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Angst Management
In frenzied performances and multilayered installations, Jonathan Meese sings, rants, invents words, invokes taboos, confesses, regresses, and sometimes staples underwear to the wall
David Galloway
‘Buying the Best of the Best’
Working with a roster of prestigious curators, dealers, and advisers, in just over a decade Steven Cohen has amassed one of the world’s most important private art collections
Eileen Kinsella
Departments
Art Talk
Chuck Close, Brad Pitt, Cindy Sherman, Andres Serrano, Bill Clinton, Richard Holbrooke, Ian and Annette Cumming, Patricia Cronin, William H. Gerdts, Wayne Thiebaud, Caitlin Freeman, Yayoi Kusama, Agnes Wilcox, Lisa Harper Chang, Matthew Waschek, Ronald Gore Jr., Claes Oldenburg
Critic’s Pick
Jennifer Levonian: Animated Breakups
Edith Newhall
Reviews
VENICE 53rd Venice Biennale
NEW YORK Maya Lin; Chantal Joffe; Chakaia Booker; Armando Romero; Malcolm Morley; Marylyn Dintenfass “Collect with Us”; Edwin Schlossberg; Trisha Brown; David Maljkovic; Sarah Charlesworth; Nathalie Miebach; “Salon 2009”; “Peeps”
NATIONAL Santa Fe Judy Pfaff; Mike Glier; Miguel Angel Rios; Dirk de Bruycker; Naoki Honjo; Eddie Dayan; Mark Shaw; Christina Chalmers; Peter Lodato Chicago Modern Wing; “First Art” North Adams, Massachusetts Sol LeWitt West Palm Beach, Florida Dennis Oppenheim Los Angeles “Connoisseurs Collection”; George Stoll
INTERNATIONAL Paris Asger Jorn Berlin “Picturing America” Geneva Michel Haas London Matthew Burrows Budapest Lajos Vajda