Guest of Cindy Sherman Mar 7, 2009
In 1993, Paul H-O and Walter Robinson (then an editor at Art in America) started a sassy New York cable access show called Gallery Beat. They chronicled the scene dominated by such artists as Jeff Koons, Julian Schnabel and Sherman as the self-styled "Beavis and Butt-head" of the art world. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Aby's Mag Stake Jan 31, 2008
The real-estate developer-art collector is a silent partner with Peter Brant, who took over full control of Interview, Art in America, and The Magazine Antiques last week. Polo-playing Brant bought out his ex-wife, Sandy Brant, and appointed Glenn O'Brien and Fabien Baron as editorial directors of all three titles. (New York Post -- Gossip)
Philip Conisbee; curator known for blockbuster shows Jan 24, 2008
Dr. Conisbee wrote widely about art in a number of books and such publications as "Art in America.". Dr. Conisbee began his career as an art professor. (Boston Globe)
Philip Conisbee, 62; former curator at LACMA, National Gallery Jan 22, 2008
Conisbee wrote widely about art in a number of books and publications such as Art in America magazine and the London-based Times Literary Supplement. Conisbee began his career as an art professor. (Los Angeles Times)
Barnes move is debated May 25, 2007
On the other hand, Zaller said, the move - even if galleries and installations are recreated in a new, much larger museum on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway - will irrevocably alter the experience of viewing and studying Barnes's collection in what the painter Henri Matisse famously called "the only sane place to see art in America.". The two men have been staking out their positions for more than a year in the online arts and culture journal, The Broad Street Review. (Ardmore Main Line Life, PA)
Roy DeForest, 77; painter of '60s Funk art May 24, 2007
"Almost everyone appears a little uneasy uptight but zoned out," a 2006 review in "Art in America" magazine noted about DeForest paintings that were on view at the George Adams Gallery in New York. His work was the subject of a retrospective exhibition that opened at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1974 and moved to the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. (Los Angeles Times)
US man charged over kicking painting Apr 7, 2007
It has been on loan since December from the Haukohl Family Collection, considered the largest collection of 17th-century Florentine art in America. The work is owned by Mark Fehrs Haukohl, a Milwaukee native and art collector who lives in Houston. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
$300,000 painting attacked by U.S. museum visitor Apr 5, 2007
The painting was on loan from the Haukohl Family Collection, considered the largest collection of 17th-century Florentine art in America. According to a museum press release, the loan was made possible by Mark Fehrs Haukohl, a Milwaukee native and art collector who lives in Houston. (Globe and Mail)
The Road to Ruin: How Grand Theft Auto Hit the Skids Mar 31, 2007
His father, Peter Brant, owned magazines like Interview and Art in America, cofounded the Greenwich Polo Club and had spent time in jail for tax evasion. Take-Twos games, such as Ripper and Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller, had adult subject matter, cinematic pretensions, and a deliberate, if ham-handed, edginess. (Wired News)
CHANGING THE LANDSCAPE Feb 25, 2007
His art appears in numerous books, and Art in America and other magazines have devoted feature articles to his work ... Michael Klein, writing in Art in America about "Niagara Sublime," said the photographs achieve for the falls "what landscape painters had hoped to achieve over a century ago when American landscape painting was considered the apogee of transcendental thought.". (Buffalo News -- Entertainment)
