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Also in this Issue
‘What If People Could Eat Themselves?’
Dana Schutz depicts macabre scenarios—a figure devouring her hand, a plague victim in a hospital ward, the last man on earth—in enticing colors and lush textures
Steven Litt
‘A Little Dance with a Digital Camera’
Mikhail Baryshnikov isn’t much good at merengue. But he has developed a remarkably personal way of photographing it, along with the other local dances in the Dominican Republic. He has been making photographs since the mid-1980s with what one observer called “a bemused affection”
Milton Esterow
Paper Pushers
Artists are using paper—folded, spindled, and even mutilated—in increasingly sculptural ways
Meredith Mendelsohn
Departments
Art Talk
E. L. Doctorow, Riva Yares, Chazz Palminteri, Robert Wilson, Renée Fleming, Dodie Kazanjian, Richard Prince, Chuck Close, Adina Kamien-Kazhdan, Mark Dion, Kiki Smith, Madeline Weinrib, Sarah Morris, George Condo, Rachel Feinstein, Richard Phillips, Barnaby Furnas, John Currin, Martin Eder, Sean Landers, Susan Vreeland, Julie Harvey, Alec Baldwin, Rip Torn
National News
Washington, D.C. Smithsonian chief steps down; National Gallery captures Johns flags Dallas Raymond D. Nasher: It started with an Arp
International News
Caracas Venezuela’s cultural revolution Paris The Louvre: “A museum or a brand name?” The Hague Piecing together a legacy Taipei The lost emperors? Moscow The Merovingian question Saint Petersburg Hermitage thief sentenced
Art Market
Meet the new shark, (almost) same as the old shark: One foot shorter, its enormous mouth wider, and a lot less rotten, a new tiger shark takes its place in Damien Hirst’s iconic artwork
Books
Sickert: Paintings & Drawings By Wendy Baron • Francesca Woodman By Chris Townsend • John Constable: A Kingdom of His Own By Anthony Bailey • David C. Driskell: Artist and Scholar By Julie L. McGee • Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer By Sophie Lillie and Georg Gaugusch • Amy Sillman: Works on Paper Essay by Wayne Koestenbaum • Marc Chagall By Jonathan Wilson • David Wojnarowicz: A Definitive History of Five or Six Years on the Lower East Side Edited by Giancarlo Ambrosino • And more
Critic’s Pick
Isaac Resnikoff: Trunk show
Edith Newhall
Reviews
NEW YORK Jeff Wall; James Ensor; Lazhar Mansouri; Anish Kapoor; Philip Taaffe; Tunga; Oliver Herring; Alan Davie; Mark Manders; Prabir Purkayastha; Jean Shin; Merrill Wagner; Wang Tiande; Mikhail Baryshnikov; Matt Ernst; Evgeny Mokhorev; Buffie Johnson; John Evans; Ron Mehlman; “Re:Generation”; “The Nightly News”
NATIONAL Venice, California David Hockney Los Angeles Vija Celmins Santa Barbara Rufino Tamayo Boston Wayne McDowell Chicago William Conger Berkeley, California “Semina Culture” Greenwich, Connecticut “Painterly Controversy” San Antonio Suzan Frecon Austin Luca Cambiaso Miami Su-en Wong
INTERNATIONAL Paris André Kertész; McDermott & McGough London Mike Kelley; Gary Stevens Cologne Alexander Gorlizki Madrid Txomin Badiola Mexico City Ángel Delgado and Carlos Aguirre