Also in this Issue
Self-Portrait as Muskrat, Monkey, and Mouse
Mixing animal body parts with her own, genre-bending sculptor Rona Pondick makes hybrids that unite the emotional and the intellectual, the sublime and the grotesque
Barbara A. MacAdam
Breaking the Silence on Degas
A Degas scholar questions the origin of a set of “recently discovered” plasters said to have been made during the artist’s lifetime
William D. Cohan
Collecting the Dots
In a few decades, the seemingly abstract compositions of Australia’s aboriginal artists have moved from body painting and sand mosaics to board to acrylics on canvas–and to the walls of major museums
Carly Berwick
Departments
Art Talk
Daniel Guzmán, Alice Wheeler, Jordan Kantor, Slater Bradley, Banks Violette, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Douglas Gordon, Michael Darling, Elizabeth Peyton, Sam Durant, Jennifer West, Rodney Graham, David Freymond, Charles van den Boogaerde, Robin Montmusson, Simon Tordjman, Florence Villeminot, Anna Wintour, Alex Katz, Karen Levitov, Michael Landy, Damien Hirst, Gary Hume, Tracey Emin, Julian Opie, Gavin Turk, El Celso
News
SPOTLIGHT Vittorio Sgarbi: An outsider is back in ZWOLLE, THE NETHERLANDS Van Gogh’s windmill power IN MEMORIAM Ernst Beyeler
Books
Leo and His Circle: The Life of Leo Castelli By Annie Cohen-Solal
Milton Esterow
Studio
Past Imperfect: Francesc Torres’s theatrical installations explore the way we process history and memory
Roger Atwood
Critic’s Pick
Roy Dowell: Collage Education
Hunter Drohojowska-Philp
Reviews
NEW YORK William Kentridge; Marina Abramovic; “Playing with Pictures”; Berenice Abbott; Irving Petlin; Diana Thater; “A Long-Forgotten Truth”; Craig Norton; Stephen Antonakos; Natalie Edgar; Julie Speed; Neil Folberg; Kukuli Velarde and Ian Ingram; Marcia Hafif; Deborah Turbeville; “Post-Gogol”; Nari Ward; Janet Malcolm; “Nobody Gets to See the Wizard”
NATIONAL Los Angeles “Urban Panoramas”; Michael Mararian San Francisco Celia Reisman Santa Monica Julio Valdez Laguna Beach, California “Winter Blue 20TEN” Chicago Jim Lutes Aspen Doug and Mike Starn Boston George Lloyd Philadelphia Isaac Tin Wei Lin New Orleans José Bedia
INTERNATIONAL Paris Paul Wallach London Luca Pancrazzi; David Reimondo Zurich Daniel Schwartz Geneva “Man-Made Jewels, Jewels of the Earth” Montreal Marcel Dzama Dublin Alice Maher