In this Issue
Feminism’s New Look
Using everything from stitchery to baking flour, women around the world are lashing out at all kinds of extremism—even strident feminism
Barbara Pollack
The Master Swindler of Yugoslavia
After World War II, Ante Topic Mimara tricked Americans supervising the return of displaced art into turning over to Yugoslavia property that may have belonged to Holocaust victims. American officials covered up the blunder, and some works ended up in museums in Belgrade and Zagreb
Konstantin Akinsha
Gardens of Earthly Delights
Teresita Fernández cultivates spare, evocative landscapes of wisteria and waterfalls
Hilarie M. Sheets
Goddesses, Heroines, and Wives
Botticelli idealized them, Rembrandt humanized them, and Goya portrayed them with candor. Three upcoming exhibitions showing how the masters depicted their female subjects reveal much about their time—and ours
Valerie Steiker
The Oldest Living Surrealist Tells (Almost) All
With two shows this month and a just-published memoir, 91-year-old Dorothea Tanning is still “alive in every way”
Michelle Falkenstein
The $60 Million Scam
For years Guy Hain manufactured and sold thousands of fake bronze sculptures. Now, convicted and facing more fraud allegations, he has disappeared
Nicholas Powell
Departments
Art Talk
Lisa Yuskavage, Donald Baechler, Yasumasa Morimura, Lucian Freud, Wayne Koestenbaum, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Shirin Neshat, Tom Stoppard, Tracey Emin, Matthew Barney, Elizabeth Peyton
National News
Chicago Terra Museum stays put (for now); Illinois hears Mies pleas New York Rescue or robbery?; Albers mural moved; Feliciano seeks fee for found loot; Back from Baku Washington, D.C. Phillips mends fences Los Angeles Watts towers soar again
International News
Padua The devils in Giotto’s details Paris French ponder poor market; New York dealer sentenced; Unraveling Malraux’s myths Florence Spotlight on Masaccio Amsterdam Dutch grapple with war loot London Whistler’s call to arms Basel Demanding “Improvisation” Berlin Germany and Russia agree to exchange; New foundation for German art
Art Market
New York Big buys for Gates; Dealer charged with trading in stolen antiquities
City Focus: San Francisco
San Francisco is adding to its lively scene of museums, galleries, and alternative spaces
Penelope Rowlands
Looking at Art
Disguised Portraits: In a pair of painted chairs, van Gogh expressed the tensions in his relationship with Gauguin
Douglas W. Druick
Books
Leonardo’s Incessant Last Supper by Leo Steinberg • Andy Warhol by Wayne Koestenbaum • Reading Pictures: A History of Love and Hate by Alberto Manguel • Enduring Creation: Art, Pain, and Fortitude by Nigel Jonathan Spivey • Ambition and Love in Modern American Art by Jonathan Weinberg • Anni Albers: Selected Writings on Design edited by Brenda Danilowitz • Unsettling “Sensation”: Arts-Policy Lessons from the Brooklyn Museum of Art Controversy edited by Lawrence Rothfield • Ansel Adams at 100 by John Szarkowski • Still by Thomas Struth • Louis Comfort Tiffany by Jacob Baal-Teshuva
Perspective
A Tale of Two Eakins: Concurrent Philadelphia shows shed light on the artistic exchange between Thomas Eakins and his wife, Susan
Stephen May
Reviews
New York “Freestyle”; Wayne Thiebaud; Alexander Calder’s Sculpture; Mies van der Rohe; El Greco; “Frank Gehry, Architect”; Jeff Wall; Hiro Yamagata; “Côte d’Azur”; Atelier van Lieshout; Jacqueline Humphries; “The Body Project”; Burt Barr; Judith Glantzman; “Once, Then Something”; Robert L. Weingarten, Graham Nash; Wolfgang Tiemann Washington, D.C.“Clyfford Still: Paintings, 1944–1960″ Philadelphia Jennifer Bartlett Chicago Robert Natkin; John Storrs Houston Donald Lipski San Antonio Elie Nadelman Santa Fe Leo Garel Charlotte, N.C. Kesler Woodward Naples, Fla. Slade Graves Madrid PhotoEspaña London Antoni Tàpies Geneva Pablo Picasso Vienna Kiki Kogelnik Berlin Carsten Höller Paris “Denise René, the Intrepid” Rome Ed Ruscha Stockholm Pedro Cabrita Reis Tokyo Kenji Yanobe Toronto Taras Polataiko