(Volume 106/Number 10) ARTnews  |  November 2007


‘Interesting, Up to Date, and Absolutely Reliable’

Milton Esterow

The Top Ten ARTnews Stories

1. Naming the Dame Lindsay Pollock

The 1913 Armory Show inspired scathing reviews, a poem, and a contest

2. Capturing the Artist in Action Ann Landi

"Pollock Paints a Picture" chronicled the step-by-step process of a painter at work

3. ‘Not a Picture but an Event’ Barbara A. MacAdam

Harold Rosenberg coined the term "Action Painting" to describe a new style

4. A Modernist Manifesto Ann Landi

Meyer Schapiro explained why abstraction was revolutionary

5. The First Word on Pop Barbara A. MacAdam

A series of early interviews with the leaders of Pop art defined a movement

6. Exposing the Hidden 'He' Kim Levin

Linda Nochlin on why Picasso couldn’t have been born a girl

7. Making a Difference Sylvia Hochfield

The stories that helped make war loot a major international issue

8. Tracking the Trophy Brigade Sylvia Hochfield

Revealing the fate of artworks that disappeared into the Soviet Union after World War II

9. Sorting Out the Sunflowers Sylvia Hochfield

Timothy Ryback made sense of the heated debates over van Gogh forgeries

10. How Jeff Koons Became a Superstar Ann Landi

Kelly Devine Thomas tracked the way an artist shaped his own career

A Matter of Opinion

Some of the judgments published in ARTnews over the last 105 years are clunkers. Others are remarkably prescient

The ARTnews Quiz Robin Cembalest

See if you can guess who our critics are writing about

Famous in 2112? Sarah H. Bayliss and Ann Landi

Experts predict which artists the art world will be looking at 105 years from now

Art in the 22nd Century William Hanley

In the increasingly globalized, interconnected, and technically accelerated future, art might be anything, collecting will be easier, and museums might provide a place for “new forms of slowness”

 

Departments

Art Talk
Thom Yorke, Stanley Donwood, Paul Chan, Nato Thompson, Christopher McElroen, Wendell Pierce, Ingrid Calame, Phil Collins, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Michael Blakemore, David Ives, Graham Elliot Bowles, Bob Dylan, Charles Atlas, Marc Jacobs

National News
New York A new mission on the Bowery; Lowery Stokes Sims: “An open-ended portfolio”; André Emmerich: “Develop your eye, and then buy with your heart” Spotlight Graham Beal: “It all boils down to stories” North Adams, Massachusetts The case of the unfinished art New Haven, Connecticut Machu Picchu objects to leave Yale Washington, D.C. New vistas for Viso, Halbreich

International News
Cologne Controversy in a cathedral Spotlight Simon Groom: Bringing edginess to Edinburgh Amsterdam The Katz family claim Madrid Reina Sofía director resigns

Art Market
New York Betting the house; Creditors, clients sue dealer Nashville Sharing the Stieglitz collection

Working Habits Patricia Failing
Do the “Matter Paintings” Matter? While scientists say works found in 2002 are not by Jackson Pollock, a new exhibition proposes that Herbert Matter provided Pollock with important inspiration

Artful Traveler Victoria Newhouse
Burnishing the Bode: A refurbished East Berlin museum renews the eclectic vision of its founder

Critic’s Pick Richard B. Woodward
Brian Ulrich: The Tough Go Shopping

 

Reviews

NEW YORK Keith Tyson, “The Age of Rembrandt,” “The Geometry of Hope,” Mark Greenwold, Lee Krasner, Jan Henle, Wolfgang Laib, Lenore Malen, “Jumbie Camp,” Peter Schuyff, Carlos Vega, Mike Nelson, Emilio Perez, Jules de Balincourt, Deborah Kass, Hanno Otten, Sydney Blum, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Kunié Sugiura, Liset Castillo, Robert Selwyn

NATIONAL New Haven “Paul Mellon’s Legacy” Taos Richard Diebenkorn Santa Fe Larry Fodor Boston Frank Egloff San Francisco “The Delicate Triangle” Los Angeles Brenna Youngblood Atlanta Radcliffe Bailey Houston Erik Benson Sewickley, Pennsylvania Peter Calaboyias

INTERNATIONAL London Eric Fischl, Juan Bautista Nieto Paris “French Kiss” Berlin Angela Bulloch Düsseldorf Gregor Schneider Vienna Gelitin Zurich Andro Wekua