Stories Collection

  1. The refined spareness of David Hunter's new paintings and drawings was well suited to...
  2. Manabu Yamanaka's exhibition was titled "Gyahtei," a Buddhist term meaning "great age...
  3. Charles Olson's new, mid-to-large-scale acrylics on canvas and paper offer pleasures ...
  4. Peter Stephens, a young artist based in Buffalo, is as much translator as he is paint...
  5. The Whitney Museum of American Art recently announced the inauguration of the Bucksba...
  6. As the election season heats up, a number of well-known New York artists have donated...
  7. As a recent gallery show demonstrated, throughout his life H.C. Westermann kept retur...
  8. "Precious" is an epithet that has dogged Tuttle for years, and this terrific recent e...
  9. When this gallery first showed Jim Torok's exquisitely painted portraits in a two-per...
  10. For decades, Louis Finkelstein has been renowned for his writing, teaching and painti...
  11. Dangling from the ceiling was Marcia Binnendyk's flock of nine beguiling and occasion...
  12. Marlborough, the international gallery that was accused of mishandling the Mark Rothk...
  13. Pictures and Passions: A History of Homosexuality in the Visual Arts, by James M. Sas...
  14. Angela Grauerholz's elusive photographs, currently on view in Chicago, exploit the am...
  15. This exhibition featured nine new paintings by Neo Rauch, a German artist based in Le...
  16. In the past, Dan McCleary exhibited his spare, iconic portraits and figure paintings ...
  17. The nine sculptural objects Jeanne Jaffe showed recently are as ambiguously sexual as...
  18. Karen Ganz's art transforms 1920s comic strips into large-scale canvases with bold co...
  19. The High Museum of Art in Atlanta has appointed Michael E. Shapiro, deputy director a...
  20. In a provocative series of theme-based exhibitions drawn from its permanent collectio...
  21. Against the background of a renewed interest in figurative painting, the author exami...
  22. The sporty and sensual acrylic vignettes John Wesley extracts from his quietly libidi...
  23. Paterson Ewen's works remind me of a science project I did for elementary school. Att...
  24. The majority of these 28 works by Joe Shannon are jam-packed with detail, bawdy humor...
  25. In Zocalo, May 20, 1999, Francis Alys, a Belgian artist based in Mexico who is known ...
  26. Robert Rauschenberg has been given the $50,000 Wexner Prize for 2000 by the Wexner Ce...
  27. No longer restricted to regional art, Israel's Art Focus biennial--seen in its third ...
  28. In vast installations constructed from throwaway materials, Thomas Hirschhorn critiqu...
  29. For "The End of Silence," his solo debut, 20-something, recent Hunter College MFA gra...
  30. Andy Warhol is not often spoken of as an abstract painter, but these pictures, like t...
  31. In "[re]collection," Malcolm Cochran's midcareer survey, the 51-year-old Ohio residen...
  32. Margarita Paksa is an accomplished Argentinean artist trained in the classic discipli...
  33. Just weeks before she resigned her post, France's minister of culture, Catherine Trau...
  34. Forty-four artists recently transformed a soon-to-be-demolished bank tower into a tem...
  35. The white light that rakes across these excessively consumable "landscapes" selective...
  36. This show, which carried the intriguing title "Forbidden Aspirations for Ascendancy,"...
  37. The first thing one remarks of Paul Manes's paintings of sprawlingly rendered stacked...
  38. Included in this year's Whitney Biennial, Chakaia Booker's art smells like rubber in ...
  39. The Tate Gallery of Modern Art at Bankside in London opens to the public on May 12, a...
  40. On Apr. 5 the German parliament, the Bundestag, voted narrowly to confirm Hans Haacke...
  41. 1 Regular Price $45.00 SALE $41 Whitney Biennial 2000 by various authors (Whitney M...
  42. "Table Top Joys: New Still-life Paintings," an exhibition of oils by James McGarrell,...
  43. These days, Jene Highstein's installations verge on the architectural, but as conceiv...
  44. Through the postmodern practice of appropriation, Walter Andersons quotes familiar im...
  45. Louisa Matthiasdottir, 83, painter, died Feb. 26 in Delhi, N.Y. Born in Reykjavik, Ic...
  46. In 1974, Stephen Antonakos initiated his "time-box" project with four artist friends,...
  47. A traveling Honore Daumier retrospective is on view at the Phillips Collection until ...
  48. Though young British artists have seemed to travel in packs of late, many of them hav...
  49. Ringing bells, whirring motors and flickering lights assailed the senses as one enter...
  50. These oil paintings, rooted in figure-and-ground realism, vibrate compellingly. While...
  51. This small, three-decade retrospective of George Krause's photography brought out the...
  52. After six months of legal wrangling in what was one of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's most ...
  53. Dec. '99: Franz Schulze's review of two books on museum architecture (by Ingrid A. St...
  54. In a city whose past weighs heavily on its present, the shift to a capitalist economy...
  55. Fabian Marcaccio remains one of the most innovative and challenging painters around. ...
  56. For his most recent New York exhibitions, the '80s art star George Condo filled two g...
  57. Back in the day when most people held enthusiastically optimistic opinions about man'...
  58. Berliners Else Gabriel and Ulf Wrede, who work collaboratively as (e.) Twin Gabriel, ...
  59. The Museum of Modern Art has selected Los Angeles architect Michael Maltzan to design...
  60. The hunt for art looted by the Nazis may now shift to Britain, in the wake of an offi...
  61. A CONVERSATION WITH THE ARTIST I asked the artist about his abrupt change after for...
  62. L.C. Armstrong is known for abstract paintings that incorporate singe marks, which sh...
  63. Michael St. John has reinvented himself as a painter, which, for those who don't reme...
  64. All 19 works in this exhibition were 12-inch-square framed reverse paintings on glass...
  65. Bailey Doogan paints clouds the way she paints skin. In each of eight small diptychs ...
  66. Perry Rathbone, 88, former director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, died Jan. 23 ...
  67. In the midst of an ongoing federal criminal investigation into allegations that Sothe...
  68. 1 Regular Price $45.00 SALE $41 Whitney Biennial 2000 by various authors (Whitney M...
  69. "Heroes and Villains," Julie Roberts's second solo painting exhibition at Sean Kelly ...
  70. "Welcome to a world where life is truly beautiful. A world where Cristal flows from b...
  71. To be a young American artist in post-World War II Paris must have been exhilarating....
  72. Madeline O'Connor has described her reductivist process as akin to peeling back the l...
  73. With street demonstrations continuing in Vienna, Graz and Salzburg to protest the ent...
  74. On Mar. 7, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York kicked off its first ...
  75. What does the future hold for today's art works that employ ephemeral materials or ra...
  76. For this recent exhibition, British painter Peter Doig showed four large oil painting...
  77. Ewan Gibbs is a young British artist, though not, strictly speaking, a YBA. Gibbs att...
  78. In his new steel "paintings," the New York-based Canadian Rene Pierre Allain continue...
  79. The most impressive aspect of the conceptually based work of Kori Newkirk is its imme...
  80. The new Rose Center for Earth and Space recently opened at New York's American Museum...
  81. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, opened its new Audrey Jones Beck building on Mar. 2...
  82. The gallery walls devoted to the sumptuous Carleton Watkins exhibition at the San Fra...
  83. Unlike the legions of ironic media manipulators who have followed in his footsteps, p...
  84. Music remains an inspiration for the Korean-born, New York-based artist Teresa Chong,...
  85. Early paper photographs were--and are--no match for the daguerreotype in recording sh...
  86. For his recent show at Fundacion Proa, the Argentinean artist and art historian Ferna...
  87. The College Art Association recently announced its awards for excellence in art, art ...
  88. During a single week in February, New York City played host to the Art Show and the A...
  89. Science has long fascinated abstract artist Dorothea Rockburne. A recent show of draw...
  90. The drawings and sculptures in this exhibtion, all made in the '70s, represent over h...
  91. Before he died in an Amsterdam fire in 1977, at the age of 31, Donald Evans had creat...
  92. A fascinating chapter of photographic history was revealed in this exhibition of port...
  93. Paul Klemann showed two dozen drawings and prints that offer warped or fractured view...
  94. July - October 2000 Alice Aycock Jonathan Borofsky Louise Bourgeois Deborah Butterf...
  95. Well known in Europe for her body-oriented performance, video and photographic work, ...
  96. In an objective exercise celebrating the subject of his recent book of the same title...
  97. Walking into the gallery sparsely hung with Gary Gissler's small paintings, the viewe...
  98. Rather than portraying the men and women in his paintings as specific individuals, Br...
  99. In "Endgame," a small, dense exhibition of 12 beautifully nuanced black-and-white pai...
  100. The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Picasso, Provence and Douglas Cooper, by John Richardson, ...
  101. In the 30 years since he emerged as one of the leaders of Japan's Mono-ha movement, K...
  102. Two years in gestation, this carefully considered exhibition, titled "Fifty Years of ...
  103. This recent exhibition featured seven large, untitled carved-stone sculptures by Czec...
  104. Bradley Rubenstein's recent (1997-99) paintings and drawings of mismatched and morphi...
  105. Following on the heels of other surprising business arrangements between public art i...
  106. Long disparaged by critics, Norman Rockwell is now the subject of a major traveling r...
  107. An exhibition currently on view at the Jewish Museum in New York examines Berlin's ri...
  108. In this new body of work, Atlanta-based artist Radcliffe Bailey plays dynamic movemen...
  109. Peter Struycken makes color compositions. Since the '60s, the Dutch artist has used c...
  110. For all their formal reserve, Merrill Wagner's recent paintings on steel still pack a...
  111. Last month, we reported on the pending destruction of Athena Tacha's Marianthe, on th...
  112. The "Science" of Interpreting Duchamp Readers Speak Out ... To the Editors: I w...
  113. Taking place in the aftermath of a calamitous earthquake, the recent Istanbul Biennia...
  114. Michael Steiner's recent exhibition at Salander-O'Reilly was an exhilarating surprise...
  115. Using very different but equally up-to-the-minute formats, these two artists ask the ...
  116. Like Eduardo Chillida and, on occasion, Richard Serra, John Crawford is an artist who...
  117. The still-life images of Dutch photographers Janna Dekker and Jan van Leeuwen restage...
  118. Thomas Crow, art historian and former chair of the Yale University art-history depart...
  119. Software mogul Peter Norton and his wife, Eileen, recently announced that they will g...
  120. A Hypertrophied Art of the Pantry In 1947, at just the moment when Picasso was emba...
  121. Barbara Broughel's recent exhibition of finely crafted sculptural objects, complement...
  122. In the 10 years that Ernesto Pujol has exhibited his multimedium work, he has explore...
  123. Martin Mull's exhibition consisted of 13 watercolors and six oil paintings on canvas,...
  124. In Sandy Chism's exhibition of paintings and mixed-medium installations (1998-99), a ...
  125. The 80-year-old Spokane painter Kathleen Gemberling Adkison is one of Mark Tobey's la...
  126. Creative Capital, founded in January 1999 [see "Artworld," June '99], has announced i...
  127. On Mar. 24, London's Tate Gallery is set to reopen its Millbank facility as the new T...
  128. In which the author, map in hand, threads the labyrinthine passages of the Carnegie I...
  129. It was only after a 40-minute tape of country-and-western songs recounting love and l...
  130. Lane Twitchell's work is remarkable for both its craft and its content. His "painting...
  131. Jim Lutes is a protean painter whose work never ceases to defy expectations. He began...
  132. "House and Garden" filled Witte de With's two floors of huge galleries with 26 mostly...
  133. As it gears up for its massive $650-million renovation and expansion project, designe...
  134. In early February, as we went to press, a sculpture by Athena Tacha was scheduled to ...
  135. Jenny Saville's massive paintings of equally massive nudes--recently seen in "Sensati...
  136. In The Lake, the nearly 11-minute video projection that formed the centerpiece of Dan...
  137. Last autumn, gallery visitors in New York City were given the rare treat of an exhibi...
  138. On view in this show were the best and brightest of 40-odd paintings that Warren Ross...
  139. This exhibition, titled "In the Jungle," featured an evocative installation by Viktor...
  140. Lawrence Rinder has been selected as the Whitney Museum's new curator of contemporary...
  141. British filmmaker Peter Greenaway, an ardent admirer of classical painting, was so ta...
  142. Between 1974 and 1999 the late Raghubir Singh published 12 books of color photographs...
  143. The stuff of dreams and nightmares has long provided source material for artists and ...
  144. This show was the impressive New York debut of Marina Kappos, a 26-year-old Yale grad...
  145. Perhaps one reason I have been so taken with Kirk Hayes's paintings is that they over...
  146. Katharine Lee Reid, director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts since 1991, has been...
  147. Male Trouble: A Crisis in Representation, by Abigail Solomon-Godeau, New York, Thames...
  148. In the late 1960s, sculptor Bill Bollinger showed with--and was routinely compared to...
  149. Betsy Kaufman's nine modest-size abstract watercolors exploit nuances of color, as on...
  150. In her second solo show in New York, Beth Reisman offered a series of treated newspap...
  151. This elegant and understated two-person show was Finesilver's seventh exhibition in i...
  152. COMPETITIONS 13th Annual ARTstravaganza National Juried Art Exhibition Chattanoog...
  153. Conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner is designing a new manhole cover to replace 25 exis...
  154. Representing Women, by Linda Nochlin, New York, Thames and Hudson, 1999; 272 pages, $...
  155. When you first encounter the paintings of Thomas Scheibitz, color registers as a powe...
  156. Emily Brown is a gifted representational painter. After studying with Neil Welliver a...
  157. Two large speakers mounted on tripods stood like sentinels at the entrance to the exh...
  158. In her New York solo debut, Arkansas-born Jovi Schnell showed six large abstract pain...
  159. San Francisco-based artist Maria Porges draws from a multitude of seemingly disparate...
  160. The Order of Arts and Letters, given twice annually by the French government, was rec...
  161. Differencing the Canon: Feminist Desire and the Writing of Art's Histories, by Grisel...
  162. For the general public the connection between technique and content is a clear one, b...
  163. Like new thoughts erupting from the verdancy of art history, the nine oil-on-linen pa...
  164. Joy Episalla takes photographs of things that are inconsequential, unlovely and just ...
  165. Various objects were strewn, but not haphazardly, throughout the gallery: big black l...
  166. As bored teenagers in my hometown, we occasionally set out in my parents' car, determ...
  167. The National Endowment for the Arts has announced nearly $20 million in its first rou...
  168. In the face of increasing cuts for publicly funded art throughout much of the country...
  169. Bachelors, by Rosalind Krauss, Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 1999; 222 pages, $29.95 c...
  170. Jan Schoonhoven (1914-1994) was one of the founders of the Nul group, a 1961 Dutch of...
  171. Alex Katz is one of the few artists whose work and the response it generates can func...
  172. Hung Liu was born in China in 1948. When she was 20, she was sent to the countryside ...
  173. The careers of Robert Watts (1923-1988) and Allan Kaprow (b. 1927) seem inexorably li...
  174. In the past few years, L.A.-based abstract painter Linda Besemer has experimented wit...
  175. The new Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art (PBICA) opens on Mar. 4. The landmar...
  176. With an ambitious opening show, "Circa 1968, "Portugal's new Museu Serralves signaled...
  177. Alexander Brodsky's exhibition, "Grey Matter," consisted of nine works, large and sma...
  178. Since her New York debut over a decade ago, critics have noted that Jacqueline Humphr...
  179. For over 25 years, Art Rosenbaum's work has been largely propelled by Southern region...
  180. Linda Darling's first solo exhibition of paintings, drawings and sculptures (all 1998...
  181. With a dozen intimate paintings executed in a perfectly square format, Jamie Brunson ...
  182. Francis Haskell, 71, art historian and professor, died of liver cancer on Jan. 18, in...
  183. Scholars from the National Gallery of Art have determined that the 28 watercolors kno...
  184. 1 Regular Price $29.95 SALE $27 It Hurts: New York Art from Warhol to Now by Matthe...
  185. On Oct. 4, 1992, David Blakeslee took his life at artist Karen Giusti's home, leaving...
  186. Larry Miller became associated with Fluxus in the early 1970s, at a time when the rel...
  187. For more than a decade, the Brooklyn-born, Yale-educated painter Joseph Raffael has m...
  188. Joanne Mattera, who began showing in 1974, describes her recent encaustics on panel a...
  189. One of the indigenous people of the Columbia River Gorge, Lillian Pitt is called by h...
  190. The Metropolitan Museum recently announced that it has surpassed the $400-million fun...
  191. All charges against New York art dealer Mary Boone were dismissed by a Manhattan crim...
  192. Richard Serra speaks of his massive steel sculptures as working in contradiction to t...
  193. At almost 20 feet long and 6 or so high, Carl Ostendarp's acrylic-on-linen The Naviga...
  194. In his latest self-portraits and images of deviant family life--collectively titled "...
  195. Colombian photographer Juan Manuel Echavarria's extraordinary photographs capture the...
  196. Kevin Appel transformed the main gallery space at Angles into an airy, light-filled m...
  197. Ned Rifkin, director of the High Museum in Atlanta since 1991, has resigned to become...
  198. After more than two years of bitter dispute, 14 murals by Gottardo Piazzoni have fina...