Baboon Business
How a new film uses a baboon and a vacuum cleaner to poke fun at the art world. Read More
Also in this Issue
Avant Gardens
Museums across the country are rethinking the sculpture garden with edgy works that attract children, invite participation, and lure visitors into the galleries
Hilarie M. Sheets
Connecting the Dots
In the art of Bharti Kher, the bindi that Hindu women wear on their foreheads becomes a motif that links tradition and modernity, East and West
Pernilla Holmes
‘This Sweet Remembrancer’
John Constable is best known as a landscape painter. But a romantic 1816 image of his wife—which caused a “small sensation” in its day—is a highlight of a show focusing on a previously neglected aspect of his career
Martin Gayford
Departments
Art Talk
Zak Orth, Marley Shelton, Eion Bailey, Adam Goldberg, Ptolemy Slocum, Martin Creed, Damien Hirst, Vinnie Jones, Jeff Koons, Jonathan Parker, Kyle Ng, Markus Raetz, Yoko Ono, Douglas Gordon, Ryan Humphrey, An Xiao, Mary Temple, Eugenie Tsai, Kathleen Rooney, Michael Graves, João Ribas
National News
HOUSTON Bill Arning: Yes we CAMH BOSTON Appropriation: appropriate? DENVER Mixing in the lab
International News
AMSTERDAM Slow-motion picture SPOTLIGHT Olga Sviblova: Russian revolutionary KENT, ENGLAND Bridled enthusiasm PARIS Free admission . . . priceless? ATHENS Acropolis now?
Books
Dark Water: Flood and Redemption in the City of Masterpieces By Robert Clark
Milton Esterow
Critic’s Pick
Alexander Timofeev: Paint It Noir
David Galloway
Reviews
NEW YORK “The Third Mind”; “Second Lives”; Robert Gober and Felix Gonzalez-Torres; Judy Pfaff; Matta; Fred Sandback; Jonathan M. Singer; James Drake, Kunié Sugiura, and Stanley Whitney; John Gerrard; Adou; “Master Drawings”; George Deem; “The New Abstractionists”; Liz Renay; “The Cedar Bar”
NATIONAL Washington, D.C. Robert Frank Los Angeles Peter Krausz Boston Anne Neely San Francisco Josephine Taylor Chicago Richard Mayhew Miami “Russian Dreams . . .” Santa Fe Charles Arnoldi Southampton, New York “Sand” Philadelphia “The Closing Decade”; Louis B. Sloan; Rob Wynne; “Obama-rama”; Adam Lee Farrell and R. Michael Walsh
INTERNATIONAL Vienna Gerhard Richter; Klaus Weber London Ruth Root Paris Bernard Moninot