Slides and Prejudice
The controversy around painting from photographs continues as new generations and new image-making technologies keep the debate alive. Read More
Also in this Issue
Boundary Issues
More and more painters are crossing the line between the purely abstract and the strictly representational
Rebecca Spence
Creeping Cats and Fish in Hats
Whether ankle-high or giant-size, Tom Otterness’s roly-poly figures are whimsical, fantastical, and not as innocent as they may seem
Hilarie M. Sheets
The Mission of Matthew Bogdanos
After leading the hunt for objects looted from the Iraq Museum, Manhattan assistant district attorney Matthew Bogdanos—classical scholar, Marine Corps Reserves colonel, and middleweight boxer—is setting up New York’s first task force on the illegal antiquities trade
Kelly Devine Thomas
The Man Who Moved Kraters
Robert E. Hecht Jr., the dealer who sold the Euphronios krater to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and is at the center of Italy’s crackdown on looted antiquities, talks about his 50-year career
Kelly Devine Thomas
Departments
Art Talk
R. Crumb, Terry Zwigoff, Daniel Clowes, Max Minghella, Sophia Myles, John Malkovich, Anjelica Huston, Jim Broadbent, Steve Buscemi, Matt Keeslar, Caitlin Mitchell-Dayton, Marcel Dzama, Laurie Simmons, Jessica Stockholder, Yayoi Kusama, Marc Quinn, Prince Charles, David Bailey, Andrew Lloyd Webber, J. K. Rowling, Sam Taylor-Wood, David Beckham, Lawrence Weschler, Joel Meyerowitz, Mikhail Piotrovsky, Pepe Karmel, Robert Rosenblum, Mimmo Paladino
National News
Los Angeles Transition at the trust; What should the Getty do now? New York Met and Italy reach accord on antiquities; Pollock debate escalates Spotlight Charles E. Pierce Jr.: The Morgan’s Renaissance man Washington, D.C. The Phillips Collection goes underground; A new museum for the Mall
International News
Amsterdam A victory in the Goudstikker case; Family ties Prague “Absurd and immoral” Hong Kong Culture center stalled Vienna Austrian museums to return Schieles Berlin U.S. sends Bürkels back to Germany Paris Trying to stay out of court
Art Market
New York Vintage photography soars; Halley’s constellation London German and Austrian art lead Imp-Mod sales
City Focus: Berlin
A Dynamic Destination: With galleries opening, museum renovations under way, and a biennial in progress, Berlin has become a major attraction for artists and collectors
J. S. Marcus
Critic’s Pick: Rebecca Campbell
Jori Finkel
Reviews
INTERNATIONAL Salzburg “Zero: The Lenz Schönberg Collection” London Richard Long; Aleksandra Mir Paris Arnulf Rainer; Rosson Crow Beijing “24 Hours” Milan Milton Gendel
NEW YORK “David Smith: A Centennial”; “Trade Taste and Transformation”; Dan Budnik; Jon Kessler; Marina Abramovic; Hans Haacke; “Dialogue: Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock”; Bob Thompson; Catherine Sullivan; Moses Soyer; Walid Raad/The Atlas Group; Nobuyoshi Araki; “Monuments for the USA”; Michael Lazarus; Vernon Fisher; El Anatsui; “Happenstance”; Felix Schramm; “Painters Without Paintings & Paintings Without Painters”; Elsa Mora; “Imagined Worlds: Willful Invention and the Printed Image 1470–2005”; “The Eight”
NATIONAL Cambridge, Massachusetts “Frank Stella 1958” Boston Miroslav Antic San Francisco “Kiki Smith: A Gathering, 1980–2005” West Hollywood Lucien Clergue Chicago Martin Puryear Santa Fe “Native Pop” Washington, D.C. Michael Kenna Portland, Oregon Rae Mahaffey Flint, Michigan Larry Dinkin