(Volume 106/Number 2)

ARTnews  |  February 2007

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‘We’re Finally Infiltrating’ Phoebe Hoban

This year’s slate of major shows, books, and panels on feminist art reflects the rise of powerful female curators, art historians, and—notably—patrons, who are working to change art institutions from the inside

Where the Great Women Artists Are Now Barbara A. MacAdam

Linda Nochlin on the many faces of contemporary feminist art

Also in this Issue

Saying the F-Word Jori Finkel

For many artists, the question of whether to define themselves—or their work—as feminist provokes soul-searching and anxiety

Wrapping the World Barbara Pollack

As she progressed from textile works to performance to video, Kimsooja embraced the methods of Conceptual artists, the sensibility of Minimalism, and a feminist perspective, but she rejects all labels

Going Public Nora FitzGerald

A new generation of Russian entrepreneurs are showcasing their acquisitions in grand exhibition spaces

 

Departments

Art Talk
Jason Schmidt, Brice Marden, Charlie Rose, Meryle Secrest, Karl Rove, Tony Snow, Lauren Graham, Kelly Bishop, Kiki Smith, Edward Herrmann, Olafur Eliasson, Renée Cox, John Loengard, Ted Nash, Michael Craig-Martin, Anya Gallaccio, Paul Morrison, Alex Katz, Ada Katz, Richard Phillips, Marilyn Minter

National News
Spotlight Elizabeth A. Sackler: Getting the Party started Cleveland Fracas over fractals Stony Brook, New York The archeologist in exile Philadelphia Operation to save The Gross Clinic a success New York MoMA creates new curatorial post; Robert Rosenblum: Professor of marvels; Robert Volpe: New York’s first “art cop”; Allan Stone: “Citizen Stone”

International News
Athens Greece expands antiquities pursuit Spotlight Francesco Buranelli: Bringing Picasso to the Vatican Vienna The riddle of the sphinx Florence After the deluge Paris Giving a boost to French art Amsterdam “Too little cultural diversity”?

Art Market
New York American beauty; Koons’s copy all right Miami Beach Even shopping bags sell out at Art Basel

Studio
The Persistence of Memory: Cuban émigré María Magdalena Campos-Pons’s photographs and multimedia installations reflect her longing for her homeland
by Hilarie M. Sheets

Looking at Art
In a Doll’s House: A month after a curator visited Armando Reverón’s home studio near Caracas, the complex was buried by a mud slide. It lives on in the photos he took on a rainy November day
by John Elderfield

Critic's Pick
Sayaka Akiyama: Stitches of time
by Kay Itoi

 

Reviews

New York “Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s”; “The Food Show: The Hungry Eye”; Ellsworth Kelly; John Currin; Fiona Rae; Roz Chast; Alan Magee; Martin Kline; Laurie Fendrich; Horst; Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne; Jane Benson; Elena Sarni; Edwin Cohen; John Ransom Phillips; J. Morgan Puett; Leora Laor; Janet Biggs; David Bailey

NATIONAL Cleveland “Barcelona and Modernity” Annandale-on-Hudson, New York “Wrestle” Los Angeles Mark Bradford Boston Chuck Holtzman West Palm Beach, Florida Bernard Plossu San Pedro, California Peter Plagens San Francisco “Furnishing Assumptions” Seattle Whiting Tennis Chicago Conrad Freiberg Santa Fe Lissa Hunter

INTERNATIONAL London “Flowers & Questions”; Ianthe Ruthven Paris Anselm Kiefer Bern, Switzerland Meret Oppenheim Tokyo Shinro Ohtake Luxembourg “Eldorado”