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In this Issue
CONTEMPORARY REALISM
Changing Faces
The portrait is back, but you might not always recognize it
Daniel Kunitz
Turning Heads
Tony Bevan, heir to Britain’s figurative tradition, looks at things from the inside out
Bella Bathurst
Pride or Prejudice?
Using racist images like Sambos and minstrels, a new generation of black artists has been stirring up controversy. Supporters say they’re commenting on stereotypes. Critics insist they’re betraying their community
Pamela Newkirk
ASIA
Contract with Nagoya
Can a Japanese city become the next Bilbao?
Ken Shulman
Nomad’s Land
In Mongolia, the very existence of an avant-garde comes as a surprise
Andrew Solomon
From Op-Ed to Op Art
For Thai artist Udomsak Krisanamis, all the news
is fit to paint
Margaret Juhae Lee
Infinite Variations
With tinfoil, cord, and netting, Francisco Infante forces the horizon line into strange contortions
John Bowlt
Masterpiece Theater
How Michael Hall, once an aspiring actor, became a scholar, collector, and sculpture dealer
Amanda Vaill
Departments
Art Talk
The latest news on Marcel Duchamp; Michael Graves; Paul McCarthy and Jason Rhoades; Kristin Jones and Andrew Ginzel; Alexander Calder; Jackson Pollock; Hans Namuth; Helen Frankenthaler
National News
New York: MoMA merges with P.S.1; Spotlight: Peter Marzio: Houston, we have a solution; Carlsbad: Blum sculpture dispute; Seattle: Creature discomfort
International News
Moscow: Malevich’s Black Square disappears into a black hole; Paris: Artists battle the National Front; Murnau: Fighting over Blaue Reiter vistas; Paris: Taking sculpture outside; Chambéry: Novel theft; Onomichi: Building a new museum; Foix: Cave artists’ rites
Art Market
The third boom for Japanese museums; Mark Rothko: All in the family; Bacon estate update
City Focus: New Orleans
“Time to Paint”: The Louisiana city is setting its own tempo with a taste for the eclectic
Artful Traveler
Movable Feast: Basel pays tribute to Jean Tinguely, maker of self-destructing sculptures and other mad machines
Looking at Art
Psyched Out: Why Love can’t take wing in Jacques-Louis David’s Cupid and Psyche
Studio
Natural Selection: With a botanist’s eye, Michelle Stuart picks seeds and boulders to portray the cycles of life
Perspective
Palette of the Apes: Is the world ready for a market in paintings by chimps and elephants?
Reviews
Our far-flung critics assess exhibitions in New York; Boston; Los Angeles; West Hollywood & Santa Monica; Chicago; Washington, D.C.; Houston; Santa Fe; Lincoln, Massachusetts; New London, Connecticut; Paris; London; Toronto; Berlin; Jerusalem; Munich; and Mexico City