(Volume 100/Number 9)

ARTnews  |  October 2001

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The Incredible Growing Art Museum Blake Eskin

In a multibillion-dollar building boom, museums around the globe are erecting new structures or expanding their current homes. As they tailor themselves to accommodate bigger art, larger crowds, and broader missions, the very notion of the museum is evolving in the process

Also in this Issue

Tracking the Building Boom

A survey of museums under construction around the globe

Drawing the Shades Leslie Camhi

In films, charcoal sketches, and torn-paper silhouettes, South African artist William Kentridge's figures climb walls, parade across digital screens, and lumber under the burdens of life

The Broad Spectrum Peter Clothier

With business savvy and an eye for art, Los Angeles billionaire Eli Broad has built a late-20th-century collection that makes its museum debut this month

Who Owns the Lubomirski Dürers? Konstantin Akinsha and Sylvia Hochfield

An international restitution controversy has erupted over a cache of great drawings once owned by a Polish prince and now in top American and European museums

 

Departments

Art Talk
Ronnie Wood, Peter Greenaway, Jane Fonda, Thornton Dial, Holly Solomon, Lowery Sims, Agnes Gund, Laurie Simmons, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Paul Ha, Martha Rosler, Joe Amrhein, President Bush

National News
Chicago More turmoil at Terra New York New age for Asia Society; Chagall purloined for peace; Victory for street artists; Met keeps Monet Spotlight Chrissie Iles: Iles of Light St. Louis Pulitzer’s prize San Francisco David Ross resigns Costa Mesa, California Guarding Noguchi’s garden

International News
St. Petersburg/Washington, D.C. From Russia, with loans Madrid Thieves burgle Spanish collection Dublin Bacon’s fine mess Paris Forger nabbed in phone booth Rome Italy to keep pillaged pillar Sydney Museum makeover canceled

Art Market
New York Lucy Mitchell-Innes and David Nash: "Cool Elegance"; West’s worth climbs Paris A solid springtime

City Focus: Philadelphia
Fresh Perspectives: With an expanding museum scene and diverse gallery offerings, Philadelphia grows into a dynamic art center
By Judy West

Looking at Art
The Haunted Palace: Man Ray’s photographs reveal that Giacometti’s palace has a ghost
By Anne Umland

Perspective
Pickup Artists
Perspective

Museum visitors in Italy list the works most likely to inspire an "erotic adventure"
By Jonathan Turner

 

Reviews

New York "Four Abstract Classicists" and "Modern American Art of the 1930’s and 1940’s"; John Coplans; Judith Streeter; Judith Belzer; "Electrify Me!"; Billy Al Bengston; Rebecca Quaytman; Susanna Coffey; Alexandra Athanassiades; Julie Heffernan; Gail Gregg; Seton Smith; LeRoy Henderson; Deborah Brown; Gustavo López Armentia Portland, Ore. "Clement Greenberg: A Critic’s Collection" Santa Fe "Intimacy & the Creative Pair"; Patrick McFarlin West Hollywood Niki de Saint Phalle Santa Monica Cornell Capa San Francisco Ruth Bernhard Houston Yehudit Sasportas and Gal Weinstein Chicago Rineke Dijkstra; Mark Citret Tiverton, R.I. Jules Olitski Hartford "Picasso: The Artist’s Studio" London "Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera, 1962–1972" Zurich Roman Signer; Helmut Newton Paris "Maillol Peintre"; Abby Leigh Berlin Les Schliesser Naples Nino Longobardi Jerusalem "Written in the Stars"