Also in this Issue
Looking at Art
Tomb with a View
An exceptional Egyptian painted coffin features startling touches of naturalism
Sylvia Hochfield
Cosmic Timing
A Tibetan painting offers lessons about the wanderings of Marpa the Translator and the path of Tantric Buddhism
Kay Larson
A Vision of Saint Michael
How a scholar reunited Veronese’s altered altarpiece
Martin Gayford
The Bowl and the Beautiful
Louise Lawler’s photo showcasing the juxtaposition of a soup tureen and a Pollock in a couple’s home speaks volumes about their taste—and ours
Barbara Pollack
Thinking Outside the Fox
Guy Ben-Ner achieves high impact with low-tech, fractured storytelling of everything from Aesop to Moby-Dick
Carly Berwick
Israel’s Museums: The Next Generation
Israel is boosting its cultural infrastructure by expanding existing arts institutions and planning new ones
Michael Z. Wise
Departments
Art Talk
Christopher Walken, Morgan Freeman, William H. Macy, James Welu, Jeremy Lipking, Marcia Gay Harden, Ben Stiller, Hank Azaria, Shawn Levy, Ellsworth Kelly, Amy Adams, Jeff Koons, Dennis Oppenheim, Peter Greenaway, Stephanie Plunkett, Vito Acconci, Michele Cohen, James Casebere, Tony Oursler
National News
NEW HAVEN Following suit WASHINGTON, D.C. Mr. Koshalek goes to Washington; Rothko’s pulp mysteries NEW YORK Helen Levitt: Poetry in motion; Another award for ARTnews PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA Lorenz Eitner: Stanford’s giant
International News
PERM, RUSSIA For richer and for povera UTRECHT, THE NETHERLANDS Altarpiece theater SINGAPORE Making Asia major
Books
Meyer Schapiro Abroad: Letters to Lillian and Travel Notebooks Edited by Daniel Esterman • Le Corbusier: A Life By Nicholas Fox Weber • Van Gogh and the Sunflowers By Louis van Tilborgh • Will Barnet: Catalogue Raisonné 1931–2005 Introduction by Joann Moser • Will Barnet: A Sketchbook, 1932–1934 Introduction by Robert C. Morgan • Francis Bacon: Studies for a Portrait By Michael Peppiatt • New Delhi/New Wave Edited by Jérôme Neutres • Old Masters, New World: America’s Raid on Europe’s Great Pictures By Cynthia Saltzman
Critic’s Pick
Jeff Whetstone: New-Cave Art
Barbara Pollack
Reviews
NEW YORK Piero Manzoni; Jenny Holzer; Kenneth Anger; Pierre Bonnard; Tony Oursler; Peter Doig; Leon Kossoff; Johan Grimonprez; Walter Niedermayr; Richard Aldrich; Nick Cave; Nancy Haynes; Jocelyne Alloucherie; Joe Fyfe; “Adirondack Art Today”; Daniel Masclet; Mary Lum; Dana Hoey; Kristopher Benedict
NATIONAL Los Angeles Ruth Weisberg; “Indonesian Textiles”; Mineo Mizuno San Francisco William Swanson Boston “A Fresh Look” Lake Worth, Florida Robert Goodnough Santa Fe Nancy and Beaumont Newhall Kansas City, Missouri Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison Portland, Oregon Silvia Levenson Chicago Darrell Roberts; “Northern Printmakers”; Neil Goodman; Robin Bowman; Peter Drake; Michael Wolf; Von Kommanivanh; “Geometry as Image”
INTERNATIONAL Basel “Visual Encounters” London Umberto Boccioni Mumbai “Bapu” Berlin Jota Castro Vienna Lisa Ruyter Mexico City “The Practice of Everyday Life” Brussels Fausto Melotti