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Berlin Rising
Two hundred new galleries in the last three years, changes in museum leadership, and an innovative Kunsthalle and art fair signal the ascendance of the German capital
Eric Bryant
Turning Rooms into Cameras
Vera Lutter builds pinhole cameras and develops enormous black-and-white prints of vernacular architecture, creating images at once surreal and sublime
Edith Newhall
Departments
Art Talk
Clive Barker, Brooke Shields, Bradley Cooper, Pablo Helguera, Yana Peel, Julian Opie, Megumi Sasaki, Herb and Dorothy Vogel, Michael Fassbender, Liam Cunningham, Steve McQueen, Jeremy Irons, Joan Allen, Michael Jacobs, James Hall, Annie Leibovitz, Robin Rhode
National News
PORTLAND, OREGON A loophole for loot? DETROIT Big moves on campus LOS ANGELES Coosje van Bruggen: A partner in pop CHADDS FORD, PENNSYLVANIA Wyeth’s world
International News
LONDON Sir Michael Levey: A knight with a common touch PARIS Dina Vierny: Maillol’s muse BEIJING China’s new years
Looking at Art
Sharing a Meal: Three artistic rivals—Titian, Tintoretto, and Veronese—painted the Supper at Emmaus. Titian devised the prototype. The youthful Tintoretto challenged him, and Veronese had the last word. All three versions are on view in a spectacular show of Venetian Renaissance painting in Boston
Frederick Ilchman
Critic’s Pick
Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova: Don’t Fence Him In
Elisa Turner
Reviews
NEW YORK Nayland Blake; “Five Decades of Passion,” “Imagination Noir,” “Jasper Johns: The Screenprints”; Al Held; Stanley William Hayter; Charles White; E. Ambrose Webster; Andrew Eccles; Vincent Desiderio; Alex Melamid; “Chinese Political Pop”; Robert Kelly; Katerina Lanfranco; Lee Jung-Woong; “Gallery Group”; Stephen Pace; Sheldon Berkowitz
NATIONAL Miami “30 Americans” Key West, Florida Mario Sanchez Chicago “Modern and Postwar American Art” Kansas City, Missouri Ki Yoon Ko and Hendrik Kerstens Los Angeles Wolfgang Tillmans Washington, D.C. Leo Rubinfien San Francisco “Synchronies”; Franz Kline; Harvey Dinnerstein; William Wylie; Piotr Strelnik
INTERNATIONAL London Oleg Vassiliev; Mai-Thu Perret Berlin Sigmar Polke Paris Maria Nepomuceno; Marc Brandenburg