Stories Collection

  1. September 1992 Ten years ago this month JACK BANKOWSKY became the seventh editor of...
  2. MOMA QNS "Drawing is a verb," Richard Serra's bluntly provocative formulation, was ...
  3. MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART Gillian Wearing's best-known image is probably still the...
  4. WHITECHAPEL ART GALLERY Roll up, roll up, and see backward-bicyclist Rodney Graham ...
  5. CASTELLO DI RIVOLI In the early '80s, with a new interest in things non-New York Sc...
  6. QUEENSLAND ART GALLERY Ever hip to shifting cultural and economic boundaries, previ...
  7. VARIOUS VENUES, FRANKFURT The 2000 edition of Manifesta, Europe's roving biennial o...
  8. ALEXANDER AND BONIN Looking at Stefan Kurten's painting Long Time Now, 2002, I sudd...
  9. BAWAG FOUNDATION The show's title could have come from Bob Dylan's melancholy poetr...
  10. TRAMWAY Sometimes an artwork elicits a fine empathy for "all the living and the dea...
  11. METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART Richard Avedon's life as a portrait photographer began i...
  12. HAGGERTY MUSEUM OF ART Jean Fautrier's art has always been a matter of taste, and h...
  13. IRISH MUSEUM OF MODERN ART Unplaceable places, territorial ambiguities: Such are th...
  14. KUNSTHALLE ZURICH Poor Ann Lee. Pierre Huyghe and Philippe Parreno purchased the ma...
  15. CAMDEN ARTS CENTER, LONDON A kinder, gentler Conceptualist: This is the honorific c...
  16. DEITCH PROJECTS Pop music is Fischerspooner's prime metier. Their song "Emerge" is ...
  17. GALERIE HOHENLOHE UND KALB A selection of sculptures and drawings from the last six...
  18. HIROSHIMA CITY MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART The children in Yoshitomo Nara's painting...
  19. RICHARD HOWARD ON HENRI MICHAUX Henri Michaux, Miserable Miracle: Mescaline, trans....
  20. WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART In this fall's look at the art of Lorna Simpson, the...
  21. MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM Few young artists can create a bustle, much less a cooing quor...
  22. CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU Born in Leipzig, schooled in Weimar, Max Beckmann might hav...
  23. MUSEUM FRANZ GERTSCH A museum for Franz Gertsch? I'm a total fan, but, outside Swit...
  24. "There's nothing to see. But if you want to head out there, more power to you," said ...
  25. DAVID ZWIRNER When Neo Rauch's parents were killed in a train crash, Rauch was six ...
  26. CLEMENTINE GALLERY Wayne White's New York debut, "I'm Not Going Around Advertising ...
  27. GALERIE BERND KLUSER With American and German troops currently involved in the same...
  28. MILLER BLOCK GALLERY Atlanta-based artist Kojo Griffin continues his meditation on ...
  29. ARTHUR C. DANTO ON THE ANDY WARHOL CATALOGUE RAISONNE The Andy Warhol Catalogue Rai...
  30. DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS Rosemarie Trockel emerged in the '8os as a sculptor, making...
  31. TO US SNOTTY EAST COAST AESTHETES, THE DESIG-nation "Texas's oldest art museum" might...
  32. MUSEE D'ART MODERNE DE LA VILLE DE PARIS By now it's no longer audacious to turn fr...
  33. GALERIE IM TAXISPALAIS On the occasion of her seventieth birthday, this forty-two-w...
  34. We went to Kingston University because we thought of it as a place without a reputati...
  35. MUSEUM OF MODERN ART It is tremendously difficult to present a successful exhibitio...
  36. DRAWING ROOM Sarah Oppenheimer's installation Hallway, 2002, came across as the hyb...
  37. STADTISCHE KUNSTHALLE It all started when Florian Slotawa, then an art student at H...
  38. ARCADIA UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY William Larson began his distinguished career as a p...
  39. STEVEN HENRY MADOFF ON TATE MODERN'S NEW DIRECTOR LATE LAST MAY, a full eleven mont...
  40. MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS It's easy to see Fuss's cameraless photograms and latter-day da...
  41. DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART The official Great European Painter designation may be contest...
  42. FONDATION CARTIER POUR L'ART CONTEMPORAIN What would we do without the French? Wh...
  43. MUSEUM MODERNER KUNST STIFTUNG LUDWIG WIEN An actor, playwright, film director, and...
  44. All that the world most needs today is combined in the most seductive way in his art-...
  45. RENAISSANCE SOCIETY Catherine Sullivan studied acting before becoming a visual arti...
  46. MUSEUM LUDWIG Given that theorists like Michel Foucault, Fredric Jameson, Henri Lef...
  47. On the morning of June 23, some 150 people (the ranks would swell to 300), several do...
  48. ANDREW SOLOMON ON FRANK MOORE THE WHOLE TIME I KNEW FRANK MOORE, he was dying; but ...
  49. MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS Photography by no means played second fiddle to Charles Sheeler...
  50. CANADIAN CENTRE FOR ARCHITECTURE When architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuro...
  51. CAPCMUSEE DE BORDEAUX With a new generation of artists revisiting the experiments o...
  52. KUNSTVEREIN BRAUNSCHWEIG It has always seemed as if Kai Althoff drew from an idiosy...
  53. Last spring at Larry Becker Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, Robert Ryman realized t...
  54. PACEWILDENSTEIN These paintings from the last twenty years of Adolph Gottlieb's lif...
  55. ACE GALLERY In his second exhibition at Ace, Joel Morrison enlarges on the promise ...
  56. THE PROJECT I've had reservations in the past about works by Daniel Joseph Martinez...
  57. ANDREW HULTKRANS ON WILCO IT'S A GREAT AMERICAN STORY, late-capitalist style. Scruf...
  58. PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART While Renaissance artists frequently depict Ariadne bewa...
  59. CENTRO CULTURAL BANCO DO BRASIL In the edgy sumptuousness of Beatriz Milhazes's all...
  60. MUSEU D'ART CONTEMPORANI Was there ever a nom-de-whatever as seriously off as "Blin...
  61. FRANKFURTER KUNSTVEREIN Since the mid-'70s, Marcel Odenbach has been working in the...
  62. A guy wearing an unkempt wig and thick glasses steps out from behind the red curtain ...
  63. For the Italian Futurists, who celebrated velocity, tumult, and the headlong thrust t...
  64. GALLERIA CHRISTIAN STEIN Once again Marisa Merz has managed to astonish. Her solo e...
  65. MUSEO DE ARTE CARRILLO GIL Modernism equated artistic fulfillment with the achievem...
  66. AA Bronson, a cofounder of General Idea, divides his time between Toronto and New Yor...
  67. ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM Patti Smith once said "art plus electricity equals rock 'n' roll...
  68. WHEN MY FATHER DIED, in September 2000, he left behind hundreds of paintings and scul...
  69. There are as many GERHARD RICHTERs as there are people who care about contemporary ar...
  70. MATTHEW MARKS GALLERY/SWISS INSTITUTE I can't stand clowns. Although their ostensib...
  71. HOWARD YEZERSKI GALLERY The trompe l'oeil self-portraits and grisaille "mound" pain...
  72. LAGALERIE "I am against boys becoming heroes at ten / Against the tree flowering ex...
  73. On the May Contributors page, Artforum mistakenly identified Saul Anton as editor of ...
  74. The Internet has yet to deliver on the electronic republic pundits promised in the '9...
  75. Word had it that the artist, dressed as a Napoleonic courier, rode into the gallery o...
  76. DEBS & CO Doomsday is nigh, and Dominic McGill is ready. In his first solo show, th...
  77. HOSFELT GALLERY Jim Campbell was included in two recent Whitney Museum extravaganza...
  78. GALERIE PETER KILCHMANN A hotel on the moon: Under the black night sky, in the luri...
  79. EXHIBITIONS OF NEW MEDIA tend to focus on the new; as a result, artists working with ...
  80. Despite the barrage of negative criticism that greeted "Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery/...
  81. LEO KOENIG, INC Savvy, sleek, crisp, and flat, Frank Nitsche's paintings make an ho...
  82. DANIEL WEINBERG GALLERY Abstract but with glancing references to new technology and...
  83. KERSTIN ENGHOLM GALERIE Lois Renner is Austria's wiliest painter-sculptor. More pre...
  84. Forcefield, a four-member collective based in Providence, Rhode Island, originated as...
  85. I've often been bored looking at art in a gallery, but I don't remember ever before e...
  86. COHAN LESLIE AND BROWNE As the gulf between painting and photography is increasingl...
  87. BLUM & POE There is much to admire about Jennifer Bornstein's Celestial Spectacular...
  88. K & S Marc Bijl is a busy man. The Dutch artist, currently a resident at the Kunstl...
  89. FISH AND FOUL To the Editor: While I was interested to read Mike Kelley's comment...
  90. As Artforum turns forty this month, senior editor Eric Banks looks back at the magazi...
  91. With the willful impermanence of their blurred chalk marks, Gary Simmons's monumental...
  92. ANGLES GALLERY The enigmatic scenes in Kelly McLane's new paint-and-graphite works ...
  93. GALERIE BARBEL GRASSLIN This was an extremely subdued exhibition: nothing more than...
  94. In Arts magazine from 1976 to 1990 critic, art historian, and onetime Artforum contri...
  95. WITH A SPATE OF RECENT EXHIBITIONS AND THE SHOWCASING of his huge image of an airplan...
  96. After a nearly four-year hiatus during which infighting and political posturing nearl...
  97. BRENT SIKKEMA The extensive literature on ancient monuments like Stonehenge and the...
  98. REBECCA CAMHI GALLERY In the opening passage of William Faulkner's Light in August,...
  99. DEICHTORHALLEN Expectations could only be low: A corporation, Siemens, was hosting ...
  100. VISITING FAMILY IN TIPPERARY a few years back, I was told of a place somewhere close-...
  101. GENE SWENSON PACES ALONE ON FIFTY-THIRD Street carrying a blue question mark perched ...
  102. DRAWING CENTER Blubber lips, hot-dog lips, Sambo lips. They used to call them "nigg...
  103. BELLWETHER Despite the best efforts of abstract painters to establish a surface dev...
  104. FUNDACIO ANTONI TAPIES In distilling Asger Jorn's prolific output from the '30s unt...
  105. HALES GALLERY The story so far: Having purchased land in the Catskills on which to ...
  106. IF YOU GREW UP in the North West of England in the late '70s it was hard to avoid Ton...
  107. On April 11, 2002, five hundred volunteers were supplied with shovels and asked to fo...
  108. PACEWILDENSTEIN Elizabeth Murray, known for large paintings on shaped and layered c...
  109. MURRAY GUY "Voluminous changing forms are to be constructed out of some mobile, pla...
  110. PINKSUMMER A glass case at the center of the gallery contained four rolls of semitr...
  111. HOULDSWORTH It's surprising, when you think about it, how many women painters latel...
  112. IT IS GENERALLY AGREED that "From Pop to Now: Selections from the Sonnabend Collectio...
  113. WAYNE KOESTENBAUM TALKS WITH BRUCE HAINLEY FOR YEARS BRUCE HAINLEY AND I have been ...
  114. DAVID ZWIRNER According to a recent New York Times article, creative stylists in th...
  115. ROGER SMITH GALLERY Ferran Martin's new video, part of his series "Le Modulor" (The...
  116. GALLERIA MARTANO Certain artists working outside the mainstream have succeeded in i...
  117. TEMPLE BAR GALLERY AND STUDIOS/MEETING HOUSE SQUARE/KERLIN GALLERY. These three sep...
  118. "IF YOU FOLLOW THE DOTS," says David Hammons, "you'll end up aboard the Underground R...
  119. GREENE NAFTALI Harun Farocki has made nearly eighty films for both the big and smal...
  120. ST. ANN'S WAREHOUSE With the ferocity of kung fu fighters, Theramenes (Scott Shephe...
  121. PAOLO CURTI & CO. In preparing this review I noticed that in writings about Michael...
  122. SHANGHAI ART MUSEUM In his art Cai Guo-Qiang creates a system of poetic analogies b...
  123. One of the astonishing disclosures in Jacques Lacan's ethics of psychoanalysis concer...
  124. Simon Starling's recent installation looked back at the modernist attempt to dissolve...
  125. Lynne Cohen documents spaces in which the everyday is not so much lived as staged: em...
  126. Forget the prince. Vibeke Tandberg knows what every princess really wants: a shiny ne...
  127. JOLLY GOOD FELLOW To the Editor: In reviewing Brushes with History: Writing on Ar...
  128. Thirty years ago this month, contributing editor Peter Plagens took the measure of a ...
  129. A perceptive New York dealer I needn't name once called a prolific artist I shouldn't...
  130. Nancy Burson has devoted the past two decades to the human face, not so much to learn...
  131. What was so fascinating about Exotica (1994), the film that for many of us marked the...
  132. Hamish Fulton has sometimes been regarded as the poor man's Richard Long. Both artist...
  133. Vince Aletti looks back at Larry Clark's checkered youth and the events that led to t...
  134. Three times a year Artforum looks ahead to the coming season. The following survey pr...
  135. What's not to like about a short film featuring Helmut Berger playing Joan Collins pl...
  136. Saint Clair Cemin's recent show was a marvel of visual wit, acknowledging and playful...
  137. Alberto Garcia Alix is a veteran photographer whom the art world had thought little a...
  138. As painting's capacity to produce credible representations of reality became increasi...
  139. WHEN IT WAS ANNOUNCED in March that Francesco Bonami had been appointed director of v...
  140. TAKE AWAY THE WHIFF OF PEDOPHILIA IN THE photographs of Lewis Carroll and what's left...
  141. Eva Hesse remains a strangely undecidable figure. Since her death at a premature age ...
  142. At a time when Chelsea is filled with wall-size, color-saturated photographs pursuing...
  143. La Ribot comes from the world of dance but her crossover into the art context has eli...
  144. There's a shape--long, thin, and tapering to a rounded summit--that extends up the ce...
  145. The first thing you need to know about the wonderful world of art museums is that eve...
  146. ANYONE WHO KNOWS ANYTHING about Documenta11 knows that the theme of this year's rendi...
  147. Rarely does such a "major" historical exhibition fail so lamentably to account for wh...
  148. In her latest exhibition, "A Task No One Assigned," Jennifer Dalton responded to a co...
  149. The work of Max Renkel carries out a wide-ranging investigation of the procedures, lo...
  150. Patricia Piccinini's recent exhibition "One Night Love" included a group of the furni...
  151. THAT ERIC ROHMER, NOW EIGHTY-TWO, should embark on a technically innovative film set ...
  152. AS THE DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART'S RETROSPECTIVE "THOMAS STRUTH" GOES ON VIEW THIS MONTH, ...
  153. Norman Rockwell is not a complicated artist but he is a complicated case. The tides t...
  154. The early word on Zak Smith was that he's some kid whose paintings had been "discover...
  155. Dutch artist Lily van der Stokker covered the exterior of an entire building with whi...
  156. ONE OF RON GALELLA'S candid portraits of Liza Minnelli, taken in 1968 at the premiere...
  157. At this point, "Paradise" consists of twenty-five photographs I'm just beginning to u...
  158. In her 1974 essay "Fascinating Fascism," a biting critique of the rehabilitation of L...
  159. The oeuvre of Richard Ballard, a Parisbased British artist who's spent considerable t...
  160. Expo 2000 in Hannover, Hong Kong's restoration to China in 1997, the Free Tibet Conce...
  161. Maciej Wisniewski is the creator and chief scientist of netomat, a network- and softw...
  162. THIRTY-TWO YEARS AGO Ralph Lee Smith published an influential appeal concerning the f...
  163. In 1998 Andrea Fraser announced that she would no longer perform as Jane Castleton, t...
  164. In his recent large-scale paintings, Conor McGrady at once mines the tradition of ful...
  165. Bernard Voita's gray images remind one of Gerhard Richter's paintings of black-and-wh...
  166. The scarlet E of economic collapse may have soiled the Internet's reputation in mains...
  167. ANNE TRUITT'S HOUSE IN WASHINGTON, DC, SITS ON A HILL above the city. A typically Mid...
  168. Gone are the days of big canvases glutting exhibition spaces, now that photography ha...
  169. Tom Knechtel knows how to load up a picture, but he also knows how to pare it down, a...
  170. Occupying a single large blacked-out room, Nic Hess's expansive wall painting coalesc...
  171. Douglas Crimp, Melancholia and Moralism: Essays On AIDS and Queer Politics. Cambridge...
  172. WHEN LAWRENCE RINDER WAS NAMED CURATOR OF CONTEMPORARY ART AT THE WHITNEY TWO YEARS A...
  173. The shimmer of Oliver Herring's signature knitted-Mylar sculptures made over the past...
  174. It's been a rough week. In rapid succession I saw a painting of Nicole Kidman as Salo...
  175. At the beginning of each year, the vestals of the Austrian temple of Conceptual art, ...
  176. Ten years ago this month, in her contribution to Artforum's "Critical Reflections" se...
  177. If you remember Francis Minturn Sedgwick (aka "Duke" and "Fuzzy") at all, you'll reme...
  178. Italian writer and poet Italo Calvino was preparing the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures...
  179. Guy Richards Smit's latest exhibition opened with a bash on New Year's Eve, as if to ...
  180. It seems as though for the past few years Steven Criqui's goal has been to become the...
  181. MANY BUILDINGS, overtime, are given colloquial labels that distill their symbolic fre...
  182. Richard Serra is definitely on a roll--of warped, two-inch-thick weatherproof steel. ...
  183. Type A, the collaborative team of New York artists Adam Ames and Andrew Bordwin, has ...
  184. The calendar was a priestly invention, a way of coordinating human and natural cycles...
  185. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME a major art museum issued an open call for submissions to an u...
  186. 'CLEAN" IS HOW ROBERT GREENE describes a lot of the work he likes these days. "I want...
  187. Nancy Spero has produced another monumental "scroll" work, an epic frieze of the magn...
  188. For all their monumentality, Tom Waldron's welded-steel sculptures are oddly understa...
  189. Los Torreznos is a name sometimes used by a duo who have been working together, thoug...
  190. In the era of the ever-expanding museum, the Kunstsamiung Nordrhein-Westfalen introdu...
  191. A relatively young photographer from Germany, Elger Esser specializes in landscapes, ...
  192. Andrew Young has the eye of a naturalist, to use a nineteenth-century term appropriat...
  193. "Casino 2001: First Quadrennial of Contemporary Art" (the SMAK being housed in a form...
  194. A mere decade ago, according to UK artworld legend, a well-known London gallerist exp...
  195. Once, I spread a load of dynamite over the ground and positioned a Super-8 camera ver...
  196. Gordon Matta-Clark died young, but the life span of his large-scale architectural int...
  197. Francesco Vezzoli "writes" a very specific history of feelings, from which there emer...
  198. Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century American Art...
  199. IN HIS PREFACE to Naked Masks: Five Plays by Luigi Pirandello, Eric Bentley wrote of ...