Stories Collection

  1. In recent years, ceramist Marek Cecula has moved away from functional designs to conc...
  2. A 150-foot painting that wrapped the walls was the surprising centerpiece for Ok-Sang...
  3. Like portholes that reveal candy-colored, fairytale worlds, Maura Bendett's new tondo...
  4. XXL is a newly opened alternative space run by some of Bulgaria's most prominent youn...
  5. Three young figurative painters--John Currin, Lisa Yuskavage and Catherine Howe--focu...
  6. Leiko Ikemura's ceramic sculptures are doll-size hollow figures 2 feet tall or less, ...
  7. Mexican painter Elena Climent now lives in Chicago, but her affinities for her childh...
  8. Charles Gaines's works explore accident, fate and the irrational. The centerpiece of ...
  9. Jack Youngerman recently exhibited 10 sculptures that, despite their formal diversity...
  10. Kim MacConnel, a pioneer of Pattern & Decoration, an inveterate traveler and a connoi...
  11. The inspiration for the paintings and large watercolors in this show was Walton Ford'...
  12. The Reverend Ethan Acres received his M.F.A. from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas...
  13. Antonio Martorell's inventive installation was called Blanca Snow in Puerto Rico, ref...
  14. This sprawling and visually diverse exhibition included three standing sculptures, wa...
  15. The 86-year-old Roberto Matta practices the method of discovering the picture while h...
  16. After working in ceramics in the 1970s. Jay Johnson turned to wood and has stayed wit...
  17. Roy Lichtenstein died Sept. 30 in Manhattan at New York University Medical Center; in...
  18. For this exhibition, Richard Jackson converted Zwirner's main room into what looked l...
  19. This exhibition of works by the performance artist Joan Jonas posed the perennial que...
  20. In recent years, New York artist Nancy Shaver has been using small painted wooden blo...
  21. English artist Patrick Caulfield, now 61, continues his slow-paced output of thoughtf...
  22. by Carter Ratcliff, New York. Farrar, Straus and Girou, 1996; 352 pages, $35. At an o...
  23. The seven large paintings and dozen smaller works in this show offered ample evidence...
  24. Sexuality, innocence, violation and human construction were ponderous undercurrents i...
  25. Wayne Thiebaud's paintings of the past 30 years sum up a great deal about how America...
  26. Entering Siobhan Hapaska's recent show, the visitor was flung into a truly bizarre an...
  27. After a six-year hiatus, the Spoleto Festival has revived its visual-art component. A...
  28. The late Ray Parker is a painter who today should have a major reputation. Instead, h...
  29. The 25 black-and-white landscape photographs in Michael Kenna's recent show were shap...
  30. Chuck Connelly's dozen or so oil paintings, ail 1996-97, were well-served by this gal...
  31. In a previous body of work, Cologne-based Danish artist Signe Guttormsen bypassed tra...
  32. As Singapore's cultural ambitions expand to match its vigorous economy of recent year...
  33. Sean Scully moved to New York in 1975, the high point of Minimalism. His two recent e...
  34. In the late 50s and early '60s, O. Winston Link, a successful New York commercial pho...
  35. This unusual three-person show consisted of a four-month sequence in which one artist...
  36. Lately, it seems, a new gallery turns up almost every day on August Strasse in Berlin...
  37. How has abstract painting weathered the challenges of the 1990s? In the first of two ...
  38. This retrospective selection of drawings by the seminal rock poet Patti Smith include...
  39. Eugenio Dittborn's show, titled "Remote: Airmail Paintings," consisted of seven works...
  40. In her second one-person exhibition in New York, Karen Yasinsky continued to combine ...
  41. Using likenesses of himself, his friends and his family, Mark Greenwold paints hyperr...
  42. In 1921, Georgii and Vladimir Stenberg became members of the First Working Group of C...
  43. Joana Rosa and Rosa Almeida are Portuguese-born, London-educated artist--and cousins-...
  44. Of the 131 works in this show devoted to the modern still life, the most familiar cat...
  45. This installation by the latest English sensation, the brothers Dinos and Jake Chapma...
  46. Steve Doughton's three-dimensional film, Delta, is stunning to look at, which is both...
  47. In the main room at Annina Nosei, Teresa Serrano presented new works that acknowledge...
  48. The stately dirigibles of the arts, arts scholarship and arts politics need deflating...
  49. Into the human zoo that was the opening of Andres Serrano's History of Sex exhibition...
  50. This exhibition provided American viewers with a long-overdue introduction to Collect...
  51. "Venus Envy Chapter III: Cihuatlampa, the Place of the Giant Women" is Chicana writer...
  52. This show of photographs and kinetic sculptures marked the flowering of a new japonis...
  53. edited by Mary Banham, Paul Barker, Sutherland Lyall and Cedric Price, Berkeley, Univ...
  54. You don't have to sit in an office all day to appreciate the comical and somewhat fri...
  55. Trap Door, a quasi-architectural installation of four six-minute, 16mm film loops pro...
  56. Joining the British Royal Engineer Corps on an experimental gliding expedition in 193...
  57. When it comes to artists working in the context of gender, queer theory and alt.sexua...
  58. The second SITE biennial concentrated on young international artists who use intensel...
  59. "It's a very monastic kind of life," said Ming-Wei Lee gaily. He was referring to his...
  60. "Anamorphosis," the title of this show of new paintings by Francesco Clemente, refers...
  61. Each of the collaborative works by Janet Cohen, Keith Frank and Jon Ippolito in "The ...
  62. In "Not Through Any Sort of Vanity," Kaucyila Brooke takes the low-end props of consu...
  63. In a new contemporary wing designed by architect Oswald Mathias Ungers, the Hamburg K...
  64. Sol LeWitt's recent exhibition of paintings at Ace showed us that there are new areas...
  65. During her lifetime (she died in 1988) Suzy Frelinghuysen showed mostly in group exhi...
  66. The 45 drawings Edwin Schlossberg exhibited make up a series of philosophical observa...
  67. For over a decade, Robert Ginder has painted scrupulously detailed images of the Sout...
  68. With its encompassing theme and fundamental optimism, the fourth Lyon Biennial made a...
  69. A Plimsoll line is the marking on a cargo ship which delineates how deep it should si...
  70. A Swedish-born painter who has been living in New York for a number of years, Madelei...
  71. From a man whose past work has tackled issues of labor, pollution and hunger, British...
  72. This was the first solo show in London for Christine Borland, a Scottish installation...
  73. Barbara Kruger discusses her new figurative sculptures and multimedia installation, s...
  74. Richmond Burton begins many of his paintings by laying down a ground the color of pow...
  75. John Zinsser continues to mine his own area of abstract painting. While his work impl...
  76. In Alessandro Twombly's fourth New York exhibition, 12 untitled paintings of identica...
  77. Tracey Emin's early-summer gallery show was the first opportunity to make an overall ...
  78. Beginning in the 10th century, Chinese poet-scholars collected small rocks noted for ...
  79. The quality of Belcourt's paintings, and the feeling and thought they generate, make ...
  80. For her first solo show in New York, Linda Burnham, an L.A. artist, served up frothy ...
  81. Those looking forward to Paul Myoda's latest body of sculpture and video pieces were ...
  82. Only at a second glance did you realize that the 10 large acrylic paintings crowded i...
  83. "A love-letter to America" is how Robert Hughes describes "American Visions," his his...
  84. Measuring 10 feet in height and some 30 feet in length, the painting is the size of a...
  85. Christopher Wilmarth's art provides formal and emotional pleasure which, 10 years aft...
  86. Although Ellen Lanyon left Chicago years ago to continue her career in New York, she ...
  87. Detroit-based Stephen Magsig comes to Manhattan's downtown facades after years of pai...
  88. Memory and longing were the unifying threads running through these back-to-back exhib...
  89. "A love-letter to America" is how Robert Hughes describes "American Visions," his his...
  90. It is startling to realize how little John McCracken's Minimalist sculpture has chang...
  91. Gillian Jagger's new sculpture Cross Cuts (1996) took up most of the project room at ...
  92. Linda Francis has been exhibiting abstract paintings and drawings on and off in New Y...
  93. Hanneke Beaumont is a Belgian sculptor who, like a number of her contemporaries throu...
  94. The 10 large paintings in this debut show exposed a rare and unusual talent. Densely ...
  95. "Do you know any famous Bulgarians?" That puzzling question was put to me by artist K...
  96. Barry Le Va's three recent installation sculptures, Catalogued, Recovered and Confine...
  97. In her first one-person show in the U.S., Dutch-born artist Inez van Lamsweerde drew ...
  98. Willy Lenski worked with film and video in the 1970s, and his cinematographic eye inf...
  99. In Jane Zweibel's recent exhibition, "Self-Portraits in the Third Person," a set of e...
  100. HMP Pentoville (Her Majesty's Prison, in North London) has the fourth highest suicide...
  101. Pictorial illusion continues to intoxicate the modern eye. Although we recognize that...
  102. Cartoonlike images commandeered entire surfaces of Elizabeth Murray's recent shaped c...
  103. Encountering Skip Arnold's work in a gallery context was like visiting a peripatetic ...
  104. The British-born sculptor Garth Evans, who moved to the U.S. in 1979, showed watercol...
  105. In Adele Alsop's recent paintings, only the skies receive a smooth, unmodulated treat...
  106. The 10 photos in David Murray's first solo show in Switzerland are from his current s...
  107. As a big-city-style institution plunked down on the suburban campus of Purchase Colle...
  108. Savvy and slick, luscious and droll, Gary Hume's recent paintings bolster his positio...
  109. Confounding conventional wisdom that audiences for video installations will pause to ...
  110. Cosimo Di Leo Ricatto's The Photo Theory of Making Art: 1981-1996 was an installation...
  111. Taking over and transforming the Institute of Contemporary Art's upper level with the...
  112. Every fifth summer since 1955, the international art exhibition called Documenta has ...
  113. Against the stiff competition provided by the likes of Damien Hirst and the Chapman b...
  114. Two recent exhibitions featured large-scale freestanding sculptures and smaller objec...
  115. Franklin Furnace, of all the alternative art spaces that grew up with it (Artist's Sp...
  116. Michael Henderson's voice accompanies Fragments: 1,2,3 (1996), a stack of three video...
  117. Over the last 20 years, working in series, Joe Goode has used landscape-derived abstr...
  118. Time whistles by, and it's distressing to think about how much of it we fritter away....
  119. "The Holocaust -- Present Tense" represents the prodigious out-pourings of a Miami-ba...
  120. Presentations of art from Latin America tend to emphasize either the legacy of Surrea...
  121. In this year of the dreary, dogmatic Documenta X, willful decoration -- that old tabo...
  122. Of all the cities that have served a year-long stint as the European Cultural Capital...
  123. The first Western retrospective of the painter Mikhail Vrubel introduces a key figure...
  124. As an African-American artist of international distinction, Richard Hunt can only be ...
  125. It's helpful to know that British artist Francis Cape began his career as a master's ...
  126. Since the mid-'70s, Michael Smith has been developing the arts of blandness and patho...
  127. One of the earliest works in this selection of Benito Huerta's larger-scale paintings...
  128. The long awaited but not quite triumphant return to public view on Oct. 14 of Rembran...
  129. A recent exhibition of Alice Neel's early paintings revealed the blend of bohemianism...
  130. Heide Fasnacht presented a compelling show of wall sculptures and drawings whose insp...
  131. An Internet project by Lawrence Weiner is bound to be fascinating, partly because of ...
  132. Someone should take dealer Caroline Nathusius aside and tell her not to show art in o...
  133. Steve DeGroodt transforms dime-store dross -- such as unadorned cotton napkins, inven...
  134. "Toward the New Museum of Modern Art: Sketchbooks by Ten Architects," on view at MOMA...
  135. Known as a pioneer of freewheeling body art, Carolee Schneemann was recently the subj...
  136. Mary Ann Unger's fine show consisted of five sculptures and three drawings. Unger's s...
  137. Robert Steele Gallery's inaugural exhibition was the first solo show outside Australi...
  138. A transparent snake coiled over three colored eggs, a skinned animal carcass suspende...
  139. Aura Rosenberg likes to engage some of contemporary art's more inflammatory issues. T...
  140. In the center of Munster, the capital of the German state of Westphalia, stands the L...
  141. On a sunny afternoon, Oleg Kulik emerged from the dark cage where he had spent the pr...
  142. Since the '60s, Tony Berlant has been collaging bits of found metal to make two- or t...
  143. Arnold Mesches has long served as a history painter for our age of amnesia. Stiff, sh...
  144. Born and schooled in England, Tony Hepburn has been living in the U.S. for the past 2...
  145. Is fashion the ultimate public art or the ultimate symbol of wealth's self-indulgence...
  146. There is something about very ambitious contemporary art that I find off-putting. All...
  147. Robin Lowe's second show at Bonakdar included several radiant, slickly executed oil p...
  148. Frequently classified with social realists like Jack Levine, Ben Shahn and Thomas Har...
  149. Robert Montgomery, a young British artist educated in Scotland, was recently artist-i...
  150. Metallic polygons dangling from strings in the main hall of a historic building at th...
  151. In her first solo show following five years of collaboration with conceptual artist E...
  152. In this, her first solo exhibition, Patricia Cronin moved beyond the work for which s...
  153. Fluidity seemed to be a key concept in this exhibition. Rounded shapes, flowing hair,...
  154. With splashy extravagance, Terri Friedman's latest fountains and tubing sculptures co...
  155. I opened myself up to Art as if it were enormous galaxy, something that could not be ...
  156. The core of this perplexing exhibition by French artist Jean-Marc Bustamante was a se...
  157. Wei Jane Chir's exhibition, "Healing Zone," comprised three groupings of black-and-wh...
  158. Melissa McGill has spent the last few years attempting to materialize the invisible, ...
  159. For viewers who think of Nobuyoshi Araki as the Japanese Helmut Newton, a photographe...
  160. I visited David Salle one afternoon this past spring to see his new work and to chat ...
  161. In this recent show, Conceptual artist Bill Beckley offered 15 new mixed-medium const...
  162. In his first works shown in New York, in 1995, Esko Mannikko documented his Finnish h...
  163. With miniature drawings, oil paintings, wax sculptures and wax-coated dollar bills, t...
  164. Rico Lebrun (1900-1964) was the best-known Los Angeles artist of the 1950s, acclaimed...
  165. Vastly underrecognized, California painter John McLaughlin (1898-1976) remains an "ar...
  166. Over the years, Richard Deacon's sculptures have exhibited a signature blend of the o...
  167. It's hard to believe that anyone could make interesting paintings of stapes these day...
  168. Any New Yorker who has overheard the ingratiating, haggling spiel of a wholesale merc...
  169. Working in the tradition of sculptural assemblage, James Renner makes human, animal a...
  170. In his 1934 gallery debut, Balthus showed five large paintings, ambitious and sexuall...
  171. Paul Mogensen's handsome show of paintings at Art et Industrie could be seen as both ...
  172. This U.S. debut of 79-year-old Italian artist Carol Rama was, I suspect, a revelation...
  173. Jimbo Blachly's exhibition at Esso, "The Forest of Distraction," featured an assortme...
  174. Doug Jeck's fragmented sculptures of the male figure remind me of Rodin's statement, ...
  175. "History," wrote Robert Smithson in 1967, "is a facsimile of events held together by ...
  176. The front page of the New York Times is a semiotician's delight. Each day a new set o...
  177. Christian Haub has long been an abstract artist in dialogue with the history of 20th-...
  178. Bill Walton's Minimalist score has played over the same two chords, wood and metal, i...
  179. Eric Bainbridge has abandoned his signature style of the 1980s. He no longer covers e...
  180. A lesson that the art world must continually relearn is that figures who might seem o...
  181. There is a ubiquitous contemporary painting style that gathers seemingly unconnected ...
  182. There is no greater reminder of the fickleness of art-wood consensus than a flip thro...
  183. Wonderful things can happen in painting when an artist is determined to capture the s...
  184. It has been 17 years since Stephan von Huene, who grew up in Pasadena, studied at the...
  185. In the midst of a sweltering Washington, D.C., summer that saw a protracted budget fi...
  186. In this show of Charles Long's recent work, the comforts of suburban life were only s...
  187. Whenever discussion turns to Robert Mangold's painting, the word "elegance" comes up ...
  188. For her first one-person exhibition in this country, German abstract painter Katharin...
  189. Lisa Tuttle's early work consisted of depictions of haggard women painted on rough pa...
  190. Ten years younger than Nam June Paik, whose 1973 Global Groove inspired his first for...
  191. A sculpture nearing completion in the center of Moscow has provoked a serious debate ...
  192. In "El Oro Poderoso" (The Powerful Gold), Julio Galan continues his narcissistic romp...
  193. On view in this exhibition were recent drawings and prints by Tony Fitzpatrick, a Chi...
  194. The Border Art Workshop/Taller de Arte Fronterizo, a fluid collaborative of San Diego...
  195. Criticism has its uses, but what we really need, one sometimes thinks, is a great soc...
  196. In this series of images collectively titled "Light Sources," James Welling conducts ...
  197. This recent exhibition of eight paintings on wood was the impressive New York solo de...
  198. The beaches and woods of the Oregon coast, as well as local scrap-metal and boat yard...
  199. As a city shaped more by climate than culture, San Diego has long been ambivalent abo...