(Volume 109/Number 2)
ARTnews | February 2010
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Experts are concerned about the authenticity of 74 "recently discovered" plaster casts of Degas sculptures that were purportedly made during his lifetime and the bronzes that have been produced from them, which are now selling for more than $2 million
Our reporter brings jacket for mending (in the service of art)
Behind the scenes with van Gogh and Donald Judd
Using old canoes, discarded planks, tree stumps, and colossal roots left behind by loggers, Brazilian designers are transforming found wood into high design
Small differences in shade have big impact on gallery walls
Shaq Tactics Amanda Gordon, reporting by Eric Schmalenberger
The NBA star curates a show
Swiss prankster Olaf Breuning navigates between the sublime and the ridiculous in films, sculptures, and multimedia works that take on everything from Easter Island to Woody Allen
A Mafia informer says a stolen painting can never be recovered—but not everyone believes him
Looking for new ways to interpret familiar works—and attract new audiences to see them—opera companies are hiring artists to transform classic productions into multimedia spectacles
Also in this Issue
Bronze Mettle Carly Berwick
From her series of gargantuan figures to a single spellbinding mop, Stella Hamberg puts a contemporary spin on a traditional material
Postcards from the Edge Laurie Hurwitz
Barthélémy Toguo's provocative artworks give a voice to people who live on the periphery
Power Woman, the Dwarf, Adam, and the Eyeball Elisa Turner
Finding inspiration in monster movies and action figures, Beatriz Monteavaro creates comic-book scenarios with grown-up themes
Maritime Mischief Ann Landi
Duke Riley's madcap aquatic projects include re-creating an 18th-century submarine, launching a floating tattoo parlor, and staging a mock Roman-style naval battle
The Key to Her Locks Rachel Wolff
The tangled strands in Mequitta Ahuja's elaborate self-portraits are at once large-scale abstractions and symbols of a multiethnic mix
Wake Up and See the Coffeepot Kenneth Baker
In deadpan photographs and drawings, Tucker Nichols brings homespun domestic items to life
Sketches of a Perfectionist Ann Landi
An exhibition of Bronzino's drawings reveals his approach to the subtleties of form, contour, and the human body
Departments
Art Talk
Eric Zafran, Marina Abramović, Billy Corgan, Jonathan Demme, Sarah Silverman, Philip Taaffe, Michael Rush, Ryan Trecartin, Katarzyna Kozyra
News
SAINT PETERSBURG An icon’s unorthodox journey IN MEMORIAM Thomas Hoving
Art Market
Dealers' Choice: Lucy Mitchell-Innes takes the helm of the Art Dealers Association of America
Eileen Kinsella
Books
Rembrandt Drawings By Seymour Slive • Contemporary African Art Since 1980 By Okwui Enwezor and Chika Okeke-Agulu • South African Art Now By Sue Williamson
• Gerhard Richter: A Life in Painting By Dietmar Elger • Cage: 6 Paintings by Gerhard Richter By Robert Storr • The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb • Art School (Propositions for the 21st Century) Edited by Steven Henry Madoff • I Sold Andy Warhol (Too Soon) By Richard Polsky
Critic's Pick
Hung Liu: Emotional Rescue
Rachel Wolff
Reviews
NEW YORK
Fischli & Weiss; Milton Avery; Richard Serra; Gerhard Richter; Sean Scully; Kenneth Noland; “The Origins of El Greco”; Paul McCarthy; Lynda Benglis; “Watteau to Degas”; Vitaly Komar; Hugo Tillman; Robert Bergman; Clara Tice; Yvonne Thomas; Marlene Tseng Yu; Agnes Denes; Sopheap Pich
NATIONAL
Houston
Joaquín Torres-García
Indianapolis
"Sacred Spain"
Washington, D.C.
"Economy of Scale"
Chicago
Melville Price
Santa Fe
Michael Roque Collins
San Francisco
Leonor Fini; Stephen Hannock
Seattle
Mark Zirpel
Boston
Dimitri Hadzi
Dallas—Fort Worth
Gardar Eide Einarsson; "Performance/Art"; Vernon Fisher; Kim Cadmus Owens; "Paintings, Prints, and Presents"
INTERNATIONAL
London
"Turner Prize 09"; Damien Hirst; Jagannath Panda; "A Collector's Cabinet III"
Zurich
Luca Pancrazzi
Paris
Michael Kenna
Vienna
"The Promise of Loss"
Düsseldorf
Joachim Brohm and Heribert Ottersbach
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