(Volume 103/Number 10)
ARTnews  |  November 2004

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Modernizing the Modern Kelly Devine Thomas

Creating a balance between modern art and contemporary art was just one of the challenges confronting MoMA’s staff, which used the museum’s latest expansion as the occasion for soul-searching about what the museum has been, what it is, and what it wants to be

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25 Movers, Shakers, and Makers

Wangechi Mutu: Cutting Remarks

Enrique Norten: Flux and Flexibility

Julián Zugazagoitia: Mr. Zugazagoitia’s Neighborhood

Katarzyna Kozyra: Shock Tactician

Rika Noguchi: She Dreams of Flying

Cai Guo-Qiang: Playing with Fire

Andrea Rose: If It’s 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 Doesn’t Take No for an Answer”

Franco Mondini-Ruiz: Kitsch and Sell

Joe Amrhein: 750 Artists and Counting

Linda Pace: Pace’s 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 Wasn’t ‘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 Christie’s urns continues

City Focus: Toronto
“A Sweet Spot for the Arts”: Energized by an unprecedented wave of museum expansions, Toronto’s 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, 1955–1990 By Iris Peruga, Josefina Núñez, Luis Pérez Oramas, Mónica Amor, Ruth Auerbach, and Guadalupe Montenegro

 

Reviews

New York “Alfred Leslie 1951–1962: 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