, April, June, August, October, and December. To learn more about submitting a listing, please follow the instructions on the main Member News page.
February 2012
Abroad
Angela Ellsworth. Fehily Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia, August 4–27, 2011. Training, Walking, and Drawing. Drawing and performance.
Mid-Atlantic
Patricia Cronin, Memorial to a Marriage, 2012, bronze (artwork © Patricia Cronin)Patricia Cronin. Conner Contemporary Art, Washington, DC, February 4–March 10, 2012. Patricia Cronin: Bodies and Soul. Sculpture.
Lisa Ficarelli-Halpern. Center for Visual Arts Gallery, Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, New Jersey, January 31–February 29, 2012. objex.desire. Painting, printmaking, and sculpture.
Midwest
Rachel Epp Buller, Agnes in Brief, 2011, mixed-media monoprint, 20 x 10 in. (artwork © Rachel Epp Buller)Rachel Epp Buller. Steckline Gallery, Newman University, Wichita, Kansas, January 27–February 17, 2012. Those Were the Days. Mixed-media monoprints and boxes.
Installation view of Patricia Villalobos Echeverría’s exhibition, Nodes [N 42° 57’47" W 85° 40’07"] (artwork © Patricia Villalobos Echeverría)Patricia Villalobos Echeverría. Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, Michigan, December 9, 2011–February 16, 2012. Nodes [N 42° 57’47" W 85° 40’07"]. Video and sculptural installation.
Linda Stein. Burnell R. Roberts Triangle Gallery, Sinclair Community College, Dayton, Ohio, February 2–March 7, 2012. The Fluidity of Gender: Sculptures by Linda Stein. Sculpture.
Linda Stein. Ford Gallery, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan, March 19–April 18, 2012. The Fluidity of Gender: Sculptures by Linda Stein. Sculpture.
Northeast
Mark Williams, Untitled (White Horse), 2007, strands of lights and staples, 54 x 39 in. (artwork © Mark Williams)Mark Williams. Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut, January 19–April 1, 2012. The War Is Over. Painting, printmaking, watercolor, photography, drawing, sculpture, and light drawing.
South
Cora Cohen, 033-11, 2011, archival ink jet, Flashe, and watercolor on paper, 29½ x 21½ in. (artwork © Cora Cohen)Cora Cohen. D. M. Allison Art, Houston, Texas, January 14–February 18, 2012. Cora Cohen: Works on Paper. Watercolor and mixed media.
West
Angela Ellsworth. Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona, November 3–December 31, 2011. They May Appear Alone, in Lines, and in Clusters. Sculpture.
Invitation card for Clarence Morgan’s exhibition, Material TracesClarence Morgan. Fairbanks Gallery, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, February 13–March 6, 2012. Material Traces. Painting, drawing, and mixed media.
People in the News
posted by CAA — February 17, 2012
People in the News lists new hires, positions, and promotions in three sections: Academe, Museums and Galleries, and Organizations and Publications.
The section is published every two months: in February, April, June, August, October, and December. To learn more about submitting a listing, please follow the instructions on the main Member News page.
February 2012
Academe
Joseph BasileJoseph Basile, a professor of art history and chairperson of the Department of Art History at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore since 1994, has been named associate dean for liberal arts at his school.
Angela Ellsworth, a sculptor and professor of art at Arizona State University in Phoenix, has been awarded tenure.
Dennis FarberDennis Farber, a faculty member in the Foundation Department at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore since the 1990s, has been named associate dean of foundation studies at his school.
Anne Marie OliverAnne Marie Oliver, assistant professor of intermedia and contemporary theory at Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon, has been named cochair of the master’s degree program in critical theory and creative research at her school.
P. Gregory WardenP. Gregory Warden, professor of art history and associate dean for research and academic affairs in the Meadows School of Art at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, has been appointed president of Franklin College in Lugano, Switzerland. Warden will leave his current institution at the end of academic year 2011–12.
Museums and Galleries
David Bomford (photograph by Bradley Marks)David Bomford has left his position as acting museum director of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California. Bomford, who joined the museum in 2007 as associate director for collections, will return to London to pursue research, scholarship, and writing.
Joy Garnett (photograph by Bradley Marks)Joy Garnett, a New York–based painter and the editor of NEWSgrist, has become director of Theodore:Art, a gallery that has recently relocated from Manhattan to Brooklyn.
Suzanne Folds McCullagh has been named Anne Vogt Fuller and Marion Titus Searle Chair and Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago in Illinois. A museum staff member since 1975, McCullagh succeeds Douglas Druick as the head of her department.
JoAnne NorthrupJoAnne Northrup, previously chief curator at the San Jose Museum of Art in California, has joined the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno as director of contemporary initiatives.
Martha Tedeschi has been named Prince Trust Curator in Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago in Illinois. A museum staffer since 1982, Tedeschi takes the curatorial reins from Douglas Druick.
Sheena Wagstaff, chief curator at Tate Modern in London since 2001, has been recruited as the new department head of twentieth- and twenty-first century art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Kenneth Wayne, a consultant for arts organizations since 2010 after leaving a curatorial post at the Heckscher Museum of Art in Huntington, New York, has joined the Noguchi Museum in Long Island City, New York, as deputy director for curatorial affairs.
Institutional News
posted by CAA — February 17, 2012
Read about the latest news from institutional members.
Institutional News is published every two months: in February, April, June, August, October, and December. To learn more about submitting a listing, please follow the instructions on the main Member News page.
February 2012
Website of the School of Art and Design at Alfred UniversityAlfred University in Alfred, New York, has been awarded a $15,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in support of the Institute for Electronic Arts’ Experimental Projects Residency. The School of Art and Design in the New York State College of Ceramics will use the grant to fully fund eight artists chosen for one- to two-week residencies.
Website of the American Academy in RomeThe American Academy in Rome in Italy has received a $50,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to help fund its yearlong residency program for American artists.
Website of Anderson Ranch Art CenterThe Anderson Ranch Art Center in Snowmass Village, Colorado, has accepted a $10,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for its residency program for emerging and established artists.
The Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture in New York has been awarded a 2011 Hurricane Recovery Grant in support of American Christmas Cards 1900–1960, an exhibition that was held September 21–December 31, 2011. The $3,000 grant came from the New York Council for the Humanities and is intended to aid cultural institutions affected in the wake of Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee.
California Institute of the Arts in Valencia has been awarded a $70,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in aid of the CalArts Community Partnership Summer Arts Program, a three-week initiative for high school students to learn from professional artists and to participate in a choice of five workshops: visual art, dance, music, film/video, and writing.
Frederic S. Remington, A Dash for the Timber, 1889, oil on canvas, 48¼ x 84⅛ in. Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas (artwork in the public domain)The Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas, has been awarded a grant of $68,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts. The museum will apply the funds to Color!, an exhibition of fine-art color photography and its accompanying catalogue.
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York has received a National Endowment for the Arts grant of $15,000. The school will use the funds for Ruptures, an exhibition of commissioned artworks that address public space, the role of the artist, and social justice. Featured artists will include Sharon Hayes, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Nancy Davenport.
DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois, has earned a $39,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to help support the DePaul Art Museum’s exhibition War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art, scheduled for spring 2013.
Electronic Arts Intermix in New York has been awarded a $45,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for its Artists’ Media Distribution Service, a program founded in 1973 that offers an archive and lending library of more than 3,500 titles of video and media art.
The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, California, has acquired an important Man Ray archive. Among the highlights of the collection, which includes photographs, ephemera, and correspondences with other artists, are agendas the artist kept that document twenty-seven years of his career.
Édouard Manet, Before the Mirror (Devant la glace), 1876, oil on canvas, 92.1 x 71.4 cm. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Thannhauser Collection (artwork in the public domain)The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York has been awarded $30,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts for stillspotting nyc, a two-year multidisciplinary collaboration with the New York City Department of Transportation and the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University.
The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, part of Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri, has earned a $34,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for an upcoming exhibition, Georges Braque and the Cubist Still Life 1928–1944, which will feature more than forty paintings and be accompanied by a catalogue.
Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore has received a $25,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. The grant will support the school’s Ceramic and New Technology Research Initiative, a three-week residency program that explores connections between ceramics and digital technology. The college has also launched a new online publication, Community Arts Journal, which describes the school’s relationship to the arts and activism communities in Baltimore and beyond.
Alfred Boisseau, Louisiana Indians Walking along a Bayou, 1847, oil on canvas, 28⅜ x 44½ x 2 in. New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana (artwork in the public domain)The New Orleans Museum of Art in Louisiana has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant of $20,000 in support of Inspired by New Orleans, a project comprising artist lectures, an original sound piece by Dario Robleto, and a Mississippi-based project designed by the architects David Adjaye and Michael Maltzan.
Cover of a catalogue for the American Water Color SocietyThe New York Art Resource Consortium has completed a new digital collection, made in partnership with the Frick Art Reference Library, the Brooklyn Museum Libraries and Archives, and the Museum of Modern Art Library. The collection, called Documenting the Gilded Age: New York City Exhibitions at the Turn of the 20th Century, features materials from the city’s art galleries, associations, and clubs and is available to researchers as full-text digital facsimiles.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia has been awarded a $34,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to help produce a museum exhibition, Peter Blume: Nature and Metamorphosis, which will present paintings, drawings, sketchbooks, and archival material.
Vincent van Gogh, Sunflowers, 1887, oil on canvas, 17 x 24 in. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (artwork in the public domain)The Philadelphia Museum of Art in Pennsylvania has earned a $61,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in support of the exhibition Van Gogh Up Close, on view February 1–May 6, 2012.
The Picker Art Gallery and the Clifford Art Gallery at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York, have received a $20,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support the exhibition Recto/Verso: Video by Ann Hamilton, a survey of the video art by Ann Hamilton, on view February 3–April 6, 2012.
Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, has accepted a $20,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to help fund the Pratt Center for Community Development, an outreach program connecting the school to its neighborhood through community events and collaborative projects.
Rineke Dijkstra, Self-Portrait, Marnixbad, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, June 19, 1991, 1991, chromogenic print, 24 7/16 x 20½ in. (artwork © Rineke Dijkstra; photograph provided by the artist, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York and Paris, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art)The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in California has received a $34,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in support of a retrospective of the Dutch artist Rineke Dijkstra. The exhibition will feature seventy large-scale color photographs and five video installations and be on view February 18–May 28, 2012.
The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, Maine, has earned a $27,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support its nine-week residency program for emerging artists.
The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, has received a $5 million endowment from the New York philanthropist Dame Jillian Sackler for the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. The gift is in honor of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the naming of the Sackler Gallery.
Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, has been awarded a $34,000 grant to support the Newcomb Art Gallery’s exhibition Women, Art, and Social Change: The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise, which will open in October 2013.
The University of California, Berkeley, has received a $15 million gift from David Woo to support the relocation of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Woo is a 1967 graduate of Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design and was active in the planning of the original museum and archive.
The University of Oregon in Eugene has received a $1.2 million endowment gift from the estate of Ann Swindell to sustain faculty development and help expand the art curriculum in the School of Architecture and Allied Arts.
Utagawa Kunisada, Kabuki, no date, color woodcut, 13⅝ x 9⅞ in. University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie (artwork in the public domain)The University of Wyoming Art Museum in Laramie has been awarded a $25,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. The museum will use the funds to support an exhibition devoted to the work of the American artist Ralston Crawford (1906–1978).
Thomas Cole, Scene from “The Last of the Mohicans,” Cora Kneeling at the Feet of Tamenund, 1827, oil on canvas, 25⅜ x 35 1/16 in. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut (artwork in the public domain)The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, in Hartford, Connecticut, has accepted a $21,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in support of MATRIX, a dynamic exhibition series founded in 1974 that features emerging artists.
The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York has received a $61,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to help fund the museum’s upcoming retrospective for Jay DeFeo, scheduled for February 28–June 2, 2013.
Website of the Yale University Art GalleryThe Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut, has accepted a $68,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for an upcoming exhibition, Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland 1861–2008. With more than one hundred artifacts—paintings, drawings, films, and posters—the show will trace the appeal of Coney Island from its prehistory to the present.