Also in this Issue
Ten Artists to Watch
Mike Nelson: Maze Maker
Simon Grant
Julie Mehretu: Excavating Runes
Carly Berwick
Nic Hess: Tape It to the Limit
Marc Spiegler
James Siena: Making Connections
Robert Atkins
Elger Esser: Photographing Non-places
Hugh Eakin
Minerva Cuevas:Presents of Mind
Alberto López Cuenca
Salomón Huerta: Fuchsia Shock
Carly Berwick
Miri Segal: Wheels of Fortune
Tami Katz-Freiman
María Martínez-Cañas: Into the Blue Light
Elisa Turner
Tabaimo: Poking Fun at Sushi
Kay Itoi
The Art Island
A Japanese businessman transformed the sleepy little island of Naoshima into a dynamic art center
Kay Itoi
The Gang That Couldn’t Tell a Rubens from a Sandwich
The Feds bust wise guys fencing stolen art—that all turned out to be fake
Kelly Devine Thomas
Departments
Art Talk
Cameron Crowe, Robert Rauschenberg, Lucian Freud, Queen Elizabeth II, Karl Katz, Robert De Niro, Frank Stella, Tina Ruisinger, Ed Ruscha, Andrew Solomon, Alanna Heiss, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Ivan Massow, Tracey Emin, Patricia Cornwell
National News
New York Oligarch at the Guggenheim Spotlight Norman Kleeblatt: Bringing Nazi symbols to the Jewish Museum Chicago “Shocker” for war-loot heirs Washington, D.C. New locale for Dalí’s Last Supper; Michael Hammond: A scholar and composer Houston Menil keeps its Matisse
International News
London Olympic effort to return Elgin Marbles Paris Seeing red over the Louvre Siena Out of the rubble Florence Leonardo renovation abandoned Berlin Boost for Bahnhof Washington, D.C. Dürer claims continue
Art Market
London Bacon case settled; Dealers: A new top ten New York Taubman requests new trial; Saville’s soaring prices
City Focus: Seattle
Seizing the Moment: While regionalist borders break down, new curators work to boost Seattle’s art-world profile
Patricia Failing
Looking at Art
A Giant Zip for Mankind: When Barnett Newman painted The Wild in 1950, he challenged current standards not only of how a painting could look but of what a painting could be
Ann Temkin
Books
Adventures in Art: Forty Years at Pace Edited by Mildred Glimcher, Essay by Arne Glimcher • Vermeer: A View of Delft By Anthony Bailey • A View of Delft: Vermeer and His Contemporaries By Walter Liedtke • Anthony Blunt: His Lives By Miranda Carter • Paul Gauguin: An Erotic Life By Nancy Mowll Mathews • Art Cuba: The New Generation Edited by Holly Block • Renoir, My Father By Jean Renoir, Introduction by Robert L. Herbert • Alfred H. Barr, Jr., and the Intellectual Origins of the Museum of Modern Art By Sybil Gordon Kantor • Brushes with History: Writing on Art from The Nation: 1865–2001 Edited by Peter G. Meyer
Flashback
De Kooning’s Deception
Photographing the painter at work was a tricky proposition
Robin Cembalest
Reviews
New York “American Radiance” and Henry Darger; Irving Penn; “New Contemporary Art Commissions”; Frank Stella; “Inheriting Cubism”; David Bates; Fairfield Porter; “Westworld”; “Masterpieces of Renaissance Art” and “Vittoria and Tiepolo”; Charles E. Burchfield; Nikki S. Lee; “The Figure 2001″; Louis M. Eilshemius; “ID/entity”; Hester Simpson; Alan Parker; Karen Arm Boston David Hilliard; Anne Neely Philadelphia Sarah McEneaney Sewickley, Pa. Mirta Kupferminc Atlanta John Dugdale Palm Beach “BROOKLYN!” Chicago “Large Format Photographs” Los Angeles Lee Bontecou Scottsdale “The Cultural Desert” London “Art on the Line” Munich João Penalva Berlin Leon Tarasewicz; Carsten Nicolai Toronto Frank Mädler