The controversy over the removal of a four-minute video from an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery has observers wondering whether the culture wars are back. If so, can anything be done to stop them? Read More
Albertina, Vienna
Through January 9 Read More
Young Michelangelo:
The Path to the Sistine
By John T. Spike
Vendome Press, 272 pages, $27.95 Read More
Victorian painter Lawrence Alma-Tadema is back in style. Read More
A new generation is making street art that is conceptual, abstract, and even sculptural in nature. Read More
Moscow debates whether a colossal, controversial monument should stay or go. Read More
Robert De Niro keeps his late father's studio the way it was left in 1993 and has just established an annual award to midcareer artists . Read More
With artists increasingly involving the public in the creation of work, curators and museums have embarked on a quest to define, display, and collect participatory art. Read More
James Little brings a formalist's way with stripes and an alchemist's skill with materials to tactile canvases, making color the subject. Read More
Art styles came and went, but painterly leftist Jack Levine had the last laugh . Read More
Rhinestone Odalisques
Mickalene Thomas’s curvaceous beauties rock an African American esthetic in classic art-historical poses
Barbara Pollack
A Case of Caravaggiomania
The bad boy of Baroque is back in style with scholars, museumgoers, filmmakers, and even video artists
Ann Landi
Letters
Art Talk Kanye West, George Condo, Darsie Alexander, Marc Swanson, Mike Kelley, Dario Robleto, Jeff Koons, Rob Pruitt, Jason Middlebrook, Scott Lenhardt, Jorge Pardo, Inka Essenhigh, Nate Lowman, Diane Brown, Robin Kahn, Mark Dion, Lawrence Weiner, Douglas Henderson, Paddy Johnson, Francis Naumann, Paul Shore, Nicole Root
News COMMENTARY Machu Picchu, Yale, and the world stage VIENNA More restitutions for the Leopold? NEW YORK Sending artists as ambassadors; De Niro Jr. on De Niro Sr.SPOTLIGHT Hervé Chandès puts the Cartier on the map; Myra Daniels to Naples: “Phil” it up! DALLAS Sistine treasures head to TexasIN MEMORIAM Jack Levine
Books
Young Michelangelo: The Path to the Sistine
By John T. Spike
Building Up and Tearing Down: Reflections on the Age of Architecture
By Paul Goldberger
Hearts of the City: The Selected Writings of Herbert Muschamp
By Herbert Muschamp
Living with Art Beyeler’s “Eye”: How modest Swiss art enthusiast Jean Planque became the advance man, strategist, and artists’ liaison for legendary dealer Ernst Beyeler
Mary Krienke
Design Making a Minimalist Statement: David Chipperfield applies a meticulous Modernist sensibility to his renovation of Berlin’s Neues Museum
Diana Ketcham
Critic’s Pick Dan Steinhilber: Plastic Fantastic
Hilarie M. Sheets
NEW YORKAnselm Kiefer; John Baldessari; Robert Rauschenberg; John Walker; “In Giacometti’s Studio”; “Body and Soul”; Monika Sosnowska; “Will Barnet and the Art Students League”; “Sargent and Impressionism”; Mark Calderon; Roger Shimomura; Joseph Zito; Regina Baumhauer; Sven Lukin; Jon Schueler; Tetsuya Yamada; Oliver Herring; Dave Cole; Dusty Boynton NATIONAL Washington, D.C. “Hide/Seek” Los Angeles “The Artist’s Museum” Beverly Hills Nathan Slate Joseph San Francisco Ed Moses Santa Fe “The Dissolve” Dallas Trenton Doyle Hancock Boston John Tracey Philadelphia Bill Walton St. Louis Ernest Trova INTERNATIONAL Vienna “Michelangelo: The Drawings of a Genius”; “Power Up” London “Cézanne’s Card Players” Paris Arman Berlin Wolfgang Tillmans Cologne Wasa Marjanov Buenos Aires Jorge Macchi Prato, Italy Paolo Canevari