Determination makes candidate (2) Apr 20, 2008
Charles Ray Mick Hagermann. Muscatine, Iowa. (Muscatine Journal, IO)
Obituaries for Tuesday, March 27, 2007 Mar 28, 2007
Visitation continues 2 p.m. Wednesday at J.J White Memorial Presbyterian Church until services there at 3 p.m., with Dr. Lane Stephenson and Mr. Charles Ray officiating. Burial will be in Hollywood Cemetery. (Enterprise-Journal)
Obituaries, Feb. 8, 2007 Feb 10, 2007
Charles PittmanCORINTH - Charles Ray Pittman, 60, died Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2007, at his home. He was a Baptist and a self-employed carpenter. (Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal)
Temptations of the Fair Dec 25, 2006
The show, which will be up through the spring, posits a blooming tradition of gorgeous and impolite styles keyed to psychosocial provocations in works by Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, Charles Ray, Barbara Kruger, Raymond Pettibon, and Jim Shaw. I hadn t heard of nearly half the artists (nor had some Southern Californians I consulted). (New Yorker)
Leaders & Success Dec 13, 2006
Investor's Business Daily: Charles, Ray Eames Sat Up And Took Notice. Charles, Ray Eames Sat Up And Took Notice. (Investors Business Daily)
Charles, Ray Eames Sat Up And Took Notice Dec 13, 2006
FOR INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY. In the post-World War II world, apartments were at a premium. (Investors Business Daily)
L.A. show pays homage to Magritte Dec 4, 2006
Charles Ray may not have been thinking about Magritte when he created Fall '91 (1992), his early 8-foot-tall female mannikin in a business suit. Yet its radical distortion of everyday scale has roots in Magritte's art. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Warts and Comb-Overs Sep 22, 2006
Several artists working today count Hanson among their influences, says Ms. Hanson, including Gavin Turk, Ron Mueck, Jake and Dinos Chapman and Charles Ray. Hanson and Andy Warhol were going to do portraits of each other, but Warhol died before the project began. (Lambertville Beacon, NJ)
Obituaries for Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2006 Aug 24, 2006
Pallbearers will be her grandsons, Charles Ray Polk, Tonie Polk, Rickey Polk, Stephen Polk, Patrick Polk, Michael Polk and Cole Polk III.. Janet Marie Foster. (Enterprise-Journal)
At Paris Exhibit, L.A. Art Is a Smash -- Literally Aug 3, 2006
The Paris exhibition featured more than 300 works by more than 80 artists, among them John Baldessari, Billy Al Bengston, Dennis Hopper, Eleanor Antin, Lari Pittman, Charles Ray, Chris Burden, Nancy Rubins, Judy Chicago, John Divola, Robert Heinecken, Ed Moses and Betye Saar. To pull it together, the Pompidou borrowed more than a dozen works from LACMA. Grenier said 300,000 visitors saw the show. (Q13.com, WA)
Contemporary Art: 12 records, and much applause May 19, 2006
Then there was a work by Charles Ray called "Ink Drawing" in which the surface is equally divided in two halves, one solid black, the other solid white. But actually this is not a drawing. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
What's the BIG IDEA? May 6, 2006
Not so the work of Charles Ray, says Grachos. Ray's "Family" shows a mother and father and their two children, all naked and holding hands. (Buffalo News)
Refco Asks Bankruptcy Court to Allow Christie's to Auction Art Collection This Spring Jan 26, 2006
NEW YORK, Jan. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Refco Inc. (OTC: RFXCQ) said today that it has chosen New York-based Christie's to auction its prized art collection, comprising more than 500 photographs by contemporary artists such as Cindy Sherman, Charles Ray, Diane Arbus and Andy Warhol, as well as paintings, sculptures and prints. In a motion filed today, the company has asked the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of the Southern District of New York for authorization for Christie's to conduct a series of... (PR Newswire)
