(Volume 107/Number 9)

ARTnews  |  October 2008

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The Church Gives Contemporary Art Its Blessing Judith Harris

As the Vatican tries to build bridges between the Catholic Church and living artists, it also makes plans to exhibit new works

Are Museum Trustees Out of Step? Milton Esterow

For all the talk about educating museum directors in the new challenges of the job, many say board members could use some training as well

ARTnews Retrospective

 

Also in this Issue

A Touch of Frankenstein Hilarie M. Sheets

The sleeping giants, sexy werewolves, and life-size birdmen that David Altmejd dreams up are rooted in classical sculpture—infused with a horror-film sensibility

The Spirit of 176 Pernilla Holmes

Anita and Poju Zabludowicz have converted a Methodist church in London’s Camden Town into an edgy exhibition space. It is the latest venue in their international effort to support emerging artists

Renaissance of a Modernist Stephen May

In the years before World War II, Aaron Douglas forged a bold new vocabulary that helped define a black esthetic. He is finally having his first retrospective

Building a Foundation Rebecca Robertson

From Rwanda’s genocide to the destruction of South American rain forests, photographers are not only documenting war and disaster—they are setting up foundations to help the victims

 

Departments

Art Talk
Manuel Schreiner, Silke Leicher, Marc McClelland, Guy Berryman, Nick Harmer, Ricky Wilson, David Maisel, Clare Rojas, Jens Hoffmann, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Eric Karpeles, Martin Puryear, Philip Roth, Alice Walker, William Gass, Jeannine O’Grody, Jonathan Rosen, Richard Prum, Gus Grissom, John Young, Roman Signer, Richard Tuttle, Liza Lou, Christopher Benfey

National News
COMMENTARY From lollipops to zigzags: The Museum of Arts and Design completes its transformation SPOTLIGHT Dan Cameron: Encouraging wards WASHINGTON, D.C. Grassley vs. Smithsonian: Making a federal case

International News
ROME Italy up in arms over a breast PARIS “Put these great paintings out there” POTSDAM Loss and return: Tracking the Red Army’s war trophies STOCKHOLM Separation anxiety TEL AVIV “Uniquely Israeli”

Conversation
Renzo Piano: Every building tells a story
Diana Ketcham

Books
The Forger’s Spell By Edward Dolnick • The Man Who Made Vermeers By Jonathan Lopez • Cézanne’s Bathers: Biography and the Erotics of Paint By Aruna D’Souza • Hiroshige: One Hundred Famous Views of Edo By Melanie Trede and Lorenz Bichler

Critic's Pick
Lars Tygesen: Abstracted aristocrats
Pernilla Holmes

 

Reviews

NEW YORK “After Nature”; “Photography on Photography”; Kevin Bubriski; Martín Ramírez; “Pretty Ugly”; Walton Ford; “(un)common threads”; Burt Barr; Paul Bloodgood, Leonard Bullock, and Greg Kwiatek; Edward Hopper; Tetsumi Kudo; Tom Ferrara; “The Good Life”; Joe Andoe; Asako Narahashi; Terri Garland; Charles Juhasz-Alvarado; Zhao Yi; Mircea Suciu; “Small Wonders”

NATIONAL Indianapolis Adrian Schiess Chicago “Portraying Food” Denver “The Body Is Art” Santa Fe Donald Woodman Naples, Florida Jerome Tupa San Francisco “In the Beginning”; Donald Feasél Houston Jason Salavon Portland, Oregon Ted Katz Scottsdale Matthew Moore Boston Antonio López García; David Prifti; Anish Kapoor; Kim Bernard; Michael Beatty; Luisa Rabbia; Graham Gillmore; Dave Cole; Ralph Humphrey

INTERNATIONAL London Matthew Ritchie; “Psycho Buildings” Zurich David Smith Paris “Expose” Berlin Michael Heizer Jerusalem “Real Time: Art in Israel 1998–2008” Bologna Luigi Ontani