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In this Issue
The ARTnews Annual Peer Reviews
Experts look back at last year’s greatest hits
Barbara Pollack
Blob Appeal
Roiling planets. Animated arsenals. Perverse forms in perpetual manic combat. Welcome to the chaotic comic universe of Carroll Dunham
Gail Gregg
Melting the Ice
Warmed by the winds of globalization, Scandinavia’s art scene is beginning to simme
Alan Jolis
What Price Mapplethorpe?
A four-year legal battle over the value of the assets Robert Mapplethorpe left behind has pitted Christie’s against the executor of the artist’s multi-million-dollar estate
Paul Alexander
Odd Man In
Few artists inspire such devotion–or disdain–as Odd Nerdrum, a temperamental Norwegian who offers some decidedly unsettling takes on the Old Masters
Alan Jolis
Departments
Art Talk
The “X-Files” infiltrate the art world; Pollock-inspired haute couture; art inauguration at the White House; and more
National News
An unprecedented legal victory for artists rights in Indianapolis; The Whitney’s portfolio management; Spotlight on the American Federation of the Arts’ Serena Rattazzi, In Brief
International News
What do the latest pledges on war loot really mean? Moving towards restitution in Austria, In Brief
Design
Pritzker prizewinning architect Sverre Fehn lets nature speak
City Focus: Miami
Making Waves: In Miami, an influx of émigré talent is stirring things up
Looking at Art
Message on a Bar Tray: Decoding the sleek abstraction’s in Gerald Murphy’s Cocktail
Books
Jack Flam on Hilary Spurling’s The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Early Years, 18691908; Eve Kahn on Towards a New Museum by Victoria Newhouse; Patricia Failing on Law, Ethics and the Visual Arts, edited by John Merryman and Albert Elsen
Perspective
Exposing “Deep Files”: Fearful of “getting Swissed,” museums are still barring researchers from certain archives–hindering the return of war loot to Holocaust victims or their heirs
Reviews
Our far-flung critics assess exhibitions in New York; San Francisco; Los Angeles; Philadelphia; Chicago; Seattle; Boston; Southampton, New York; Berlin; Zurich; London; Paris; Rome; and Madrid