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Turning Straws Into Clouds
Using massive quantities of commonplace materials like Scotch tape, tar paper, and drinking straws, Tara Donovan creates almost magical installations evocative of haze, roiling water, and other natural phenomena
Hilarie M. Sheets
Artists and Their (Role) Models
Artists describe the people, places, and works that blew their minds, changed their preconceptions, and helped them discover their own sensibilities
Ann Landi
They’re No Dummies
Puppets are turning up in galleries, museums, and performances, where they get away with things that humans often cannot
David Stoesz
Departments
Art Talk
Yinka Shonibare, Barbara Bloemink, Jean-Pierre Khazem, Barbara Bush, Roslyn Carter, Betty Ford, Pat Nixon, Nancy Reagan, Maira Kalman, Jeff Koons, Stella McCartney, John Latham, Liza Kirwin, Richard Serra, Robert Hughes, Earl A. Powell, Tamra Davis
National News
Spotlights Lisa Dennison: A deputy becomes director; Ned Rifkin: An overachieving undersecretary; Deborah Schwartz: Helping MoMA’s kids get Dada New York “Zero culture” Los Angeles New reverberations from Getty probe New Orleans Assessing damage, awaiting funds
International News
Trieste Italy and Slovenia: Competing claims Spotlight Gijs van Tuyl: Director in residence Singapore Pompidou and Guggenheim: Rivals and partners Ancona Leonardo attributions called into question Munich Linking to a lost past Paris American Center becomes film center
Prints
Edifice complex: Richard Haas explores the many forms of urban architecture through almost as many printing techniques
Deidre Stein Greben
Looking at Art
The page boy and the empty page: How a drawing Italian artist Gentile Bellini made for a Turkish ruler ended up inspiring a Spanish sculptor in a Boston museum
Alan Chong
Design
“No different from the Medicis”: Architect Peter Marino specializes in incorporating contemporary art into chic, modern designs for high-end fashion clients
Hilarie M. Sheets
Critic’s Pick
Liset Castillo
Rachel Somerstein
Reviews
NEW YORK Roy Lichtenstein; “Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark’s Fake Estates”; “The (S) Files”; Vincent van Gogh; James Rosenquist; Larry Bell; Carrie Mae Weems, Carolee Schneemann, and Jenny Perlin; Omer Fast; Santiago Cucullu; Ruth Orkin; Zak Smith; Bill Rice; Bruce Pearson; Katia Santibañez; Frederick Sommer; Charles Yoder; Chris Martin; Guenter A. Werner; Ken Kewley; Stephanie Diamond; R. Kenton Nelson
NATIONAL San Francisco Robert Adams; Gustavo Ramos Rivera; “25 Treasures”; Harvey Dinnerstein; Jason Wheatley; Isca Greenfield-Sanders; “East Coast/West Coast: Four Modernist Women”; Libby Black; “Fine Things” Santa Monica Waltercio Caldas Los Angeles Lia Halloran Philadelphia “Recent Modernist Sculpture” Waltham, Massachusetts Fred Tomaselli Chicago Nanette Carter Portland Tom Cramer Santa Fe Jorge Fick; Laura Gilpin Washington, DC Sylvia Snowden Miami “Hanging By a Thread”
INTERNATIONAL Paris “Dada” London Alison Wilding Basel Jeff Wall Geneva Alex Brown