The 2007 Top 10 Collectors
‘The Offer-You-Can’t-Refuse Market’ Read More
Also in this Issue
‘The Poet of Sitting’
Franz West’s furniture reflects his drive to erode the boundaries between art and everyday life. For him, sofas are instruments of communication
David Galloway
The Great Dictators
Images of tyrants by Picasso and Warhol speak volumes about celebrity, 20th-century portraiture—and the artists themselves
William Feaver
Departments
Art Talk
Thomas Kinkade, Danielle Ganek, Steve Martin, Red Grooms, Eric Fischl, Marc Quinn, Gilbert & George, Alan Yentob, Harland Miller, Jarvis Cocker, Robert Descharnes, Lucian Freud
National News
Spotlight William Griswold: “I knew I’d never have another chance” Los Angeles Fighting over Adam and Eve; Elizabeth Taylor keeps her van Gogh Toledo Nathan heirs press claim New York North of Chelsea, south of Beacon; James Beck: A conservation conservative
International News
Paris Evolution of a bordello; Modigliani’s clouded legacy; Court upholds conviction in Giacometti case Zurich Pissarro lost and found Amsterdam Seeking to “close the chapter”; Dutch debate artist subsidies Moscow Prankster art can’t leave Russia Rome Italian court: Send Venus to Libya; Bureaucrats out, antiquities in Vienna Krems settles claim; Summer Night returned to Mahler heir Düsseldorf Jörg Immendorff: A painter of the postwar landscape
Studio
Calling In the Troops: To select the motifs in their paintings, Heather and Eric ChanSchatz poll collaborators including restaurant managers, museum board members, and U.S. soldiers in Iraq
Hilarie M. Sheets
Studio
Making the Car Alarms Sing: Inspired by mistakes and mistranslations, Nina Katchadourian makes them her subject.
Carly Berwick
Working Habits
Stand Still and Dance: In Matisse’s sculpture, a motionless figure can spring into movement
Jack Flam
Looking at Art
Socket to Me: A curator seeks to decipher a mysterious collage by Jay DeFeo
Anne Wilkes Tucker
Books
Robert Rauschenberg: Cardboards and Related Pieces By Yve-Alain Bois • George Inness: Writings and Reflections on Art and Philosophy Edited by Adrienne Baxter Bell • Voyages of the Self By Barbara Novak • Lola Alvarez Bravo By Elizabeth Ferrer • Evidence Photographs by Mona Kuhn, short story by Frederic Tuten, essay by Gordon Baldwin • The Sun over Breda By Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Artful Traveler
A Treasure-House of Tesserae: Mosaics are the main attraction of Tunis’s Bardo Museum
Judith H. Dobrzynski
Living with Art
Dynamic Ceramics: Alice and Halsey North serve from, eat off, and even wear their Japanese pottery
Hilarie M. Sheets
Critic’s Pick
Rannva Kunoy: The Power of Suggestion
Pernilla Holmes
Reviews
NEW YORK Richard Serra; Louise Nevelson; Frank Stella; Eugene de Salignac; Claude Monet; Richard Tuttle; Philip Pearlstein; Walter De Maria; Charles Burchfield; Leonardo Drew; Will Barnet; Teresita Fernández; Kathy Butterly; “A Century and a Half in the Art Business”; Katherine Bradford; Polly Apfelbaum and John Giorno; Gudrun Mertes-Frady; Elisa D’Arrigo; Harvey Quaytman; Jay Kelly; Cy DeCosse
NATIONAL Washington, D.C. “Modernism: Designing a New World 1914–1939” Boston “War and Discontent” Pittsburgh “India”; “Double Consciousness” Los Angeles “Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art” Santa Monica Jay Davis San Francisco Mark Mulroney; Ben Aronson Chicago Mary Abbott North Miami Annie Wharton Dallas “Changing Identity” Houston Paul Kittelson Santa Fe Sherrie Levine; Barry X Ball; Howard Cook and Willard Nash; George Thiewes; “Then and Now”; Stuart Arends; Nagakura Kenichi; Pard Morrison
INTERNATIONAL London Damien Hirst Liverpool “The Real Thing” Madrid Tintoretto Saint-Paul, France “The Aimé Maeght Centenary” Paris Ronan Barrot Frankfurt Franz Xaver Messerschmidt