(Volume 99/Number 2)

ARTnews  |  February 2000

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Lights, Action, Camera! Barbara Pollack

Taking its cue from movie directors, a generation of photographers is creating staged pictures to depict suburban nightmares, adolescent fantasies, and futuristic daydreams

Also in this Issue

Eclectic Eye Susie Linfield

Tracey Moffattundefineds images can be lurid, wicked, delicate, sexy, sly, tough, and perversely lovely

Other Faces, Other Rooms David Galloway

Thomas Ruff explores new techniques and pictorial sources to reveal the poetry of the commonplace

Moving Pictures Brigid Grauman

Baroness Marion Lambert has transformed her contemporary-photography collection into a provocative traveling show

The Frame-Up Daniel B. Schneider

Fashions in frames are changing. Pictures that were edged with simple strips ten years ago are being ornately reframed today. As the interest in frames grows, prized examples fetch huge prices

Lifting the Veil Leslie Camhi

Shirin Neshat uses video and photographs to explore the status of women in Islam

Spreading Chagall's Message Laurie Attias

An intimately connected group of heirs protects and upholds the legacy of one of the centuryundefineds most prolific artists

 

Departments

Letters

Art Talk
Richard Serra; Damien Hirst; Thomas Woodruff; Nan Goldin; Jodie Foster; Leni Riefenstahl; Peter Greenaway; Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec; Ewan McGregor; Nicole Kidman; Wayne Thiebaud; Robert Rauschenberg; Sylvia Sidney; Brassaï; Leonardo da Vinci; Pat Steir

National News
Washington, D.C. Latin quarters Spotlight Bonnie Clearwater: Miami Rhapsody
Los Angeles Getty villa to grow St. Louis Donation denied New York A daily arts deficit; Remembering Paul Cadmus

International News
Venice A new Guggenheim for Italy Tirgu Jiu, Romania Brancusiundefineds column to rise again Tel Aviv Staying in the wings Spotlight Angela Rosengartundefineds gift Berlin Out in the cold Puerto de Santa Maria, Spain Bequest battle London Keeping the marbles London Swiss agreement modified Singapore Square goes 3-D

City Focus: Madrid
Spanish Revival: With a flurry of openings, additions, and expansions, Madrid feels the effects of a healthy economy George Stolz

Art Market
Paris Pictures of success; Island discovery Vienna The rush for Russian
Berlin Banner year at Grisebach Tokyo Bankundefineds loss is marketundefineds gain

Looking at Art
Duchamp’s Erotic Souvenir
Looking at Art

Duchamp's Erotic Souvenir: Does the Bilboquet commemorate a night on the town?

Design
New Rhythm on Broadway: Bernard Tschumiundefineds dazzling new building for Columbia University bridges traditions with glass, steel, and an Erector-set esthetic Paula Deitz

Books
The Cultural Collaborators: In The Faustian Bargain, Jonathan Petropoulos chronicles the role art professionals played in the Nazi looting bureaucracyundefinedand how they got away with it
Hugh Eakin

 

Reviews

Our far-flung critics assess exhibitions in New York; San Francisco; Santa Monica; Chicago; Washington, D.C.; Santa Fe; Dallas; Aspen; Cologne; Paris; London;
Prague; Hong Kong