Stories Collection

  1. Michael Landy won extensive public and media attention in 2001 with Break Down, his i...
  2. Paul Figueroa, executive director at the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, S.C., ha...
  3. New York's Whitney Museum of American Art has joined the growing list of museums arou...
  4. We might ask of the author and photographer Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (a.k.a. Lewis Ca...
  5. This exhibition, Gary Simmons's first U.S. museum survey, featured 37 works produced ...
  6. This visual dialogue between two artist friends, George Sugarman (1912-1999) and Al H...
  7. In 1998, friends and acquaintances of the artist Howard Clifford began to receive lar...
  8. Announced as a two-person retrospective, this show featured a selection of works pluc...
  9. Former New York art dealer Stefano Basilico has been appointed adjunct curator of con...
  10. Latter-day and would-be Surrealists protesting the auction of more than 5,500 art wor...
  11. In recent years, Rome has enjoyed a remarkable renewal in the realm of contemporary a...
  12. Though the proportions of Beverly Semmes's early dress-shaped sculptures were extreme...
  13. Jean-Marc Bustamante, who will represent France in this year's Venice Biennale, recen...
  14. The 15 recent oil paintings in this show by Alyson Weege varied in composition, subje...
  15. Setting off fireworks seems to be an inalienable civil right in Germany, one exercise...
  16. Grady Turner, A.i.A. contributor and former director of exhibitions at the Museum of ...
  17. Yet another attempt by the Russian ministry of culture to return hundreds of old-mast...
  18. Born Josephine Kleinberg in Seattle in 1929, Jo Baer attended the University of Washi...
  19. Born in Tokyo in 1939, Kikuo Saito moved to New York at the age of 27. He studied wit...
  20. This exhibition by two Chinese artists who have previously only worked solo was a tea...
  21. Since 1994, Valdir Cruz has taken photographs of the Yanomami Indians, a native tribe...
  22. Angelina Gualdoni's richly nuanced paintings, six of which made up her impressive sol...
  23. Britt Salvesen is the new curator of prints, drawings and photographs at the Milwauke...
  24. On May 18, the Dia Art Foundation opens its vast new facility in a converted printing...
  25. With a theme ("the ideal city") that is slightly less vague and pretentious than thos...
  26. "Manet/Velazquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting" is not just a dazzling show ...
  27. Art once claimed to offer entry into a world alternative to the everyday one, a world...
  28. This deliciously recherche exhibition reunited 21 American painters and sculptors who...
  29. Photographer David Levinthal has long fixated on toys as signifiers of cultural myths...
  30. Memory and personal history suffuse the quirky drawings that made up Candida Alvarez'...
  31. Malian photographer Malick Sidibe has been named the winner of the 2003 Hasselblad Fo...
  32. Architect Rafael Vinoly recently unveiled his design for a $225-million expansion and...
  33. Wifredo Lam and the International Avant-Garde, 1923-1982 by Lowery Stokes Sims, Austi...
  34. More than a decade after artists such as Lorna Simpson, Fred Wilson and Glenn Ligon g...
  35. Working mostly with polyester resin, Peter Soriano has created a series of crypto-fun...
  36. Handicapped by deafness--a consequence of suffering meningitis at the age of two--and...
  37. Over the past 15 years, British artist Chris Cunningham has worked on feature films, ...
  38. Don Gahr's hand-carved and painted wooden sculptures are positioned precisely on the ...
  39. Anish Kapoor is the recipient of the third International Prize "Julio Gonzalez," give...
  40. The Museum of Modern Art in New York recently announced two major curatorial appointm...
  41. Contrary to the first expectations, the first political tremor to shake the upcoming ...
  42. 1846 was the date, and not without reason Shall it be remembered until the end of tim...
  43. I was fortunate to see Frank Moore's posthumous retrospective, "Green Thumb in a Dark...
  44. There is nothing tricky about Elisa D'Arrigo's sculptures. The effort involved in the...
  45. Joyce Pensato's latest drawings of cartoon characters--Felix on the Run, Donald as a ...
  46. In this show of recent work, Chuck Close exhibited paintings and daguerreotypes toget...
  47. Melissa Longenecker's The Great Wide Fluorescence (2002) brilliantly combines the gen...
  48. The George and Helen Segal Foundation of New Jersey has announced the winners of its ...
  49. As we go to press, UNESCO, which prior to the war urged the U.S. to safeguard Iraqi h...
  50. On Mar. 20, the Asian Art Museum opened in its grand new home in the heart of San Fra...
  51. Current Israeli art rests in the hands of a remarkable group of women who have come t...
  52. They say each person is an island, but it's not true, each person is a silence, yes, ...
  53. For her second New York solo show, titled "Body Shop," Mexico City artist Betsabee Ro...
  54. The work of New York artist Carol Diehl possesses the intimacy of a personal journal ...
  55. This show, titled "Sock Monkeys," featured 41 recent works by California-born, New Yo...
  56. You entered the semipublic space of the gallery as if trespassing. A group of handsom...
  57. Seven winners of the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts have been anno...
  58. The European antitrust class-action suit against Sotheby's and Christie's was settled...
  59. To inaugurate the Sculpture Center's new home in a soaring, brick-walled, steel-frame...
  60. Tejano artist Franco Mondini-Ruiz's latest exhibition, "Nacho de Paz," is a festive, ...
  61. Known for his 2001 series of large-scale portraits of professional athletes construct...
  62. Yoshitomo Nara's pouting doll-girls dominated this show, occupying plates, paintings,...
  63. Despina Meimaroglou's exhibition at the Rethymnon Centre, a former soap factory in th...
  64. Jed Perl, art critic for the New Republic, is the first recipient of the Marian and A...
  65. In March, a sneak preview of the Snow Show was held in the towns of Rovaniemi and Kem...
  66. In this large show that inaugurated Lehmann Maupin's new Chelsea space, Tracey Emin o...
  67. Kevin Landers so consistently hits the spot that, sooner or later, people will have t...
  68. Born in 1930, one of 10 children in a Georgia farming family, Benny Andrews grew up d...
  69. Like his peers Takashi Murakami and Hiroshi Sugito, Japanese artist Tam Ochiai is inf...
  70. The Judith Rothschild Foundation has announced 22 grants totaling over $270,000 for p...
  71. It's not yet 30 years since Judy Chicago started working--alone--on The Dinner Party,...
  72. Dennis Hollingsworth's mission is to find ways to produce abstract paintings without ...
  73. In a Brooklyn warehouse room the size of his gallery, Rob Fischer built an extravagan...
  74. Kit Rank is a 53-year-old painter, mostly self-taught, from Texas. Her first exhibiti...
  75. Although I came to know Sidney Tillim's work fairly well after I met him in 1981 (he ...
  76. The Nevada Museum of Art in Reno opens on May 24. Designed by architect Will Bruder, ...
  77. This year's "Armory Show: The International Fair of New Art," held in New York, Mar. ...
  78. While American Pop artists like Andy Warhol and James Rosenquist were reimagining the...
  79. Part bad-boy perversity, part mock-science, part neo-romantic fantasy, this exhibitio...
  80. With the rekindling of interest in the connotations and implications of color--for ar...
  81. Willard Holmes is the new director of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartfor...
  82. Jack Goldstein, 57, artist, committed suicide on Mar. 14 at his home in San Bernardin...
  83. Demonstrating an unusual and extensive commitment to art by a professional sports org...
  84. Insouciant yet earnest, Andrew Masullo's seriously witty new paintings combine the in...
  85. Not the usual stuff of gallery art, Sergei Bugaev Afrika's spectacle on the pity and ...
  86. How can there be relevance for hard-edge abstraction today when every aspect of our w...
  87. Cleve Gray has been creating abstract paintings since the 1940s, and working in serie...
  88. New York's Whitney Museum has received a $1.5-million grant from the Mellon Foundatio...
  89. Lisa Freiman is the new associate curator of contemporary art at the Indianapolis Mus...
  90. As New York City's cultural institutions are dealing with shrinking endowments, lower...
  91. Pierre Klossowski's large-scale pencil drawings come out of a visual tradition predat...
  92. The art public has long appreciated images, motifs or inflections of style that are e...
  93. Ernst Kitzinger, 90, Byzantine art expert, died Jan. 22 in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. The Ger...
  94. The U.S chapter of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) recently prese...
  95. Titled "Haptic Memory," this show featured 14 recent oil-on-wood panels by Kay Walkin...
  96. Nine months of speculation about the future of the World Trade Center site ended in l...
  97. Debra Bermingham's oil-on-panel paintings come in two varieties: landscapes and, pred...
  98. Architect Zaha Hadid has been chosen to design an addition to the Price Tower Arts Ce...
  99. On Feb. 21, after more than a decade of deliberation, the German parliament finally s...
  100. Robert Ryman transformed PaceWildenstein Chelsea into a gracious, four-room museum wi...
  101. When is an art-historical footnote not a footnote? When she is the Baroness Elsa von ...
  102. This retrospective exhibition presented works spanning the five-decade-long career of...
  103. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, recently received 60 paintings, drawings and sculptu...
  104. A large-scale, site-specific work by Dennis Oppenheim, Blue Shirt, commissioned for M...
  105. This massive exhibition of single-channel videos presents a fascinating trip back in ...
  106. Philip Pearlstein has been elected president of the American Academy of Arts and Lett...
  107. Christian Garnett's abstract paintings of 2002 have a slightly retro look to them. Th...
  108. Paul Brown's recent paintings evoke memory by way of tactility, color and the metapho...
  109. In an elegant little publication she created to accompany this show of 50 recent coll...
  110. Jim Torok's paintings are shrinking. In his last solo show at Bill Maynes, his perfec...
  111. All Mark Manders's works--drawings, sculptures, installations and short films--offer ...
  112. As both painter and cultural archivist, Erik Parker incorporates written allusions to...
  113. Unconventional women were the subjects of two video installations by Turkish filmmake...
  114. The French-born, Harvard-educated architect Thierry W. Despont has designed homes for...
  115. Brian Ferriso, senior director of curatorial affairs at the Milwaukee Art Museum sinc...
  116. Perhaps sooner than expected, San Francisco's Jewish Museum and Berkeley's Judah L. M...
  117. In her astonishingly labor-intensive previous works, Liza Lou dazzled viewers with me...
  118. Christopher Deeton's first solo show in New York consisted of mostly small paintings ...
  119. For the naming of these large, joyless, full beaver spread-shot paintings and small-s...
  120. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has distributed a number of large grants in recent mo...
  121. Lynda Roscoe Hartigan has been named chief curator of the Peabody Essex Museum in Sal...
  122. Displaying the Marvelous: Marcel Duchamp, Salvador Dali, and Surrealist Exhibition In...
  123. At first glance, Alix Pearlstein's video installation Episode suggested a cheesy fami...
  124. French artist Valerie Belin produces large-scale, fine-grained black-and-white photog...
  125. Pointing out that Wlodzimierz Ksiazek's ravishingly obdurate abstractions resist easy...
  126. Bruno Simard's small sculptures owe much to the tradition of Canadian art that values...
  127. Dedicated art-world globetrotters will have to plan their biennial jaunts wisely this...
  128. The Americas Society in New York has named art historian and curator Marysol Nieves a...
  129. The Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Fla., shows off its dramatic new Southwe...
  130. In the early 1960s, after some 40 years of having enjoyed a state of comparative anon...
  131. In Toba Khedoori's recent and much-anticipated exhibition, which inaugurated David Zw...
  132. Color photography's recent ability to rival painting in scale and stylistic range see...
  133. Les Rogers's use of a broad range of painterly devices is a familiar neo-expressionis...
  134. David Vandekop (1937-1994) had an amazing feel for scale and could make convincing sc...
  135. After almost 25 years, the city of New York has finally approved Christo and Jeanne-C...
  136. Helaine Posner, curator at the MIT List Visual Arts Center from 1991 to '98, was rece...
  137. In the wake of its dismal fall auction results in New York [see "Front Page," Jan. '0...
  138. Late Picabia has overtaken early Picabia as a subject of consuming interest. The chan...
  139. The oil paintings of Richard Hogan suggest a kind of primitive palimpsest of delicate...
  140. On a late-August Tuesday in 1998, the storm named Bonnie reached the status of a majo...
  141. The most salient characteristic of Pat Passlof's painting is its strong, sure brushst...
  142. Many who know this Berlin gallery space were surprised by Brigitte Waldach's exhibiti...
  143. Poet, music critic and former General Foods executive Dana Gioia was unanimously appr...
  144. The Heinz Architectural Center at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh has appoin...
  145. The prospect of another U.S. military intervention in Iraq has raised concerns by man...
  146. When I was a student at the School of American Ballet, every adult I knew assumed tha...
  147. Anselm Kiefer named this exhibition of eight vast paintings and two monumental sculpt...
  148. Reminiscent of both "Hang in There" kitty posters and Audubon prints, Ann Craven's vi...
  149. Matt Marello is known for eccentric videos in which he uses digital techniques to ins...
  150. MARCH 7-10, 2003 NEW YORK CITY PIERS 88 & 90 TWELFTH AVENUE AT 48TH & 50TH STREETS ...
  151. Sharon F. Patton, director of the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, where...
  152. Mexico City-based critic and curator Cuauhtemoc Medina has assumed the newly created ...
  153. On May 17 and 18, coinciding with the opening of the new Dia: Beacon facility [see "F...
  154. A big photographic Self-Portrait (2000) introduced a wonderful survey of Gillian Wear...
  155. If Louis Comfort Tiffany had ever entertained the improbable notion of designing a st...
  156. In Among My Souvenirs, Audrey Ushenko gives us a new form of salon painting that is b...
  157. Robert Morris's 1966 statement that "the better new work takes relationships out of t...
  158. Samuel Sachs II, director of New York's Frick Collection for the past six years, has ...
  159. Alexander Gray was recently appointed executive director of Artadia (formerly ArtCoun...
  160. Added to the list of museum projects being put on hold, or canceled, is Daniel Libesk...
  161. Since the mid-1960s, Doug Ohlson has been making large paintings from blocks and band...
  162. Barrel-chested, bristly and incendiary, but also matronly and gemutlich, Willie Cole'...
  163. Departing from his recent, large, multipanel pieces, James McGarrell showed new works...
  164. Jim Shaw's concurrent exhibitions, both based on a fictitious religion called "O-ism,...
  165. Kate M. Sellers has been named director of the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. On Ja...
  166. Rhoda Eitel-Porter has been selected as curator and head of the department of drawing...
  167. New York photographer Spencer Tunick was recently named Chile's 2002 Man of the Year ...
  168. The spirit of Pop art is generally associated with the antic side of the bipolar '60s...
  169. Nina Levy has bounded onto the New York stage in the last few years with multiple and...
  170. An ocular amble into Chuck Connelly's dense thickets of paint is not a lyrical "walk ...
  171. In the golden age of Los Angeles art many years ago, Ferus Gallery emerged like Briga...
  172. Jan. '03, p. 29: Our auction story erroneously reported Christie's sale prices of $6....
  173. Nicholas Baume, curator of contemporary art at the Wadsworth Atheneum since 1998, is ...
  174. The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has announced two new curatorial appointments. Shawn...
  175. The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe recently announced that it has reached an agr...
  176. David Hammons returned to Manhattan for his first high-profile exhibition in more tha...
  177. Harold Gregor has sometimes dealt with the low landscape of central Illinois, where h...
  178. "Ironic/Iconic," curated by Christine Y. Kim, featured the work of the three 2001-02 ...
  179. The Francis J. Greenburger Awards for 2003 were recently presented to five artists by...
  180. Henry H. Hawley has retired from the Cleveland Museum of Art after more than 42 years...
  181. Peter Held is the new curator of ceramics at Arizona State University Art Museum in T...
  182. Painting and the Past Forgetting the past, or keeping it safely quarantined or neve...
  183. Blur, as a way for photography to examine its own soft spots, has thrived lately. But...
  184. Maine sculptor John Bisbee, who teaches at Bowdoin College, made his New York debut a...
  185. In the artist/theorist tradition of Robert Smithson, Joseph Nechvatal, a pioneer in t...
  186. The painter Leslie Wayne and her husband, sculptor Don Porcaro, combined their very d...
  187. Though its budget for fiscal year 2003 is still pending in Congress, the National End...
  188. Received wisdom has it that Abstract Expressionism was not a significant movement for...
  189. Seated on a staircase, legs akimbo, Sam Taylor-Wood occupies the frame of her own lar...
  190. The sounds emanating from the four video pieces in Gary Hill's recent exhibition at G...
  191. Using only subtle changes in color, shape and texture in his paintings, Jerald leans ...
  192. Klaus Kertess, who organized the 1995 Whitney Biennial, has been selected as adjunct ...
  193. The College Art Association recently presented its 2002 awards during its annual conf...