(Volume 103/Number 10)
ARTnews | November 2004
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Creating a balance between modern art and contemporary art was just one of the challenges confronting MoMAs staff, which used the museums latest expansion as the occasion for soul-searching about what the museum has been, what it is, and what it wants to be
Also in this Issue
25 Movers, Shakers, and Makers
Wangechi Mutu: Cutting Remarks
Enrique Norten: Flux and Flexibility
Julián Zugazagoitia: Mr. Zugazagoitias Neighborhood
Katarzyna Kozyra: Shock Tactician
Rika Noguchi: She Dreams of Flying
Cai Guo-Qiang: Playing with Fire
Andrea Rose: If Its Tuesday, It Must Be Tehran
Milú Villela: Supermom as President
Brad Cloepfil: Letting There Be Light
Stephen Vitiello: Feel the Noise
Tobias Bernstrup: Singing the Body Electronic
Carmen Giménez: She Doesnt Take No for an Answer
Franco Mondini-Ruiz: Kitsch and Sell
Joe Amrhein: 750 Artists and Counting
Linda Pace: Paces Place
Alain Fleischer: This Is Not Just a Think Tank
Paul D. Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky: The Sample Life
Daniele Puppi: Thumps, Grunts, and a Leap Across the Void
Ralph Rugoff: Making Pathetic Look Good
Ingolf Timpner: Going for Neo-Baroque
Hedwig Fijen: Moving with Manifesta
Anita Contini: Creative Timing
Eija-Liisa Ahtila: Scenes from a Mirage
Marie-Laure Bernadac: Move Over, Mona Lisa
Mark Bradford: Dye Another Day
Departments
Art Talk
Neil Hennessy, Harry Cooper, Leo Villareal, Sam Taylor-Wood, Brandon Smith, Janaina Tschäpe, Jonathan Sheffer, Viktor Horsting, Rolf Snoeren, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Xu Bing, Joseph Chang, Dennis Scholl, Anna Gaskell, Richard Betts, Liam Gillick, Isaac Julien, Joseph Grigely, Maurice Tuchman, Esti Dunow
National News
New York Images of Abu Ghraib; Samuel Sachs: The giving side; Met names new president Spotlight Catherine de Zegher: Never mind about pencils New Haven Anne Coffin Hanson: A Pioneering Scholar
International News
Why Wasnt The Scream Insured?
International News
Museums debate the best way to protect irreplaceable works of art
Eileen Kinsella
International News
Amsterdam Steadying the Stedelijk Dresden Out of the crate, onto the block
Art Market
New York Mining the 1950s and 60s; Flavin market soars Monaco Strong sales for Tajan London Dispute over Christies urns continues
City Focus: Toronto
A Sweet Spot for the Arts: Energized by an unprecedented wave of museum expansions, Torontos galleries, curators, and artists are drawing increasing local support and international attention
Betty Ann Jordan
Books
Alexis Rockman Essays by Stephen Jay Gould, Jonathan Crary, and David Quammen Disarmed: The Story of the Venus de Milo By Gregory Curtis Gego: Obra Completa, 19551990 By Iris Peruga, Josefina Núñez, Luis Pérez Oramas, Mónica Amor, Ruth Auerbach, and Guadalupe Montenegro
Reviews
New York Alfred Leslie 19511962: Expressing the Zeitgeist; Richard Deacon; Garry Winogrand; Richmond Burton; Catherine Lee; Pipilotti Rist; Ai Weiwei; Justine Kurland; Andrew Lord; Ben Nicholson; Todd Hido; Robert Neffson; Nancy Cohen; Peter Greaves; Summertime; Euan Macdonald Santa Fe The Fifth International Biennial; Ronald Slowinski Long Beach and West Hollywood Hannelore Baron San Francisco Jack Levine Chicago Georges Seurat Atlanta David Stephenson and Rocky Schenck Baltimore Annette Sauermann North Salem, New York Miko Goodnough and Robert Goodnough London Sarah Morris; Galleon and Other Stories Paris Joan Miró Cologne Leif Trenkler