Lights, Action, Camera!
Taking its cue from movie directors, a generation of photographers is creating staged pictures to depict suburban nightmares, adolescent fantasies, and futuristic daydreams. Read More
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Eclectic Eye
Tracey Moffatt’s images can be lurid, wicked, delicate, sexy, sly, tough, and perversely lovely
Susie Linfield
Other Faces, Other Rooms
Thomas Ruff explores new techniques and pictorial sources to reveal the poetry of the commonplace
David Galloway
Moving Pictures
Baroness Marion Lambert has transformed her contemporary-photography collection into a provocative traveling show
Brigid Grauman
The Frame-Up
Fashions in frames are changing. Pictures that were edged with simple strips ten years ago are being ornately reframed today. As the interest in frames grows, prized examples fetch huge prices
Daniel B. Schneider
Lifting the Veil
Shirin Neshat uses video and photographs to explore the status of women in Islam
Leslie Camhi
Spreading Chagall’s Message
An intimately connected group of heirs protects and upholds the legacy of one of the century’s most prolific artists
Laurie Attias
Departments
Letters
Art Talk
Richard Serra; Damien Hirst; Thomas Woodruff; Nan Goldin; Jodie Foster; Leni Riefenstahl; Peter Greenaway; Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec; Ewan McGregor; Nicole Kidman; Wayne Thiebaud; Robert Rauschenberg; Sylvia Sidney; Brassaï; Leonardo da Vinci; Pat Steir
National News
Washington, D.C. Latin quarters Spotlight Bonnie Clearwater: Miami Rhapsody Los Angeles Getty villa to grow St. Louis Donation denied New York A daily arts deficit; Remembering Paul Cadmus
International News
Venice A new Guggenheim for Italy Tirgu Jiu, Romania Brancusi’s column to rise again Tel Aviv Staying in the wings Spotlight Angela Rosengart’s gift Berlin Out in the cold Puerto de Santa Maria, Spain Bequest battle London Keeping the marbles London Swiss agreement modified Singapore Square goes 3-D
City Focus: Madrid
Spanish Revival: With a flurry of openings, additions, and expansions, Madrid feels the effects of a healthy economy
George Stolz
Art Market
Paris Pictures of success; Island discovery Vienna The rush for Russian Berlin Banner year at Grisebach Tokyo Bank undefineds loss is market undefineds gain
Looking at Art
Duchamp’s Erotic Souvenir
Does the Bilboquet commemorate a night on the town?
Design
New Rhythm on Broadway: Bernard Tschumiundefineds dazzling new building for Columbia University bridges traditions with glass, steel, and an Erector-set esthetic
Paula Deitz
Books
The Cultural Collaborators: In The Faustian Bargain, Jonathan Petropoulos chronicles the role art professionals played in the Nazi looting bureaucracy undefined and how they got away with it
Hugh Eakin
Reviews
Our far-flung critics assess exhibitions in New York; San Francisco; Santa Monica; Chicago; Washington, D.C.; Santa Fe; Dallas; Aspen; Cologne; Paris; London; Prague; Hong Kong