Whitney Museum of American Art

Remembering two of the great 20th Century Avant-Garde Artists, now deceased, and Yoko Ono, very much alive, and presenting important work in the 21st Century.

The exhibition of images of the enormous earth works of the Australian artist, Andrew Rogers, are featured at the alternative space White Box Gallery in New York's Lower East Side. It accompanies the release of a monograph by Distributed Art Publishers (DAP).

Since her first New York solo show the representational painter, like her friend and fellow Yale MFA graduate, John Currin, the artist Lisa Yuskavage has been successful depicting big busted bimbos. But this latest show reveals remarkable growth and sophistication.

In the vast space of Chelsea's Paula Cooper Gallery several rather small, meticulously rendered copies of phtographs of details of Gothic sculptures by Rudolf Stingel are presented. It evokes the question of precious excess or an ironic conceptual strategy.

Buckminster Fuller died in 1983, but his visionary concepts still resonate today. Though his attempt at real world applications--Dymaxion House, Geodesic Dome, etc., never proved practical, his concern for the protection of the natural environment and interest in shared global information make this eccentric almost clairvoyant.

Just what does the Whitney Biennial 2008 have to do with theoretical physics? According to the curators more than you have ever imagined.

In July it will be 20 years since Tom Krens left the Williams College Museum of Art to become director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. His resignation was announced today. He has changed forever the mandate for major museums and how they are managed.

The first of a two part report on Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1957-1996) who represented the United States in the Venice Bienalle which is now in its final days.

During World War Two the epicenter of the international avant-garde art world passed from Paris to New York. Its leading painters were the Dutch born, Willem de Kooning, and Jackson Pollock. Their tragic lives produced enduring masterpieces. This magnificent biography focuses on de Kooning, the other master of Abstract Expressionism.

On November 6 the Jennifer Hartwell Gallery in Birmingham will open a retrospective of Raeford Liles who recently relocated to his native roots after decades of living and showing his work in New York.

The touring Edward Hopper show is on view at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston through August before continuing at the National Gallery and concluding at the Art Institute of Chicago.

In his relatively brief life Gordon Matta-Clark the son of the surrealist artist, Matta, famously cut into and deconstructed abandoned buildings. He also established Eat in Chelsea an artist run restaurant and legendary matrix for the avant-garde of his time.

After a September delay the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston has opened a new 65,000 square foot home on the edge of the harbor.

As part of the on-going series of exhibitions entitled 'Encounters', Williams College Museum of Art presents works by Edward Hopper and Gregory Crewdson.

Art dealer Stefan Stux recently discussed the personal and business issues that make him a unique "survivor."