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New Art Round Table News

Edited by Ellen K. Corrigan / posted: 28 March 2005

For those who have ever bemoaned the lack of access to individual artists exhibited in group shows, Cristine Rom of the Cleveland Institute of Art announces a new Contemporary Artist Index under development. The CAI indexes over 15,000 artists, artists' groups, photographers, craftspeople, designers, and design firms whose work appears in group exhibition catalogs added to the Gund Library since 1991, as well as the video periodical Art Today and View, a periodical specializing in artist interviews. This free web resource is available via the library home page at http://www.cia.edu/library/ (under the section labeled "Research").

In exhibition news, Arezoo Moseni of the Art Collection, Mid-Manhattan Library, New York Public Library has initiated the "Art in the Windows" exhibition program, show-casing the work of first and second-generation ethnic Americans, African Americans, Native Americans, older adults, and other underrated artists. The exhibitions are held in the 5th Avenue window display case of the MML three times a year in March, May, and December. The first exhibition, in collaboration with the National Museum of the American Indian, featured works by contemporary female Native Americans, and the program is currently curated and booked through the end of 2005.

Also at the Mid-Manhattan Art Collection, Daniele Di Lodovico, a curator and art historian based in Cascia, Italy, and the artist Jack Sal will present an artists' roundtable discussion on April 13 in conjunction with the exhibition "Suitcase," co-organized by Moseni and Di Lodovico. "Suitcase," which opens on the third floor of the Art Collection on April 12, will include ten American and ten Italian artists, each of whom has created a postcard-sized image to fit in a suitcase intended to accompany the curator around the world; the exhibition is scheduled to travel to Denmark, England, Germany, Poland, and Spain.

Look for the article on "The Artist Turns to the Book," the exhibition of artists' books curated by Joyce Pellerano Ludmer for the Getty Research Institute and running from May 24 through September 11, in the Spring issue of Art Documentation. Also in the Spring issue, Ray Anne Lockard of the Frick Fine Arts Library, University of Pittsburgh, will be co-authoring an article with Terry E. Smith, professor of contemporary art, on their experiences with developing a new library collection in contemporary art.

ARLIS/Southern California--under the leadership of Kelley Wolfe, past chair, and Nancy Norris, chair--is organizing a conference on artists? books titled "ABC LA, the Artists' Books Conference in Los Angeles: Creating, Collecting, Cataloging, Conserving, Collaborating." The conference will be held May 21-24, each day at a different venue: MoCA (Museum of Contemporary Art), Otis College of Art and Design, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library (UCLA), and the Getty Research Institute. For more information, visit the web site at http://www.arlis-sc.org/.

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