Stories Collection

  1. The forms in Jane Freilicher's paintings hover at the brink of intangibility. Color e...
  2. BOSTON Amy Curler's small, vivid, narrative paintings on wood panels seem to illust...
  3. Tiong Ang is Indonesian-born, of Chinese descent, and resident in Holland since his c...
  4. Italian-born architect Renzo Piano has been selected to design a new skyscraper for t...
  5. A Guggenheim Museum branch in Las Vegas? You've got to be kidding! That was the respo...
  6. International art stars were featured at last summer's Expo 2000 in Hannover, where a...
  7. Thomas Ruff's two-decade survey at Zwirner & Wirth uptown and the concurrent exhibiti...
  8. Lorraine Shemesh has made a name for herself painting swimmers, whose twisting bodies...
  9. Tina Newberry's modestly sized self-portraits are meticulously painted in a sour, mag...
  10. One of the foremost contemporary Bulgarian artists, Nedko Solakov has intervened dire...
  11. The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Conn., has named Kate M. Sellers as its new direc...
  12. The Group Portraiture of Holland, by Alois Riegl, introduction by Wolfgang Kemp, tran...
  13. Despite his early assimilation of modernist methods, Arthur B. Carles has long been u...
  14. Steve DiBenedetto isn't afraid of much. His exuberant paintings are expressionistic a...
  15. Redemption is the title of Floria Sigismondi's book of collected photographs as well ...
  16. A glorious sequel to Jacob Hashimoto's stunning debut show here in late 1998, this pa...
  17. James Elliott, 76 museums director and curator, died Sept. 21 of heart failure in Sau...
  18. In the third edition of this "alternative" biennial, postcommunist Europe was likened...
  19. Do-Ho Suh plays on the resonant image of the individual's place in the vastness of th...
  20. Although the 34-year-old New York painter Greg Bogin has been showing in Europe for s...
  21. The current craze among media artists for foraging among old films, new films and tel...
  22. For over three decades, James Albertson has painted zany, obstreperous figures inhabi...
  23. In charge of one of the country's most renowned and valuable collections of Impressio...
  24. Combining japonisme with Arts and Crafts design, this American artist and educator he...
  25. Meyer Vaisman was both present and absent in this impressive new installation, Barbar...
  26. Like Reinhardt and Ryman before her, Jess von der Ahe finds great potential in a limi...
  27. "Ricanstructions: Paintings of the '90s," an exhibition of works by Brooklyn-born Pue...
  28. Ten striking new prints by Dennis Cunningham made up the exhibition "Oregon Icons," w...
  29. On Sept. 9, Local 2110, the union representing 250 striking members of the profession...
  30. After repeated postponements, Berlin's new Jewish Museum is officially slated to unve...
  31. Curatorially, this year's scaled-back Kwangju Biennale offered a resurgence of nation...
  32. For her first New York sculpture show in seven years, Katharina Fritsch presented two...
  33. Steven Charles, a young, English-born artist raised in Texas, has spent the past few ...
  34. The paintings of Sally Ross combine the madcap, outlandish invention of fairy tales a...
  35. In her first London show in almost 20 years, Welsh artist Evelyn Williams presented f...
  36. In recent months, two German cities returned works of art to the heirs of a German-Je...
  37. Sol LeWitt's distinctive oeuvre, from his pioneering grids to the more recent high-po...
  38. This exhibition served as a mini-retrospective of 27 years of Jackie Ferrara's archit...
  39. Rob de Mar constructs miniature fragments of charming tourist environments and presen...
  40. In Karl Connolly's painting A Matter of Time (2000), almost the entire surface is tak...
  41. For an artist who repeatedly states, in his deadpan Scottish drawl, that his work is ...
  42. Derrick Cartwright, director of the Musee d'Art Americain in Giverny, France, has bee...
  43. A New York conference room A designed in 1964 by architect Alvar Aalto (1898-1976) is...
  44. Writer and artist John Ruskin was a towering yet discomfiting figure, exalted in his ...
  45. The art group from Europe is etoy; the American commercial concern is eToys. The memb...
  46. Resolutely turning their backs on the contemporary world, two extraordinary installat...
  47. Like her friend Avigdor Arikha, Polly Kraft stands before nature to analyze and depic...
  48. The light of Dora Garcia's rear-screen projection penetrated the space of this high-c...
  49. Vera Frenkel was recently presented with the 1999 Bell Canada Award in Video Art, giv...
  50. While preparing to launch its first satellite museum in the West--the Hermitage Rooms...
  51. As libraries replace their card catalogues with on-line databases, the cards themselv...
  52. Barbara Ess's spring solo show was a strange and potent mixture of dream and reality....
  53. The reductive, undifferentiated figures of Michal Rovner's epic video Overhang (2000)...
  54. Kevin Sipp's "Dub Human" is a sequence of sculptural installations that create a vibr...
  55. On Nov. 3, New York's International Center of Photography inaugurates its newly renov...
  56. Hand-modeled with unusual attention to detail, Judy Fox's life-sized ceramic figures ...
  57. Tokihiro Sato's black-and-white photographs look like pictures of giant fireflies in ...
  58. Its big waxy leaves visible through a street-facing window, Meg Webster's Large Pool ...
  59. Patricia Fairfield's tiny pictures might be hastily dismissed as votive offerings to ...
  60. Insik Quac (1919-1989), a Korean who lived for 50 years in Japan, influenced the "Mon...
  61. Sotheby's and Christie's recently agreed to a settlement in the civil lawsuits brough...
  62. In two complex new works, one a museum retrospective of a fictive painter and the oth...
  63. As principal actor in her film production Drift, directed by Tom Betterton and first ...
  64. "The Black Rainbow's Domino Effect on the Infinite Burgundy Line" was the grandiose t...
  65. "Convent," photographer Michael Ensminger's recent show, was based on a gimmick. But ...
  66. The Pew Charitable Trusts recently announced the recipients of its Pew Fellowships in...
  67. Less than a year after Mayor Rudoph Giuliani threatened to shut down the Brooklyn Mus...
  68. In massive wooden sculptures achieved by direct carving, Raoul Hague world to reveal ...
  69. Stephen Mueller has always been something of a protean abstract painter, but this sol...
  70. Mike Cockrill's paintings of little girls directing deadly force at clowns add a cons...
  71. Like Marcel Duchamp, Kansas City artist D.F. Miller likes to stretch the laws of phys...
  72. The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia is embarking on an expansion pr...
  73. Griselda Pollock: A Feminist Difference [The following, though personally addressed...
  74. The Long Beach Museum of Art in Southern California opened its newly redesigned and e...
  75. More than six years after the death of its visionary founder, Donald Judd, and with n...
  76. Michael Brennan presented six large canvases (all 2000) that are his best works to da...
  77. Among the many British artists who've recently made New York solo debuts, Paul Noble ...
  78. When Bernard Chaet works small, rendering livestock in an open field or the rocks and...
  79. For over 25 years, Richard Shaw has made pitch-perfect trompe-l'oeil still lifes. Usi...
  80. The unveiling of a sculpture by Eric Fischl on Aug. 28 drew a new kind of attention t...
  81. The new Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery opens Oct. 29 at Skidmore College in Sar...
  82. Three major projects developed by Flavin have been completed since his death: a churc...
  83. The Life Savers that are candy and the ones that float on water both seem godparents ...
  84. Active from the 1940s until his death in 1998 at age 79, Lee Mullican belonged to a g...
  85. Kathy Moss's large untitled paintings of fragments of the natural world are dramatic ...
  86. Time and labor are themes that preoccupied Aristotle Georgiades in this exhibition of...
  87. The Japan Art Association has named the recipients of its Praemium Imperiale Awards, ...
  88. The American Association of Museums has adopted a new set of guidelines to advise mus...
  89. The Vitra Design Museum, housed in a Frank Gehry building located on the grounds of t...
  90. Architecture is one of the many preoccupations of Chicago-based artist Inigo Manglano...
  91. Robert Lobe's sculptures of trees and rocks have been a part of the contemporary art ...
  92. Toronto-born painter Julie Hedrick has lived in New York's Hudson River valley since ...
  93. In a series of new paintings revolving around the traditional, stage-bound magic act,...
  94. Over the past decade, the narrow stripes of Bridget Riley's previous paintings have g...
  95. The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation recently announced 10 grant recipients, who...
  96. A garden sculpture located in a suburban Tokyo forest, the work of the noted Japanese...
  97. The Pollock-Krasner Foundation recently announced 124 recipients of its annual grants...
  98. There are surprisingly few artists' images of the voting process that is so central t...
  99. "Entanglement" seems the appropriate word for Rina Banerjee's show at Admit One, a ga...
  100. Amy Sillman's recent show of large oils and jewel-like gouaches was suffused with the...
  101. More explicitly than in previous exhibitions, Gregory Amenoff in this show explored t...
  102. Gert Verhoeven is a 36-year-old Belgian artist whose sculptures, drawings and videota...
  103. An artist known for evocative installations using explosives, Cai Guo-Qiang has creat...
  104. Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture, by Jonathan Crar...
  105. At the 2000 Lyon Biennale, French curator Jean-Hubert Martin continued his sometimes ...
  106. Summer Daughter (1998-99), tucked just to the right of the door as you entered Stark ...
  107. The culmination of three years of work, this exhibition of photographs, drawings and ...
  108. The photographs in Akiyama's street-level entry set the tone: the dark, partially obs...
  109. Despite a ruling in late July by a New York federal judge, the prolonged legal battle...
  110. With the opening of its striking new building, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston double...
  111. Using highly articulated automatons modeled on herself and her female relatives, scul...
  112. The much-hyped confluence of art and fashion in recent years has resulted in some rat...
  113. For "Street Works," his New York debut, the German artist Tim Thyzel presented seven ...
  114. The grotesque apparently still has some cachet. Chicago artist Joseph Seigenthaler's ...
  115. On Aug. 18, art dealer Pat Hearn died of liver cancer in Provincetown, Mass., with Co...
  116. The Arkansas Art Center in Little Rock recently completed a $22-million expansion and...
  117. Bewth, a Dutch performance group that eschews both drama and dance, uses architectura...
  118. For over half a century, Italian painter Piero Dorazio has engaged the formal issues ...
  119. Ambitiously, art critic Laura Cottingham played both Mick Jagger and Brian Jones in T...
  120. In the past several years, Leroy Person's carved wood sculptures and crayon drawings ...
  121. The title of Todd Brandt's exhibition, "Works with Paint," is meant to distinguish th...
  122. Michel Parmentier, 62, French artist, died June 24 in Paris from injuries sustained i...
  123. A new series of public-art exhibitions, called Target Art in the Park, kicks off this...
  124. An exhibition of photographs of lynchings--focused primarily on the violent mob "just...
  125. From a distance, Carole Seborovski's attractive, near-monochrome new works on paper l...
  126. It was a dark and stormy night as the crowds of those follow Vanessa Beecroft's activ...
  127. Hidden in the quotidian drollery of this mini-retrospective by California artist Davi...
  128. Richard Hogan's new paintings address an enduring esthetic debate: whether the essenc...
  129. As we go to press, the standoff between the Museum of Modern Art and 120 striking mem...
  130. Art & Auction magazine has changed hands again, just two years after the last sale of...
  131. A friendship between two of Spain's best-known creators--director Victor Erice and pa...
  132. In one of the two large untitled paintings that were part of his first New York exhib...
  133. Since making his American debut at P.S. 1 in late 1998, the performance artist Zhang ...
  134. Robert Breer is best known for his kinetic sculptures called "floats" from the 1960s ...
  135. For the past seven years, L.A.-based artists Lynne Berman and Kathy Chenoweth have el...
  136. Are the days of stingy arts funding finally coming to an end? One might think so afte...
  137. The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe recently launched a program devoted to living...
  138. 1 Regular Price $45.00 SALE $41 Damien Hirst Essays by Gordon Burn and George Post ...
  139. Several years ago Rudolf Stingel published a small book offering elaborate instructio...
  140. Muntadas has been an unrelenting irritant to mainstream media for nearly 30 years. De...
  141. The majority of the 60 self-portraits in "The Likeness of Being" were created specifi...
  142. These may be philosopher George Santayana's most famous words: "Those who cannot reme...
  143. The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond has selected Australian Michael Brand as...
  144. May '00, p. 37: The identification of Konrad Oberhuber as chief curator at the Nation...
  145. The black cover emblazoned with the words "The End" said it all--after nearly a decad...
  146. Over the last decade, this British artist has become widely known for works whose com...
  147. In late 1967, Danny Lyon, a Magnum photojournalist then 25, began a 14-month period o...
  148. Unlike his cohorts of the early 1980s, Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kenny S...
  149. Walking into Jim Lambie's show felt like walking into a club with all the promise of ...
  150. Charles Garabedian's unsettling style of abstracted figuration mixes breeziness with ...
  151. As we go to press, the Museum of Modern Art in New York begins its four-year, $650-mi...
  152. When the Mirage/MGM Grand merger some months ago led to the closing of the art galler...
  153. On Apr. 19, the Reykjavik Art Museum, one of Iceland's premier modern art venues for ...
  154. With an evenhanded presentation of avant-garde rebels, salon bigwigs and mainstream f...
  155. As video art moves into its fourth decade cruising the digital highway ever closer to...
  156. Craig Fisher continued, in this exhibition, to work in series, to investigate chance ...
  157. As well as linking the existence of colonial Portuguese export tile and chinaware to ...
  158. For over 30 years, Richard Long has walked in the wilderness, his footsteps and the w...
  159. John Hejduk, 71, architect and educator, died of cancer July 3 in Riverdale in the Br...
  160. The Commission of Fine Arts in Washington, D.C., chaired by J. Carter Brown, recently...
  161. In a "remote" country growing rapidly more urban and cosmopolitan, Icelandic artists ...
  162. Judging from the stately exhibition "1900," shown last spring in Paris, the citizens ...
  163. In a timely twist at this dawn of a so-called postphotographic era, Vera Lutter uses ...
  164. Jeff Elrod creates paintings that look back to the beginning of the last century whil...
  165. Visitors on their way to the opening of Robert Beck's exhibition turned the corner an...
  166. The distinction between personal emotion and commercially packaged sentiment blurs in...
  167. Deborah Gribbon, deputy director and chief curator of the J. Paul Getty Museum, will ...
  168. Art Basel, the international art fair held every June in landlocked Switzerland, plan...
  169. "Picturing the Modern Amazon," the New Museum's recent show devoted to female bodybui...
  170. A pair of veteran British artists recently joined forces to create a collaborative in...
  171. Maciej Toporowicz has earned art-world notoriety for his mock ad campaigns, which tak...
  172. Stephen EIlis's exhibition of seven new paintings (all untitled, all 2000) was both a...
  173. Curiously, the word that comes closest to describing Singer's new found-steel, scrap-...
  174. Paul DeMarinis's installation titled The Messenger (1999) consisted of three grouping...
  175. In late June, the Guggenheim Foundation and the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersbur...
  176. The eighth annual Downtown Arts Festival in New York City features an unusually stron...
  177. The early phase of conceptual art in Britain was the subject of "Live in Your Head," ...
  178. A recent exhibition in New York, originally at London's British Museum, presented som...
  179. In the 1960s, the Viennese Actionists represented a kind of antipop, offering no conc...
  180. Friendship was the animating and wild force behind the three short videos seen last f...
  181. In his first New York exhibition, Tim Gardner showed himself to be a figurative paint...
  182. Philadelphia has recently begun to tout itself as the mecca for mural painting, as mo...
  183. Susan Dory's small paintings made with wax and enamel on birch panel vary in size fro...
  184. Starting with the year 2000, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has in...
  185. In what the German press has called a "coronation," Kasper Konig, 57, has been named ...
  186. Bringing together works by 34 Greek-American artists, a six-decade survey organized b...
  187. Working in Paris and Portugal early in the 20th century, Amadeo de Souza Cardoso succ...
  188. The works in Ghada Amer's "Intimate Confessions" are striking when seen from a distan...
  189. "Paralyze the muscles of the eyes" was the ominous, hissing refrain that ran through ...
  190. Sylvia Sleigh has long been concerned with turning real people into mythological or s...
  191. In 1973 Dan Kuhne had a one-man show at the Phillips Collection, an impressive venue....
  192. L.A. artist Carter Potter transforms detritus into eloquent abstractions. His minimal...
  193. When sculptor George Segal, 76, died June 9 in South Brunswick, N.J., after a long il...
  194. Guggenheim Museum director Thomas Krens and Werner Baldessarini, chairman and CEO of ...
  195. Featuring works by 77 artists from 20 countries, the third Asia Pacific Triennial con...
  196. This series of works by Scottish artist Christine Borland was inspired by the science...
  197. In this exhibition, John Chamberlain presented 11 recent freestanding abstract sculpt...
  198. Rosalyn Drexler's witty, toughgirl paintings from the '60s reflect the decade's darke...
  199. Ree Morton was a remarkable presence in American art whose career began late and ende...