(Volume 109/Number 6)
ARTnews | June 2010
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Experts say that many of the works attributed to Russian masters in a Venice exhibition are not what they're claimed to be
Two of the world's top art-theft sleuths discuss the heist from the Museum of Modern Art in Paris
One of Japan's most well-known filmmakers puts his quirky artworks on display
A poem inspires Kiki Smith to let her hair down
Photographer Justine Kurland takes her camera on the road across the country to capture communes, hobos, and other subcultures that are often off the radar
Filmmaker Lena Dunham draws inspiration from a source close to home—her parents
Norton Simon's secret bidding signals were so convoluted that they often worked against him
A retrospective serves up the pioneering food art of Antoni Miralda
Russians debate the future of old monuments to the leader and their meaning for the present
Museums are finding ingenious ways to connect visitors with the artist’s interior world
Josiah McElheny puts a new spin on the term "light reading"
A painting in the Metropolitan long attributed to the circle of Francesco Granacci is really by Michelangelo— according to experts who cite underdrawings, imagery, and aspects of the artist's own biography as clues
Also in this Issue
Departments
Art Talk
Scott Blinderman, Shane Caffrey, Justine Birbil, Alfred Molina, Eddie Redmayne, John Logan, Richard Nutbourne, Irving Sandler, Josiah McElheny, Jeff Preiss, Louise Neri, Antoni Miralda, Daniela Tilkin, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Jennifer Rubell, Doug and Mike Starn, Takeshi Kitano, Hervé Chandès, Lena Dunham, Laurie Simmons, Carroll Dunham, Isabel Halley, Meryl Streep, Alicia van Couvering, Louise Lawler, Brigitte Cornand, Louise Bourgeois, Carolee Schneemann, Annette Messager, Nancy Holt, Pat Steir, Greg Allen, Marina Abramović, Klaus Biesenbach, David Hart, Anya Liftig, Kate Gilmore, Jovana Stokic, Jim Torok, Danielle Ganek, Jasper Johns, Kiki Smith, Andrew Hoyem, Christian Boltanski
News
MOSCOW Resurrecting Stalin? AMSTERDAM Stedelijk reopening postponed—again ROTTERDAM Han van Meegeren: Celebrating a famous faker OTTAWA Musée d'Orsay chief gets theatrical in Canada DRESDEN Remaking the Albertinum as home to modern art INDIANAPOLIS At a new art park, play's the thing
IN MEMORIAM Count Panza di Biumo, Edmund P. Pillsbury, Charles Ryskamp, Purvis Young
Books
Chuck Close: Life By Christopher Finch • The Wild Wild East: An American Art Critic's Adventures in China By Barbara Pollack • Painting Harlem Modern: The Art of Jacob Lawrence By Patricia Hills • Ed Ruscha's Los Angeles By Alexandra Schwartz
Studio
Gizmos, Genies, and Globes: With the spirit of an inventor, Tom Shannon concocts dazzling anti-gravity sculptures, futuristic contraptions, and seductive works on paper
Ann Landi
Looking at Art
Still Picking on Fat Cats: Ronald Searle, master satirist
William Feaver
Critic's Pick
Gerald Davis: From Personal to Pastel
Sasha Watson
Reviews
NEW YORK James Rosenquist; "Skin Fruit"; Mike Nelson; Yves Tanguy and Alexander Calder; Kiki Smith; Hans Hofmann; Gregory Gillespie; Jack Stuppin; Mark Greenwold; Dorothea Rockburne; "My World, Your World, Our World"; Dan Walsh; Amy Sillman; Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller; Carl Fudge; Simon Hantaï; "Self-Portraits"; Kenneth Josephson; "\ (LEAN)"; Joan Jonas
NATIONAL
Los Angeles
Reuben Nakian
San Francisco
Chris Ballantyne
La Jolla, California
Kelsey Brookes
Naples, Florida
"People, Places & Things"
Cleveland
Robert Swedroe
Santa Fe
Yoshihiko Ueda
Washington, D.C.
Nicole Charbonnet
Philadelphia
Neil Anderson
Boston
Valerie Hammond
INTERNATIONAL
Munich
Joan Mitchell
Paris
George Condo; Edvard Munch
London
Barry Flanagan; Cornelius Quabeck
Zurich
"Nudes"
Florence
"A Look into the Invisible"
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