Young artists of Mexican American heritage are gaining visibility for work that often touches on their ethnic identity—along with other themes, from the conceptual to the formal. But they're conflicted about being defined by it. Read More
The giant crowdsourced Grand Rapids ArtPrize gets even bigger. Read More
Magicians—from dreadlocked Wiccans to Harry Houdini—inspire several new shows. Read More
Public and private U.S. sources unite to help Haiti's art community recover from the earthquake. Read More
Starting with cheerful spills of industrial materials, Lynda Benglis has teased the limits of taste, eroticism, and the male-dominated art world. Read More
A Lucian Freud mural is uncovered in an English country house. Read More
The stodgy AAMD votes to reinvent itself with new initiatives on membership, deaccessioning, and other hot-button issues. Read More
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With approaches ranging from reverent to subversive, artists are finding ways to put a contemporary twist on an ancient tradition
Barbara Pollack
We asked experts to name underrated and overlooked artists, from Old Masters to avant-garde innovators, who deserve more attention
Ann Landi
Yoshitomo Nara, Takashi Murakami, Roxana Marcoci, Rachel Harrison, Bruce Nauman, William Powhida, Eric Trosko, Jonathan Allen, Sally O’Reilly, Matthew Barney, Petah Coyne, Jane Hammond, Brooke Kamin Rapaport, Dario Robleto, Trevor Schoonmaker, Dave Muller, Mark Soo, Laurie Anderson, Christian Marclay, Sean Duffy, Aleksandra Mir, John Chamberlain, Tommy Hilfiger, Betsey Johnson, Alice Cooper, Lou Reed, Anton Perich, Mick Jagger, John Waters, Leonard Nimoy
VIENNA Schiele’s Portrait of Wally: The $19 million solution INDIANAPOLIS Art-museum directors, unite MOSCOW Russian curators convicted PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI Cultural rescue GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN Eyes on the prize COOMBE PRIORY, ENGLAND Lucian Freud’s wall flower IN MEMORIAM Sigmar Polke, Rudolf Leopold NEW YORK ARTnews wins Clarion Award
Society of the Spectacle: In Alejandro Vidal’s multimedia works, chaos and violence are the unseen subjects
Barbara Pollack
Taking It Outside: The challenge of painting large-scale works in the open air
Martin Gayford
Hope Gangloff: Pale Fire
Rachel Wolff
NEW YORK Henri Matisse, “Robert & Ethel Scull: Portrait of a Collection”; Richard Diebenkorn; Wayne Thiebaud; Fairfield Porter & William and Marguerite Zorach; Rackstraw Downes; Theodoros Stamos; Robert Yasuda; Leon Levinstein; “Reflection”; Leslie Wayne; Martin Creed; “The Young Israelis”; Lucien Clergue; Barbara Bloom; Ann Craven; Ron Ehrlich; Susan Wides; Mark Fox; Bjarne Melgaard; Sarah Kaufman NATIONAL Washington, D.C. Yves Klein; Richard Pousette-Dart San Francisco “Calder to Warhol”; Jules Olitski Williamstown, Massachusetts Juan Muñoz Culver City, California Noah Davis Chicago Wilson A. Bentley Boston Caio Fonseca Santa Fe Stuart Arends Portland, Oregon Marie Watt Morristown, New Jersey Valeri Larko
INTERNATIONAL Zurich Sigmar Polke London Rodney Graham; Erwin Olaf Vienna Walton Ford Tel Aviv Václav Cigler Paris Kim Chun Hwan and Lee Soon Young Shanghai Cai Guo-Qiang