The New Serenity
Architects who design museums have been retreating from explosive innovation to favor classicism, tranquillity, and a more restrained Modernism. Read More
Also in this Issue
Who Goes Here?
Museums are increasingly using exit polls, focus groups, and other market research tools—and making changes accordingly
Michelle Falkenstein
City Lights
Havana artist Carlos Garaicoa illuminates the secret life of cities in his photographs, drawings, and architectural constructs
Marc Spiegler
Restitution: Broken Promises
Germany pledged to find and return art looted by the Nazis that is now in German public institutions. But the policy has been stymied because it is unenforceable
Marilyn Henry
Departments
Art Talk
Bill Viola, Nine Inch Nails, Peter Sellars, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Ian Warrell, Alison Smith, Kathleen Foster, Nobuyoshi Araki, Travis Klose, Regis Trigano, Jason Fried, Takeshi Kitano, Björk, Emily Braun, Emily Bilski, Derek A. Gillman
National News
New York An unexpected exit from the Guggenheim; Tom Wesselmann: Pop provocateur; Philip Johnson: An architect with “silken antennae”; Susan Sontag: A mind often at war with itself Minneapolis U.S. soldiers get briefed in conservation—with T-shirts; Charles Biederman: “Sage of Red Wing”
International News
Stockholm The Moderna Museet’s mysterious Malevich donation Moscow Russian-German trophy-art talks resume Paris Hirschhorn’s dis miffs Swiss London The case of the theft-prone museum Jerusalem Israel arrests antiquities forgers Wroclaw Poland pushes for lost Dürers
International News
The Mysterious Malevich Donation
International News
New questions arise over the ownership of paintings smuggled from Russia during the Cold War
Art Market
New York Weak dollar lures European art buyers; Collectors lobby Congress to lower capital gains tax; Neo Rauch on the rise; Peggy Guggenheim’s $250 Giacometti
Reviews
New York Joan Snyder; “Alexander the Great”; Petah Coyne; Robert Ryman; Paul Pfeiffer; John Baldessari; Sarah Moon; Karin Kneffel; Altoon Sultan; Subhankar Banerjee; Edwin Schlossberg; Sam Cady; Gustavo López Armentia; “Romancing Nature”; Louis Renzoni; Margarita Cabrera Washington, D.C. Dan Flavin San Francisco Gottfried Helnwein Los Angeles Peter Plagens West Palm Beach John Alexander and Martin Johnson Heade Chicago Herbert List Santa Fe “Icons” New Orleans Jack Ox London Turner Prize; William Turnbull Paris Donald Baechler Berlin Tim Eitel, David Schnell, and Matthias Weischer Toronto Owen Ford