Stories Collection

  1. If Javier Tellez, at 26, is representative of his generation, the well-cultured 20-so...
  2. Few possessions are more revealing of their owner's personality, preferences and self...
  3. With her engaging, artful vignettes about modern life, Donna Moylan approaches the ca...
  4. In May 1988, L.A. artists Jan Tumlir and Erik Otsea manufactured a single 4-by-5-foot...
  5. In a collaborative collage produced around 1965 by the writer William Burroughs and t...
  6. This New York debut of the 32-year-old British artist Lucy Gunning consisted of two v...
  7. In his solo debut, David Hunter, a young artist originally from California, was repre...
  8. While much of the art world forges new art (and art forms) in an attempt to make sens...
  9. Sumptuous and sensual, Ken Price's new ceramic sculptures, ranging up to 2 feet in th...
  10. Seven years after the end of the Pinochet regime, Chilean artists tend to avoid polit...
  11. Amy Sillman's new paintings should help settle the question of painting's efficacy fo...
  12. In contrast to his flamboyantly bolted, riveted and logged sculptures of the 1980s, A...
  13. A faculty committee at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers curated this unu...
  14. Drawing on his experience as a laborer on large-scale high rise construction projects...
  15. Encompassing over 200 works, William Rubin's valedictory "Picasso and Portraiture, " ...
  16. The time seems right for the reemergence of this seminal '60s '60s figure, whose work...
  17. "Labor of Love" at the New Museum Imagine a 50-person show in which one work not only...
  18. Sally Egbert's oil paintings are as hypnotic as aquariums. They engage the viewer in ...
  19. Over the past few years Callum Innes has gained a following in Europe for his rigorou...
  20. In which the author, a veteran of more than 75 viewings of the video "Cremaster 4," e...
  21. Lenore Tawney (b. 1907) is best known for her free-hanging, shaped weavings of the 19...
  22. In her first solo show in New York, Paola Gandolfi, an artist well-known in her nativ...
  23. Frances Whitehead, a sculptor originally inspired by the industrial world, began gard...
  24. Underlying the Chapman brothers' violent and sexual works is a conventionally avant-g...
  25. Linked, in the 1970s, to the Pattern and Decoration movement, Valerie Jaudon has more...
  26. James Hyde's contributions to the last Corcoran Biennial were among the most successf...
  27. Judy Fox's latest show, like her three previous solo New York exhibitions, featured s...
  28. Exhibitions of sculpture, as opposed to installations, shows of Process art or found ...
  29. Every five years, it seems, the Dutch painter Marjolijn van den Assem (b. 1947) loses...
  30. In a career that spanned four decades, Edward Kienholz used the detritus of contempor...
  31. In his recent show, Meyer Vaisman presented a plain architectural structure made of c...
  32. Although Neo-Classicism, as a major artistic movement waxed and waned in the 1 9th ce...
  33. Entering James Westwater's recent show was like walking into a combination of an old-...
  34. After years of making rigorously abstract paintings, Luigi Carboni here presented a g...
  35. The assault on federal arts funding has claimed another casualty. Arts America, the 2...
  36. A traveling retrospective directs new attention to painter Agnes Pelton, who exhibite...
  37. The Uruguayan artist Rimer Cardillo recently returned from the Amazon bearing the loa...
  38. I don't think I have seen a picture as profoundly sexy as The Bath in a long time. It...
  39. Berlin-born Seattle artist Anne Siems is best known for her paintings of imaginary pl...
  40. Introduction by Robert Farris Thompson, preface by David Hockney, New York, Viking, 1...
  41. Shigeko Kubota has been active since the late 1950s, but hers is hardly a household n...
  42. Chryssa showed four large abstract wall sculptures made of polished aluminum and neon...
  43. As if ensconced in a never-never land, Sandro Chia conjures up lush, fanciful images ...
  44. In two large works at Kiyo Higashi, Larry Bell manipulated his familiar glass enclosu...
  45. Edited by Kristine Stiles and Peter Selz, Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, Universit...
  46. In this provocative exhibition, Carolee Schneemann brought her long-standing interest...
  47. Cruising down any suburban street on a Sunday, you're bound to see a typical scene: k...
  48. Voyeurism, exhibitionism, transgression and the dynamics of the eroticized gaze were ...
  49. Wildly overhung and cavalierly displayed, this traveling exhibition of Polke's photog...
  50. Of all the signs confirming a new global awareness in the Danish art world, particula...
  51. As chronicled in the work of Damien Hirst, such '90s-style vices as smoking, pill-pop...
  52. Los Angeles-based photographer Catherine Opie has received considerable recognition f...
  53. In Krzysztof Wodiczko's first New York solo in four years, the artist presented an on...
  54. Dennis Hollingsworth's most recent exhibition, titled "Wet on Wet," unapologetically ...
  55. After years of delays, MASS MoCA is now moving toward a 1998 opening date--with a rad...
  56. For his recent "Erasure Drawing" installation, Gary Simmons turned three gallery wall...
  57. This debut show by Polish-born artist Maciei Toporowicz had the title "Lure," which i...
  58. Accounts of Mark Morrisroe's life read like pulp tragedy. His mother has been describ...
  59. For more than 25 years, Nova Scotia sculptor John Greer has been sending gentle wake-...
  60. Is high culture in the U.S. in a state of crisis? According to recent government stud...
  61. Andy Warhol believed that every decade comes into sharper focus at its midpoint. In A...
  62. Peter Schuyff's most effective subject matter is illusion. This can be a bit dicey: t...
  63. It's ironic that a native of Holland, an alluvial land, should become a master stone ...
  64. For an exhibition titled "Of Earth and Cotton," Jackie Brookner covered the gallery f...
  65. Does the simultaneous appearance of the books under review signal a trend? A day afte...
  66. The first time I met Charles LeDray we, exchanged pleasantries and then he abruptly h...
  67. Diti Almog, an Israeli artist now residing in New York, uses a Minimalist vocabulary ...
  68. One might expect an artist in Northern Ireland to respond to the "Troubles" with rage...
  69. Thomas Albright described Jeremy Anderson as one of the two fathers of modern sculptu...
  70. Does the simultaneous appearance of the books under review signal a trend? A day afte...
  71. The traveling survey of Mel Bochner's early Conceptual work Con view until Sept. 8 at...
  72. The most familiar painting in this show of three large works was actually the least c...
  73. Mimmo Rotella is best known to Americans as one of the popularizers, along with Raymo...
  74. A modest 32 works represented Robert Kehlmann's 22 years of "Painting with Glass" in ...
  75. To keep up in the field, art critics have to read a lot of books from MIT Press, with...
  76. Since the early 1960s, Sidney Goodman has been an important role model for artists se...
  77. Valerie Jaudon emerged in the Pattern and Decoration movement of the 1970s with squar...
  78. In 1989 Drew Beattie was an instructor in a San Francisco graduate school, and Daniel...
  79. Over the years Orleonok Pitkin has strived for a reductive esthetic in both his paint...
  80. Although I met him several times in the early '80s, the most irksome encounter I reme...
  81. Once associated with Minimalism, Robert Grosvenor has evolved into an artist governed...
  82. French-Canadian artist Rene Pierre Allain has lived in New York for more than a decad...
  83. Rachel Harrison's knack for combining all manner of mass-produced objects, found debr...
  84. A Spanish painter in his late 40s, Guillermo Perez Villalta creates enigmatic allegor...
  85. How does a first-time director catch the flavor of a world that has been exhaustively...
  86. Two memorial exhibitions, independently organized, highlighted Nancy Graves's work in...
  87. Though less well known today than, say, Pollock, de Kooning or Rothko, Richard Pouset...
  88. Wellington Reiter' Island Culture, grand in scale and meticulously crafted, was a 2,5...
  89. A horticulturalist or experienced gardener could probably identify the forms in Frede...
  90. For the last decade interest in abstract Expressionism has seemed stultified by the e...
  91. Rob Wynne's installation was called Sleepwalking, in homage to Bellini's La Sonnambul...
  92. Though less well known today than, say, Pollock, de Kooning or Rothko, Richard Pouset...
  93. This retrospective of some two dozen works, planned prior to the artist's s death a f...
  94. In his latest group of large-scale paintings of ski and snow scenes, Peter Doig navig...
  95. Has Marshall McLuhan been vindicated? Has the medium finally become the message? The ...
  96. Ann Hamilton's installations have typically featured spectacular accumulations of biz...
  97. A yellow canopy hung with eight big Tropical Fantasy soda bottles greeted visitors at...
  98. Steven Baris is an abstractionist whose color and tactile application of oil recall e...
  99. Three exhibitions devoted to Stephen Cox this spring marked. the tenth anniversary of...
  100. The art and architecture worlds of Chicago, two subcultures normally more separate th...
  101. Kara Walker creates hilarious yet thoughtful allegorical narratives that feature ante...
  102. In the most playful way possible, Michel Francois seems intent on throwing you off ba...
  103. Every year Jack Boul, like his fellow Washington realist Robert Kulicke, has a show o...
  104. Kunihiko Takada showed about 40 black-and-white photos from his "Crystals" and "Snow ...
  105. In recent years museums and curators have been criticized for imposing an overly line...
  106. Perhaps not since Matthew Barney's 1991 New York debut or the recent Kiki Smith explo...
  107. Italian sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro, known for monumental works installed in public spa...
  108. An old simile compares life to a web or a woven fabric, with a warp and woof that len...
  109. A recent show at the Centre Pompidou surveyed Tony Cragg's prolific and prodigiously ...
  110. Diane Green's painterly abstractions offer a welter of natural associations, includin...
  111. The wall reliefs of Dominique Figarella, a 30-year-old French artist, operate on the ...
  112. Susan Hauptman's exhibition of self-portraits and still lifes in charcoal and pastel ...
  113. Three years after the death of L.A. artist Robert Overby, his 1970s work is attractin...
  114. From Johns's flags and targets to Noland's chevrons to Matt Mullican's pseudosigns, s...
  115. In this exhibition, Nikko Sedgwick, a 31-year-old painter who has shown in New York g...
  116. In 1994 exhibitions at Ace, China Adams photographically inventoried her body parts, ...
  117. Gregory Green avails himself of easily accessible information and materials to build ...
  118. It takes a while to realize that each of Matthew Abbott's vibrant, at times garish, s...
  119. The Romanian artist Dan Perjovschi, 35, was in residence at Franklin Furnace in Novem...
  120. The unfortunate title of this traveling exhibition, "Still Working: Underknown Artist...
  121. Horn's five characteristically austere and cerebral works were shown each in its own ...
  122. This show of Yigal Ozeri's recent work included examples from two series of architect...
  123. Nicola's recent show was her ninth in New York in as many years. Nicola has been thin...
  124. In his first show at Lisson, the gallery that introduced an earlier generation of Bri...
  125. This spring's auctions, while lacking some of the fireworks of the fall or last year'...
  126. Vija Celmins is committed to the literal, visible world with a devotion that makes ph...
  127. Milton Brown, aged 84, has been painting for many years. Although isolated examples o...
  128. Stacy Levy is the only artist I know of who not only makes art addressing environment...
  129. At 50, Noel Dolla has yet to settle down into predictability. Since the start of his ...
  130. It is now a quarter century since feminist art history was effectively launched in th...
  131. In this exhibition, Jane Dickson's fascination with installation and unusual painting...
  132. All the works Lissa Hunter showed at Margolis were geometric containers: boxes on the...
  133. Sidney Lawrence is a very witty and funny man, if his work is any evidence. His recen...
  134. Fritz Balthaus is known for installations carried out with minimal means. In this pro...
  135. In a pluralistic society scattered across 3,000 miles of ocean, Indonesians are meldi...
  136. For her 1994 show at Storm King Art Center, Mia Westerlund Roosen went underground. S...
  137. Urban life has been a privileged subject for the camera since photography's beginning...
  138. Mike Hill's installation "True Facts" was a surreal journey through the annals of his...
  139. "But is it art?" is a question often asked of the unusual oeuvre of sculptor Joep van...
  140. For decades American artists have admired--and emulated--de Chirico's early metaphysi...
  141. Meg Webster has previously made various sorts of earthworks, including a garden at th...
  142. In six realist paintings of his family at home, Dennis Kardon confronts his ambivalen...
  143. The Houston Grand Opera, the nation's most important breeding ground for innovative m...
  144. Run by a group of young art enthusiasts, this nonprofit Copenhagen gallery has develo...
  145. Responding to the Guggenheim's stylish, controversial and highly selective survey of ...
  146. Although her works are made on stretched canvas, you can't really call what Ghada Ame...
  147. "The sea was a miracle of calm, a miracle of azure." The words are Joseph Conrad's, b...
  148. The two artists in this show, "Doc" Spellmon and Ruth Mae McCrane, were both born in ...
  149. Using one painting, a wall text, a short video and a modest catalogue, veteran Moscow...
  150. In a memorable scene from the epic movie Gone with the Wind, an impoverished Scarlett...
  151. The self-assured look of Ed Ruda's recent canvases--11 soft-geometric abstractions fr...
  152. This striking exhibition featured 20 recent sculptures by Nicholas Mukomberanwa, an a...
  153. With his current crop of exuberant, sometimes visceral abstract paintings on paper, K...
  154. Much in our current view of activist art can be traced back to the political and cult...
  155. Kcho (Alexis Leyva Machado) is a young Cuban artist who has attracted international a...
  156. The "Skins" section of Carol Brown's recent exhibition consisted of seven elongated, ...
  157. In Paul Bowen's first New York exhibition since 1991, he showed five recent wall scul...
  158. "Stations," as this exhibition was titled, consisted of 14 gestural, abstract paintin...
  159. In 1993 the Guggenheim Museum SoHo heralded the "emerging medium" of virtual reality ...
  160. Bianca Sforni's photographs of flowers and, especially, oysters are sexualized enough...
  161. The English artist Cathy de Monchaux, in her first American solo (she has shown widel...
  162. It was the afternoon of the great January blizzard, and the snow had been falling for...
  163. Fons Haagmans is one of the Dutch artists associated with the venerable Art & Project...
  164. The country of Slovenia did not, until recently, exist on most people's map of the co...
  165. An Austrian who has shown widely throughout Germany, Herbert Brandl has experimented ...
  166. Home is the locale both of domestic comfort and hidden secrets. Similarly, decorative...
  167. This selection of 13 of Sandi Slone's paintings was a good opportunity to catch up wi...
  168. What an immense bundle of contradictions is embodied in the project, and persona, of ...
  169. There is nothing new about the effort to meld art and function, In our century, it wa...
  170. At first glance, the works in Carrie Mae Weems's recent series, "From Here I Saw What...
  171. Jim McHugh's recent exhibition of 20 photographs explored the ultimate human conflict...
  172. Dan Flavin was the subject this season of three major exhibitions in New York, and, w...
  173. Cleve Gray has long been well known as an abstract painter and as a sculptor; he has ...
  174. Fred Wilson previously has delved into museum collections to uncover lost African-Ame...
  175. The 21 small oils in Bruce Pollock's recent show give the impression of having been p...
  176. If I had not concretised my dreams into sculptures, I might have become possessed by ...
  177. In Doug Ohlson's paintings, the basic unit is a tall, luminous slab of color. Sometim...
  178. Introduced to the United States as part of the wave of German Neo-Expressionists whic...
  179. Robert Thiele's recent work is an affirmation of the power of pure forms of abstract ...
  180. "Most sea stories are allegories of authority. In this sense alone politics is never ...
  181. This exhilarating show testified to painting's continuing ability to refract, concent...
  182. In this exhibition titled "Forms of Memory," Beverly Pepper showed 16 abstract sculpt...
  183. This exhibition of paintings and works on paper opened 46 years from the date of Jose...
  184. A German-born sculptor now resident in Meisenthal, France, Stephan Balkenhol, 39, beg...
  185. To exhibit, at Ace Gallery must be both exhilarating and exceptionally daunting, even...
  186. This two-person exhibition featured paintings by Suzanne Garrison in one room, and th...
  187. The forms of some of Ross Rudel's wood, leather and fabric wall sculptures might be c...
  188. Magnified eyes blinked and shifted and stared around the darkened gallery in Tony Our...
  189. Among traditional painting genres, the landscape, the portrait and even history paint...
  190. This show was a tribute to Iris El Ayoubi, an American artist who died in an auto acc...
  191. Earlier in the decade, Scotland-born artist Craig Wood, who is now living in Wales, a...
  192. Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography, by Gail Levin, New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1995;...
  193. In the decade leading up to his suicide two years ago, Guy Debord, the French social ...
  194. Antonio Girbes's first solo show in New York consisted of large Cibachromes depicting...
  195. Mimi Weisbord'ss handsome and delightful installation, "About the House," included wa...
  196. In this exhibition of 17 recent paintings, Hubert Scheibl continues to press forward ...
  197. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Vermeer's paintings are familiar from countless reproductions,...
  198. One of Melissa Meyer's recent abstractions, titled Body and Soul, tries out the asser...
  199. Mac James's show came as an autumn revelation. Seldom is work so distinctly postmoder...