Auction sales are what one dealer calls the “visible part of the iceberg.” But how big is the rest of it? According to dealers, auction house experts, and other advisers, the private art market is exponentially larger—fueled by increasing demand from Russia, Asia, the Middle East, and other emerging markets. Read More
Museums around the world are showcasing Islamic art in an effort to promote understanding and engage immigrant communities. Read More
Using imagery and objects from an earlier time, Whitfield Lovell makes portraits that bring African American history into focus
Hilarie M. Sheets
The exquisite large-scale prints in Jonathan M. Singer’s Botanica Magnifica feature single blooms of 250 of the world’s rarest plants
Hilarie M. Sheets
Guarding Man Ray’s memory
Martha Rosler, Lorraine Wild, Mary Beth Edelson, Barbara Hammer, Connie Butler, Gerhard Richter, Neo Rauch, Markus Lüpertz, George Lois, Muhammad Ali, Neil Folberg, Takashi Murakami, Brian O’Doherty, Charles Simonds, Michael Rush, Ryan “the Conjurer” Oakes, Johnny Depp, Chloë Sevigny, John Waters, Dennis Balk, Edward Albee, Mercedes Ruehl
COMMENTARY The road to Abu Dhabi NEW YORK How the headhunters hunt; Dia resumes director search; The Whitney’s windfall WASHINGTON, D.C. Smithsonian chief to repair buildings, bridges FORT MYERS, FLORIDA The trouble with Rauschenberg’s trash
PRISTINA, KOSOVO Whose cultural patrimony is it? BRUSSELS This is not a pipe dream BASEL Equivalent to a theft?
Louise Bourgeois Edited by Frances Morris and Marie Laure Bernadac • The Language of Objects in the Art of the Americas By Edward J. Sullivan • The Wreck of the Medusa: The Most Famous Sea Disaster of the Nineteenth Century By Jonathan Miles • Avant-Garde, Internationalism, and Politics: Argentine Art in the Sixties By Andrea Giunta
Ryan Trecartin: I Think I’m a Clone Now
Barbara Pollack
NEW YORK Whitney Biennial; “Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions”; “From the Land of the Labyrinth: Minoan Crete, 3000–1100 B.C.”; Franz Kline; Shirin Neshat; George Condo; Betty Woodman; “Designed for Pleasure”; Ken Heyman; Helga Natz; “The Nature of a Nation: Paintings of the Hudson River School”; SungHee Jang; “Steve Wheeler in Context”; Adam Straus; Hyungkoo Lee; Stefan Sagmeister; Mark Dion; Rashid Johnson; Amy Cutler; John Powers
NATIONAL Philadelphia Frida Kahlo Chicago John Little Washington, D.C. Joseph Mills North Miami Jorge Pardo Los Angeles Chris Anthony San Francisco Mary Lovelace O’Neal New Orleans Luis Cruz Azaceta Santa Fe Doug Coffin Buffalo “The Panza Collection” Houston Pompeo Batoni; William Christenberry; Jac Leirner; Aaron Parazette; Thomas Glassford; “China Under Construction II”
INTERNATIONAL Madrid Diego Velázquez London Peter Doig Paris Agnès Thurnauer Berlin Ali Kepenek Ghent Paul McCarthy Rome Timothy Greenfield-Sanders