In this Issue
Fall Preview
Our guide to the who, what, when, and where of the art world this season
L.A. Story Suzanne Muchnic
From the leather crowd to mini-malls, Catherine Opie trains her lens on the varied subcultures of Los Angeles
ASIA
Cosmic Medicine Daniel Pinchbeck
Tibet’s illustrated texts depict healing remedies for both body and soul–from bloodletting to the interpretation of dreams
Rewriting the Script Daniel Bischoff
An unofficial look at unofficial art from China traces its shifting focus from Communism to consumerism and other global themes
A Touch of Sass Carol Lutfy
They call themselves chibiko, or “sassy kid” gallerists, and they bring a renegade tone to Tokyo’s mild-mannered art world
Departments
Art Talk
Yayoi Kusama, Margaret Thatcher, Francis Bacon, John Waters, Pablo Picasso, Spike Lee, Philip Johnson, David Hockney, and more
National News
International News
Art Market
City Focus: London
Artful Traveler
A 16th-century guest house in Provence has become a gallery and breeding ground for new ideas
Looking at Art
Giacometti had a natural gift for making pretty things. Standing Woman shows how he fought against it
Books
In Titian’s Women, Rona Goffen argues that the artist’s celebrated nudes are not the bad girls they seem to be. Ann Landi talks to the author about sex, pornography, and the Renaissance. Plus reviews of: Julien Levy: Portrait of an Art Gallery, by Ingrid Schaffner and Lisa Jacobs; Portraits: Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre and Elsewhere, by Michael Kimmelman
Reviews
New York; Los Angeles; Washington, D.C.; Chicago; Boston; Cambridge; Hartford; Minneapolis; Fort Lauderdale; Berlin; Munich; Budapest; Madrid; Basel; Zurich; Vienna; Paris