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Shooting from the Hip
Wolfgang Tillmans assembles images of hard-partying pals, body hair, and folded paper in installations that run across walls, hover over doors, and linger near the floor
Hilarie M. Sheets
Building Bridges
Alice Walton is using her Wal-Mart fortune to create a museum of American art in Bentonville, Arkansas. Her tactics have made some in the art world wary, but she is gaining allies by placing key paintings on loan
Eileen Kinsella
Beaux’s Art Revival
Cecilia Beaux immortalized her elite subjects but fell into obscurity herself. A new survey of her career shows why she was once considered the best woman artist in the country
Stephen May
The Surreal Man Ray Legacy
An ARTnews follow-up report finds that confusion in the market persists. Posthumous, unauthorized, and misstamped prints still bedevil the legacy of one of the 20th century’s great artists
Thane Peterson
The Greening of Museum Architecture
Using recycled materials, energy-saving skylights, environmentally friendly air-conditioning, and even discounts for visitors who arrive on bikes, museums are becoming more sensitive to the environment
Steven Litt
Resurrection of a Crucifixion
Ter Brugghen’s great Crucifixion, lost for centuries, was rediscovered in a London church slated for demolition. Its meaning, too, was lost, says the Met’s curator, who views it from a different angle
Walter Liedtke
Departments
Art Talk
Miuccia Prada, Manolo Blahnik, Martin Kemp, Adam Zaretsky, Engelbert Humperdinck, Steven Kurtz, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Tilda Swinton, Takashi Murakami, Kanye West, Marc Jacobs, Keith Edmier, Farrah Fawcett, Tom Eccles, Tom Ford, Marilyn Minter
National News
Washington, D.C. The Smithsonian: Reports, reviews, and reform Spotlight Elizabeth Easton: Teaching curators to run the whole show New York Guggenheim director joins Sotheby’s; Elizabeth Murray: ’Tooned in
International News
Perm, Russia Bilbao in the Urals? Madrid Updating a Spanish icon Berlin The “Berlinka” wall; Museum Berggruen gets board, barracks Spotlight Fei Dawei: Nonprofit motive Rome Italy and the Getty agree on artifacts Melbourne Losing one van Gogh, gaining another Paris A lab for bio pics
Working Habits
For Whom the Belles Toil: The beleaguered heroines of Kate Gilmore’s videos navigate obstacle courses that veer between the sadistic and the slapstick
William Hanley
Studio
Swords, Lizards, and the Queen: Dime-store trinkets provide raw material for Hew Locke’s explorations of history and power
Pernilla Holmes
Looking at Art
House of Good Fortune: An exquisite porcelain architectural model from 13th-century China is a compendium of auspicious symbols
Marc F. Wilson
Books
Take the Michelangelo and Run: Behind the scenes at the Met
Milton Esterow
Prints
Pictures from a Revolution: How Mexico’s modernists used prints
Deidre Stein Greben
Living with Art
“Why Don’t You Come and Install It?”: Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz invite artists to place complex conceptual works in their Miami home
Elisa Turner
Critic’s Pick
Jacob Hashimoto: Flying with Kites
Hilarie M. Sheets
Reviews
New York Richard Pousette-Dart; “The (S) Files 007”; David Adjaye; Lynda Benglis and Louise Bourgeois; “Substance & Surface”; Stephen Shore; “Organizing Chaos”; “Project for a Revolution in New York”; Yayoi Kusama; “Epilogues”; “Rough and Refined: Japanese Art”; Banks Violette; Jorge Michel; “Summer Invitational”; “Stubborn Materials”; June Wayne; Gego; Paul P.; “Face Up”
NATIONAL Boston Edward Hopper; George Nick Los Angeles “Eden’s Edge”; Ruth Weisberg; Armando Romero Houston Norman Bluhm Chicago Larry Snider; Rose Freymuth-Frazier Santa Fe Judy Chicago New Orleans Henry Casselli Kent, Connecticut Hugh O’Donnell Cornwall, Connecticut Danielle Mailer
INTERNATIONAL Munich “The Eternal Eye” Zurich Cy Twombly London Paul Chan Berlin Jason Rhoades Montreal Emily Carr Barcelona João Onofre