Stories Collection

  1. KUNSTMUSEUM LIECHTENSTEIN Translated from German by Sara Ogger. A sexy artist nam...
  2. An Anthology of Noise and Electronic Music 1921-2001. Sub Rosa (SR 190). $18. Ohm: ...
  3. ANDREW HAHN PAINTS UNSOLVABLE MYSTERIES. HE creates them with the same meticulous obj...
  4. How often have you taken a picture that's not at all what you'd seen? This never happ...
  5. MURRAY GUY In his photographs of people on the street, Beat Streuli has since the e...
  6. GALERIA FORTES VILACA Leda Catunda is one of the key figures of geracao oitenta, th...
  7. NYLON In the past, Matthew Cornford and David Cross have ironized their corporate-s...
  8. Delia Brown is a Los Angeles-based artist who shows regularly at D'Amelio Terras, New...
  9. I FIRST SAW CHUCK RAMIREZ'S WORK IN A 1997 San Antonio solo show called "Coconut," th...
  10. Harry Smith (1923-91) is today remembered mostly as an avant-garde filmmaker and musi...
  11. MUSEO NACIONAL CENTRO DE ARTE REINA SOFIA Indian artist and writer Bhupen Khakhar's...
  12. CHISENHALE GALLERY In her laconic sculpture and video installations, the British ar...
  13. Twenty years ago, Artforum addressed "Zeitgeist," a major international group survey ...
  14. RED MEANS OCCUPIED, GREEN MEANS VACANT. Although Haegue Yang has lived in Europe sinc...
  15. Drawing has a genealogy, suggests MOMA guest curator Laura Hoptman: Variously appreci...
  16. POSTMASTERS Among the more provocative essays published after September II was Slav...
  17. FONDAZIONE SANDRETTO RE REBAUDENGO Curated by Francesco Bonami, "Exit" included wor...
  18. ASPREY JACQUES Black was everywhere in this show-in the treated film imagery, in th...
  19. Three times a year Artforum looks ahead to the coming season. The following survey pr...
  20. AT A GLANCE, LUISA LAMBRI'S PHOTOGRAPHS OF architectural interiors might appear to be...
  21. DAVID ZWIRNER Toba Khedoori makes monumental yet exactingly detailed drawings, coat...
  22. SPENCER BROWNSTONE GALLERY Mathieu Mercier's AAA, 2002, a backlit wall-mounted sign...
  23. GALERIE DE FRANCE Since 1999, guided by the historian Joan Roca, Patrick Faigenbaum...
  24. ANDREA ROSEN GALLERY Matthew Ritchie is a self-professed cosmologist, a connoisseur...
  25. APEXART Boredom used to be a sin, attendant cousin of sloth, a welcome state for th...
  26. KUNSTMUSEUM Katharina Grosse's presentation in St. Gallen was one element of a four...
  27. COMMON DENOMINATOR To the Editor: It is a pity that Thomas Crow did not name the ...
  28. "TO BECOME AND BEHAVE LIKE SOMETHING else," wrote Walter Benjamin, "... is really a l...
  29. WADE GUYTON HAS REFERRED TO HIS SCULPTURES AS drawings in space. No doubt this assert...
  30. GALERIE LELONG Few contemporary artists are as attuned to the power of images as Al...
  31. ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO Photography has always been an art of the accident, and at...
  32. CONTEMPORARY ART CENTRE/OLD PRINTING HOUSE Europe's geographic center lies farther ...
  33. IN THIS SUGAR-FREE ERA, what artist has a life more interesting than his art? The dea...
  34. In 1999, Pierre Huyghe and Philippe Parreno purchased the rights to a manga drawing f...
  35. THE TROUBLE WITH OUTER SPACE IS THAT EVERYBODY wants a piece. The recent Hollywood re...
  36. LUHRING AUGUSTINE GALLERY In "Clean Thoughts," an exhibition of new sculptures (plu...
  37. TEXAS GALLERY For his solo debut exhibition, "Death Metal 2000: Prehistoria," Houst...
  38. ART IN PROGRESS/ITALIAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE "My Home Is My Mind"--the title of Flavi...
  39. IF THIS WERE A CHARLIE KAUFMAN SCRIPT about me writing a review of Spike Jonze and Ch...
  40. I started the piece by thinking about how the subconscious can have physical manifest...
  41. WHEN I FIRST MET GREGORY KUCERA, HE HAD recently returned to Los Angeles from a stint...
  42. ZWIRNER & WIRTH Fracture, distortion, murky handling of paint-these have long been ...
  43. GALLERY PAULE ANGLIM Robert Bechtle's Photorealistic paintings from the late '6os q...
  44. KUNSTVEREIN SPRINGHORNHOF The Kunstverein Springhornhof, in the Luneburg Heath of n...
  45. GAGOSIAN GALLERY, NEW YORK The art of what used to be called (proudly by its fans, ...
  46. CRG GALLERY Living in a city shrouded by the squalid yellow haze of light pollution...
  47. CHERRY DELOSREYES In Marcelino Goncalves's provocatively titled Receiver (all works...
  48. TORCH GALLERY Gerald Van Der Kaap's show "Passing the Information (II)" consisted o...
  49. CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU, PARIS From the opening salvo of his mammoth exhibition "Le...
  50. POSTMASTERS Diana Cooper is known for humble-looking yet labor-intensive works in w...
  51. MARC FOXX I find it easier to deal with work wherein the subtleties are defined by ...
  52. LISSON GALLERY I'd forgotten just how loudly the noise of outside traffic used to e...
  53. MARLBOROUGH GALLERY In Avigdor Arikha's ink drawing View from the Meridien, 1998, t...
  54. MARILIA RAZUK GALERIA DE ARTE Rodrigo Andrade was part of Casa 7, the '80s' most ce...
  55. HENRY MOORE INSTITUTE In lazy artspeak, one could say that Gerd Verhoeven's 2001 vi...
  56. MUSEU D'ART CONTEMPORANI DE BARCELONA Given the meager attention accorded to sound ...
  57. TIBOR DE NAGY GALLERY It's a pity Edwin Dickinson (1891-1978) isn't more widely rec...
  58. VARIOUS VENUES The exhibitions and publications of African curators and critics lik...
  59. KEVIN KAVANAGH GALLERY Need a vacation? Maybe Darren Murray can help you out. The t...
  60. LINZ, AUSTRIA The Web as new-millennium juggernaut is already an old anthem, and it...
  61. ELIZABETH DEE GALLERY The painting craze of the past five years or so has found man...
  62. GALERIA TOMAS MARCH Even amid the accelerated rhythm of contemporary life there are...
  63. PETER MCLEAVEY GALLERY The five large color photographs in Yvonne Todd's "Sea of Tr...
  64. SURFACE TREATMENT To the Editor: Nico Israel's enjoyable piece on Smithson's icon...
  65. MARIAN GOODMAN GALLERY. There have been times (and particular pictures) in the past...
  66. TANYA BONAKDAR GALLERY For visitors pining for another encounter with Thomas Scheib...
  67. FONDAZIONE PRADA You had to pass through the body of an overturned truck to get int...
  68. Andrew Mummery Gallery 63 Compton Street, London EC1V 0BN 020-7251-6265 Fax: 02...
  69. John Waters David Bordwell Amy Taubin Ian Birnie Chrissie Iles John Waters ...
  70. D'AMELIO TERRAS John Morris practices what critic Alan Weiss calls a "poetics of th...
  71. WHITE COLUMNS Any pop icon worth her salt is known by a single name: Jackie, Marily...
  72. GALERIE MARTIN JANDA Adriana Czernin's early videos, such as the one in which she t...
  73. Dundee Contemporary Arts 152 Nethergate Dundee DD1 4DY 01382-909900 Fax: 0138...
  74. Dennis Cooper Ben Ratliff Andrew Hultkrans Clive Bell Steve Lafreniere Denn...
  75. 303 GALLERY Much has been made, in recent criticism, of the significance of placing...
  76. ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM Any number of important musicians and writers have produced inte...
  77. JABLONKA GALERIE/LINN LUHN The art of Alexej Koschkarow, a Belarussian who recently...
  78. Orchard Gallery Orchard Street Derry, Northern Ireland BT48 6EG 02871-269-675 ...
  79. Linda Nochlin Yve-Alain Bois Christopher S. Wood David Reed Anne M. Wagner ...
  80. SWISS INSTITUTE Since first exhibiting his Thrift Store Paintings more than a decad...
  81. MONIQUE MELOCHE GALLERY Painting gets most exciting when an artist relieves it of i...
  82. KUNSTVEREIN Richard Wright is fascinated by what he calls the "ghosts" of painting'...
  83. Douglas Hyde Gallery Trinity College Nassau Street, Dublin 2 01-608-1116 Fax:...
  84. (1) "La Revolution surrealiste" (Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris) Werner Spies's grand...
  85. WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART There was something jarring about "Sanctuaries." The...
  86. SITE SANTA FE Tightrope acts are anxious spectacles. So it's appropriate that Janin...
  87. Oriel Mostyn Gallery 12 Vaughan Street Llandudno, LL30 1AB 01492-879201 Fax: ...
  88. David Rimanelli September 12 "FERUS" AT GAGOSIAN, a tribute to the Los Angeles ga...
  89. The work of Los Angeles--based artist Sam Durant is on view in solo exhibitions at LA...
  90. P.S. 1, NEW YORK With the art-world radar now trained on the slightest aesthetic st...
  91. ANTON KERN Across a wide spectrum of artistic practice, craft materials are in vogu...
  92. BERKELEY ART MUSEUM Vincent Fecteau's modest-scale sculptures have always exuded a ...
  93. GALERIE DANIEL BUCHHOLZ In his story "The Figure in the Carpet" (1896) Henry James ...
  94. ONE OF THE REASONS I came to New York before I was old enough to go anywhere was to m...
  95. November 1962 Forty years ago the nascent phenomenon of Pop art was making its bid ...
  96. FORUM GALLERY Charles Matron makes architecture and puts it in boxes. Ranging, in t...
  97. MARK MOORE GALLERY I think of Tim Bavington as a kind of bartender. Trained in Las ...
  98. KUNSTLERHAUS BETHANIEN It is a stock complaint that the aesthetic of MTV videos, wi...
  99. The World of Proust, as Seen by Paul Nadar, edited by Anne-Marie Bernard. Cambridge, ...
  100. ON THE OCCASION OF THE FIRST MAJOR SURVEY OF THE WORK OF CARROLL DUNHAM, WHICH RUNS T...
  101. NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, NEW YORK Recent exhibitions like "Out of Place" at ...
  102. LEO KOENIG INC. Battle of the Planets, the sci-fi anime that Yoshitaka Amano create...
  103. GALERIA PAULO FERNANDES Cabelo's work first gained notoriety in 1996, when he took ...
  104. SERPENTINE GALLERY Gilbert & George began as "living sculptures," confounding the s...
  105. "GEEK LOVE" WOULD BE the perfect title for Paul Thomas Anderson's new film, were it n...
  106. IN ANTICIPATION OF THE RELEASE THIS MONTH OF FAR FROM HEAVEN, TODD HAYNES'S MUCH-ANTI...
  107. TATE MODERN, LONDON An assured grasp of film language together with a merciless que...
  108. NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART The Pathfinder mission to Mars five years ago produc...
  109. CENTRO GALEGO DE ARTE CONTEMPORANEA In Jorge Luis Borges's "Los espejos velados" (C...
  110. IKON GALLERY Hayley Newman is a performance artist. Last year, for example, she spe...
  111. LATE SUMMER brought the announcement that Robert Storr would curate SITE Santa Fe's F...
  112. "Why couldn't he just have taken a pretty picture?" The image is of a young girl, rad...
  113. GORNEY BRAVIN & LEE Art-world cliques are mixed blessings. On the ascendant, a grou...
  114. STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM Likening an artist's work to Chagall's is hardly most peopl...
  115. GIAN ENZO SPERONE Three life-size figures were placed on pedestals shaped in some c...
  116. VARIOUS VENUES This biennial aimed to please. From the upbeat title--"(The World Ma...
  117. To the flurry of fancy new American museum buildings add Diller + Scofidio's Institut...
  118. In the dimly received 2002 Whitney Biennial commentators from diverse, even rival cam...
  119. MARY BOONE GALLERY Toland Grinnell is unapologetically aspiring to the condition of...
  120. AXA GALLERY "Perfect Acts of Architecture" brought together six series of early and...
  121. GALLERIA NAZIONALE D'ARTE MODERNA Monumental yet intimate, this new installation by...
  122. Due to a combination of errors in the process of translation, editing, and condensing...
  123. CHARLES BURNS GETS OFF TO great starts, though his comic-book episodes don't begin in...
  124. Jeremy Deller is an artist who gets down with the people, wherever he happens to be. ...
  125. GAGOSIAN GALLERY Several gallery shows during the past year have testified to the l...
  126. KLEMENS GASSER & TANJA GRUNERT / ALLSTON SKIRT GALLERY Two concurrent and complemen...
  127. GALERIE CHANTAL CROUSEL What is cosmopolitiques? Not merely the title of a new Fren...
  128. Brooklyn-based new-media artist John Klima explores connections between the virtual a...
  129. A man in a museum, surrounded by a crowd: Suddenly, he is swallowed in flames, as abr...
  130. MARIANNE BOESKY GALLERY Many of the new narrative dimensions in contemporary art un...
  131. ROY BOYD GALLERY The best hard-edged geometric abstraction, especially at small sca...
  132. KUNSTHALLE BERN A young woman boxes with an older, much larger man, the vulnerabili...
  133. JEAN BAUDRILLARD is just one of the headliners participating in this year's Media_Cit...
  134. WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART The Whitney owns ninety-two of Claes Oldenburg's dra...
  135. STEPHEN WIRTZ GALLERY In the tradition of eye-dazzling abstraction, there is someth...
  136. GALERIE MEYER KAINER "Ordering, fixing the places of things as well as ideas in the...
  137. HANG FIRE To the Editor: Exhibitions are a form of representation, an interpretiv...
  138. Steven Henry Madoff recounts the serendipitous meeting that led to Bridget Riley's fi...
  139. MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, NORTH MIAMI, FL "Jonathan Pierson may have been born in...
  140. FELIX RINGEL At first glance, Robert Linsley's abstract images, reminiscent of the ...
  141. KISS MY GRITS To the Editor: "Blubber-lips, hot-dog lips, Sambo lips. They used t...
  142. A YEAR AGO THIS MONTH NAN GOLDIN'S RETROSPECTIVE BEGAN A SIX-VENUE TOUR AT THE CENTRE...
  143. DAVID REED No beds, no videos. Here we got David Reed without any of his recent qua...
  144. "INFOTECTURE" A loosely conceived exhibition of projects by architects and designer...
  145. MARCELLO MALOBERTI All'incirca alla caviglia (More or less about the ankle; all wor...
  146. In the September issue, Artforum miscredited some of the images illustrating "Radiant...
  147. Barry Schwabsky revisits the circumstances of Lynda Benglis's career-making invitatio...
  148. TRACEY ROSE History is constantly scoured for anything sufficiently passe to import...
  149. "FAMILY" Families are the stuff of great stories, both fictional and real, from Lea...
  150. "CONTINUITA" There are places condemned to look backward, longingly, at a bygone er...
  151. RHONDA LIEBERMAN ON DERRIDA WE CULTURE-ISTAS KNOW Derrida is the Madonna of thought...
  152. TALKS ABOUT HIS WORK The curator at Kunst-Werke, or KW, Berlin, Klaus Biesenbach, a...
  153. ALEX BAG Alex Bag's turf in the New York art world is comparable to Ann Magnuson's ...
  154. KENNY HUNTER The exhibition "Chase the Devil," the first in the United States for S...
  155. DJAMEL TATAH Just inside the entrance, to the right, hung a very tall canvas. Its b...
  156. Hospitality, if not quite standard in core curricula, shows up as an academic subject...
  157. LIVING ARTISTS HAVE LONG MADE for conflicted subjects of museum retrospectives, as Ed...
  158. NINA KATCHADOURIAN Nina Katchadourian was hiking last year in Trinidad when she hea...
  159. JULIA FISH During the past ten years, Julia Fish has created paintings and works on...
  160. AYSE ERKMEN Nothing disquiets the Turkish quite as much as large bubbles in their c...
  161. CHRISTOPHER S. WOOD ON MICHAEL FRIED'S MENZEL Michael Fried, Menzel's Realism: Art ...
  162. IT'S TOO BAD THE BLINKY PALERMO exhibition scheduled to open next month at Barcelona'...
  163. "PENETRATION" How to revitalize the summer group show? What would guarantee notice?...
  164. AMY BLAKEMORE The Diana camera--an apparatus cheaply made in the early 1960s that s...
  165. FRIEDRICH KUNATH "Welcome Home Steve Curry" was the title under which Friedrich Kun...
  166. Joseph Nechvatal has been making computer-assisted robotic paintings since 1986. His ...
  167. Recently voted the world's most desirable place to live, Vancouver, British Columbia,...
  168. MARTIN PURYEAR For his latest exhibition Martin Puryear made four extraordinary scu...
  169. CHRISTIAN MARCLAY More than a decade separates Christian Marclay's Tape Fall, 1989,...
  170. "FREQUENZEN [HZ]" Many have observed a change in the Schira Kunsthalle's image sinc...
  171. It's not the title of a hobbyist's manual, nor the latest iteration of a corporate sl...
  172. TATE MODERN, LONDON If the Kimbell Art Museum's 1999 "Matisse and Picasso" had need...
  173. ROE ETHRIDGE The first sign of trouble (or complexity) in Roe Ethridge's exhibition...
  174. MICHELE O'MARAH Two questions: (1) Why are most films shown in the gallery or museu...
  175. GERWALD ROCKENSCHAUB Any artist wishing to thematize the play between forces of cul...
  176. GLENN O'BRIEN ON MATI KLARWEIN I FIRST ENCOUNTERED MATE KIARWEIN in 1970. Miles Dav...
  177. CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU, PARIS "Cher Peintre, Lieber Maler, Dear Painter" is the la...
  178. SVEN PAHLSSON In the more than forty years since the publication of Jane Jacobs's D...
  179. JORGE MACCHI You couldn't think of a more deceptive title for this exhibition than ...
  180. LIAM GILLICK "The Wood Way" brought together a selection of twenty-eight works from...
  181. Roe Ethridge is a New York--based photographer. His solo show at the Cheekwood Museum...
  182. PATRICK PAINTER, LOS ANGELES A goofily odd statue of John Glenn made Out of "memory...
  183. ELINA BROTHERUS Can a photograph reflect reality? The Paris-based Finnish photograp...
  184. CHRIS OFILI The very idea of the Rothko Chapel has always bugged me. Do modern pain...
  185. Thirty years ago this month, Artforum went to Kassel for the first time. Senior edito...
  186. GENERALI FOUNDATION, VIENNA In 1992 just when a series of attacks on refugee camps ...
  187. TOM BURCKHARDT Things, identifiable and otherwise, run amok in Tom Burckhardt's wor...
  188. MASSIMO BARTOLINI Massimo Bartolini recently had three important solo exhibitions--...
  189. CATHY WILKES Perched on a hill within Edinburgh's Royal Botanic Garden, Inverleith ...
  190. BELLE TOLLS To the Editor: The review by Linda Nochlin of "Mirroring Evil: Nazi I...
  191. NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART Carroll Dunham's canvases of the past several years ...
  192. INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART The Smiths--wasn't that one of those "new romantic" p...
  193. From the vantage point of this, its eighteenth year, we may discern the Four Ages of ...
  194. FONDAZIONE SANDRETTO RE REBAUDENGO CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART Turin has more museu...
  195. SHANGHAI ART MUSEUM Hard on the heels of Sao Paulo's "Metropolitan Iconographies" c...
  196. CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART, WASHINGTON, DC When Barbara Rose started shopping the idea...
  197. MATTHEW MARKS GALLERY Ever since I saw my first Brice Marden show, in Houston in 19...
  198. GALERIE PHILIPPE CASINI Since the '90s, Remy Hysbergue has painted in series. He co...