Femme nue couchée, one of several Courbets owned by the Hungarian Jewish collector Baron Ferenc Hatvany, disappeared after World War II from a Budapest bank vault. The painting resurfaced 50 years later in Slovakia, setting off a cat-and-mouse game that resulted in its restitution to Hatvany’s heirs—who loaned it to the Courbet retrospective at the Grand Palais in Paris. Read More
Performance art, gallery openings, Dumpster-diving for junk to turn into art—all of it is happening in an online world populated by computer-generated beings called avatars. Read More
Software, digital data, mouse skin, and frog cells are some components of the works in a MoMA show addressing our conflicted relationship with new technology
Carly Berwick
After dozens of scientific tests have disputed the authenticity of works purported to be by Jackson Pollock, the controversy over the attribution lingers
Sylvia Hochfield
Tony Feher composes spare poetry with humble materials like string, coffee cups, and plastic bottles
Hilarie M. Sheets
A century ago, a group of American artists inaugurated the exhibition of The Eight, transforming the nation’s art and opening the door to modernist painting
Bennard B. Perlman
Shaun El C. Leonardo, Elvis Fuentes, Carlos Amorales, Ana Busto, Tony Labat, Jan Hoet, Humberto Vélez, Olukemi Ilesanmi, John Miller, Michael Gordon, Irving Penn, Woody Allen, Louise Bourgeois, Filip Noterdaeme, Martin Parr, Ferdinand Protzman, Elliott Erwitt, Marco Mancin, Cy Twombly, Lawrence Weiner
NEW YORK MoMA and Guggenheim join legal forces; Antiquities museum opens in the Bronx
MOSCOW Turmoil at the Tretyakov LONDON How a family of forgers duped the experts VIENNA The case of the unsold Schieles; Public fallout over private collection HAMBURG Unknown soldiers: Chinese ancient warriors turn out to be modern copies
NEW YORK American sales: “A big roll of the dice” LONDON Fabergé egg shatters record at Russian-art auctions HONG KONG Chinese contemporary leads Hong Kong sales
Turner’s Magic Mountains: To dismiss J. M. W. Turner’s 1815 watercolor The Battle of Fort Rock as retrograde is to miss out on all the great hokey fun
Peter Plagens
Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné Edited by Ani Boyajian and Mark Rutkoski • Great Collectors of Our Time: Art Collecting Since 1945 By James Stourton • Lucian Freud By William Feaver
Slava Seidel: Going for Baroque
David Galloway
NEW YORK “Unmonumental”; “Pricked: Extreme Embroidery”; Kara Walker; Pat Steir; Avigdor Arikha; Edmund Yaghjian; Leonard Baskin; Konrad Cramer; Yeondoo Jung; Jervis McEntee; Daniel Greene; “Uovo Spectrum”; “Empty Nest”; Ryan McGinness; AES+F; Judith McMillan; Guy Benfield; Elaine Reichek; Alexis Portilla
NATIONAL Denver Clyfford Still Los Angeles Lari Pittman Houston Rackstraw Downes Chicago Manfred Müller New Orleans Sally Heller Boston “Maine Modern Two” Williamstown, Massachusetts “Making It New: The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy” Tucson Ludvic Miami Glexis Novoa Annandale-on-Hudson, New York Martin Creed
INTERNATIONAL Paris Gustave Courbet; “The Studio of Alberto Giacometti” London Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen; Simon Periton Vienna Franz Ringel Tokyo Teppei Kaneuji