Stories Collection

  1. The most recently envisioned new Guggenheim Museum, a Jean Nouvel-designed project fo...
  2. Although he moved from Manila to the U.S. at the age of 14, attended Harvard Universi...
  3. Titled "Tomorrow," this show was the New York solo debut for English-born New York ar...
  4. This recent exhibition of quasi-minimalist sculptures and installations was the impre...
  5. Caracas-born, New York-based artist Arturo Herrera, who multi-tasks in several medium...
  6. Because of their explicit images of sex and decay, Eldon Garnet's large, multipanel p...
  7. Art critic and writer John Berger is the winner of a Lannan Literary Award for Lifeti...
  8. The rocky economy is having a decidedly mixed impact on various museum projects. The ...
  9. William Tucker's sculptures are emphatic in their sheer, physical presence and at the...
  10. Beth Campbell first received broad attention for her quirky textual drawings in which...
  11. Richard Wentworth, English sculptor, photographer, teacher and streetwise flaneur, ha...
  12. Just after Amsterdam's mayor and aldermen announced approval of a plan to expand the ...
  13. On Dec. 18, the public got its first look at second-round proposals for the World Tra...
  14. Among the challenges to American complacency posed by the events of Sept. 11 has been...
  15. The installation Cavemanman, Pans-based Thomas Hirschhorn's first solo exhibition in ...
  16. Luis Cruz Azaceta began as an abstract painter in the 1960s, but became known in the ...
  17. Bill Radawec was living in Los Angeles when the big earthquake of 1994 hit. His apart...
  18. Johannes Karhs is a young Berlin-based artist who forages among film stills and docum...
  19. The Whitney Museum of American Art has selected three of its own curators as the orga...
  20. Island in the Mur, a floating exhibition and performance space designed by Vito Accon...
  21. Spanish artist Angel Orensanz is probably best known as the fellow who purchased an e...
  22. No figure better embodies the heady, freewheeling artistic culture of 1920s Montparna...
  23. Two installations by the Chicago-based Jack Sloss humorously explore the dynamics of ...
  24. Since the early `90s, commercial fabrics have been Fransje Killaars's medium. Many of...
  25. The curatorial team has been announced for Manifesta 5, the 2004 installment of the i...
  26. In October, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City unveiled a major permanent...
  27. While the genre of exhibition commonly called a "masterpiece show" is likely to pull ...
  28. Siah Armajani has long been concerned with creating "neighborly" public sculptures--i...
  29. Much of the drama of the career of architect Louis I. Kahn (1901-1974) lies in the am...
  30. The large oil paintings of Israeli-born, New York-based painter Ophrah Shemesh are er...
  31. Carl E. Kurtz, a professor at Kansas City Art Institute, uses his virtuoso calligraph...
  32. The main room at Phoebus might well have been an installation. The nine works--actual...
  33. Kate M. Sellers, director of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Conn.,...
  34. Shortly after the British Museum once again rebuffed attempts by the Greek government...
  35. After Jeffrey Chiplis graduated from art school, with a B.F.A. in sculpture, some 25 ...
  36. Avigdor Arikha, who survived the concentration camps and fought in Israel's War of In...
  37. For the past 30 years, 22 of them while a resident in New York, Korean-born painter S...
  38. Among Clifford Odets's plays, Paradise Lost (1938) was his favorite. It also provided...
  39. This two-person show, the latest installment of the MIA's long-running Minnesota Arti...
  40. Fresh from her DAAD fellowship in Berlin, Katerina Vincourova, one of the most respec...
  41. Glen Seater, 46, sculptor and installation artist, died Dec. 21 in Brooklyn. He fell ...
  42. The title and guiding theme of the 50th Venice Biennale [June 15-Nov. 2] were formall...
  43. The last great confrontation of their lifetime between Henri Matisse and Pablo Picass...
  44. Edwin Dickinson is often called a "painter's painter," a term implying that his art i...
  45. In his new exhibition titled "Omens in Grisaille," the Ecuadorian-born Hugo Bastidas ...
  46. Anne Harris disturbs as much as she charms. A figurative painter of considerable skil...
  47. Walking into Paul Horn's installation was like walking into a Wal-Mart wonderland, wi...
  48. Dumb Type is a collaborative established by some students at a Kyoto art school in 19...
  49. In an important legal victory, 86-year-old Los Angeles resident Maria Altmann has won...
  50. This has been a season of new museum openings and plans for expansion in the already ...
  51. Chen Zhen was a rising presence on the international scene when he died quite suddenl...
  52. We rarely get to see a large selection of a mature artist's earliest work except in m...
  53. The scholar and curator Wu Hung, trained at Beijing's Central Academy of Fine Arts an...
  54. Quietly exploiting the translucency of her materials, Linn Meyers draws on small shee...
  55. Gottfried Helnwein's extensive 1997 retrospective at the State Russian Museum in St. ...
  56. On Feb. 25, as part of its "independent Lens" series, PBS will air a new documentary ...
  57. Things are looking up for the High Line, the 1.45-mile railroad viaduct in Chelsea wh...
  58. A poet writes always of his personal life, in his finest work out of its tragedy, wha...
  59. Born in Hawaii in 1922, Toshiko Takaezu is recognized for applying the expressive pot...
  60. "A Visionary's Universe," William Fields's first New York exhibition, featured 11 lar...
  61. This exhibition comprised six abstract sculptures by the consummate stone carver of t...
  62. Keith Tyson is the winner of the 2002 Turner Prize, worth approximately $32,000, give...
  63. Claude Cahun: Ecrits, edited by Francois Leperlier, Paris, Editions Jean-Michel Place...
  64. When you encounter one of Roland Flexner's recent works on paper for the first time, ...
  65. Andrew Forge's elegant paintings present an erudite synthesis of developments from Po...
  66. "All-Star," Jude Tallichet's third solo show at the gallery, was a floor installation...
  67. Purvis Young, whose 60th birthday has been marked with several local exhibitions, has...
  68. Going Forth by Day (2002), a title taken from the Egyptian Book of the Dead, is an am...
  69. The eccentric character who inhabits Robert ParkeHarrison's photographs is none other...
  70. If Claude Closky were not so busy cleverly dismantling the media machines, he would v...
  71. Barbara Bloemink, director of the Guggenheim and Hermitage Museum branches in Las Veg...
  72. The newly named Museum of Contemporary Arts and Design in New York, formerly the Amer...
  73. The fourth and latest edition of Manifesta, the itinerant pan-European biennial, took...
  74. Signaling a departure from his brand of magic realism, associated with his bicultural...
  75. Bo Bartlett's exhibition of roughly 20 paintings plus watercolors and gouaches showed...
  76. Joanne Baldinger's previous show was at this gallery's project space in the Roger Smi...
  77. Ruth Laxson considers her work "an attempt to restore some of the texture and grain o...
  78. Massimiliano Gioni, art critic curator, has been named artistic director of the Fonda...
  79. Spanish architect Jose Rafael Moneo was recently in New York to unveil his model for ...
  80. How to Draw a Bunny, the recent documentary about artist Ray Johnson, opens with the ...
  81. Robert Longo's work is becoming increasingly introspective. Five years ago, the diari...
  82. In her first New York solo show, Kumi Yamashita, a Japanese artist who has lived much...
  83. The works of Mexican artist Pablo Vargas Lugo at first look like crisply delineated a...
  84. After yet another temporary closing for repairs of its new Arata Isosaki building, th...
  85. American sculptor Richard Serra and British architect Norman Foster have been elected...
  86. John Stomberg has become associate director of administration and programs at the Wil...
  87. Some 90 years after his death, Pierpont Morgan will have the posthumous distinction o...
  88. Fabian Marcaccio's recent exhibition at Gorney Bravin + Lee Gallery in New York was t...
  89. Micrography has a rich tradition in Judaism, used either as decoration or for the tra...
  90. Linoleum and Formica are materials more often associated with kitchens than with digi...
  91. John Hrehov's new work constitutes a considerable advance over his last show in New Y...
  92. When Leslie Baum visits new places--Glasgow, Cordoba or Kew Gardens, for example--she...
  93. Matta, 91, painter who was the youngest member of the prewar Surrealist group in Pari...
  94. D. Scott Atkinson has been appointed chief curator at the San Diego Museum of Art, a ...
  95. Louis Grachos, director of SITE Santa Fe since 1996, has been appointed director of t...
  96. For Carroll Dunham, painting's a killer. One of the recurrent characters in his works...
  97. The main event in David Sandlin's recent show was an epic painting nearly 12 feet wid...
  98. Nature was a quiet but ubiquitous presence that ran like a refrain throughout "this a...
  99. This spring Randy Wray's paintings and sculptures were on view in neighboring Chelsea...
  100. From a distance, Janet Hamrick's abstract paintings can look as if they were made of ...
  101. Carole Kismaric, 60, photography book editor and curator, died Nov. 19 in New York of...
  102. Benjamin Weil, new-media curator at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, is the ne...
  103. A year from now, an ambitious inter national art and architecture exhibition, "The Sn...
  104. At first, Jack Pierson's photos, drawings, sculptures and installations appear to be ...
  105. In her previous show at this gallery, Yeardley Leonard exhibited a number of large ho...
  106. Although his paintings and collages are essential to the history of British Pop, Pete...
  107. Julia Wachtel is one of a generation of artists, among them Troy Brauntuch and Sherri...
  108. Though a far cry from his mid-'70s performance pieces in outlandish edible vegetable ...
  109. Nov, '02, p. 176: Our announcement of Russell Ferguson's appointment as deputy direct...
  110. On Nov. 16, just two days before the opening of China's First Guangzhou Triennial at ...
  111. The National Museum and Gallery in Cardiff, Wales, recently announced the establishme...
  112. With "Theodore Chasseriau (1819-1856): The Unknown Romantic," museums in Paris, Stras...
  113. The three large paintings and three smaller drawings (all 2002) that Glenn Goldberg r...
  114. Dennis Adams's color photographs depict the kind of airborne trash that is emblematic...
  115. Deborah Rosenthal's fifth one-person show at Bowery was her best yet, and one of the ...
  116. The small world of prewar modernism in Los Angeles was surprisingly rich. During the ...
  117. The boards of the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) and the California College of Ar...
  118. Against the background of a shaky economy and trepidation about an impending war with...
  119. Win Knowlton makes large objects that imply surrounding landscapes--not sylvan glades...
  120. Korean-born Miki Lee takes the familiar trope of abstract stripe painting, adds to it...
  121. The sparse Maine landscapes in Scott Peterman's color photographs of ice-fishing shac...
  122. "Michel Gerard: The American Decade 1989-1999" was a puzzling show, full of interesti...
  123. Although there has been some buzz of late about young abstract painters in Los Angele...
  124. Paul Ha was recently named director of the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis, repl...
  125. I once watched a pair of clowns hurry a donkey across Fifth Avenue. One clown was pus...
  126. Since the mid-1990s, Antonio Petracca has been making paintings that bring the painte...
  127. Conceptualist Christopher Chiappa belongs to the school of comedic one-liner artists ...
  128. The goal of Susan Wilmarth-Rabineau's environment Reaching Into the Sky (2002) was to...
  129. In 1970, Archie Rand was a 21-year-old painter fresh from studies at Pratt Institute....
  130. Enrique Juncosa, deputy director since 2000 of the Reina Sofia in Madrid, has assumed...
  131. Photography's Antiquarian Avant-Garde: The New Wave in Old Processes, by Lyle Rexer, ...
  132. If you missed Oliver Herring's 1999 show at Max Protetch Gallery in New York, or if y...
  133. German artist Daniel Roth uses an array of mediums to elaborate mysterious, intricate...
  134. Minneapolis-based photographer Paul Shambroom's latest New York show was titled "Meet...
  135. A professor of art at Colby College since 1966, Harriet Matthews has distinguished he...
  136. Chris Dercon, artistic director of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam sin...
  137. Georgia-born artist Benny Andrews has established the Benny Andrews Foundation to sup...
  138. Perhaps not since the Italian Psychoanalytical Society last convened in Turin has the...
  139. Placing a premium on retinal experience, Sol LeWitt's six new, brightly hued wall dra...
  140. Lari Pittman's paintings continue to combine wallpaper patterns, foliate designs, int...
  141. At first glance, some of Aaron Fink's intensely colored, heavily worked oil paintings...
  142. You can't tell if Kevin Cannon's elegant sculptures are animal, vegetable or mineral....
  143. Rebecca Martin Nagy, curator of African Art and associate director of education at th...
  144. A splashy new hotel in Times Square has drawn lots of attention for its colorful and ...
  145. Frida, a new film about the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo that opened Nov. 1, offers a ...
  146. As a native of what was once East Germany, painter Neo Rauch cut his teeth as an arti...
  147. As a young artist in the 1940s, Honore Sharrer received considerable attention for he...
  148. In his oil-on-linen collage paintings, most of them sepia-toned, Fred Otnes lays down...
  149. Edward Sturr (b.1937) taught photography at a Chicago high school in the early 1960s,...
  150. The Seattle Art Museum recently unveiled plans for its new 8 1/2-acre Olympic Sculptu...
  151. London's Tate Modern recently unveiled Marsyas, an enormous sculpture by Anish Kapoor...
  152. The peripatetic French sculptor Alain Kirili has divided his time between Paris and N...
  153. In his recent exhibition, New York-based abstractionist Stephen Ellis considerably re...
  154. There's something almost medieval about Helen Miranda Wilson's small, carefully detai...
  155. In this show of sculpture and painting from the last two years, Bryan Hunt both looke...
  156. Only two of Mike Henderson's 14 new oil paintings can be said to actually resemble Ha...
  157. Ground has been broken for the new Lux Art Institute, a venue for temporary exhibitio...
  158. A permanent installation by Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz featuring 112 over-li...
  159. Thanks to the sporadic inclusion of an art component within the Spoleto Festival, Cha...
  160. Entering Suzanne Anker's show, "The Butterfly in the Brain," one saw a vastly enlarge...
  161. A Louisiana native, the self-taught photographer Clarence John Laughlin (1905-1985)is...
  162. Three large inflatable sculptures dominated the main gallery space in Ron Klein's sho...
  163. Little known outside Russia, Petr Konchalovsky (1876-1956) is greatly esteemed in his...
  164. Walter Annenberg, 94, publisher and philanthropist, died Oct. 1 in Wynnewood, Penn. A...
  165. Phillips de Pury & Luxembourg will auction off 33 works of American art from the coll...
  166. In many ways, art can be seen as the result of a narrowing of focus. After all, we sh...
  167. Jill Baroff has always created subtle installations in which one has to stay alert si...
  168. For 30 years now, Joel Perlman has been making welded-steel sculptures. An able craft...
  169. Sam Gilliam's new work, a series called "Slats," is a major departure for him. When o...
  170. Since returning to Beijing in 1997 after a decade-long stay in New York, Lin Tianmiao...
  171. France's minister of culture, Jean-Jacques Aillagon, released plans at an Oct. 29 pre...
  172. The Stray Show, a recent initiative of Thomas Blackman and Associates (TBA), producer...
  173. Simply and without much mediation, the New Museum of Contemporary Art's presentation ...
  174. In his first American exhibition, Paris-based artist Charles Matton offered 15 mixed-...
  175. Reruns, which fuel the economics of the television industry and turn mildly amusing s...
  176. Mario Algaze has been taking photographs of Latin American people and places since 19...
  177. A midcareer Sydney artist, Mikala Dwyer uses plastic, Styrofoam, fabric and modeling ...
  178. Reaffirming the potential of abstract painting to convey political convictions as wel...
  179. New Art in the 60s and 70s: Redefining Reality, by Anne Rorimer, New York, Thames & H...
  180. There used to be much made of the difference between content and subject matter. This...
  181. For centuries, the well-heeled and so-inclined have taken their adventures in field a...
  182. Marco Breuer's recent show included more than 20 images from his series "Observations...
  183. Lina Bertucci's evocative new photographs explore nature as both the embodiment of th...
  184. This show was a significant departure for Muneteru Ujino, who is well known in Tokyo ...
  185. On Oct. 23, President Bush announced his intention to nominate California poet, teach...
  186. John Berger: Selected Essays, edited by Geoff Dyer, New York, Pantheon, 2001; 596 pag...
  187. The ambitious new work by Mary Kelly which premiered last December at the Santa Monic...
  188. In the annals of video game history, Space Invaders occupies a privileged position--t...
  189. Over the past several years, the sleek, monochromatic ceramic sculptures by Kyoto-bor...
  190. For her first one-person exhibition, Misty Keasler showed color photographs from two ...