Inside Iraq’s National Museum
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Also in this Issue
Christopher Vroom and Illya Szilak: Drawn to the Dark Side
Up & Coming Collectors
Tom Peters: Watch Your Step
Anita and Poju Zabludowicz: Dogs and Doigs
Arturo and Liza Mosquera: Antics in the Forbidden Zone
Haggle with Care
An unscientific poll of dealers, collectors, and auction experts turned up some useful do’s and don’ts of collecting
Ann Landi, Illustrations by Dusan Petricic
Secrets of the Back Room
A veteran gallery owner reveals his own philosophy of the art of the deal
André Emmerich
Going Mobile
Sarah Sze’s painstakingly crafted sculptures take off on improbable flights of fancy
Linda Yablonsky
It All Started with a $500 Tiepolo
After a lifetime of studying, collecting, and dealing, Eugene Thaw has made a series of high-impact donations across the country
Dottie Indyke
Departments
Art Talk
Agnes Gund, Philipp Blom, Anthony Kiedis, Flea, Erwin Wurm, Mark Romanek, Muhammad Ali, Paul Pfeiffer, Yinka Shonibare, DJ Spooky, Tom Wiscombe, Oscar Niemeyer, Richard Linklater, Ben Katchor, Nam June Paik, Joan Jonas
National News
New York Anderson leaves Whitney Las Vegas Guggenheim closes Las Vegas museum Washington, D.C. Photographer gets cold shoulder; Spain refutes Cassirer claim Minneapolis Walker downsizes digital department Lower Merion Barnes submits audit Philadelphia Union draws nudes
International News
Tehran An opening in Iran Czech Republic Feldmann heirs await Czech ruling London Vanishing act Paris Picasso’s French rejection Vienna Albertina unveiled Florence David’s cleaners dish dirt; Mislabeled Michelangelo Caracas, Venezuela China out of Biennale
City Focus: Santa Fe
Luring the International Crowd: Santa Fe’s museums, galleries, and alternative spaces put their best work forward for the summer
Looking at Art
A Goat Fit for a King: An artwork made of precious materials from all over the known world of the third millennium B.C. probably belonged to Sumerian royalty
Perspective
“Still Trying to Hide the Truth”: Austria must make its archives more accessible to heirs of Holocaust victims
Reviews
New York Kazimir Malevich: Suprematism; Helen Frankenthaler; Continuum; Elizabeth Murray; Pablo Picasso; Mariko Mori; Jane Wilson; Art Photography in Japan: 1920–1940; William Klein: Tokyo 1961; Ross Bleckner; Marsden Hartley: New Mexico 1918–1920; Heide Fasnacht; Robert Colescott; Shirley Kaneda and Imaging the Abstract; Ana Maria Pacheco; “Aligned”; Zigi Ben-Haim and Abby Leigh; Susan Smith and Jim Osman; John Evans; Polly Apfelbaum; Frank Stella; Beacon, New York Dia: Beacon Cincinnati Lois and Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art Santa Monica Salomon Huerta San Francisco Ben Shahn: His Art and Mission Grass Valley, California Shona Macdonald Portland, Oregon David Eckard Chicago Alex Katz Washington, D.C. David Shapiro Dallas Trenton Doyle Hancock Houston The History of Japanese Photography; Jasper Johns: Drawings Santa Fe Robert Jay Wolff Miami Aitor Ortiz Key West, Florida John Martini Hartford, Connecticut Felix Bronner Ridgefield, Connecticut Fifty Years of Supporting the New: The Charles H. Carpenter, Jr.,Collection Annandale-on-Hudson, New York Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts London The Saatchi Collection; Jane and Louise Wilson Paris Philippe Starck Berlin Robert Wilson Dusseldorf Ingolf Timpner Zurich Enzo Cucchi Jerusalem Raffi Lavie