(Volume 108/Number 3)

ARTnews  |  March 2009

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Artists Who Make a Killing Steve Barnes

Why characters with an artistic side make such convincing villains

Inconvenient Truths Robin Cembalest

The trouble with placing time limits on war-loot claims

A New Creativity? Ann Landi

Now that the days of glitz and glamour in the art market are over, how will creativity be affected? Some artists, curators, museum directors, and dealers predict a new seriousness. Others warn against bohemian fantasy. But all agree the conversation has changed

How to Buy in 2009 Milton Esterow

Experts explain where the values are—and what to avoid—in the current market

Also in this Issue

Berlin Rising Eric Bryant

Two hundred new galleries in the last three years, changes in museum leadership, and an innovative Kunsthalle and art fair signal the ascendance of the German capital

Turning Rooms into Cameras Edith Newhall

Vera Lutter builds pinhole cameras and develops enormous black-and-white prints of vernacular architecture, creating images at once surreal and sublime

 

Departments

Art Talk
Clive Barker, Brooke Shields, Bradley Cooper, Pablo Helguera, Yana Peel, Julian Opie, Megumi Sasaki, Herb and Dorothy Vogel, Michael Fassbender, Liam Cunningham, Steve McQueen, Jeremy Irons, Joan Allen, Michael Jacobs, James Hall, Annie Leibovitz, Robin Rhode

National News
PORTLAND, OREGON A loophole for loot? DETROIT Big moves on campus LOS ANGELES Coosje van Bruggen: A partner in pop CHADDS FORD, PENNSYLVANIA Wyeth’s world

International News
LONDON Sir Michael Levey: A knight with a common touch PARIS Dina Vierny: Maillol’s muse BEIJING China’s new years

Looking at Art
Sharing a Meal: Three artistic rivals—Titian, Tintoretto, and Veronese—painted the Supper at Emmaus. Titian devised the prototype. The youthful Tintoretto challenged him, and Veronese had the last word. All three versions are on view in a spectacular show of Venetian Renaissance painting in Boston
Frederick Ilchman

Critic's Pick
Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova: Don’t Fence Him In
Elisa Turner

 

Reviews

NEW YORK Nayland Blake; “Five Decades of Passion,” “Imagination Noir,” “Jasper Johns: The Screenprints”; Al Held; Stanley William Hayter; Charles White; E. Ambrose Webster; Andrew Eccles; Vincent Desiderio; Alex Melamid; “Chinese Political Pop”; Robert Kelly; Katerina Lanfranco; Lee Jung-Woong; “Gallery Group”; Stephen Pace; Sheldon Berkowitz

NATIONAL Miami “30 Americans” Key West, Florida Mario Sanchez Chicago “Modern and Postwar American Art” Kansas City, Missouri Ki Yoon Ko and Hendrik Kerstens Los Angeles Wolfgang Tillmans Washington, D.C. Leo Rubinfien San Francisco “Synchronies”; Franz Kline; Harvey Dinnerstein; William Wylie; Piotr Strelnik

INTERNATIONAL London Oleg Vassiliev; Mai-Thu Perret Berlin Sigmar Polke Paris Maria Nepomuceno; Marc Brandenburg