Stories Collection

  1. ARTSONJE CENTER Curated by David Ross, director of the San Francisco Museum of Mode...
  2. UCLA HAMMER MUSEUM, Los ANGELES Today, the late Robert Overby (1935-93) has all the...
  3. GEORG SCHOLLHAMMER ON THE AUSTRIAN BOYCOTT DEBATE THE VIENNA SECESSION has put its ...
  4. In describing the Tate Modern building, its displays, and its exhibition program, Jen...
  5. Each period casts a very long shadow. One's period is when one is very young. --Dia...
  6. SPERONE WESTWATER In this culture of big spectacle and loud noise, it's inevitable ...
  7. JOYCE THEATER Meredith Monk's performances have always been richly metaphorical col...
  8. In the collective imagination lipstick represents romanticism and sensuality, and it ...
  9. STANLEY CAVELL ON THE ARCADES PROJECT Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project, transla...
  10. Though born and raised in Germany, Christoph Grunenberg views his appointment at Tate...
  11. There's a group of girls in New York that I photograph regularly. They call me all th...
  12. PACEWILDENSTEIN Antoni Tapies's oeuvre has always been divided against itself, and ...
  13. INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART Cornelia Parker first came to public attention in 198...
  14. GALERIE FRIEDRICH A broad, loosely constructed platform of raw lattice and boards s...
  15. WHEN THE TATE GALLERY OF Modern Art opens the doors of the transformed Bankside Power...
  16. DILAPIDATED WAREHOUSES, abandoned industrial buildings, disused retail spaces--these ...
  17. ON DECEMBER 22, 1999, ROBERT BRESSON, THE DIRECTOR OF THIRTEEN LAPIDARY FEATURE FILMS...
  18. METRO PICTURES With Something About Time and Space But I'm Not Sure What It Is, 199...
  19. TBA EXHIBITION SPACE The title of Stephen Lapthisophon's exhibition, "Defense d'Aff...
  20. GALERIE OTTO SCHWEINS A dead man, a soldier, is lying on the floor. He's on his bac...
  21. In the early '90s, I asked the astute British critic Stuart Morgan what he thought of...
  22. Paul Moorhouse, a Tate curator for fifteen years, has the enviable role of collection...
  23. Sophie Calle's work has appeared in a range of media and formats, from a major French...
  24. GAGOSIAN GALLERY I sense a backlash building after Cecily Brown's numerous recent a...
  25. GRIFFIN CONTEMPORARY Richard Long tends to be a bit predictable--another ring of ro...
  26. GALERIE BARBARA THUMM The boundaries between private and public space are fluid. Sh...
  27. How does Emma Dexter (director of exhibitions at London's Institute of Contemporary A...
  28. Sean Rainbird, a specialist in contemporary German art, plays a key role in the Tate ...
  29. "Sometimes I see [an artwork] so moving I know I'm not supposed to linger. See it and...
  30. ROEBLING HALL To say that K.K. Kozik is primarily an imagemaker rather than a paint...
  31. MARK MOORE GALLERY Sabina Ott exhibited for years in Los Angeles before an audience...
  32. MATT'S GALLERY Freud, in a much-cited passage from The Uncanny (1919), describes ge...
  33. "Success is a job in New York," but London's even better. Despite a fulfilling three-...
  34. IMAGINE IT'S THE YEAR 1403 or 652 or whenever it was they invented paper. The invento...
  35. SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, NEW YORK To how many of us is it given to attend the ...
  36. GALERIE LELONG / JOHN GIBSON Donald Lipski has steadfastly bucked the waves of Conc...
  37. THE GEFFEN CONTEMPORARY OF THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART This exhibition offered t...
  38. ENTWISTLE GALLERY The main gallery at Entwistle is your typical art space--boxy and...
  39. In the late '70s Iwona Blazwick, who was trained as an artist, had an epiphany: "I fo...
  40. Such is the nature of Duchamp scholarship that at times it's hard to tell the differe...
  41. MOORE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN, PHILADELPHIA/GASSER & GRUNERT, NEW YORK In 1967, w...
  42. FEIGEN CONTEMPORARY Jeanne Dunning's photographic career has involved an extended i...
  43. PALACIO DE VELAZQUEZ/MUSEO NACIONAL CENTRO DE ARTE REINA SOFIA "Flashback," curated...
  44. In the March 2000 issue, the Jochen Flinzer exhibition at Galerie Andreas Schliiter [...
  45. Since joining the staff in 1997, Frances Morris's main responsibility has been to dev...
  46. HUGE POOLS OF SOUNDS coming from one undifferentiated tone: This is the dizzying, pre...
  47. MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, NORTH MIAMI Frank Stella is too much. His art and caree...
  48. FRIEDRICH PETZEL GALLERY Both Keith Edmier and Richard Phillips are interested in p...
  49. MUSEU D'ART CONTEMPORANI DE BARCELONA "Superyo congelado" (Frozen superego) spans f...
  50. The Tate Gallery has become something of a British Guggenheim in its ambitions: Divid...
  51. Lunapark 0.10, released as part of the "Aural Documents" series by the Belgian label ...
  52. LILJEVALCHS KONSTHALL, STOCKHOLM Art history has never been about who got there fir...
  53. GREENE NAFTALI Daniela Rossell's repugnant yet alluring photographs of nouveaux ric...
  54. GALLERIA MARABINI If it still made sense to speak of abstract art, Letizia Galli's ...
  55. ONE FOR THE BOOKS To the Editor: Philip Leider is dead wrong in his understanding...
  56. Catherine Kinley has an appetite for the new. For the past twenty-two years she has r...
  57. 1 AL GREEN AT THE NBA ALLSTAR GAME It was not a well-known thing, that the Reverend A...
  58. MITCHELL-INNES & NASH, NEW YORK Of all the American artists who caught the mid-cent...
  59. DAVID BEITZEL GALLERY The nightmarishly fascinating thing about race is that it's a...
  60. THE BRITISH SCHOOL Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom, the last film by Pier Paolo Paso...
  61. DAVID RIMANELLI ON JULIAN STALLABRASS High Art Lite, by Julian Stallabrass. New Y...
  62. TALKS ABOUT HIS CRITICAL LABORATORY As an artist I experience the same disappointme...
  63. MARIANNE BOESKY Maybe film is finally in a position to fulfill its destiny of becom...
  64. BRIAN GROSS FINE ART As much objects as images, Sono Osato's thickly impastoed canv...
  65. IRISH MUSEUM OF MODERN ART Although it was billed as a midcareer retrospective, onl...
  66. THE PLEASURE OF THE WEB lies not only in the construction of a pointed query but in t...
  67. WHITNEY BIENNIAL 2000 MICHAEL AUPING KATY SIEGEL: How do you think this Biennial ...
  68. FRIEDRICH PETZEL GALLERY Sarah Morris's recent paintings of midtown Manhattan build...
  69. GAGOSIAN GALLERY Looking at Kristin Calabrese's 1998 painting Stove & Fridge (Love)...
  70. ROSLYN OXLEY 9 GALLERY Callum Morton is a young artist based in Melbourne, where he...
  71. When's the last time radio surprised you? Its various genres now seem like long-calci...
  72. In 1951 Jess made The Mouse's Tale, the first of his large collages, or "paste-ups," ...
  73. CASEY KAPLAN We're postmillennial and allegedly post-feminist, but as a culture we ...
  74. BLUM & POE By 1974 Paul McCarthy had already made more than two dozen performances ...
  75. ADAM LEHNER ON LAWRENCE RINDER WHEN MAXWELL ANDERSON was appointed director of the ...
  76. The surroundings become a museum of the soul, an archive of its experiences; it reads...
  77. 303 GALLERY Young men at leisure in one another's company has been a subject of art...
  78. GALLERIA BONOMO The difficulty of understanding another, distinct culture without s...
  79. JAMES SUROWIECKI ON ETOYS VS. ETOY IF THE GREAT ECONOMIC STORY OF THE PAST decade h...
  80. VAN ABBEMUSEUM, EINDHOVEN/BOIJMANS VAN BEUNINGEN, ROTTER DAM Ger van Elk is a well-...
  81. MATTHEW MARKS GALLERY The discourse around Andreas Gursky tends to get trapped in a...
  82. GALERIE DE FRANCE Abbas Kiarostami, photographer? But of course--even, it might be ...
  83. HOLIER AND HOW To the Editor: By Howard Hampton's lights ["Lynch Mob," January 20...
  84. 1 AMERICAN MOVIE What a shame that Chris Smith's funny, big-hearted documentary about...
  85. CONTEMPORARY ARTS MUSEUM, HOUSTON You travel through Nic Nicosia's retrospective li...
  86. JOSEPH HELMAN The panels on view from Lawrence Gipe's series "The Last Picture Show...
  87. CENTRE GENEVOIS DE GRAVURE CONTEMPORAINE Elke Krystufek's art gives a contemporary ...
  88. JUSTIN SPRING ON PAUL CADMUS MERCILESS CARICATURIST, gruesome fantasist, homoerotic...
  89. Who am I to spout about life, love, happiness? About whether all's right with the wor...
  90. MODERNA MUSEET, STOCKHOLM It was midsummer, 1937, when Hitler and Goebbels went to ...
  91. POSTMASTERS L.C. Armstrong has recently turned from conceptually based abstraction ...
  92. KUNSTMUSEUM DUSSELDORF The Lidl-Raum, founded in Dusseldorf in 1968, was one of the...
  93. CARLO MCCORMICK ON MARTIN WONG WHEN MARTIN WONG DIED at his parents' San Francisco ...
  94. IF ANNELIE LUTGENS is a relative newcomer when it comes to the work of Ed van der Els...
  95. JAPAN SOCIETY/METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART/LAURENCE MILLER GALLERY/ROTH HOROWITZ, NEW Y...
  96. SCALO Paul Graham's latest series, "End of an Age," 1999, consists of forty-nine la...
  97. GALERIE LUIS CAMPANA Once a year the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf opens its doors, offe...
  98. DENNIS COOPER ON AMERICAN PSYCHO IN AN INTERVIEW GIVEN AROUND THE TIME THAT "Walk o...
  99. Love on the Left Bank, 1956 Bagara, 1958 Jazz, 1959 Sweet Life, 1966 Eye Love...
  100. PAULA COOPER GALLERY For all its theoretical sophistication and high-wire cerebral ...
  101. LAWING GALLERY Miltos Manetas began making paintings In 1995, some time after he ha...
  102. GALERIE ANDREAS SCHLUTER Display books are like slipcases with inscriptions: hollow...
  103. PETER BOWEN OR SUNDANCE 2000 In recent years, with the media outnumbering filmmaker...
  104. Van Varen (About sailing), 1961 De Appel-iep (The Appel elm) 1961 Bewogen Bewegin...
  105. CHEIM & READ Painting hasn't come naturally to Richmond Burton. Though he's had an ...
  106. BLOHARD GALLERY After a year of presenting some of the more engaging shows in Phila...
  107. LISSON GALLERY School's out in London, and children walking down Lisson Grove are e...
  108. Ismail Merchant, James Ivory, and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala forged a producer-director-wri...
  109. NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, NEW YORK Conceptual art is often associated with a ...
  110. BILL MAYNES GALLERY In a 1970 interview, Chuck Close affirmed a statement made by a...
  111. STEIRISCHER HERBST 99 Conceptual photographer Michael Schuster and poet Norbert Bru...
  112. 1 POLAND SPRING WATER (20 OZ. BOTTLE, $1) The consumer culture that polluted the plan...
  113. MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, LOS ANGELES The problem with mounting a retrospective o...
  114. FEATURE, INC. It had to happen: As boomers rack up the birthdays, old age becomes a...
  115. KOLNISCHER UNSTVEREIN / SCHNITT AUSSTELLUNGSRAUM Christian Jankowskj came to intern...
  116. THAT'S ALS, FOLKS To the Editor: After my complete dismay and sadness from readin...
  117. IT'S BEEN A WHILE SINCE WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO SEE SOL LEWITT WHOLE. His last full retros...
  118. METRO PICTURES When critics talk about Carroll Dunham, the artist they usually ment...
  119. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC Morning Song, a 100-minute work directed by Jan Lauwers f...
  120. ZWINGER GALERIE Eran Schaerf's works function by overlapping different modes of pro...
  121. ASK ANYBODY ABOUT THE LEGACY of Konrad Fischer's Dusseldorf gallery and you'll get a ...
  122. IN APRIL 1966, the Jewish Museum in New York presented what turned out to be the majo...
  123. In his "Realistic Manifesto" of 1920 (cosigned by his brother Antoine Pevsner), Naum ...
  124. CLIFFORD SMITH GALLERY For his first exhibition in the United States, Nuno de Campo...
  125. CASINO - LUXEMBOURG "The ever-shifting course of an extraordinary artist," proclaim...
  126. THERE WERE A HANDFUL of small surprises wrapped inside the recent announcement that G...
  127. Sharon Lockhart TALKS ABOUT TEATRO AMAZONAS In both its production and its receptio...
  128. PAUL KASMIN GALLERY The word "decorative" has carried a pejorative connotation in c...
  129. CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER There is a deceptive modesty about Allan Wexler's work, se...
  130. SIR JOHN SOANE'S MUSEUM Sir John Soane's regular guests share a deep affection for ...
  131. Prediction being a fool's game, the National Gallery is hardly the only major museum ...
  132. It is not polite to speak of the crotch of the question. ERIK SATIE YOU ARE PUSHE...
  133. GAVIN BROWN'S ENTERPRISE Peter Doig has been lauded for his quietly mysterious, gau...
  134. ROSAMUND FELSEN GALLERY Looking at Kori Newkirk's show, "Midnight Son," two things ...
  135. WHITECHAPEL ART GALLERY Gary Hume appears to have entered his Midsummer Night's Dre...
  136. WITH BIENNALES SPREADING EVERYWHERE can the concept and practice of the biennial be r...
  137. The art of Martin Creed sits lightly in the world. Sometimes it's barely there at all...
  138. CASEY KAPLAN Ceal Floyer's work sits on a cusp between Minimalism and Conceptualism...
  139. ANGLES GALLERY With four of her largest paintings to date (each measuring roughly t...
  140. BEFORE RICHARD MARTIN, exhibitions devoted to fashion tended to be characterized by d...
  141. HAYWARD GALLERY LONDON Retrospectives have an unfortunate tendency to diminish a re...
  142. SILVERSTEIN GALLERY Is it possible to redo Surrealism after feminism? And if so, is...
  143. FUNDACIO ANTONI TAPIES This exquisite show is essentially a mini-retrospective of t...
  144. I didn't know Richard Martin well, but then I suspect not well is exactly the way he ...
  145. MUSEUM OF MODERN ART OXFORD/HENRY MOORE FOUNDATION STUDIO, HALIFAX, UK Did arte pov...
  146. FISCHBACH GALLERY Beyond their scale and genre, Emma Tapley's small, realist landsc...
  147. GALLERIA EMI FONTANA A square in the form of a bed is not the same as a bed in the ...
  148. WE CAN ARGUE OVER WHETHER OR NOT Frederick Wiseman is the most gifted documentary fil...
  149. WHITECHAPEL ART GALLERY, LONDON Generally, the most basic fact about an artistic ac...
  150. JACK SHAINMAN GALLERY There is a polyphonic aspect to Radcliffe Bailey's work that ...
  151. ATELIERS D'ARTISTES Most of the previous video works I'd seen by Marie Jose Burki w...
  152. YOU SNOOZE, WE LOSE To the Editor: Your review of the Queens Museum of Art show "...
  153. Los ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART Known for renditions of natural, arthistorical, an...
  154. DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS Van Gogh sublimated his feelings in colorful, lively surf...
  155. MUSEO NACIONAL CENTRO DE ARTE REINA SOFIA It's been years since a major Spanish ins...
  156. IMPURE THOUGTS Make way, make way for the Impure Conceptualists. It's tempting to a...
  157. KUNSTVEREIN BRAUNSCHWEIG Since her appointment last February, Kunstverein Braunschw...
  158. SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, NEW YORK Let me confess at the outset that I was gen...
  159. KNOEDLER & COMPANY Michael David's most recent abstract encaustic paintings are elo...
  160. OLGA KORPER GALLERY Entering the massive steel doors of the gallery to see Roland B...
  161. In the review of "Philip Guston: Paintings 1947-1979" (December 1999) the venue for a...
  162. Jonathan Crary, Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture (...
  163. KATY SIEGEL ON THE WHITNEY BIENNIAL THE BIG QUESTION LEADING up to this year's Whit...
  164. POWER PLANT This artistic family burlesque act takes the stage for a revue of their...
  165. INSTITUT VALENCIA D'ART MODERN A twenty-year retrospective at the turn of the mille...
  166. If Hiroshi Sugimoto hadn't made his photos of the frozen figures in wax-museum displa...
  167. PORTIKUS Inasmuch as Manfred Pernice frequently prepares site-specific installation...
  168. MUSEUM VAN HEDENDAAGSE KUNST, ANTWERP Painting and photography keep rubbing up agai...
  169. WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART AT PHILIP MORRIS The Whitney Museum of American Art ...
  170. MUSEO DE ARTE CONTEMPORANEO INTERNACIONAL RUFINO TAMAYO Spanish-born Santiago Sierr...
  171. SEVENTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD Richard Farnsworth's performance in David Lynch's. The Straight...
  172. J. PAUL GETTY MUSEUM. With the Richard Meier-designed facility up and running, what...
  173. CENTRO CULTURAL BANCO DO BRASIL Curated by art historian and critic Ronaldo Brito, ...
  174. MUSEU D'ART CONTEMPORANI High modernist blind spots persist when it comes to '60s k...
  175. Between April 13 and June 4, Madrid's Fundacio "Ia Caixa" will be given over to a maj...
  176. MUSEUM FRIDERICIANUM Sophie Calle is a storyteller who insinuates herself into the ...
  177. HIRSHHORN MUSEUM, WASHINGTON, DC The same old questions The same old answers. Nothi...
  178. DEITCH PROJECTS Entering Brad Kahlhamer's exhibition "Friendly Frontier" was a bit ...
  179. GIAN CARLA ZANUTTI For her first solo gallery show, Laura Matei, a young Romanian a...
  180. Film critics and buffs, even connoisseurs of the offbeat, have such a fierce love-hat...
  181. MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART Will the art world's love affair with the mise en abime ...
  182. SERPENTINE GALLERY/NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM As museums in the age of the readymade in...
  183. DANIEL BIRNBAUM ON THE POMPIDOU'S REOPENING ON JANUARY 1, AFTER TWO YEARS of renova...
  184. The sun only touched Europe lightly on its way to rising properly in Los Angeles, Bau...
  185. PALAIS DES BEAUX-ARTS Paul Vandenbroeck, curator at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts i...
  186. QUEENSLAND ART GALLERY, BRISBANE Brisbane's two-million-odd inhabitants just love a...
  187. PACE/MACGILL GALLERY When the elevator doors opened onto the recent Frederick Somme...
  188. GALLERIA SALVATORE + CAROLINE ALA The first thing one noticed in Christiane Lohr's ...
  189. ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS, LONDON Of course it might only be a coincidence that Ruskin ...
  190. SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART By now you should have recovered from your Diony...
  191. HAYWARD GALLERY What could be more delightfully, poetically paradoxical than the sp...
  192. Come January 1, Serge Laurent can quit is wandering ways. Having made his name with t...
  193. KUNSTMUSEUM This first-ever retrospective of Cy Twombly's sculpture, organized by K...
  194. MODERNA MUSEET The middle panel in a triptych of exhibitions--"After the Wall" was ...
  195. MARLBOROUGH GALLERY/BRENT SIKKEMA This is as good as it gets. Right now, no one's p...
  196. JACK SHAINMAN GALLERY Phil Frost is part of a clique ("school" seems too formal) of...
  197. GALERIE MICHELE CHOMETTE The photographs of Christine Felten and Veronique Massinge...
  198. SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM Every now and then a show really works the Guggenheim'...
  199. MENIL COLLECTION Klaus Kertess's show of de Kooning's work on paper last year at th...