Crossing the Line in China
As Ai Weiwei continues to openly criticize Communist party policy, his international profile is rising—but so is government response. Read More
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Features
The Writing on the Wall
Using borrowed texts by figures ranging from Gertrude Stein to Richard Pryor, Glenn Ligon transforms words into abstractions that speak volumes
Hilarie M. Sheets
History in the Making
Like their predecessors Géricault and David, a number of painters, photographers, and video artists are creating ambitious works that take on major world events, from apartheid to the war in Iraq
Ann Landi
Departments
Art Talk Matthew Gale, Dale Chihuly, Gerald Ward, Heidi Latsky, Jennifer Muller, Ben Munisteri, Valerie Gladstone, John Bock, Christophe Daviet-Thery, Phil Terry, James Turrell, Chrissy Crawford, Shepard Fairey, David Levinthal, Kenny Scharf, Joanne Dolan Ingersoll
News WASHINGTON, D.C. Should curating be crowdsourced? PONCE Creating a dialogue in Puerto Rico SAVANNAH, GEORGIA Building an African American narrative
Design Architectural Extrovert: An exhibition showcasing Moshe Safdie’s designs for buildings around the world reveals that his signature style is no signature style
Hilarie M. Sheets
Critic’s Pick A. L. Steiner: “Angry, Articulate, Inevitable”
Barbara Pollack
Reviews
NEW YORK George Condo; Ellsworth Kelly; Christian Marclay; Jennifer Bartlett; Michael Reafsnyder; Kai Althoff; “The Parallax View”; Martin Kersels; J. Henry Fair; Heinz Mack; John Beech; Esteban Vicente; León Ferrari; Yves Oppenheim; Pentti Sammallahti; Mika Tajima; Susan Schwalb; Bert Stern; Celia Gerard NATIONAL Los Angeles Blinky Palermo San Francisco Catherine Wagner Washington, D.C. “Viewing Rm.” Boston “No Way” Chicago Gordon Powell; Elliott Erwitt West Palm Beach, Florida “Now WHAT?” Coral Gables, Florida “Portal” Atlanta Marcus Kenney INTERNATIONAL London “Newspeak: Part II”; Jacques Villeglé Paris Valerie Belin Zurich Pablo Picasso Toronto “Out of Print” Jerusalem “Caught in the Thicket” Brussels “The World of Lucas Cranach”