11.   And in showcasing native talent in New York, he has facilitated the international careers of American artists.

12.   And it makes sense that the most plentifully represented American artist is Robert Morris, like Johnson something of an esthetic chameleon.

13.   And to younger American Jewish artists, the tricky business of distinguishing between the two has become fodder for their art.

14.   And there is recent work in her current miniretrospective at the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russia, the first major exhibition of a living American artist there.

15.   Any number of white American artists and art theorists also were persuaded by socialist and communist ideals.

16.   As she made her announcement Wednesday, she chose to quote one of the most optimistic of American artists.

17.   At the Museum of Modern Art, young teen-agers display more modern preoccupations, discussing works of the contemporary American artist Carrie Mae Weems that overtly invoke sexual politics.

18.   A lovely volume of a great American artist.

19.   A new show at the Phoenix Art Museum brings together paintings by six American artists who use nature, at one remove or another, as subject and theme.

20.   A second new work, an idiosyncratic Hanukkah lamp designed by the American artist Matthew McCaslin, takes renewed life as its theme.