Hollywood’s New Wave
More and more artists are directing feature films with large casts, big budgets, and elaborate story lines involving everything from intellectual werewolves to Polish cowboys. Read More
Also in this Issue
Going Platinum
The wig is just about the only thing that unites the many ways that actors have played Andy Warhol
Edith Newhall
‘I’m Quite Perverse’
Making portraits from blood, placenta, DNA, and pharmaceuticals, sculptor Marc Quinn invents new ways to represent mortalit
Martin Gayford
Restitution: Unfulfilled Promises
Despite international conferences, well-meaning legislation, changes in museum policy, long-running lawsuits, and several high-profile returns, the restitution of cultural property looted during the Holocaust has not been completed—or even, in some countries, begun
Reexamining the Legacy of Shame
Konstantin Akinsha
The United States: Far From the Goal
Michelle Falkenstein
Russia: Politics and Populism
Nora FitzGerald
Austria: Too Little, Too Late
Sophie Lillie
Germany: Open Cases, Closed Doors
Stefan Koldehoff
The Con Artist, the Forger, the Smuggler, the Informant
Michel van Rijn has been called many things. Now he has been thanked for his role in the case of an ancient Peruvian headdress looted by tomb robbers and recovered by Scotland Yard. “We call it in the U.K. a ‘poacher turned gamekeeper,’” says a British ex-detective
Milton Esterow
Departments
Art Talk
Bruno Girveau, Michael Eisner, Klaus Kertess, Dennis Oppenheim, Brian Eno, Manny Ramirez, David Levinthal, Jonathan Mahler, Bud Selig, Sandy Alderson, Don Sanders, Roger Clemens, Reggie Jackson, Nolan Ryan, Spike Lee, Jasper Johns, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Marina Abramovic, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Angel Medina, The Art Guys, Jeff Koons, Michael Jackson, Damien Hirst
National News
Los Angeles Getting the Getty on track Spotlight Mari Carmen Ramírez: Remapping the territory Boston Going a step further New York More exits in Brooklyn; Media is MoMA’s message Flint, Michigan Showing its new colors Philadelphia The $107 million question Santa Barbara, California Marcia Tucker: A visionary who made “bad” good
International News
Moscow Thugs trash Russian gallery Afghanistan “We will have nothing left” London British bust art burglars Tokyo Japanese sting nabs art thief
Art Market
Las Vegas What happened in Vegas, stayed in Vegas New York Continental shift; Pat Steir: Rising waterfall Paris New records in Brassaï sale
Looking at Art
An Original Take on Original Sin: In a sensuous diptych, Hugo van der Goes took the radical step of linking the Fall of Man and the Lamentation
John Oliver Hand
Critic’s Pick
Brent Green: Making the mice dance
Michelle Falkenstein
Reviews
New York Sean Scully; Susan Rothenberg; “Tropicália”; Jessica Stockholder; Ken Price; Vik Muniz; Joseph Kosuth; Anish Kapoor; Barnaby Furnas; Su-Mei Tse; Alice Dalton Brown; Zhang Huan; Don Porcaro; “More Than Coffee Was Served”; Beatrice Wood; Katerina Lanfranco; Bryan LeBoeuf; Sally Michel
NATIONAL Miami Christian Holstad; Liset Castillo Des Moines Cecily Brown San Francisco “Who’s Afraid of San Francisco?”; “Naughty” Beverly Hills “Embracing Nature” Riverside, California “Driven to Abstraction” Santa Fe Michael Dunbar Fort Worth “Regarding the Land” Chicago Michael Kenna Phoenix-Scottsdale “Constructing New Berlin”; “Fall Group Show”; “Print, Paper, Paint”; Michael Eastman; “Big, Bold, & Beautiful”; Cao Wenzhong
INTERNATIONAL London “How to Improve the World” Basel Tacita Dean Vienna Franco Viola Tel Aviv Ori Gersht Hong Kong Yang Jiechang