Stories Collection

  1. Among the winners of the 2002 Praemium Imperiale awards, given by the Japan Art Assoc...
  2. In October, an agreement was reached allowing New York State to purchase the James A....
  3. During the past 15 years, Emmet Gowin has pursued a global reconnaissance mission to ...
  4. Providing an opportunity to reevaluate one of the greatest influences on Abstract Exp...
  5. Elliott Puckette creates harmonious abstract paintings by superimposing disparate ele...
  6. James Romberger's work is essentially a visual anthropology of the East Village and L...
  7. Victoria Reynolds's clever, meticulously rendered paintings of uncooked meat go beyon...
  8. Fred Wilson has been selected to represent the U.S. at the 2003 Venice Biennale. Kath...
  9. The latest speculation swirling around the Guggenheim Museum doesn't involve a new ou...
  10. The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth debuts its new building on Dec. 14. Designed by J...
  11. One day last spring, in the course of strolling along Scottsdale's gallery corridor, ...
  12. With "International Boogie-Woogie," the title of a recent series of photo pieces, Pet...
  13. Robert Yasuda's lyrical monochromatic paintings work their effects gradually. The art...
  14. Tim Case's recent solo exhibition, "1984 Onward," appeared in two rooms and initially...
  15. When Esteban Vicente died in 2001, just days shy of his 98th birthday, the first gene...
  16. Helen Molesworth is the new chief curator of exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the...
  17. The influential role of the Shyokuryo Building in Tokyo's contemporary art history is...
  18. "I have been a giant in my strength," Eva Hesse stated in 1970, "and my work has been...
  19. This French artist's first solo exhibition in the United States included two photogra...
  20. Joan Livingstone has long worked with felt, making sculptures about states of being a...
  21. Andrew Forge, 78, painter, author and Yale dean, died Sept. 4 of an aortic aneurysm i...
  22. Ian Kennedy is the new curator of European art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in ...
  23. Edward Hirsch, poet, writer and MacArthur fellow, has been elected president of the J...
  24. Andrea Inselmann, curator at the Kohler Arts Center in Milwaukee since 1996, has been...
  25. Rolex recently announced the launch of its new Mentor and Protege Arts Initiative. Ev...
  26. Tony Scherman's paintings have such carnal presence that their internal contradiction...
  27. This pair of video installations dealt with the intersection between vision and under...
  28. In her 1999 U.S. debut, Leipzigborn Susanne Kuhn filled Bill Maynes gallery with slyl...
  29. Large-scale and formal succinctness are hallmarks of Kansas City artist May Tveit's s...
  30. The Taft Museum of Art in Cincinnati recently broke ground for its expansion and reno...
  31. The Portland [Ore.] Art Museum has appointed Annette Dixon as its curator of prints a...
  32. Tony King has become deputy director of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute...
  33. Mavo: Japanese Artists and the Avant-Garde 1905-1931, by Gennifer Weisenfeld, Berkele...
  34. Once upon a time, hidden somewhere in the Catskill Mountains, was an artists' colony ...
  35. As the title of Karen Finley's recent exhibition suggested, "Status and Emotion" expl...
  36. Mark Innerst's new paintings offer strong doses of both culture and nature. The natur...
  37. New Mexico-based painter Santiago Perez intermixed three separate bodies of work at C...
  38. The El Paso Museum of Art recently received a $250,000 gift from Frances Mithoff and ...
  39. Artist Suzanne Lacy has been named chair of the school of fine arts at the Otis Colle...
  40. Bonnie Kelm is the new director of the University Art Museum at UC Santa Barbara. Sin...
  41. The Third Hand: Collaboration in Art from Conceptualism to Postmodernism, by Charles ...
  42. When in the 1930s Jacob Kainen turned up weekly at 36 Union Square to pose for Arshil...
  43. Georges Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884-86) depict...
  44. Influenced by all manner of systems--cybernetics, information theory, behavioral scie...
  45. Mark Bradford's exhibition, "That Wasn't My Car You Saw," included five large paintin...
  46. The Detroit Institute of Arts has selected Nii Otokunor Quarcoopome as curator of Afr...
  47. Rod Slemmons was recently appointed director at the Museum of Contemporary Photograph...
  48. In early 2001, a copyright infringement suit was mounted against Barbara Kruger and o...
  49. The 1990s belonged to San Francisco, epicenter of the dot-com frenzy that held the na...
  50. In past exhibitions, Gillian Jagger often suspended large chunks of rough wood with c...
  51. "Ingredients of Alchemy: Before and After The Rose" provided a rare opportunity to su...
  52. Stark images of sky, sand and water fill the large 4-by-5-foot prints that constitute...
  53. The legend of painting in the San Francisco Bay Area leans heavily on the triumvirate...
  54. As part of its Projects series, the Museum of Modern Art has commissioned three artis...
  55. When the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC), in charge of renewing Ground...
  56. Dakin Hart is the new assistant director of the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, sc...
  57. The latest addition to Manhattan's art-infested West 20s is not another commercial ga...
  58. For the past five years, the annual Madrid conclave known as PhotoEspana has brought ...
  59. Tom Otterness filled both the uptown and the downtown Marlborough galleries with a pr...
  60. Compensating for the 15-year hiatus since the last John Graham exhibition, Richard Yo...
  61. Wrapped salon-style around two adjacent walls, Ernesto Pujol's photographic installat...
  62. As much as Guillermo Kuitca's work has always been about absence, it also manages to ...
  63. The MacArthur Foundation has announced 24 new fellowships for 2002. Each winner recei...
  64. While many art museums have reported sagging attendance and diminished revenues in re...
  65. Jessica Morgan has been named a curator at the Tate Modern in London. Morgan served s...
  66. The only intact mural in the U.S. by Mexican painter David Alfaro Siqueiros was unvei...
  67. In the course of constructing props for the Happenings, an invaluable tool, the porta...
  68. The Pack, a bunch of coyotes modeled in gray plasticine, occupied the big front galle...
  69. To enter Aura Rosenberg's "Berlin Childhood" exhibition, you had to push aside plush ...
  70. "Drawings from the Bitterroot," the inaugural exhibition at Joseph Helman's new Chels...
  71. Syncretism rules the art of Rick Bartow, whose 15-year retrospective revealed how he ...
  72. The Imperial War Museum North in Manchester, U.K., designed by Daniel Libeskind, open...
  73. Emotions ran high when Eric Fischl's life-size bronze Tumbling Woman, memorializing t...
  74. Nicholas Penny, curator of Renaissance painting at London's National Gallery since 19...
  75. On the brink of bankruptcy, the Barnes Foundation in Lower Merion, Pa., has filed cou...
  76. "Basically," a harried Hou Hanru let slip, as preparations for the 2002 Gwangju Bienn...
  77. Around five years ago, Scott Richter began exhibiting utility tables heaped with moun...
  78. "Dog Days," Tom Burr's installation of new sculptural works (all 2002), was stocked w...
  79. Masako Kamiya makes diminutive gouache paintings encrusted with thousands of pinhead-...
  80. Panos Charalambous's recent video installation was mesmerizing and deceptively simple...
  81. The Denver Art Museum has received a gift of 213 modern and contemporary works from t...
  82. The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., has selected Judy L. Lars...
  83. Kathleen Adair Foster, curator of Western art after 1800 at the Indiana University Ar...
  84. The Dahesh Museum of Art is in the process of moving to the former IBM Gallery in New...
  85. As many writers have pointed out, the works of American sculptor H.C. Westermann (192...
  86. Because Mary Miss primarily makes public art, gallery exhibitions of her work are unc...
  87. The porous, pliant interface between two dimensions and three is where Diana Cooper's...
  88. In his latest exhibition at Mangel, Bill Scott presented new abstracted landscapes an...
  89. This gallery is such an extraordinary space that only a very strong installation coul...
  90. Meanwhile, the Denver Art Museum, the Aspen Art Museum and the Logan Collection, in V...
  91. Julian Zugazagoitia has been named director of El Museo del Barrio in New York. Since...
  92. One of Mexico's best-known artists, Francisco Toledo, recently led a heated but nonvi...
  93. Ten thousand miles from Kassel was this summer's "other" international exhibition, th...
  94. In his recent exhibition, David Opdyke created a wry tribute to the visual semiotics ...
  95. The over-40-year career of sculptor and painter Hilda Thorpe (1920-2000) began when s...
  96. The inaugural exhibition at GrantPirrie Gallery was also the first solo show in Sydne...
  97. Sedalia, Mo., located about 80 miles east of Kansas City, has become something of an ...
  98. Briton Paul W. Thompson, 42, assumed the directorship the Cooper-Hewitt National Desi...
  99. Not long ago I overheard a conversation in which one Englishman mentioned to another ...
  100. Although multicultural awareness has created a heightened sensitivity to the awful st...
  101. Charlotta Westergren's debut exhibition was strangely endearing. This Brooklyn-based ...
  102. Among the materials that Lynda Benglis has used extensively in her sculptures over th...
  103. If you could only see Andrea Way's intricate ink-and-acrylic-on-wood pieces from a di...
  104. Sept. 11 elicited a renewed awareness of heroism that has yet to be captured in conte...
  105. Bruno Racine is the new president of the Centre Pompidou in Paris. He previously serv...
  106. Eastern Germany was among the areas hardest hit by the floods that devastated Central...
  107. Among the best of the summer group shows in New York were two organized by artists. "...
  108. The centerpiece of this exhibition by the Swiss collaborative team of Peter Fischli a...
  109. Ida Applebroog has forged a distinctive vocabulary with paintings satirizing the dark...
  110. New York-born photographer Roger Ballen, who won the top prize at this year's Aries F...
  111. Michael Gibson's new work provides a refreshing foray back to the pleasure of paintin...
  112. James Cuno, director of the Harvard University Art Museums since 1991 and professor o...
  113. When a huge flood hit Prague in 1890, the wild water tore down two vaults of the Char...
  114. Only 10 years ago, you had to work hard to find new art in London. Now you can't esca...
  115. To achieve an effect popularized by the proliferation of scenic photography and the c...
  116. Mark Kostabi has been with us for a long time. In a brief item in the New York Post's...
  117. British-born Ellen Harvey, a painter with strong conceptual leanings, continues her i...
  118. Veteran New Orleans-based abstractionist George Dunbar's latest works continue to min...
  119. The Pinakothek der Moderne, a new museum for modern and contemporary art and design, ...
  120. The 500,000 subway riders who pass through New York's Times Square station each day c...
  121. Questions about the place of religion in society have acquired new urgency in the wak...
  122. The even distribution of light behind the surface of a color print mounted on a light...
  123. A relatively unsung member of the Coenties Slip group, Ann Wilson worked alongside Ag...
  124. Texas-based artists Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler switched from photography t...
  125. The recent exhibition, "Unwound and Entwined: Recent Projects by Claes Oldenburg and ...
  126. Larry Rivers, 78, artist and jazz musician, died on Aug. 14. His obituary appears on ...
  127. Baltic, an "art factory" in the northeast of England, near Newcastle, opened to the p...
  128. By the time of his death in Ibiza on Aug. 28, 2001, Juan Munoz, at age 48, had achiev...
  129. Like good realist fiction, Tina Barney's best-known works, big color photographs of w...
  130. Lance Letscher obsessively crafts his collages out of found objects, preferring items...
  131. Patti Heid's latest large-scale canvases combine video- and computer-derived imagery ...
  132. At first glance, the large abstractions of Frank Okada seem derivative of Leon Polk S...
  133. Austrian authorities recently cleared Sotheby's of any wrongdoing in the export of a ...
  134. When Eyestorm debuted in 1999 it was the model of a trendy on-line art gallery. Found...
  135. I had been thinking a lot about Larry Rivers since seeing his recent retrospective at...
  136. The Berlin-based abstract painter Frank Badur is something of an institution in Germa...
  137. Iranian-born, New York-based Pouran Jinchi manages to maintain an alliance between th...
  138. Elizabeth O'Reilly is a painterly realist who conveys her perceptions of reality via ...
  139. Jeanine Breaker's recent pastel drawings are small, self-reflexive spectacles. Techni...
  140. Former Museum of Modern Art curator Robert Storr has been selected to organize the fi...
  141. Just as a retrospective of his work was scheduled to close at the Corcoran Gallery in...
  142. The opening voice-over in Eija-Liisa Ahtila's three-screen DVD installation The House...
  143. Myron Stout was a modest, almost ascetic man, who hung out with the Ab-Exers in New Y...
  144. While living in New York from the mid-1940s through the early 1970s, the painter Felr...
  145. Graham Parks's first solo exhibition comprised nine small square paintings and two su...
  146. Moments of spiritual revelation proved ideal subject matter for Renaissance artists, ...
  147. In August, the Dallas Museum of Art removed the monumental Stake Hitch, by Claes Olde...
  148. Frank Lloyd Wright and the Art of Japan: The Architect's Other Passion. by Julia Meec...
  149. "Identity is purely mathematical--it has no place in real experience, in actuality," ...
  150. Merrill Wagner is a materialist. Since the early '70s, she has painted on an assortme...
  151. Anne Chu cites "medieval culture" as the inspiration for her recent show at Christine...
  152. In Nielsen's upstairs gallery, which retains its 19th-century town-house detail, knot...
  153. Video, film and photographic work, a total of eight pieces, composed Zineb Sedira's f...
  154. A grassroots activist group called Not in Our Name has been agitating since March to ...
  155. Privatising Culture: Corporate Art Intervention Since the 1980s, by Chin-tao Wu, Lond...
  156. Enter Papa Nosedrop waving a huge ugly object. From the sky all sorts of valuable obj...
  157. Not quite prose, not quite poetry, the pigment and Iris prints of Gwenn Thomas fall b...
  158. Nancy Shaver's esthetic is based on investigating the ordinary. Although her art most...
  159. Raquel Montilla Higgins's recent exhibition, titled "Vestiges," comprised 13 new work...
  160. Occupying the entire top floor of the Tate Liverpool, this recent survey of works by ...
  161. Art lovers without tens of thousands of dollars to drop on works can finally do more ...
  162. Issues related to protecting cultural heritage are among the hottest topics in today'...
  163. Last March, the Philadelphia Museum of Art opened the first full-scale Barnett Newman...
  164. David Bowes's paintings can be spacious and airy, yet even when they picture landscap...
  165. Without substantially raising the bar on the gee-whiz genre of digital morphing, Dutc...
  166. This was the first U.S. exhibition of one of France's best-known contemporary painter...
  167. "Said and Done" was the matter-of-fact title Wes Magyar gave his show of six oil pain...
  168. Frederick Schultz, the prominent New York dealer convicted in February for his role i...
  169. A work attributed to Peter Paul Rubens, Massacre of the Innocents (1609-11), sold in ...
  170. In his recent exhibition of oil paintings, Wade Schuman unveiled a series of ambitiou...
  171. New York based since 1998, Kim Sooja here exhibited a new installation titled "A Mirr...
  172. Born in France in 1913, abstract painter Yvonne Thomas has been uninterruptedly makin...
  173. Jennifer Bartlett's 20 paintings, large and small, occupied three rooms in this spaci...
  174. Robert J. Hurst, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs, is the new president of the board of...
  175. Since July 1, a hardy band of Chinese artists, critics and curators has been retracin...
  176. It's been five years since Rona Pondick had her last solo show in Manhattan, and thos...
  177. As this sampling from 30 years of work attests, William Wegman has long and patiently...
  178. Irish-born, London-based conceptual artist Siobhan Hapaska's latest New York show inc...
  179. Since the 1970s, Colette has identified herself as the mistress of the multiple world...
  180. In this recent exhibition, "Post 9/11 Tableaux and the Time Machine,' Larry Bell pres...
  181. Robert Frankel, executive director of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art since 1996, has...
  182. Hans Bellmer: The Anatomy of Anxiety, by Sue Taylor, Cambridge, MIT Press, 2000; 296 ...
  183. At the heart of the cabinet of wonders that is Charles LeDray's oeuvre--currently the...
  184. The quiet drawings and animations of Avish Khebrehzadeh offer poignant, symbolic narr...
  185. Last spring was a career high for German video artist Christian Jankowski. He was inc...
  186. In the late 1930s and early '40s, Loren MacIver developed a sweet, playful style that...
  187. An eminent museum director, curator, teacher and author, Henry Hopkins has sizable li...
  188. David Gordon, secretary of London's Royal Academy of Arts for the past six years, has...
  189. In one of his late autobiographical narratives, Walter Benjamin inquired into "what k...
  190. Over the past 30 years, Berlin-based Harun Farocki has been an influential voice in t...
  191. Ukrainian-born Valerie Demianchuk's first solo exhibition takes the viewer by surpris...
  192. Nancy Spero's art has always had a fugitive quality. Her reliance on transparent pape...
  193. "They can destroy my work, but they cannot destroy my talent." So asserted the remark...
  194. The formal ingenuity of Anne Mudge's sculpture feels so familiar that it's tempting t...
  195. David R. Brigham, director of collections and exhibitions at the Worcester Art Museum...
  196. The working relationship of the three participants in the panel discussion that marke...