Stories Collection

  1. AMID ALL THE FRENZIED speculation surrounding the selection of the next Documenta cur...
  2. The Diane Arbus exhibition "Revelations," currently showing at the San Francisco Muse...
  3. "517 W. 24th," Gregor Schneider's first solo show in New York, was noteworthy not lea...
  4. What makes a work of art "Buddhist"? This question is like a koan, a riddle that can ...
  5. The gallery is plunged in darkness; words in motion float on the walls. The simple ch...
  6. NOW THAT SHE IS authentically dead--at 101, felled by a curse from the ghost of Ernst...
  7. Gillian Wearing has always emphasized her work's affiliation with the field of docume...
  8. The timely resurrection of Nancy Spero's passtonate antiwar imagery--produced nearly ...
  9. Since the early '90s, artists Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry have consistently...
  10. Broad, densely tangled brushstrokes pile up on the surface of the canvas. They compos...
  11. AT FIRST GLANCE, Sofia Coppola's melancholy love story Lost in Translation and Quenti...
  12. THE CONVULSIVE VIOLENCE OF BRUNO DUMONT'S NEW FILM Twentynine Palms (2003)--a truck r...
  13. Do Howard Hodgkin's new paintings reprise what physiologist Max Verworn in 1908 calle...
  14. Since 1991, Michael Joo has used materials such as urine, natural and synthetic sweat...
  15. As a child, I was fascinated by the idea of experiencing the interior of my own body,...
  16. "IT WAS A BIT LIKE GOING to the zoo and watching Guy the Gorilla in drag." That's how...
  17. Although many artists can be said to contemplate mortality in their work--usually in ...
  18. Everyone who follows contemporary painting knows the peculiar method by which Ingrid ...
  19. Hey kids, remember Gaetan Dugas? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Canadian airline steward....
  20. Although Marko Lehanka considers himself a sculptor, many of his early works were com...
  21. DO YOU WANT NEW WAVE, or do you want the truth? So asked the punk band Minutemen in 1...
  22. On the wall of Emily Jacir's studio in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn is a phot...
  23. Jack Pierson's latest exhibition comprised three installation spaces, each captioned ...
  24. In his first exhibition at this gallery, Jorge Pardo could be said to "deliver" witho...
  25. Annika von Hausswolff's exhibition "The Memory of My Mother's Underwear Transformed i...
  26. IF HISTORICAL ANALOGIES offer any guidance, green design will emerge as the modernism...
  27. Since 1966, when he transformed his Santa Monica studio into an artwork by meticulous...
  28. Amid the sea of slick objects in West Chelsea, Anne Chu's larger-than-life puppet scu...
  29. An artist who operated in the same late-'60s circles as Robert Barry, Douglas Huebler...
  30. A white neon sign on the facade of White Cube read "slow fade to black." The gallery ...
  31. The work of Los Angeles--based artist Kori Newkirk can be seen in solo shows at the F...
  32. The pictures in "The Last Picture Show," a survey covering the "conceptual uses" of p...
  33. Graham Gillmore's current work seems to come in two visually distinct types. First, t...
  34. There are instances when life manages to imitate art without recycling cliches, and t...
  35. Ryan Gander seems to be something of a tease. His installation But it was all green, ...
  36. Shooting Kennedy: JFK and the Culture of Images, by David M. Lubin. Berkeley and Los ...
  37. As I write, there is news of bombs exploding in Istanbul. Reviewing that city's recen...
  38. You won't find Jay DeFeo, a San Francisco painter who became active in the early '50s...
  39. Our idea of documentary--images or reports reflecting the facts as closely as possibl...
  40. Baudelaire, as everyone knows, advised the critic to adopt "an exclusive point of vie...
  41. I WILL BEGIN BY ADMITTING that I fell asleep five times during a morning press screen...
  42. Typically Gabriel Orozco operates as flaneur and bricoleur, with a fugitive, arranger...
  43. Mark Lombardi (1951-2000) set out to arm people with information so they might form n...
  44. Views of the theater are a recurring theme in Grazia Toderi's work, and her latest vi...
  45. Artangel at Trinity Buoy Wharf 31 Eyre Street Hill, London EC1R 5EW 020-7713-1400...
  46. DURING THE NAZI OCCUPATION of Paris in the early 1940s, Picasso's atelier at 7 rue de...
  47. Creating a modest, more charming, and less tabloid-hungry brand of sensation with a s...
  48. When a home becomes inaccessible or is destroyed, remembering it can be a poignant ex...
  49. Once upon a time the fine arts were shown in museums, and movies were shown in the ci...
  50. Dundee Contemporary Arts 152 Nethergate, Dundee DD1 4DY 013-8290-9228 Fax: 013-82...
  51. Aspen Aspen Art Museum 590 North Mill St., Aspen, CO 81611, Tel. 970/925-8050, ...
  52. YOU WON'T FIND the Los Angeles suburb of Irwindale on any star map, but on a Septembe...
  53. When I first saw the building where we videotaped Piccadilly Circus, it was empty and...
  54. A propos of nothing, I wonder who wrote the book of love. Really! I do! Could it be S...
  55. Students in Auburn University's Rural Studio program, founded in 1993 by architect Sa...
  56. Guillaume Paris thinks of the gallery as a "place of reflection" and his exhibitions ...
  57. The Douglas Hyde Gallery Trinity College, Nassau Street, Dublin 2 353-1-608-1116 ...
  58. JEFFREY THOMAS'S SCIENCE-FICTION short story "The Reflections of Ghosts" (1995) tells...
  59. Witnessing one of Sue de Beer's goth girls intone I'm going to erase myself and you'r...
  60. For artists from Francisco de Goya to Cady Noland, images of disaster and systemic so...
  61. This exhibition of Marc Baseman's graphite-and-powdered pigment miniatures brought to...
  62. Christian Boltanski's most recent solo exhibition was a sort of summation of his work...
  63. The Art Museum at Florida International University University Park Campus, PC 110 ...
  64. THE STRANGEST IMAGE of combat in Iraq was also the most normal: the virtually unchang...
  65. A HABITUAL COMPILER OF LISTS AND AN AMATEUR Cartographer, Simon Evans seeks, through ...
  66. In his photographs, Aaron Siskind (1903-91) comes up very close to his "subject"--oft...
  67. Tiepolo's oval-shape Apotheosis of Admiral Vettor Pisani, ca. 1743, depicts our Itali...
  68. There aren't many exhibitions that take you through winding medieval streets, over ri...
  69. AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI Cnr Kitchener and Wellesley Streets, PO Box 544...
  70. To the Editor: The need for a retrospective look at feminist art ["Feminism & Art: ...
  71. Banks Violette is a Brooklyn-based artist. His work will be on view this spring in th...
  72. To readers under a certain age (say, thirty-five), the name John Coplans probably con...
  73. The extensive recent exhibition of Frank Moore's last paintings and selected earlier ...
  74. In her inaugural exhibition at this thoroughly expanded gallery, Sharon Lockhart pres...
  75. Eran Schaerf's work seems slick at first, but its formal basis in the design aestheti...
  76. Galleri Stefan Andersson Aktrisgrand 34, SE-903 64 Umea, tel: 46-90-14 49 90 fax:...
  77. To the Editor: I would like to correct the recurring misperception that I was a fas...
  78. Donald Judd Tate Modern, London February 5-April 25 Curated by Nicholas Serota ...
  79. Poised between aestheticism and asceticism, Shirazeh Houshiary's delicate, elusive ne...
  80. Los Angeles-based artist Kori Newkirk's first show at this gallery's West Coast venue...
  81. About a year ago, it was reported that Swiss-based scientists had succeeded in creati...
  82. * Christine Konig Galerie Schleifmuhlgasse 1A, A-1040 Wien, Phone: +43/1/585 74 7...
  83. To the Editor: I just wanted to say how much in agreement I am with the opinions ex...
  84. Basel CARZANIGA + UEKER Gemsberg 8 Tel 061 264 9696 Fax 061 261 7402 e-mail: ...
  85. From 1960 to 1971, Lee Bontecou showed consistently at Leo Castelli Gallery in New Yo...
  86. David Dupuis is best known for works on paper that employ monotype, ink, colored penc...
  87. "How to undergo the last twenty years of Argentina's provincial rush toward the lates...
  88. In an era when art and fashion are fusing, Evren Tekinoktay has managed to find the r...
  89. CAC MALAGA, CENTRO DE ARTE CONTEMPORANEO DE MALAGA Calle Alemania, s/n, 29001 Malag...
  90. IF I CLOSE MY EYES, I can still envision my first encounter with Mario Merz in 1966 a...
  91. The Arts Club of Chicago 201 East Ontario Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611 tel 312...
  92. Frankfurt was Theodor Adorno's home for most of his life, so it is fitting that the F...
  93. GENTLEMEN. ARE YOU INTERESTED IN SEPARATING VALUABLE CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS FROM THE SUNS...
  94. This exhibition, "Obras em Arquipelago" (Works in Archipelago), addressed how the lan...
  95. You're going to want to try it, so here's the recipe for Roger Hiorns's The Birth of ...
  96. FORMS OF MEDIA that have originated in the past one hundred years have appeared to ab...
  97. It's been roughly ten years since Charline yon Heyl started showing her abstract pain...
  98. For the last ten years Liam Gillick has been preoccupied with the construction of the...
  99. There is something for everyone in Joep van Liefland's "Video Palace," a fully operat...
  100. Arthur C. Danto Though photography was first believed to entail the death of painti...
  101. Supposedly motivated by a drive to "deconstruct" the nonexistent word "Meccatuna," Ja...
  102. Is West Coast contemporary all: synonymous with Los Angeles? "Baja to Vancouver: The ...
  103. Zdenek Felix had long since presented Albert Oehlen and Martin Kippenberger at the De...
  104. David Rimanelli (1) Felix Gmelin, Farbtest, Die Rote Fahne II (Color Test, The Red ...
  105. The large-scale landscape and flower paintings in Alex Katz's recent exhibition are l...
  106. How refreshing to see this sharp arrangement of bright, crisp, confident recent photo...
  107. Around 1990, some powerful local players anointed Rob Birza as The Man Who Will Save ...
  108. The seventh installment of the Biennale de Lyon is subtitled "It Happened Tomorrow"--...
  109. Mark Grotjahn's latest works--a series of variously sized jewel-like monochrome canva...
  110. Although Monday is apparently the favored day for suicide, Jack Goldstein did himself...
  111. These two exhibitions amounted to the first substantial showing in Stockholm by one o...
  112. On returning home to Berlin from Hamburg, where I had seen Andrea Fraser's midcareer ...
  113. Posed against a stained curtain, a slim young sailor-prince wearing high-waisted bell...
  114. Part fine art, part folk art, with a dash of bling-bling thrown in, the recent sculpt...
  115. Once a year, the Esbjerg Art Museum asks a Danish artist to be his or her own matchma...
  116. Early on in his career Pop-art midwife Richard Hamilton decided two things: First, he...
  117. Times have changed since John Pilson's last New York exhibition, which had been open ...
  118. Marcello Maloberti's installations are veritable mise-en-scenes, recant to amplify sp...
  119. This was Gretchen Faust's first exhibition anywhere since 1994, and, depending on you...
  120. When "Real Life Rock'--Greil Marcus's Top Ten column--first appeared in these pages i...
  121. Few, if any, exhibitions during the past year were so beautifully conceived and insta...
  122. Who can blame Mexico City's artists for making a habit of investigating their home to...
  123. Arthur Bispo do Rosario (1909?-89) refused to call himself an artist. Not out of mode...
  124. Mark Boyle started out as a poet, Joan Hills as a painter. Under her influence he too...
  125. Christoph Cox 1. David Sylvian, Blemish (Samadhi Sound) The former pop icon reemerg...
  126. This exhibition was not to be missed. The first--and perhaps, unfortunately, the last...
  127. Like Judy Pfaff's gallery-filling 1997 installation Round Hole, Square Peg, which see...
  128. "Fiction or Reality" brought together three young artists whose distinct perspectives...
  129. In "The Labyrinthine Effect," curator Juliana Engberg tracks a genealogy of artists w...
  130. IN 1988, when the Museum of Modern Art mounted Nthe "Deconstructivist Architecture" s...
  131. "I didn't care much about the print quality," Cindy Sherman wrote recently of her fam...
  132. "Ambivalent." The word flashes briefly on-screen toward the end of Lothar Baumgarten'...
  133. The monstrously distorted shadow cast by Avantgarde, 2003, an oversize, white-lacquer...
  134. John Waters 1. Irreversible (Gaspar Noe) The art shocker of the year is also the ye...
  135. There's a lot to be said for the tacky, abject allure of thick paint on fake fur or p...
  136. In the old days, when Alan Suicide played CBGB's and Nan Goldin showed slides at the ...
  137. Thomas Feuerstein is a universalist. Born in 1968, he has received a doctorate in art...
  138. Born in Argentina, Fabian Marcaccio has lived and worked in New York City since the l...
  139. In the photographs that make up her second New York solo gallery exhibition, Rineke D...
  140. In the face of an identity crisis brought on by constitutive shifts in the art/photog...
  141. The art critic and curator Eric Troncy's show "Coollustre" ends with a beastly prank....
  142. In the Summer and September issues of Artforum, the photograph of David Rimanelli tha...
  143. ARRIVING WITH KIRK VARNEDOE at a museum was like showing up with a rock star about to...
  144. When Francesco Bonami, director of last summer's Venice Biennale, famously wrote his ...
  145. Stripe paintings are something like guineas and crowns, coins once of genuine value n...
  146. Taking a brief holiday from the Whitney's declared mission to survey and promote Amer...
  147. In his sensitive study Zeit Skulptur (Time Sculpture, 2002), philosopher Paul Good ar...
  148. "PIERRE RESTANY? A MYTH." That was Andy Warhol's laudatory reply when asked his opini...
  149. You could call it a pathology of self-definition. Either that or a severe case of "bo...
  150. Art that springs from an immersion in historical research tends to reward the viewer ...
  151. Christopher Wilmarth (1943-87) is best known for his spare and sensuous sheets of etc...
  152. The name Magnus von Plessen often comes up in discussions of new painting from Berlin...
  153. "A MESSAGE FOR YOU is floating in the sky of Yamaguchi." Beginning on November 1--in ...
  154. "How to enchant with practically nothing, a few popular songs, a series of anti-lands...
  155. In his second New York solo show in as many years, painter Barnaby Furnas continues t...
  156. Miranda July, who came up through the Pacific Northwest punk-rock scene in the '90s, ...
  157. Entering the gallery, one found the climate of the building on Limmatstrasse drastica...
  158. Mirroring the rise of indie culture's techno-raves and the quasi-spiritualistic langu...
  159. Over the course of his career, Lyle Ashton Harris has moved among installation, video...
  160. Conceptual art seems to have acquired a reputation for humorless pedantics right from...
  161. It is not exactly easy to renounce "content" in this age of restive realism, when eve...
  162. We do not "own" the facts of our lives at all. This ownership passes out of our hands...
  163. In 1997 Paris-based artist Claude Closky created a Web project for the Dia Foundation...
  164. In this exhibition of white fluorescent light works by Dan Flavin, placement wax ever...
  165. At first glance, Tom Allen's paintings are almost too familiar--countless Romantic re...
  166. These days, spatial interventions are no longer anything unusual. They're one of the ...
  167. IN MID-SEPTEMBER, six months after appointing John Elderfield chief curator of painti...
  168. What is the greatest number of color fields that can be arranged so that each maintai...
  169. Two hundred of Helmut Federle's works on paper--working drawings and autonomous impro...
  170. The centerpiece of a Pattern and Decoration-fest filling six Bergamot Station venues,...
  171. It was just like old times in Berlin: scarred walls adorned with rusty nails, loose e...
  172. "WHATEVER HAPPENED to postmodernism?" asked the critic Hal Foster in 1993, reflecting...
  173. In the 1970s, when the American magazine Avalanche requested an interview with Hans-P...
  174. "Nobody in the world has ever been more pissed off than me," Carol Rama said in an in...
  175. Carla Accardi began her career as a painter in the late '40s, and her work has shown ...
  176. Before Mike Marshall photographed the scene depicted in Concrete Pavement (all works ...
  177. 1 VIKINGS It seems paganism, marauding, and discovering America help develop fabulous...
  178. The average person might not immediately associate the Germanic sensibility with a pr...
  179. In the '70s and '80s Senga Neugudi was at the forefront of the African-American avant...
  180. Caro Niederer made good use of the limitations inherent in exhibiting in a single roo...
  181. Placebo, 2002, a DVD projection by the London-based Dutch artist Saskia Olde Wolbers,...
  182. The seduction of Conceptual art--its promise of beauty or truth,its appeal to human m...
  183. Flash back to the early '60s, when Lower Manhattan was a brand-new breeding ground fo...
  184. Danica Phelps is not the first artist to make life's private activities fodder for ar...
  185. It may seem paradoxical, but many professional artists now want to be amateurs, dilet...
  186. On one of the six sketches that comprise drawings for Anxiety Attack, 2003, from whic...
  187. SOMETIME IN 1969, during the making of Easy Rider, Dennis Hopper introduced his costa...
  188. In the voice-over to Sans Soleil (1982), Chris Marker offers a typically aphoristic r...
  189. One does not "enjoy" a Kara Walker show, and this is odd because she is an enchanting...
  190. The 1960s--by which we usually mean the late '60s and early '70s--have been mythologi...
  191. Although the protests against the unjust war waged by the Bush administration on Iraq...
  192. Art critics and cultural theorists looking for a potentially infinitely expandable me...
  193. THE RECENTLY OPENED DIA:BEACON, its permanent collection installed in galleries insid...