Also in this Issue
Seeing Infrared
An array of new and sophisticated technologies can help determine an artwork’s authenticity—or lack thereof
Ann Landi
Chu’s Clues
Anne Chu models her courtiers, bears, and knights after Chinese burial ceramics, Romanesque tombstones, and Austrian marionettes
Hilarie M. Sheets
Departments
ArtTalk
Steven Biel, Thomas Hoving, Mark Stevens, Annalyn Swan, Carlos Phillips Olmedo, Roberto Vittori, George Pusenkoff, Christine Kuan, Melissa Chiu, Whitney Chadwick, Douglas Coupland, Mirko Zardini, Garth Clark, Jeff Koons, Ron Nagle, Paul Day, Christine McHorse, Grayson Perry, Thomas Sokolowski, Richard Gluckman, Nicholas Baume, Jack Pierson, Sam Taylor-Wood, Kara Walker
National News
Spotlight Joachim Pissarro: Connecting the dots Philadelphia Barnes move gets court go-ahead Los Angeles LACMA leader leaving Belfast, Maine Neil Welliver: A master of the modern landscape
International News
Moscow Is a Fabergé egg a bad apple? Amsterdam Malevich suit: Dutch dismissal denied Berlin The Flick connection Vienna Right-wingers cross over crescents Florence What a relief! Paris The da Vinci abode Bern Feat of Klee Commentary Yad Vashem: Darkness visible Hong Kong Museums compete over West Kowloon Quemoy, Taiwan Bunker Museum made permanent
ArtMarket
New York Turning collections into collateral; Showcasing Johns; Basquiat on paper
Books
The Landmarks of New York By Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel • Unnatural Wonders: Essays from the Gap Between Art and Life By Arthur C. Danto
Reviews
New York Damien Hirst; “Max Ernst: A Retrospective”; “Ashes and Snow”; Robert Gober; Eric Fischl; “Logical Conclusions”; Elisabeth Scherffig; Lucy Jones; Robert Doisneau; Lawrence Beck; Wayne Levin; Marcel Bovis; Paul Furfaro; Michael Smith and Joshua White; Monika Bravo; David Maisel; Joan Wallace; Wendell Gladstone Seattle “Africa in America”; Gregory Kucera; Mark Rediske; Katina Huston; Joseph Park; Nancy Worden Washington, D.C. The 48th Corcoran Biennial Chicago Clark & Pougnaud; “Black”; Ed Paschke Philadelphia Salvador Dalí Palm Desert, California Ed Moses and Robert Graham West Hollywood Robert D. Cocke Santa Fe “Insight Out: Reversing Vandalism” Boston Bill Flynn West Palm Beach “Spain in the Age of Exploration 1492–1819” Frankfurt Franz West London Nicola Tyson Liverpool Richard Wentworth Paris Valérie Favre Lausanne “Anti-Graphic Photographs”