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In this Issue
Westward, Ho! Barbara Pollack
A few years ago, West Chelsea was a grimy neighborhood of garages and warehouses. Today, it is a vital art district. We visit the dealers and curators who have transformed this patch of Manhattan into the place to see and be seen
Nerves of Steel Alan Jolis
A decade after the United States government destroyed his Tilted Arc, Richard Serra is having better luck abroad, jetting around the globe to install his enormous sculptures in sites from Bilbao to Iceland. The famously cantankerous artist brings us up to date
Jewels in the Desert Ira Berkow
Where in the world are some of the greatest icons of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism? In the Rancho Mirage home of Walter and Lenore Annenberg. The couple take ARTnews on a tour of their famed collection and tell the stories behind the masterpieces
Star Track: The Next Generation.
ARTnews presents some of the most promising talents to hit the international scene–from England’s Jason Martin, who creates minimal paintings with a single stroke, to Germany’s Holger Bär, who has built a machine to do the painting for him
Dachau: Requiem for an Artistic Movement. Timothy Ryback
In the face of local opposition, a group of Dachau artists forced the town to confront its past, only to disband at the moment of artistic and political triumph
Departments
Art Talk
David Bowie goes to press; Prado guard gets spooked, and more
National News
Why are so many museums looking for directors? Has the job become impossible? A look at a troubling trend
Plus updates on New York’s New Museum, Andrew Wyeth’s Maine event, the latest art market news, and the trials of the NEA Four
City Focus: Santa Fe
The longtime regional arts center is becoming a national player
International News
As Austria begins the process of searching its national collections for artworks with suspicious wartime pasts, other governments, museums, and collectors are looking nervously over their shoulders.
Plus reports from Italy, Israel, England, Spain, and France
Books
Reviews of Portrait of Dr. Gachet: The Story of a Van Gogh Masterpiece by Cynthia Saltzman; The Portraits Speak: Chuck Close in Conversation with 27 of His Subjects; Paper Museum: Writings About Painting, Mostly by Andrew Graham-Dixon; Modern Jamaican Art by Veerle Poupeye and David Boxer; The Landmarks of New York III by Barbaralee Diamonstein; Clement Greenberg: A Life by Florence Rubenfeld; Ghost Ranch: Land of Light by Janet Russek and David Scheinbaum; The Picasso Papers by Rosalind Krauss; The Western Wall by Michal Ronnen Safdie; Capital Dilemma by Michael Wise
Looking at Art
Elizabeth Murray’s Terrifying Terrain is a cartoon for grown-ups
Studio
A macabre humor and sweet sense of perversity distinguish the work of German artist Jürgen Klauke
Reviews