“Collectors are suffering from cognitive dissonance,” said Stephen A. Wynn, the Las Vegas casino mogul and one of the world’s top art collectors. “They’re struggling intellectually. They know that their paintings are worth more than they paid for them and … Read More
Some have called him vulgar, ignorant, and greedy. To others he has been the ultimate misunderstood genius. He has represented the bohemian, the liberal, the Romantic, and the revolutionary. Beginning in his lifetime and ongoing as we celebrate his 400th birthday, opinions and beliefs about Rembrandt have changed with the centuries. Read More
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In performances and films produced with such unlikely collaborators as televangelists, fortune-tellers, and special-effects wizards, Christian Jankowski dares to leave crucial elements to chance
Marc Spiegler
Ferdinando Musella, the head of Italy’s art police and a seasoned Mafia investigator, is leading the search for looted antiquities in American museums—while still on the trail of an elusive Caravaggio
Kelly Devine Thomas
With candlelit cocktail parties in galleries, owners sharing art with museums, and art collections in beach houses, museums and collectors are taking more chances with their artworks—and insurance companies are taking a hard look at their exposure
Michelle Falkenstein
Cy Twombly, Cynthia Rowley, Nanette Lepore, Kehinde Wiley, Eli Sudbrack, Daze, Crash, Adam Simon, Ed Winkleman, Cai Guo-Qiang, Gary Tinterow, Vicente Todoli, E. V. Day, Aby J. Rosen
Spotlight Marc Pachter: Face the nation Los Angeles Getty negotiates with Greece New York Dia chairman steps down; Arnold Newman: Master portraitist
Czech Republic Reversing course on restitution London Britain compensates heirs for looted drawings Beijing China cracks down Rome War of words over shrine to peace; Contemporary-art museum in Borghese’s backyard Oslo Three convicted in Munch theft Stockholm Wanted: 20 works by women Paris “Water Lilies” come back to light
Filming the Sabine Women: How Eve Sussman is turning a classic David painting into a movie
Carly Berwick
Choice Multiples: Showcasing Peter Blum Edition’s archive
Deidre Stein Greben
The Medici Conspiracy By Peter Watson and Cecilia Todeschini • By Appointment Only By Walter Feilchenfeldt • Benezit Dictionary of Artists • American Streamlined Design By David A. Hanks and Anne Hoy • J. M. W. Turner By Peter Ackroyd • Andy Warhol Screen Tests By Callie Angell
Masterpieces Where You Least Expect: The Lindenau-Museum in Altenburg, Germany
Victoria Newhouse
A New Spin Every Year: Dennis and Debra Scholl invite curators to completely rehang their collection
Elisa Turner
Making folk art from Nikes
Hilarie M. Sheets
NEW YORK Eva Hesse; Kara Walker; Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson; Nan Goldin; Tony Oursler; David Hammons; Tom Wesselmann; Francis Picabia; Ilya and Emilia Kabakov; “Artists Against the State: Perestroika Revisited”; “Survivor”; Lucy Williams; Mika Rottenberg; Judith Linhares; Miriam Schapiro; Inka Essenhigh; John Hardy; “Snap Judgments”; Fiona Banner; Tracey Baran; Richard Greaves and Mario del Curto; Kori Newkirk; Julian Hatton; David Dupuis; Kurt Lightner
NATIONAL Seattle “DoubleTake: From Monet to Lichtenstein” Rochester, New York “Picturing Eden” Washington, D.C. “Hiroshi Sugimoto: The End of Time” Palm Desert, California William Wegman Santa Monica “Fred Zinnemann and Berenice Abbott: Vintage New York” San Francisco Sharon Booma Tucson, Arizona Harry Callahan Scottsdale, Arizona “20th Anniversary Exhibition” Miami Cristina Lei Rodriguez Philadelphia Florence Putterman Santa Fe “A Celebration of New Works”; Olga de Amaral, Richard DeVore, and Ruth Duckworth; Ed Mieczkowski; Carol Mothner; Mary Bennett; Bernar Venet; Janet Lippincott; “Important American Prints and Drawings”; “Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 2”
INTERNATIONAL Venice “Where Are We Going?” London Tate Modern Collection; “Americans in Paris, 1860–1900”; Julian Bolt; Christopher Thompson Zurich Matthew Benedict Paris Hedva Ser Tokyo Shigeo Toya Munich Rob Scholte