Stories Collection

  1. With their sexual frankness and heavy-duty grotesquerie, the early drawings and paint...
  2. The pioneering video artist, filmmaker and sculptor Doris Chase has lived in New York...
  3. Why would the leaders of an economically depressed, strife-torn region suddenly put a...
  4. Madonna may have image consultants to help conjure up and market different personas, ...
  5. Jean-Pierre Pincemin was born in Pads at the end of World War II. At 16 he was workin...
  6. Deoscoredes Maximiliano dos Santos, know as Mestre Didi (Master Didi), is an 80-year-...
  7. Yvonne Rianer is one of a handful of contemporary artists whose work has come to repr...
  8. In this show, Kerri Scharlin's continuing obsession with her own persona was set in t...
  9. Michael Kessler's handling of surface texture is strikingly accomplished, the range o...
  10. If Dear Abby and Nan Goldin were ever to collaborate, the resulting portrait-cum-test...
  11. The drawings, paintings and installations of Cuban artist Jose Bedia -- currently the...
  12. The photographs in this show, taken by Schorr in Germany, where she lives part of the...
  13. Like Richard Diebenkorn's "Ocean Park" paintings, William Conger's masterful abstract...
  14. Madrid-based Elena Blasco first exhibited her colorful, wacky objects and quirky draw...
  15. For two years, in the mid-1970s, Joe Brainard produced miniatures -- bits of paper a ...
  16. In Eva Lundsager's recent paintings, abstraction has become a matter of ambivalence. ...
  17. Among the most admired young painters on Houston's vigorous art scene, Aaron Parazett...
  18. The 36-year-old Dublin artist Lorcan O'Byrne paints only people with whom he is close...
  19. When Joe Brainard died in New York City on May 25, 1994, he had been nearly forgotten...
  20. Brad Kahlhamer, an artist who has previously shown junk sculptures and installations,...
  21. In his sculptures and drawings, Basque artist Eduardo Chillida creates abstract forms...
  22. Heidi Specker's images of anonymous modernist buildings are inflected with a formal d...
  23. Nearly 15 years after Ivan Albright's death, a retrospective, currently on view at th...
  24. Michael David's abstract, geometrically shaped paintings are constructed of oil and w...
  25. Noah Purifoy, 79, is considered by many to be the father of the Black Assemblage Move...
  26. Imagine that Eva Hesse, without losing her concern for materiality, had developed an ...
  27. This spring's auctions of contemporary, Impressionist and modern art were across-the-...
  28. Peter Cain passed away in January, the victim of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of ...
  29. What goes around, comes around, they say. But as Sidney Tillim's painting titled with...
  30. Laslo Nosek, a Hungarian-born artist, can be best understood as a metaphysician. With...
  31. Art historians are returning to Picasso. This claim may seem ludicrous to readers who...
  32. "Mark Rothko: The Chapel Commission" was an exhibition commemorating the 25th anniver...
  33. The Swiss artist Beat Streuli offers a variation on the street photographer whose cas...
  34. Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) could convey in two dimensions some of the qualities of ...
  35. Hillebrand van Kampen's exhibition was billed as "collages and paintings," but the co...
  36. Art historians are returning to Picasso. This claim may seem ludicrous to readers who...
  37. Without sacrificing any of their customary restraint, the sculptures in Jeanne Silver...
  38. Minimalism in general, and Donald Judd in particular, were points of reference in thi...
  39. The seven untitled paintings in this show, William Wood's first solo, were all oil on...
  40. Art historians are returning to Picasso. This claim may seem ludicrous to readers who...
  41. Peter Fischli and David Weiss, the collaborative duo of Swiss artist-metaphysicians, ...
  42. When Dada was young, metal bottle racks and porcelain urinals were state-of-the-art n...
  43. Tapfuma Gutsa is a Zimbabwean artist whose work got some attention when it was includ...
  44. In Slow-Mo, Burt Barr's almost 10-minute-long black-and-white video of a tortoise sta...
  45. Bryan Hunt continues to explore the water imagery that has been his standby for many ...
  46. Artist John Olsen is in league with the forces of decomposition. In this first U.S. s...
  47. A longtime contributor of cover art to The New Yorker, Gretchen Dow Simpson has devel...
  48. Inspired by major museums' crowd-pleasing megashows of masterpieces, a new group of m...
  49. Since his first show at L.A.'s Ferus Gallery in 1965, Richard Pettibone has appropria...
  50. It was possible to feel put off when entering Armando's first American solo show (wor...
  51. For all the explosiveness of its subject, "The Illegal Camera: Photography in the Net...
  52. Inhabiting a geographically remote continent, Australians have sometimes felt as if t...
  53. Rudolf Stingel's ironic abstraction, his reduction of painting to mechanical process ...
  54. Kyung-Lim Lee's quiet, elegant, oil-on-canvas paintings take classic modern art as th...
  55. At first glance the works in this exhibition, "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes," seemed to be...
  56. Cindy Sherman has been one of the most widely exhibited and discussed artists of her ...
  57. This show of 16 oil paintings and four graphite drawings, a number of the works large...
  58. A selection of paintings spanning the years 1976-96 revealed how constant Andy Spence...
  59. In a surprise move, Ron Martin, one of Canada's foremost abstract painters, applied h...
  60. Marcel Duchamp arrived in New York on June 15, 1915, nine months after the German adv...
  61. Thomas Woodruff set himself the challenge of creating 365 paintings, uniform in size ...
  62. Jason Young's deliberately beautiful paintings manage to acknowledge contemporary art...
  63. This was Michael Heizer's first solo show in Italy and for his debut he presented, un...
  64. The Kunstbau, or "art building," that serves as a branch of Munich's Lenbachhaus is a...
  65. Monet once said the problem with using black pigment in a painting is that it makes a...
  66. This was a strange yet strangely satisfying show. Bauer's small landscapes have somet...
  67. Back in 1980, then 32-year-old Guillermo Perez Villalta was featured in the Guggenhei...
  68. "Where are my favorite Picassos?" Asked this question, the Museum of Modern Art's gua...
  69. With clay, one could imitate the curliness of a ram's fleece. The more precise the im...
  70. Stan Douglas, a finalist for the 1996 Hugo Boss Prize, created a new work for the SoH...
  71. In separate rooms of the gallery, Ellen Cantor's wall drawing and videotape piece eac...
  72. Carlos Kusnir exhibits his work infrequently and, at the age of 50, remains little kn...
  73. Is there--was there ever--a Chicago esthetic? Surveying work from the 50 years follo...
  74. A few years ago, who would have thought that Sue Williams would one day be making pai...
  75. After nearly two decades in the North, Willie Birch has returned to his native New Or...
  76. Using bright unmodulated colors and lively patterns this Venezuelan-born artist imbue...
  77. In unorthodox self-portraits, inflated latex sculptures and kinetic devices, Californ...
  78. Shortly after this exhibition opened, Leon Polk Smith died at the age of 91. Thus end...
  79. The astonishing thing about Robert Heckes's weird and effective "paintings" is that t...
  80. One of the artists who emerged from Detroit's Cass Corridor in the 1970s, Michael Luc...
  81. What do two seemingly dissimilar sets of multiples--the sentimentalized marble goddes...
  82. Thanks in part to his Lebanese and Eygptian upbringing and Yale education, Nabil Naha...
  83. Manuel Ocampo, who at one time made and sold copies of colonial paintings in his nati...
  84. Todd Gray's photographs have been called photo objects because they are supported by ...
  85. Reams of trivia about de Kooning the drunk, womanizer, basket case, etc., have just a...
  86. The Spaniard Juan Munoz, who has emerged as one of Europe's leading sculptors, create...
  87. Imagine the dealer's risk: two days before the opening, not only is the work not in t...
  88. "Miasma Morph." Sylvia Netzer's installation of clusters of brilliantly colored ceram...
  89. For the last few years, Russell Crotty--best known for his densely packed grid drawin...
  90. by Irving Sandler, New York, Icon Editions, HarperCollins, 1996; 636 pages, $65. From...
  91. For some people the mind is like a building, logically structured and compartmentaliz...
  92. Speaking to an interviewer about her previous New York solo show in 1993, Martha Rosl...
  93. Former Paula Cooper Gallery co-directors Christopher D'Amelio and Lucien Terras inaug...
  94. In moments of crisis, artists have been known to tear up, burn, paint over or just di...
  95. As a British colony, Hong Kong evolved an unfettered capitalism that placed neither o...
  96. In her first U.S. solo, the noted Barcelona-based sculptor Susana Solano showed six w...
  97. The first New York exhibition of 31-year-old Norwegian photographer Mette Tronvoll wa...
  98. Chakaia Booker's rubber-tire sculptures, Homage to Thy Mother (1996) and Male Torso T...
  99. One of that close-knit group of London artists whose careers were boosted by their in...
  100. Dak'art 96, the third edition of Senegal's biennial art festival, included artists fr...
  101. In this exhibition, the eclectic Scottish artist lan Hamilton Finlay picked up on two...
  102. Using an auto-exposure camera and the cheapest film and processing available, Richard...
  103. In 1944 and '45, the American war correspondent Meyer Levin followed the final stages...
  104. Those who came to Yael Davids's opening or who stopped by the show at scheduled times...
  105. Responding to a pair of related exhibitions in Atlanta, one devoted to the recent wor...
  106. Mary Lucier's recent video installation have been lush, richly colored, many-layered ...
  107. Stephen Bush's archly postmodern send-ups of epic historical paintings are so tongue-...
  108. The subjects of Liliana Porter's recent show of photographs and paintings are kitschy...
  109. Klaas Zwijnenburg plays out his obsessions and fantasies in photographs. The 24-year-...
  110. For nearly 30 years sculptor Fred Sandback has evoked room-filling volumetric forms u...
  111. Cho Duck-Hyun's art works movingly address the persistence of both tradition and memo...
  112. At first glance, Martin Weinstein's paintings of city interiors and exteriors look li...
  113. These two concurrent exhibitions featured Santiago Hernandez's small, bright, graphic...
  114. As we go to press, the sale to a European buyer of Harry N. Abrams, America's oldest,...
  115. In a recent New York show--featuring three new series of works focusing on female nud...
  116. Robert Morns showed four huge, multipaneled paintings in this powerful exhibition tit...
  117. In small, deceptively modest, lovingly painted combinations of still life and landsca...
  118. Among the best recent versions of post-Greenbergian abstraction are the poetic oil pa...
  119. Given the already extensive literature about Jasper Johns's works it is hardly surpri...
  120. Because Frank Lloyd Wright is so prominent in American architecture, Frobel blocks, a...
  121. Bill Thompson's reductive paintings raise the question of what, exactly, we mean by M...
  122. There's an interesting parallel between Meghan Boody's subject matter and her medium:...
  123. In the white-cube setting of the Kunstraum Munchen, an alternative space that occupie...
  124. Given the already extensive literature about Jasper Johns's works it is hardly surpri...
  125. For years Dawoud Bey has been producing large format, black-and-white photographic po...
  126. Among the disconcerting aspects of the pattern abstraction that began appearing in th...
  127. It seems that the Bauhaus esthetic has become postmodernism's unquestioned whipping b...
  128. "Just Say Smorp." Lately you could have found this cryptic message on flyers all over...
  129. Given the already extensive literature about Jasper Johns's works it is hardly surpri...
  130. Duane Michals's recent photographic project "Salute, Walt Whitman" consists of both s...
  131. Paul Georges's eight-work show of still lifes and floral paintings radiated pleasure ...
  132. More than three decades after the death of David Smith, sculptor Jedd Novatt carries ...
  133. Rineke Dijkstra's recent show was a bit of a survey. It included a seaside portrait o...
  134. The very notion of awarding big prizes to contemporary artists would seem to be inimi...
  135. The cosmic battle between good and evil was given another run for its money in Matthe...
  136. The exhibition at Denise Cade Gallery, organized in conjunction with Joseph Richards ...
  137. Robert Cumming was one of California's early 1970s photo-conceptualists. His cleverly...
  138. When accounts of American art in the late 1980s and 1990s are written, recurrent them...
  139. This exhibition provided a welcome opportunity to see several of Gordon Matta-Clark's...
  140. A bit of an old master, a bit of a hard-boiled journalist, Reginald Marsh (1898-1954)...
  141. For several decades, the Bay Area photographer Linda Connor has addressed spiritual t...
  142. At 3:15 sharp on the afternoon of Jan. 18, 1997, the members of the St. Augustine Hig...
  143. In 1966, Fred Sandback made his first sculpture utilizing only string and wire. Since...
  144. The art world always needs a wild child: one who, immunized against censure by the ch...
  145. At once evoking Byzantine, Persian, Mexican, Indian and Southeast Asian art, Ynez Joh...
  146. The Jasper Johns retrospective recently held at the Museum of Modern Art about one of...
  147. Offering a selection of the artist's work since 1989, "Media Mind/Les Levine: A Recen...
  148. In a world polluted by an unparalleled proliferation of images, sounds and words, wha...
  149. From 1989 to 1995, the years covered by this traveling show, Lydia Dona's paintings h...
  150. Johns's marks articulate matter on a surface so that it becomes an objective correlat...
  151. In these witty paintings, Rochelle Feinstein takes a polemic that seemed played out a...
  152. In this recent exhibition, Brazilian-born New York painter Randolfo Rocha presented 1...
  153. The paintings of Denis Laget first appeared on the French art scene in the early 1980...
  154. The title of David Rabinowitch's 1968 sculpture Sided Mass Plane, I would seem to des...
  155. Once you've figured out how Eiichi Yoshino's large compositions are made, you may wan...
  156. The recent New York stop of Robert Cottingham's traveling exhibition "An American Alp...
  157. What do Laurie Anderson, Richard Long and Henry David Thoreau have in common? Each ha...
  158. Given the already extensive literature about Jasper Johns's works it is hardly surpri...
  159. Since 1987, Dennis Oppenheim has been constructing a body of work which is as unsettl...
  160. At some basic, subarticulated level, the straight line and regular grid of modernism ...
  161. Though stylistically diverse, the works in this exhibition all hang on an exploration...
  162. For Lee Ufan, writer and philospher as well as painter and sculptor, the act of expre...
  163. After several failed attempts to establish a permanent site where the work of New Mex...
  164. This recent exhibition presented large pastels by Paula Rego that were included in "S...
  165. At the risk of stating the obvious, we could say that Joseph Marioni's monochrome pai...
  166. In an intriguing set of videos and photographs, this young Dutch artist explores the ...
  167. Coinciding with two regional museum surveys honoring painter Guy Anderson's 90th birt...
  168. The 23rd Sao Paulo Bienal offered a new model for international surveys, adding histo...
  169. Edwin Dickinson, perhaps America's best-known underknown artist, is often touted as a...
  170. This show of ink-on-paper works by Zao Wou-Ki was his first in New York since 1986, w...
  171. There are always two things, maybe three things, in each black-and-white photograph i...
  172. The 28-year-old Alberta-born painter Gayle Ryon exhibited three series of his recent ...
  173. The new Museum Jean Tinguely--launched by Pontus Hulten with works donated by Niki de...
  174. After years of photographing himself and his family--in part as a strategy for reclai...
  175. John Ruskin remains one of 19th-century art history's most contradictory figures. He ...
  176. Polish sculptor Joanna Przybyia's first solo show in New York was dominated by a larg...
  177. The larger of these two simultaneous exhibitions, the Art of Ontario's 55-work survey...
  178. Public art is thriving despite Japan's generally grim economy. Here the author discus...
  179. "Director's Cut," the title of John Waters's recent exhibition, is a term that once s...
  180. Joe Andoe's landscapes of horses, cows, hay bales and clouds, embellished with a few ...
  181. The Finnish artist Ossi Somma celebrated his 70th birthday with a second New York sol...
  182. These quiet paintings couldn't have found a more appropriate setting than this Victor...
  183. An exhibition in San Francisco brought together four British artists whose experiment...
  184. The photographer Michael Lavine is known for his magazine and album-cover photographs...
  185. David How's paintings are abstractions that contain hints of realism, and handmade wo...
  186. It's a good thing this show didn't smell, because no one would have stepped in the do...
  187. Looking as if it had been dragged face-down across a barbed-wire mattress, the scarre...
  188. Surveying a half-century-long career, the current Ellsworth Kelly retrospective repre...
  189. Conceptual artist Adrian Piper's provocative pieces include work such as Self-Portrai...
  190. This gathering of Roland Flexner's paintings and drawings amounted to an overview of ...
  191. Ken Warneke has always used the figure as a vehicle for his brooding view of contempo...
  192. The 35-year-old artist and theoretician Dmitrii Gutov has managed to do what Moscow's...
  193. Joseph Tseng disappeared on the day in 1979 when he first put on the Mao suit he had ...
  194. For those who grew up in the suburbs, Dani Tull's photographs are an unpleasant remin...
  195. The Korean-born painter Yeong Gill Kim came to America in 1986 to study painting at t...
  196. Newcomer David Grant covers steel armatures in custom-fit fabrics and leather, creati...
  197. Three traveling exhibitions of contemporary photographs from Japan--two in America an...
  198. By choosing to show her paintings and watercolors in separate venues (paintings at La...
  199. Combining the conventional function of paintings as carriers of image and form with t...