Stories Collection

  1. Henry McBride was an art critic with regular newspaper and magazine beats, at his pea...
  2. This is not a comic novel, though the dust jacket applies the word "hilarity." It is,...
  3. "Machines of the visible," they are often called in the burgeoning literature on visu...
  4. It was with a certain feeling of vindication that I boarded the plane to attend the 2...
  5. Chris Kraus' "novel" is a book not so much written as secreted. One is inescapably re...
  6. In the '70s, with the publication of her novels Corregidora (the story of Ursa, a blu...
  7. Like willful charges who have somehow slipped the leash, Stephanie, Rohan, and Camill...
  8. Anthologically speaking, this is the finest collection of libertine fiction (narrativ...
  9. Perhaps most people (I am one) agree with Tolstoy about literary fantasy. In 1909, To...
  10. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM The Guggenheim Museum has given Helen Frankenthaler a small show, "...
  11. August 12, 1916 was a mild day in Paris, with bright sunlight shadowed intermittently...
  12. These days, there's only one way to justify a novel about a pair of straight white me...
  13. METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART The painter Richard Pousette-Dart (191692) once said, in a...
  14. For all the performative aspects of Nan Goldin's Ballad of Sexual Dependency, there i...
  15. Kathy Acker - literary innovator, literary outlaw - died of cancer on November 30, 19...
  16. METRO PICTURES For followers of Carroll Dunham's work, the notion that his art requir...
  17. "Where are the male Muses?" painter Monica Szabo asks a Provincetown gallery audience...
  18. All novels, Mikhail Bakhtin says, are about language. Narratives may engage, characte...
  19. Shortly before reading Florence Rubenfeld's life of Clement Greenberg, I speculated a...
  20. GAGOSIAN GALLERY What I like about Cy Twombly's sculptures is the way they subvert al...
  21. X marks a spot in memory, terribly warped by imagination. It is a real place - as rea...
  22. Dorothy Allison's prose bites and lilts, creating little pockets of idiosyncracy whil...
  23. An excruciating compendium of banalities posing as "radical" filmmaking, the Austrian...
  24. A bookstore-browser's flip through this volume will tell you very little that you nee...
  25. I first read Love and Death in the American Novel shortly after it was published in 1...
  26. I am typing this review of Glenn O'Brien's collected essays with my left hand. With m...
  27. If only I had a cup of coffee . . . I do not know why Elizabeth Murray paints cups, a...
  28. Even as Cindy, Julian, and David strove to animate their visions and project them int...
  29. "The pathological extensions of love not only touch upon but overlap with normal expe...
  30. The artist/musician Lydia Lunch has always obsessively searched for the love that's n...
  31. With exhibitions at the Cartier Foundation in Paris and San Francisco MoMA, gallery s...
  32. A man gets up as brusquely as a specter on a coffin and falls in the same way. He get...
  33. Suzanne Page generates a host of contradictory reactions. Some have described the dir...
  34. Remember the early arguments about how photography was not an art, the insistence tha...
  35. On April 30, 1961, The New York Times Magazine published five letters to the editor r...
  36. If there's one lasting impression left by the retrospective of Richard Diebenkorn's p...
  37. Despite evidence to the contrary, there is only one John Coplans. His singularity, ho...
  38. Like certain photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe and Andres Serrano, Sally Mann's imag...
  39. Anyone with serious interest in visual art needs to read this book: that is simply th...
  40. SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART If "Present Tense: Nine Artists in the Nineties" i...
  41. In his "site/non-site" projects of the late '60s and early '70s, Robert Smithson mapp...
  42. MARY BOONE GALLERY/DEITCH PROJECTS Don't you hate it when the Times slams an artist y...
  43. "In the end, this work is not so much a portrait of the Poetics as it is an examinati...
  44. INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART For the first time since the appearance of the Transav...
  45. A phone call from a friend in Milan brought the news that Gianni Versace had been sho...
  46. GAGOSIAN GALLERY The Chapman Brothers' installation Six Feet Under, 1997 - featuring ...
  47. Here's a spot quiz. What do the cities Sao Paulo, Havana, Kassel, Munster, Venice, Sa...
  48. CHEIM & READ Whither abstract painting? Richmond Burton gives us one convincing answe...
  49. Robert Gober took four years to make his new untitled installation at the Geffen Cont...
  50. DEITCH PROJECTS Johan Grimonprez's Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y is a televisually stunning, mac...
  51. PAULA COOPER GALLERY, ACE GALLERY, MUSEE CANTINI Since it is the mark of a truly grea...
  52. The title of curator Francesco Bonami's installment of the second SITE Santa Fe Bienn...
  53. FOTOUHI CRAMER GALLERY, P.S. 122 Karen Finley, force of nature. If you saw her in an ...
  54. MUSEUM BOIJMANS VAN BEUNINGEN I am not a great fan of the fad for guest-curated exhib...
  55. Contributing to the general miasma of pseudocriticisms of art on the Web, Michael Kim...
  56. Los Angeles artists enjoy the unique yet dubious privilege of living in the lap of ma...
  57. "... Bigness is a theoretical domain at this fin de siecle: in a landscape of disarra...
  58. Some novels, for the purposes of retelling, elicit paraphrasing: detective tracks dow...
  59. Perhaps there's irony in the fact that some of the more interesting photographic book...
  60. It was almost like a fairy tale, it happened so quickly. One day France was on the ri...
  61. How does one become a monochrome? The four Art Make-Up films, made between 1967 and '...
  62. Virginia Woolf, Jane Bowles, Jean Rhys, Elizabeth Bishop, and James Schuyler are amon...
  63. Poor Margaret Drabble. Once princess and heiress-apparent to the throne of British in...
  64. Perhaps there's irony in the fact that some of the more interesting photographic book...
  65. For the price of a tramway ticket, the Strasbourg commuter purchases not only a ride ...
  66. The powerful construction of the individualistic, isolated creative space, magically ...
  67. If Harold Brodkey had been a recluse, might he have been less of a pariah? It's hard ...
  68. Poor Margaret Drabble. Once princess and heiress-apparent to the throne of British in...
  69. Perhaps there's irony in the fact that some of the more interesting photographic book...
  70. The '90s have never really declared themselves. Exceptions noted - Matthew Barney, fo...
  71. Over the last ten years Andrew Graham-Dixon has served as the art critic for The Inde...
  72. Talking with Muriel Spark BF: In your new collection of stories, Open to the Public, ...
  73. Among the Jewish heavy-hitters of postwar literature, Bernard Malamud always seemed a...
  74. Valuing an artist and understanding the work are two very different things. It's like...
  75. Over the last ten years Andrew Graham-Dixon has served as the art critic for The Inde...
  76. In his introduction to Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday, Italo Calvino notes a...
  77. "What we have here," said the young man to his companion as the latter fingered a cop...
  78. A goal of this year's installment of Documenta, alongside the attempt to cast a "retr...
  79. The key to a critic's method sometimes comes in a confession of failure. David Sylves...
  80. In his introduction to Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday, Italo Calvino notes a...
  81. There should be a warning on the cover of Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid's Painti...
  82. I liked Steve McQueen's first New York show, and then I found that he has an exhibiti...
  83. Money, mental illness, sex, and art - what more could a poor little rich girl want? P...
  84. In his introduction to Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday, Italo Calvino notes a...
  85. What gets you wet? And what does art have to do with it? In two separate collections ...
  86. Unlike nearly all his great Parisian contemporaries, Fernand Leger seems never in his...
  87. Move up close, back away. Now you see it, now you don't: "it" being, depending on you...
  88. In his introduction to Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday, Italo Calvino notes a...
  89. What gets you wet? And what does art have to do with it? In two separate collections ...
  90. I LOVE PAPARAZZI. Perhaps I should qualify that statement. I know none personally. I'...
  91. It is well known by now how allusions to corporality, in particular to sexuality, hav...
  92. Ceci n'est pas une pipe is standardly used to designate a painting whose actual title...
  93. In his introduction to Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday, Italo Calvino notes a...
  94. A vast field, but one that can be defined nonetheless: this field is made up of the t...
  95. I was introduced to Doug Huebler in 1968 by Seth Siegelaub, a soon-to-be former deale...
  96. Paris likes to brag about being the capital of African art, ahead of London, Tokyo, a...
  97. You're in a nightclub where you can't get a fix on the crowd, though the talk pulls y...
  98. There are no happy families. However close siblings become, the relationship between ...
  99. Perhaps there's irony in the fact that some of the more interesting photographic book...
  100. Between opening the Hyperbole Photography Studio in an East Village storefront around...
  101. The multiculturalism debate no longer dominates art-world conversations the way it on...
  102. Jack Smith always wanted to be a fashion photographer. None of his fashion photos hav...
  103. 4TH BIENNALE D'ART CONTEMPORAIN DE LYON Putting together a big international survey i...
  104. There was a short time, late in 1963, when audiences for avant-garde cinema in New Yo...
  105. Organized to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the nearby Rothko chapel, "M...
  106. It was the end of a long summer afternoon in the early '60s and I was sitting with Ja...
  107. Helen Levitt may well be the most celebrated and least known photographer of her time...
  108. My first exposure to Jack Smith was Flaming Creatures, which I remember seeing more t...
  109. On the 24th of this month, Matthew Barney's Cremaster 5, the concluding segment of th...
  110. When Boris Groys decided at the beginning of the '80s to emigrate from the former Sov...
  111. Martin Kippenberger's magic always cast a powerful spell over his audience, sometimes...
  112. JARVIS ROCKWELL IN HIS STUDIO Jarvis Rockwell's toy collection is housed in a suite o...
  113. The academic enterprise that goes by the name of cultural studies is by now a global ...
  114. A dead woman's body on the seashore, draped in a bright-green blanket; her bare legs ...
  115. Willful obscurantism, the elevation of the banal, and the ironic appreciation of tras...
  116. Still life. The very term brings a furtive tear to the eye - a tear of nostalgia, per...
  117. About ten year ago, the venerable New York alternative space P.S. I began to think ab...
  118. The cranky reaction of certain critics to the Keith Haring retrospective - in The New...
  119. BASILICO FINE ARTS There can be no doubt about the incisive precision - worthy of the...
  120. ART & IDEA In his native Spain, Santiago Sierra's stylish production took the form of...
  121. Last summer, as workers were putting the finishing touches on the Guggenheim Museum B...
  122. PAULA COOPER GALLERY Tony Smith's Moondog, 1964, consists of extended polyhedral colu...
  123. LOMBARD FREID FINE ARTS Though curator Catsou Roberts' stated aim in "Narrative Urge"...
  124. GALERIA CANVAS & CO. Albuquerque Mendes came to painting after having been involved w...
  125. When Malcolm Morley was awarded the first Turner Prize in 1984, the British public co...
  126. BARBARA GLADSTONE GALLERY Stephan Balkenhol revives the medieval genre of painted, ha...
  127. ART ET INDUSTRIE Entitled "United," this engaging exhibition comprised six monumental...
  128. IVAM While "Frederick Kiesler 1890-1965" suggested how arduous and ultimately futile ...
  129. Given the current popularity of "globalism," it's no surprise that the Johannesburg a...
  130. MARIAN GOODMAN GALLERY Though Thomas Schutte and Stephan Balkenhol have much in commo...
  131. ANNA KUSTERA GALLERY Cross Meret Oppenheim with Barbara Kruger and you come real dose...
  132. PALAZZO FABRONI This Roberto Barni retrospective, which included paintings, drawings,...
  133. In one of the essays that follow, Dave Hickey invites us to imagine the '50s and '60s...
  134. SONNABEND GALLERY In Hiroshi Sugimoto's seascapes, action, what there is of it, trans...
  135. P. S. 122 One of the more interesting performances this season was Claude Wampler's B...
  136. GALLERIA GALLIANI A series of lightbulbs on the gallery wall lit up when anyone enter...
  137. Vik Muniz's Sigmund, 1997, is a five-by-four-foot color photograph of a drawing made ...
  138. LEHMANN MAUPIN In the '80s, both the art market and the institutions that supported i...
  139. CORCORAN GALLERY With the large number of Neri's works on prominent display at the Co...
  140. GALERIE CLAUDE SAMUEL For more than a decade, Bracha Lichtenberg-Ettinger has borne w...
  141. James Lee Byars died in the Anglo-American Hospital in Cairo late on the night of May...
  142. "What can be the meaning and purpose of documenta today, at the close of this century...
  143. POSTMASTERS GALLERY As noted in another publication, the title of Perry Hoberman's re...
  144. RENA BRANSTEN GALLERY A recurring leitmotif of much recent art is a vision of childho...
  145. GALERIE LUIS CAMPANA At first glance the gallery space seemed devoid of art objects, ...
  146. Valley of the dolls, to be reprinted next month by Grove Atlantic, was one kind of qu...
  147. Like many esteemed artists before him, Chris Ofili knows that shit's a great signifie...
  148. CASEY KAPLAN Just do it. That's what Nike says. James White and Tim Sheward - former ...
  149. KOHN TURNER GALLERY Bruce Conner's latest show conjured the ghosts of Edgar Allen Poe...
  150. GALERIE LUMEN TRAVO The young Dutch artist Tiong Ang has worked in various media, inc...
  151. Weeks before the launch of the fiftieth Cannes Film Festival, the competition lineup ...
  152. When Tony Smith famously attempted in 1966 to come to terms with the radical changes ...
  153. PAOLO BALDACCI GALLERY Like Donald Judd before him, James Hyde strategically shifts t...
  154. LACMA The work of James Galanos rips apart the now-tired dichotomy of fashion/art at ...
  155. HENRY MOORE STUDIO You're unlikely to find a sign saying "Do not touch" next to an in...
  156. As everybody knows, the best parties happen all by themselves. Nonetheless, the organ...
  157. As historians like to remind us, Venice is sinking. And if the Biennale is any indica...
  158. XAVIER LABOULBENNE GALLERY In Marilyn Minter's new paintings "cosmetics" is the metap...
  159. S.L. SIMPSON Robert Fones' latest show finds him mapping out fresh territory into his...
  160. Gifted ironists die hard. Which is why it's so painful to watch David Foster Wallace'...
  161. At once sublimely evanescent and maddeningly dysfunctional, Rome remains suspended be...
  162. CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU The strange objects assembled by the exhibition "L'empreinte"...
  163. Popular music is both the most banal and most mysterious thing imaginable, and it's a...
  164. Critics with appropriate expertise tend to carp at occupational subset novels because...
  165. Institutions move forward by renegotiating their own history. Drawing on its legacy o...
  166. Contemporary art and the city of Naples haven't always gone hand-in-hand. To understa...
  167. JACK TILTON GALLERY Matvey Levenstein's photo-based paintings address the perennial r...
  168. This biography has a lot going for it: an urbane, insightful author and a famously fl...
  169. "Originally I thought I would model the series after Plato's Dialogues but then I tho...
  170. "My life makes me laugh," Elia Suleiman writes in his notes to Chronicle of a Disappe...
  171. In December 1995, New York's Museum of Modern Art acquired the only complete set of C...
  172. SPERONE WESTWATER When Bolognese artist Luigi Ontani first began to exhibit, in 1970,...
  173. Nan Goldin's much reprinted portrait of Cookie Mueller in her coffin is moving precis...
  174. "Originally I thought I would model the series after Plato's Dialogues but then I tho...
  175. Click on the projects icon on the Documenta Internet server (http://www.documenta.de)...
  176. As for techniques and processes, as seen in the works themselves, neither public nor ...
  177. BASILICO FINE ARTS The most striking aspect of Liam Gillick's recent Discussion Islan...
  178. The international acclaim recently accorded Lucian Freud's painting is a fascinating ...
  179. "Originally I thought I would model the series after Plato's Dialogues but then I tho...
  180. Unless you've got an ISDN hookup, or even a T3, looking at art on the Web is still a ...
  181. Though Cai Guo Qiang emigrated to Japan in 1986 and now lives in New York, his recent...
  182. BOESKY & CALLERY Even after poststructuralism's contestation of subjectivity and conc...
  183. The aim of Catherine Soussloff's book is to locate the artist, as cultural figure, in...
  184. "Originally I thought I would model the series after Plato's Dialogues but then I tho...
  185. Making like a cross between Mondo 2000 and Conde Nast Traveler, Business Week recentl...
  186. Casa Malaparte, 1938 In this ongoing series, writers are invited to discuss a contemp...
  187. MUSEUM OF MODERN ART When Jean-Luc Godard showed producers a rough cut of his film Le...
  188. According to Deirdre Bair's biography of Samuel Beckett, the writer saw Joan Mitchell...
  189. "Originally I thought I would model the series after Plato's Dialogues but then I tho...
  190. Making like a cross between Mondo 2000 and Conde Nast Traveler, Business Week recentl...
  191. Legend has it that while out for a stroll artists Simeone Crispino and Stella Scala c...
  192. MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART Had you visited the new MCA building in Chicago in the pas...
  193. Between 1990 and 1994 the Department of Graphic Arts at the Louvre made its holdings ...
  194. It's a good thing that Elaine Showalter left her job as TV critic for People magazine...
  195. Making like a cross between Mondo 2000 and Conde Nast Traveler, Business Week recentl...
  196. Sharing the prejudices of most New York art people, I had always located Braque on so...
  197. WALKER ART CENTER As implied by the cover image of its catalogue - a bird's-eye-view ...
  198. The twentieth-century Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro wrote, "Flee from the external su...
  199. On the night of July 16, 1993, the Pavilion of Contemporary Art (PAC) in Milan became...