The 2008 ARTnews 200 Top Collectors
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It Takes a ‘Global Village Idiot’
To stage his art-world comeback, Jon Kessler filled his first solo show in ten years with kinetic installations parodying the media and the political establishment
Hilarie M. Sheets
Drawing a Line
Why is it so difficult to authenticate Michelangelo’s drawings? A recent book that rejects some of the artist’s most famous images has prompted more concern and condemnation than praise
Malcolm Carter
Poet, Explorer, Innovator, Scavenger, Jester
Robert Rauschenberg was many things to the many artists he influenced
Ann Landi
Departments
Art Talk
James Frey, Marianne Boesky, Zach Feuer, Terry Richardson, Gregory Crewdson, Richard Prince, Will Cotton, Ryan McGinley, Bill Powers, Andy Spade, Jeff Koons, Rachel Feinstein, Ed McGowin, James Mollison, Marilyn Manson, Rod Stewart, Bob Dylan, Oleg Kulik, Thurston Moore, Lydia Lunch, Byron Coley, James Chance, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, Tony Oursler, Sofia Coppola, James Welling, Vito Acconci, Jane Dickson, Chris Evans, Alessandro Bertolotti, Eric Fischl, David Scheinbaum
National News
COMMENTARY Capital dilemma: Making the National Museum of the American Latino SPOTLIGHT Barry Bergdoll: Making prefab fab NEW YORK Cornell Capa: Getting the big picture; De Montebello to unloose his inner didact; Telling stories in Harlem PHILADELPHIA Anne d’Harnoncourt: Director, scholar, diplomat
International News
MOSCOW Russian museums think big; Protest show called “provocation” VIENNA Targeting the Leopold Museum BERLIN Where art is ambassador ROME Fragment of a scandal PARIS Verdict in French forgery case DUBAI German museums to Gulf
Books
Pompeii Awakened: A Story of Rediscovery By Judith Harris • Let’s See: Writings on Art from “The New Yorker” By Peter Schjeldahl • Zaida Ben-Yusuf: New York Portrait Photographer By Frank H. Goodyear III with Elizabeth O. Wiley and Jobyl A. Boone
Studio
Thinking Inside the Box: Charles Matton first crafted exquisite little rooms as models for his paintings. Now his miniatures are exhibited in their own right
Laurie Hurwitz
Critic’s Pick
Kumi Yamashita: Magic Realism
Ann Landi
Reviews
NEW YORK Katharina Fritsch; Frederick Kiesler; “New York Cool”; Milton Resnick; Franz West; Frank Stella and Larry Bell; R. B. Kitaj; John Baldessari and Matt Mullican; Joan Mitchell; Hilary Harkness; Hope Atherton; Stan Brodsky; Fausto Melotti; Bruce Dorfman; Peter Maier; Mary Cassatt; John Descarfino; Jeanne Silverthorne; Josh Dorman; Dinh Q. Lê; Marjorie Welish
NATIONAL Pittsburgh “Carnegie International” Beverly Hills and Los Angeles Anselm Kiefer Venice Alison Saar San Francisco Dustin Yellin Chicago Michael Olszewski; Bruno Surdo Boston Elaine Spatz-Rabinowitz Portland, Oregon Michael T. Hensley Houston “How Artists Draw” Santa Fe Daniel Phill Key West Peter Vey Washington, D.C. Nancy Wolf
INTERNATIONAL Basel “Action Painting” London Stephan Balkenhol Paris Rinko Kawauchi Vienna Hanns Kunitzberger Rome “Ieri Oggi/Yesterday Today” Berlin Stefan Bohnhoff