MoMA Makes Its Move
The Demoiselles d’Avignon and a host of other masterpieces take up residence in Queens. Read More
Also in this Issue
The Real Thing?
Inspired by the actual world, by photography, even by film, contemporary realism comes in many guises and defies any single definition
Ann Landi
The Surreal Legacy of Man Ray
Four brothers of the artist’s widow ended up running his estate out of a Long Island auto shop. Meanwhile, there is confusion bordering on chaos in the market over posthumous prints, misstamped works, and the question of who is doing what without permission
Kelly Devine Thomas with Nicholas Powell
Fallen Angles
Artists, unlike architects, are building to confound. Their impossible structures feature holes in the floor, ladders to nowhere, and rooms balanced on their corners
Carly Berwick
“Action! Drama! Love! Adventure!”
Cecily Brown calls herself an old-fashioned figural painter, but her subjects are far from traditional
Ann Landi
Departments
From the Editor & Publisher
“A Small Measure of Justice”
Milton Esterow
Letters
Art Talk
Ned Rifkin, Agnes Martin, Michael Govan, Christoph Büchel, Sal Randolf, Anne Hollander, Tracey Emin, Tony Mendez, Jonna Mendez, Dennis Barrie, Vittorio Sgarbi
National News
New York Judge reverses his Schiele ruling; Labor committee sells last Hine photos; Dutch return Gutmann works; Harvey Quaytman: A minimalist master Williamsburg, Va. “Back from the brink” Hartford The copy-machine Kensett
International News
Basel Contesting a Kandinsky Amsterdam Verdict in: It’s van Gogh Moscow Black Square stays in Russia Berlin Return to the villa Buenos Aires Argentine art world cuts back in crisis
Art Market
New York Sotheby’s executives sentenced
City Focus: Los Angeles
New Directions: New museum buildings, new nonprofits, new gallery districts—the Los Angeles art scene continues to grow up, out, and into offbeat neighborhoods
Suzanne Muchnic
Flashback: 1951
Who Was Jack the Dripper? The photos that launched a thousand theories
Robin Cembalest
Reviews
New York Saint Clair Cemin; “Silent Witnesses: Early Cycladic Art”; Julio González; Ugo Rondinone; Francis Bacon; Loren MacIver; Franz Kline; Grace Knowlton; “New York Scene”; Leo Copers; Janet Sobel; Leon Polk Smith; Jockum Nordström; Enrique Chagoya; Michael Halsband; Robert Yasuda; Antenna Philadelphia Barnett Newman Houston FotoFest 2002; Louis Faurer Boston Maureen Gallace New Orleans George Dunbar Memphis Marcia Myers Santa Fe “The Avant-Garde Document: Photographs by Aleksandras Macijauskas” Scottsdale Milton Avery Venice, Calif. Charles Garabedian Grass Valley, Calif. Norman Locks São Paulo 25th Bienal de São Paulo London Jules Olitski Bruges “Jan van Eyck, Early Netherlandish Painting, and Southern Europe” Berlin Vibeke Tandberg; Vera Lutter