Reading Rembrandt’s Shorthand
Rembrandt Drawings
By Seymour Slive
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Shooting the Side Show
Behind the scenes with van Gogh and Donald Judd
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Postcards from the Edge
Barthélémy Toguo’s provocative artworks give a voice to people who live on the periphery
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Finding inspiration in monster movies and action figures, Beatriz Monteavaro creates comic-book scenarios with grown-up themes
Elisa Turner
Maritime Mischief
Duke Riley’s madcap aquatic projects include re-creating an 18th-century submarine, launching a floating tattoo parlor, and staging a mock Roman-style naval battle
Ann Landi
The Key to Her Locks
The tangled strands in Mequitta Ahuja’s elaborate self-portraits are at once large-scale abstractions and symbols of a multiethnic mix
Rachel Wolff
Wake Up and See the Coffeepot
In deadpan photographs and drawings, Tucker Nichols brings homespun domestic items to life
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Sketches of a Perfectionist
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Departments
Art Talk
Eric Zafran, Marina Abramović, Billy Corgan, Jonathan Demme, Sarah Silverman, Philip Taaffe, Michael Rush, Ryan Trecartin, Katarzyna Kozyra
News
SAINT PETERSBURG An icon’s unorthodox journey IN MEMORIAM Thomas Hoving
Art Market
Dealers’ Choice: Lucy Mitchell-Innes takes the helm of the Art Dealers Association of America
Eileen Kinsella
Books
Rembrandt Drawings By Seymour Slive • Contemporary African Art Since 1980 By Okwui Enwezor and Chika Okeke-Agulu • South African Art Now By Sue Williamson • Gerhard Richter: A Life in Painting By Dietmar Elger • Cage: 6 Paintings by Gerhard Richter By Robert Storr • The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb • Art School (Propositions for the 21st Century) Edited by Steven Henry Madoff • I Sold Andy Warhol (Too Soon) By Richard Polsky
Critic’s Pick
Hung Liu: Emotional Rescue
Rachel Wolff
Reviews
NEW YORK Fischli & Weiss; Milton Avery; Richard Serra; Gerhard Richter; Sean Scully; Kenneth Noland; “The Origins of El Greco”; Paul McCarthy; Lynda Benglis; “Watteau to Degas”; Vitaly Komar; Hugo Tillman; Robert Bergman; Clara Tice; Yvonne Thomas; Marlene Tseng Yu; Agnes Denes; Sopheap Pich
NATIONAL Houston Joaquín Torres-García Indianapolis “Sacred Spain” Washington, D.C. “Economy of Scale” Chicago Melville Price Santa Fe Michael Roque Collins San Francisco Leonor Fini; Stephen Hannock Seattle Mark Zirpel Boston Dimitri Hadzi Dallas—Fort Worth Gardar Eide Einarsson; “Performance/Art”; Vernon Fisher; Kim Cadmus Owens; “Paintings, Prints, and Presents”
INTERNATIONAL London “Turner Prize 09″; Damien Hirst; Jagannath Panda; “A Collector’s Cabinet III” Zurich Luca Pancrazzi Paris Michael Kenna Vienna “The Promise of Loss” Düsseldorf Joachim Brohm and Heribert Ottersbach