Making Waves
In the hands of Cuban artist Kcho, boats, docks, and oars become potent symbols of migration . In the hands of Cuban artist Kcho, boats, docks, and oars become potent symbols of migration. Read More
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Latin America
Standing Up to the Smugglers
Almost weekly, police seize pre-Columbian objects that were spirited out of their native countries. Now Latin American governments are developing new strategies to protect their patrimony
Roger Atwood
Strolling Under the Swimming Pool
Leandro Erlich’s installations invite you to walk underwater or stick your hand through a mirror
Deidre Stein Greben
Beach Hats and Band Shells
For his recent art and public-design projects, Frank Stella has found whimsical inspiration in everything from leaf shapes to smoke rings
Ann Landi
Dia’s New Direction
Michael Govan has brought the Dia Center for the Arts from a period of financial uncertainty to an age of expansion
Hugh Eakin
Departments
Art Talk
Grant Wood; Monica Lewinsky; Sam Taylor-Wood; Alexis the Artist; Frank Gehry; Thomas Krens; Lauren Hutton; Laurence Fishburne; Jeremy Irons; Sir Nicholas Serota; Billy Childish; Damien Hirst; Rudy Burckhardt; Emilia and Ilya Kabakov; Viggo Mortensen; Exene Cervenka; Jeff Koons
National News
New York Guggenheim’s Manhattan project Spotlight Joan Davidow: Unlikely upstart Washington, D.C. Shaking up the Smithsonian Atlanta Paying the price San Francisco Undone deal
International News
International Bureaus War loot: “Historic and legal justice” Amsterdam Director’s cut Singapore “Visions and Enchantment” Vancouver Blaming the board Berlin Capital dilemma Lima Cross purposes
Art Market
New York Latin American art heads toward the mainstream London Another showstopper for Elton John
City Focus
Small Scale, World Class: With a proliferation of museums and galleries, Switzerland maintains a strong foothold on the international art circuit
Mary Krienke
Looking at Art
Dignity and Destiny: Leopold von Kalckreuth’s Three Stages of Life amplifies peasant models to noble, allegorical dimensions
Robert Rosenblum
Artful Traveler
The “Center of the Center of the World”: To Giorgio de Chirico, the most central place of all was the heart of Rome. The apartment in which he lived and worked is now a museum
Jeff Israely
Books
Dürer to Veronese: 16th-Century Painting in the National Gallery by Jill Dunkerton, Susan Foister, and Nicholas Penny, reviewed by Andrew Butterfield; The Sorcerer’s Apprentice by John Richardson, reviewed by Ann Landi; Fairfield Porter: A Life in Art by Justin Spring, reviewed by Hilarie M. Sheets; Antonakos by Irving Sandler, reviewed by Hilarie M. Sheets
On the Edge
Fox’s Fables: Drawing on fairy tales and mythology, Judy Fox creates startling sculptures of children
Christopher Reardon
Reviews
New York; Houston; Detroit; Los Angeles; Chicago; Boston; Cambridge; Scottsdale; New Orleans; Marietta, Ga; Kwangju, Korea; London; Paris; San Juan, P.R.