Also in this Issue
Antihero in Boxers
In 30 years of performances and videos, Michael Smith’s alter ego has grown up, gotten dressed, and skewered the worlds of business and art. But he still likes to relax in his underwear
Lamar Clarkson
The Personality of Peacock Feathers
Carol Bove assembles the most unpromising elements—stacks of discarded books, chunks of cement, old office furniture, lumps of wax, and peacock feathers—into repositories of memory and nostalgia
Ann Landi
Departments
Art Talk
Alan Licht, Marc Nasdor, Yoko Ono, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Vito Acconci, Valie Export, Tracey Emin, Janet Malcolm, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, George H. W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Barack Obama, Jon Stewart, Michael Moore, Karl Rove, James Carville, Ben Bradlee, Lance Armstrong, Barry McGee, Angus Trumble
National News
SPOTLIGHT Melissa Chiu: A bet pays off NEW YORK Wally still stuck in court; Gotham revival WASHINGTON, D.C. A leader, not a dictator ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN A campus cultural hub CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA Sherman Lee: “A legendary director”
International News
MOSCOW Russia’s censorship controversy ATHENS Pressure for frieze heats up LONDON The emperor’s new clothes
Living With Art
Sentimental Education: Walter Evans began buying art by Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, and Elizabeth Catlett to support his friends and help his daughters understand their heritage. Now his comprehensive collection fills in a neglected chapter of American art
Elisa Turner
Books
Hidden in the Shadow of the Master : The Model-Wives of Cézanne, Monet, and Rodin By Ruth Butler
Critic’s Pick
Ken Solomon: Wigged Out
Peter Plagens
Reviews
NEW YORK Louise Bourgeois; Paul McCarthy; “Masters of Abstraction”; “Who’s Afraid of Jasper Johns?”; Jake and Dinos Chapman; Catherine Murphy; Kerry James Marshall; Dennis Oppenheim; Jane and Louise Wilson; Rudolf de Crignis; “Picasso Printmaker”; “Urban Landscapes”; Carmelle Safdie; Thomas Burleson; Marc de Montebello; Ugo Nespolo; Ekatherina S.; Judith Belzer; Lucrecia Troncoso; “Suitcase Paintings”
NATIONAL Chicago Jeff Koons Washington, D.C. Amy Sillman Santa Fe Robert Stivers San Francisco Fred Dalkey Los Angeles Amy Stein Youngstown, Ohio Eric Forstmann Houston Christopher French Portland, Oregon Roger Ballen; Megan Murphy; “Zeitgeist”; “Flux”; Joe Feddersen; Margot Voorhies Thompson
INTERNATIONAL London Xu Bing; Mie Olise Kjaergaard; “Blood on Paper” Paris Xavier Veilhan Geneva Henri Barande