The Most Wanted Works of Art
If a piece is “truly, truly to die for” and is still in private hands, it is no doubt on someone else’s wish list. Like that $100 million Cézanne. Read More
Also in this Issue
The Body Unbeautiful
Jenny Saville turns wounds into abstractions. Her brutal images of distorted bodies and accident victims are both shocking and dazzlingly painterly
Pernilla Holmes
Driven to Abstraction
After the mind games of conceptualism, abstraction is back—in an interesting range of approaches, as artists reactivate the possibilities of form and color
Amei Wallach
Departments
Art Talk
Jeff Bridges, Michelle Pfeiffer, Robin Williams, Peter Bogdanovich, Karen Allen, Nathaniel Kahn, Bono, On Kawara, Lynne Cooke, Chiara Clemente, Francesco Clemente, Fred Tomaselli, Willard Holmes, Nancy Hall-Duncan, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, James Wyeth, Spencer Tunick, Gil Garcetti, Prince Harry
National News
Philadelphia Barnes closer to move Bellevue, WA Bellevue Art Museum closes—for now Chicago Wood to leave Art Institute New York Congress approves indemnity increase; MoMA names new curators Washington, D.C. Internet speeds Nazi loot search
International News
Baghdad Recovering Iraq’s past Toronto Teitelbaum’s transformation Berlin A Rubens is recovered Tel Aviv Censorship or sensitivity? Gdansk, Poland Artist convicted of desecrating cross Miami Foundations pull Cuba funding
Art Market
Basel They can’t say no to Sam New York Charitable artists may get a break; How low can capital gains tax go?; MoMA sells Bacon, Picasso to buy more London Slow and steady for Currin
Design
Stone Walls and Copper Veils: Architect Wendy Joseph likes to temper weighty materials with ephemeral, dynamic ones in her designs, which include a Holocaust memorial, a women’s museum, and a hotel within a Frank Lloyd Wright skyscraper
Valerie Gladstone
Studio
Connecting the Dots: With a brush in one hand and a computer mouse in the other, George Pusenkoff makes pixel-based paintings of art-historical classics
David Galloway
Working Habits
An Impressionist Frame of Mind: New, made-to-order frames bring out the best in the Brooklyn Museum’s Impressionist pictures
Hilarie M. Sheets
Looking at Art
Face This Watch! Watch This Face!: Is Jasper Johns’s Face with Watch a self-portrait—or a portrait of you, the viewer?
Joan Rothfuss
Books
Picasso and the Invention of Cubism By Pepe Karmel • The New World’s Old World Edited by May Castleberry • Martín Chambi: Photographs, 1920–1950 • Markings: Sacred Landscapes from the Air Photographs By Marilyn Bridges • A Sweeper-up After Artists By Irving Sandler • Landscape: Photographs of Time and Place By Ferdinand Protzman. And more
On the Edge
Acting Out: Patty Chang skirts the edge of the socially acceptable with her carefully crafted illusions
Lilly Wei
Reviews
New York “Strangers: The First ICP Triennial of Photography and Video”; “French Artists in Rome: Ingres to Degas, 1803–1873”; “Signs from Berlin”; Romare Bearden; Judy Pfaff; Harry Callahan; “Pulp Art”; Willem van Tetrode; “Black and White”; Didier Massard; Barnaby Furnas; Jill Levine; Elena Kallistova; Shimon Okshteyn; “SYLVA—A Tree Show”; Marco Maggi Washington, D.C. “The Art of Romare Bearden” New Orleans “The Story of the South” Los Angeles Laura Owens Santa Monica Lissie Habie San Francisco James Turrell Chicago Lucien Clergue Washington, D.C. “In the Spirit of Martin: The Living Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.” Santa Fe David Linn; Shono Tokuzo Miami Sandra Ramos Valencia, Spain Valencia Bienal Salzburg Anselm Kiefer London Rezi van Lankveld Zurich Stefan Thiel Amsterdam “Meets” Frankfurt Abe Frajndlich