(Volume 103/Number 7)
ARTnews | Summer 2004
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Some artists’ signatures are self-expression, some are design elements, and some are just fun
Also in this Issue
The Cosmos According to Matthew Ritchie Lilly Wei
His wildly ambitious installations tackle time, space, and the nature of the universe
Unfinished Business Hugh Eakin
Austria’s reluctance to support art restitution continues, as a new generation of researchers unearths the lost history of Vienna’s great Jewish collectors
Departments
Art Talk
Douglas Blau, Amy Adler, William Wegman, Robert Rauschenberg, Carlo McCormick, Thomas Solomon, Robert Longo, Joe Torre, DAZE, Reggie Jackson, Kehinde Wiley, Neil Jenney, Jan Sawka, David Beckham, Sam Taylor-Wood, Izhar Patkin, Kim MacConnel, Cai Guo-Giang, Leslie Forbes, Linda Yablonsky, Ali Subotnick, Marietta Ganapin, Vik Muniz, Yves Saint Laurent, Diane Samuels, Dara Meyers-Kingsley
National News
Washington, D.C. Supreme Court ruling: American can sue Austria over Klimts; Wilmerding’s gift to the nation New York Unraveling the story of Ana Mendieta; Leipzig loot returned; Weinberg shakes up Whitney Chicago Millennium dawns on lakefront Miami Gritty chic: A downtown makeover
International News
Baghdad Restoring Iraq’s cultural legacy Paris Is the Mona Lisa warping? Buenos Aires Argentina investigates forgery scandal Lima Peru’s artifacts sent home London Blaze sweeps art warehouse Jerusalem France offers Israel loan; Scroll shrine restored Berlin Critics hit Flick show Florence David comes clean
Art Market
New York How the spring auctions soared to $634.2 million: Results from Impressionist, modern, and contemporary London Gagosian unveils new space; Christie’s loses landmark case
City Focus: Taos
Getting Stronger and More Diverse: With small-town intimacy and big-city sophistication, Taos expands as an art center
Dottie Indyke
Looking at Art
The Battles of Red Sonya and the Silver Surfer: Erró’s comic-book heroes and heroines fight for good in a cosmos racked by evil
Arthur C. Danto
Working Habits
It’s a Jungle in There: Green paint meets chlorophyll and blue-green algae in Tam Van Tran’s “Beetle Manifesto”
Tessa DeCarlo
Books
The Art of the Steal: Inside the Sotheby’s-Christie’s Auction House Scandal By Christopher Mason • Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work By Hayden Herrera • Woman: A Celebration Edited by Peter Fetterman
Perspective
“A Very Sexy Moment”: Tracking the sale of the $104 million Picasso
Kelly Devine Thomas
Reviews
New York Cindy Sherman; Christo and Jeanne-Claude; Doug and Mike Starn; “French Drawings, Watercolors, and Pastels”; David Smith; Jim Dine; Wassily Kandinsky; David Bates; Elena and Michel Gran; Jem Southam; Oscar Bluemner; Karin Waisman; Linda Stojak; “Latin American Visionaries”; Amanda Guest; Alain Kirili; Howard Lerner; William Scott; Howard Barash; “Sexy Beasts”; Duane Hanson; Joan Lebold Cohen; John Perreault; Alec Soth Los Angeles Terry Allen San Francisco Z. Z. Wei; Michael Tompkins Palm Desert, California William Wegman Chicago Jennifer Bartlett; “Chancay: The Art of Coastal Peru” Washington, D.C. Frank Hallam Day Boston Kathryn Frund Santa Fe Janet Fish and Charles Parness West Palm Beach Paul Manes Aspen Donald Baechler London Lucian Freud; “Painting 2004” Paris Bernar Venet; Jacques Villon Madrid “Todo Incluido” Riehen, Switzerland “Calder-Miró” Stockholm “In Our Time”
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