(Volume 104/Number 9)
ARTnews | October 2005
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In a house for his family in Moscow, Konstantin Melnikov translated the innovations of Russian avant-garde artists into architecture
The first retrospective in 30 years devoted to Andrew Wyeth is a sign of increasing interest in the artist on the part of critics and curators. And it may help answer a perennial question: how good a painter is he?
Also in this Issue
Happy as a Clam Digger Stephen May
American Impressionists treated the subject of work as a thing of beauty
‘You Pick It Up and Make Art Out of It’ Edward M. Gomez
Thornton Dial’s wildly inventive mixed-media creations, made of everything from dolls to tree bark to old clothes to rusty machine parts, have crossed over from the outsider art context to the mainstream with a major show at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston
Absolutely Fabulist Carly Berwick
Artists mine fairy tales and fables for contemporary takes on familiar narratives
Departments
Art Talk
Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes, Sienna Miller, Guy Pearce, David Bowie, Nicole Kidman, Brad Pitt, Kirk Douglas, George Hickenlooper, Nora Guthrie, Ellen Harvey, Paola Antonelli, Laurie Simmons, Jonathan Santlofer, Larry List
National News
Los Angeles Investigating the Getty Spotlight Michael Brand: Global vision San Francisco De Young: A stunning showcase Cambridge, Massachusetts Piecing together a Pollock puzzle Merion, Pennsylvania Assessing what Barnes bought Chicago Picasso case settled Columbus, Ohio “Better than original” Sarasota, Florida Ringling expands Obituaries David Whitney: A curator of many gifts; Al Held: A bold abstractionist; Stephen E. Weil: Lawyer, scholar, ethicist
International News
Moscow An art dealer is exonerated Spotlight Miguel Zugaza: Building a bigger Prado London Britain seeks restitution solution Paris Louvre to get a “flying carpet” Kraków A factory made museum Straubing, Germany A window into Dürer
Art Market
New York Revenues on the rise at Christie’s and Sotheby’s, Pop go the Levi’s Beverly Hills A new market for Henri Martin Reno, Nevada Collectors go west, bid high Spotlight Dick Solomon: “We don’t have to be stodgy”
Looking at Art
“The Vermillionaire”: Oscar Bluemner believed that color, like music, could convey or elicit emotion
Barbara Haskell
Working Habits
A new view of Fauvism: Revised dates for Matisse’s paintings are helping to rewrite the art history of 1906
Jack Flam
Books
Henri Cartier-Bresson: A Biography By Pierre Assouline • Jacob van Ruisdael: Master of Landscape By Seymour Slive • Russia: Beyond Utopia Photographs by Andrew Moore, foreword by Boris Fishman • Egon Schiele: Life and Work By Jane Kallir • Archibald J. Motley Jr. By Amy M. Mooney • Donatello Among the Blackshirts Edited by Claudia Lazzaro and Roger J. Crum • Esther Bubley: On Assignment By Bonnie Yochelson with Tracy A. Schmid • Hirschfeld’s Harlem By Al Hirschfeld
Prints
Pulp friction: Jessica Stockholder turns prints into collage to make a colorful mess
Megan Heuer
Critic’s Pick: Yuken Teruya
Linda Yablonsky
Reviews
New York Sol LeWitt; Barry McGee; Pierre Soulages; “Young America”; Evelyn Hofer; Ambreen Butt; Margaret Evangeline; “Elusive Surface” and “Eve”; Valerie Jaudon; Charles H. Traub; “The Landscape of the Body”; “Still Life & Stilled Lives”; Lisa Corinne Davis; Martha Posner; Roberto Bernardi; D. Dominick Lombardi; Yuval Yairi; Ilya Shenker and Nikita; “Recent Acquisitions" NATIONAL Cincinnati Peter Paul Rubens Los Angeles “Masterpieces in Miniature” West Hollywood D. J. Hall San Francisco Naomi Kremer; Leonor Fini Laguna Beach, California Paula Schoen Santa Fe “Photographique”; Daniel Phill Chicago Tim Crowder Miami Luis Cruz Azaceta Boston Lynda Lowe Washington, D.C. Irving Penn; “East Meets West”; Ana Mercedes Hoyos; “Re-Fresh”; Siemon Allen; Victor Schrager; “Visual Music”; Willy Ronis; Diana Cooper INTERNATIONAL London Rebecca Horn; Nigel Cooke Paris Rebecca Horn; Franco Fontana Cologne “Surprising Confrontations” Berlin Janaina Tschäpe Zurich Miroslav Tichý Barcelona João Onofre
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