Stories Collection

  1. MIRIAM ROSEN ON THE CENTRE DE LA JEUNE CREATION PARIS'S NEWEST CONTEMPORARY ARTS CE...
  2. MUSEUM MODERNER KUNST STIFTUNG LUDWIG WIEN At Documenta X,. Lois Weinberger's weeds...
  3. KIASMA In 1982, Steven Spielberg brought us alien intelligence in an appealing shel...
  4. LIEBMANMAGNAN In her first exhibition, a year and a half ago, Tracey Baran located ...
  5. HENRY URBACH ARCHITECTURE When I meet someone at the airport, especially for an int...
  6. KUNSTHALLE BASEL The painting of Qiu Shi Hua inhabits the border between the visibl...
  7. MUSEUM OF MODERN ART Nobody can figure Out how--or why--the Museum of Modern Art co...
  8. WHAT'S MORE POWERFUL, the word or the image? In the millennial spirit, a number of sh...
  9. CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU This second major retrospective celebrating the centennial ...
  10. FUNDACIO JOAN MIRO. In the fin-de-siecle category of art about art, where everythin...
  11. WIENER SECESSION For the last fifteen years, Gregor Schneider has been frantically ...
  12. Etan Patz Update (Age 6 to Age 13); 1984 In this ongoing series, writers are invite...
  13. MAX PROTETCH No one will be shocked to hear that David Reed is not a minimal painte...
  14. PETER MILLER GALLERY Julie Heffernan provides precisely the kind of thing one might...
  15. GALERIE RIVET In 1962, the Hungarian composer Gyorgy Ligeti premiered his Poeme Sym...
  16. METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART Walker Evans's output has long been due a fuller viewing...
  17. No discussion of word and image would be complete without considering the inscription...
  18. THE VICTORIAN MEN AND WOMEN portrayed in the novels of Anthony Trollope seem surprisi...
  19. GALLERIA CIVICA DI ARTE CONTEMPORANEA Per Barclay, a native Norwegian who has lived...
  20. KOLNISCHER KUNSTVEREIN Brazilian constructivist Helio Oiticica's interactive sculpt...
  21. Anthony Hernandez's "Pictures for Rome," 1998-99, bear no resemblance to the familiar...
  22. DAVID ZWIRNER One piece in the recent show of Gordon Matta-Clark's work, tilted Bla...
  23. MARGO LEAVIN GALLERY "Words to Live By," the title of Alexis Smith's recent exhibit...
  24. GALERIE NEU Daniel Pflumm's field of artistic production is an expansive one. Along...
  25. ACCORDING TO NIETZSCHE'S DOCTRINE OF THE ETERNAL Recurrence, everything that happens ...
  26. HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS Best remembered as a painter and graphic artist, Ben...
  27. If the appetites of agitprop aesthetes and design mavens were whetted by the recent B...
  28. Will the hubbub, hoopla, and popping of corks accompanying the May 12 opening of Tate...
  29. GALLERIA CIVIC D'ARTE MODERNA E CONTEMPORANEA In the postwar' 40s and '50s, arty Am...
  30. KUNSTHALLE BIELEFELD The figurative paintings realized by Malevich after his 1927 B...
  31. Snow falls from a gray sky, while a group of people waits for a bus that never comes....
  32. CHRISTIAN MARCLAY, artist: Driving across Europe with only one cassette, I never tire...
  33. MUSEE D'ART MODERNE DE LA VILLE DE PARIS Sometimes a silly idea can lead to a fasci...
  34. BILL MAYNES GALLERY Habituated to variously ironic, goofy, or studiously slipshod p...
  35. MAISON LEVANNEUR When Maison Levanneur, the Centre National de l'Estampe et de l'Ar...
  36. VENETIAN BINDS To the Editor: When Katy Siegel asks, "Where was photography?" and...
  37. 1 The Religious Right's Promotion of Photography The '90s brought the medium massive ...
  38. SEAN KELLY/MITCHELL-INNES & NASH Meret Oppenheim on steroids, accoutrements one mig...
  39. CAVIN - MORRIS A consistent source of formal and iconographic inspiration to academ...
  40. MIGROS MUSEUM FUR GEGENWARTSKUNST There has been little new to see in Europe from C...
  41. Enough About You It must be something about round calendar numbers. Over the past t...
  42. (1) The Simpsons A comic Mobius strip of form/content--or is it thinking/feeling? The...
  43. METRO PICTURES Considering the current climate in New York, it is mildly surprising...
  44. THE KITCHEN Occasionally a collaboration turns out so well that one can only marvel...
  45. NEUGERRIEMSCHNEIDER We know what lies beyond the looking glass, but what if Alice h...
  46. 1 "Robert Gober" (Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1997) Gober's installation...
  47. (1) "Places with a Past" (Spoleto Festival USA, Charleston, SC, 1991) The premise beh...
  48. PAUL KASMIN GALLERY / ART RESOURCES TRANSFER There are paintings, and photographs a...
  49. BARBARA SINGER FINE ART In flatly rendered configurations of humanoids, animal crea...
  50. "SUPERSPACE" Invited by curator Moritz Kung to participate in Utrecht's fourteenth ...
  51. 1 "Sigmar Polke: The Three Lies of Painting" (Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der BRD, B...
  52. 1 "The Great Utopia: The Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde, 1915-1932" (Solomon R. Gugge...
  53. GAGOSIAN GALLERY Jenny Saville paints women's bodies--bodies distorted to the point...
  54. WEXNER CENTER FOR THE ARTS This twenty-five-year retrospective of designer-director...
  55. ARTANGEL There are eight million stories in the naked city, or so the famous voice-...
  56. CINDY SHERMAN, artist: Thomas Vinterberg's brilliant The Celebration (1998) is especi...
  57. Homi K. Bhabha: The times are out of joint. perhaps never more so than when we are se...
  58. FEIGEN CONTEMPORARY Looking at the extravagant surfaces of Giles Lyon's abstract pa...
  59. HOSFELT GALLERY Like a lot of good art, part of the reason Marco Maggi's work is en...
  60. NATIONAL GALLERY Every now and then, great institutions wake up in a cold sweat and...
  61. 1 The Revival of Portraiture Once occupying the lowest rung of the modernist ladder, ...
  62. WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, NEW YORK Tocqueville was right. He thought that the...
  63. CRISTINEROSE GALLERY March 1995, the Day I Experienced Love at First Sight: There s...
  64. CHINA ART OBJECTS The allure of the monochromatic. Well, yes, of course, it's lik...
  65. VARIOUS VENUES Currently undergoing a notable cultural revitalization, the port of ...
  66. 1 Cady Noland The Queen of Goth. Elegant, but with edge to spare. No one taps into th...
  67. MATTHEW MARKS / MITCHELL ALGUS / CURT MARCUS GALLERY, NEW YORK How to deal with the...
  68. AMERICAN FINE ARTS, CO. Silvia Kolbowski's multimedia installation, An inadequate H...
  69. RICHARD TELLES FINE ART Those familiar with Robert Greene's early paintings of figu...
  70. 1 Abject Art If abject art wasn't exactly the miserable stepchild of a market fallen ...
  71. STEDELIJK MUSEUM, AMSTERDAM "It always comes down to painting," Rene Daniels once s...
  72. POSTMASTERS Diana Cooper's new show had something for everyone. For that side of yo...
  73. DESTE FOUNDATION "Metro," not "Metropolis" (a title used by curators Christos Joach...
  74. The big bosses at Artforum asked for an annotated list of the ten best art thingies o...
  75. KUNSTMUSEUM, BONN Philip Guston accomplished the neat trick of painting with one ey...
  76. YANCEY RICHARDSON GALLERY Swathed in latex or bound and laced in modish leather gar...
  77. GALLERIA EMI FONTANA At the heart of Liliana Moro's recent show was an electric toy...
  78. The sites we include below are all engaged in one epic struggle or another, and if th...
  79. BILL STELLING: "I asked Patti if she knew any artists, maybe they could do some shows...
  80. In this ongoing series, writers are invited to discuss a contemporary work that has s...
  81. GAVIN BROWN'S ENTERPRISE There's no place like home. Well, maybe that's not quite t...
  82. ANGSTROM GALLERY The eighteen small works in Bill Davenport's latest show ranged fr...
  83. SAATCHI GALLERY Charles Saatchi's latest attempt to shape art-world taste got off t...
  84. Active as a painter for better than sixty years, as a writer on art for more than fif...
  85. When Anne Mayhew-Young renamed herself after the official residence of the mayors of ...
  86. "When I was eighteen I was asked to take pictures of a woman named Laura and her love...
  87. DE CHIARA/STEWART Did you grow up before or after the VCR? With or without computer...
  88. REGEN PROJECTS In black sans serif on silver Mylar the words "PURE AIR OF THE HIGH ...
  89. JERWOOD GALLERY The earliest work in Sarah Jones's recent exhibition was an image s...
  90. Rachel Whiteread's Water Tower In June 1998, a mysterious translucent object appear...
  91. Before Collins & Milazzo, "independent curator" was a sleepy designation for moonligh...
  92. "Girl talk" never much enjoyed the primetime exposure it has long deserved until last...
  93. MCKEE GALLERY Among the different streams of American art in the '80s - the glamoro...
  94. POST WILSHIRE AND DOWNTOWN Mowry Baden's latest offering reiterated the artist's pr...
  95. As I write, students from Teheran University have spent the last week protesting a ne...
  96. By the night I photographed Greer Lankton at the opening of her second show at Civili...
  97. MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK Blame it on Di. In the wake of the princess's death ...
  98. JAMES GRAHAM & SONS Continuing a trajectory from his earlier portraits of dogs whos...
  99. FONDAZIONE PRADA Purification, initiation, and illumination: In the Buddhist tradit...
  100. A DECADE HAS ELAPSED SINCE THE GALLERY GUIDE DROPPED THE EAST VILLAGE - MAP AND ALL -...
  101. When I wandered into the Pat Hearn Gallery at the corner of Sixth Street and Avenue B...
  102. Eleanor Antin left New York for Southern California in 1968. Even though her art has ...
  103. KNOEDLER & COMPANY With such unlikely materials as tar, vinyl, Spackle, and Masonit...
  104. GALERIE BAUDOIN LEBON Andre Raffray makes reproductions of masterpieces. As a resul...
  105. There was something never quite credible about the explosion of galleries and artists...
  106. In the '80s, the popular press seized on the East Village scene as a "different bohem...
  107. MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, CHICAGO If a work of art sits still, you look at it; if...
  108. BONNI BENRUBI GALLERY In 1995, with the unexpected help of an NEA rejection, Merry ...
  109. BOB VAN ORSOUW At first, there is only a projection of darkness. Then, with dreamli...
  110. I've always fetishized the "complete works" editions of my favorite writers and daydr...
  111. As neither thoroughbred boomers nor gen-xers, the members of the demi-generation born...
  112. By the fall of 1986, a good litmus test of where you fell on the art-political spectr...
  113. MARY BOONE GALLERY Why, fancy that, there's Steve Martin, alone on the beach, hidin...
  114. ART IN GENERAL The exhibition began before one reached the gallery, in the creaky o...
  115. GENERALI FOUNDATION "Positions in the Life World," a traveling survey of Martha Ros...
  116. As viewed from the vantage point of our empire's continued obsession with health, Fra...
  117. When I called the holly Solomon Gallery in SoHo in 1997 to ask about their 1985 East ...
  118. Even in the midst of the thrill of it all, it was apparent that two contingencies - o...
  119. This stunning exhibition of almost a half century of drawings (1912-56) by Antoine Pe...
  120. WESSEL + O'CONNOR GALLERY "The muses must be represented in attitudes of waiting," ...
  121. KUCKEI + KUCKEI Can contemporary art find a place in spectator sports? Gosta Rover ...
  122. In 1954, when I was a pink-cheeked lad of a mere thirteen years, our family - newly r...
  123. Club 57 was born in the basement of the Holy Cross Polish National Church on St. Mark...
  124. I remember when word spread that the (pre-groovy) East Village was brandishing an art...
  125. Maupin, Lehmann The first thing one notices about Jorg Sasse's new images is that t...
  126. ELIAS FINE ART Since the '80s, Frank Egloff has been appropriating imagery from vin...
  127. MUSEUM FOLKWANG Rubber has remained largely undiscovered as a medium in contemporar...
  128. Titanic: Anatomy of a Blockbuster, edited by Kevin S. Sandler and Gaylyn Studlar. Pis...
  129. Chang in a Void Moon, John Jesurun's "living film serial," played at the Pyramid Club...
  130. "All music is experimental." - Florian Schneider, Kraftwerk When it comes to starti...
  131. KLEMENS GASSER & TANJA GRUNERT Although he was one of the central figures of Vienna...
  132. SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA In the opening of Laurie Anderson's newest performance, Songs ...
  133. VELETRZNI PALAC Challenged by the hybrid forms that often appear under the term "in...
  134. LECTURE NOTES To the Editor: I read George Baker's review of my show [April '99] ...
  135. HIRSHHORN MUSEUM Seven years ago in The Nation, Arthur C. Danto posed the question ...
  136. FORUM FOR CONTEMPORARY ART How is this abstract painter different from all other ab...
  137. CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE With simultaneous shows in two Parisian gallerie...
  138. Viennese art-loving pyromaniacs rejoice. This fall the art of two committed incendiar...
  139. KUNSTMUSEUM WOLFSBURG No blood or depicted brutality shows up in Luc Tuymans's figu...
  140. QUEENSLAND ART GALLERY With a curatorium more multiracial than the Jedi Council, th...
  141. METRO PICTURES, NEW YORK Mike Kelley's most ambitious recent work was The Poetics P...
  142. POSTMASTERS Mary Kelly's Mea Culpa, 1999, gave the initial impression of being one ...
  143. VIENNA SECESSION Renee Green's exhibition "Between and Including" was a convincing ...
  144. FINE ARTS GALLERY, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND During the past three decades, Adrian Pip...
  145. WALKER ART CENTER Collagist, homegrown Surrealist, Beat, hippie-light-show auteur, ...
  146. MUSEE D'ART CONTEMPORAIN His presidential portraits of Georges Pompidou and Francoi...
  147. "Liverpudlian" is a nineteenth-century word, based on the alteration of "pool" to "pu...
  148. KUNSTMUSEUM WOLFSBURG All the hype (or, if you're above cynicism, growing awareness...
  149. It may seem Madeleine Grynsztejn has lived her entire life in preparation for the 199...
  150. MARIANNE BOESKY GALLERY/MARY BOONE GALLERY Over the years Karin Davie has done ...
  151. JACK TILTON GALLERY Since graduating from the University of California at San Diego...
  152. MUSEUM LUDWIG KOLN To get to Johannes Wohnseifer's recent exhibition, which was cur...
  153. TATE GALLERY With a glamorous cast that includes Lytton Strachey, E.M. Forster, and...
  154. GEFFEN CONTEMPORARY Over the years, Barbara Kruger's art has grown not only in its ...
  155. WHITECHAPEL ART GALLERY We hear a lot in America about what a lot we don't hear abo...
  156. MUSEU D'ART CONTEMPORANI After his participation in Documenta X ("Cassettes pour Ka...
  157. If you have tears, prepare to shed them at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo...
  158. NEUER BERLINER KUNSTVEREIN There's been no shortage of Japanese photography exhibit...
  159. Before Cindy Sherman, there was Claude Cahun, and before Cahun, there was the countes...
  160. CAREN GOLDEN FINE ART Among my adolescent souvenirs float vague recollections of sc...
  161. INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART If painting in general is back in vogue, as has been ...
  162. GALERIE BARBEL GRASSLIN The objects exhibited in "Fragments of their pleasant space...
  163. WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART If you thought the Whitney bit off more than it coul...
  164. LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART Why have there been no great women artists? Lee Kr...
  165. HAYWARD GALLERY While everyone knows Lucio Fontana (1899-1968) for one thing - the ...
  166. FUNDACIO ANTONI TAPIES Since the early '70s, Irish artist James Coleman has investi...
  167. Antony Gormley's Field for the British Isles has proved a phenomenal draw wherever it...
  168. ALTES MUSEUM, NEUE NATIONAL-GALERIE, HAMBURGER BAHNHOF, KULTURFORUM The most extens...
  169. Working as a member of the dance/performance collaborative SHRIMPS, Martin Kersels fi...
  170. LUHRING AUGUSTINE Ask not for whom the bell tolls. Clement Greenberg got it fight w...
  171. LOCKS GALLERY In a long horizontal line extending through the gallery, the faces of...
  172. CAMDEN ARTS CENTRE Richard Wentworth sums up "Thinking Aloud," the traveling show h...
  173. SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM The problem with expressionism '80s-style - German, Ne...
  174. Where are all the big millennium shows at our nation's smaller venues? Apparently, th...
  175. SERPENTINE GALLERY Although gold-stamped by the Goldsmiths College of Art, the iden...
  176. PALACIO DE VELAZQUEZ Elegantly austere, hermetic yet charged with intimations of er...
  177. If language is a virus from outer space, then the language-based pieces brought toget...
  178. WORTTEMBERGISCHER KUNSTVEREIN In the '70s, a survey of recent British art would sca...
  179. DURING THE EXHIBITION'S TWENTY-ONE-WEEK RUN, THE 48TH VENICE BIENNALE WILL BE VIEWED ...
  180. ANDREA ROSEN GALLERY Sean Landers makes art about the changeable fortunes of the ar...
  181. COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART In this selection of her work from the past twenty years, Ti...
  182. THE AGENCY As part of Ross Sinclair's recent show, he ran a stall in one of London'...
  183. MUSEUM OF MODERN ART "Modern Starts" is the first of three Y2K exhibitions re-prese...
  184. Remember the shock (at least within the photo world) that greeted William Eggleston's...
  185. HENRY MOORE FOUNDATION STUDIO/MUSEUM OF MODERN ART OXFORD Michelangelo Pistoletto's...
  186. MUSEO D'ARTE MODERNA E CONTEMPORANEA A leading Italian Post-Impressionist, Giovanni...
  187. MUSEUM VAN HEDENDAAGSE KUNST Marlene Dumas is of the same generation as Francesco C...
  188. VARIOUS VENUES This year, Graz's autumn festival, Steirischer Herbst, includes a re...
  189. There may be eight million stories in the Naked City, but the number of social identi...
  190. GALERIE LELONG/DANESE Sean Scully's concurrent shows proved that abstraction is not...
  191. PACEWlLDENSTEIN For far too long, John McLaughlin's superbly austere paintings have...
  192. DOUGLAS HYDE GALLERY In Jaki Irvine's installation The Hottest Sun, The Darkest Hou...
  193. NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART Brazilian Conceptual pioneer Cildo Meireles produced...
  194. MUSEUM OF MODERN ART Now that photography and its video and digital offspring have ...
  195. IRISH MUSEUM OF MODERN ART Irish artist Kathy Prendergast is nothing more nor less ...
  196. CASINO-LUXEMBOURG Born in 1939 in Liege, Belgium, Jacques Charlier is a sedentary a...
  197. STEDELIJK VAN ABBEMUSEUM In 1968, Ger van Elk modestly characterized an artist as "...
  198. KUNSTMUSEUM WINTERTHUR The epitome of a painter's painter, Gerhard Richter has none...
  199. LAWRENCE RUBIN GREENBERG VAN DOREN, NEW YORK Girls, girls, girls! The "it" show thi...