In the 1970s, writer and filmmaker Joe Medeiros was reading up on Leonardo da Vinci when a sentence in Liana Bortolon’s book The Life and Times of Leonardo caught his eye. It mentioned the infamous theft of August 21, 1911, … Read More
Hundreds of Still’s paintings were sealed off from the public for years while ominous rumors about their condition circulated. Now, in preparation for the opening of a museum dedicated to the artist, experts can finally see how the works have held up and what kind of treatment they need. Read More
Sculptor Diana Al-Hadid turns the creative process—and her work—upside down
Rachel Wolff
Joe Bradley’s bright, blocky works send up Minimalism while following in its footsteps
Carly Berwick
By projecting video images onto unexpected surfaces, Susie Lee gives technology a subtle, ethereal spin
Jori Finkel
Lars Laumann uses a web of pop-culture artifacts to construct strangely plausible conspiracy theories
Linda Yablonsky
Yin Xiuzhen transforms old clothes into sharp commentaries on globalization
Barbara Pollack
Riffing on moves from football and boxing helps performance artist Shaun El C. Leonardo understand what being macho means
Ann Landi
A new book lays bare the entire paintings collection of Hitler henchman Hermann Goering
Jonathan Lopez
Joe Medeiros, Justine Medeiros, Elaine Wynn, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Steve Wynn, Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Barkley L. Hendricks, Iggy Pop, Marc Jacobs, Debbie Harry, Billy Idol, Jamie Boud, Carsten Höller, Chloë Sevigny, Jerry Saltz, Ed Ruscha, Paul McCarthy, Elizabeth Lunday, William Innes Homer
WASHINGTON, D.C. Making art a federal issue? NASHVILLE Seeking payback, not art back MINNEAPOLIS Looted Léger returned CLEVELAND “A negotiation among gentlemen” BALTIMORE Grace Hartigan: Painter, mentor, pioneer
PRAGUE Thinking inside the DOX BOLZANO, ITALY Over budget or overboard? AMSTERDAM Van Gogh again ROME Debating a “supermanager’s” powers GENEVA Remembering Jan Krugier
PARIS Remodeling a House: Romanian-born financier Rodica Seward adds a boutique feel to the global scope of French auction house Tajan
Laurie Hurwitz
Drawn by Heart: Passion and instinct have guided Swiss collector Jean Bonna in his pursuit of drawings by artists ranging from Raphael to Balthus
Mary Krienke
Critic’s Pick
Alison Elizabeth Taylor: Into the Woods
Hilarie M. Sheets
NEW YORK Doug Aitken; “Image in the Box”; David Stern; Eric Fischl; Neil Jenney; Leon Golub; “Picasso’s Marie-Thérèse”; “Dialogues”; Gustave Moreau; “A Century of American Art on Paper”; Tim Rollins and K.O.S.; Amy Myers; David Carbone, Nancy Grimes, and Patrick Webb; Isca Greenfield-Sanders; Richard Nonas; Dusty Boynton; Carlo Ferraris
NATIONAL Washington, D.C. Kendall Messick; “Regime Change Starts at Home”; Fritz Scholder; Abdoulaye Ndoye; Nicholas and Sheila Pye New Orleans Prospect.1 Montclair, New Jersey Philip Pearlstein Boston “Zen Mind/Zen Brush”; George Bellows Chicago Murray Jones Santa Monica Mondongo San Francisco Paul Schiek Santa Fe Deborah Hede
INTERNATIONAL London Udomsak Krisanamis; Roger Ackling Berlin Uwe Henneken Paris Sabine Weiss Vienna Spencer Tunick Tokyo Tomoko Yoneda Shanghai “Mei Guo”