ARTnews summer 2007 - 200 Top Collectors by luc_


The Top 10 Milton Esterow
‘The Offer-You-Can’t-Refuse Market’

The ARTnews 200 Top Collectors The Editors of ARTnews
Messaging Is the Medium David Ng
ARTnews Retrospective

‘The Poet of Sitting’ David Galloway
Franz West’s furniture reflects his drive to erode the boundaries between art and everyday life. For him, sofas are instruments of communication

The Great Dictators William Feaver
Images of tyrants by Picasso and Warhol speak volumes about celebrity, 20th-century portraiture—and the artists themselves

Fake Tiepolos and the Cabbage Patch Queen Peter Plagens
Taking off from the Old Masters, George Condo paints grotesque yet appealing figures that exist somewhere in the territory where Francis Bacon meets Hans Bellmer


- Departments

Art Talk
Thomas Kinkade, Danielle Ganek, Steve Martin, Red Grooms, Eric Fischl, Marc Quinn, Gilbert & George, Alan Yentob, Harland Miller, Jarvis Cocker, Robert Descharnes, Lucian Freud

National News
Spotlight William Griswold: “I knew I’d never have another chance” Los Angeles Fighting over Adam and Eve; Elizabeth Taylor keeps her van Gogh Toledo Nathan heirs press claim New York North of Chelsea, south of Beacon; James Beck: A conservation conservative

International News
Paris Evolution of a bordello; Modigliani’s clouded legacy; Court upholds conviction in Giacometti case Zurich Pissarro lost and found Amsterdam Seeking to “close the chapter”; Dutch debate artist subsidies Moscow Prankster art can’t leave Russia Rome Italian court: Send Venus to Libya; Bureaucrats out, antiquities in Vienna Krems settles claim; Summer Night returned to Mahler heir Düsseldorf Jörg Immendorff: A painter of the postwar landscape

Studio
Calling In the Troops: To select the motifs in their paintings, Heather and Eric ChanSchatz poll collaborators including restaurant managers, museum board members, and U.S. soldiers in Iraq
Hilarie M. Sheets

Studio
Making the Car Alarms Sing: Inspired by mistakes and mistranslations, Nina Katchadourian makes them her subject.
Carly Berwick

Working Habits
Stand Still and Dance: In Matisse’s sculpture, a motionless figure can spring into movement
Jack Flam

Looking at Art
Socket to Me: A curator seeks to decipher a mysterious collage by Jay DeFeo
Anne Wilkes Tucker

Books
Robert Rauschenberg: Cardboards and Related Pieces By Yve-Alain Bois • George Inness: Writings and Reflections on Art and Philosophy Edited by Adrienne Baxter Bell • Voyages of the Self By Barbara Novak • Lola Alvarez Bravo By Elizabeth Ferrer • Evidence Photographs by Mona Kuhn, short story by Frederic Tuten, essay by Gordon Baldwin • The Sun over Breda By Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Artful Traveler
A Treasure-House of Tesserae: Mosaics are the main attraction of Tunis’s Bardo Museum
Judith H. Dobrzynski

Living with Art
Dynamic Ceramics: Alice and Halsey North serve from, eat off, and even wear their Japanese pottery
Hilarie M. Sheets

Critic's Pick
Rannva Kunoy: The Power of Suggestion
Pernilla Holmes