Also in this Issue
The First 100 Years of ARTnews
How a small weekly newspaper became the world’s largest art magazine
Pete Hamill
Defining Moments
A century of scoops, scholarship, and scandals, openings, and happenings during which Cubism confounded, Pollock painted, Donatello delighted, Rembrandt sinned, Warhol quipped, Giuliani growled, a nude girl threw spinach at a searchlight, and the Whitney merged with the Met
The Turning Tides of Taste
Not even the best-trained eyes or most knowledgeable of art historians can say for sure what will survive for the ages
Ann Landi
Departments
Art Talk
Diane Keaton, Woody Allen, Robin Williams, Keith Edmier, Farrah Fawcett, Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, Kiki Smith, Seton Smith, Ralph Steadman, Bruce Springsteen, Annie Leibovitz, Glenn Lowry, Robert Pinsky, Paul Gardner, Dave Hickey, Louise Bourgeois
National News
Lower Merion Barnes bids to move Los Angeles The saints come marching in San Francisco Conservation and contamination Chicago Setting the stage New Orleans Tempest in a tunnel Detroit Restitution resolution New York Rockefeller Center removes sculpture; Walter H. Annenberg: Publisher, collector, philanthropist
International News
Paris Giacometti’s competing guardians London Visits double at free museums Cologne Kandinsky claims continue Madrid Modigliani mate in mix-up; Police raid yields paintings Florence Italy plans to return piece of Parthenon; Bath time for David
Artful Traveler
Picassos in the Kitchen: The former home of Roland Penrose and Lee Miller is a glorious jumble of art treasures, ethnographic objects, and strange curios
Michael Glover
Books: Speaking Volumes
What are the most important art books of the century? Critics, scholars, and artists name their favorites
Tooned In
Over the years, ARTnews has received 27 awards for journalism. But we really knew we were considered an icon when we started turning up in the funny pages
Reviews
New York The Ferus Gallery; “XX Century Master Drawings”; “Rebirth after the Holocaust”; Tracey Emin; David LaChapelle; Ellsworth Kelly; Markus Lüpertz; Jacob El Hanani; Helen Hoie; James Hyde; Karim Rashid; Iran do Espírito Santo; “Margins of Abstraction”; Ann Craven; Daido Moriyama; Joaquim Chancho; Richard Hogan; “Kismet”; Florence Putterman; Rebecca Smith Pittsburgh James Turrell Dallas Thomas Struth Houston “Questioning the Line: Gego, a Selection, 1955–1990″ Santa Monica “Bilder aus Berlin”; Eleanor Antin Los Angeles Patrick Graham San Francisco Yvonne Jacquette; Jeanne Silverthorne; Robert Hartman Minneapolis Rivane Neuenschwander Santa Fe “Japanese Bamboo Masters of the Next Generation” Portland, Maine William Pope.L London Richard Wentworth; “Early One Morning”; Julie Mehretu Paris Laurence Demaison and Rip Hopkins; Ursula von Rydingsvard Zurich Santiago Sierra Porto, Portugal Cristina Iglesias Saint Petersburg Natalia Goncharova Berlin Mel Bochner