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The ARTnews 200
Our annual list of the world’s top collectors—plus the Top Ten
Milton Esterow
Wise Buys
Experts suggest great values in today’s market
Eileen Kinsella
A Party Girl Grows Up
Sam Taylor-Wood has built a career using black humor to tackl themes like ennui, angst, alienation—and, more recently, mortality and hope
Pernilla Holmes
The World’s Top Art Cop
Italy’s General Conforti runs a high-tech squad that recovers millions of dollars’ worth of stolen art and smuggled antiquities every year
Hugh Eakin
The Power of Suggestion
From Sex and the City to corporate headquarters, Kim Heirston helps clients put art in its place
Ann Landi
Departments
Art Talk
Liam Gillick, Robert Irwin, Michael Govan, Leonard Riggio, Roland Balaÿ, Arthur Danto, Rochelle Feinstein, Amy Sillman, Vladimir Putin, George W. Bush, Mikhail Piotrovsky, Iris Cantor, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Kirk Varnedoe, Libby Pataki
National News
Milwaukee “A rocky cliff” Spotlight Tom Finkelpearl: Man about Queens Atlanta Commission Impossible? New York Cuban collector reclaiming art
International News
London Clean-up or cover-up?; Heirs seek restitution of drawings in British Museum; Here comes the sun; Tate targets Todoli Paris Dalí defeat for Descharnes; Fraenkel heirs file claim; Mother lode Berlin Deserted island? Prague Prague Jewish Museum takes legal action Tokyo Confronting a taboo Moscow Russians announce a policy on private loot
Art Market
New York Auction house on the block?; Millions for Monet, nothing for taxes Tokyo Japanese generation takes off
City Focus: Santa Fe
Southwest Sizzle: Groundbreaking museums, innovative directors, thriving galleries, and an increasingly sophisticated audience are enlivening Santa Fe’s art scene
Dottie Indyke
Studio
A Passion for Impasto: Paint rises in curving peaks from David Stern’s canvases
Blake Eskin
Looking at Art
Pop Goes Ulysses: Richard Hamilton does a visual riff on James Joyce’s punning masterwork
Paul Fry
Books
Camille Claudel: A Life By Odile Ayral-Clause • Eva Hesse Edited by Elisabeth Sussman • Imaging Her Erotics: Essays, Interviews, Projects By Carolee Schneemann • Sacred Monsters, Sacred Masters By John Richardson • Other Animals: Drawings and Journals By Merce Cunningham • Flowers in Shadow By Zeva Oelbaum, Essays by Susan Orlean and Sara Stein • The New Constructivism of Fletcher Benton By Gerhard Kolberg, George Neubert, Peter Selz, and Phyllis Tuchman • The Piero Della Francesca Trail By John Pope-Hennessy
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Shear Energy: Imogen Cunningham has fun with her photographer
Ann Shumard
Reviews
Special Report Documenta 11 New York Ed Ruscha; “Greuze the Draftsman”; Picasso; Clifford Odets; Middleton Manigault; Martin Puryear; Susan Rothenberg; Tom Otterness; Will Barnet; Allan Wexler; “French Prints of the Late 19th Century”; Odd Nerdrum; Dennis Clive; Pierre Dorion; Craig Kalpakjian; Rona Pondick; Rochelle Feinstein; Victor Koulbak San Francisco Eva Hesse Los Angeles Roman Signer; Dario Robleto; Enrico Donati Washington, D.C. Larry Rivers; “The Art and Politics of Arthur Szyk” Chicago “Old Master Prints and Drawings 1470–1800″; Hughie Lee-Smith Houston Segundo Planes Detroit “Artists Take on Detroit” London “Matisse Picasso”; Richard Deacon Paris Brigitte Nahon Cologne Arnulf Rainer Amsterdam Candice Breitz