Also in this Issue
Long Island City:
QNS Jubilee
Katie Clifford
Chelsea:
Western Expansion
Carly Berwick
SoHo:
Urbane Renewal
Hilarie M. Sheets
Williamsburg:
On the Waterfront
Barbara Pollack
Brooklyn: DUMBO
Flies
Barbara Pollack
Upper East Side:
Old Master Country
Michelle Falkenstein
57th Street and North:
Where Currents Cross
Deidre Stein Greben
Lower Manhattan:
Filling a Void
Kelly Devine Thomas
What Should Lower Manhattan Look Like?
Jessica Dheere
Departments
Art Talk
Prince Charles, Raimund Abraham, Vito Acconci, Alexis Rockman, Bob Braine, Mark Dion, Wim Delvoye, Brian Nissen, Christian Marclay, Anthony Haden-Guest, Holly Brubach, Herbert Mitgang, Tacita Dean, Robert Rosenblum, Eric Fischl, Tess Giberson
National News
Washington, D.C. “Tightening belts” at the Smithsonian Spotlight Matthew Drutt: The Drutt report Brockton, Mass. From arts to crafts Greenport, N.Y. Cement and dissent New York The Chagall was in the mail
International News
London The $17 Poussin Paris Palais it again Barcelona Homage to Gaudí Lembayeque, Peru Museum fit for a lord Lima OK Caral? London Rare Blake watercolors come to light Jerusalem Sculpture to be cast into the flames
Art Market
London Another power shift at Phillips New York ADAA show: Surprisingly strong; Armory fair: Higher attendance; AIPAD show: New leads
City Focus: Chicago
New Venues, New Vigor: The Chicago art world gains momentum with gallery openings, an expanding museum, and a burgeoning scene of alternative spaces
Margaret Hawkins
Prints
Making an Impression: Collaborating with a select group of artists, the Gemini G.E.L. workshop expands the possibilities in printmaking
Scarlet Cheng
Looking at Art
Lines in the Sand: Teeming with acutely observed detail, David Levine’s watercolor Battle at Coney has the sweep and grandeur of a mural
Morley Safer
Books
Elliott Erwitt Snaps Introduction by Murray Sayle, Texts by Charles Flowers • Interviews with American Artists By David Sylvester • Painting American: The Rise of American Artists, Paris 1867–New York 1948 by Annie Cohen-Solal • Man Ray’s Montparnasse By Herbert R. Lottman • The Invention of Art: A Cultural History By Larry Shiner • Gwen John: A Painter’s Life By Sue Roe • The Artist’s Wife By Max Phillips • In the Floyd Archives: A Psycho-Bestiary By Sarah Boxer • Codices Illustres: The World’s Most Famous Illuminated Manuscripts, 400 to 1600 By Ingo F. Walther and Norbert Wolf • African Forms: Art and Rituals By Laure Meyer • surrealism: Desire Unbound Edited by Jennifer Mundy • The Sound I Saw: Improvisation on a Jazz Theme By Roy DeCarava
Flashback: 1905
The Sculptor as Sculpture
With a camera and a smock, Zaida Ben-Yusuf made a case for the portrait as art
Robin Cembalest
Reviews
New York Whitney Biennial; “The Short Century”; Ursula von Rydingsvard; Ida Applebroog; “Off the Grid”; “Jewish Artists: On the Edge”; Felrath Hines; “New Art from China”; Jackson Pollock; Marjorie Welish and Peter Downsbrough; Anton Vidokle; Marilla Palmer; Joel Meyerowitz; Bitforms’s Inaugural Show Chicago Jennifer Bartlett Los Angeles Liz Larner Santa Monica “Photographs We Know–Iconic Images” Long Beach, Calif. “By Hand” Portland, Ore. Nancy Lorenz Santa Fe Virginia Dehn Columbus, Ohio Hélio Oiticica Atlanta Jerry Uelsmann Houston “The School of the South” Basel Anselm Kiefer London Catherine Opie Paris Gérard Garouste Jerusalem Moshe Kupferman Tel Aviv Yigal Ozeri Madrid Manolo Campoamor