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The 10 Best Living Artists
The Wizard of Odd
Matthew Barney’s perversely eccentric imagery has caused more than a few viewers to shudder
Barbara Pollack
Speak, Memory
The indiscreet charm of Louise Bourgeois
Ann Landi
Complexity and Contradiction
Jasper Johns teases cryptic art out of the commonplace
Lilly Wei
Neuroses and Nostalgia
Ilya Kabakov’s claustrophobic installations are foreign yet immediately recognizable
Anne Midgette
The Sound of Silence
Agnes Martin reminds us how much can be expressed with (seemingly) so little
Francine Prose
The Funny Side of the Abyss
Bruce Nauman confronts us with humor and horror
Francine Prose
Things Go Better with Polke
Sigmar Polke mocks the new Americanized Germany with a rapier irony—and mingles the Pop esthetic with just about everything else
Robert Knafo
Definitive Ambiguities
Gerhard Richter blurs mediums, styles, and historical moments to make sharp contemporary statements
Anne Midgette
Self-Denial
Cindy Sherman has built a career on a body of self-portraits depicting other people
Barbara Pollack
Artificial Intelligence
With staged tableaux rooted in genre painting, Jeff Wall merges photography with fiction
Justin Spring
Timothy W. Ryback
A decade ago, ARTnews revealed that more than a thousand paintings looted from Holocaust victims were hanging in German museums and government offices. But as new information emerges, researchers say there may be thousands more. A new generation of curators and bureaucrats is slowly confronting this problematic legacy
A Minimalist in Baroque Trappings
David Reed’s sensual paintings capture the power and persistence of abstraction
Barbara A. MacAdam
Departments
Art Talk
Camille Paglia; Sandra Bernhard; Monica Lewinsky; Georgia O’Keeffe; Linda Fiorentino; Ben Kingsley; James Woods; Dennis Barrie; Elton John; Rachel Whiteread; Marc Quinn; Yasumasa Morimura; Jan Vermeer; James Rosenquist; Leo Castelli; Michael Clark; Nicolas Roeg; Libby Pataki
National News
New York Tracking the Gold Train Brooklyn Museum’s funding restored Spotlight Paul Gottlieb: Publish and flourish New York Minister at the Met
International News
Paris The Pompidou reopens as a “cultural hotel” Spotlight Jay Jopling: His shark is worse than his bite Tokyo Textbook case Vatican City Luck with Lotto Seoul Korea’s “cultural battle” Santiago, Chile Return from exile
City Focus: Washington, D.C.
A Boost for the Beltway: With new projects in the museums and galleries, the Washington art scene takes an optimistic turn
Ferdinand Protzman
Art Market
London Ofili on a roll; Seeking Russian restitution New York Prices soar for scarce Balthus works; Looking after Lichtenstein’s legacy
Living with Art
A Real Estate: From Pearlstein’s nudes to Estes’s street scenes, contemporary realism finds a home with Richard and Monica Segal
Alistair Highet
Studio
Going with the Wind: Susumu Shingu gives shape to the invisible and fleeting forces of nature
Michael Gibson
Looking at Art
A Spellbinding Scenario: In Salvador Dalí’s Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach, Spanish realism collides with magic realism, de Sade, and Freud
Lilly Wei
Books
Rembrandt’s Eyes by Simon Schama, reviewed by M. Kirby Talley, Jr.
Reviews
Our far-flung critics assess exhibitions in New York; St. Louis; Los Angeles; San Francisco; Washington, D.C.; Miami; Houston; Santa Fe; Berlin; Brussels; London; Rome; Paris; Zurich; Caracas; São Paulo