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noteworthy, 2006:
liberta awards for 2005
artur barrio breaks moore's walls
revenge of thomas eakins
andrea stern
paradise now
more on andrea blum
andrea blum
roberta on anthony campuzano
libby on anthony campuzano
libby on stuart netsky
roberta on stuart netsky

parts to the whole

Space 1026 goes to Yerba Buena, reported by Shelley Spector
san francisco dreamin
yerba, part 4
yerba, part 3
yerba, part 2
Space 1026 at yerba
 
noteworthy in new york, 2006:
asian art at pulse
the now factor at the art fairs
circus circus at scope
seances literal
art world seances
art for sale
criss-cross at pulse
machines at scope
at the armory

whitney biennial paintings
whitney biennial catalog
whitney's familiar faces
whitney rocks
whitney news blast

ed ruscha at the whitney
frequency in harlem

at the institute of contemporary art (philadelphia), 2006:
roberta on ica's winter shows
die or join, brian tolle
ingrid calame
phong bui and holiday home
holiday home
 
at the philadelphia art museum, 2006:
lewitt, murray and richter
new acquisitions on paper
perelman building
interview with carlos basualdo
carlos basualdo part 2
hirschhorn picture found
 
at the pennsylvania academy of the fine arts, 2006:
nadia hironaka talk
night in the woods w/ nadia
nick cave
correcting chicago record
chicago at pafa
nan goldin
 
at the fabric workshop and museum, 2006:

artist interviews, 2006:
john tallman
ben volta and friends
teresa jaynes
mark creegan part 2
mark creegan part 1
poetry machine man jim carpenter
liz rywelski, part 3
liz rywelski part 2
liz rywelski part 1
 
artblog on the road:
libby in l.a.
more libby in la
touch the l.a. sky
 
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amy lipton
ann northrup
anna conti
anne minich
anne seidman
astrid bowlby
ava blitz
brent burket
brian wallace
cate fallon
cinque hicks
charles hankin
colette copeland
dan schimmel
daniel heyman
ditta baron hoeber
donna sink
douglas t. witmer
emily brown
eric mcdade
franklin einspruch
gerard brown
james rosenthal
jason urban
joe naujokas
judith schaechter
mark barry
mark shetabi
martin bromirski
richard torchia
rob matthews
robert asman
rodger lapelle
samantha simpson
sarah mceneaney
shelley spector
sid sachs
tim mcfarlane
zoe strauss

other writing by libby and roberta:
- art reviews by roberta this week at the philadelphia weekly
- pennsylvania gazette article on Chuck Close at Penn by libby
- pennsylvania gazette article on 40 years at the ICA by libby
- pennsylvania gazette article on huichol art by libby
- april 2005 chuck close story at artnet by roberta
- march 2005 philadelphia story at artnet by roberta
- october 2004 interview with laura hoptman at artnet by roberta
- march 2004 philadelphia story at artnet by roberta
- april 2004 interview with adam cvijanovic at artnet by roberta
- education in wonderland article by roberta for american educator magazine

noteworthy in new york 2005:
van gogh by roberta
van gogh by libby
elizabeth murray part 1
elizabeth murray part 2
affordable art fair
 
women talking
shamim momin on ellen harvey
part 1
part 2
roberta on holzer
libby on holzer
 
at the institute of contemporary art (philadelphia), 2005:
rodney graham's big laughs
 
at the philadelphia art museum, 2005:
beauford delaney
roberta on mavericks of color
libby on mavericks of color
 
dali: the book
dali: the poem
dali rides again
dali: first take
dali: the advertising
 
at the pennsylvania academy of the fine arts, 2005:
 
at the fabric workshop and museum, 2005:
libby on swarm
roberta on swarm
 
artist interviews, 2005:
susan fenton
edward epstein
kip deeds
lisa kereszi
lee tusman
anna conti
mei-ling hom

j.t. kirkland and roberta, part 1
part 2
part 3

linn meyers and douglas witmer, part 1
part 2
part 3
 
brent burket covers new york, 2005:
the faces of jenny dubnau
new york fall roundup
joymore in williamsburg
dreamland at coney island
introducing heart as arena
life on 57th st.
chelsea in june
 
artblog on the road, 2005:
san francisco galleries-conti at newmark
sf galleries2-will yackulic at gregory lind
sf galleries3-social insecurity at catharine clark
beastie-men at mass moca
san francisco, anna conti
matthews snaps whirligigs
california thrifting
nepenthe and big sur
getty
leipzig crowd at mass moca
search for nature
nature found
cai guo-chang at mass moca
tony oursler at the met
chinatsu ban in central park
calatrava
lewitt at the met
 
barnes mess: 03/02/05 , 01/24/05 , 12/02/04 , 06/17/04, 05/22/04, 05/17/04, 05/03/04, 04/29/04, 04/21/04 , 04/20/04 , 04/19/04 , 04/02/04 , 12/24/03 , 07/30/03
 
allan mccollum at uarts, 2005:
allan mccollum's talk, part 1
allan mccollum, part 2
allan mccollum, part 3
 
emerging artists shows, 2005:
roberta on philly cheek
philly cheek by libby
voxennial by roberta
voxennial by libby
tyler mfa show by roberta
5 into 1 by roberta
5 into 1 by libby
cfeva by roberta
 
robert smithson's "floating island," 2005:
libby's post
cate's post
 
"the gates" by christo and jeanne-claude, 2005:
libby's quick take
roberta's review
 
LINC thread, 2005:
artspace news from ed bronstein
zoe strauss sets record straight
sterling gallery
from kevin finklea
from tim mcfarlane
post seminar update
roberta's report
libby's report
 
lost meeting thread, 2005:
libby loses the meaning
abigail doan gets lost
zoe strauss weighs in
charles hankin on mediation
charles hankin on quakerism
paolo bertolli/roberta email chat
roberta gets lost
 
axis of evil thread, 2005:
government gone wild in philly, too
more links
secret service loses sense of humor
stamps and postcards
laziness and stamps
 
moma retakes manhattan, 2004:
bloomies of art
moma people
the light, the art, the money
 
2004-5 carnegie international:
deep thoughts...
evil eye
people
objects
 
scope/new york 2005:
libby's favorites
roberta's favorites
libby on scope and nitsch
libby and roberta's roundup
 
hermann nitsch thread, 2005:
naujokas on nitsch and business
thacker on nitsch as a teacher
libby on nitsch at scope
libby on nitsch and yufit
colette on nitsch's blood and guts
 
2004 wrap-up:
trends
wish list
best of
resolutions
gallery trends
in memorium

2004 whitney biennial
our list of faves
what we saw
whitney in a box

critic bashing, 2004:
rosenthal 01/04/05
sachs 12/14/04
finklea 12/10/04
rosof 12/07/04
schimmel 12/05/04
rosenthal 12/05/04
barry 12/05/04
fallon 12/04/04
mosher 12/04/04
fallon raises hackles 12/04/04

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