Earth Works
From recycling urine and testing algae to creating animal habitats and transforming landfills into parks, artists are finding novel and sometimes quirky ways to heal the world. Read More
Also in this Issue
Turning Up the Heat
Robin Cembalest
Global Warning: A Portfolio
Rachel Corbett and Adam P. Schneider
No Fish Were Harmed in the Making of This Sculpture
Artists are increasingly trying to reduce the environmental impact of their work
Carly Berwick
The New Razzle-Dazzle
Using bright-colored caps and golden bands from discarded liquor bottles, African sculptor El Anatsui weaves rich “gem”-encrusted tapestries
Barbara Pollack
Departments
Art Talk
Tim Gunn, Rami Kashou, Christian Siriano, Louise Bourgeois, Amei Wallach, Michael Klant, Robert Rauschenberg, Loretta Howard, Theodore Kheel, Jeff Koons, Michael Elmgreen, Ingar Dragset, Yves Saint Laurent, David Bouley, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Cai Guo-Qiang, Arthur Lubow, David Ellis, Michel Roux, Ron English, Burton Morri
National News
SPOTLIGHT Diana Widmaier Picasso: Heads and tales GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN Justice for Eustace SAN ANTONIO “Avant-garde taste for Texas”
International News
VILNIUS Guggenheim, Hermitage lend a hand to Lithuania AMSTERDAM Stedelijk settles SPOTLIGHT Guy Cogeval: 19th-century man BAGHDAD The loot route
Studio
Hip Off the Old Block: Barkley Hendricks has forged a career painting confrontational, iconic, and sometimes hyperreal portraits of African Americans
Ann Landi
Critic’s Pick
Mònica Fuster: Plexiglas Menagerie
George Stolz
Reviews
NEW YORK“Action/Abstraction”; Philip Guston; Olafur Eliasson; Los Carpinteros; Ashley Bickerton; William King; David Bierk; Marlene McCarty; Richard Dupont; Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat; James Brooks; Miriam Schapiro; Simon Frost; Mark Handforth; Bien-U Bae; Michael De Brito; Stanley Greenberg; Sze Tsung Leong; Sean Raspet; Martha Wilson; Jeppe Hein
NATIONAL Sante Fe“Art on the Edge”; Garo Antreasian; “Winter Color”; “Prints and Drawings from the 1930s”; “Gallery Artists”; “Winter Show”; David Scheinbaum; Mariana Cook; Peter Sarkisian Philadelphia Lynda Benglis Chicago “Fifty Drawings” Montclair, New Jersey Hedda Sterne Santa Monica Anthony Hernandez Los Angeles Tony de los Reyes Katonah, New York “Shattering Glass” Miami “Lente Latino”
INTERNATIONAL Paris Gerhard Richter London Roman Signer Brussels “Paul Klee: Theatre Here, There and Everywhere” Berlin Brian Alfred Vienna Brigitte Kowanz