Stories Collection

  1. Beginning in the Caribbean, in tropical color and light, Isaac Julien's Paradise Omer...
  2. Two arty scientists served as inspirations for this exhibition. One, Robert Moog, des...
  3. In this exhibition, which represents the last ten years of Marco Tirelli's activity, ...
  4. Art is most likely to touch on something real just at the point where it doesn't look...
  5. "IT'S FUNNY HOW THINGS HAPPEN to one in life," says Adam D. Weinberg. "Doors just ope...
  6. HOW MIGHT WE ASSESS FEMINISM'S INITIAL IMPACTS ON ART, ITS SUBSEQUENT HISTORICIZATION...
  7. In December 2002, Philippe Parreno and Pierre Huyghe retired Annlee, the Japanese ani...
  8. Architects who skirt the line between art and architecture generally insist on having...
  9. Imagine a gallery filled with a throng of animals making love. Claudia Losi has. Her ...
  10. HERE'S A TALL TALE about a tall tale: Walt Disney's body--allegedly suspended in cryo...
  11. IF YASUJIRO OZU WAS ONLY JUST BEING DISCOVERED IN THE WEST AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH I...
  12. Carlo Mollino earned his place ill the history of design long ago. Lately, however, h...
  13. Three hundred years ago, discriminating travelers in the European countryside might h...
  14. The dynamic between the solitude of individuals and their relationship with others is...
  15. The Australian art world is having a growth spurt. In Brisbane, a $65 million museum ...
  16. WHEN ARTFORUM INVITED RICHARD PRINCE TO CONTRIBUTE A WRITING PROJECT IN TUNE WITH HIS...
  17. Since he first attracted notice some five years ago, Michael Raedecker has rightfully...
  18. This refreshingly selective and well-installed survey of the work of Polly Apfelbaum ...
  19. The Musee d'Art Contemporain de Marseille is not an easy place for an artist to handl...
  20. LESS THAN A WEEK BEFORE "PUTTING TO BED" THE SECOND half of Artforum's two-volume loo...
  21. LAIBACH USED TO BE A FORCE to reckon with. To begin with, the band--if you can call t...
  22. A shiny stainless-steel cylinder, roughly the size and proportions of a kitchen trash...
  23. Merlin Carpenter is known for his frequent and strategic stylistic drifts in response...
  24. The gallery that mounted Vincent Dermody's most recent exhibition is actually a two-c...
  25. Notwithstanding the aristocratic associations of "Le Grand Tour," this version of the...
  26. IN 1986 FRED SANDBACK concluded one of his rare written statements with the words: "P...
  27. WHEN MOBILE-PHONE MANUFACTURERS started adding built-in digital cameras to their phon...
  28. Karlheinz Brandenburg is a name that would probably ring few bells for visitors to Ch...
  29. It's easy to imagine Assume Vivid Astro Focus (aka thirtysomething Eli Sudbrack) subm...
  30. Frederick Hammersley's Option open, 2000-2002, is a small oil-on-linen painting of fl...
  31. Through the centuries, the theme of pathos has become rarer in art. Today it is almos...
  32. I met the sculptor Fred Sandback through my partner in Artforum and copublisher Amy B...
  33. 1 STEPHAN VON HUENE Von Huene's work plays language, speaks music, and sings volumes....
  34. For a time in the 1960s, anyone interestings who visited Warhol's Factory would be in...
  35. It's neither plaudit nor put-down but straightforward observation to say that this ex...
  36. In a New York Times article from 1972 bluntly titled "'I'm Not Really a Photographer,...
  37. Dierk Schmidt is concerned with the possibilities of historical painting in the prese...
  38. Art History After Modernism, by Hans Belting, translated by Caroline Saltzwedel and M...
  39. Next model Sabrina, all perfect skin and luscious lips as luminous as the glossy surf...
  40. How to begin nailing a photographic oeuvre whose cast of characters ranges from Kate ...
  41. When Swiss curator Hans-Ulrich Obrist began organizing exhibitions in the early '90s,...
  42. Following three New York solo shows, Los Angeles-based artist Wendell Gladstone made ...
  43. The term excess is a fitting one for the artistic praxis of Stefan Thiel. But this ex...
  44. WHEN GUS VAN SANT'S ELEPHANT was awarded the Palme d'Or at Cannes last May, it was ta...
  45. THIS MONTH, MORE THAN FORTY YEARS AFTER JAMES ROSENQUIST BEGAN CAPTURING ON CANVAS TH...
  46. For much of the past decade, the painting and subject matter of Edinburgh-born artist...
  47. At first glance, Pam Lins's plywood sculptures look like exercises in medium-scale ar...
  48. Guillermo Kuitca has returned. He's back after seventeen years of self imposed absenc...
  49. Tal R has a distinctive way of explaining his paintings. "I constantly have this hot-...
  50. To the Editor: Recently, on a whim, I did a Google search on my uncle, Gene Swenson...
  51. WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART A lot of isms have followed each other in American a...
  52. THIS OCTOBER, THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, Boston, will present an exhibition of some one...
  53. DESIGN MUSEUM The mighty Brutalist shadow cast by Alison and Peter Smithson's best-...
  54. KUNSTHAUS GRAZ Visionary architect and Archigram member Peter Cook will soon unveil...
  55. STEDELIJK MUSEUM VOOR AKTUELLE KUNST For his final show at SMAK, curator Jan Hoet (...
  56. If the dialectic of artifice and fact has informed Jeff Wall's work from the start, t...
  57. TANYA BONAKDAR GALLERY A viewer rushing to Olafur Eliasson's latest exhibition expe...
  58. SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK Robert Smithson was one of the first artists to think about...
  59. KUNSTHALLE ZURICH When Isa Genzken concluded work on her roughly six-year series of...
  60. I SEE JEFF WALLS EVERYWHERE--in the seepage and spills on the garage floor, at the we...
  61. WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART Arshile Gorky has generally been regarded as among t...
  62. ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO The sea is not the most obvious theme in Manet's varied oe...
  63. CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU The work's all about absence, disappearance, loss, and lack...
  64. SAMMLUNG ESSL--KUNST DER GEGENWART Austrian Actionism has safely entered art histor...
  65. CASINO LUXEMBOURG Having spent over a decade demonstrating a flair for the absurd a...
  66. GLOBALIZATION, OUR MANTRA OF THE MOMENT, only carries so far where art is concerned. ...
  67. MARIANNE BOESKY GALLERY Lisa Yuskavage's luscious new paintings introduce Lupe and ...
  68. BERNARD TOALE GALLERY With this presentation of twenty-five gelatin-silver prints m...
  69. GALERIE GRITA INSAM In one of the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, a little girl ...
  70. June 11 VENICE BIENNALE. Arrive around noon at Marco Polo Airport after a predictab...
  71. MoMA QNS The female master of icky, sticky sculpture, Kiki Smith has also made book...
  72. WALKER ART CENTER Is this promising show (forty artists, 100 works, an extensive ca...
  73. CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU Though often dismissed as an erratic flibbertigibbet, Jean ...
  74. KUNSTHISTORISCHES MUSEUM Francis Bacon's work is riddled with references to the old...
  75. KIASMA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART Group show or art festival? "PROCESS" forgoes the...
  76. Goodness, what crazy purchases were prompted by the poignant predilection Humbert had...
  77. AMERICAN FINE ARTS, CO. No two Dennis Balk exhibitions are ever alike. Over the cou...
  78. LIZABETH OLIVERIA GALLERY Titled after Edward Hicks's iconic folk-art painting of 1...
  79. BAWAG FOUNDATION Both Marcus Geiger and Peter Kogler have made their mark through t...
  80. HOW IS IT THAT A BRITISH DOCTOR fifty years dead, an oddball amateur who made adverti...
  81. STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM It's 1974. "Kung Fu Fighting" is number one on the charts, ...
  82. WALKER ART CENTER Awkward and self-absorbed doesn't sound like a hot date, and many...
  83. PALAIS DE TOKYO A few months before passing away, Chen toured the Palais de Tokyo w...
  84. PINAKOTHEK DER MODERNE Some people think Cy Twombly's paintings are little more tha...
  85. VARIOUS VENUES Fast on the heels of the Venice Biennale comes "OUTLOOK," curated by...
  86. Sidney Tillim began his career as an art critic by answering a "Help Wanted" ad in th...
  87. PACEWILDENSTEIN There may be no work of art without a "balancing center," as Rudolf...
  88. BLUM & POE In seventh grade, when whip-sexy Butch Lauer informed me that Kiss had r...
  89. MUSEE D'ART MODERNE ET CONTEMPORAIN That Raoul Pictor is a painter is obvious. Wear...
  90. STAN BRAKHAGE'S DEATH at seventy, on March 9, 2003, marked the end of the most astoni...
  91. INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY Angling for some high-profile attention, ICP pu...
  92. CONTEMPORARY ARTS MUSEUM Had it with parallel worlds that demand extensive research...
  93. KUNSTHALLE NURNBERG Among those who pioneered the artwork's dematerialization, few ...
  94. MORI ART MUSEUM Sing hallelujah, c'mon, get happy! Songs about happiness often lend...
  95. Vastness is the quality that chiefly defines its character: The white, daylight-fille...
  96. BERNT SIKKEMA Amy Sillman's reputation has grown with each new show. Though she sim...
  97. PATRICIA FAURE GALLERY Early in his career, John Divola gained public recognition w...
  98. JOHANN KONIG How do yon make a salsa song? David Zink Yi reveals the deceptively ea...
  99. WELCOME TO THE REAL of the Desert: rocks, heat, cacti, empty beer cans, all-terrain v...
  100. NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART Everybody knows Romare Bearden's collages, but even those w...
  101. MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART Manny Farber, the best writer on film in America or anyw...
  102. MUSEU D'ART CONTEMPORANI DE BARCELONA Over the last decade, Maurizio Dias and Walte...
  103. MARTIN-GROPIUS-BAU This vast exhibition brings to the surface some of the most para...
  104. Omer Fast really knows how to wreck a movie. His video installations--which may take ...
  105. JAMES COHAN GALLERY Fred Tomaselli's intensely detailed and disquieting mixed media...
  106. THE LUCKMAN GALLERY Occasionally, an exhibition at a smaller LA venue suggests the ...
  107. CATHERINE BASTIDE To be invited to Brussels for one's first solo exhibition when on...
  108. To the Editor: We appreciated the recent review by Scott Rothkopf of Diller + Scofi...
  109. Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpetriere, b...
  110. BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART Modern artists have always had a hard time convincing peopl...
  111. UCLA HAMMER MUSEUM In 1965, Donald Judd proclaimed Lee Bontecou "one of the best ar...
  112. CASTELLO DI RIVOLI Vanessa Beecroft's early renown coincided with the art world's f...
  113. THE ORGANIZERS OF THE 8th International Istanbul Biennial could be forgiven for looki...
  114. Francesco Bonami's Venice Biennale--"Dreams and Conflicts: The Dictatorship of the Vi...
  115. MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, CHICAGO What is "normal" love? Mom and dad's? Teen swee...
  116. GREENE NAFTALI "August Evening Walk Out," an exhibition of new paintings by Blake R...
  117. SPAZIO ERASMUS / PHOTO & CO. In Milan, thirty-six-year-old Francesco Jodice exhibit...
  118. GALERIE AKINCI The large color photographs in Juul Hondius's show "Faction" evoked ...
  119. To the Editor: It was amazing to receive my new issue of Artforum and find on page ...
  120. 1 KEMBRA PFAHLER Lead singer/founder of the Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black and inve...
  121. MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART Saul Steinberg and Raymond Pettibon might seem to come f...
  122. SEATTLE ART MUSEUM "Baja to Vancouver" sounds like the world's longest motorcross r...
  123. FONDAZIONE PRADA The surface of a white canvas can be mapped out geometrically, but...
  124. SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE With Russian literature the focus of this year's Frankfurt hook f...
  125. In one of my earlier works, the photographic triptych The First Intellectual, I touch...
  126. SCHAULAGER, BASEL "Dieter Roth resisted fame all his life; in spite of his self-pro...
  127. MURRAY GUY GALLERY In a passage from The Poetics of Space (1958) in which he discus...
  128. IT WAS A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT, and I was standing, freezing, outside American Fine A...
  129. "CULT" AND "COTERIE" CLING LIKE BARNACLES to the reputation of Winnipeg director Guy ...
  130. At the rate of one exhibition every dozen years, Cosima von Bonin seems to be perpetu...
  131. Ten years after his last New York solo show, Michael Krebber returned with an install...
  132. Won Ju Lim is known for groupings of foamcore and Plexiglas architectural forms illum...
  133. "Girls need modems." "I wish I was as sensitive as Marcel Proust." "Peanut butter on ...
  134. Gordon Matta-Clark, edited by Carinne Diserens; survey by Thomas Crow; essays by Judi...
  135. IN THE FALL OF 1974, JOSEPH KOSUTH, SARAH Charlesworth, Michael Corns, Preston Heller...
  136. Stan Douglas's latest work, the video installation Suspiria, 2002/2003, is as visuall...
  137. For his first solo show in New York, Los Angeles-based artist Glenn Kaino commandeere...
  138. Although I might wish for the death of photography almost every time I have to stomac...
  139. Rarely have I felt so lost as in viewing the videos of Nina Konnemann. Lost, because ...
  140. Christopher Williams's photographs, individually, in series, and configured hypercons...
  141. Japan's big twenty-first-century export is cuteness, and it's one of Takashi Murakami...
  142. Stephen Dean's Pulse, 2001, was one of the few high points of the 2002 Whitney Bienni...
  143. Seldom does the inaugural show of a new museum so effectively bring together the very...
  144. The attempt to counter prevailing political, economic, and social realities with an a...
  145. SAY YOU'RE WILLING to drop a few million on a piece of art built out of cheese and ch...
  146. Imagine an optical device designed to project--and then to trace--a virtual image of ...
  147. Tara Donovan's work is high in--call it a howthe...whathe...jeez factor. It has the k...
  148. The art world is having a love affair with drawing. In the span of a year, we've had ...
  149. Although he has been producing since the early '60s, Isidoro Valcarcel Medina was, un...
  150. ZTRATA, Czech for "loss," is written in white chalk on a blackboard. A young man eras...
  151. Nick Crowe is an artist based in Manchester, England. His work can be seen at forthco...
  152. Two women lounge on beds, a camcorder on a tripod between them. The colors and patter...
  153. To enjoy sex as glamorous apotheosis and still have the comforts of a messy, cozy, fa...
  154. In a conversation with Allan Kaprow published in Arts Yearbook's "Museum World" (1967...
  155. Two things were most striking in this extensive retrospective bringing together nearl...
  156. The paintings that made Lisa Milroy's reputation in the late '80s were concatenations...
  157. In some ways the Net remains like a seedy night-club: The fuzz rarely knows what's re...
  158. Christian Schad's self-portrait of 1927, included in curators Jill Lloyd and Michael ...
  159. Theresa Hak Kyung Cha died in 1982 at age thirty-one, but "The Dream of the Audience,...
  160. Choreographer Sarah Michelson transforms performance spaces in the most extraordinary...
  161. It is not easy, today, to paint flowering meadow, with bright green grass and brillia...
  162. Matti Braun had flooded the front section of Showroom, turning it into a little lake....
  163. AMERICAN SPLENDOR, Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini's tatty, tender, volatile...
  164. For all the recent talk of blurred boundaries between architecture and the visual art...
  165. Most landscape painting focuses on the land: its valleys, its horizons, its mountain ...
  166. Mark Dion, like Broodthaers or Beuys, is an artist with an idiosyncratic formal lexic...
  167. "Got it!" you say to yourself when you make out the graffiried slogan NI CRISTO NI MA...
  168. Under the majestically scaled projection of the phrase THIS PLACE IS DREAMING, a chor...
  169. Dave Muller is a Los Angeles-based artist and the operator of Three Day Weekend, an a...
  170. One pleasant surprise of Tony Smith's retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art (five...
  171. In his most recent paintings, Donald Baechler's visual language has become increasing...
  172. In late February, artist Christine Hill moved to Cleveland for five weeks to carry ou...
  173. The pack of Smart Export cigarettes, an Austrian brand, looks a bit worse for the wea...
  174. This suite of twelve paintings was produced in response to an invitation to present a...
  175. TO BE A STUDENT OF ART HISTORY IN PARIS DURING THE EARLY '80S WAS not especially exhi...
  176. You might think that an artist based in Los Angeles would be concerned, at least mini...
  177. For "Where We Come From," her first solo exhibition in New York, Palestinian-American...
  178. In the '60s and '70s a generation of photographers appeared, concerned with both the ...
  179. On the day before her opening at the Secession, Koo Jeong-A locked herself in the bas...
  180. Viewers entering the Taipei Fine Arts Museum were immediately confronted by Arena, 19...
  181. CRIMP MY STYLE To the Editor: I have no illusions about being able to control how...
  182. It takes a lot of research for me to know exactly what I want to make, and to commit ...
  183. A kind of quirky retrospective, this exhibition begins with Richard Tuttle's latest w...
  184. I HAVE NOTHING TO SAY. This wry anti-statement, with its overtones of Cagean Zen, is ...
  185. In his fourth solo show at this gallery, James Welling presented recent works from th...
  186. Having abandoned her early plaster objects as being too "cool and technical," Chantal...
  187. "MY HEAD'S DAMAGED somehow. I don't even remember who I am." My, that's bad. Care f...
  188. It's been twelve years since Village Voice critic Kim Levin urged readers to "boycott...
  189. AN EXTRAORDINARY OPPORTUNITY TO SEE MUCH of the best painting done in eighteenth-cent...
  190. One after the other, artists of the '80s are being rescued from postmodernism by vali...
  191. This big retrospective, culled by independent curator Mathias Remmele from the Vitra'...
  192. IN THE MID-'90$, AFTER A SPLENDID RUN IN regional markets and film festivals, Hong Ko...
  193. Ye olde mix of sex, death, and ungodly powers from beyond infused a recent show by Ch...
  194. If in the early days of photography, the mechanical difficulties of producing even a ...
  195. Translated from German by Sara Ogger. The room where Ulrike Lienbacher presented ov...
  196. WHILE MANY LIVE RECORDINGS are accompanied by disclaimers--invariably apologias for t...
  197. IN MARCH JOHN ELDERFIELD was appointed chief curator of the Department of Painting an...
  198. Serpentine chief curator Rochelle Steiner's Cindy Sherman overview focuses on staged ...
  199. "I have never joined any group. I dislike -isms. In art, in life, I reject theories. ...