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Screen Idyll
Nam June Paik creates a blinking, flashing light show at the Guggenheim—using laser beams, TV sets, and a waterfall
Ann Landi
Following the Money
Museum directors explain why there’s nothing unusual—or unethical—about the way Brooklyn financed “Sensation”
Patricia Failing
“I’m Not Offended Yet”
Museumgoers speak out on “Sensation”
Rebecca Spence
Object Lessons
Fred Wilson reinstalls museum collections to highlight sins of omission
Pamela Newkirk
Departments
Art Talk
Monica Lewinsky; Timothy Greenfield-Sanders; Michael Chow; Keith Haring; Pablo Picasso; Tracey Emin; Jake and Dinos Chapman; Delphine Boël; David Hockney; Dale Chihuly; Peter Max; Thomas Hoving; Laura Cottingham; Frida Kahlo; Diego Rivera; Matthew Barney
National News
New York The Guggenheim ponders a venue in South America Detroit The two-day show Boston On the waterfront Fort Worth Controversial cover-up Cambridge, Mass Another victory for Malevich heirs
International News
Prague National Gallery keeps its Kupkas Florence Cupid’s conundrum Basel Buying the bank Paris National Library’s faulty towers Ottawa Bronze bombshell Vienna Austria’s “Idea Factory” Spotlight Soledad Lorenzo: “I Survive on Painting”
City Focus: Mexico City
Beyond the Border: Mexico City enlivens its art scene by embracing international trends
Mary Schneider Enriquez
Art Market
London Neurotic Energy; Phillips is purchased Paris “A French Passion” New York Fountain’s heights; Hine prints under scrutiny
Looking at Art
Satanic Reverses: In Quaternity, Anselm Kiefer explores the nature of evil in the human imagination
Michael Auping
Design
Eggs with Legs: A renaissance in Danish Modern has inspired major museum shows, while classics like Arne Jacobsen’s seminal “Egg Chair” are selling like hotcakes
Paul Levine
On the Edge
Seoul Searcher: Lim Young Sun’s soft sculptures call up inner demons
James Lee
Books
Andrea del Sarto by Antonio Natali, reviewed by Elizabeth Cropper; Homemade Esthetics: Observations on Art and Taste by Clement Greenberg, reviewed by Kenneth Baker; Balthus by Nicholas Fox Weber, reviewed by Lilly Wei; Art for Dummies by Thomas Hoving; Reviewed by Milton Esterow
Reviews
Our far-flung critics assess exhibitions in New York; Pittsburgh; Los Angeles; Boston; Washington, D.C.; Fairfield, Connecticut; Chicago; Austin; Houston; Santa Fe; Istanbul; Paris; Amsterdam; Basel; Rome; Athens; Buenos Aires