Also in this Issue
Saying the F-Word
For many artists, the question of whether to define themselves—or their work—as feminist provokes soul-searching and anxiety
Jori Finkel
Wrapping the World
As she progressed from textile works to performance to video, Kimsooja embraced the methods of Conceptual artists, the sensibility of Minimalism, and a feminist perspective, but she rejects all labels
Barbara Pollack
Going Public
A new generation of Russian entrepreneurs are showcasing their acquisitions in grand exhibition spaces
Nora FitzGerald
Departments
Art Talk
Jason Schmidt, Brice Marden, Charlie Rose, Meryle Secrest, Karl Rove, Tony Snow, Lauren Graham, Kelly Bishop, Kiki Smith, Edward Herrmann, Olafur Eliasson, Renée Cox, John Loengard, Ted Nash, Michael Craig-Martin, Anya Gallaccio, Paul Morrison, Alex Katz, Ada Katz, Richard Phillips, Marilyn Minter
National News
Spotlight Elizabeth A. Sackler: Getting the Party started Cleveland Fracas over fractals Stony Brook, New York The archeologist in exile Philadelphia Operation to save The Gross Clinic a success New York MoMA creates new curatorial post; Robert Rosenblum: Professor of marvels; Robert Volpe: New York’s first “art cop”; Allan Stone: “Citizen Stone”
International News
Athens Greece expands antiquities pursuit Spotlight Francesco Buranelli: Bringing Picasso to the Vatican Vienna The riddle of the sphinx Florence After the deluge Paris Giving a boost to French art Amsterdam “Too little cultural diversity”?
Art Market
New York American beauty; Koons’s copy all right Miami Beach Even shopping bags sell out at Art Basel
Studio
The Persistence of Memory: Cuban émigré María Magdalena Campos-Pons’s photographs and multimedia installations reflect her longing for her homeland
by Hilarie M. Sheets
Looking at Art
In a Doll’s House: A month after a curator visited Armando Reverón’s home studio near Caracas, the complex was buried by a mud slide. It lives on in the photos he took on a rainy November day
John Elderfield
Critic’s Pick
Sayaka Akiyama: Stitches of time
by Kay Itoi
Reviews
New York “Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s”; “The Food Show: The Hungry Eye”; Ellsworth Kelly; John Currin; Fiona Rae; Roz Chast; Alan Magee; Martin Kline; Laurie Fendrich; Horst; Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne; Jane Benson; Elena Sarni; Edwin Cohen; John Ransom Phillips; J. Morgan Puett; Leora Laor; Janet Biggs; David Bailey
NATIONAL Cleveland “Barcelona and Modernity” Annandale-on-Hudson, New York “Wrestle” Los Angeles Mark Bradford Boston Chuck Holtzman West Palm Beach, Florida Bernard Plossu San Pedro, California Peter Plagens San Francisco “Furnishing Assumptions” Seattle Whiting Tennis Chicago Conrad Freiberg Santa Fe Lissa Hunter
INTERNATIONAL London “Flowers & Questions”; Ianthe Ruthven Paris Anselm Kiefer Bern, Switzerland Meret Oppenheim Tokyo Shinro Ohtake Luxembourg “Eldorado”