Stories Collection

  1. L.A. LOUVER Ken Price's high-polish, bold-color, lumpy organic forms are often disc...
  2. MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL Every biennial, from Istanbul and Johannesburg to ...
  3. DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS For ignorant Americans, a loose translation: in the thick o...
  4. CONTEMPORARY ARTS MUSEUM Nic Nicosia has been making set-up photographs about the p...
  5. Certain french artists are deemed so crucial an element of the national patrimony tha...
  6. Get hip to the wonders of science, Richard Dawkins's recent book Unweaving the Rainbo...
  7. MODERNA MUSEET It's been ten years since the Berlin Wall came down, and the time is...
  8. KUNSTHALLE BASEL Maurizio Cattelan's pranks have been compared - at least in provoc...
  9. QUEENS MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK "Global Conceptualism" made two claims. It suggested...
  10. D'AMELIO TERRAS Joe Scanlan's exhibit "Invention" dealt with the act of consumption...
  11. NEON Luca Vitone's exhibition "Itinerari Intimi" (Intimate journeys) presented a se...
  12. WADSWORTH ATHENEUM Warhol again? Too much is never enough. The Atheneum's Nicholas ...
  13. MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART During the '80s, the point was occasionally made that Ro...
  14. It has been sixty years since Clement Greenberg denounced middlebrow culture in "Avan...
  15. BUSCH-REISINGER, CAMBRIDGE, MA All that glistens is not silver. All that shines in ...
  16. "A biennial should be a profoundly political and spiritual event. It contemplates the...
  17. BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART If Frederick Sommer's work is compelling, it is also elusiv...
  18. Every theory of painting is a metaphysics. - Merleau-Ponty The artist and dealer ...
  19. NEWARK MUSEUM In 1959, when Lucas Samaras was a flamboyant, patchwork-dressed under...
  20. HENDEL TEICHER TALKS WITH CHARLOTTE PERRIAND At ninety-five, Charlotte Perriand has...
  21. PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART When asked, in 1961, whether he wanted to destroy art, M...
  22. I like to think of each painting in an exhibition as posing its own question; and of ...
  23. MABOU MINES In a chapel at the heart of Mexico City, a portrait of Sor Juana Ines d...
  24. At long last, Clement Greenberg has become readable again. This should have taken pla...
  25. AS MATTHEW BARNEY COMPLETED THE FINAL CUT OF CREMASTER 2, THE SECOND FILM IN HIS EPIC...
  26. MUSEUM OF MODERN ART/NICOLE KLAGSBRUN GALLERY When is the ideological subtext of th...
  27. by Clement Greenberg. New York: Oxford University Press. 220 pages. $30. At long la...
  28. In this ongoing series, writers are invited to discuss a contemporary work that has s...
  29. Steven Watson's rousing chronicle of the making of the 1934 Virgil Thomson/Gertrude S...
  30. THE ART OF ANN-SOFI SIDEN "I think we have a visitor." With a robust grip, Dr. Ruth...
  31. by Steven Watson. New York: Random House. 384 pages, with 78 black-and-white illustra...
  32. Ensconced in the cramped, nethermost level of a makeshift three-tiered Dantesque univ...
  33. Italo Calvino once described his primary working method as "the subtraction of weight...
  34. MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK "The Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect" by all account...
  35. by Matthew Collings. London: 21 Publishing. 229 pp. $29.95. In the first few pages ...
  36. If (or when) VEnice's pavilions crumble elegantly into the Adriatic, a lot of history...
  37. DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART People are drawn to Brice Marden's paintings, but I'm not conv...
  38. 1 "Ooo, don't come near me!" my grandmother said as I went to kiss her good-bye. "Why...
  39. The brothers Vincent and Theo are buried side by side in the cemetery of Auvers-sur-O...
  40. P.S. 1 Ronald Bladen is today a somewhat obscure figure. This was not always so. Hi...
  41. WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART The question "What is American in American art?" has...
  42. ON THE EVE OF PAINTER GARY HUME'S BRITISH PAVILION SURVEY AT THE 48TH VENICE BIENNALE...
  43. WHITECHAPEL ART GALLERY, LONDON Most writers are more or less secretly envious of t...
  44. Reviewing the Whitney Biennial of American Art has gotten to be something like playin...
  45. Though the Japanese group Gutai has received some exposure in the US in recent years,...
  46. "Hey, that's nice," quickly followed by "Uh-oh." So goes the near-unanimous reaction ...
  47. The New York art world's self-imposed amnesia regarding the '80s finds its purest exp...
  48. For much of the '90s, the New Museum of Contemporary Art wasn't high on the list of m...
  49. What can one say about David Salle's paintings on the eve of his European retrospecti...
  50. Nelson Goodman's work touched on so many fields - philosophy, of course, but also the...
  51. In March 1998, Robert Ryman, Walter De Maria, and Richard Serra traveled from Manhatt...
  52. Robert Storr with Harald Szeemann Harald Szeemann is the grand, though not so very ...
  53. Back in my student days I caught Jules and Jim practically every time it came around ...
  54. As its official opening date approaches, it is difficult to know what to say about th...
  55. It isn't often today, in this age of cynicism, irony, and other well-oiled suits of s...
  56. Anyone looking for a systematic account of modernism in T.J. Clark's new book, Farewe...
  57. When the news broke this March that Jeremy Strick had been named the new director of ...
  58. A strangely personalized panoply of graphic riffs on the latest and greatest in fashi...
  59. by T.J. Clark. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999. 451 pp. $45. Anyone look...
  60. This June sees the opening of the Museu de Serralves, Portugal's first major museum d...
  61. MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, LOS ANGELES "What I wish to point out here is that the ...
  62. The sculpture fitly arches, achieving a rare sanctity what earlier commentators on th...
  63. CARLOS BASUALDO My epigraph was easy enough to find. It was typewritten by Francis ...
  64. UNIVERSITY GALLERIES OF ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY NORMAL, ILLINOIS All paintings ar...
  65. Soap Bubble Set (Lunar Rainbow, Space Object), ca. In this ongoing series, writers ...
  66. I used to think of myself as the love child of Lewis Mumford and Diana Vreeland. Mean...
  67. WITH THE SECOND AND FINAL LEG OF THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART'S JACKSON POLLOCK RETROSPEC...
  68. edited by Robert Wojtowicz. New York: Princeton Architectural Press. 279 pp. $29.95. ...
  69. One strong impression left by the Jackson Pollock exhibition at MOMA is just how spec...
  70. As we approach the millennium, in architecture as in fashion, our appetite for salvag...
  71. A viper has bitten me, a bitter viper: The play on words, and the singsong turnabout ...
  72. Urine picturesquely running down a hit man's socks into his wing-tip shoes, a systema...
  73. I see Nervous Character as a live-action, animated film. In my previous work, I'd alw...
  74. One chestnut of modernist architecture has been the gradual transformation of the rol...
  75. Norman Bluhm was an extreme example of the many Americans, mostly World War II vetera...
  76. SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, NEW YORK Many artworks were noisy in the '60s - much ...
  77. "Architecture is frozen music," Friedrich Schelling remarked at the beginning of the ...
  78. UC BERKELEY ART MUSEUM/OAKLAND MUSEUM For years I've had a jones for Joan Brown's '...
  79. 1 VERNER PANTON, TRAPHOLT MUSEUM, DENMARK (AUG. 1998-JAN. 1999) He's the Danish archi...
  80. HAYWARD GALLERY, LONDON My, how time flies - six years on, and Patrick Caulfield's ...
  81. ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO The exhibition "Julia Margaret Cameron's Women" could be f...
  82. No form of classical music has exerted so enduring and pervasive an influence on pop ...
  83. WHITECHAPEL ART GALLERY, LONDON British Euro-skeptics take note! Although the UK's ...
  84. No form of classical music has exerted so enduring and pervasive an influence on pop ...
  85. ARTS CLUB OF CHICAGO Should the artist be a man of the word? Paul Thek came up in t...
  86. SIMULTANEOUS HOME-TURF RETROSPECTIVES FOR CALIFORNIA NATIVE SAM FRANCIS AND WEST COAS...
  87. The artist is crying and too sad to tell anyone why. A postcard with the dated note -...
  88. In this ongoing series, writers are invited to discuss a contemporary work that has s...
  89. We speak of video artists but of film makers. Why? Video emerged within the milieu of...
  90. The Valerio phenomenon - after which I named the two slides I showed last year in the...
  91. The scene: The "Sensation" show, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, December 1998. To the rig...
  92. WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART Despite the fact that his career spanned nearly fift...
  93. Inasmuch as movies seem to wag real events these days, it's not much of a stretch to ...
  94. Early on I realized that the purely visual experience of an artwork was somehow insuf...
  95. In his silent film Untitled (Beautiful Place), 1998, Paul Sietsema observes eight dif...
  96. As we approach the final months of this century, art critics and historians are incre...
  97. Ravishing though they be, Gerhard Richter's abstractions disturb when around fifty of...
  98. Tibor Kalman is a graphic designer, a crafter of corporate logos, a producer of prese...
  99. The seven installations filling the seven spaces at the Kunstverein Hannover all look...
  100. The seventy-two-year-old Japanese director Shohei Imamura's studies in aberrant human...
  101. Robert Wilson's version of A Dream Play - August Strindberg's odd mix of proto-Surrea...
  102. 1 I first encountered HEINRICH DUBEL'S SCIENCE OF THE ERRATIC at East Berlin's nightc...
  103. For an artist, orchestrating a salon around your own most recent work is a traditiona...
  104. As final preparations were underway for "Matisse and Picasso: A Gentle Rivalry," whic...
  105. A certain premise underlies the display of the art currently on loan to the Guggenhei...
  106. In this ongoing series, writers are invited to discuss a contemporary work that has s...
  107. Johan van der Keuken has been rediscovered at least once every decade since the first...
  108. Visitors to the 1995 group show "Domestic Violence" were in for a surprise when they ...
  109. DE PONT, TILBURG Several years ago, I came across a rather blunt exhortation in a F...
  110. METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK Edgar Degas's photographs, mostly taken in a s...
  111. by James Fenton. New York: Fartar, Straus and Giroux. 228 pages. $24. James Fenton,...
  112. ROBERT MILLER GALLERY, NEW YORK What is the exact latitude and longitude of Al Held...
  113. Before she made the move to England and the Serpentine Gallery in 1997, Lisa Corrin s...
  114. PALAIS DES BEAUX-ARTS, PARIS I know of no other artist whose oeuvre a curator could...
  115. 1 THE BELLAGIO GALLERY OF FINE ART I recently attended the opening of the gallery a...
  116. I first saw work by the Belgian artist Thierry de Cordier in 1992 at Jan Hoet's Docum...
  117. I see this tree from my back window. I've had the same apartment for eighteen years, ...
  118. The thirty-three-year-old performer/artist claude wampler boasts a resume that reads ...
  119. Edited by Mel Gooding. 236 pages. Tate Gallery Publishing, 1998. $25. Nothing is mo...
  120. WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART The opening of the Bob Thompson retrospective at the...
  121. Edited by Mandy Merck. New York and London: Verso. 231 pages. $16. I first read abo...
  122. ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS, LONDON As each aspect of Picasso's work has come to be reexa...
  123. by D.A. Miller. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 141 pages. $22. D.A. Mille...
  124. WHITECHAPEL ART GALLERY/PHOTOGRAPHERS' GALLERY, LONDON "Acceleration is the one con...
  125. What exactly is meant by Michel Foucault's "aesthetics"? The ideas of sex and power w...
  126. PATRICK PAINTER Jorge Pardo's latest show consisted of four bedroom suites, i.e., f...
  127. Susan Sontag's 1996 pronouncement of cinema's "ignominious, irreversible decline" see...
  128. The stunning schedule of events for Hermann Nitsch's Six-Day-Play, a happening held l...
  129. Over the next 24 pages, a dozen Artforum contributors remember the high points of the...
  130. GALERIE NATIONALE DU JEU DE PAUME, PARIS Despite its domination of the French art w...
  131. DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS/PACEWlLDENSTEIN Like a month in the country, Robert Irwin's...
  132. ICP/WOOSTER GARDENS, NEW YORK Whether ordinary guy or an-world regular, we're all p...
  133. A winsome epigraph cues the overriding theme of a richly illustrated compilation of s...
  134. Her subject would appear to be masculinity. Many of the photographs show adolescents ...
  135. Three years back, under the aegis of a radical (and largely spurious) Danish filmmaki...
  136. A guy wants a classic suit and goes out to get one. Maybe he thinks he's found the id...
  137. The press kit that came with my copy of Gordon MacKenzie's Orbiting the G/ant Hairbal...
  138. In his 1960 novel, La noia (Boredom), Alberto Moravia blamed the existential ennui of...
  139. Steeped in celebrity and semiotics, book packages and product placement, has been a t...
  140. KUNSTHALLE ZURICH Invited to participate in the 1994 exhibition "Passieren" at the ...
  141. The current generation of curators has been profoundly Influenced by two sometimes co...
  142. TATE GALLERY Patrick Heron is at heart a modernist in the tradition of Roger Fry an...
  143. 1 Miss Velma's Bicentennial extravaganza, CHRISTMAS IN AMERICA, is the most amazing p...
  144. KATONAH MUSEUM OF ART, KATONAH, NEW YORK Once upon a time, Pavel Tchelitchew's gian...
  145. I went to the museum of modern art's Tony Smith retrospective with mixed expectations...
  146. KUNSTMUSEUM, BASEL A recording angel, charged to inscribe everything that happens a...
  147. It's a virtual truism that a life's work is inevitably destined to incompletion and u...
  148. MUSEUM FUR GEGENWARTSKUNST, ZURICH Most artists value the barrier between art and i...
  149. Jorge Pardo's house at 4166 Seaview Lane in Mount Washington has a view across the Ho...
  150. L.A. LOUVER A year ago or so, my interest in David Hockney was rekindled after seei...
  151. Rem Koolhaas is identified with an architecture that addresses the city, or as he wou...
  152. Since the early '70s, filmmaker Chantal Akerman has experimented with a blurring of c...
  153. What do I want to say? What for? To whom? What do I want to ask? What for? Of whom? W...
  154. ALDRICH MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART Sprawling through Ridgefield, Connecticut's Aldric...
  155. A German artist friend once told me what made him sign up for Dieter Roth's class at ...
  156. ANDRE EMMERICH GALLERY/DEITCH PROJECTS This summer Macintosh got around to John and Y...
  157. Journeys begin and end often in unexpected places. In 1984 I had gone to Dusseldorf t...
  158. In a year of seemingly nonstop commemorations in France (the Edict of Nantes, the abo...
  159. The experience of confronting a work of art ideally disorganizes one's systems. There...
  160. All That Glitters Next month Velvet Goldmine, Todd Haynes' cinematic secret history o...
  161. The following conversation with Barbara Vanderlinden inaugurates a series of short in...
  162. Before I begin painting I'm in an extremely agitated state. During the actual executi...
  163. Neither a tribute album nor a collaboration, Mermaid Avenue is one of those peculiar ...
  164. Fashion folks like Tom Ford and Muccia Prada aren't the only design predators these d...
  165. 1 CY TWOMBLY, UNTITLED (1992): I defy you to come up with a more cutting-edge piece o...
  166. Though identical twins Jane and Louise Wilson grew up wanting to be artists, when it ...
  167. There were three great European artists I was proud to number among my friends. Marce...
  168. MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, LOS ANGELES Confessions first: I am not a "pure" critic. ...
  169. I was still a teenager when Dieter Roth first showed up in my life about thirty years...
  170. NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART/P.P.O.W. Near a Long Island beach I visit in the summe...
  171. Our mutual friend Daniel Spoerri introduced Dieter and me at a Tinguely exhibition in...
  172. A number of exhibitions this summer in Switzerland gave visitors the sense that the c...
  173. If Thelma Golden is nervous, it doesn't show. In May, she was named curator of the ne...
  174. Without the body there is no act, no motion, no shiver, no urge; without the body the...
  175. What are our chances of discovering yet another John Singer Sargent when, beginning t...
  176. LA COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART When Yayoi Kusama arrived in New York from Japan in 1958, at ...
  177. Talk to people about the way installation artist ANN HAMILTON transforms empty spaces...
  178. JEWISH MUSEUM The popular press has been filled with curmudgeonly harrumphings about ...
  179. The f-word is getting tossed around again. "Formalism is back and better than ever," ...
  180. ROSE ART MUSEUM, BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY Joseph Marioni is an American painter in his mid...
  181. Manny Farber is the Raymond Chandler of American film criticism. His adrenaline prose...
  182. I'm not really a car person. They're interesting tools. They're sometimes great facil...
  183. WESTBETH THEATRE; JANE STREET THEATRE It is an odd, contradictory New York moment. On...
  184. Manny Farber is the Raymond Chandler of American film criticism. His adrenaline prose...
  185. On the heels of the blood-and-gutsy Britpack invasion, filmmaker John Maybury offers ...
  186. EDDIE IZZARD; "HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH" WESTBETH THEATRE; JANE STREET THEATRE It is...
  187. No one's certain how many new advertising or media columns have started up this year ...
  188. On the heels of the blood-and-gutsy Britpack invasion, filmmaker John Maybury offers ...
  189. HAYWARD GALLERY When people at an art party, circa 1995, asked if there were anyone w...
  190. The paradoxical title given to Jean-Francois Lyotard's Artforum essay of 1982, "prese...
  191. Here is the reason why the gouaches, etchings, and oils of "speculative fiction" are ...
  192. "We had fifteen releases that were stylistically diverse: it wasn't a doo-wop label o...
  193. Here is the reason why the gouaches, etchings, and oils of "speculative fiction" are ...
  194. 1 The movie THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK (Randall Wallace, 1998) - makes you love France....
  195. So here's the picture I fell in love with. A young woman sits alone in a coffee shop....
  196. It is not enough to be exceptionally mad, licentious, and fanatical in order to win a...
  197. In the opening essay of her new collection of photographs, Tina Barney wonders whethe...
  198. Talking with Nadine Gordimer BF: In your new novel, The House Gun, Duncan discovers h...
  199. The Picasso Papers, the title Rosalind Krauss has given her collection of essays on t...