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INDEX - 1998 to 2007

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1998
REVIEWS
No. 1 - Rauschenberg at Guggenheim
No. 2 - Léger at MoMA
No. 3 - Dove/​Frankethaler atWhitney/​Guggenheim
No. 4 - Bonnard at MoMA
No. 5 - Tony Smith at MoMA
No. 6 - Burne-Jones at Metropolitan
No. 7 - Barbara A. Wolanin's Constantino Brumidi: Artist of the Capitol
No. 8 - Mark Rothko Exhibition and David Anfam's Catalogue Raisonné
No. 9 - Jackson Pollock at MoMA
No. 9A - MoMA's Pollock Exhibition
No. 9B - MoMA's Pollock Exhibition Catalogue
SEE Pollock Watch Commentaries, 1998-99.
COMMENTARIES
No. 1 - Pollock Watch Commentaries 1A to 1Q
No. 1A - MoMA's first Press Release - No. 1B - Mural /​ Iran - No. 1C - Annotated Bibliography for Jackson Pollock - No. 1D-K - Interpretive Commentaries on Pollock's Works - No. 1L - MoMA's second Press Release - No. 1M - Pollock's Studio to Remain Open in East Hampton - No. 1N - Two Pollock Panels - No. 1-O - MoMA's Pollock Symposium - No. 1P - MoMA's Other Exhibitions - No. 1Q - MoMA's Last Pollock Press Release
No. 2 - Catalogue Raisonné Symposium
No. 3 - Consensus Authentication
No. 4 - Museum Seating
No. 5 - The 100 Most Significant American Paintings of the 20th Century
No. 6 - Archives of American Art Watch
No. 6A - Changes at the AAA
No. 6B - AAA's Director Replies to Questions

1999
REVIEWS
No. 10 - Fairies at the Frick Collection -- A Satire
No. 11 - Ben Shahn /​ Rockwell Kent
No. 12 - Ray Johnson at the Whitney
No. 13 - Picasso Exhibitions at Metropolitan and Guggenheim
No. 14 - Medieval Exhibitions at Metropolitan
No. 15 - Big Stuff at MoMA
No. 16 - The American Century at Whitney & John Updike's Best American Short Stories
No. 17 - Fragments, Figments and Ambiguity in Art: Manet at The Frick, Giotto at The Met, and Leonardo elsewhere
No. 18 - Fame After Photography and Three Other Shows at MoMA
No. 19 -- About MoMA's Parking Lot in the Garden
COMMENTARIES
Nos. 7, 7A & 7B - The Millennium Watch Comment-aries
No. 7A - Time and Abstraction
No. 7B - 8 Millennial Omens

2000
REVIEWS
No. 20A to 20E, and three book reviews can be found under the Millennium Watch Commentary 7C as part of an Apocalyptic Manifesto. The reviews:
Exhibitions:
20A --MODERNSTARTS: People /​ Places /​ Things: 1880 to 1920 At The Museum of Modern Art, New York (Opening sequentially Oct. 7 & 28 /​ Nov. 21 '99-Feb. 1 '00)
20B --OFF LIMITS: RUTGERS UNIVERSITY & THE AVANT-GARDE, 1957-1963 -- At the Newark Museum (Feb. 18-May 16, '99)
20C -- THE AMERICAN CENTURY: ART & CULTURE 1900-2000 Part 2: 1950 to 2000 -- At the Whitney Museum of American Art (Sept. 26, 1999-Feb. 13, 2000)
20D -- SENSATION: YOUNG BRITISH ARTISTS FROM THE SAATCHI COLLECTION At the Brooklyn Museum of Art (Oct. 2, '99-Jan. 9, '00)
20E -- BODY ART: MARKS OF IDENTITY At the American Museum of Natural History (Nov. 20, '99-May 29, '00)
Publications:
Robert C. Morgan, THE END OF THE ART WORLD, NY: Allworth Press /​ School of Visual Arts, 1998.
The Getty Conservation Institute, MORTALITY IMMORTALITY? THE LEGACY OF 20th-CENTURY ART. Introduced by Mildred Constantine; Edited by Miguel Angel Corzo. Los Angeles, CA, 1999.
OFF LIMITS: RUTGERS UNIVERSITY & THE AVANT-GARDE, 1957-1963. Edited by Joan Marter. Newark/​New Brunswick, NJ: The Newark Museum/​Rutgers University Press, 1999.
No. 21 -- The Complete Works of Georgia O'Keeffe - - by Dr. Barbara Buhler Lynes
No. 22 -- Shows in Washington, D.C. - April ‘00
No. 23 -- New York Spring Exhibitions -- including the Whitney Biennial
No. 24 -- Drawings from Prinzhorn Collection
No. 25 -- Book on Diego Rivera--Linda B. Downs
No. 26 -- Jeff KoonsPuppy at Rockefeller Center
No. 27 -- New Book by Ellen Dissanayake - Art and Intimacy: How the Arts Began
No. 28 -- Six Short Book Reviews
No. 29 -- Open Ends at MoMA 2000
No. 30 -- Armani at the Guggenheim
No. 31 -- Sol LeWitt at the Whitney Museum
No. 32 -- Lee Krasner at the Brooklyn Museum
No. 33 -- Abstract Expressionism at Bruce Mus.
No. 34 -- Events at the Metropolitan Museum
COMMENTARIES
No. 7C - An Apocalyptic Manifesto (Including Reviews Nos. 20A-20E)
No. 8 - Factualities and Factitiousness at the CAA -- Report on Facts and Scholarship
No. 9 - Who Owns WPA Art? The GSA????!
No. 10 - The Mural as an Art Form -- A Lecture

2001
REVIEWS
No. 35 -- Two Jackson Pollock Events: Ed Harris' film; Helen Harrison's anthology
No. 36 -- Three New Shows at MoMA
No. 37 -- Vermeer and the Delft School at the Met
No. 38 -- BitStreams at the Whitney Museum
No. 39 -- William Blake at the Metropolitan
No. 40 -- Summer "Fun" in New York
No. 41 -- Six Brief Reviews: Meis & Gehry; Thiebaud; Grigley; French Decorative Art
No. 42 -- The Dark Politics of Mockery, Atrocity and Alienation: James Ensor, Leon Golub and William Kentridge
No. 43 -- New biography of William Blake
No. 44 -- A History of the Art Students League
No. 45 -- John Koch & Norman Rockwell: Realists
No. 46 -- Moonwatchers at the Metropolitan
No. 47 -- Neue Galerie: A New Museum in NY
No. 48 -- Spirituality, Art, and 9/​11 -- 4 Reviews
No. 49 -- Alberto Giacometti at MoMA
COMMENTARIES
No. 11 - The William Blake Watch:
11A - Museums and Spirituality - 11B - Spirituality and Art - 11C - Blake as Poet, Artist, Mystic & Prophet

2002
REVIEWS
No. 50 -- Glass of the Sultans at the Metropolitan
No. 51 -- The New Folk Art Museum
No. 52 -- Gerhard Richter at MoMA -- see below
No. 53 -- The Whitney Biennial
No. 54 -- Pierre Matisse and His Artists at Morgan
No. 55 -- SEE Commentary No. 12 on Art & Evil re Mirroring Evil at The Jewish Museum
No. 56 -- Surrealist Porn & Baroque Incest at Met
No. 57 -- Renaissance Tapestries at the Metropolitan No. 58 -- Oldenburg and van Bruggen In Excelsis
No. 59 -- Thomas Eakins at the Metropolitan
No. 60 -- Joan Mitchell at the Whitney
No. 61 -- Summer Art Downtown & In Manhattan
No. 62 -- Roy Lichtenstein Times Square Mural
No. 63 -- Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party
No. 64 -- Richard Avedon’s Portrait Photographs
No. 65 -- A Gift of New Works to the Whitney Museum
No. 66 -- Stuart Davis at The Morgan Library
No. 67 -- Spanish Religious Art at St. John the Divine
No. 68 -- Sonnets for the Frick Collection
COMMENTARIES
No. 12 (and Review No. 55) -- Art & Evil
No. 13 -- Historiography of New Deal Art Projects -- A Lecture
No. 14 -- Reframing the Musterpiece[sic]: Concern- ing the Archival Fate of Works of Art

2003
REVIEWS
No. 69 -- SEE Commentary 16 on Stephen Wolfram
No. 70 -- Suzaan Boettger’s new book Earthworks
No. 71 -- Leonardo Drawings at the Metropolitan
No. 72 -- Matisse /​ Picasso at MoMA QNS
No. 73 -- Christian Schad at the Neue Gallerie
No. 74 -- Nadelman/​Academics at Whitney/​NAD
No. 75 -- Adolf Wölfli at American Folk Art Museum
No. 76 -- Denis Donoghue’s new book on Beauty
No. 77 -- Bram Dijkstra’s American Expressionism.
No. 78 -- Max Beckmann and Expressionism
No. 79 -- Kazimir Malevich & Geometric Abstraction
No. 80 -- Ellsworth Kelly & The Nature of Art
Reviews misnumbered through 84
No. 81 (82) -- Philip Guston at the Metropolitan
No. 82 (83)-- Visionary Landscapists
No. 83 (84) -- El Greco at the Metropolitan
No, 84 -- Jay DeFeo a the Whitney
COMMENNTARIES
No. 15 -- Eudora Welty’s Muse -- A Lecture
No. 16 (and Review No. 69) -- Stephen Wolfram’s A New Kind of Science and the Humanities.
No, 17 -- Predictions About the Mural as an Art Form -- A Lecture

2004
REVIEWS
No. 85 -- The Cubist Matrix: Reviews of Pepe Karmel’s new book, Picasso and the Invention of Cubism, two new books on Modern Graphic Design, and Rosenquist exhibit at the Metropolitan.
No. 86.-- The Whitney Biennial 2004
No. 87 -- Public Art -- Reviews of books on murals by Bailey Van Hook and Heather Becker
No. 88 -- Thomas Hart Benton -- Three reviews.
No. 89 -- 19th Century Public Art -- Reviews of Sally Webster on Mary Cassatt’s 1893 Worlds Fair mural and an anthology on the U. S. Capitol.
No. 90 -- SEE Commentary 22 on Donald Kuspit’s The End of Art
No. 91 -- The New MoMA: A Preview of the recon- structed galleries.
No. 92 -- Reviews of Mark Rothko’s The Artist’s Reality and a Barnett Newman catalogue raisonné.
No. 93 -- The New MoMA and the Permanent Collection Galleries.
COMMENTARIES
No, 18 -- Baseball & Curses
No. 19 -- Sublimation and Creativity
No. 20 -- A Conference on the Catalogue Raosonné
No. 21 -- A Conference on Abstract Expressionism as an International Language
No. 22 (and Review Number 90) -- The End and the Future of Art
No. 23 -- Electing the Elect: Thoughts on the Aesthetics of Politics

2005
REVIEWS
No. 94 -- Christos The Gates in Central Park, NY
No. 95 -- Short Reviews of Summer Shows at the Met, MoMA and Whitney
No. 96 -- Fall Reviews at Met, MoMA and Whitney
COMMENTARIES
No Commentaries published in 2005

2006
REVIEWS
No. 97 - Summer Shows in New York
No. 98 - Jackson Pollock Commemorative Exhibitions
No. 99 -- Scully & Marden at the Met and MoMA
No. 100 --Review of Anne Friedberg's new book The Virtual Window: From Alberti to Microsoft
COMMENTARIES
No. 24 -- Eros and Imagination

2007
REVIEWS
No. 101 -- Serra and Stella: Architectral Sculpture
No. 102 -- Psychedelic Art at Whitney
No. 103 -- Reviews of Books on Fakes at Bruce Museum and Kirk Varnedoe's Mellon Lectures
No. 104 -- Newman Collection at Metropolitan
No. 105 -- For Presence at Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies
No. 106 -- Transgression in Art and Its World
COMMENTARIES
No. 25 -- Lorna Collins on Summer Shows in Europe
No. 26 -- Interiority in Art and Literature


Dr. Francis V. O’Connor
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