Stories Collection

  1. In a departure from his previous work, sculptor Larry Bell has taken up the tradition...
  2. Louise Fishman's paintings are nothing if not intense. Whether dark and brooding or l...
  3. In his first New York exhibition, Joe Naujokas presented fastidiously crafted paintin...
  4. The grand and craggy Blue Mountains in remote northeastern Oregon have long been the ...
  5. Although associated with the German Neo-Expressionists, Jorg Immendorff, who studied ...
  6. Barbara Hepworth was one of the most renowned and influential sculptors of her day. H...
  7. Since the 1970s, Robert Birmelin has been known for paintings of New York street scen...
  8. In his exquisite drawings and paintings of bleak, otherworldly landscapes, Adam Ross ...
  9. An altered image of the Mona Lisa, a mysterious photograph of oddly conjoined objects...
  10. Throughout her career, Idelle Weber has kept a close eye on artistic trends, casting ...
  11. For more than 10 years, Tom Wesselman has been painting on metal. While his early met...
  12. Figurines? Even those of us devoted to obscure byways of the 18th-century decorative ...
  13. Marc Mulders found the perfect setting for his work: the spacious banquet room of a c...
  14. Large in scale, allover in composition and executed in bright, jarring colors, Dona N...
  15. At 39, Rick Prol trails some legendary hot-content associations -- with the East Vill...
  16. Sal Scarpitta's show of recent work consisted of two sled sculptures, a group of smal...
  17. The painter Alison Hildreth studied at the Arts Students League and the National Acad...
  18. Before her current success, Sam Taylor Wood made ends meet by working backstage at Lo...
  19. It's not your mother's MOMA: The expanded Museum of Modern Art will have not only a n...
  20. Hannah Wilke's 1994 show at Ronald Feldman Gallery, a year Hafter her death from canc...
  21. After exploring the varieties of Western modernist art with his cartoon-based signatu...
  22. Anyone who suspects that the contemporary art world is essentially puerile will relis...
  23. In 1986, Lily Yeh began working with the residents of a poor North Philadelphia neigh...
  24. Although Kerry Stewart's figurative sculptures are life-size and lifelike, they would...
  25. At the ripe old age of 21, the Pompidou Center is about to get sorely needed renovati...
  26. Idle hands were hard to find in Bruce Nauman's recent double-header, which offered a ...
  27. Paul D. Miller, a.k.a. DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, is arguably the most famous DJ ...
  28. Martha Benzing's work involves soaking, staining and sucking, all of which she does w...
  29. By simultaneously transforming the exhibition space and offering a response to the co...
  30. Entering the latest show of the 42-year-old Israeli artist Moshe Ninio, the viewer wa...
  31. Everybody already interested in contemporary art will want to read this lively, poign...
  32. Lucian Freud's exhibition of recent paintings raises the question of what it means to...
  33. Hans Peter Kuhn's The Pier was an evening light-and-sound installation along the Huds...
  34. Boldly outlined and filled in with jolts of intense color in the manner of a half-fin...
  35. Hills Snyder's work is deceptively simple. His crisp Plexiglas forms, mounted on the ...
  36. Despite the fact that the modernist creed was Doften framed in quasi-theological term...
  37. The centerpiece of this exhibition was a suite of six large-scale sculptures of bears...
  38. Although she left New York in the 1980s to raise a family, Senga Nengudi had establis...
  39. In April Gornik's recent show, she offered a very modern interpretation of the Americ...
  40. Carlos Jurado built his first pinhole camera in 1973. The first pictures he took in h...
  41. "Art in Las Vegas" is either an oxymoron or a statement of the obvious, depending upo...
  42. Kristin Jones and Andrew Ginzel gave the title "Enigmas" to the related group of free...
  43. The top level of the Kunsthalle looks a bit like a gymnasium, with a plywood floor an...
  44. John Alexander, a Texan, first gained prominence as a regionalist specializing in Lus...
  45. In his second solo show at this gallery, Michael Brophy used landscape painting to co...
  46. By the time "Willem de Kooning: the Late Paintings, The 1980s, began its inaugural ru...
  47. To call Alan Kleiman's recent oil paintings monochromatic is to miss their nuanced, s...
  48. The heart of Emil Lukas's third solo at Bravin Post Lee was a 42-foot cylinder of 40 ...
  49. Born in Switzerland in 1918 of a Swiss mother and a Hungarian father, Sonia Sekula ca...
  50. In his recent exhibition of 10 small-scale acrylic paintings (the largest 28 by 41 in...
  51. Billed as an insider's look at recent works from Korea, Thailand, Indonesia, India an...
  52. This survey of Paul Brach's recent paintings consisted of oils and pastels from the "...
  53. The eight wall-hung steel sculptures in Arthur Mednick's show are part of a 1996 seri...
  54. Despite her strong name recognition, Meret Oppenheim (1913-1985) remains an elusive f...
  55. More than museum-worthy, a retrospective of over 50 works by Los Angeles modernist Pe...
  56. Human chameleon, master of disguise, Lucas Samaras always makes you wonder, who is th...
  57. In this 30-year retrospective of painted portraits, Rudi Troger's first solo exhibiti...
  58. The nine works that made up Simon Leung's recent exhibition "Call to Glory ... or Aft...
  59. Beverly Semmes's colossal womenswear sculpture was born in performance -- or more pre...
  60. Tom Field (1930-1995) was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his parents ran a bar. E...
  61. Many people otherwise familiar with Adrian Piper's career may be surprised to learn t...
  62. Installations in three different spaces offered a fine opportunity to see a broad ran...
  63. The small, wall-hung welded metal sculptures shown at CDS are not related by name to ...
  64. Claire Seidl's recent show was characterized by the translucency and fluidity of both...
  65. Many people otherwise familiar with Adrian Piper's career may be surprised to learn t...
  66. For more than 20 years, Barbara Schwartz has been engaged with modest-size painted wa...
  67. Consisting of five works made between 1972 and 1996, this show amounted to a Michael ...
  68. The inclusion of Jay DeFeo's showstopping monumental painting The Rose (1958-66) in t...
  69. The Doris C. Freedman Plaza, located on a sliver of concrete at the southeast edge of...
  70. For several years Polly Apfelbaum has been making installations and wall or floor wor...
  71. In a joint venture, the Americas Society and the Spanish Institute of New York presen...
  72. In classic Chinese landscape painting, mist is often used to bridge the gaps between ...
  73. Feminist debates of the past three decades have had an enormous impact on the practic...
  74. In recent years, the Hungarian-born New York painter George Peck has worked out an un...
  75. Bogota-based Olga de Amaral is one of the textile artists who in the '60s turned tape...
  76. Pegan Brooke has drawn and painted from the same 60 small objects since 1987. Half th...
  77. Toward the end of "Max Beckmann in Exile," an exhibition of 21 paintings at the Gugge...
  78. The sly flirtation with gestural abstraction and cartoon drawing has disappeared enti...
  79. This was not a conventional two-person show, although the division of the gallery spa...
  80. Eric Johnson's composite, wood and lacquer sculptures announce at once where they com...
  81. It's a late afternoon in early autumn, and bands of people are skylarking through the...
  82. In 194-95, just two years after completing a Hunter College MFA, Julia Jacquette demo...
  83. Things look simple in Hirsch Perlman's art, at least at first. For this exhibition, t...
  84. This striking exhibition featured four large recent sculptures by Vong Phaophanit, an...
  85. Francis Bacon offers a strange feast for the eye. Abundant painterly pleasures were t...
  86. Jessica Diamond presented four exuberant wall paintings as tributes to the Japanese a...
  87. It's hard to know what to think of Ricardo de Oliveira's photographs, because their s...
  88. There has recently been an impressive development in the paintings of the Scotland-bo...
  89. We hardly know Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. Not even much legend clings to the name, ...
  90. Larry Poons, who turns 60 this year, has lately made some radical changes in his art....
  91. In these recent works, Jan Groover continues to move away from her stark formalist ph...
  92. This retrospective exhibition of the second-generation muralist Jorge Gonzalez Camare...
  93. In late 1995, the Wolfsonian, a new museum of decorative and applied arts, opened in ...
  94. Earnest and theatrical, the relief paintings of Los Angeles artist Llyn Foulkes seem ...
  95. About a year ago I was leafing through the catalogue of a 1970 exhibition called "A P...
  96. Ford Crull - at 45 one of the bad boys of New York art who still sees a future in con...
  97. After a certain point, Alberto Giacometti could never finish a sculpture, only abando...
  98. Andy Warhol may be dead but he is still very much with us. We find his wigged and wei...
  99. Bram Bogart is 75, but his recent paintings show no lessening of robust physicality. ...
  100. Seventeen fabric collages by Eve Peri (1897-1966) made up a mini-retrospective in con...
  101. Despite a struggling economy, the French government expects to increase funding for l...
  102. This lively show was put up in five harried days and on view for only 10 in a "Brookl...
  103. In two installations, both related to ongoing projects, Argentine born artist and fil...
  104. Few people know that when the celebrated playwright Clifford Odets (1906-1963) worked...
  105. Leonardo's Codex Leicester is noteworthy for its brilliant observations and theories ...
  106. Marlene Zullo's breakthrough has been a long time coming. In the early '60s she dropp...
  107. Long the financial beneficiaries--and critical victims--of a protectionist cultural p...
  108. For his first New York installation, your strange certainty still kept, Olafur Eliass...
  109. Since moving to Harlem in 1985, Danny Tisdale, whose photo-based installations have e...
  110. An affirmation both of the continuing power of the painted image and of the brushstro...
  111. Colette has been charming the world since the early '70s with works that excerpt her ...
  112. Anne Deleporte, a 36-year-old French artist who lives in Paris, has for the past six ...
  113. A recent retrospective underlined the wide range of themes treated by Winslow Homer--...
  114. In his work, Steve Keister blends two vastly different kinds of visual information. O...
  115. Emily Eveleth, a Massachusetts-based artist, paints pictures of jelly doughnuts and B...
  116. For the last 25 years, Jerry Kearns has been the purveyor of Pop art with a conscienc...
  117. A humble sort of alchemy takes place in Christopher Osgood's small, colorful casually...
  118. Imi Knoebel, born in 1940 in Dessau and a former student of Joseph Beuys in Dusseldor...
  119. A traveling midcareer retrospective traces the development of Los Angeles artist Lari...
  120. In three spare furniture installations consisting of chairs, tables and (in one insta...
  121. These dual shows put a fresh spin on a daringly individualistic artist whose work see...
  122. Exploiting culturally charged black stereotypes is an increasingly popular postmodern...
  123. Osvaldo Romberg's exhibition "+2000/-2000, even" (subtitled "an installation at the e...
  124. It's eerie that the final works of Helen Chadwick, whose sudden death in March at the...
  125. Since 1992, sculptor slain Kirili has been inviting prominent jazz musicians such as ...
  126. The nexus between late Surrealism and the beginnings of Abstract Expressionism in the...
  127. Although no longer red-hot, the revival of landscape painting is still fashionably wa...
  128. Aptly titled "A Course in Rivers," Charles Luce's exhibition of 15 works on paper fro...
  129. In his first Chicago exhibition, Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto used a deliberately mo...
  130. Over the nearly 50 years of his career, Moses has continually reinvented his working ...
  131. A student of Nell Blaine, Hans Hofmann and William Baziotes, Anne Tabachnick (1927-19...
  132. The confrontation of geometry and nature is ancient stock-in-trade for many decorativ...
  133. For her New York solo debut, Alyson Shotz, a painter who has also created work for th...
  134. It was in Paris in the 1950s that Maryan (1927-1977) met Chicago-based artists Leon G...
  135. In her paintings of the New England landscape, on view in a current traveling retrosp...
  136. Mercedes Matter, who co-founded the New York Studio School in 1964, was the subject o...
  137. For his first New York solo, Atlanta painter Tony Hernandez chose a daunting theme. S...
  138. The 35 paintings S.E. Downer presented in his recent two-part exhibition are based on...
  139. James Magee's wall-mounted assemblages of industrial and urban debris, heavily framed...
  140. For the past five years, Jim Shaw's work has centered on his dream life. A recent sho...
  141. Margarett Sargent (1892-1978) was a Boston-born society woman, the fourth cousin of J...
  142. Considering Monique-Prieto's fondness for thinly painted, smoothly contoured, vibrant...
  143. On the tenth anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Peter Fend offered the un...
  144. John Wilcox's painting A.M. (1996) consists of two 30-by-22 1/2-inch monochromatic ca...
  145. After a meteoric career as a New York avant-gardist curing the 1960s, Yayoi Kusama we...
  146. In the last couple of years, photographer Roger Newton, 36, has given his works such ...
  147. In these 26 new paintings (all acrylic and pencil on canvas and all titled Situation)...
  148. The stated aim of "Politics, American Style: Issues & Images" was "to excite the view...
  149. The gallery looked like a warehouse after the employees had gone home: sturdy wooden ...
  150. Two years after Bill Gates announced that the Leonardo da Vinci manuscript he bought ...
  151. Lucio Pozzi's artistic activity is protean. He paints (with greater or lesser degrees...
  152. Pinhole cameras, crude as they are, produce some predictable visual effects: fisheye ...
  153. The current renewal of abstract painting takes place in the absence of any clearly de...
  154. At different stages of his career, Andrew Bush has taken on different genres of photo...
  155. It was one of the great tightrope acts of the Late '60s: creating paintings about pai...
  156. "A Bolshevik's dream": that was the way one museum specialist characterized legislati...
  157. The subject of a recent 25-year retrospective, Los Angeles painter Karen Carson uses ...
  158. In "Overmounted Interior," Brian Tolle's first solo, the gallery was altered by his i...
  159. Christian Boltanski's accumulations of off-focus portrait photographs invariably rais...
  160. This recent exhibition presented 16 paintings and works on paper produced over the pa...
  161. An eccentric experimentalist previously known for her 3-D wire "drawings" of words an...
  162. By placing cultural treasures in the paths of hurricanes or earthquakes, coasts have ...
  163. In the past few years, the work of Gabriel Orozco, a 34 year-old Mexican-born artist ...
  164. It's been more than a decade since Michel Gerard has shown in New York, and this exhi...
  165. Jane Kaplowitz's recent sequence of five paintings, "Death in Venice," is based on pu...
  166. Jay Milder's exhibition at Artopia was a small retrospective of works from 1962 to th...
  167. The paintings in this exhibition, "100 Pictures," dated mainly from the years since 1...
  168. edited by Joel Sanders, New York, Princeton Architectural Press, 1996; 311 pages, $19...
  169. Two leaning, deeply shadowed tree trunks and their splayed, spidery roots dominated t...
  170. Martin Kersels's first solo New York show managed to reinvigorate the arcane creative...
  171. David Hockney filled two New York galleries with his recent paintings, works on paper...
  172. Jack Youngerman's summer show of small-scale paintings on paper spanned 30 years--fro...
  173. The 34-year-old Georgia Kyriakakis is one of six young artists chosen to represent th...
  174. The "New Main" building of the San Francisco Public Library, which opened Apr. 18, 19...
  175. Beautifully installed, perfectly paced and extraordinarily satisfying to see, this re...
  176. Linda Post adds a new dimension to found-object art by incorporating video. In her fi...
  177. Most of the paint Robin Utterback puts onto his canvases gets scrubbed and sanded awa...
  178. Born and raised in Iowa, Jane Wilson moved east in 1949 to New York City, where she b...
  179. "Would you like a cup of tea, a shot of vodka, a warm jacket, or to be told a joke?" ...
  180. From the 1920s until his death, the French artist Pierre Molinier (1900-1976) lived a...
  181. The imposingly material and the delicately illusionistic are combined in these huge w...
  182. A concise show for a compact space, Mary Carlson's "Furnished" consisted of three pie...
  183. Michael Goldberg, who had his first solo exhibition at Tibor de Nagy Gallery in 1953,...
  184. Even before entering the Transept Gallery at the back of the Parrish Art Museum, one ...
  185. What made Ryoei Saito decide not to burn two of the most expensive paintings in the w...
  186. When Gunter Umberg's black paintings on thin aluminum panels are mounted flat to the ...
  187. It's no wonder that Manhattanites are so touchy about their personal space, given the...
  188. Ross Bleckner's latest incarnation of the dot suggests a melting cupcake, a marshmall...
  189. Vulcan, patron of smiths, is also John Ruppert's muse. Fascinated by the earth's magm...
  190. In this wide-ranging interview, Eric Fischl recounts his development as an artist and...
  191. The first work one saw upon entering the gallery was Alice in the Garden, an installa...
  192. In Leonardo Drew's imposing wall reliefs, the structure of the grid meets the forces ...
  193. Ace Gallery's quiet, Egyptian-tomblike interior, with its high ceilings and series of...
  194. Ted Lee Hadfield's recent sculpture is an exercise in getting back to basics. The com...
  195. William Tucker has abandoned his Minimalistic constructions of the 1970s for works th...
  196. Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes, a resident of Rio, has developed a kind of baroque...
  197. In 1990 the Portuguese artist Juliao Sarmento, now 48, began a series of "White Paint...
  198. An enormous white Styrofoam cube obstructed the entrance to this exhibition. Once you...
  199. There is a luxurious bleakness about Lance Letscher's recent works on paper. The imag...