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Louis Vuitton on East 57th Street

WEEKEND UPDATE
by Walter Robinson

July 18, 2008

Nothing quite like a stroll along 57th Street on a hot July afternoon, the sidewalks thronged with tourists, the streets choked with traffic. The sun glitters on the facade of the art deco Fuller Building, and the windows of Louis Vuitton glow with vertical rows of sickly pastel fluorescent tubes. Inside the galleries, the spaces are cool, quiet and all but empty.
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June

July 16, 2008	THE RISE OF THE SUPERARTISTS by Ben Davis Takashi Murakami, Olafur Eliasson and today’s avant-garde.

July 14, 2008	THE IRAQI CENTURY OF ART by Ben Davis Mohammed al Hamadany’s Night of Fire and 100 years of struggle by Iraqi artists.

July 11, 2008	GOTHAM ART & THEATER by Elisabeth Kley Jane and Louise Wilson, Mat Collishaw, Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn, Tetsumi Kudo, Cameron Hayes, Dawn Mellor.

July 3, 2008	WEEKEND UPDATE by Walter Robinson Louise Bourgeois, "Dali and Film," "Retrospective" at Gagosian, Sarah Braman, Lower East Side galleries, more.

June

June 20, 2008	GOTHAM ART & THEATER by Elisabeth Kley Natsuki Uruma, E’wao Kagoshima, Kerry James Marshall, Laleh Khorramian and Ellen Cantor.

June 18, 2008	MALACHITE, MEISSEN, MOSCOW by Brook S. Mason Russians love the traditional English country house look, frothed up with continental trimmings.

June 18, 2008	BUILDING BLOCKS by Ben Davis David Byrne’s Playing the Building: Once in a lifetime experience, or road to nowhere?

June 16, 2008	PERIPHERAL VISION by Kimberly Bradley The second edition of the new Art Athina fair is all about being on the edge.

June 10, 2008	OLYMPIAN SWAGGER by Brook S. Mason The Olympia International Art & Antiques Fair goes contemporary.

June 10, 2008	MOSCOW EXPRESS by Kate Sutton Art Moscow 2008, the World Fine Art Fair, the new MCAA, Volker Diehl, Gary Tatinsian, Dmitry Prigov, more.

June 6, 2008	BASELMANIA 2008 by Walter Robinson Esthetic delirium in the art fair city.

June 5, 2008	TREASURING CRETE by N.F. Karlins "From the Land of the Labyrinth" at the Onassis Cultural Center.

June 4, 2008	LONDON DISPATCH by Laura K. Jones Gary Webb, the Hix Oyster and Chop, John Currin, Nicholas of London, Harland Miller, Mat Collishaw, Brenda Beban, Mustafa Hulusi, Keith Coventry, more.

June 3, 2008	BIG AT BASEL by Walter Robinson Art 39 Basel opens with "Art Unlimited" and "Art Statements."

May

May 28, 2008	ARTNET.DE DIGEST by Kimberly Bradley Berlin’s "Gallery Weekend," the new "Hallen am Wasser" gallery district, and the Boros Collection art bunker.

May 27, 2008	GOTHAM ART & THEATER by Elisabeth Kley Jonathan Meese, Otto Muehl, Joan Mitchell, Gert & Uwe Tobias, David Altmejd, Rachel Feinstein, Delia Brown, Robert Hawkins.

May 23, 2008	FIRE AND ICE by Ben Davis Sexual dysfunction and environmental consciousness at the Reykjavik Arts Festival in Iceland.

May 19, 2008	ATLAS OF MINDSCAPES by Robert G. Edelman For Pier Pizzi Cannella, a map is a mystery.

May 16, 2008	HAPPENING NOW by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Sotheby’s contemporary does a record-setting $362 million.

May 12, 2008	WEEKEND UPDATE by Walter Robinson Superhero fashion, Serge Spitzer, celebrating Tony Shafrazi, more.

May 9, 2008	THE BILLY PAPPAS PROBLEM by Ben Davis Julie Checkoway’s documentary Waiting for Hockney raises questions about the sociology of art.

May 9, 2008	ARTNET DESIGN by Brook S. Mason Wendell Castle, Wright sells Louis Kahn and more, and Sebastian+Barquet on a roll.

April

Apr. 30, 2008	SEAT ASSIGNMENT by Ben Street A provocative and elegant installation by Hans Schabus at the Barbican Art Gallery, London.

Apr. 30, 2008	ARTNET.DE DIGEST by Kimberly Bradley The Gregor Schneider "dying" controversy, Jean Fabre in the Louvre, Berlin art-fair news.

Apr. 28, 2008	THE INSIDER’S OUTSIDER by Ben Davis Henry Darger’s "unrealism" and the anxiety of influence.

Apr. 25, 2008	CINEMA HIRSHHORNA by Sidney Lawrence "The Cinema Effect" at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.

Apr. 22, 2008	CLAUDE AT THE CLARK by Paul Jeromack Inside a major museum acquisition of drawings by Claude Lorrain.

Apr. 18, 2008	GOTHAM ART & THEATER by Elisabeth Kley Marcel Dzama, Henry Darger, Angelo Filomeno, Hope Atherton, Peter Hujar, Mika Tajima, Glen Fogel, Eric Heist.

Apr. 16, 2008	SHADOW DANCING by Kimberly Bradley Confrontations and confusion in the 5th Berlin Biennale.

Apr. 16, 2008	ANIMAL KINGDOM by Sarah Canner Liu Jia’s "Social Fables" at Galerie Vallois.

Apr. 14, 2008	PUERTO RICAN SUN by Walter Robinson Art and artists at the third annual Circa Puerto Rico art fair.

Apr. 11, 2008	ART IN FLUX by Ben Davis Flux Factory’s final show marks the end of an era.

Apr. 8, 2008	LONDON DISPATCH by Laura K. Jones Thomas Scheibitz, Angus Fairhurst, Derek Jarman, Les Blank, Michael Landy, more.

Apr. 7, 2008	WEEKEND UPDATE by Walter Robinson Warhol’s Jews, Rauschenberg’s ecology, Ashley Bickerton, Ryan McGinley, Daniel Richter, "Substraction," more.

Apr. 2, 2008	CARIBBEAN CACHET by Pedro Velez The Museo de Arte de Ponce is one great museum in the Caribbean.

March

Mar. 28, 2008	FAIR WEATHER? by Walter Robinson The Armory, Volta, Scope, Pulse, LA Art, Bridge, more.

Mar. 24, 2008	HELLO DUBAI by Ana Finel Honigman Art Dubai, the Creek Art Fair, more.

Mar. 20, 2008	ARTNET.DE DIGEST by Kimberly Bradley Surrend controversy at Galerie Nord, galleries leave Cologne for Berlin, more.

Mar. 18, 2008	STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO by Brian Andrews Jens Haaning, Paul McCarthy, Nicholas Graham, Albert Reyes, Packard Jennings, Steve Lambert, Paul Shambroom, more.

Mar. 14, 2008	REALISM AND VOYEURISM by Michèle C. Cone Gustave Courbet liked to see what he was not supposed to see.

Mar. 13, 2008	PLAYING WITH FIRE by Alexandra Anderson-Spivy Cai Guo-Qiang’s "I Want to Believe" at the Guggenheim Museum.

Mar. 13, 2008	CAI GUO-KILLER by Ben Davis In the basement with Chinese art star Cai Guo-Qiang.

Mar. 12, 2008	THE NEW NEW CHIC by Brook S. Mason Deco arts stylish reign at TEFAF Maastricht 08.

Mar. 10, 2008	WEEKEND UPDATE by Walter Robinson Jane Simpson, John F. Simon Jr., the Whitney Biennial, the New Museum, Hannah Wilke, Dennis Kardon, more.

Mar. 7, 2008	RAVE ON by Ben Davis A "rave review" for the Whitney’s 2008 biennial.

Mar. 5, 2008	MIDDLE EASTERN ALLURE by Brook S. Mason New art fairs, and new challenges, in the United Arab Emirates.

Mar. 4, 2008	FOLK HEROINE by N.F. Karlins A retrospective of the celebrated self-taught painter Malcah Zeldis.

February

Feb. 21, 2008	PHANTOM SENSATIONS by Kathryn Garcia Andreas Hofer’s end-of-art funhouse.

Feb. 20, 2008	LONDON DISPATCH by Laura K. Jones Rachel Howard, The Approach, Roman Signer, Poppy de Villeneuve, Germaine Kruip, Darren Almond, Paul Pfeiffer, Marc Quinn, Peter Doig, more.

Feb. 19, 2008	LYRICAL NEW YORK by Ilka Scobie Yvonne Jacquette and Rudy Burckhardt at the Museum of the City of New York.

Feb. 15, 2008	THE BLING GAME by Ben Davis Say hello to Luis Gispert’s little friend.

Feb. 15, 2008	CAPITAL ROUNDUP by Sidney Lawrence A Panda pick-me-up, roller-coaster moods and New York nostalgia on 14th Street. Plus, D.C.’s new Norman Foster courtyard.

Feb. 14, 2008	ARTNET.DE DIGEST by Kimberly Bradley Berlin as part MySpace, part iTunes. Plus, Alexander Bühler, Roman Lipski, Brian Alfred, Roman Schramm, more.

Feb. 13, 2008	Alas and Alack at LACMA by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp The elephant in the room at LACMA’s new Broad Contemporary Art Museum.

Feb. 4, 2008	GARDEN OF LIFE by Julia Morton Dieu Donné celebrates the life and work of New York artist Alan Shields (1944-2005)

January

Jan. 30, 2008	L.A. CONFIDENTIAL by Walter Robinson Michael Asher at SMMoA, ART LA 2008 and the Los Angeles Art Show, Culver City galleries, more.

Jan. 29, 2008	PAIN WITHOUT INJURY by Eliza Slavet Works by Avi Alpert & Steven Lam, Steve Ausbury and Olen Hsu at PS122 Gallery.

Jan. 25, 2008	THE POLITICS OF PORCELAIN by N.F. Karlins The porcelain of the European Courts at Bard.

Jan. 25, 2008	L.A. CONFIDENTIAL by Emma Gray Doug Harvey’s "Third Annual L.A. Weekly Biennial" at Track 16 Gallery.

Jan. 24, 2008	GATEWAY TO NOWHERE by Ben Davis Do-Ho Suh’s Reflection and art’s power to forget.

Jan. 15, 2008	WEEKEND UPDATE by Walter Robinson Robert Rauschenberg, Al Taylor, Judith Bernstein, Joyce Pensato, Max Schumann, more.

Jan. 11, 2008	COMMERCE AND CONSCIOUSNESS by Ben Davis The year in "complicit esthetics."

Jan. 11, 2008	RAY OF LIGHT by Ben Street Rediscovering Anthony McCall’s Line Describing a Cone.

Jan. 10, 2008	PARIS AFLICKER by Sarah Canner Victor Erice, Abbas Kiarostami, Jim Shaw, Ariane Michel, Elina Brotherus, Bruno Serralongue.

Jan. 3, 2008	MODERNISM & MATERIAL by Walter Robinson "Drawing in Space" at Richard Feigen & Co.

December

Dec. 24, 2007	MIAMI POST MORTEM by Ben Davis The "social unconscious" in Art Basel Miami Beach and beyond.

Dec. 21, 2007	ARTNET.DE DIGEST by Kimberly Bradley New directors for Berlin museums, Heiner Bastian builds, Hamburger Bahnhof sold, "white cube" for Berlin, more.

Dec. 20, 2007	ARTNET DESIGN by Brook S. Mason Marcus Tremonto, gallery bling, Robert M. Kulicke and Bessie Jamieson, Armand Rateau, Tony Duquette, more.

Dec. 19, 2007	NEW DELHI IN THE OLD WORLD by Alice Savorelli Contemporary Indian art comes to Milan, courtesy Primo Marella Gallery.

Dec. 14, 2007	HEARTS OF DARKNESS by Pedro Velez Art vs. economic oppression in works by Steve McQueen and Hubert Sauper.

Dec. 12, 2007	EVERYDAY PARIS by N.F. Karlins Gabriel de Saint-Aubin was the Manet of the Enlightenment.

Dec. 11, 2007	QUIET TIME by Roberta Fallon Eileen Neff at the Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art.

Dec. 10, 2007	ONE MORE ON MIAMI by Walter Robinson CIFO, car karma, Catherine Sullivan, Margulies, Aqua, photo fairs, "Art & Value," etc.

Dec. 7, 2007	MIAMI MYASTHENIA by Walter Robinson Art Miami, Scope, the Rubell Collection, NADA, the Miami Art Museum, Design Miami, more.

Dec. 7, 2007	PATTERNS AND POSSIBILITIES by Adrian Dannatt An exhibition of new paintings by the celebrated School of Paris artist, Françoise Gilot.

Dec. 6, 2007	MIAMI EN GARDE by Walter Robinson Art Basel Miami Beach, Flow, Joe’s Stone Crab, etc.

Dec. 6, 2007	POSERS AND ROCKERS by Pedro Velez The Chicago MCA ventures a show on art and rock music.

Dec. 5, 2007	MIAMI IN PIECES by Walter Robinson Grilled meats, Pulse, Geisai, bathroom breaks, Jorge Pardo, Carlos Amorales, Emmanuel Perrotin, more.

Dec. 4, 2007	WESTERN PROMISES by Ben Davis Piotr Uklanski’s ""Western"" Summer Love.

November

Nov. 29, 2007	PARIS IN THE FALL by Michèle C. Cone "The Third Mind" at the Palais de Tokyo, the new Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine, Diaspora, Alexander Ponomarev, more.

Nov. 27, 2007	NEW LIVES FOR OLD by Jane Harris Surviving Wooloo Productions’ Life Exchange.

Nov. 27 2007	SAN FRANCISCO HAPPENINGS by Brian Andrews Olafur Elaisson, Douglas Gordon, Takeshi Murata, Will Rogan, Tracy Timman, Liz Walsh, Tony Labat, Nathan Redwood, more.

Nov. 19, 2007	DISASTER TEAM by Ben Davis The beauty of drowning Africans in Isaac Julien and Russell Maliphant’s "Cast No Shadow."

Nov. 12, 2007	GUY SMILEY by Ben Davis Yue Minjun, human logo.

Nov. 2, 2007	NEW YORK PRINT REPORT by Deborah Ripley Prize works at two art fairs during Print Week in New York.

Nov. 2, 2007	ARTNET DESIGN by Brook S. Mason Salander’s dec arts, Yonel Lebovici, a Mediaeval renaissance in New York, more.

October

Oct. 31, 2007	UNDONE AT ALTRIA by Leah Modigliani The Whitney Museum bids farewell to its Altria branch with a show about "unraveling."

Oct. 26, 2007	LONDON CALLING by Joe La Placa During "Frieze Week" in London, the Zoo Art Fair was the most exciting venue for new art.

Oct. 26, 2007	THE CONTRA IRAN AFFAIR by Ben Davis Shirana Shahbazi’s new work reacts against images of Iran, in a veiled way.

Oct. 25, 2007	THE VIENNA MINUTE by Abraham Orden Herbert Brandl, Svenja Deininger, Tillman Kaiser, Marina Faust, more.

Oct. 23, 2007	OUT AT FRIEZE by Mary Barone The Frieze Art Fair in London.

Oct. 19, 2007	FORCE OF CULTURE by N.F. Karlins Hidden depths in the drawings of Domenico Zindato.

Oct. 18, 2007	CAPITAL ROUNDUP by Sidney Lawrence Renée Stout, Chuck Close tapestries, Jiha Moon, Ian Whitmore, Olga Viso, Jane Jerardi, Nathan Baker, more.

Oct. 17, 2007	ARTNET.DE DIGEST by Kimberly Bradley Controversy from the Cardinal, Art Forum Berlin, Zhang Huan’s ash Buddha at Haunch of Venison, more.

Oct. 12, 2007	L.A. CONFIDENTIAL by Emma Gray Sharon Levy, William Pope.L, Benjamin Butler, Ruben Ochoa, Matthew Spiegelman, more.

Oct. 11, 2007	ABORIGINAL LONDON by Ben Street "Rarrk London" presents over 100 works by 15 Aboriginal artists.

Oct. 11, 2007	ALL THIS USELESS BOOTY by Ben Davis Julie Heffernan’s anti-history painting.

Oct. 5, 2007	DREAM WEAVER by Carlo McCormick Isaac Abrams’ psychonautical adventures.

September

Sept. 27, 2007	MAN AND SUPERMAN by Ben Davis Shaun El C. Leonardo, budding superartist.

Sept. 26, 2007	ARTNET DESIGN by Brook S. Mason Friedman Benda, Breuer at Wright, MacBain’s bags, Nan Kempner, Noguchi, Jansen furniture, John Beresford Fowler, more.

Sept. 25, 2007	APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION by Brian Skar The 1st Athens Biennial, "Her(his)tory" and "Re-Map KM" in Athens.

Sept. 20, 2007	SHCONSUMER SHCONFIDENCE by Summer Kumar A promising start for ShContemporary, the new Shanghai art fair.

Sept. 19, 2007	WEEKEND UPDATE by Walter Robinson Sol LeWitt, Huma Bhabha, Arlene Shechet, more.

Sept. 11, 2007	WEEKEND UPDATE by Walter Robinson Keith Tyson, Larry Clark, Jessica Craig-Martin, Jedediah Caesar, Damien Hirst, more.

Sept. 16, 2007	PUERTO RICAN SUN by Pedro Velez Open season with Ada Bobonis and Karlo Ibarra.

August

Aug. 16, 2007	Art and Politics by Jane Harris A modest "Resistance Is. . ." at the Whitney Museum.

Aug. 16, 2007	GETTING INTIMATE AT YALE by N.F. Karlins Tokens of love and respect from the Jane Katcher Collection of Americana.

Aug. 15, 2007	THE MINUTE by Abraham Orden Banks Violette, Dash Snow and Dan Colen, group show highlights, more.

Aug. 9, 2007	ART IN THE WOODS by Walter Robinson Ann-Sofi Siden, David Hammons, Nate Loman, Serge Spitzer and more at Artbarn in Qiuogue on Long Island.

Aug. 3, 2007	NEW WORLD AT SALZBURG by Brook S. Mason The new Salzburg World Fine Art Fair mixes Mozart sonatas and Meissen porcelain with the occasional avant-garde piece.

Aug. 1, 2007	FAIR FLIP-FLOPS by Ben Davis Commerce and/or personality at the third Scope Hamptons.

July

July 27, 2007	WEEKEND UPDATE by Walter Robinson Martin Creed at Bard, "What Is Painting" at MoMA, "The Shapes of Space" at the Guggenheim, more.

July 27, 2007	THE ART OF WINNERS by Paul H-O Ron Rocheleau his roster of art-star money shots.

July 26, 2007	LEFT COAST by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Richard Ross, Renée Petropoulos and "L.A. Object."

July 23, 2007	L.A. CONFIDENTIAL by Emma Gray Boy Los Angeles, with Chris Beas, Amir H. Fallah, Dan Ho and Osman Khan, plus Lynn Hershman, galleries in Chinatown, more.

July 20, 2007	GLOBALIZED FEMINISM by Ben Davis Can Miwa Yanagi dismantle the master’s house with the master’s tools?

July 19, 2007	ROME OPEN CITY by Kristen Lorello Negotiating issues of space and structure in Rome’s contemporary art scene.

July 16, 2007	ARTNET DESIGN by Brook S. Mason Art & realty, Ezra Stoller, collectible textiles, Russian modernist architecture, Macklowe redesigns, more.

July 10, 2007	CHINA SUMMER by Summer Kumar A dissected brontosaurus in Beijing, deserted amusement parks in Shanghai.

July 9, 2007	WEEKEND UPDATE by Walter Robinson More on Robert Storr’s "thinking with the senses, seeing with the mind".

July 3, 2007	LIGHT TOUCH by Ben Street Paul Chan’s epic, fantastical animations at the Serpentine Gallery in London.

June

June 28, 2007	POP TRIBAL by N.F. Karlins The Phantom makes a surprise appearance on fighting shields from Papua New Guinea.

June 25, 2007	MÜNSTER MINUTE by Abraham Orden Public art and its problems at Skulptur Projekte Münster 2007.

June 18, 2007	ART CAPITAL by Walter Robinson The market triumphs at Art 38 Basel.

June 15, 2007	LOST IN SPACE by Walter Robinson Documenta 12 roams the globe and finds. . . what?

June 13, 2007	POWER PLAY by Ben Davis Tom Friedman’s aluminum foil sculptures are portraits of Aby Rosen as a "fun" guy.

June 13, 2007	L.A. CONFIDENTIAL by Emma Gray "Eden’s Edge" and "Sans Soleil" on the future of Los Angeles.

June 12, 2007	RED IS THE COLOR by Alice Savorelli New works by Pino Pinelli in Milan.

June 11, 2007	CACCIA AL TESORO by Walter Robinson The art-lover’s "treasure hunt" during the Venice Biennale 2007.

June 8, 2007	KVETCH FEST by Walter Robinson The 52nd Venice Biennale leaves ‘em griping.

June 7, 2007	THE MINUTE by Abraham Orden Devin Leonardi, Wayne Gonzales, David Ratcliff, Richard Tuttle, Tim Hawkinson, Jason Meadows, Barbara Bloom, Anselm Reyle, more.

June 6, 2007	SYGHRONI ELLINIKI by Walter Robinson Art Athina 2007 takes the Greek art scene to a new level.

May

May 31, 2007	NOUS VOILA! by Walter Robinson Montreal, Canada’s French "Sin City," is the country’s "art central."

May 27, 2007	MEMORIES OF PAST TIME by Adrian Dannatt Painter Duncan Hannah summons a specifically English esthetic.

May 25, 2007	ARTNET DESIGN by Sheldon LaPierre The new art and design scene in Los Angeles.

May 25, 2007	AFTER THE DELUGE by Mary Rinebold Agathe Snow plans a post-apocalyptic future.

May 23, 2007	THAT’S THE SPIRIT by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Marnie Weber provides a feminized variant of testosterone-driven West Coast installation art.

May 21, 2007	WEEKEND UPDATE by Walter Robinson Marc Quinn, Tony Cragg, Damián Ortega, Roxy Paine, Mr., Betty Tompkins, Markus Lüpertz, Darby Bannard, more.

May 18, 2007	CAPITAL ROUNDUP by Sidney Lawrence Washington, D.C., goes for the brass ring with its own art fair.

May 16, 2007	HOLLOW LAUGHER by Ben Davis David Godbold answers the question: Why isn’t postmodern art funnier?

May 14, 2007	SALES, SALES, SALES by Brook S. Mason Anna and Brian Haughton’s International Fine Art Fair reveals a masterful and changing market.

May 11, 2007	PINAULT AND CO. by Ben Davis A glorious romance with power in "Sequence 1" at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice.

May 7, 2007

THE MINUTE
by Abraham Orden
Dana Schutz, Josh Smith, Hannah Van Bart, Katharina Wulff, Shana Moulton,