(Volume 100/Number 5)

ARTnews  |  May 2001

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The Hidden Sargent Patricia Failing

A recent show asked new questions about John Singer Sargent: Was he homosexual? Did his sense of "otherness" make him sympathetic to his Jewish clients?

Wyeth's Black Models Mary Lynn Kotz

For six decades, Andrew Wyeth has been making portraits of his African American friends and neighbors. Now the series is touring for the first time—but only in the South

Also in this Issue

Homer's Strikeouts Edgar Allen Beem

"Grotesque," "tawdry," and "damnably ugly" were some of the insults critics lobbed at Winslow Homer's pictures of the 1870s

Bohemians by the Shore Ann Landi

At Connecticut's Cos Cob art colony, America's Impressionists served up light, idyllic fare, but were rebels for their time

Is There an Impostor in the White House? Edgar Allen Beem

Everyone agrees that Gilbert Stuart painted the likeness of George Washington just acquired by the National Portrait Gallery. But some experts say he didn't paint the version in the White House

Gary Hill's Hall of Mirrors Penelope Rowlands

With projections of people who aren't there and strobe-lit, crashing bodies, the video artist tracks the fault lines between reality and illusion

Please Touch! Katie Clifford

It's no longer a matter of just looking at art—you can smell it, taste it, wear it, kick it, slide down it, get naked in it, and sleep on it

Searching for the Black Audience Pamela Newkirk

Museums around the country are debating how best to extend the welcome mat to African Americans

 

Departments

Art Talk
Alexi Worth, Hilarie M. Sheets, Fareed Zakaria, Walter Hopps, Ed Ruscha, Dennis Hopper, Jean Stein, Jonas Mekas, John Cage, Louise Bourgeois, Jean Nouvel, François Pinault, Damian Loeb, Hugh Nissenson, Gus Van Sant, Jeff MacNelly

National News
Washington, D.C. Is the Museum of African Art betraying its mission? In memoriam: S. Dillon Ripley Philadelphia Should the Barnes move? Spotlight Richard J. Wattenmaker and Barbara G. Fleischman: Storing America's art history New York New Malevich foundations

International News
Bilbao The Guggenheim gets audited Zurich Disputed donation Prague Communist takeover? Spotlight Klaus Albrecht Schröder: Overhauling the Albertina London Saatchi gallery spared child-porn case St. Petersburg Hermitage takes porcelain collection Vienna Museum eyes Nazi bunker Figueres, Spain Descharnes to pay damages Special Report Betting on lotteries

Art Market
Stefano Bardini: The treasure hunter Bermuda Thyssen trust-busting? New York A new art fair

City Focus: Washington, D.C.
A New Administration: A shift in curatorial leadership gives new life to the Washington, D.C., art scene
By Jessica Dawson

Artful Traveler
The Empress of Hillwood: Marjorie Merriweather Post's Washington home now houses Romanovs, Bourbons—and even a Bonaparte
By Sylvia Hochfield

Looking at Art
Pilgrim's Progress: Thomas Cole's sermon in paint follows a pilgrim's voyage down the river of life
By Earl A. Powell III

Books
The Ephemeral Museum: Old Master Paintings and the Rise of the Art Exhibition by Francis Haskell Françoise Gilot by Françoise Gilot Jimmy Ernst by Donald Kuspit Loving Picasso: The Private Journal of Fernande Olivier by Fernande Olivier State of the Arts by Barbara Isenberg Visionaries and Outcasts: The NEA, Congress, and the Place of the Visual Artist in America by Michael Brenson William Blake by Robin Hamlyn and Michael Williams Dialogues in Public Art by Tom Finkelpearl Twentieth-Century Art of Latin America by Jacqueline Barnitz The Mill and the Cross by Michael Francis Gibson Human Nature by Glenn O'Brien, with drawings by Richard Prince

Perspective
Space Oddity: What is it like to make art without gravity?
By M. G. Lord

 

Reviews

New York Paul McCarthy; Melissa Meyer; "Six Artists from San Juan"; "Monochrome/Monochrome?"; Jörg Immendorff; Vito Acconci and Ana Mendieta; Vernon Fisher; Jules Pascin; Martin Mull; Sharon Ya'ari; Judith Cotton; Jimmy Ernst; William H. Johnson; Frank von der Lancken; Jordan Crandall; Kim Dingle; "The Figure in American Art" St. Louis "Vincent van Gogh and the Painters of the Petit Boulevard" Washington, D.C. "Modern Art and America" Scottsdale, Ariz. James Turrell New Orleans Stephen Paul Day North Miami "Mythic Proportions" Santa Monica Philipp Keel Venice, Calif. Ed and Nancy Reddin Kienholz San Francisco Edward Burtynsky Ridgefield, Conn. Janine Antoni London "Century City"; "Futurism and Photography" Paris Denis Castellas; Dara Birnbaum Berlin Daniel Spoerri Düsseldorf Ingolf Timpner Madrid Ernesto Neto; Gabriel Perezzan Basel Mark Rothko