Stories Collection

  1. One can't define David Renaud as a painter, a sculptor or an installation artist, alt...
  2. Maya Lin's recent sculptures are the focus of a traveling exhibition now at the Grey ...
  3. Peter Sarkisian, who lives and works in Santa Fe, displayed video projection sculptur...
  4. This is the third "compare and contrast" exhibition at Pace-Wildenstein; the previous...
  5. Squeak Carnwath's recent paintings achieve visual coherence through a sophisticated b...
  6. Some years ago I read a book written by a man who, upon finishing an 18-year prison s...
  7. In the second of two articles on abstraction today, the author dicusses nine American...
  8. Best known for his work in glass, the sculptor Steve Tobin has recently put together ...
  9. During the '30s and '40s the Mexican muralists exerted a powerful hold on the imagina...
  10. Edinburgh-based Alan Johnston makes abstract paintings which are so unassuming that t...
  11. Martin Wong emerged in the early 1980s with obsessively detailed paintings inspired b...
  12. Bonnie Collura is a creator of the sort of elaborate fictions that Stefano Basilico a...
  13. Geometric abstraction has moved from Mondrian's utopia to Peter Halley's dystopia, wi...
  14. Giles Lyon, a 30-year-old painter who grew up in New Jersey, worked in Houston for a ...
  15. The Private Collection of Edgar Degas This unusual exhibition showcased some 300 of t...
  16. Frank Stella. A mural in the lobby of the University of Houston's Moores School of Mu...
  17. Roy Lichtenstein, 73, whose cartoon-inspired paintings helped launch the Pop art move...
  18. William Ivey, director since 1971 of the Country Music Foundation in Nashville, was a...
  19. The theme of the bather occupied Pierre Bonnard intermittently, but with great intens...
  20. There is an exercise that was espoused by numerous New York School poets: when lookin...
  21. Though best known as a sculptor, Creighton Michael started out as a painter and has n...
  22. The Austrian-born artist Hubert Schmalix last showed in New York City over 10 years a...
  23. The temporary installation in Paris last fall of 10 outdoor steel sculptures by Mark ...
  24. "A Theater of Recollection," John Walker's exhibition of recent work, consisted of pa...
  25. A participant in last year's Johannesburg, Saaremaa and Havana biennials, Cuban-born ...
  26. In this recent exhibition, Los Angeles artist Larry Johnson showed nine large photo-b...
  27. Among the photographs in the retrospective of Sarah Charlesworth's work recently on v...
  28. In the '50s, George Tooker, who is nearly a generation younger than his esthetic alli...
  29. Brenda Goodman's paintings are a compelling amalgam of abstract and figurative effect...
  30. Kirk McCarthy's works are always temptingly tactile. His last series of sculptures co...
  31. The 13 years between the time the Getty's architect-selection committee chose Richard...
  32. The French painter Jean Fautrier (1898-1964) is an anomaly. A fiercely private man, i...
  33. Adam Ross subtitles his work "science-fiction painting," or better yet, in our "X-Fil...
  34. Bulky Black Hose Mountain, the highlight of Gay Outlaw's exhibition, stretched about ...
  35. The Connoisseur, by Norman Rockwell, shows a man in a gray suit gazing at a poured ca...
  36. Stylistic consistency, or at least a readily comprehensible arc of development, does ...
  37. In this exhibition of recent work, sculptor Grace Knowlton showed six large paintings...
  38. Representations of the elderly in Western art have been historically limited to three...
  39. Like a dream of falling, Anish Kapoor's recent sculptures pull you out of gravity so ...
  40. In this show of over 30 new works, Tanya Marcuse has moved away from a conventional u...
  41. For some time, Marina Karella has been painting images that seem on the verge of vani...
  42. In her latest show, Rose Finn-Kelcey gave each of Camden Arts Centre's three gallerie...
  43. An excellent if unwelcome opportunity to judge Dario Gamboni's book on the destructio...
  44. John Chamberlain presides over what, for an artist, counts as a big industrial operat...
  45. Roxy Walsh is a painter from Northern Ireland who, after years in Manchester, relocat...
  46. In the past, Jason Fox has attempted to combine the unfettered imaginative flights an...
  47. From a distance, Walter Niedermayr's works look like drawings -- expanses of white pa...
  48. The contrast between the first and second mountings of the Kwangju Biennale echoes th...
  49. It's Easter in Weatherford's recent paintings, and she is celebrating with a Sunday a...
  50. The ancient Romans kept painted-plaster portrait masks of their most illustrious ance...
  51. In Andrea Robbins and Max Becher's new series of color photographs, "Dachau," innocuo...
  52. This show of well-conceived sculptures and installations using computer-sequenced ele...
  53. The only flesh left visible by Sister Wendy Beckett's voluminous black robes is a pai...
  54. German artist Peter Dreher is best known for his series "Tag um Tag ist guten Tag" (D...
  55. Though many of Alexander Ross's provocative paintings affect a near-Photorealist styl...
  56. In his seventh solo show at Chase, Allen Whiting exhibited 29 oil landscapes painted ...
  57. Whenever a museum surveys the work of Bonnard, the result is not only, a welcome retr...
  58. It's a little too easy to be dismissive of Color Field painting and the school of wel...
  59. German artist Marcel Odenbach here presented two film and video installations that di...
  60. Robert Barnes is a perfect regional hero. Generations of artists in Chicago and envir...
  61. Last summer, 28 museums in 13 cities along the French Riviera collaborated to produce...
  62. Realism in sculpture is different than in painting. it has little to do with question...
  63. The French artist Bertrand Ivanoff conceived the installation Lightwater: Sourdre a y...
  64. Not just the imagery of a painting but the shape of the canvas is central to Gail Rob...
  65. Long known for his seductive yet funky neon sculptures, Keith Sonnier gave a new auto...
  66. Dignifying unlovely spaces and banal structures is one of sculpture's big jobs. Often...
  67. It was impossible to view Nam June Paik's recent show at Holly Solomon Gallery withou...
  68. This survey show devoted to the work of the 36-year-old Argentinean Pablo Siquier inc...
  69. Sonnier's fascination with technology probably began in 1965, when he was a young pos...
  70. Stanley Boxer showed sculptures from a 20-year period, encompassing organic and hard-...
  71. Jane Schneider's sculptures combine wood and other mediums, often concrete or plaster...
  72. Little interested in mass or volume, Helene Agofroy isn't a traditional sculptor. Usi...
  73. Carroll Dunham's new canvases, blending cartoonish figuration with formal panache, de...
  74. Although he won only limited acclaim during his lifetime, it seems to be Bob Thompson...
  75. Judging from the evidence of this exhibition, Tam Ochiai would like to be one or all ...
  76. In a former theater, part of a building which now houses an experimental artists' spa...
  77. To a far greater extent than their American counterparts, young European artists have...
  78. Trevor Winkfield's idiosyncrasy is matched by the remarkable fertility of his imagina...
  79. In his photographs, Teun Hocks poses himself against painted backdrops, playing an in...
  80. Manipulation, metamorphosis and mutilation are words with ugly connotations in a time...
  81. Since the late 1980s there have been numerous attempts to pin down the quiddity of vi...
  82. Following his arrival in New York City in the late '70s, Christian Marclay began slic...
  83. It's hard to know how to take Jeff Perrone's wall assemblages of found ethnographic t...
  84. Neysa Grassi's dark, densely interwoven abstractions have long suggested internal org...
  85. Given the clue of its title, Durchfall (German for diarrhea), one might have looked a...
  86. On May 3, 1997, the Sixth Havana Biennial was inaugurated. Still a mammoth show altho...
  87. Chicago-based artist Tony Tasset employs a wide variety of mediums and techniques in ...
  88. I suspect that many people find the social history of second-generation Abstract Expr...
  89. Can a French Catholic woman become the art world's Georges Bataille? To judge from th...
  90. During the renovation of the 19th-century villa that will eventually house Leipzig's ...
  91. Few art works are as conceptually interesting as the Black Virgin, whose creation, pr...
  92. Tracey Moffatt presents her films, videos and photographs with the familiar trappings...
  93. Burt Hasen and Francine Tint, two veteran New York abstract painters, showed concurre...
  94. Two years in the making, Charles Ray's full-scale replica of a crashed Pontiac Grand ...
  95. Although the much-documented New Wave of Kansai (Western Japan) from the heady days o...
  96. Bill Viola's extraordinary, theatrically conceived 25-year retrospective of video ins...
  97. A handful of crusty little dark brown balls, grouped on the floor, was the prelude to...
  98. Josiah McElheny is an unusual figure among younger artists, most obviously because he...
  99. The single large sculpture in this show positioned the viewer in that most interestin...
  100. Bill Viola has long been recognized as a pioneer of video art. He began experimenting...
  101. The work that John Monti has shown over the last few years occupies a niche somewhere...
  102. At first glance, this exhibition of graphite drawings by the Chinese artist Bing Lee ...
  103. Mildred Howard, an artist from the San Francisco Bay area, has worked in assemblage, ...
  104. John Frankenheimer's 1965 film The Train opens with a Wehrmacht officer arriving at t...
  105. The three large multi-paneled photographic works (all 1996-97) in Joseph Bartscherer'...
  106. With collages hung on walls and also leaning against paintings on the floor at Bill H...
  107. Memories offer emotionally convincing yet untrustworthy evidence of the past. When pr...
  108. The narrative paintings of Agnes Szepfalvi, whatever the situation depicted, all have...
  109. Last October, after three years of painstaking construction and a series of last-minu...
  110. In 1996, Whitfield Lovell was artist-in-residence at Project Row Houses in Houston, w...
  111. With this largish mini-retrospective of paintings from 1955-75, Clutz proved himself ...
  112. This Houston-based sculptor embarked on a new phase of his career with a solo exhibit...
  113. In weblike patches amid amorphous veils of oil paint, Natsuyuki Nakanishi intermingle...
  114. Under Communism, Russia's government-subsidized art museums had no freedom but comple...
  115. Devon Dikeou's installation What's Love Got to Do With It? consisted of 61 signs, arr...
  116. Alun Leach-Jones's exhibition, titled "Oceania," consisted of 10 drawings of moderate...
  117. Tasha Ostrander is an artist from New York who has been living and working in New Mex...
  118. In the past three years, Connie Beckley has exhibited sculptures and drawings, releas...
  119. As libraries make the transition to computerized catalogues, many still rely on drawe...
  120. The German-born American modernist Oscar Bluemner (1867-1938) has never quite receive...
  121. Five years ago, Tim Ebner, an established young Los Angeles painter, shocked his supp...
  122. A massive traveling retrospective highlights Robert Rauschenberg's achievements in a ...
  123. With two recent photographic series, "Acts" (1994-96) and "Sex Acts" (1996), Nic Nico...
  124. Nancy Burson is best known for computer-enhanced portraits of people who can't be pho...
  125. Recent American operas have been based on the lives of public figures such as Richard...
  126. For the past 17 months the Serpentine Gallery, idyllically set in London's Hyde Park,...
  127. Radcliffe Bailey creates lavish, painterly homages to black American experience in th...
  128. Death is the central human mystery, uniting us across cultures. A consciousness of th...
  129. Kenna Moser's mostly envelope-size pieces have a direct relationship to Joseph Cornel...
  130. Pablo Picasso made the first set of drawings for what would become Man with a Lamb in...
  131. The systematic quality of the paintings in Fiona Rae's latest New York exhibition imm...
  132. Motherhood can have a profound effect on women artists. NEA nemesis Karen Finley reve...
  133. This small exhibition of eight oil-and-encaustic-on-wood paintings from 1997 was a so...
  134. The career of Eugene Leroy evokes a romantic myth concerning the isolated artist who ...
  135. The paintings of Denyse Thomasos, a young artist born in Trinidad and now living in N...
  136. Opening on the heels of Martin Kippenberger's death in March 1997 at the age of 43, t...
  137. The paintings of Merlin James ooze criticality -- and that observation is not simply ...
  138. As the crowds poured in during the final weeks of the Museum of Modern Art's exhibiti...
  139. Ten years ago, in a much-quoted interview, Richard Serra related one of his earliest ...
  140. Looking at Alexis Rockman's recent work, it is easy to imagine the artist as a young ...
  141. This show of more than 150 paintings, sculptures and works on paper by 57 artists dem...
  142. Charles Boetschi is a geometric painter. This is a dangerous arena in which to work i...
  143. John Frankenheimer's 1965 film The Train opens with a Wehrmacht officer arriving at t...
  144. The best moment to experience Marina Abramovic's exhibition was on opening night, whe...
  145. Nicholas Krushenick's hard-edge paintings of the late '50s were prescient of Pop art....
  146. Imagine New York City redesigned by urban farmers, philosophical anarchists and Luddi...
  147. George Woodman is an inveterate museum-goer. His fascination with the hidden meanings...
  148. Beatrice, you have fully seduced me. Not by your beauty and feminine wiles, your demu...
  149. Three years ago, Renee Stout, a Washington, D.C.-based artist in her 30s, drew a good...
  150. The newest paintings of Frances Barth are notable for their sense of serenity and poi...
  151. For the last 30 years, Rudolf Staffel, now 86, has been wheel-throwing or hand-buildi...
  152. From his first rambling performances in the early 1980s, Mike Kelley has appealed to ...
  153. Marcus Leatherdale initially became known for his photographs of celebrities, made fi...
  154. This show of one encaustic-on-canvas and 10 oil-on-canvas paintings, all from 1994-96...
  155. In a back alley in a turn-of-the-century neighborhood, amid the ruins of postindustri...
  156. The weather on Oct. 26, the date of P.S. 1's long-awaited reopening, wasn't very prom...
  157. The culture of childhood arrived with the modern era, historians say; previously, chi...
  158. Carl Andre's spare, sublime art looked spectacular in the considerable spaces of Ace ...
  159. The outcome of a 14-day walk in Big Bend National Park, Hamish Fulton's Mexico Skylin...
  160. In preferring the evanescent to the monumental and permanent, the late 19th-century s...
  161. Las Vegas is America's most overstimulating visual environment, assaulting visitors' ...
  162. In his ongoing project (It all comes together in) Ruckus L.A., Lincoln Tobier envisio...
  163. "Artists In Trance: New Methodologies in work with the `Other'in Latin American Art" ...
  164. To illustrate his epic tale of young princesses in peril, the solitary -- and artisti...
  165. Kazuo Takiguchi's sculptures are bulbous, muscular- or stony-looking ceramic forms, m...
  166. The two bodies of work by Arakawa and Madeleine Gins in this show span more than thre...
  167. Florence Miller Pierce's career spans almost six decades. In the late 1930s, she left...
  168. A current exhibition provides the first extended look at the drawings of Achilles G. ...
  169. In this exhibition, Jim Butler, a Boston-born New York painter, showed eight recent w...
  170. In his latest series of color photographs taken over the past three years, "Niagara S...
  171. "Five Spaces" was the title this Rhode Island-based artist gave to his recent exhibit...
  172. For a pair of recent gallery shows, photographers Sally Mann and Aaron Rose each chos...
  173. Lucky De Bellevue, along with like-minded artists such as Tony Feher and Rachel Harri...
  174. The figurative painter Robert Stanley died of cancer in November 1997, on the last da...
  175. This handsome show surveyed Sherrie Levine's work of the last several years. It also ...
  176. Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang belongs to the generation of artists who grew up with th...
  177. Luca Buvoli is known for an ongoing series of handmade comic books that are at once w...
  178. Excessive proximity, camera movement, misplaced focus, overexposure -- all kinds of m...
  179. These concurrent exhibitions were Sarah Lucas's first solos in London in three years....
  180. This fall's sales were strong at both Sotheby's and Christie's, but the season was mo...
  181. Michelle Stuart has been dealing with landscape in her art since the 1970s. Her work ...
  182. This somber exhibition of sculptural reliefs and paintings presented existential dram...
  183. For this small but significant retrospective of the paintings of Michael Loew (1907-1...
  184. Although Philippe Richard regularly shows abstract paintings, this exhibition reveale...
  185. Two years ago I was invited to view a collection of contemporary art in the home of a...
  186. Tristano di Robilant, a young London-born artist who lives in Rome, has shown ceramic...
  187. Nicola Tyson exhibited seven oils (all 72 by 66 inches) and seven charcoal drawings (...
  188. The highlights of this show of 41 paintings by Alvin Ross (1920-1975) at the Province...
  189. It would be easy to interpret the work of Czech artist Stanislav Kolibal solely in te...
  190. In a recent show at the National Gallery in London, Seurat's early masterwork was dis...
  191. This was Robert Natkin's first New York show in a decade. The veteran painter calls h...
  192. This compelling show comprised over 70 works by Darrel Ellis, who died of AIDS five y...
  193. In each of his interlinked bodies of work--photography, constructions, found-object a...
  194. Axel Kassebohmer, in his late 40s, is unknown in the U.S. He's not a household name e...
  195. In an installation recently on view at L.A.'s Museum of Contemporary Art, Robert Gobe...
  196. Anthony Aziz and Sammy Cucher are slowly but surely creating a virtual world peopled ...
  197. In his text paintings, Sean Landers has used a relentless chronicle of his private an...
  198. Harold Jacobs's exuberant new work seems to have begun with his discovery that a flex...
  199. For her first show at this recently opened gallery, Angiola Gatti, a Turin-based arti...