Building a Greater Hermitage
Director Mikhail Piotrovsky says the museum’s biggest projects were born in times of crisis—which explains why he is now supervising an expansion, a reinstallation, and several new international venues. Read More
Also in this Issue
Asking the Big Questions
What, How and for Whom, a Croatian collective, ponders the social and political relationships between North and South, East and West
Barbara Pollack
The Chicano Evolution
Chon Noriega is working to move beyond a simplistic definition of Mexican American art
Jori Finkel
Making Night School Cool
For Eungie Joo, education, outreach, and curating are all part of the same project
Barbara Pollack
How Mumbai Got Its Bad Boys
Bose Krishnamachari has helped promote contemporary Indian artists in their own country—and on an international level
Pernilla Holmes
A ‘Talent for Pushing Back’
Yasmil Raymond brings a fresh voice to the Dia Art Foundation
Carly Berwick
Democrazy Now
Bisi Silva is transforming the nascent art scene in her native Nigeria
Barbara Pollack
Confessions of Hirst, Prince, and Murakami
Three of the world’s most talked-about artists talk to each other
Milton Esterow
Departments
Letters
Art Talk
Gilbert and George, Catherine Wood, Jack Bankowsky, Alison M. Gingeras, Sarah Lucas, Tracey Emin, Matthew Collings, Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, Miguel Luciano, Steve Lambert, Peter Lippmann, Christian Louboutin, Megan Fizell, Richard Green, Maira Kalman, Richard Phillips, Marilyn Minter
News
LONDON Around the world with Neil MacGregor ATLANTA Michael Shapiro: High achiever PITTSBURGH Re-energizing the Carnegie AMSTERDAM An American at the Stedelijk NEW YORK Another award for ARTnews
Prints
Mother Figure and Muse: Tatyana Grosman turned ULAE into a print powerhouse
Deidre Stein Greben
Books
Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art By Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo
Critic’s Pick
Nathaniel Mellors: Theater of the Absurd
Ann Landi
Reviews
NEW YORK “In & Out of Amsterdam”; Alice Neel; Gary Hume; Paul Jenkins; “The Female Gaze”; “Slough”; Graham Nickson; Elling Reitan; Javier Marín; “The Thousand and One Nights”; Steve Huston; James Juthstrom; Marepe; “Other Voices, Other Rooms”; “Wiser than God”
NATIONAL Los Angeles “Nine Lives”; Holly Andres; “The Machine in the Garden” San Francisco Richard Lindner Cleveland Mark T. Smith New Orleans “The Art of Caring” Flint, Michigan Sabina Klein Washington, D.C. Mira Hecht Sewickley, Pennsylvania “Existence”
INTERNATIONAL Basel Alberto Giacometti Geneva Jakub Julian Ziolkowski London Jeff Koons; “Old Masters in a Modern Light” Paris Susumu Shingu Berlin “Constructed Landscapes” Toronto Miguel Castro Leñero