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This January, we profile artists to watch in the fields of sculpture, performance, video, installation, and other cutting-edge genres. In an ARTnews exclusive, we report on the gathering of major conservators at a warehouse in Maryland where paintings by Clyfford Still, most of them never seen in public, are being treated and made ready for exhibition in the new Denver museum devoted to the artist. And we talk to the makers of a new documentary about the notorious theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre.

Carried Away with the Mona Lisa
Revealing the Hidden Clyfford Still

Hundreds of Still’s paintings were sealed off from the public for years while ominous rumors about their condition circulated. Now, in preparation for the opening of a museum dedicated to the artist, experts can finally see how the works have held up and what kind of treatment they need

Next month, in a special report from the United Arab Emirates, Sharon Waxman chronicles a surge in artistic activity that is nothing short of a cultural gold rush. We preview “Cézanne and Beyond,” an exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art that looks at the master’s influence on figures ranging from the German Expressionists to today’s conceptual artists. And we profile Candice Breitz, who weaves diverse film clips of Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson into mesmerizing video collages.