Underrated/Overrated
Which artists have been overlooked? And which have we been looking at too much?. Read More
Also in this Issue
The Sacred Precinct of Modernism
Yoshio Taniguchi’s elegantly understated galleries in the greatly expanded MoMA tell one remarkable story in the history of art
Lilly Wei
Space Odyssey
After making his name with piles of powdered pigment, Anish Kapoor is continuing his pursuit of the contemporary sublime with massive public artworks
Craig Burnett
Beyond Basketball
Grant Hill sees his collection of African American art as a way to promote the achievements of people of color
Ira Berkow
Departments
Art Talk
Roy E. Disney, William Jeffett, Fred Ros, Maurice Berger, Barbara Kruger, Nancy Burson, Nayland Blake, Cindy Sherman, Max Becher, Andrea Robbins, Cai Guo-Qiang, Michael Hue-Williams, Robert Rauschenberg
National News
Washington, D.C. Picasso’s double vision; Rushing Ruscha in; Curator who nixed panda art is axed; U.S. keeps Nazi trove Chicago Terra takes art on the road New York First Gehry for Manhattan Portland, Maine Preserving Homer’s studio
International News
London “Buying art is for normal mortals”; Tate acquires without spending; Glasgow Panel to Burrell Collection: “right that wrong” Madrid Dalí dealers convicted of cut-up
Art Market
New York Fall auctions soar to $678 million; Gauguin, Monet lead Imp and mod sales; Younger artists break most records
Looking at Art
Lost in Space: In Atrium, a painting by Thomas Eggerer, all that would be solid melts into thin air
Russell Ferguson
Prints
Spitting Image: Chuck Close uses saliva, pulp paper, and antiquated methods to create an expansive variety of print works
Deidre Stein Greben
Living with Art
“I Get This Sort of Rush”: Leonard Riggio has filled a Long Island mansion, a Park Avenue apartment, and the Barnes & Noble headquarters in Manhattan with one of the world’s top collections of 20th-century art
Hilarie M. Sheets
Books
Rauschenberg: Art and Life By Mary Lynn Kotz • Stealing History: Tomb Raiders, Smugglers, and the Looting of the Ancient World By Roger Atwood • Frank Lloyd Wright By Ada Louise Huxtable • Christopher Wilmarth: Light and Gravity By Steven Henry Madoff
Reviews
New York Donald Sultan; Romare Bearden; Rubin Museum of Art; Bryan Hunt; Sam Taylor-Wood; Robin Rhode; Antoine Vollon; Katherine Bowling; Mitch Epstein; Bunny Harvey; Sang-ah Choi; Nicky Nodjoumi; Judith Murray; Stephen Andrews and Jerry Moriarty; Liliana Porter; Kirsten Hassenfeld; Scott Teplin; Fran Siegel; “Critic’s Pix” Philadelphia Toshiko Takaezu Alyson Shotz; Bo Bartlett; “Artists in America, 20th Century”; Pepón Osorio; “A Periodic Table” San Francisco “25th Anniversary”; Masao Yamamoto Los Angeles Ernesto Caivano; Houston Joseph Beuys Chicago Michiko Itatani Santa Fe William Matthews; Judy Chicago Charlotte, North Carolina Robert Peterson Boca Raton, Florida Ignacio Iturria Litchfield, Connecticut “Drawing Today” London James Turrell Paris Pierre and Gilles Düsseldorf Paul Schwer Madrid Marion Thieme Florence Robert Gschwantner