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This May, we take an in-depth look at the size and breadth of the worldwide private art market, which has been estimated at $25 billion annually. We profile Whitfield Lovell, whose haunting installations reflect on African American history. We talk to Jonathan Singer about his spectacular photographs of the world’s rarest plants. And we survey museum directors and curators around the world about the impetus for reinstalling or inaugurating collections of Islamic art.

‘A Positive Understanding of Islam’

Museums around the world are showcasing Islamic art in an effort to promote understanding and engage immigrant communities
$25 Billion and Counting

Auction sales are what one dealer calls the “visible part of the iceberg.” But how big is the rest of it? According to dealers, auction house experts, and other advisers, the private art market is exponentially larger—fueled by increasing demand from Russia, Asia, the Middle East, and other emerging markets

Next month, our focus is art and ecology. We talk to artists who are trying to “heal the world” through planting, cleaning landfills, and even recycling their own urine. At the same time, we look at the ways that artists are trying to reduce the environmental impact of their work.

Also, we profile El Anatsui, the Ghanaian-born artist who has earned international acclaim for transforming bits of scrap metal and other found objects into stunning fields of texture and color. And we catch up with Diana Widmaier Picasso, who for the last five years has traveled the globe to research every sculpture produced by her grandfather Pablo Picasso for the first comprehensive publication on the subject.