Who Are the Great Women Artists?
Thirty years ago, ARTnews published an essay arguing that social forces had impeded women artists from becoming as great as the male masters. We asked experts if the consensus has changed—and how. Read More
Also in this Issue
Ramblin’ Man
Jumping genres—from literature to photography to video and, now, to music—Rodney Graham makes the ordinary strange and strange things ordinary
Pernilla Holmes
How Cupid Lost His Head
Richard Misrach is focusing his lens on painting, by photographing details—a shapely leg, a piece of torso—of works in museum collections
Jonathon Keats
Battle for the Terra
What future did Daniel Terra envision for the Terra Museum of American Art? His intentions have become the subject of a bitter legal struggle that has resulted in the replacement of the museum’s entire board amid accusations of harassment, character assassination, and alleged intimidation
Ernest Beck
Departments
Art Talk
Joely Richardson, Marc Jacobs, Takashi Murakami, Sarah Jessica Parker, Lucian Freud, Gabriel Orozco, Patricia Martín, Peter Blake, Paul McCarthy, Jeff Koons, David Margolis, Mark Morris, Lee Bul, Alfred Appel, Jr.
National News
Hartford Shake-up at the Atheneum New York Christo gates to open; Sachs steps down; Al Hirschfeld remembered; C. Douglas Dillon: Metropolitan benefactor; John Brealey: A conservator with vision West Palm Beach The Norton grows—again Chicago Nazi loot show canceled Santa Ana Still under wraps
International News
Moscow Spotlight on Malevich Zurich Flick finds a home Paris French focus on indigenous art Ceske Krumlov Schiele couldn’t live here anymore Burgdorf A perch for Gertsch Turin Giovanni Agnelli: An avid, eclectic collector
Art Market
New York Buyers big on buy-ins; Monochromist Marioni sells well Sydney Half a million for Mueck Tokyo Japanese corporation buys American
Looking at Art
When Modern Meant Spanish: Manet’s reworking of Goya’s balcony scene reflects the importance of Spanish art to French modernism
Gary Tinterow
On the Edge
Splendor in the Grass: British artists Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey turn sunlight into a darkroom as they capture images with chlorophyll
Claire Barliant
Books
Wifredo Lam and the International Avant-Garde, 1923–1982 By Lowery Stokes Sims • American Sublime: Landscape Painting in the United States, 1820–1880 By Andrew Wilton and Tim Barringer • Frankenthaler: The Woodcuts By Judith Goldman • Paul Cadmus: The Male Nude By Justin Spring • New England Days By Paul Caponigro • Joseph Cornell: Master of Dreams By Diane Waldman
Perspective
The Sting for The Scream: How Scotland Yard helped solve the Munch caper
Milton Esterow