Stories Collection

  1. "Gerberman at Large," Alexi Worth's recent short series of paintings, follows the rom...
  2. It all starred promisingly enough. While surfing the Web, Armenian-French artist Meli...
  3. Translaud from German by Sara Ogger. "Man is a story-making animal. He rarely passe...
  4. Guy Richards Smit, a New York-based artist and frontman for the art band Maxi Geil! &...
  5. Will the ever-turning wheels of revisionism soon replace AbEx with AmEx? If cultural ...
  6. Peter Saville, the British graphic designer and cofounder of Manchester's Factory Rec...
  7. One of the world's great collections of antiquities, the MANN last year inaugurated a...
  8. Peter Doig's strange, folksy paintings trade in atmospherics. Conjured from photograp...
  9. Other ambitious young artists might have been content go to the studio, tack up a pos...
  10. "Magical Death," Meg Cranston's most recent show, presented five portraits of the art...
  11. In Santiago Cucullu's recent solo exhibition, wall sculptures constructed from paper ...
  12. Standing on a white pedestal was a chair titled Charles Eames fur Vegetarier (Charles...
  13. Three decades ago in Art forum, Max Kozloff asked just what, beyond formal achievemen...
  14. The exhibition's title suggests yet another dreary walk down the path of tweaked vern...
  15. The origins of Barbara Hepworth's art, according to Adrian Stokes, lay in the need "t...
  16. THOSE WHO RECALL THE WAR between Vittorio Sgarbi, former undersecretary of the Italia...
  17. In the late 60s NewJersey--born Peter Downsbrough dispensed with the production of tr...
  18. Dark Polaris snowmobiles stand dormant in a row, their cinematic image dissolving slo...
  19. In their first New York show, Swiss sisters Claudia and Julia Muller presented three ...
  20. As the affable ambassador of serious institutional critique, Fred Wilson has been war...
  21. Window displays as a case study from the beginnings of photography to the Bauhaus arc...
  22. As an art student at the University of Minnesota, James Rosenquist found work paintin...
  23. From Hong Kong massage parlors to Taiwanese betel-nut stands, Japanese love hotels to...
  24. Working less as a maker of paintings than as a maker of methods of painting, Bernard ...
  25. Shiny boots of leather/slimy bouts of pleasure: Graz pays homage to two of its most f...
  26. Ib Geertsen is practically a father figure within Denmark's artistic household. Gener...
  27. There are some very good paintings in MOCKS Laura Owens survey--particularly the larg...
  28. What does it mean for a digital artwork to be medium-specific? The answer usually inv...
  29. Ivan Morley's paintings are inspired by the frontiersman's lore of scrappy, dried-out...
  30. Translated from German by Sara Ogger. Born in New Zealand a descendant of the Maori...
  31. With millions across the world demonstrating against the war in Iraq, the timing is n...
  32. From his early "scratch sessions employing multiple turntables--which anticipated the...
  33. This is hardly curator Robert Delpire's first Cartier-Bresson retrospective, and its ...
  34. Anglers love a tall tale, so it's entirely appropriate that Allan Sekula's monumental...
  35. Carl-Michael von Hausswolff is a somewhat familiar face on the international circuit,...
  36. Donald Judd did not begin to produce mature, wholly distinctive works of art until sh...
  37. In eight friezelike ink-and-mineral-pigment drawings on mulberry rice paper, Beijing-...
  38. Somebody once told me goldfish can survive in bowls because their memories are too sh...
  39. British artist Ceal Floyer's first solo exhibition in Sweden, consisting of two works...
  40. In his native Nigeria the late Fela Anikulapo-Kuti managed a kind of stardom barely i...
  41. Treating Goldin's landmark Ballad of Sexual Dependency, 1981-86, as a distant memory,...
  42. It is difficult to imagine two less likely bedfellows than Cartier (the French jewele...
  43. The Sammlung Hauser und Wirth's unheated railway-shed museum comes to life in summer,...
  44. On the occasion of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth's traveling retrospective "Phi...
  45. Not interested in politics? Well, politics is interested in you. While you go about y...
  46. By now, the uses and abuses of the grid are well known and well theorized. That simpl...
  47. Translated from Portuguese by Clifford Landers. Before a landscape painting, we ask...
  48. "Can one narrate time," asked Thomas Mann, "time as such, in and of itself?" Some pho...
  49. A haven for socialism--and now supermodels--post-Soviet Cuba has entered what Fidel C...
  50. It's a busy year for Rosangela Renno: One of the two artists representing Brazil at t...
  51. Just after Pop art created a taste for iconography drawn from the banal precincts of ...
  52. The largest exhibition of Dieter Roth's work ever assembled--with some five hundred p...
  53. Strangely enough, the idea for a project involving the Tabernas Desert came from my w...
  54. Douglas Gordon's latest video installation, in which an Indian elephant moves silentl...
  55. The title of Adam Straus's recent exhibition of landscape paintings, "Sublimis Interr...
  56. Translated from Italian by Marguerite Shore. In Marco Vaglieri's video II tempo che...
  57. Is there any mileage left in the idea of art as an oppositional practice, a set of mo...
  58. "I AM ALWAYS DISAPPEARING in my performances--it's strange how personal my work is." ...
  59. It seems fitting that Polly Apfelbaum's first major museum show would be in Philadelp...
  60. Those for whom contemporary British painting means the Sturm und Drang of Bacon, Freu...
  61. Theatrical, chaotic, but always tethered to a compositional logic, Jessica Stockholde...
  62. In the USSR of the '30s, Boris Mikhailov notes, there were no family photo albums bec...
  63. I recall staying in a skyscraper with a small jungle on the roof and then traveling b...
  64. As critics increasingly lament video art's dependence on the "black box," many artist...
  65. When a projected image work has multiple screens, or combines images with objects, or...
  66. "Catch the spirit of the decade?" she said. "Like how?" "Maybe," I urged her, pouri...
  67. As editor of Semitext(e) for close to three decades, SYLVERE LOTRINGER has introduced...
  68. DENNIS COOPER: The early '80s were hugely formative for LA art. It was, for instance,...
  69. DAVID DEITCHER: We met at the slide library at the School of Visual Arts In 1980. I r...
  70. DAN CAMERON: In the late '70s, wasn't there a sense that object making as a form of a...
  71. DAVID FRAN KEL: Ingrid, you came to Art forum through Amy, as I recall- INGRID SISC...
  72. STEVEN HENRY MADOFF: I'm sorry, I'm just stuck in the present here for a moment. I me...
  73. BARRY SCHWABSKY: When I first started seeing your work in the early to mid-'80s, it w...
  74. In the March issue, the photographs of McDermott & McGough accompanying their "'80s T...
  75. RESEARCH: CHRISTINA CHO CONSULTANTS: Carios Basualdo, Daniel Birnbaum, Diedrich Die...
  76. LAURIE PARSONS made a modest stir in the mid-'80s with her ephemeral interventions. L...
  77. AT THE ONSET OF THE 1980s, I HAD AN EXPERIENCE AS a teacher that presaged--or so I ca...
  78. As the 1970s gave way to the '80s, the slogan "return to painting" was as often heard...
  79. PAMELA KORT: When you think back to the '80s, what comes to the surface for you? GE...
  80. TIM GRIFFIN: In that famous 1986 Flash Art roundtable, "From Criticism to Complicity,...
  81. BOB NICKAS: I remember exactly when we met. I had put together a show in the spring o...
  82. MARK ROSENTHAL: It has always seemed to me that one of your great innovations was the...
  83. MAX HOLLEIN: We have to talk about your first exhibition at Mary Boone; in a sense, t...
  84. ERIC BANKS: One of the things that strikes me about the way you came to artmaking Is ...
  85. Obtainment of one more object does not bring an end to the longing. Instead, it is th...
  86. Were the '80s the postmodern decade? The word abounded. Buildings and clothes were de...
  87. In Buffalo, in art school, Cindy Sherman sat down in a photo booth and gave the camer...
  88. JAN TUMLIR: You locate the '80s between 1977 and 1984. Seventy-seven is year zero for...
  89. DANIEL BIRNBAUM: In a way, postmodern thought is a French invention, isn't it? Were F...
  90. HOWARD SINGERMAN: There is a caricature of the '80s: All you needed was a critic with...
  91. DANIEL BIRNBAUM: You were a student in photography at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf in...
  92. DOUGLAS CRIMP: One of your members, Mark Simpson, is no longer with us. Perhaps we ca...
  93. ROBERT ROSENBLUM: Today you're thought of as the artist who makes replicas of twentie...
  94. The 1993 appearance of WAYNE KOESTENBAUM's third book, The Queen's Throat, confirmed ...
  95. Feature opened its doors on April Fool's Day, 1984 with an exhibition of re-photograp...
  96. * Galerie & Edition Artelier GroBmarktstrasse Bb/beim Medienturm. A-8020 Graz Pho...
  97. ISABELLE GRAW: In the late '70s you applied to the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf but were ...
  98. KATY SIEGEL: Let's begin with your move to New York from Chicago. What year did you c...
  99. The Art Museum at Florida International University University Park Compus, PC 110 ...
  100. DAVID FRANKEL: For many people, you seem to crystallize what was new In the art of th...
  101. ARIEL MEYEROWITZ GALLERY 120 ELEVENTH AVENUE, 2ND FLOOR NEW YORK, NY 10011 TEL ...
  102. FILMMAKER AND ACTIVIST Gregg Bordowitz's passage through the 1980s mirrors the course...
  103. Galleri Stefan Andersson Aktrisgrand 34, SE-903 64 Umea tel: 46-90-14 49 90 fax...
  104. Aspen Aspen Art Museum 590 North Mill St., Aspen, CO 81611 Tel. 970/925-8050 ...
  105. BROOKS ADAMS: Why do you think we're talking about the '80s now? Was it a heroic age?...
  106. ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO 317 Dundas St. W. Toronto, Ontario Canada M5T 1G4 tel 01...
  107. ROSS BLECKNER: You've got your work cut out for you. I'm sure it's going to be very d...
  108. Alan Koppel Gallery 210 West Chicago Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60610 tel 312 640 ...
  109. For a critic, a slide collection is the most personal of artifacts. These are the ima...
  110. ESPAI 292 Consell de Cent, 292, 08007 Barcelona Tel: 934 87 57 11 Fax: 934 88 2...
  111. Andrew Mummery Gallery 63 Compton Street, London EC1V 0BN 020-7251-6265 Fax: 02...
  112. Long Island City, NY American Museum of the Moving Image 35 Avenue at 36 Street, ...
  113. Dundee Contemporary Arts 152 Nethergote, Dundee DD1 4DY 01382-909900 Fax: 01382-9...
  114. ROBERT ROSENBLUM: We should of course begin with the '80s. But I'm interested in what...
  115. Few funerals have been as indecorous as the one held for painting in the early '80s. ...
  116. MARY HAUS: You were involved in both the Hallwalls gallery in Buffalo and the "Pictur...
  117. Orchard Gallery Orchard Street, Derry, Northern Ireland BT48 6EG 02871-269-675 Fa...
  118. In 1980 I had yet to enter an art gallery. Likewise, I was unaware of Artforum's exis...
  119. DAN CAMERON: Before we talk about the '80s, we should talk about talking about the '8...
  120. Douglas Hyde Gallery Trinity College, Nassau Street, Dublin 2 01-608-1116 Fax: 01...
  121. This is an intermediate moment where people are going to reminisce and at least begin...
  122. BOB NICKAS: When I saw The Vampires' Picnic in 1991 it made me realize the '80s were ...
  123. BOB NICKAS: You've been coming to the Basel art fair since the early '70s, using your...
  124. For a six-year run beginning in 1987, CHRISTIAN LEIGH was one of the most visible--an...
  125. Oriel Mostyn Gallery 12 Vaughan Street, Llandudno, LL30 1AB 01492-879201 Fax: 014...
  126. The aesthetic changes that came to the fore in the early '80s registered' their effec...
  127. BOB NICKAS: If you were to make a panoramic history painting that would represent you...
  128. In an Italian restaurant in Frankfurt, some blocks from where I live, a huge, bluish ...
  129. BRUCE HAINLEY: Before we launch into the '80s, a little back story. When you mounted ...
  130. Basel CARZANIGA + UEKER Gemsberg 8 Tel 061 26 264 96 96 Fax 061 261 74 02 e...
  131. I FIRST ENCOUNTERED THE ART CRITICISM OF THE '80S around 1996, which made me a bit la...
  132. 1980 JANUARY ABC No Rio's inaugural event, "The Real Estate Show," takes place in...
  133. PAMELA KORT: What were the signal moments in the '80s for you? JORG IMMENDORFF: In ...
  134. I don't recall that the vogue lasted for more than a few years, but one of the things...
  135. BINETH GALLERY 15, Frishman St., Tel-Aviv 63578 Tel: 972 3 5238910 Fax: 972 3 5...
  136. Immemory, a CD-ROM by Chris Marker. Cambridge, MA: Exact Change, 2002. $20. MOST OF...
  137. MARTIN KIPPENBERGER SPAWNED A WEALTH OF ART-WORLD legends in his truncated career. Hi...
  138. The gnawing question raised by "Ce qui arrive..." (What happens ... , officially tran...
  139. The decorative arts are noticed more widely now and then in fine-art circles, effecti...
  140. Around 1960, Pier Paolo Pasolini was describing the life of Rome's new urban peripher...
  141. Noises carried up from the street below through an open window that is usually closed...
  142. DAVID CRONENBERG'S SPIDER stars Ralph Fiennes as a mentally disturbed man whose web o...
  143. "Standing Still" is a suite of 113 photographs made by the Singapore-born artist Simr...
  144. Jeff Koons did not become the most famous artist to emerge from the milieu of '80s Ne...
  145. "Drive Route 1 and 9 from Metuchen to the Holland Tunnel. Do this from South to North...
  146. The globe-trotters of the contemporary-art world remember it still: In June 2001, at ...
  147. In the January issue, the opening spread image for the feature on Annlee ("Sign of th...
  148. Pae White is a Los Angelesubased artist whose work is often inspired by design. Her s...
  149. On the heels of his sprawling Bataille Monument, realized for Documenta 11, Thomas Hi...
  150. By all accounts, the opening for David Hammons's Concerto in Black and Blue, 2002, wa...
  151. Erwin Redl is a sculptor whose primary material is the light-emitting diode (or LED),...
  152. For once, something has been gained in the translation--and there is a lot of transla...
  153. Part interactive documentary, part mock architectural manifesto, part exhibition of a...
  154. I started working in the art world largely because of my experience with the film ind...
  155. In the catalogue accompanying Robert Ryman's show of recent paintings is a photograph...
  156. Plein-air painting, once a central genre of modern art, has experienced such a precip...
  157. A journey from Rotterdam across Europe to the delta of the Danube: The tanker ship mo...
  158. ICELAND COMETH ERIC DEMBY REPORTS FROM REYJAVIK THE DAY I ARRIVED in Reykiavik th...
  159. THE INSTALLATIONS BY FISCHLI & WEISS no less than the performances by Paola Pivi and ...
  160. Marina Abramovic's The House with the Ocean View, 2002, may well be one of the most i...
  161. One does not typically visit the exhibition of a veteran artist expecting to be surpr...
  162. How I live equals who I am. So architectural issues are also questions of identity. A...
  163. FAMILIAR WITH HERM CHOREOGRAPH? Well, if you've ever attended a Le Tigre concert, cho...
  164. Walid Raad is writing a history of contemporary events in Lebanon, a seemingly compre...
  165. First encounters with Rosemarie Trockel have often left American viewers puzzled. The...
  166. The Carpenter and the Seamstress, 2000-2001, the first major work by Yehudit Sasporta...
  167. The biography of Croatian artist Sanja Ivekovic, who was born in 1949, is characteriz...
  168. The big new space for big newish art that the Dia Art Foundation will open this May i...
  169. To get a sense of New York--based artist Aleksandra Mir's ongoing project HELLO, reca...
  170. The art historian Gertrud Koch once characterized Gerhard Richter's famously fuzzy-ed...
  171. Jennifer Steinkamp's latest exhibition included three digital videos (all 2002). Mar ...
  172. The way catastrophes are reported in the news regularly prompts discussions on the fo...
  173. At a time when long-established organizations such as the Guggenheim Museum and the L...
  174. Jo Baer Viewed in reproduction, the early paintings of Jo Baer can make a misleadin...
  175. In 1973, Bernar Venet wrote an essay in which he disclaimed any connection with "Duch...
  176. The announcement card to Jason Meadows's show, "Animal Eyes" provided a starting poin...
  177. Only a handful of contemporary artists are household names. In England, at least, Tra...
  178. Barry Schwabsky looks back on the early days of Larry Poons's career, when a studio v...
  179. New York-based artist Jason Middlebrook's installation Empire of Dirt will be on view...
  180. Adolph Gottlieb There's supposed to be a moment of conversion in the careers of Abs...
  181. Splash-painted in oil or tar onto a white gallery wall, the title of Sergei Bugaev's ...
  182. According to the brochure for the exhibition, the intention of "Etnografia: Modo de E...
  183. "Every tool is a weapon if you hold it right." Superflex-the artists collective compo...
  184. Alexander Alberro, Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity. Cambridge, MA: MIT P...
  185. THIRTY YEARS AGO THIS MONTH, Artforum published a five-page feature on the career of ...
  186. "Trans-Avanguardia" As it was with arte povera, so it goes with the Transavanguardi...
  187. Jennifer Bartlett established her reputation with her 1975-76 work Rhapsody. The pain...
  188. One could describe Rainer Ganahl's work as a mutant strain of endurance-oriented perf...
  189. There's something slyly diabolical about Rachel Feinstein's imaginary universe. The A...
  190. AS I SLID INTO MY SEAT at Alice Tully Hall for the New York Film Festival screening o...
  191. We were riding on the absurdity of the situation--that we were three nobodies, had no...
  192. ONE OF A COTERIE GROUPED AROUND MEXICO CITY'S Galeria Kurimanzutto, Damian Ortega con...
  193. PAUL KASMIN Walton Ford regularly offers a web of images and text exhuming whole re...
  194. FRANK LLOYD GALLERY In a show of small ceramic objects (all 2002), Ron Nagle displa...
  195. PRODUZENTENGALERIE With her "French Junkies 1-11," 2002, a series of sculptures abo...
  196. Mike Kelley, Foul Perfection: Essays and Criticism. Edited by John Welchman. Cambri...
  197. THE 2001 TURNER PRIZE WINNER; MARTIN CREED, once said he made art so that he might be...
  198. You hear Sam Durant's show at the Museum of Contemporary Art before you see it. When ...
  199. ANTON KERN GALLERY The phrase "I've had a brilliant idea" might seem like a flash o...