In this Issue
Sticks and Stones and Lemon Cough Drops
From Joseph Beuys to Eva Hesse to Zoe Leonard, many postwar artists make works in unstable or ephemeral materials. Curators and conservators dealing with latex, lard, bodily fluids, and banana peels are coming up with new preservation strategies
Sylvia Hochfield
Screen Savers
How to preserve an artwork that depends on electronic parts that might be obsolete in a few years? They’re working on it
Carly Berwick
Insider’s Guide to Collecting Art
Earth, Wind, and Fire
Creeping mold, flood plains, fault lines—collectors and insurers calculate the risks
Michelle Falkenstein
“Don’t Waste the Deduction”
Donating art can be an art in itself
Eileen Kinsella
Handle with Care
When sculptures live outdoors, even the most durable materials need extra attention
Michelle Falkenstein
Border Patrol
The long-term health of pictures depends on careful selection of frames and proper lighting
Michelle Falkenstein
Turning Down the Stereotypes
Lorna Simpson plays on nostalgia and cinematic contrast to illuminate issues of race, style, and the unreliability of memory
Barbara Pollack
Strange Comfort
What art is comforting? What art calms and soothes? The answers vary with the beholder
Hilarie M. Sheets
Departments
Art Talk
Ray Johnson, Toni Morrison, Anna Wintour, Álvaro Siza, Frank Auerbach, Charles Saatchi, Marc Quinn, Nigella Lawson, Steven Holl, Rachel Feinstein, Paula Rego, Claes Oldenburg, Coosje van Bruggen, Peter Dreher, Sue Tilley, Lucian Freud, Elizabeth Catlett, Jonathan Santlofer
National News
New York September 11: One year later; The $10 million Michelangelo; Letter to museums warns of loot; City chooses Craft Museum; Castilian cultural exchange Boston Harvard halts museum plans Santa Fe Taxation without education
International News
Jerusalem Cultural challenge Madrid The Spanish sting; Miró heirs challenge museum London “Strike at the heart” Basel Beyeler keeps contested Kandinsky Berlin Picking up the pieces Turin Italy’s mini-boom
Art Market
London Thrill of the chasse Santa Fe Growing value for Vicente
City Focus: Paris
French Twist: Up-and-coming local artists, an abundance of new cultural institutions, and nascent gallery collaborations restore the prominence of Paris on the international scene
Laurie Hurwitz-Attias
Flashback:1977
Going Mobile: Calder is captured on the move
Reviews
New York MoMA QNS; Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen; “Twentieth-Century Mexican Art: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection”; Mark di Suvero; “Paintings from Germany”; George Rickey; Richard Prince; Dennis Adams; Julia Wachtel; Michel Alexis; Larry Silver; Francis A. Silva; Audrey Flack; Gillian Jagger; Richard Nonas; Fred Otnes San Francisco Hans Hofmann; Liséa Lyons Los Angeles Eduardo Chillida; Sean Henry Houston Moico Yaker Philadelphia Lynda Benglis Santa Fe Oli Sihvonen; Alexandra Eldridge; Dick Evans Chicago Bhupen Khakhar and Gulammohammed Sheikh Kansas City Frederick J. Brown London Lucian Freud; Chris Ofili Berlin Jonathan Meese Munich Rob Wynne Basel Marcel Duchamp and Jean Tinguely