(Volume 108/Number 1)

ARTnews  |  January 2009

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Carried Away with the Mona Lisa Laurie Hurwitz

Revealing the Hidden Clyfford Still Sylvia Hochfield

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

ARTnews Retrospective

 

Also in this Issue

Artists to Watch

Reverse Psychology
Sculptor Diana Al-Hadid turns the creative process—and her work—upside down
Rachel Wolff

Color Forms
Joe Bradley’s bright, blocky works send up Minimalism while following in its footsteps
Carly Berwick

Moving Experiences
By projecting video images onto unexpected surfaces, Susie Lee gives technology a subtle, ethereal spin
Jori Finkel

Part of the Solution?
Lars Laumann uses a web of pop-culture artifacts to construct strangely plausible conspiracy theories
Linda Yablonsky

Clothes Encounters
Yin Xiuzhen transforms old clothes into sharp commentaries on globalization
Barbara Pollack

Wrestling with Masculinity
Riffing on moves from football and boxing helps performance artist Shaun El C. Leonardo understand what being macho means
Ann Landi

A Legacy of Plunder Jonathan Lopez

A new book lays bare the entire paintings collection of Hitler henchman Hermann Goering

 

Departments

Art Talk
Joe Medeiros, Justine Medeiros, Elaine Wynn, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Steve Wynn, Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Barkley L. Hendricks, Iggy Pop, Marc Jacobs, Debbie Harry, Billy Idol, Jamie Boud, Carsten Höller, Chloë Sevigny, Jerry Saltz, Ed Ruscha, Paul McCarthy, Elizabeth Lunday, William Innes Homer

National News
WASHINGTON, D.C. Making art a federal issue? NASHVILLE Seeking payback, not art back MINNEAPOLIS Looted Léger returned CLEVELAND “A negotiation among gentlemen” BALTIMORE Grace Hartigan: Painter, mentor, pioneer

International News
PRAGUE Thinking inside the DOX BOLZANO, ITALY Over budget or overboard? AMSTERDAM Van Gogh again ROME Debating a “supermanager’s” powers GENEVA Remembering Jan Krugier

Art Market
PARIS Remodeling a House: Romanian-born financier Rodica Seward adds a boutique feel to the global scope of French auction house Tajan
Laurie Hurwitz

Living with Art
Drawn by Heart: Passion and instinct have guided Swiss collector Jean Bonna in his pursuit of drawings by artists ranging from Raphael to Balthus
Mary Krienke

Critic's Pick
Alison Elizabeth Taylor: Into the Woods
Hilarie M. Sheets

 

Reviews

NEW YORK Doug Aitken; “Image in the Box”; David Stern; Eric Fischl; Neil Jenney; Leon Golub; “Picasso’s Marie-Thérèse”; “Dialogues”; Gustave Moreau; “A Century of American Art on Paper”; Tim Rollins and K.O.S.; Amy Myers; David Carbone, Nancy Grimes, and Patrick Webb; Isca Greenfield-Sanders; Richard Nonas; Dusty Boynton; Carlo Ferraris

NATIONAL Washington, D.C. Kendall Messick; “Regime Change Starts at Home”; Fritz Scholder; Abdoulaye Ndoye; Nicholas and Sheila Pye New Orleans Prospect.1 Montclair, New Jersey Philip Pearlstein Boston “Zen Mind/Zen Brush”; George Bellows Chicago Murray Jones Santa Monica Mondongo San Francisco Paul Schiek Santa Fe Deborah Hede

INTERNATIONAL London Udomsak Krisanamis; Roger Ackling Berlin Uwe Henneken Paris Sabine Weiss Vienna Spencer Tunick Tokyo Tomoko Yoneda Shanghai “Mei Guo”