Lost & Found
Sculptor Lee Bontecou, who retreated from the art scene for three decades, makes a dramatic return as the subject of a major retrospective. Read More
Also in this Issue
Ten Artists to Watch
10 People Who Are Making Waves in the Art World
Before the Deluge
Yun-Fei Ji records the calamities befalling villagers displaced by the Three Gorges Dam
Carly Berwick
A Case of Curiosities
Julie Roberts’s sources range from doll’s houses to Jack the Ripper’s undefined victims
Barbara A. MacAdam
Shells, Sharks, and Boxing Gloves
Abraham Cruzvillegas transforms common objects into uncommon sculptures
Alberto López-Cuenca
Putting Guts on the Outside
Janaina Tschäpe makes living, moving, misshapen sculptures out of white latex, rubber tubing, and a few friends
Linda Yablonsky
When Buildings Turned to Sand
Paul Noble’s ‘Nobson Newtown’ is a riddle of poor planning, but its buildings spell out urgent messages
Pernilla Holmes
Alien Nation
Patricia Piccinini’s endearing monsters are not quite animals, but more than meat
Jonathan Turner
Reading Rooms
Isidro Blasco’s photographic reconstructions invite the viewer to complete them
Barbara A. MacAdam
Space Invader
Swiss artist Zilla Leutenegger stretches video images onto the wall and across the floor
Marc Spiegler
Walker in the City
Adler Guerrier’s mysterious photos often feature the artist himself as a stroller among stark urban canyons and verdant parks
Elisa Turner
Choreographing Fire
The work of Alessandra Tesi blends photography, film, and painting
Jonathan Turner
The Rise of African American Art
Prices have increased dramatically after a decade of focused scholarship, exhibitions, and collecting
Eileen Kinsella
Sculpting New Visions from Old Classics
J. Seward Johnson Jr.’s lifelike re-creations of Renoir, Manet, and Caillebotte go three-dimensional (and interactive) at the Corcoran
Hilarie M. Sheets
Departments
Art Talk
Donald Sultan, Ulrich Lang, Roger Szmulewicz, Andy Goldsworthy, Chris Ofili, Rudolph Giuliani, Zhou Tiehai, Pete Fornatale, Norah Jones, Ray Davies, Paul McCartney, Marietta Ganapin, Peter Norton, Alfred Leslie, Richard Kostelanetz, Barry Hoffman, George Rodrigue
National News
Chicago Terra to close Ridgefield, Connecticut Take your art, please Los Angeles Broad backs LACMA expansion Washington, D.C. Is there an artist in the house? St. Louis Missouri’s break Miami Florida looks south Lower Merion, Pennsylvania Barnes audit details financial chaos
International News
Debating ‘Illegal Archeology’
Europeans charge that the collecting policies of some U.S. museums encourage the plundering of ancient sites
International News
Prague “Iron Curtain” artists come home Milan DNA challenge to NYU gift Paris Nicholas Powell: A passion for France
Art Market
London Young buyers energize London sales; Schiele townscape, Gauguin landscape stand out at summer sales; Rembrandt goes to Vegas Basel Swiss hits New York Kelly market on the rise; tax-evasion probe continues
Looking at Art
A Game of Hopscotch: Small in scale and intimate in feeling, Romare Bearden’s collage immortalizes a game played on a Harlem sidewalk
Ruth Fine
On the Edge
Punk Portraitist: On the backs of photographs, Zak Smith plays with slick surfaces to make likenesses of surprising detail and depth
Linda Yablonsky
Reviews
Venice, Italy The 50th Biennale New York Ellsworth Kelly; “The American Effect”; “Inside Design Now”; Amy Sillman; Helmut Federle; Bruce Pearson; Carlos Vega; “Nevelson–Vari: A Dialogue”; “OnLine”; E. Ambrose Webster; “Japanism in American Art”; “Aftershock”; Jeffrey A. Wolin; Barbara Pollack; Tony Bechara, Kathryn McAuliffe, and Gail Gregg; “Heroes and Villains” Chicago Boaz Vaadia; George Josimovich; Duilio Barnabè Los Angeles Hans Burkhardt Venice, California R. B. Kitaj West Hollywood Lorser Feitelson San Francisco Fifth Annual Realism Invitational; Masami Teraoka Boston Thomas Gainsborough Santa Fe Frank Buffalo Hyde; Carol Anthony Houston “How Modern Art Escaped Hitler” Coral Gables, Florida Matt Lamb Miami Archie Rand Atlanta Robert Marx London Boyd Webb; Georg Baselitz; Diana Thater Paris André Derain; Bernard Frize Cologne Anna Gaskell Rome Andrea Fogli Vienna Raymond Pettibon