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Features
A Guide to the Virtual Art Market
Advances like online databases and virtual art fairs are transforming the way art is sold. But they can’t tell you what it’s like to experience a work
Eileen Kinsella
When Your Art Has a Hard Drive
The fast-paced evolution of new media has created challenging problems of permanence and stability for collectors, conservators, and artists. What to look for, and what to look out for
Ann Landi
Departments
Art Talk Lyle Ashton Harris, Chuck Close, Cindy Sherman, Kara Walker, Kehinde Wiley, Yoko Ono, Thelma Golden, Anna Deavere Smith, Tony Kushner, Rev. Al Sharpton, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Steve Martin, Michael Cunningham, Oliver Sacks, Abelardo Morell, May Castleberry, Jim Kempner, Charlie Hewitt, Tony Fitzpatrick, Robert Indiana, Steve Wilson, Laura Lee Brown
News SPOTLIGHT Malcolm Rogers: Bringing the Americas to Boston; Lowery Sims: Defining an international African esthetic CLEVELAND David Franklin prepares to awaken a “sleeping giant” NEW ORLEANS A Degas exhibition is postponed
Books
Grant Wood: A Life
By R. Tripp Evans
Inge Morath: Iran
Edited by John P. Jacob; Essays by Monika Faber and Azar Nafisi
Varieties of Romantic Experience: Drawings from the Collection of Charles Ryskamp
By Matthew Hargraves; Preface by Charles Ryskamp
Shirin Neshat
Foreword by Marina Abramović; Essay by Arthur C. Danto
Design Seeing the World Through Muscatel-Colored Glasses: From labels to wineries to Chardonnay-toned house paint, an exhibition considers the visual culture of wine
Jon Lackman
Artful Traveler American Idyll: The New Britain Museum offers a stunning spectrum of American artworks—and artful seats from which to contemplate them
Bonnie Barrett Stretch
Critic’s PickMary Kelly: Go Directly to Jail
David Galloway
Reviews
NEW YORK “50 Years at Pace”; “The Original Copy”; Christian Marclay; Suzan Frecon; Liu Xiaodong; Matthew Day Jackson; Laurent Grasso; Richard Wentworth; Angelo Filomeno; Kim Uchiyama; Ellen Phelan; “That Is Then. This Is Now.”; “Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Exhibition”; “Beyond Geometry”; Ushio Shinohara and Noriko Shinohara; Harvey Lloyd; “The Third Meaning”NATIONAL Los Angeles Fernando Botero Atlanta Salvador Dalí North Adams, Massachusetts Petah Coyne Boston Dr. Lakra Oakland Oakland Museum of California Charlotte, North Carolina Wolf Kahn Washington, D.C. Janet Biggs INTERNATIONAL Gwangju, South Korea “10,000 Lives” Salzburg, Austria Richard Deacon Toronto “Landscape/ Cityscape” Dublin “Post-War American Art: The Novak/ O’Doherty Collection” Venice Louise Bourgeois