(Volume 102/Number 4)
ARTnews  |  April 2003

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What Are They Teaching Art Students These Days? Gail Gregg

Seventy years after the first degrees in art appeared, schools are wondering how to fit it all in: new technology, theory, marketing savvy, and a growing list of emerging forms

How to Hug a Tree Ann Landi

Teaching performance art involves sharpening some highly unusual skills as well as the more traditional ones

Also in this Issue

"Photography Is a Mania" Nicholas Fox Weber

With a retrospective and a foundation dedicated to his achievements opening this month in Paris, Henri Cartier-Bresson looks back at a lifetime of exploration and discovery

The Methodical Revolutionary George Stolz

Radical in his art, Joan Miró was conventional in his habits. He knew exactly how he wanted his legacy preserved. Thanks to his careful planning, his estate is a model of the harmony and efficiency he prized

From Little Men in Red Coats to "Boy with a Red Vest" Kelly Devine Thomas

David Rockefeller reflects on his life as a collector, banker, unofficial diplomat, and philanthropist

 

Departments

Art Talk

Art Talk

Web of Riches?: An artist's project morphs into a multimillion-dollar company
Carly Berwick

Art Talk
Ellen Harvey, Shamim Momin, Roger Benjamin, Joe Fig, Will Cotton, Chuck Close, Maciej Wisniewski, Christiane Paul, Franco Mondini-Ruiz, Paul Allen, Jenny Holzer, Jeremy Blake, Jean-David Levitte, Marie-Cécile Levitte, Marc Pachter, Anneli Rufus

National News
New York Arts funding under fire San Francisco Buddhas replace books Milwaukee Tangled up in blue Santa Fe Shake-up at New Mexico's museums Cleveland Museum unveils expansion plan Philadelphia Court curbs Barnes debate New York Arnheim, Esterow receive lifetime achievement awards

International News
London Saatchi's latest sensation; Courtauld wants to loan more Moscow Russia posts war loot online Buenos Aires "Knock on 400 doors" Vienna Linz returns Schiele painting

Art Market
New York Calder, Polke popular at art show; Vintage goes high, contemporary moves fast; Donations may pay off for artists Paris Model on the move

City Focus: Chicago
Cutting-Edge Hip to Blue Chip: From River North to West Loop, Chicago's lively scene keeps growing
Margaret Hawkins

Working Habits
More Than Just Windows: Historically used to illuminate churches, in the hands of Brian Clarke stained glass becomes monumental multicolored architecture
Dorothy Spears

Looking at Art
The Scribe and the Songstress: An ancient Egyptian sculpture depicts a prosperous—and affectionate—couple
Sylvia Hochfield

Studio
Teen Tableaux: In Philemona Williamson's bright, sprawling paintings, boys and girls hang between innocence and adulthood
Jessica Dheere

 

Reviews

New York "Matisse Picasso"; Matthew Barney; Lucian Freud; "Air"; "Italian Sculpture from the Gothic to the Baroque"; Shahzia Sikander; Donald Sultan; Old Master Paintings; "Who? Me?"; Ed Ruscha; Christian Marclay; "Under Pressure: Prints from Two Palms Press"; "Samadhi" and "Shots in the Dark"; Ken Grimes; DeWitt Godfrey and Lael Marshall; Barbara Westman West Hollywood, California Lynn Chadwick Bolinas, California David Maisel Philadelphia "Post Flat: New Art From London" Chicago Jane Lackey Santa Fe Jaune Quick-to-See Smith Naples, Florida Christo and Jeanne-Claude Atlanta Andrew Moore and Flor Garduño Baltimore Neil Meyerhoff London "Constable to Delacroix"; David Hockney Paris Ilya and Emilia Kabakov Cologne Panamarenko Madrid Guillermo Pérez Villalta