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From Picket Signs to Creeping Vines
Larri Pittman’s dense imagery explores love, violence, beauty, and everything else
Linda Yablonsky
The Intellectual Oligarch
Peter Aven has filled his dacha and his Moscow apartment with museum–quality Russian paintings
Konstantin Akinsha
Departments
Art Talk
Ben Stiller, Peter Sellars, Tony Kushner, David Hockney, Ydessa Hendeles, Agnès Varda, Frank Gehry, Brian Johnson, Chuck Close, Lucian Freud, Louise Bourgeois
National News
New York Losing “Kindred Spirits”; Debating the newfound Pollocks; Dia making tracks; The 16-foot solution; William S. Lieberman: “Consummate art diplomat” Washington, D.C. Big changes at the Corcoran Minneapolis Walker staff reshuffles Los Angeles Wanted: Museum directors; The claim in Spain
International News
Rome Italy indicts Getty curator Moscow Return from oblivion London The museum that can’t give back Kosovo Icons in the ashes Spotlight Francesca von Habsburg: rebel with a cause Vienna Klimt dispute goes to Austria Paris Pinault’s place Léon One museum, two decades
Art Market
Chicago Ex–spy with an Eye: Stanley Johnson and his wife, Ursula, specialize in Old Master prints
Steven Litt
City Focus: Santa Fe
A Palpable Sense of Optimism: Santa Fe’s art community grows
Dottie Indyke
Studio
Beautiful and Grotesque: Kathy Butterly’s clay sculptures go bump in the day
Ann Landi
Looking at Art
Lunch is on the Table: Anthony’s Déjeuner sur l’herbe II argues for the art of sculpture
Kenneth Baker
Prints
Chips off the Old Block: New approaches to the woodcut
Carly Berwick
Books
The Rescue Artist By Edward Dolnick • Art and the Power of Placement By Victoria Newhouse • The Design Encyclopedia By Mel Byars • Photography Speaks Edited by Brooks Johnson • Edward Hopper’s New York By Avis Berman • and more
Artful Traveler
Between the Desert and the Sky: O’Keefe’s Abiquiu house seems to await her reappearance
Dottie Indyke
Living With Art
“I Can’t Imagine Going Home to Bare Walls”: Ron and Ann Pizzuti’s spectacular penthouse
Steven Litt
On the Edge
The Incredible Lightness of Steel: Dewitt Godfrey lifts a three–ton sculpture
Megan Heuer
Reviews
Venice The 51st Biennale New York Basquiat; Jasper Johns; “Betty Parsons & the Women”; “Little Boy”; Martin Kippenberger; Daniel Buren; Julian Schnabel; Willem de Kooning; Raphael Soyer; Larry Zox; “Celebrating 25 Years”; Angela Gill; Antoni Muntadas; William Scott; Eric Zener; Wlodzimierz Ksiazek; Robert Selwyn; “The Body and Its Dangers”; Alberto Casado; Antony Gormley; Will Barnet; Felix Gonzalez–Torres and Roni Horn; Sana Musasama; “Spring Sculpture”
National Los Angeles John Baldessari Venice, California Fred Williams San Francisco Manuel Neri Chicago James Turrell; “The Potter’s Hand” Miami Jules Olitski Key West Mario Sanchez Greenwich, Connecticut Bohdan Osyczka, Ilona Sochynsky, Marko Shuhan Washington, D.C. Peter Charles New Orleans Richard Johnson
International London Stefan Kürten Paris Per Kirkeby Cologne Peter Reichenberger; Stephan Melzl Zurich Aidan Paci Madrid Mireia Sentís Rome Matt Marello