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Chris Johanson
This Temple Called Earth
2003
"2002 SECA Art Award Exhibition"
 FEATURES 2003 ARCHIVES

CURATING SAN FRANCISCO
by Oriane Stender 12/29/03
An interview with San Francisco MOMA curator Madeleine Grynsztejn.

WILL MOMA LOSE ITS SOUL?
by Charlie Finch 12/29/03
A new program for the Museum of Modern Art.

POOR MEMORIAL
by Jerry Saltz 12/23/03
The pseudo-solutions for the World Trade Center Memorial.

WHOSE MELANCHOLY?
by Michèle C. Cone 12/17/03
Picasso's portraits of Fernande at the National Gallery of Art.

TWELFTH HOUR AT THE TERRA
by Victor M. Cassidy 12/17/03
Saying goodbye to Chicago's third major museum.

BREATHING LESSONS
by Jerry Saltz 12/16/03
Jeff Koons, between innocence and cunning.

DESOLATION ROW
by Jerry Saltz 12/10/03
Gregor Schneider turns a white cube into a black hole.

TALKING MASS MOCA
by Phyllis Tuchman 12/10/03
Director Joe Thompson discusses the North Adams kunsthalle.

GIRLS AND GORE
by Ana Finel Honigman 12/10/03
A survey of Kiki Smith's printed works at MoMA Queens.

TURNER AND VENICE
by N. F. Karlins 12/8/03
At Tate Britain, a glorious survey of Turner's Venice paintings.

A DAY IN BALDUS COUNTRY
by Phyllis Tuchman 12/5/03
Early plein-air leisure in 19th-century photographs by douard Baldus.

PHILIP GUSTON'S SELF-DOUBT
by Donald Kuspit 12/4/03
His last hope for a creative leap.

LONDON CALLING
by Joe La Placa 11/24/03
Donald Baechler talks technique.

THE COLOR OF TURMOIL
by Ana Finel Honigman 11/24/03
Howard Hodgkin's new paintings at Gagosian Gallery.

THE FRAUDULENCE OF MURAKAMI
by Charlie Finch 11/20/03
Let them eat handbags.

FIRST-ROUND KNOCKOUT
by Jerry Saltz 11/19/03
James Rosenquist's wraparound wow! at the Guggenheim.

EYEWITNESS TO AIDS
by Robert G. Edelman 11/18/03
The face of the epidemic, in "Pandemic: Imaging AIDS."

JAMES ROSENQUIST, SURREALIST ESTHETE
by Donald Kuspit 11/17/03
The Faustian artist, rescued by the eternal feminine.

ART MARKET GUIDE 2003
by Richard Polsky 11/17/03
The search is on for major works by James Rosenquist.

HEAD CASE
by Jerry Saltz 11/12/03
Jim Nutt, a key member of Chicago's Hairy Who.

BAGHDAD JOURNAL
by Steve Mumford 11/11/03
The artists of Baghdad.

D.C. DIARY
by Tyler Green 11/11/03
With Nathan Oliveira, nothing matters but that figure.

DEFENDING JOHN CURRIN
by Charlie Finch 11/10/03
Profound innovation makes him a "buy."

AFTER SHOCK
by Jerry Saltz 11/4/03
An optimistic reassessment of the British art scene.

KARA WALKER'S CAKEWALK
by Donald Kuspit 11/4/03
Ideological failure and artistic success.

ART MARKET GUIDE 2003
by Richard Polsky 10/31/03
Joe Simon and the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board.

FOREVER YOURS
by Jerry Saltz 10/29/03
Patricia Cronin's Memorial to a Marriage in Woodlawn Cemetery.

CAREER INTERRUPTED
by Irit Krygier 10/28/03
The reemergence of Lee Bontecou.

FUN AND FLATNESS AT THE CORCORAN
by Sidney Lawrence 10/27/03
The chilling sculpture of J. Seward Johnson.

HAVING A WILD WEEKEND
by Charlie Finch 10/24/03
James Rosenquist, Julian Schnabel, Man Ray, Adam Stennett, Jackie Gendel, more.

BAGHDAD JOURNAL
by Steve Mumford 10/23/03
The war in Tikrit and Samarra.

ART MARKET GUIDE 2003
by Richard Polsky 10/16/03
Collectors love John Currin, but is he a keeper?

DIANE'S BLUES
by Charlie Finch 10/16/03
Another look at Diane Arbus.

VISIONARY LOGIC
by Jerry Saltz 10/15/03
El Greco, one of the greatest weird painters ever, at the Metropolitan Museum.

DIVERSIONARY TACTICS
by Glenn Dixon 10/13/03
J. Seward Johnson, Jr., and the perils of populism.

ART MARKET GUIDE 2003
by Richard Polsky 10/10/03
Takashi Murakami, art's latest "must-have" accessory.

LITTLE BIG MAN
by Charlie Finch 10/8/03
The Mike Weiss story gets a new chapter.

GAUGUIN AND HIS SECRETS
by Victor M. Cassidy 10/8/03
Little-seen drawings and monotypes at the Art Institute of Chicago.

SAN FRANCISCO FREQUENCY
by Oriane Stender 10/7/03
An interview with San Francisco critic Kenneth Baker.

AT THE CROSSROADS
by Jerry Saltz 10/6/03
Under a new director, will the Whitney's future be brighter than its recent past?

BAGHDAD JOURNAL
by Steve Mumford 10/2/03
Raids and Patrols in Sader City with the 2nd Cav.

THE ARTIST WHO FELL TO EARTH
by Jerry Saltz 10/2/03
Janine Antoni, riveting events and inert objects.

ASK MARK KOSTABI
by Mark Kostabi 9/30/03
Inside the mall art world.

LONDON CALLING
by Joe La Placa 9/22/03
Damien Hirst presents his "Last Supper" at the White Cube.

ONLY THE LONELY
by Jerry Saltz 9/17/03
Richer, riskier new work from photographer Katy Grannan.

ASS BACKWARDS
by Jerry Saltz 9/17/03
Piotr Uklanski's smug pillow talk in Artforum.

BAGHDAD JOURNAL
by Steve Mumford 9/16/03
The Choleric City.

ROMAN HOLIDAY
by N. F. Karlins 9/16/03
"French Artists in Rome" at the Dahesh Museum of Art.

REFORMING THE AUCTION MARKET
by Charlie Finch 9/15/03
A modest proposal.

WILD IN THE STREETS
by Charlie Finch 9/10/03
The fall art scene gets under way in Chelsea.

BABYLON RISING
by Jerry Saltz 9/9/03
Reasons to be cheerful in the new season.

TIRE TROUBLE
by Glenn Dixon 9/5/03
Getting sleepy at the National Museum of Women in the Arts.

BAGHDAD JOURNAL
by Steve Mumford 8/27/03
Hearts and minds in Al Wasiria.

BECOMING GAUGUIN
by Phyllis Tuchman 8/26/03
Paul Gauguin, the early years.

ART MARKET GUIDE 2003
by Richard Polsky 8/21/03
Good deals in contemporary art -- in the upper price range.

BAGHDAD JOURNAL
by Steve Mumford 8/19/03
An eyewitness artist's report from the Iraqi capital.

WISH LIST FOR THE DOG DAYS
by Charlie Finch 8/14/03
Suggestions for new Whitney Museum director Adam Weinberg.

STRIKING DISTANCE
by Glenn Dixon 8/13/03
Marsden Hartley's emotional and intellectual allegiances.

ART MARKET GUIDE 2003
by Richard Polsky 8/8/03
Good deals -- for the deep-pocketed collector.

GOING SOLO
by Phyllis Tuchman 7/29/03
The history of solo artist museums begins with Bertel Thorvaldsen.

ART MARKET GUIDE 2003
by Richard Polsky 7/28/03
Good deals in all price ranges.

THE PERFECT GAME
by Carlo McCormick 7/23/03
Baseball at the American Folk Art Museum.

DECIPHERING BECKMANN
by Charlie Finch 7/17/03
Spiritual transfiguration in Max Beckmann's work.

APOTHEOSIS NOW
by Jerry Saltz 7/16/03
A labor of love at the Dia:Beacon.

ART MARKET GUIDE 2003
by Richard Polsky 7/15/03
Philip Guston's two careers at auction.

BUDDHISM QUEST
by Fred Stern 7/14/03
"Transmitting the Forms of Divinity" at Japan Society.

VINDICATED AT VENICE
by Michael Rush 7/9/03
Michal Rovner's "Against Order? Against Disorder?" in the Israeli Pavilion.

ON THOMAS STRUTH'S "MUSEUM PHOTOGRAPHS"
by Phyllis Tuchman 7/8/03
People looking at photographs of people looking at paintings.

OUT OF LINE
by Jerry Saltz 7/2/03
The incisive drawings of James Siena.

CLOTHES MASK THE MAN
by Glenn Dixon 6/25/03
Maria Friberg and the iconography of male power.

STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN
by Victor M. Cassidy 6/23/03
"Himalayas: An Aesthetic Adventure" is as good as it gets.

FOR CIVIL RIGHTS
by N. F. Karlins 6/20/03
An exhibition focuses on the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King.

THE PASSION OF MAXWELL ANDERSON
by Charlie Finch 6/11/03
A successor list grows in the art world.

ASK MARK KOSTABI
by Mark Kostabi 6/6/03
The joys of the artist's life.

FACE OF THE NATION
by Glenn Dixon 6/5/03
18th-century portrait sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon at the National Gallery of Art.

BURN, BABY, BURN
by Jerry Saltz 6/4/03
Keegan McHargue and Jules de Balincourt make their debut.

SAATCHI'S HARD SELL
by Neil Manson 6/4/03
Charles Saatchi and the new Saatchi Gallery.

INSIDE THE BOX FACTORY
by Suzaan Boettger 6/3/03
A lopsided Golden Age of Earthworks at Dia:Beacon.

WILD AMERICA
by Irit Krygier 5/30/03
John Szarkowski and "Ansel Adams at 100."

PASS THE CADMIUM RED, HONEY
by Robert G. Edelman 5/29/03
Helen Torr and Sally Michel, artists and artist's wives.

LEWD AWAKENING
by Jerry Saltz 5/28/03
Christian Schad at the Neue Galerie.

TRIPPING ON THE WALL
by Ilka Scobie 5/27/03
An interview with Fred Tomaselli.

ONES IN LOVE WITH AMY
by Charlie Finch 5/22/03
Amy Myers' shaman-like obsession with drawing.

A STUMBLEBUM'S PROGRESS
by Jerry Saltz 5/21/03
Amy Sillman gets "shaggy."

BABETTE'S LATEST FEAST
by Phyllis Tuchman 5/21/03
Scandinavian Impressionists in Copenhagen.

ART MARKET GUIDE 2003
by Richard Polsky 5/20/03
A roundup of the New York contemporary art auctions.

BODY BUILDING
by Carolee Thea 5/19/03
"Architectures of Gender" at the Sculpture Center.

INEXHAUSTIBLE FLIGHT
by Marjorie Welish 5/16/03
Kazimir Malevich's plastic visual language for the modern age.

ART AND FASCISM
by Charlie Finch 5/15/03
Don't check your judgment at the door.

DARK STAR
by Jerry Saltz 5/14/03
Mark Lombardi's conspiracy theories.

TO THIS FAR
by Abigail R. Esman 5/7/03
Rudi Fuchs says farewell to Amsterdam's Stedelijk.

TWELVE WAYS TO LOOK AT A READYMADE
by Charlie Finch 5/7/03
Marcel Duchamp's ever-mutating disciples.

ART MARKET GUIDE 2003
by Richard Polsky 5/5/03
Reason for optimism at the May contemporary sales.

PRIMAL TIME
by Jerry Saltz 4/30/03
Adolph Wölfli's ecstatic shamanistic devices at the Folk Art Museum.

ARIEL PROSPERS
by Charlie Finch 4/29/03
Photo dealer Ariel Meyerowitz opens in Chelsea.

INSIDE AUSTRALIA
by Lena Maculan 4/28/03
Antony Gormley's tribe of sculptures watches over Western Australia.

BORDERLINE PAINTINGS
by Jerry Saltz 4/23/03
In "Sunday Painters," painting so bad, it's good.

SCHAD'S CABARET
by Michèle C. Cone 4/17/03
Christian Schad and the transition from Weimar to the Nazi era.

ARCHITECTURAL FOLLIES
by Jerry Saltz 4/16/03
A fiasco from Diller, Scofidio and the Whitney.

THE ESTHETICS OF IRAQ
by Charlie Finch 4/15/03
A radical proposal for reshaping the Middle East.

THE REAL THING: PHOTOGRAPHER LUC DELAHAYE
by Bill Sullivan 4/10/03
Photojournalist Luc Delahaye wants to unsettle the eyes.

'TIS A PUZZLEMENT
by Charlie Finch 4/7/03
Girls on the prowl in Maria's Marshall's Puzzle Fit.

ART MARKET GUIDE 2003
by Richard Polsky 4/3/03
Prices for Andy Warhol paintings find their level.

DOG GONE
by Jerry Saltz 4/2/03
William Wegman's paintings at Sperone Westwater.

THE NEXT BIG THING
by Charlie Finch 4/2/03
Alex McQuilkin's provocative DVD performances.

SIGNS IN THE FOREST
by Irit Krygier
The lightheartedly confrontational paintings of Laura Owens.

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ST. ADOLF II
by N. F. Karlins
A comprehensive retrospective of Adolf Wölfli.

ELEPHANT MAN
by Jerry Saltz 3/25/03
Douglas Gordon and Minnie at Gagosian.

WISHFUL THINKING
by Anneke Bokern 3/24/03
Walter De Maria's solution to world problems.

THE BIZARRO ART WORLD OF THE NEW YORK TIMES
by Charlie Finch 3/21/03
Advertising advice for Chelsea dealers.

ART MARKET GUIDE 2003
by Richard Polsky 3/20/03
Plenty of art (some even for sale) at the Bellagio in Las Vegas.

FILM COMMENT
by Jerry Saltz 3/19/03
John Waters at American Fine Arts.

AT THE BARRE
by Phyllis Tuchman 3/18/03
Degas and the dance, part performance, part self-portraiture.

ASIAN SPRING 2003
by Fred Stern 3/17/03
New York greets spring with a series of Asian art sales.

FROM ROME TO PASTEUM
by Robert G. Edelman 3/12/03
Recent work by Robert Moskowitz finds inspiration in Italy.

MAGIC MOUNTAINS
by Walter Robinson 3/11/03
An exhibition of Marsden Hartley's New Mexico landscapes in New York.

THE ARMORY SHOW RUNS ITS COURSE
by Charlie Finch 3/7/03
It was more fun at the Gramercy Hotel.

THOSE DANCING DAYS ARE GONE
by William Butler Yeats 3/7/03
An elegy for Colin de Land.

THE SHRINKING GIFT
by Donald Kuspit 3/7/03
Jean Fautrier at the Wallace Gallery of Columbia University.

VINCENT'S CHOICE
by Brook S. Mason 3/6/03
The musée imaginaire of Vincent van Gogh, on view at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.

WHEN YOUR FRIENDS MAKE ART
by Charlie Finch 3/5/03
George Negroponte, Deborah Brown, Angelina Nasso, more.

SWEPT AWAY
by Jerry Saltz 2/25/03
On still being smitten with Matthew Barney.

MATTHEW, MICHAEL AND MILLIONAIRE: A THREE-WAY
by Charlie Finch 2/24/03
A parody for three characters.

ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS
by Victor M. Cassidy 2/20/03
Michelangelo, the Medici and Late Renaissance Florence.

MOMA'S BOYS
by Jerry Saltz 2/19/03
With Matisse and Picasso, Friendship + Rivalry = Great Radical Art.

LIFE GETS HARDER SAYS MALERIE MARDER
by Charlie Finch 2/18/03
The artist's new At Rest DVD premieres at Salon 94.

CONCEPTUAL FLOW
by Robert G. Edelman 2/13/03
The revelations of Tony Smith's "Louisenberg" series.

STICKS AND STONES
by Jerry Saltz 2/12/03
Second thoughts on British earthworker Andy Goldsworthy.

PATISSE MICASSO
by Charlie Finch 2/12/03
All sense of museoidentity disappears.

SEEKER IN THE FORBIDDEN ZONE
by Irit Krygier 2/11/03
Bill Viola and spirituality in contemporary art.

PICTURES DON'T LIE
by Jill Conner 2/5/03
Monumental portraits by Diane Edison.

MAYOR BLOOMBERG, ART MORON
by Charlie Finch 2/5/03
The mindless indulgence of grotesque art circuses.

ART MARKET GUIDE 2003
by Richard Polsky 2/4/03
The forgotten legend of Leon Kraushar.

PAPER TRAIL
by Jerry Saltz 1/29/03
Drawing is on the rise in New York.

THE WORLD BELONGS TO LISA
by Charlie Finch 1/28/03
A studio visit with painter Lisa Ruyter.

THOUGHTS ON THE PASSING SCENE
by Charlie Finch 1/23/03
Kevin Landers, John Chamberlain, Tim Gardner, Jay Davis, Dan Kopp, Red Dot, Alex Katz, and more.

RAYS OF LIGHT
by Jerry Saltz 1/21/03
Another opening, another 85 shows.

YOUTH HAMMER
by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp 1/20/03
The Hammer Museum supports up-and-coming L.A. artists.

ART MARKET GUIDE 2003
by Richard Polsky 1/17/03
Keith Haring and the nostalgia for youth.

WATTEAU FOR 2002
by Robert G. Edelman 1/17/03
Something special to mark the passing of a difficult year.

WHEN PUSHKIN COMES TO HOUSTON
by Phyllis Tuchman 1/16/03
From Moscow to Texas, a celebrated collection of French paintings.

THE PICABIA AFFAIR, PART IV
by Alain Tarica
with a response by the Comité Picabia 1/15/03
The inventory of the artist's estate sheds new light in the ongoing dispute.

MONGOL LUXE
by Fred Stern 1/13/03
"The Legacy of Genghis Khan" at the Metropolitan Museum.

MORE RACIST THAN TRENT LOTT
by Charlie Finch 1/10/03
Apartheid in the art world.

ARCHITECTURE SPEAKS
by Max Henry 1/9/03
Seven new proposals for the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan.

IN SEARCH OF BALKANIA
by Eva Kernbauer 1/8/03
The Neue Galerie in Graz mounts an ambitious show of works by artists from southeastern Europe.

ART MARKET GUIDE 2003
by Richard Polsky 1/7/03
A surge in the long-dormant market for Robert Indiana.

THE STATE OF CRITICISM, 2003
by Charlie Finch 1/6/03
A feckless, sorry, compromised one, to be sure.

LOOKING BACK
by Jerry Saltz 1/6/03
Four years on, a critic reassesses and reconsiders.

BOUDOIR LIFE
by Michéle C. Cone 1/3/03
Constantin Guys and "la Vie romantique."

SAVING THE BEST FOR LAST
by N. F. Karlins 1/3/03
The transcendent "Quilts of Gee's Bend" exhibition at the Whitney Museum.



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