Trends

The Breakup Artist

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Emma Allen
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How do you illustrate a broken heart? Read More

Trends

Lots to See

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Keith Plocek
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Where parking space is art space Read More

Profiles

Man of Refraction

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Hilarie M. Sheets
The human-powered Resistance, 2009, pointed toward the glowing doorways of Death Row, 2006–2009, at the 2009 Venice Biennale. On the floor, Bed, 2009.

Using light, mirrors, and neon and with a sensibility at once political and poetic, Iván Navarro creates glowing gateways of endless space Read More

News

When Is a Reward Not a Reward?

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Milton Esterow
Also recovered, Turner’s Light and Color. Both works were on loan to the Schirn Kunsthalle.

Experts disagree over whether paying for information leading to the recovery of stolen art might actually encourage more thefts Read More

News

Stalled at the Gate

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Elizabeth Fullerton
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Mark Wallinger’s glorious history of unrealized public-art projects Read More

Looking at Art

Command Performance

Posted on January 17, 2012 by William Feaver
Nicholson didn’t glorify the officers he portrayed in Canadian Headquarters Staff, commissioned in 1917.

William Nicholson’s group portrait of Canadian generals during World War I is an unusual and haunting war tableau Read More

Features

American Art, Alice Walton’s Way

Posted on January 12, 2012 by Patricia Failing
The Crystal Bridges Museum, designed by Moshe Safdie. Some of the pavilions seem to float on water diverted from a nearby stream.

The Walmart heiress’s controversial museum opens with an inclusive and even quirky selection of American art that reveals an increasing focus on the present Read More

Reviews

Where Hitler Meets JFK

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Barbara Pollack
Maurizio Cattelan, All, 2011–12, installation view.

Maurizio Cattelan at the Guggenheim Read More

Features

The Artist as Philanthropist

Posted on January 9, 2012 by Eileen Kinsella
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At a time when government and corporate support is decreasing, artists’ foundations are becoming increasingly influential Read More

Features

Seeing Still for the First Time

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Patricia Failing
Installation view of the inaugural exhibition. Natural light enters the galleries through a series of skylights over a cast-in-place perforated convex ceiling.

The new museum dedicated to Clyfford Still in Denver presents an unprecedented sweep of his work—even as its staff continues to make more discoveries Read More

Reviews

Why ‘Leonardo’ Is a Letdown

Posted on January 3, 2012 by William Feaver
Leonardo da Vinci, Virgin of the Rocks, ca. 1491–1508, oil on poplar, thinned and cradled, 74 5⁄8" x 47 1⁄4". National Gallery.

Leonardo da Vinci at the National Gallery in London Read More