Starting with the Old Masters and continuing through the present, John Castagno has documented signatures, monograms, and initials—most of them readable, some of them strange or illegible—and published them in ten books. Read More
Politicians and oligarchs who are collecting archeological treasures in Ukraine are not only encouraging illegal excavations, they are using the objects to promote the myth of an advanced ancient culture that was the birthplace of civilization. Read More
A rash of rough and ungainly sculptures and installations, made of everything from junk to construction materials, household items, even trucks, has been infiltrating museums and galleries. Call it antiart, protest art, or sometimes simply poetry
Barbara A. MacAdam
Contemporary artists are taking Pop in a new direction, with violent, angst-ridden, and disturbing works that comment obliquely on celebrity and politics
Eric Bryant
Mary Heilmann packs abstract painting with as much personal history and emotional content as it can hold
Jori Finkel
You can forget the name and résumé of Donegal Man, the subject of a recent painting and etching by Lucian Freud. All that counts is what’s there to be seen
William Feaver
Looking forward at the Man Ray Trust; The long road to restitution
Murray Zimiles, Francis M. Naumann, Alain Jacquet, Jeff Koons, Brice Brown, Sophie Matisse, Mike Bidlo, Lee Hall, William Feaver, Bob Colacello, Robert Rauschenberg, Gregg Allman, Jamie Wyeth, Rosalynn Carter, Joan Mondale, Cher, Mick Jagger, Bianca Jagger, Paloma Picasso, Liza Minnelli, Paul Clemence, Julie Davidow, Elisa Turner, Doris Salcedo, Lou Reed, Bob Ezrin, Julian Schnabel
New York Motion on Wally?; Curators to learn leadership; Ileana Sonnabend: A lifetime in art; Herbert Muschamp: New architecture’s advocate Spotlight Olga Viso: Making connections Los Angeles R. B. Kitaj: A painter whose life was a work of reference
Paris Red light for Blue Noses Moscow Pseudo-Gothic revival Vienna A treasure in the trash Munich The other Thannhauser Gateshead, England Police seize photo, singer shutters show
London Asia major: Records for works by Chinese artists, in particular, ratcheted up totals for the fall contemporary sales
A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917–1932 By John Richardson • Courbet By Linda Nochlin • Vitebsk: The Life of Art By Aleksandra Shatskikh • The Clarks of Cooperstown: Their Singer Sewing Machine Fortune, Their Great and Influential Art Collections, Their Forty-Year Feud By Nicholas Fox Weber • Shoot the Widow: Adventures of a Biographer in Search of Her Subject By Meryle Secrest • Euan Uglow: The Complete Paintings By Catherine Lampert and Richard Kendall • Resonant Echoes: The Art of Basil Alkazzi By Dennis Wepman • Storm Chaser: A Photographer’s Journey By Jim Reed
Gregor Hildebrandt: Ready, Cassette, Go
Robert Rigney
NEW YORK Richard Prince; Francis Alÿs; “Making a Home”; Anthony Caro; Chris Ofili; Ugo Rondinone; Jeon Joonho; Paul Noble; “I Am as You Will Be: The Skeleton in Art”; Nicolas Vlavianos; Larry Bell; Marisol; Andreas Feininger; “Silverstein Photography Annual”; Joel Graesser; Jackie Ferrara; Ian Burns; Lloyd Martin; Alexandre Arrechea; Jill Baroff; Jim Torok
NATIONAL Houston “A Modern Patronage” Philadelphia H. C. Westermann La Jolla, California Chip Hooper Santa Monica Michael Scoggins San Francisco Nayland Blake East Hampton, New York Jennifer Bartlett Gainesville, Florida “Cuba Avant-Garde” Ridgefield, Connecticut “Voice & Void” Portland, Oregon Joe Thurston Rockland, Maine Alan Bray Chicago “Infinite Shades”; “Sympathy for the Devil”; Paul Kelpe; Marilyn Holsing; Gordon Powell; Howardena Pindell; Romolo Roberti; Zana Briski; Jacob Hashimoto
INTERNATIONAL London Lucas Cranach; Sarah Sze Kew, England Henry Moore Basel “The Other Collection” Bremen Manfred Mohr Mexico City Mauricio Alejo Vienna “Held Together with Water”