In Your Face
Portraiture has become increasingly conceptual as it addresses not only personal identity but also issues of politics, social inequity, and our obsession with celebrity. Read More
Also in this Issue
The Unobtrusive, Exhaustive, Unprecedented 29-Volume Rubens Catalogue
For four decades, a small team of art historians has been engaged in one of the most ambitious publishing projects ever devoted to a single artist, with 2,500 entries on more than 10,000 works by Peter Paul Rubens
George Stolz
Crouching Figure, Burning Waste Man
Whether he’s crafting a giant man out of garbage or having townspeople make 40,000 terra-cotta figurines, Antony Gormley approaches the subject of the body with age-old technology, high-tech casting, a dramatic sense of scale, and a healthy dose of spectacle
Martin Gayford
Tribal Hybrids
Indian artists are blending their native traditions with mainstream trends to create beaded high-tops, postmodern pots, paintings that riff on powwows and raves, and other cross-cultural art forms
Cynthia Nadelman
Departments
Art Talk
Stefano Zuffi, Eric Niebuhr, Ann Philbin, Grayson Perry, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Malcolm Rogers, David Wallis, Garry Trudeau, Olga Hirshhorn, Linda Yablonsky, Laurie Anderson, Nancy Spector, Nicholas Fox Weber, Norman Kleeblatt
National News
Kansas City, Missouri Way beyond the white cube Detroit The limitations of statutes Buffalo The hard sell? Spotlight John Wetenhall: Rebuilding a showman’s showcase Washington, D.C. Senators scrutinize Smithsonian Indianapolis “Drawing a bright line” New York Brett Littman: Designs on type; ARTnews wins Silurians Award; Sol LeWitt: A workman of ideas
International News
Moscow New look for Russian pavilion London National Gallery head resigns; U.K. Lottery: Olympics win, arts lose? Ferrara Russian art to Italian castle Venice Pinault outbids Guggenheim Ciudad JuÁrez, Mexico Word of Fire won’t burn
Art Market
Moscow Hermitage revives a revolutionary tradition New York Fernwood founder sued for fraud; Wall climbing Las Vegas $40 million and The Dream Hamburg Lively bidding at Ketterer Kunst
Studio
Not-So-Still Lifes: Painter Matvey Levenstein finds drama in his own living-room furniture
Rachel Somerstein
Books
Vitamin Ph: New Perspectives in Photography Introduction by T. J. Demos • The Rothko Book By Bonnie Clearwater • Threshold Resistance: The Extraordinary Career of a Luxury Retailing Pioneer By A. Alfred Taubman
Critic’s Pick
Narelle Jubelin: Thread Games
George Stolz
Reviews
NEW YORK New Greek and Roman Galleries; “Global Feminisms”; “Russia Imagined, 1825–1925”; Asher B. Durand; Brian O’Doherty/Patrick Ireland; Jonathan Lasker; David Hammons; Bill Scott; José Bedia; John Evans; Joan Jonas; Andrea Belag; Elliott Erwitt; Mary Lucier; Alain Kirili & Gaston Lachaise; “Drawing, Thinking”; Leo Villareal; Wang Jin; Abelardo Morell; Steve Pyke
NATIONAL Philadelphia Thomas Chimes Berkeley Bruce Nauman San Francisco “A Culture in the Making” Palm Desert Sam Gilliam Los Angeles Paul Pfeiffer; Mary Jones Chicago David Klamen Washington, D.C. Nancy Sansom Reynolds Dallas Christopher French
INTERNATIONAL London “Citizens and Kings” Amsterdam “Vincent Van Gogh and Expressionism” Jerusalem and Tel Aviv Reuven Rubin Paris Philippe Parreno; Wim Delvoye Toronto Howard Lonn Moscow “Sots Art” Barcelona Ester Partegàs