(Volume 109/Number 5)

ARTnews  |  May 2010

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A Crime Waiting to Happen Milton Esterow

Two of the world's top art-theft sleuths discuss the heist from the Museum of Modern Art in Paris

Made Without Shades Amanda Gordon

Alex Katz looks behind Anna Wintour's signature sunglasses

What Made Castelli Run Milton Esterow

A new biography paints a well-rounded portrait of legendary dealer Leo Castelli

An Outsider Is Back In Judith Harris

Gadfly and provocateur Vittorio Sgarbi takes on the Venice Biennale

Self-Portrait as Muskrat, Monkey, and Mouse Barbara A. MacAdam

Mixing animal body parts with her own, genre-bending sculptor Rona Pondick makes hybrids that unite the emotional and the intellectual, the sublime and the grotesque

Playing God, Jesus, and Liberty Jeremy D. Goodwin

How a rock band restaged art-history classics for a music video that went viral

Collecting the Dots Carly Berwick

In a few decades, the seemingly abstract compositions of Australia's aboriginal artists have moved from body painting and sand mosaics to board to acrylics on canvas—and to the walls of major museums

Looks Like Teen Spirit Amanda Gordon

Thirty artists revisit the legacy of grunge-rock pioneer Kurt Cobain, leader of the band Nirvana

Making an Impact Barbara Pollack

The work of artists from Arab and North African countries is thriving, complex, and increasingly visible on the international scene

Why It's a Michelangelo Milton Esterow

A painting in the Metropolitan long attributed to the circle of Francesco Granacci is really by Michelangelo— according to experts who cite underdrawings, imagery, and aspects of the artist's own biography as clues

Also in this Issue

Self-Portrait as Muskrat, Monkey, and Mouse Barbara A. MacAdam

Mixing animal body parts with her own, genre-bending sculptor Rona Pondick makes hybrids that unite the emotional and the intellectual, the sublime and the grotesque

Breaking the Silence on Degas William D. Cohan

A Degas scholar questions the origin of a set of "recently discovered" plasters said to have been made during the artist's lifetime

Collecting the Dots Carly Berwick

In a few decades, the seemingly abstract compositions of Australia's aboriginal artists have moved from body painting and sand mosaics to board to acrylics on canvas–and to the walls of major museums

 

Departments

Art Talk
Daniel Guzmán, Alice Wheeler, Jordan Kantor, Slater Bradley, Banks Violette, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Douglas Gordon, Michael Darling, Elizabeth Peyton, Sam Durant, Jennifer West, Rodney Graham, David Freymond, Charles van den Boogaerde, Robin Montmusson, Simon Tordjman, Florence Villeminot, Anna Wintour, Alex Katz, Karen Levitov, Michael Landy, Damien Hirst, Gary Hume, Tracey Emin, Julian Opie, Gavin Turk, El Celso

News
SPOTLIGHT Vittorio Sgarbi: An outsider is back in ZWOLLE, THE NETHERLANDS Van Gogh's windmill power IN MEMORIAM Ernst Beyeler

Books
Leo and His Circle: The Life of Leo Castelli By Annie Cohen-Solal
Milton Esterow

Studio
Past Imperfect: Francesc Torres's theatrical installations explore the way we process history and memory
Roger Atwood

Critic's Pick
Roy Dowell: Collage Education
Hunter Drohojowska-Philp

 

Reviews

NEW YORK William Kentridge; Marina Abramovic; "Playing with Pictures"; Berenice Abbott; Irving Petlin; Diana Thater; "A Long-Forgotten Truth"; Craig Norton; Stephen Antonakos; Natalie Edgar; Julie Speed; Neil Folberg; Kukuli Velarde and Ian Ingram; Marcia Hafif; Deborah Turbeville; "Post-Gogol"; Nari Ward; Janet Malcolm; "Nobody Gets to See the Wizard"

NATIONAL Los Angeles "Urban Panoramas"; Michael Mararian San Francisco Celia Reisman Santa Monica Julio Valdez Laguna Beach, California "Winter Blue 20TEN" Chicago Jim Lutes Aspen Doug and Mike Starn Boston George Lloyd Philadelphia Isaac Tin Wei Lin New Orleans José Bedia

INTERNATIONAL Paris Paul Wallach London Luca Pancrazzi; David Reimondo Zurich Daniel Schwartz Geneva "Man-Made Jewels, Jewels of the Earth" Montreal Marcel Dzama Dublin Alice Maher