Stories Collection

  1. Charles Spurrier is an interesting painter who doesn't paint. Like the late great Han...
  2. Near the center of the painted wood relief Cannas (all works 2000), there is a break ...
  3. The Guggenheim Museum, king of institutional networking and expansion, announced in J...
  4. A camp near Bydgoszcz was the unlikely venue for Construction in Process 2000, a two-...
  5. Tulip Fever, by Deborah Moggach, New York, Delacorte Press, 1999; 282 pages, $21.95 h...
  6. In an exhibition that gravitated toward inclusive excess, Jack Pierson's assemblies o...
  7. Since his emergence on the New York art scene in 1992, after an extended romp around ...
  8. In its current form, Allen Ruppersberg's installation The Novel That Writes Itself is...
  9. The Altoids mint company, which has been amassing a collection of works by emerging a...
  10. June 28-29 At the municipal Zacheta Gallery of Contemporary Art, currently under th...
  11. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, by Gregory Maguire, illustrations by Bill Sanderso...
  12. In this eight-painting cycle depicting a brooding reverie of cinematic proportions, E...
  13. Every weekend during the run of this exhibition, Xenobia Bailey could be found seated...
  14. In his first solo exhibition--and one of the best of the season--L.A. artist Sandeep ...
  15. Iwona Blazwick has been appointed director of the Whitechapel Gallery in London. For ...
  16. The role of new technology in contemporary art was defined very differently by two re...
  17. During the 1960s, Italian photographer Ugo Mulas shot the reigning lions and rising s...
  18. This rather jumbled show by Barcelona-based British photographer Hannah Collins revea...
  19. Norman Sunshine repaints the traditional still-life image of that modern master of th...
  20. For those who missed R.B. Kitaj's 1994-95 traveling retrospective [see A.i.A., Mar. '...
  21. Mungo Thomson plastered bus benches in Los Angeles with promotional advertisements fo...
  22. A year ago, the Millennium Dome, located on the meridian at Greenwich, was the center...
  23. "Pollock," the movie, is a surprisingly convincing portrayal of a real artist in a re...
  24. Since 1997, Heide Fasnacht has been making sculptures and drawings that depict explos...
  25. This past year we've seen a biography of Fairfield Porter and a show of his paintings...
  26. Sarah Sze's installations at Marianne Boesky's new Chelsea location were carefully po...
  27. Meredith Danluck has previously shown fabric-appliqued Styrofoam sculptures propped a...
  28. What was most remarkable about Margaret Thomas's exhibition of seven modest-scale oil...
  29. Kathleen Bartels, assistant director at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles...
  30. As the hunt for Nazi loot continues, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.,...
  31. The Guggenheim's Giorgio Armani exhibition, which travels to Bilbao next month, coinc...
  32. After years of absence from the international art circuit, the work of Francisco Tole...
  33. How is science like art? Is the human genome equivalent to invented, abstract languag...
  34. "Sun-writing" was the name first given to photography. In some places, such as Latin ...
  35. Taken together, the works of Dan Christensen and Ronnie Landfield suggest the multipl...
  36. Ben Darby's second solo show presented 16 large acrylic canvases with cast-acrylic fl...
  37. The International Association of Art Critics (AICA) has given its first Career Achiev...
  38. The Museum of American Folk Art in New York recently acquired a large group of painti...
  39. A recent exhibition profiled changing notions of beauty and women's roles in Japan a...
  40. Allan McCollum spent his 1997 summer vacation collaborating with scientists on a proj...
  41. Over the last ten years Manuel Ocampo has developed a vocabulary of images specific t...
  42. Michael Gonzalez has previously used found materials with Pop wit or a conceptual edg...
  43. Marcel Duchamp's often reiterated advice to artists, "Have fun or you'll bore us," se...
  44. "Carl Andre, ho-hum," I thought as I trekked toward London's Whitechapel Gallery, "I ...
  45. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, recently opened a new gallery at the Pac...
  46. One of England's oldest and most popular cultural venues, visited by some 5.5-million...
  47. A steadfast admirer of kinetic art since the 1960s, London critic Guy Brett curated a...
  48. George Stoll is noted for his fragile, meticulous re-creations of some of the most ta...
  49. Matt Magee's beautiful paintings might seem merely decorative were it not for their f...
  50. The ironic framing of Jeanne Silverthorne's sculpture is beginning to take a back sea...
  51. Elizabeth Cooper, a 28-year-old New York painter, has, for the past several years, pr...
  52. Like D.J. Simpson's previous work, the three paintings at Entwistle consisted of hori...
  53. On Jan. 13, the Bellevue [Wash.] Art Museum opened the doors of its new $23-million b...
  54. A new museum devoted to German and Austrian art is scheduled to open in Manhattan in ...
  55. 1 Regular Price SALE $59 Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity 1900-2000 E...
  56. The mirrored chamber was used in the 1970s by artists like Yayoi Kusama and Lucas Sam...
  57. Lydia Dona's eight large paintings (all 2000) seemed to zoom around the gallery, thei...
  58. This selection of Mark di Suvero's small-scale sculpture from 1962 to 1994 included a...
  59. The title of this show, "Critic as Grist," promised a critic roast--an opportunity fo...
  60. The exhibition of the paintings and drawings of Arpad Szenes (born in Budapest) and V...
  61. During the past year, Phillips has struggled to carve out a niche in the high-end auc...
  62. A recent traveling retrospective examined Lee Krasner's complex career, highlighting ...
  63. Claude Wampler has drawn from many forms of post-Dada performance in her short but si...
  64. Information was arranged according to psychic impact--stream-of-consciousness style--...
  65. The 17 paintings (1999 and 2000)in Manuela Filiaci's fall show amounted to a dual med...
  66. For decades, La Wilson, a self-taught artist based in Ohio, has been making found-obj...
  67. Daniel Richter has recently been waging a private battle against painting. His earlie...
  68. Known for public works centered on issues of gun violence, artist Bradley McCallum re...
  69. Zoe Leonard's recent installations and photographs, examining the time-worn objects t...
  70. Steve Mumford is best known for paintings, drawings and collages of cars, which are o...
  71. Fixed to the walls with map pins, the hundreds of ink and watercolor drawings that pa...
  72. The new sculptures by Isabel Farnsworth recently on view at FAVA (Firelands Associati...
  73. Porter McCray, the first director of the International Program at the Museum of Moder...
  74. Jump shots just won't be the same now that a mural has been installed behind the back...
  75. Combining unusual materials and procedures, 40-year-old Brazilian artist Nuno Ramos h...
  76. During the early 1960s, Mimmo Rotella went around Europe collecting strips of adverti...
  77. In David Ahlsted's paintings, girls, teens and women stroll the beach wearing one- or...
  78. In a previous solo show of paintings in 1999, James Brinsfield, a Chicago native who ...
  79. Collector Heinz Berggruen recently sold to the German government 165 top-notch works ...
  80. ARCHITECTURE GOES GLOBAL 10 x 10, edited by Vivian Constantinopoulos, London, Phaidon...
  81. With an installation designed to heighten exoticism, the Clark Art Institute unveiled...
  82. A known advocate of the exotic, Ulrike Ottinger has pushed boundaries in feminist, fi...
  83. The hundreds of expressive figures that populate Ignacio Iturria's paintings of the l...
  84. Throughout the period represented by the 35 paintings, collages and works on paper in...
  85. Lost souls and found objects continue to partner affectingly in Lezley Saar's work. H...
  86. In recent months Andy Warhol has been making waves in Russia and Eastern Europe with ...
  87. Architectural firm Richard Meier & Partners recently unveiled plans for the Jubilee C...
  88. Ursula von Rydingsvard, known for her large-scale sculptures made of laminated blocks...
  89. Raven Schlossberg is a young painter whose work was featured in Graham's pattern show...
  90. In her first New York exhibition since 1996, Nicole Eisenman added traditionally exec...
  91. Laura Mosquera is a young artist and an astute observer of human behavior who brings ...
  92. Photographer Wolfgang Tillmans is the winner of the 2000 Turner Prize. The approximat...
  93. New York's Museum of Modern Art recently revealed design plans for its new facility i...
  94. Things are looking up for modern and contemporary art in Italy. Once overshadowed by ...
  95. Back in the '80s, Peter Halley tackled the theme of the geometricization of modern li...
  96. This memorial exhibition offered a selection of 10 easel-size canvases ranging from 1...
  97. For her first solo show in Texas in 15 years, Irene Hardwicke Olivieri showed an ench...
  98. The Bernard and Edith Lewin Latin American Art Galleries opened Dec. 14 at the Los An...
  99. In San Francisco, especially in the Mission District, once a working class and middle...
  100. In a recent installation, Rhoades recycled materials from a larger presentation in Ge...
  101. Mark Dion is committed to an ongoing investigation of the relevance and morality of i...
  102. This show consisted of seven 14-by-11-inch beaded pictures that were made to Wade Sau...
  103. In marked contrast to her unruly and exuberant site-specific installations, Judy Pfaf...
  104. Sidney R. Yates, 91, Democratic congressman who championed the arts, died Oct. 5 in C...
  105. Wind-activated sculptures by the Japanese artist Susumu Shingu, 63, will travel the w...
  106. From his optically oriented paintings of the 1960s to his recent geometric sculptures...
  107. Huang Yong Ping, born in Fukien Province, China, in 1945, the son of a tea grower, fo...
  108. Alan Shields's double show of drawings and paper constructions continued his sly, joy...
  109. A restless experimenter, Seth Kaufman exploits the physical properties of ordinary ma...
  110. After announcing last summer that it was on the verge of bankruptcy [see "Artworld," ...
  111. Against the backdrop of uncertainty surrounding the ongoing criminal investigation of...
  112. In Rineke Dijkstra's show of eight C-prints, all taken in parks in Berlin and Lithuan...
  113. Hana Iverson's site-specific multimedia installation at Eldridge Street Synagogue per...
  114. Joanne Yanoff's exhibition "(in)vulnerable" consisted of a small forest of punching b...
  115. Individually, the 15 paintings in this show read as stunning tableaux, still lifes Pa...
  116. Rachel Whiteread's Holocaust Memorial was dedicated in Vienna on Oct. 25 [see "Front ...
  117. Artemisia: A Novel, by Alexandra Lapierre, trans. by Liz Heron, New York, Grove Press...
  118. South African photographer Zwelethu Mthethwa's first solo show in New York featured t...
  119. There seems to be a trend in current artistic practice which has to do with hanging b...
  120. Keith Sonnier began his career exhibiting with the "Eccentric Abstraction" and "Anti-...
  121. These days a darkened art gallery usually portends an encounter with the ubiquitous v...
  122. A California Superior Court judge recently dismissed the San Francisco Museum of Mode...
  123. The Bingham Solution To the Editors: I found Jonathan Weinberg's article on Georg...
  124. The 2000 Dakar Biennale of contemporary African art raised complex questions about th...
  125. From 1991 to 1998, Lucinda Devlin was the guest of penitentiaries around the country,...
  126. The Japanese artist Toshihiro Sakuma has been working on a project he calls "Colony" ...
  127. Young painter Jay Davis depicts scenes that seem to come from a parallel universe, di...
  128. Meg Hitchcock's debut exhibition consisted of 22 intimately scaled works featuring im...
  129. Dennis Heiner, the 73-year-old man who last year slipped past Brooklyn Museum securit...
  130. The Guggenheim Museum has cleared the first legal hurdle in its bid to build a specta...
  131. Known for his independent, combative stance, the figurative painter Paul Georges has,...
  132. Before Bernd and Hilla Becher and their myriad students, there was Albert Renger-Patz...
  133. Margaret Morrison's paintings have an immediate appeal that is at least partly genera...
  134. There is a subdued sense of joy, a quiet celebration, in Barbara Schwartz's new works...
  135. Each room in Hubert Kiecol's exhibition of sculptures and drawings made a perfect ins...
  136. After reporting a nearly $11-million loss, mostly attributable to its faltering on-li...
  137. On Nov. 4, the Daeyu Cultural Foundation inaugurated the Young-Un Museum of Contempor...
  138. It's this idea of destruction, this conception of near and inevitable change which gi...
  139. With the long labor and grace of his annotated process, Walton Ford pictures a world ...
  140. Elena Borstein paints and draws the quintessential architecture of places she visits....
  141. Alison Knowles's latest show, "Footnotes," compiled relics from the past 30 years of ...
  142. No one is likely to stumble upon the China Art Archives and Warehouse, a gallery that...
  143. The U.S. chapter of the International Association of Art Critics, which includes near...
  144. This year's $50,000 Boss Prize, the biannual award administered by the Solomon R. Gug...
  145. On the same weekend over 33 years ago, Claes Oldenburg created an early instance of e...
  146. "Almost Monochrome" was only the second U.S. exhibition of paintings by the American ...
  147. In his second New York solo, Texas-based painter David McGee casts a disapproving eye...
  148. Shirley Tse's Polymathicstyrene, an installation of carved light blue polystyrene, wr...
  149. For more than 20 years, Takashi Fukai has been carving wooden sculptures in which cla...
  150. Bruce J. Altshuler, former vice president of Christie's and director of studies of it...
  151. On Oct. 17 the New York Landmarks Preservation Commission voted unanimously in favor ...
  152. A current installation at the Menil Collection prompts some further observations on t...
  153. Geometric abstraction was supposedly born of a utopian impulse to conflate the pure w...
  154. "A State of Seeing/Drawings by John Heliker" was the artist's 19th exhibition at Krau...
  155. Laura Letinsky's earlier photographs, collectively titled "Venus Inferred," candidly ...
  156. Jerome Boutterin permits the viewer to experience painting as a kind of transitional ...
  157. Yale University has announced a $250-million expansion and renovation project. In all...
  158. A quiet furor arose in the museum world over the summer following a report in the For...
  159. A traveling retrospective prompts the author to recall the austere formalist--and oft...
  160. Louise Fishman's recent exhibition reinforced her reputation as a painter unafraid to...
  161. The houses that Dresden artist Eberhard Havekost paints, generic as they are, derive ...
  162. Witnesses or victims, the broom figures encircled the gallery, standing alone or asse...
  163. James Elliott, 76, prominent museum director and curator, died Sept. 21 of congestive...
  164. The Paula Cooper Gallery, which has presented avant-garde music performances in its s...
  165. California painter Jim Shaw, recently the subject of a 25-year retrospective, immerse...
  166. John Zinsser's first solo exhibition in New York since 1997 included six large painti...
  167. These beautifully made pictures of Chicago and New York combine height, night and lig...
  168. In previous exhibitions, Ludwig Schwarz has shown everything from abstract paintings ...
  169. Conrad Marca-Relli, 87, painter and collagist, died Aug. 29 in Parma, Italy. He is kn...
  170. Bringing to a close a three-year dispute, the New York gallery Knoedler & Co. has rea...
  171. In a recent exhibition of master drawings at the Louvre, curator Regis Michel offered...
  172. Indian-born, New York-based Natvar Bhavsar makes velvet-napped, sumptuously colored c...
  173. Susan Bee's work has generally followed the postmodernist agenda by acknowledging inn...
  174. Susie Rosmarin's paintings are often associated with Op art, but the characterization...
  175. The State Pushkin Museum in Moscow and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, recently ann...
  176. Art-savvy travelers in Europe can check into four hotels that prominently feature the...
  177. Sexually candid and socially inclusive, Alice Neel's paintings were often ahead of th...
  178. For most of us, deep interplanetary space is mainly a good place to go for metaphors,...
  179. In an article on abstract painting, Palestinian-born artist Samia Halaby wrote, "I be...
  180. For his latest solo show, the Texas artist Henry Rayburn showed collages and installa...
  181. The second installment of the Berlin Biennale is scheduled to open on Apr. 20 and run...
  182. WHEN GREENBERG WAS GREEN The Harold Letters 1928-1943: The Making of an American In...
  183. With a sweeping array of objects backed by a wealth of historical research, a recent ...
  184. The constraints underlying John Powers's work are difficult to ignore. "Archaeology,"...
  185. Tery Fugate-Wilcox makes what he calls "Actual Art," which "evolves with time. Time &...
  186. A not widely known contemporary of Robert Irwin, James Turrell and Larry Bell, Marcia...
  187. In early October, former Sotheby's CEO Diana D. Brooks pleaded guilty to conspiring t...
  188. The recent discovery of footage of Scott Burton's performance work from the 1970s pro...
  189. Dan Graham's Children's Day Care, CD-ROM, Cartoon, Computer Screen Library Project is...
  190. Over the last 15 years, domestic imagery seems to have superseded the industrial esth...
  191. Since the late 1980s, Jean Lowe has been making flamboyant, funny work motivated by o...
  192. On Oct. 2, while preparing for the opening of "Street Market," an installation at Dei...
  193. Balthus: A Biography, by Nicholas Fox Weber, New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1999; 646 pag...
  194. One of the fascinating things about William Kentridge's films is how they let the pro...
  195. A model of urban reality/ utopia, "Street Market" was created by accomplished graffit...
  196. Not content with imagery alone, Squeak Carnwath regularly includes text in her compos...
  197. Brenden Clenaghen presented 11 new abstract paintings in his eye-catching exhibition ...
  198. Nam June Paik recently received the Geum-Gwan Medal from the Korean Government, Korea...
  199. This year's Sydney Biennale blended international contemporary art with work by Austr...