Whether gaining observation skills by watching spiders or acquiring expertise in making ink from toast crumbs, artists say their most influential and inspiring teachers were those whose lessons went far beyond traditional instruction. Read More
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American artists have approached the master through quotation, allusion, parody, homage, and even portraits of him embedded in their own paintings
Ann Landi
In her Greenwich Village gallery, Edith Halpert tirelessly promoted many of the major American artists of the early 20th century. A new biography finally gives her the recognition she deserves
Bonnie Barrett Stretch
An exhibition shows how French academic master William Bouguereau left his mark on American pupils
Stephen May
Beijing-based artist Ai Weiwei tests the boundaries between the acceptable and the not-so. His Duchampian bicycles, mammoth chandeliers, and forays into architecture take aim at the magnitude of change in China
Barbara Pollack
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, David Douglas Duncan, Karen Finley, Sean “Diddy” Combs, Laurie Simmons, Cecily Brown, Allan McCollum, Robert Wilson
Philadelphia Bringing the Barnes to the city New York Did Matter Matter?; Going “beyond the law” Denver Fracturing the cube Los Angeles A new art center for UCLA
Moscow “A knife in our back”; The Pushkin’s big push; The case of the plundered archive The Hague A Mashkov unmasked Schwerin, Germany Rehabilitation for Breker? Berlin Germans split on Kirchner return Melbourne Not “crazy” enough for van Gogh? Tokyo Plagiarizing painter stripped of award Mexico City Focus on folk art
New York Roland Augustine: A broader canvas; Latin American art takes off; Emerging markets fuel record auction revenues; Berry-Hill gets $21 million reprieve
The Weather Inside Is Frightful: Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz fit dark stories in snow globes
Rachel Somerstein
Who Painted Whom?: Is a painting historically attributed to Derain a rare self-portrait by Matisse?
Hilarie M. Sheets
Don’t Kiss Me: The Art of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore Edited by Louise Downie • Art Czar: The Rise and Fall of Clement Greenberg By Alice Goldfarb Marquis • Ellis Island: Ghosts of Freedom By Stephen Wilkes • Work: The World in Photographs By Ferdinand Protzman
Start the Presses: It’s printing day at Columbia University’s Neiman Center<
Deidre Stein Greben
Clear and Present Beauty: The Toledo Museum opens its new Glass Pavilion
Steven Litt
“Soul Mates on Everything Visual”: For Frank and Cherryl Cohen, home is a showcase for monumental bronzes, blue-chip photography, and subversive pots
Lucy Lethbridge
Andrea Cohen: Cellophane Falls
Rachel Somerstein
NEW YORK “Out of Time”; “Napoleon on the Nile”; “Walker Evans: Carbon and Silver”; “Soutine and Modern Art”; “Energy/Experimentation”; A. R. Penck; Brad Kahlhamer; Max Weber; Guy Ben-Ner; “Neo-Sincerity”; Richard Diebenkorn; Joel Meyerowitz; Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao Joe Deal; Hans Bellmer; Paul Etienne Lincoln; Tony Bechara; “Nine Artists from the Ninth Street Show”; “Artificial Afrika”; Lee Mullican; “In Between Places: New Art from Israel”
NATIONAL San Francisco Richard Misrach; Terry St. John Los Angeles Jean-Baptiste Mondino; Sean Duffy; Michal Ronnen Safdie; Anthony Goicolea Washington, D.C. Steven Cushner; Jeff Spaulding Santa Fe Susan Davidoff and Lucinda Young Dallas “Juan van der Hamen y Léon and the Court of Madrid” Houston Mary McCleary Portland, Maine Charles S. DuBack
INTERNATIONAL Paris “René Magritte: Tout en papier” Rome Francesco Clemente London Arnold Chang Vienna Peter Krawagna Zurich Jonathan Meese Berlin Andreas Amrhein Shanghai “Restless: Photography and New Media”