(Volume 108/Number 6)

ARTnews  |  June 2009

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Bringing the Sky to Earth George Stolz

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 Rachel Wolff

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

You Had to Be There Linda Yablonsky

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 Robin Cembalest

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 Phoebe Hoban

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

ARTnews Retrospective

 

Also in this Issue

Brain Wave Ann Landi

From drawings based on neurological networks to sculptures cast from whale skulls, artists are making the brain their subject—and some are helping to uncover its secrets

Points of Light Hilarie M. Sheets

From his laptop computer, Leo Villareal orchestrates dazzling rhythmic productions generated by light-emitting diodes

 

Departments

Art Talk
Isaach De Bankolé, John Hurt, Gael García Bernal, Antonio López García, Antoni Tàpies, Martin Provost, Yolande Moreau, Kathleen Gilje, Allegra Huston, Jack Nicholson, Anjelica Huston, Arthur Garfunkel, Richard Tuttle, Arne Glimcher, Carl Reiner, Lynn Spigel, Raymond Pettibon, Mike Kelley, Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, Cindy Sherman, Leanne Shapton, Brad Pitt, Natalie Portman, Nan Goldin

News
MADRID Giant step for the Prado VEJER DE LA FRONTERA, SPAIN Turrell brings the sky to earth LONDON The Whitechapel’s variety show AMSTERDAM Hermitage to Holland

Books
The Ultimate Trophy: How the Impressionist Painting Conquered the World By Philip Hook • Robert Irwin: Primaries and Secondaries By Robert Irwin and Hugh Davies • Polymorphous Perverse By Tim Noble and Sue Webster

Artful Traveler
House of the Blue Ferret: A gathering place for Havana’s creative elite in the 1940s is now a museum
Phoebe Hoban

Critic's Pick
Claudia Rogge: Mass Appeal
David Galloway

 

Reviews

NEW YORK “Tangled Alphabets”; “The Generational”; Gustave Caillebotte; Lisa Yuskavage; Luisa Lambri; “An Uncommon Wilderness”; “Layered Luminescence”; Li-lan; “The Mark of the Hand”; Barnett Newman; Alyssa Monks; Ralph L. Wickiser; Melinda Stickney-Gibson; Kawase Shinobu; Colin Brown; “7 Photographers”; Susan Bee

NATIONAL Los Angeles Joel Shapiro Palm Desert, California Bertil Vallien Bakersfield, California Ludvic Boston “The Triumph of Marriage” Saint Louis Lutz Bacher Seattle Matthew Picton Santa Fe Janet Russek

INTERNATIONAL Basel “Holbein to Tillmans” London Fernando Botero; Lee Jaehyo Paris Fernand Léger Lucerne, Switzerland Min Wae Aung Berlin Philip Taaffe Segovia, Spain “New York Drawings 1946–2007” Montreal Kees van Dongen; Valérie Kolakis; Alexandre Castonguay; Andreas Rutkauskas; Carol Bernier; Ianick Raymond