(Volume 108/Number 7)

ARTnews  |  Summer 2009

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‘A Different Ball Game’ Milton Esterow

The top ten collectors on our list

The ARTnews 200 Top Collectors the editors of ARTnews

Our annual list of the world's top collectors

The Faking of the Russian Avant-Garde Konstantin Akinsha and Sylvia Hochfield

With invented provenances, unreliable certificates of authenticity, and “rediscovered” works by artists who are lost to history, forgers are flooding galleries and auction houses with Russian avant-garde fakes. A six-month ARTnews investigation reveals that inauthentic works now outnumber authentic ones

Decoding Leonardo Ann Landi

With a spate of suggested new attributions and a theme park devoted to his work, Leonardo da Vinci remains a source of speculation, mystery, and popular appeal

Making the Local Global Robin Cembalest

Manuel Borja-Villel’s rehang of the Reina Sofía highlights its holdings of Spanish modernist icons—along with the unknown, the unexpected, and the international

Also in this Issue

Angst Management David Galloway

In frenzied performances and multilayered installations, Jonathan Meese sings, rants, invents words, invokes taboos, confesses, regresses, and sometimes staples underwear to the wall

‘Buying the Best of the Best’ Eileen Kinsella

Working with a roster of prestigious curators, dealers, and advisers, in just over a decade Steven Cohen has amassed one of the world’s most important private art collections

 

Departments

Art Talk
Chuck Close, Brad Pitt, Cindy Sherman, Andres Serrano, Bill Clinton, Richard Holbrooke, Ian and Annette Cumming, Patricia Cronin, William H. Gerdts, Wayne Thiebaud, Caitlin Freeman, Yayoi Kusama, Agnes Wilcox, Lisa Harper Chang, Matthew Waschek, Ronald Gore Jr., Claes Oldenburg

Critic’s Pick
Jennifer Levonian: Animated Breakups
Edith Newhall

 

Reviews

VENICE 53rd Venice Biennale

NEW YORK Maya Lin; Chantal Joffe; Chakaia Booker; Armando Romero; Malcolm Morley; Marylyn Dintenfass “Collect with Us”; Edwin Schlossberg; Trisha Brown; David Maljkovic; Sarah Charlesworth; Nathalie Miebach; “Salon 2009”; “Peeps”

NATIONAL Santa Fe Judy Pfaff; Mike Glier; Miguel Angel Rios; Dirk de Bruycker; Naoki Honjo; Eddie Dayan; Mark Shaw; Christina Chalmers; Peter Lodato Chicago Modern Wing; “First Art” North Adams, Massachusetts Sol LeWitt West Palm Beach, Florida Dennis Oppenheim Los Angeles “Connoisseurs Collection”; George Stoll

INTERNATIONAL Paris Asger Jorn Berlin “Picturing America” Geneva Michel Haas London Matthew Burrows Budapest Lajos Vajda