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In this Issue
PHOTOGRAPHY ’99
Photography’s Great Divide
In one corner: the traditionalists. In the other: the postmodernists. The legacy: mutual incomprehension. An interview with Peter Galassi, chief curator of photography at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, about the potential for détente
Robin Cembalest
Sweet Deception
Vik Muniz fools the eye with pictures made of chocolate, sugar, and less savory ingredients
Susie Linfield
Time Traveler
Hiroshi Sugimoto varies his focus to shed light on history and memory, gods and movie palaces
Leslie Camhi
Nude Awakenings
Jeanne Dunning explores the realm where the gorgeous meets the grotesque
Taylor Holliday
Dancing with the Iguanas
Graciela Iturbide has devoted a career to documenting the native drama of Mexican life
Franc Contreras
DID DUCHAMP DECEIVE US?
The urinal, the bicycle wheel, the hat rack–the mass-produced objects that Marcel Duchamp dubbed “readymades” have become icons of art history. Rhonda Roland Shearer’s theories about how the artist altered them have some scholars intrigued–and others skeptical
Leslie Camhi
EXPLODING ON THE SCENE
Cornelia Parker has detonated a garden shed, flattened teapots with a steamroller, sliced shoelaces with a guillotine–and arrived at the forefront of contemporary British art
Jane Burton
Departments
Art Talk
The latest news on Chris Ofili; Franz Xaver Messerschmidt; Francis Bacon; Louise Bourgeois; Captain Sulu (George Takei); Lyle Lovett; Steven Albahari; Robert Wilson; Philip Glass; LOT/EK; Tom Wesselmann; Rufino Tamayo; Jorge Pardo
National News
A Monet looted during World War II turns up in Boston; The latest changes at the Getty; Spotlight on Graham Nash
International News
Slovakia’s Warhol Museum; Updates on war loot from Austria and Switzerland
Art Market
Hesse on the rise; Man Ray’s gray areas; Douglas Cramer’s choice; The Getty’s shopping list
City Focus: Barcelona
Back to the Future: The Catalan capital is rediscovering its avant-garde roots by boldly embracing the new
Artful Traveler
Palace Intrigue: The Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille presents dazzling treasures that were all but forgotten
Looking at Art
Alice in Wonderment: A photo by Lewis Carroll of his “child friend” makes us question the innocence of her pose
Books
Through a Lens, Briefly: Snapshots of some recent publications from the photography world
Perspective
Dramatic License: A tale of how smart guys sometimes get outsmarted
Reviews
Our far-flung critics assess exhibitions in New York; Los Angeles; Hartford, Connecticut; West Palm Beach, Florida; Washington, D.C.; Chicago; College Park, Maryland; Walpole, New Hampshire; La Jolla; London; Paris; Stockholm; São Paulo; Düsseldorf; and Buenos Aires