(Volume 104/Number 11)

ARTnews  |  December 2005

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Why Small Is BIG Linda Yablonsky

From Tom Friedman’s eraser shavings to Rob de Mar’s minuscule waterfall to Adia Millett’s tabletop dollhouses, intimately scaled sculptures are making a large impact

Matisse and the Nun Rebecca Spence

An unlikely friendship between the stubbornly secular Henri Matisse and his former model Sister Jacques-Marie led to his Chapel of the Rosary at Vence

Also in this Issue

Turning Straws Into Clouds Hilarie M. Sheets

Using massive quantities of commonplace materials like Scotch tape, tar paper, and drinking straws, Tara Donovan creates almost magical installations evocative of haze, roiling water, and other natural phenomena

Artists and Their (Role) Models Ann Landi

Artists describe the people, places, and works that blew their minds, changed their preconceptions, and helped them discover their own sensibilities

They're No Dummies David Stoesz

Puppets are turning up in galleries, museums, and performances, where they get away with things that humans often cannot

 

Departments

Art Talk
Yinka Shonibare, Barbara Bloemink, Jean-Pierre Khazem, Barbara Bush, Roslyn Carter, Betty Ford, Pat Nixon, Nancy Reagan, Maira Kalman, Jeff Koons, Stella McCartney, John Latham, Liza Kirwin, Richard Serra, Robert Hughes, Earl A. Powell, Tamra Davis

National News
Spotlights Lisa Dennison: A deputy becomes director; Ned Rifkin: An overachieving undersecretary; Deborah Schwartz: Helping MoMA’s kids get Dada New York "Zero culture" Los Angeles New reverberations from Getty probe New Orleans Assessing damage, awaiting funds

International News
Trieste Italy and Slovenia: Competing claims Spotlight Gijs van Tuyl: Director in residence Singapore Pompidou and Guggenheim: Rivals and partners Ancona Leonardo attributions called into question Munich Linking to a lost past Paris American Center becomes film center

Prints
Edifice complex: Richard Haas explores the many forms of urban architecture through almost as many printing techniques
Deidre Stein Greben

Looking at Art
The page boy and the empty page: How a drawing Italian artist Gentile Bellini made for a Turkish ruler ended up inspiring a Spanish sculptor in a Boston museum
Alan Chong

Design
“No different from the Medicis”: Architect Peter Marino specializes in incorporating contemporary art into chic, modern designs for high-end fashion clients
Hilarie M. Sheets

Critic’s Pick: Liset Castillo
Rachel Somerstein

 

Reviews

NEW YORK Roy Lichtenstein; “Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark’s Fake Estates”; “The (S) Files”; Vincent van Gogh; James Rosenquist; Larry Bell; Carrie Mae Weems, Carolee Schneemann, and Jenny Perlin; Omer Fast; Santiago Cucullu; Ruth Orkin; Zak Smith; Bill Rice; Bruce Pearson; Katia Santibañez; Frederick Sommer; Charles Yoder; Chris Martin; Guenter A. Werner; Ken Kewley; Stephanie Diamond; R. Kenton Nelson

NATIONAL San Francisco Robert Adams; Gustavo Ramos Rivera; “25 Treasures”; Harvey Dinnerstein; Jason Wheatley; Isca Greenfield-Sanders; “East Coast/West Coast: Four Modernist Women”; Libby Black; “Fine Things” Santa Monica Waltercio Caldas Los Angeles Lia Halloran Philadelphia “Recent Modernist Sculpture” Waltham, Massachusetts Fred Tomaselli Chicago Nanette Carter Portland Tom Cramer Santa Fe Jorge Fick; Laura Gilpin Washington, DC Sylvia Snowden Miami “Hanging By a Thread”

INTERNATIONAL Paris "Dada" London Alison Wilding Basel Jeff Wall Geneva Alex Brown