Reinventing the Landscape
From the spiritual to the technological, the sublime to the revolutionary, today's landscape painters are transforming the genre. Read More
Also in this Issue
The Wizard of DOB
Takashi Murakami’s cartoon characters and action figures emerge from the world of Japanese animation
Kay Itoi
Taking a New Look at Jacob Lawrence
For years, the painter was viewed through the narrow lens of his depictions of African American life. Now, an ambitious new catalogue enlarges the discourse on his achievements
Bonnie Barrett Stretch
The Changing of the Guards
In an effort to become more visitor-friendly, museums are giving their security staffs new clothes, new titles, and new job descriptions. Uniforms are out, khakis are in, and so are buttons that say “Ask Me”
Carly Berwick
Departments
Art Talk
Carey Young, Jeremy Irons, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Edo Bertoglio, Glenn O’Brien, Julian Schnabel, June Kelly, Cecilia Dean, Mary Ellen Mark, Lawrence Weiner, Wolfgang Tillmans, Gillian Wearing, Glenn Ligon
National News
New York Second chance in Schiele case Spotlight Wen Fong: Master of persuasion Washington, D.C. Recommendations for restitution New York Giving artists reason to give; Sculptors oppose school closure; City museum heads downtown
International News
Paris Sorting out ownership Spotlight Yuko Hasegawa: The heretic of Kanazawa Prague Czechs start claims process Vienna Guggenheim gets new partner Dublin Director’s cut? Oslo Win for Marlborough in Schwitters case Florence Vasari’s cover-up?
Art Market
New York Sotheby’s restructures; Museum buying boom; Steady demand for Cucchi; Tomaselli on the rise
City Focus: New Orleans
Making Waves on the Waterfront: With an active gallery scene and scholarly museum exhibitions, New Orleans continues to push its art offerings into the spotlight
John R. Kemp
Living with Art
Confessions of an “Art Freak”: A onetime painter and performance artist, native Berliner Herbert Volkmann makes informed—and audacious—choices when building his cutting-edge collection
Robert Rigney
Artful Traveler
Figures in a Landscape: The Niigata Triennial brought 140 larger-than-life sculptures—and a magical inn created by James Turrell—to a remote area of Japan
Kay Itoi
Studio
Excuse Me, While I Fix the Sky: Robert ParkeHarrison photographs himself performing fantastical labors of futility
Sarah Bayliss
Looking at Art
Vermeer’s Youthful Discretion: Diana and Her Companions was a predictable picture for a young Delft painter of the early 1650s, but it was also personal
Walter Liedtke
On the Edge
Camouflaged Revolutionary: Chinese artist Pan Xing Lei brings military imagery to the streets of New York
Hugh Eakin
Reviews
New York Fred Tomaselli; Andy Warhol; Charlotte Salomon; “About Faces”; Shirley Kaneda; Cy Twombly; Balthus; Jean Arp; Joan Nelson; Martin Kippenberger; Nancy Grossman; Marc Chagall; Harold Edgerton; Daniel E. Greene; Kwang-Young Chun; “American Art” Washington, D.C. “Media/Metaphor: The 46th Biennial Exhibition” Scottsdale Jim Dine Los Angeles Fletcher Benton San Francisco Deborah Oropallo; Giovanni Frangi Santa Fe Dan Budnik; Florence Pierce Las Vegas Peter Plagens Houston Robert Therrien Chicago Gary Justis Shanghai Shanghai Biennale 2000 St. Petersburg Kazimir Malevich London Victor Willing; Rodney Graham Paris Ida Applebroog Prague Wolfgang Robbe Barcelona Antoni Tàpies Buenos Aires Graciela Sacc