Stories Collection

  1. GLENN O'BRIEN ON RUDI GERNREICH THE IRRESISTIBLE CONCEIT of Austin Powers is nostal...
  2. MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS F. Holland Day (1864-1933), monied Boston aesthete and eccentri...
  3. Isaac Julien was acclaimed as an independent filmmaker when the boundaries between ar...
  4. JEU DE PAUME The natural child of Max Bill and Alphonse Allais, born by chance in 1...
  5. Many artists have veni'd to Venice in recent years, but few have vinci'd (and that in...
  6. John Bock: artist or raftsman? Judge for yourself at the Gesellschaft fur Aktuelle Ku...
  7. MODERNA MUSEET Though a small country far from the centers of power and culture, Sw...
  8. GALERIE CHANTAL CROUSEL, PARIS As specific as a birth announcement, it was the firs...
  9. DEREK ELLER GALLERY D-L Alvarez thinks like a writer. Each piece segues into the ne...
  10. MUSEE D'ART CONTEMPORAIN DE LYON A narrow, labyrinthine passage leads to the center...
  11. DANIEL B. SCHNEIDER ON THE MOMA STRIKE AS THIS ISSUE OF ARTFORUM goes to press, the...
  12. YALE CENTER FOR BRITISH ART In 1976, American-born R.B. Kitaj applied the label Sch...
  13. MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART The discovery of the Americas was a renaissance event; t...
  14. MUSEO NACIONAL CENTRO DE ARTE REINA SOFIA Said to be the largest exhibition ever de...
  15. PADIGLIONE D'ARTE CONTEMPORANEA Independent curator, critic, and pulp-fiction conno...
  16. "I will not make any more boring art," John Baldessari incited a group of Nova Scotia...
  17. CINDY SHERMAN: NEW PHOTOGRAPHS, 2000 Literature might be the wrong place to begin. ...
  18. ROSE MUSEUM, BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, WALTHAM, MA Jonathan Lasker once told me he thoug...
  19. INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY The first image encountered in this mid-career ...
  20. HORTEN The system can be somewhat confusing: The new Dusseldorf gallery called Hort...
  21. THOMAS FRANK ON STEAL THIS MOVIE! I DON'T REMEMBER precisely when I first learned t...
  22. HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN More of less is more. Curator Klaus Ottmann i...
  23. MUSEUM OF MODERN ART Long before software entrepreneur Peter Norton discovered his ...
  24. MUSEU D'ART CONTEMPORANI Artist, curator, and theorist Philippe Thomas took the pri...
  25. KUNSTHALLE Kunsthalle director Bernhard Burgi has assembled twenty-one paintings--i...
  26. To end the year 2000 in a most unsettling way, visit the Serpentine Gallery's exhibit...
  27. Tim Hawkinson TALKS ABOUT UBERORGAN When Mass MOCA offered me the gallery, I was co...
  28. GORNEY BRAVIN + LEE Aren't you allowed to win the Turner Prize twice? Gillian Weari...
  29. CLARK GALLERY Along with Scott Prior and the late Gregory Gillespie, painter Randal...
  30. THE APPROACH/CHISENHALE GALLERY Living in New York, I almost never drive, but every...
  31. HOWARD HAMPTON ON THE BALLAD OF RAMBLIN' JACK Aiyana Elliott's documentary about he...
  32. CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART Call it trickle-down aesthetics: Word has finally reached W...
  33. HENRY ART GALLERY There's a lot of nobody-home photography--interiors and landscape...
  34. ROBERT SIMON ON J.J. GRANDVILLE ACROSS THE NOTES, fragments, essays, and outlines o...
  35. CENTRE D'ART CONTEMPORAIN Gavin Turk recently sculpted himself as Che Guevara, lyin...
  36. KUNSTHAUS GLARUS A virtuoso of the bungle, Peter Land aims for a sense of stand-up ...
  37. After almost two decades of making images of indoor worlds--rephotographing magazine ...
  38. ACQUAVELLA Lucian Freud doesn't beautify flesh, but he revels in it all the same. W...
  39. VAKNIN SCHWARTZ In Kojo Griffin's new mixed-media panels, enigmatic figures enact s...
  40. CAMDEN ARTS CENTRE Dutch wax-printed cotton fabric masquerades as authentic African...
  41. 1 KAZ, UNDERWORLD Kaz is the only cartoonist left who can actually write a four-panel...
  42. MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART What would the art of LA look like today without the exa...
  43. HUNDACION MUSEO DE BELLAS ARTES Gego, nee Gertrud Goldschmidt, fled Germany for Sou...
  44. From the celebratory faces of commissioned canvases to satirical caricatures for the ...
  45. KUNSTHALLE Michel Francois's enigmatic art functions in those gray areas between su...
  46. RUPERTINUM MODERNE GALERIE As heir apparent to Alfred Stieglitz, Minor White was lo...
  47. Three Sounds (Drei Klange), 1926 A talisman in the form of a postcard I stuck onto ...
  48. MITCHELL-INNES & NASH The first thing that strikes one about Leon Kossoff's paintin...
  49. SOUTHERN EXPOSURE One of life's most humbling revelations is that we each carry our...
  50. This year's Sydney Biennale was a poignant exhibition. Though mostly a disorganized a...
  51. MUSEU D'ART CONTEMPORANI DE BARCELONA One of the most memorable pieces in the 1997 ...
  52. LA COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART How's this for an exhibition idea: "Touched by Human Hands:...
  53. SERPENTINE GALLERY Confess all on Video. Don't worry you will be in disguise. Intri...
  54. IVAM Brazilian fever? Judging by the rash of shows, in Brazil as well as abroad, oc...
  55. Say cheese" is not, one suspects, a phrase overused by flaneur photographer Beat Stre...
  56. VELETRZNI PALAC Like last year's "Global Conceptualism," "Beyond Preconceptions" at...
  57. In 1935, at the behest of his New York colleagues, Walter Benjamin set out to synopsi...
  58. DAVID ZWIRNER Ulrike Ottinger's 1978 photograph Portrait of Two Women Drinkers desc...
  59. ROSAMUND FELSEN GALLERY One can draw, paint, sculpt, or digitally illustrate what d...
  60. KUKJE GALLERY While there's nothing new in talk of art m the computer age, or of th...
  61. WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART Edward Steichen's work might look musty and overrefi...
  62. RONALD JONES ON DAN FLAVIN AT MARFA ON OCTOBER 7 AND 8, the art faithful (some 1,00...
  63. WHITECHAPEL ART GALLERY Artists have political responsibilities, argue independent ...
  64. MUSEU DE ARTE CONTEMPORANEA DE SERRALVES Given the rise to prominence of an entire ...
  65. This fall, the Frankfurter Kunstverein will show new work by video artist and club im...
  66. KOLNISCHER KUNSTVEREIN With a booty of painted and computer-printed quotations lift...
  67. According to the teachings of the Buddha, there is an eightfold path that leads to En...
  68. GAVIN BROWN'S ENTERPRISE Reading the art criticism that accompanied Meyer Vaisman's...
  69. CULTURGEST This year marks the quincentenary of the European discovery of Brazil. T...
  70. LUHRING AUGUSTINE/PUBLIC ART FUND, TIMES SQUARE, NEW YORK A whole new interior real...
  71. The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters, by Frances Stonor S...
  72. Kerry James Marshall Growing up, I was a big fan of Marvel comics, especially the o...
  73. Way back in the twentieth century, the Lord saw that, in later life, some of the sain...
  74. When art mimics nature, a tension between perfection and impermanence is usually some...
  75. Like the Minimalists to whom his work nods, Tony Feher uses industrially produced mat...
  76. It's hardly unusual for an artist to question contemporary society, but it is surpris...
  77. BACK IN 1990, the obscenity charges brought against the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts ...
  78. BRIAN D'AMATO AND DAVID RIMANELLI TALK WITH PAUL VERHOEVEN One day in college I wen...
  79. Gregory Crewdson's new series of staged photographs, "Twilight" (1998-99, all Untitle...
  80. Plotting public space consists of figuring out how to get people from here to there; ...
  81. Ana Laura Alaez, a young Basque artist who lives in Madrid, caused a sensation around...
  82. Pebble-dash outside, bare roughcast and whitewash within, the 1886 mission church tha...
  83. DAVID JOSELIT TALKS WITH THOMAS CROW THIS SUMMER THOMAS CROW will become the direct...
  84. IN ANTICIPATION OF THE DUAL SURVEYS BEING MOUNTED THIS SUMMER--"EDWARD RUSCHA" AT THE...
  85. Recently I met with a well-scrubbed guy in a bright-blue shirt who had a shiny new pe...
  86. "Ross Braught (1898-1983): A Visual Diary" reintroduced a little-known yet remarkable...
  87. Enrica Borghi is now well known in Italy for sculptural work using recycled plastic m...
  88. "Around me the images of thirty years." In his poem "The Municipal Gallery Revisited,...
  89. IT WILL COME AS REASSURANCE that Switzerland, the national cliche of clockwork orderl...
  90. LOUISE BOURGEOIS: I DO, I UNDO, AND I REDO, 1999--2000 HOW VERY APPROPRIATE that th...
  91. In one of Catherine Opie's best-known photographs, an unsettling 1993 selfportrait, a...
  92. There's something delirious about Frank Gerritz's new drawings: What at first looks l...
  93. For Sabrina Torelli, a young artist from Bologna, sound is a sort of trap, presenting...
  94. The Habitat, 1999-2000, Gavin Hipkins's latest photographic installation, was promote...
  95. WHEN THOMAS RUFF'S NEW IMAGES of Mies van der Rohe's Haus Lange and Haus Esters go on...
  96. WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO MAKE A SCULPTURE? There are certainly more immediate (and ...
  97. Ugo Rondinone's solo New York debut looked like a group show, and I suspect that's ju...
  98. Freud wrote in 1905, "Seeing is ultimately derived from touching," which is sexually ...
  99. A simple wooden kitchen table rests on four plastic ballpoint pen caps, while photogr...
  100. DOWNTOWN 81, A "LOST" No-BUDGET FILM shot on location in Manhattan some nineteen year...
  101. To see [Michael Jordan] soar through the air, a sparkling, shiny creature traveling a...
  102. I like Casey Cook's paintings, but the professionalism behind them makes me nervous. ...
  103. In her latest solo performance, choreographer Meg Stuart gives new meaning to the phr...
  104. Two of Florence Lazar's three recent videos were shot in Serbia following the conflic...
  105. You may not actually have known any of the songs, but with their pleasingly familiar ...
  106. Up until the 1970s the art world was, roughly speaking, a white male club headquarter...
  107. New York-based painter Ridley Howard is profoundly attached to the South of his child...
  108. Alois Lichtsteiner emerged as an artist around the time when the craze for "wild pain...
  109. 1 FITS, TRANCES, & VISIONS, by Ann Taves (Princeton University Press, 1999) I've been...
  110. Was there a British Conceptualism? Previous surveys of this development have mapped a...
  111. Nina Bovasso revs her paintings right up to the point where the riotous starts to dri...
  112. To write for a primarily American readership about an exhibition by a European artist...
  113. RAPPER DELIGHT To the Editor: Although I am quite flattered by Thad Ziolkowski's ...
  114. There's an element of the science nerd in Tom Friedman, or so I would guess--the over...
  115. What exactly is Molloy doing with his sixteen stones? "Watch me closely," he says: "I...
  116. Critic Bob Nickas wrote recently that John Tremblay's Open Plan Living, a spectacular...
  117. With the revival of interventionist art practices in the '90s, which at times decided...
  118. Eyewitness: Reports From an Art World in Crisis, by Jed Perl. New York: Basic Books, ...
  119. GREGOR SCHNEIDER'S DEAD HOUSE UR, 1985- Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space Fe...
  120. In 1946, Clement Greenberg endorsed the work of Walker Evans with the slogan "let pho...
  121. The first thing you noticed on entering Amy Sillman's show of new paintings was The U...
  122. It's a rare body of work that makes the viewer open a mental can of worms, but the br...
  123. "Dub Like Dirt," the name Dusseldorf painter Stoya gave his recent exhibition, is tak...
  124. WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART For much of her life, Alice Neel was an obscure figu...
  125. LEE SMITH ON HANS HAACKE IN 1937, BERTOLT BRECHT SUGGESTED that replacing the word ...
  126. SERPENTINE GALLERY Turning thirty can be traumatic; to celebrate, the Serpentine is...
  127. MUSEU DE ARTE CONTEMPORANEA DE SERRALVES Most of us don't spend a lot of time think...
  128. KUNSTMUSEUM LUZERN Taking its name from a line in T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, the ...
  129. DANESE Emerson wrote, "The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are neve...
  130. LUISE ROSS GALLERY The work of self-taught artist Leroy Person (1907-85) has largel...
  131. BIBLIOTHEQUE NATIONALE DE FRANCE Although the number of visitors may nor be the bes...
  132. CENTER FOR CURATORIAL STUDIES MUSEUM, BARD COLLEGE The '80s explosion of unofficial...
  133. INSTALLATIONS AND EXHIBITIONS of sound art, light, and space? Must mean summer--at le...
  134. IKON GALLERY "I had that Navin Rawanchaikal in the back of my cab once...." The Iko...
  135. PADIGLIONE D'ARTE CONTEMPORANEA Can art give "form" to the world, can it anticipate...
  136. KUNSTVEREIN BRAUNSCHWEIG Even though German artist Isa Genzken has received solo su...
  137. Call it the mind/body problem. If I were preparing a slide comparison for class, I pr...
  138. MATTHEW MARKS GALLERY Sam Taylor-Wood's installation Third Party, 1999, surrounds v...
  139. RHONA HOFFMAN GALLERY Walter Niedermayr's wall assemblages of panoramic photographs...
  140. GALERIE CHRISTIAN NAGEL A narrative thread connects the individual works in Kai Alt...
  141. MASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART Mutant mammals and crazy chain reactions a...
  142. "Homepage," a funny combination of Franz West's oddly beautiful papier-mache- and-pai...
  143. IRISH MUSEUM OF MODERN ART Leon Golub's first European retrospective to date, curat...
  144. GALLERIA D'ARTE MODERNA AND VILLA DELLE ROSE This broad selection of more than one ...
  145. KUNSTMUSEUM WOLFSBURG Joie de vivre--or a race against time? For Jean Tinguely, mak...
  146. TALKS ABOUT ELECTRIC EARTH In many ways the process of my work is an ongoing experi...
  147. PETER BLUM It seems perhaps an odd coupling at first: a grand display of third- to ...
  148. PATRICK PAINTER It's hard to see. White sans-serif type on white glossy field, the ...
  149. GALERIE GEBAUER A.K. Dolven's paintings are moving--in both senses of the word. The...
  150. PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART Mary Ellen Mark is the Diane Arbus of narrative document...
  151. Domesticity is the subject of "The Home Show," a four-part extravaganza at the Walker...
  152. RICHARD SHONE ON "ENCOUNTERS" AT LONDON'S NATIONAL GALLERY "IT IS ONLY the unimagin...
  153. KUNSTHALLE WIEN Third in a series of exhibitions devoted to emigre Austrian artists...
  154. DEICHTORHALLEN Of late it seems every second artist has something to say about a su...
  155. THE TERM "NET.ART" is less a coinage than an accident, the result of a software glitc...
  156. JOSEPH RICKARDS GALLERY Robert Jessup creates bizarrely torqued grown-up fables tha...
  157. L. A. LOUVER The old adage that art offers the viewer a glimpse inside the artist's...
  158. MUKHA The fourth installment of a series that saw the light of day in 1997 in Cape ...
  159. HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN The gas stations, the strip, the plain langua...
  160. MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART How long will Tom Friedman's show be? I mean, how much t...
  161. CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU Under the aegis of the Purple Institute, "a record label fo...
  162. INTERNATIONAL FINANCE Money makes the art world go round (to coin a phrase), and a ...
  163. Expo 2000 Twenty million visitors are expected at the first World Exposition to be ...
  164. Following the efforts of artists like Liz Lamer and Jim Isermann, alongside the large...
  165. 303 GALLERY Kristin Oppenheim's confident, Conceptualist sound installations combin...
  166. MARC FOXX Richard Rezac's arrangements seem at first like shelved maquettes for Min...
  167. FREUD MUSEUM/SADIE COLES HQ Matisse may have wanted his art to be "something like a...
  168. MOCA AT CALIFORNIA PLAZA Curator Connie Butler has sifted through MOCA'S permanent ...
  169. CNAC-MAGASIN Doug Huebler, shake hands with Jean Rouch. Christopher Williams's fort...
  170. Jorge Pardo, known for blurring distinctions between art, craft, design, and architec...
  171. CASINO-LUXEMBOURG Since the '8os, Sam Samore has been attracting increasing attenti...
  172. WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, NEW YORK If it's not one thing, it's another. The r...
  173. MAX PROTETCH In a 1998 interview, the novelist and critic Francine Prose told Thoma...
  174. UNTITLED VENUE "SEX. Now that I've got your attention..." Like the sales pitch that...
  175. MUSEUM PLANTIN-MORETUS Taking its title from the first modern atlas--Antwerp cartog...
  176. MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART This first full-scale US overview of the work of New Yor...
  177. POWER PLANT What do you get when you combine Popsicle sticks, socks, TV antennae, t...
  178. FUNDACIO "LA CAIXA" Is it time to reevaluate the legacy of Harry Callahan? The Detr...
  179. At the Fondazione Prada, Milan (May 5-June 10), Marc Quinn will unveil three new piec...
  180. VARIOUS VENUES Celebrating the art of more than eighty "nomads" from around the glo...
  181. By and large, the Whitney Biennial's cinematic program, a Whitman's Sampler of film a...
  182. SENIOR & SHOPMAKER GALLERY In the early '80s, Ellen Phelan was known for large pain...
  183. GALERIA CAMARGO VILACA Although Adriana Varejao is best known as a painter, in he...
  184. MODERNA MUSEET Is the intense interest many artists show in fashion, architecture, ...
  185. J. PAUL GETTY MUSEUM Although it's practically a given that Eugene Atget was the mo...
  186. MUSEU DE ARTE MODERNA Daniel Senise is widely considered the chief figure of the Br...
  187. MUSEU D'ART CONTEMPORANI Fischli & Weiss take on The Visible World, a brand new wor...
  188. Between May 27 and October 1, Avignon, Europe's City of Culture 2000, will host a spe...
  189. IT IS HARD TO TELL with the elliptical art of James Coleman, but Photograph, the newe...
  190. P.S.1, NEW YORK "Greater New York" sprawls. With two museums, thirty curators, one ...
  191. CASEY KAPLAN Having been the focus of sustained critical analysis and artistic prac...
  192. GALERIA SOLEDAD LORENZO From his first exhibitions, in the midst of the neo-Express...
  193. VARIOUS VENUES As a fitting prelude to the Sydney 2000 Olympics, this Biennale's bo...
  194. CALIFORNIA PALACE OF THE LEGION OF HONOR How come a Norman Rockwell retrospective o...
  195. SESC BELENZINHO For the fourth in a series of exhibitions organized under the theme...
  196. KATY SIEGEL ON MANIFESTA 3 AND THE BIENNALE DE LYON 2000 WIDESPREAD SNIPING AT MEGA...
  197. GENERALI FOUNDATION With this ambitious multimedia show, curators Sabine Breitwiese...
  198. CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU The Pompidou has reopened after a year of renovation with a...
  199. HENRY URBACH ARCHITECTURE With its matte colors, hard-edged, graphic forms, and ele...