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Where Women Are the Majority
Collectors who focus on female artists are motivated by feminism, activism—and quality
Hilarie M. Sheets
Departments
Art Talk
Rob Pruitt, David Hockney, Jorge Colombo, Stéphane Kardos, Françoise Mouly, Craig Robinson, Ethan Ham, Lawrence Weschler, Shirin Neshat, Connie Simmons, David Dunlop, Michelle Forbes, Edward Bleiberg, Cindy Jackson, Suzuki Ingerslev, Alan Ball, Alexander Woo, Thomas Nozkowski, Jo Baer, Keith Edmier, Jay Bernstein, Joan Rivers
News
WASHINGTON, D.C. Critics nix Obamas’ pix mix BAKU, AZERBAIJAN Getting the Bilbao treatment? MADRID Following their Sorollas PHILADELPHIA Reviewing an original copy SPOTLIGHT Carrie Rebora Barratt: Campbell’s “right hand” MEXICO CITY Recipes for debate IN MEMORIAM Nancy Spero, Irving Penn, Dietrich von Bothmer
Books
The Venus Fixers: The Remarkable Story of the Allied Soldiers Who Saved Italy’s Art During World War II By Ilaria Dagnini Brey • TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845–1945 Edited by Alison Nordström and Thomas Padon • Peter Henry Emerson and American Naturalistic Photography By Christian A. Peterson • Botanica Magnifica: Portraits of the World’s Most Extraordinary Flowers and Plants Photographs by Jonathan Singer; Text by W. John Kress and Marc Hachadourian • and more
Critic’s Pick
Graham Gillmore: Text Messages
Hilarie M. Sheets
Reviews
NEW YORK “Slash: Paper Under the Knife”; “Hanging Fire”; Robert Frank; “Dress Codes”; Janine Antoni; “Marking Modernism”; Peter Halley; Jean Paul Riopelle; Allan Kaprow; Yigal Ozeri; Matthew Weinstein; “Circa 1959″; Vivian Springford; Rosy Keyser; Virginia Martinsen; Luis Mallo; “Still Lifes”; Robert Kinmont; Elliott Green; “The Abstracted Landscape”; Keith Haring
NATIONAL Seattle “Target Practice” Chicago “Constellations” San Francisco “Echo” Santa Monica Francesca Gabbiani Boston Paul Béliveau Santa Fe Julia Barello Baltimore “Sublime Structure” Memphis Greely Myatt Ogunquit, Maine Maurice Freedman Miami Guillermo Kuitca; Vickie Pierre and Carlos de Villasante; Jason Shawn Alexander; Carmelo Niño; Luciano Goizueta
INTERNATIONAL London Claude Monet; Murray Fredericks Paris “L’Art Africain dialogue avec Francis Picabia” Zurich Pipilotti Rist Vienna Thomas Reinhold Frankfurt Att Poomtangon Mexico City Ronald Morán