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This June, we talk about nothing! Well, not exactly, but we look at why so many shows these days are focusing on the void, ephemeral experience, and why galleries are filled with sound or suggestion rather than with solid objects. Also, we talk to artists who are finding inspiration in the brain—sometimes their own. We profile pioneering feminist artist Nancy Spero. We go behind the scenes of Jim Jarmusch’s latest film, The Limits of Control—to the galleries of the Reina Sofía in Madrid.

And in a special report, we explore the ways that art-museum directors, confronted with urgent demographic realities, are drawing on game theory, interactive technology, and a host of other new strategies to help people feel welcome, engaged, and emotionally fulfilled.

Bringing the Sky to Earth

In his new installation in southern Spain, James Turrell makes the color— and position—of the sky a mere matter of perception
Shades of Gris

In Jim Jarmusch's new film, four Spanish paintings play as much of a role as the actors do
You Had to Be There

More and more artworks exist not as objects but as ephemeral events—a conversation, a thunderclap, a slow-motion kiss—that insist viewers take part
Reshaping the Art Museum

Confronted with urgent demographic realities, art-museum directors are drawing on game theory, interactive technology, and a host of other new strategies to help people feel welcome, engaged, and emotionally fulfilled
Spero's Heroes

Often using mere paper as a medium and a powerful pictorial vocabulary of her own invention, Nancy Spero spins tales of ferocious, heroic women

Next month, we present the ARTnews 200, our annual list of the world’s top 200 collectors. We profile Steven Cohen, the billionaire hedge-fund manager who has assembled one of the world’s most important private art collections. We talk to Jonathan Meese, the German performance and installation artist who is by turns Mephistopheles, the Messiah, and Mickey Mouse. We report on a recent spate of attributions to Leonardo da Vinci, the only artist to have his own theme park. And we trace a long collaboration between Chuck Close and Bill Clinton.

Also, in a special investigation, we reveal how fakes are flooding the market for Russian avant-garde works, turning up not only in auction catalogues but also in museum exhibitions and catalogues raisonnés.