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This December, our focus is design. We explore the new boundary-free (or at least porous) relationship between the art and design scenes, with artists and designers increasingly tapping into the same tools, technologies, and art-historical precedents. We profile Mika Rottenberg, who combines sculpture and video to create installations that are one part Karl Marx and one part P. T. Barnum. We cover the opening of the retrospective of Ilya and Emilia Kabakov in Moscow—and explain what the spectacle says about contemporary Russia.

And in a special investigation, we report on the multiple problems plaguing the Dalí sculpture market, where questionable posthumous casts and legal conflict abound.

Glitz and Garbage

The Kabakov retrospective in Moscow revealed more about contemporary Russia than it did about the artists
The Dalí Sculpture Mess

A flood of posthumous sculpture by Salvador Dalí generates millions of dollars in annual revenue—but the artist’s connection with much of the work is unclear. The market is rife with unreliable information, disputed ownership claims, unauthorized editions, and legal conflict. At least two European police investigations are under way

Next month, we profile artists to watch in the fields of sculpture, performance, video, installation, and other cutting-edge genres. We talk to Vera Lutter about her handmade, one-of-a-kind black-and-white pinhole photographs of sites such as the neon Pepsi-Cola sign in Queens.

And we report on the gathering of major conservators at a warehouse in Maryland where paintings by Clyfford Still, most of them never seen in public, are being treated and made ready for exhibition in the new Denver museum devoted to the artist.