In this Issue
Peer Reviews Paul Gardner
Artists, curators, collectors, critics, dealers, and art historians vote for the best of what the art world had to offer in 1997
Vanished Art, Vivid Memories Judd Tully
For over 50 years, the Guttmanns have been conducting a determined campaign to locate and recover artworks looted from their family by the Nazis. Although they have had some successes, their search poses difficult legal dilemmas
Dis Guise and Dat Guise Toby Kamps
Collaborators since 1983, the Art Guys make very funny work that straddles the boundaries between art and life, esthetics and commercialism, the normal and the absurd. Their latest project is playing human billboards
Skyscrapers & Cocktail Shakers William Feaver
A traveling retrospective showcases Léger¹s passion for the machine and his championing of the workingman the builder, the mechanic as the real artist of modern life
Ernst Beyeler¹s Dream Museum Mary Krienke
It took more than taste and money to put together the Swiss dealer¹s collection of modern masters, now on display in a Renzo Pianodesigned building near Basel. It took courage to buy 100 Klees and 80 Giacomettis at a time
Departments
Art Talk
Dressing Holbein¹s heroes contemporary-style; A Steinway gets the Victorian treatment; Raymond Kinstler captures a charismatic president; When gift art becomes street art; Remembering Goncharova; The bike Leonardo didn¹t draw; and more
Museum Roundup
What¹s on view this month
National News
Provo, Utah: Brigham Young museum removes Rodins from exhibition; Washington, D.C.: National Gallery criticized for Bührle show; New York: Development threatens Socrates Sculpture Park; ARTnews awarded citation of merit; Los Angeles: The new Getty is extensive and extraordinary; Art Market: Selling the Ganz Sale; The fall auctions; San Francisco: An old cemetery haunts the Fine Arts Museums; In Brief; Spotlight: Elizabeth Catlett¹s quest for “maximum beauty”
City Focus: Denver
Denver¹s art world looks to build bridges between the city¹s bright, high-tech future and its historic Western past
International News
Berlin: Hoffman Collection goes public; A new Guggenheim is in the bank; Rome: Palazzo Altemps opens; Good news for contemporary Italian art; London: Commission rules on Burrell Estate; Paris: Art-history institute gets go-ahead; More losses for French museum organization; Jeru-salem: Government calls for exhibition¹s closing; In Brief
Books
Reviews of: Dictionary of Art, edited by Jane Turner; Hieronymus Bosch by Gary Schwartz; The Innocent Eye: Children¹s Art and the Modern Artist by Jonathan Fineberg; Kandinsky by Thomas Messer; Pop Art: A Critical History, edited by Steven Henry Madoff; Half Past Autumn: A Retrospective by Gordon Parks
Reviews
“Monet and the Mediterranean”, Kiki Smith, Israel Hershberg, John Marin, Franz Kline, Robert Glenn Ketchum, Filippino Lippi, Fiona Rae, Isabel De Obaldia, Darren Waterston, John O¹Reilly, Willie Cole, Lezley Saar, “Photo-based Art from St. Petersburg”, Georges Jeanclos, Hiromitsu Morimoto, David Schofield, Oded Halahmy, Erik Gonzales
Stanley Spencer, Gordon Parks
John McCracken
Masami Teraoka, Video Art
Magdalena Campos-Pons, Kathleen Gilje Kathleen Gilje
April Gornik
Sam Francis
“Leonardo Lives”
Matt Collishaw
Contemporary Asian Art
Biennial 1997
Gilbert & George, Jeff Koons
Robert and Sonia Delaunay
Yasufumi Takahashi
José María Sicilia
Bernd Mattiebe
Stefano Arienti