Stories Collection

  1. As we go to press, former Sotheby's chairman A. Alfred Taubman and former Christie's ...
  2. Los Angeles's Chinatown, located just north of the city center, has become a surprisi...
  3. Abraham David Christian travels the world, translating his experieces into austere wh...
  4. T.J. Wilcox, a multimedia artist in his mid-30s, presented two new short films in a d...
  5. Connecticut-born painter Catherine Drabkin received her BFA from the Maryland Institu...
  6. I smile when I recall the unrestrained and joyful play of Howie Lee Weiss's monotypes...
  7. National Endowment for the Arts chairman Bill Ivey announced in April that he will re...
  8. Picasso's Weeping Woman: The Life and Art of Dora Maar by Mary Ann Caws, Boston, New ...
  9. Pierre Huyghe, a 38-year-old French artist whose video installations are well known t...
  10. Nan Goldin's snapshot-style Cibachromes filled the gallery with the latest installmen...
  11. In his fourth New York solo, Tom Burckhardt offered a winning combination. Early on, ...
  12. Beginning with his early theory-based activities alongside Daniel Buren, Michel Parme...
  13. Declan McGonagle, founding director of the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, anno...
  14. Loving Picasso: The Private Journal of Fernande Olivier, with a foreword by Marilyn M...
  15. Joseph Kosuth marked the turn of the millennium by taking a look back at his own care...
  16. Commissioned at the beginning of the 19th century, some of the decorative programs of...
  17. Eric Amouyal is a young Israeli-born artist who has been working with plastic compoun...
  18. Experimental film pioneer Oskar Fischinger (1900-1967) is best known for his 1930s ab...
  19. The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis has unveiled plans for a $90-million expansion d...
  20. Oct. '00, pp. 68 and 165: The images of David Novros's abstract mural Untitled (Pennz...
  21. Lesbian Art in America: A Contemporary History, by Harmony Hammond, New York, Rizzoli...
  22. Recalling, in part, an African-American community razed by whites in the 1920s, a rec...
  23. Beatriz Milhazes's third solo show consisted of five large and two smaller paintings ...
  24. David Serisier spent some time as an art student in New York in the Neo-Geo '80s, the...
  25. This retrospective, organized by Montclair curator Gall Stavitsky, presents more than...
  26. Jacob Kainen, 91, well-known Washington-based abstract painter and print curator at t...
  27. Now that the Museum of Modern Art has concluded its unprecedented 17-month-long curat...
  28. Often operating under the cloak of a fictional public-relations agency, the French co...
  29. The seven canvases that Washington, D.C.-based W.C. Richardson showed at Baumgartner ...
  30. In this small retrospective that stretched from 1930 to 1987, Gyorgy Kepes's black-an...
  31. Hollis Sigler, 53, painter of colorful, faux-naif narrative scenes, died Mar. 29 of c...
  32. Bombed flat during WWII, Sendai, Japan, has been rebuilt as a pleasant modern city wi...
  33. In the latest edition of inSITE, a program of public art commissioned for the San Die...
  34. Local climates and social mores assert their influence as the epic competition for th...
  35. "Irritating," "overbearing," "spiritually cheap": such are the salvos critics have la...
  36. In Peter Saul's portraiture, featured in "Heads, 1986-2000," the illusionistic abrasi...
  37. Philadelphia harbors a preponderance of figurative realist painters who work within a...
  38. The Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio has selected the Japanese architecture firm SANAA, L...
  39. The Swiss architectural team of Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron has been awarded ...
  40. A series of short, stylish silent films by late museum director James Elliot captured...
  41. Isaac Julien, one of the most gifted British film directors of his generation--he is ...
  42. On Kaare Rafoss's announcement card for his exhibition "Sampling," he presents himsel...
  43. The song "Let It Snow" played Muzak-sweet; in a corner was a drift of fake snow. It w...
  44. Wendy White's "Spilled in Space" exhibition had the deceiving look of an interrupted ...
  45. Atsuhiko Misawa is a youngish (39) artist who teaches at the national art university ...
  46. Detailed plans for the 49th Venice Biennale were unveiled on March 29th at a press co...
  47. Sydney's Olympic Arts Festival mixed historical, indigenous and contemporary art in a...
  48. As clinical and detached as this artist's work might appear, Genevieve Cadieux draws ...
  49. "Inward, Outward, Interrupted" is the title of Seong Chun's most recent exhibition. B...
  50. Brakestand (1998), a single-channel video loop that formed the backbone of Euan Macdo...
  51. Late in March, Taliban soldiers in Afghanistan escorted a group of about 20 foreign j...
  52. Over the past month, there were both dramatic successes and serious setbacks in the t...
  53. Despite a modest budget, time pressures and a toxic site, the Sydney Olympics sponsor...
  54. In his 1999 video installation left is right and right is wrong and left is wrong and...
  55. Michael Snow's Corpus Callosum is a five-hour-long movie on which the legendary filmm...
  56. Charles McGill's first solo exhibition, "Club Negro: Experience the Freedom," present...
  57. "Heads," Lisa Ed's recent series of quirky, deadpan paintings, coyly questions, then ...
  58. A decency panel? It seems antithetical to the spirit of New York City, but Mayor Rudo...
  59. Art viewers may not recognize Ilona Rich's name right away, but many who have attende...
  60. Humor appears frequently in contemporary Dutch art; in several recent exhibitions it ...
  61. The 19 large color photographs in this show were drawn from Shizuka Yokomizo's projec...
  62. While many of Jan Dibbets's post-Minimalist and Conceptualist contemporaries created ...
  63. The nude, once a staple of the painter's repertoire, has taken a hit in the post-femi...
  64. Hasmig Vartanian's works could be called constructions, reliefs or even paintings. Th...
  65. The Sculpture Center, a non-profit exhibition space and study center devoted to three...
  66. Eleven of the world's most prominent architects recently gathered in Guadalajara, Mex...
  67. A recent international exhibition focused on the corpus of still lifes painted by Man...
  68. A dean of American Color Field abstraction, Kenneth Noland in recent years has return...
  69. Manabu Yamanaka's newest photographic series consists of 19 life-size black-and-white...
  70. Cristina Vergano's oil-on-linen portraits bluntly invoke the Renaissance. Her subject...
  71. Sixties assemblage might be thought of as the funky grand-daddy of all that contempor...
  72. Henri Loyrette, 48, director of the Musee d'Orsay since 1978, has been named presiden...
  73. An unusual art center opened Apr. 8 in Nashville, a city heretofore devoid of a major...
  74. The remarkably diverse work of James Welling, who first emerged in the '70s as a merc...
  75. This exhibition of 38 rigorously abstract paintings and works on paper by Nell Blaine...
  76. Like Leni Riefenstahl, the British twins Jane and Louise Wilson create works that est...
  77. This show followed Louisa Matthiasdottir's death in February 2000, at the age of 83. ...
  78. Simon Starling's recent show consisted of two photo-documentation pieces and an insta...
  79. The Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio, has awarded its $50,000 Wexner Priz...
  80. Poles and Jews, Separate Deaths? To the Editors: While the news report "Polish Pa...
  81. Drawing on sources as disparate as particle physics, pulp fiction and the hierarchy o...
  82. Hermine Ford's shaped paintings tumbled across the gallery walls like divots skinned ...
  83. The combination of sensual allure and downright goofiness in Phyllis Bramson's art co...
  84. Willie Birch began the paintings in his latest show at Luise Ross Gallery by drawing ...
  85. Wim Delvoye is the bad boy of today's Belgian art scene. In his large, machinelike in...
  86. The city of Valencia is gearing up to join the international circuit of art biennials...
  87. "Remove the human and you get dehumanized art," declared Harry Sternberg in a 1994 in...
  88. Balthasar Klossowski, whose most enduring--and enigmatic--subject was the interior wi...
  89. Jorge Pardo gallery installation and redesign of the public areas at New York's Dia C...
  90. Like a lot of other artists working today, Cotter Luppi finds in the body a wealth of...
  91. David True, in his first solo show at this gallery, has ventured into new territory i...
  92. Pervading this show of New York artist Lawrence Berzon's figurative paintings and pol...
  93. After years of planning and considerable international anticipation, the initial inst...
  94. Last month, New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani brought out his well-worn anti-art diatri...
  95. "The Wandering Ishmael," Doris Bittar's title for this third solo exhibition at David...
  96. Venezuela obssession with physical beauty has turned the beauty pageant into somethin...
  97. In the 17 paintings of "God's Army," Carrie Moyer's first solo exhibition, emblematic...
  98. From the commedia dell'arte to Jackie Chan, the pratfall and other seemingly unpremed...
  99. The Menil Foundation and Collection in Houston has announced the establishment of a n...
  100. Armed with an abundance of material, both popular and elite, the L.A. County Museum s...
  101. 1 Regular Price $28.00 SALE $25 Jeff Koons: Easyfun-Ethereal Essays by Lisa Den...
  102. As a boy, Max Neuhaus determined to become "the best drummer in the world." He perfor...
  103. Suzanne McClelland has worked for over 10 years with a simple concept: words as motif...
  104. After apprenticing in Paris, where she was admitted to the Surrealists' innermost cir...
  105. The College Art Association awards for 2001 were recently presented at the associatio...
  106. In his fourth one-person show at Salander-O'Reilly, John Dubrow presented five large ...
  107. This survey of the work of Kenneth Callahan (1906-1986), who is the least well known ...
  108. Shifting from his earlier subversions of Japanese pictorial tradition, Masami Teraoka...
  109. On Kawara has spent four decades occupying himself with the notion of passing time. A...
  110. The Mexican artist Francisco Castro Lenero makes use of color exceedingly well in his...
  111. A prominent female member of the prewar Czech avant-garde, the painter Toyen had a ri...
  112. New York University's Graduate School of Arts and Science recently honored painter Ph...
  113. In her recent work, Boston-based painter Lorie Hamermesh has enriched her layered ima...
  114. Oregon's premier landscape photographer, Terry Toedtemeier, is heir to Timothy O'Sull...
  115. As more information surfaces to verify a love affair between Marcel Duchamp and Brazi...
  116. For almost three decades, video artist Mary Lucier has been exploring the delicate ba...
  117. Coinciding with an extensive Gaston Chaissac retrospective at the Jeu de Paume in Par...
  118. This show of Dennis Oppenheim's art was somewhat strangely shaped, with a good select...
  119. The Nigerian-born, New York-based painter Ike Ude took up photography in the early 19...
  120. Jemima Stehli's 7-foot-high photographs hugged all four walls of this cavernous exhib...
  121. Susan Hartnett is a New York painter who spends half the year in Maine making abstrac...
  122. Light and time are always linked in the works of Tatsuo Miyajima. Since the mid '80s,...
  123. Wang Du is a skillful, mock social-realist sculptor from China who was imprisoned for...
  124. Most readers of this review are probably too young to remember Lon Chaney Jr. in the ...
  125. Choosing just the right paint from one of Pantone's color fans is such a difficult pl...
  126. Enzo Cucchi, the Italian painter whose work shared so much '80s limelight, looks bett...
  127. The smart, elegant paintings of Blake Rayne's 1998 exhibition, "Autumn Drive," called...
  128. One of the stronger gallery exhibitions of self-taught artists complementing the annu...
  129. The sweep of Leonardo Drew's massive painted assemblage #77 (1999-2000) loomed over t...
  130. The Austin Museum of Art recently released the final plans for its new building, desi...
  131. Since last board members of the fall, Terra Museum of American Art in Chicago have be...
  132. At first, glance, a show of paintings by Jan Frank and Robert Stanley seems an unlike...
  133. When one first entered this former parking garage, the two installations appeared to ...
  134. Alexis Rockman knows his subject matter: he knows the difference between a bug and an...
  135. Infected with the blase attitude of a seriously dopey fashion shoot awash with the lo...
  136. Chris Verene's photo series "Galesburg," named for his father's hometown in Illinois,...
  137. Philadelphia is set to have a new Calder Museum. The city's mayor, John F. Street, re...
  138. The M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Franciso's oldest public museum, closed its do...
  139. The Alchemy of Desire, an installation by artist Christine Wallers and composer Steve...
  140. In his first solo show, 30-year-old Manabu Sakaino presented nearly a dozen tabletop-...
  141. The second show at this new Chelsea gallery was, remarkably, the first U.S. solo exhi...
  142. Kim Kimball's installation Enthusiasm centers on a series of short videos that featur...
  143. For his second solo show, titled "Charlatan," 25-year-old Slater Bradley presented fo...
  144. In recent months, while New York's mayor tried to find ways to discourage the public ...
  145. Each February, New York's art audience turns its attention to two big, concurrent art...
  146. Amid the many artists addressing the impact of technology on nature, Thomas Ashcraft ...
  147. Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula, 75, Aboriginal painter, died Feb. 12 in Papunya, in the...
  148. The Cuban artist Kcho presented a group of 14 recent drawings, large vertical works (...
  149. Lani Irwin's oil-on-linen paintings most often feature two women (occasionally a woma...
  150. Peeter Linnap is an Estonian artist, critic and curator, now about 40 years old, who ...
  151. In late February, the Federal District Court in Manhattan approved the $512-million s...
  152. The vibrant art scene that has developed in Brooklyn, drawing collectors, curators an...
  153. It was late spring, 1980; I had been invited to take part in "Pier + Ocean," an exhib...
  154. The Vietnam War, the Gulf War, feminism, globalism, homelessness--since the mid 1960s...
  155. This exhibition of eight oils on canvas and nine works on paper focused on Diebenkorn...
  156. "The Art of William Edmondson" is the first major museum survey of the sculptor's wor...
  157. Many contemporary street photographers, notably Robert Frank and Lewis Baltz, have pi...
  158. Berlin's National Gallery has given its first Prize for Promising Young Artists [see ...
  159. Work is under way to install a modified version of a sculpture garden designed in the...
  160. In her ceramic murals for the Riverwalk Gateway esplanade, Ellen Lanyon offers Chicag...
  161. In the mid-'80s, Mary Frank quit making the clay sculptures for which she was known a...
  162. Zhang Xiaogang's first solo show in the U.S. featured new works from the "Bloodlines:...
  163. In his New York solo debut, British sculptor Ian Dawson displayed his signature metho...
  164. System-based art, intermittently a presence in the art world for the past half centur...
  165. The National Museum of Australia in Canberra debuts on March 11. Designed by architec...
  166. In Europe, the streamlined, organic-looking structures designed by Spanish-born, Swis...
  167. In his second outing as a movie director, the painter Julian Schnabel has created a s...
  168. A traveling exhibition of portraits from imperial Rome, now at Yale, documents how id...
  169. "Never in School," Kim Dingle's latest plunge into irascible little girlhood, is a se...
  170. Heidi Cody, in time-honored Pop fashion, makes art about advertising. For an earlier ...
  171. The blast of color coming from the column of 30-odd monochrome light boxes was unremi...
  172. A 1990 work by Barbara Kruger has prompted accusations of copyright violation. Untitl...
  173. A generous gift of works from Niki de Saint Phalle to the German city of Hannover was...
  174. With a few carefully chosen natural substances--beeswax, stone, milk, pollen--Laib co...
  175. Back in late August, as I was about to begin this piece, I read a line in another cri...
  176. This substantial exhibition of several groups of recent landscapes, the artist's firs...
  177. Among the dozen new works he recently exhibited, Aric Obrosey included Lace Hit Parad...
  178. For this show, which carried the title "Mutations of Destiny," the big, ground-floor ...
  179. Politics is never far from the surface in the Polish art world [see p. 54], as eviden...
  180. EBay, the Internet's largest on-line auction site, recently launched eBay Premier, a ...
  181. Hamlet: --Have you a daughter? Polonius: I have, my lord. Hamlet: Let her not wal...
  182. Krzysztof Wodiczko is well known for his projections on public monuments of political...
  183. In 1976, Jennifer Bartlett created the encyclopedic Rhapsody, a multipanel, enamel-on...
  184. Natan Nuchi showed his "Digital Drawings" for the first time in New York this past sp...
  185. The art of Ida Applebroog is unflinching in its grim evocation of brutality, misogyny...
  186. The Asia Society recently unveiled plans for a $30-million expansion and renovation p...
  187. Girl in Hyacinth Blue, by Susan Vreeland, Denver, MacMurray and Beck, 1999; 242 pages...
  188. The fact that video pioneer Bill Viola has only this season received his first galler...
  189. The visual loveliness of Jonathan Callan's work is remarkable, especially considering...
  190. Bradley McCallum is known for community-based, site-specific projects in various loca...
  191. Esteban Vicente, 97, abstract painter, collagist and one of the last surviving member...
  192. Over the past few months, reports in the art press have suggested that critic Dave Hi...
  193. The Music Lesson, by Katharine Weber, New York, Crown Publishers, 1998; 178 pages, $2...
  194. This exhibition of small-scale sculptures atop plywood pedestals was a welcome opport...
  195. Color Field painting seems to be enjoying a revival over the past few years, thanks t...
  196. Edouard Duval-Carrie was born in Haiti, but when he was a child, his family fled Papa...
  197. The National Endowment for the Arts has announced its first round of grants for fisca...
  198. The ever-provocative curator Catherine David recently offered an exhibition of video ...
  199. Girl with a Pearl Earring, by Tracy Chevalier, New York, Dutton, 2000; 242 pages, $21...