Stories Collection

  1. Arno Rafael Minkkinen's exhibition at Tiber de Nagy comprised 19 small to medium-size...
  2. The 13 lively paintings and works on paper in this recent exhibition, "FE = Form/Ener...
  3. Robert Jay Wolff (1905-1977) had a one-man show at the Guggenhelm in 1951, was collec...
  4. Lars Grambye is the new director of the Malmo Konsthall, Since 1997, he had been dire...
  5. The Toledo Museum of Art recently broke ground for its Glass Pavilion. Designed by ar...
  6. Completed in 1962, Eero Saarinen's TWA terminal at New York City's John F. Kennedy Ai...
  7. Since the late 1960s when Natvar Bhavsar first showed his paintings in New York, his ...
  8. "Mark/Point/Stand" is the latest show from the New York-based collaborative of Adam A...
  9. Scrawled on a red chalkboard in an ordinary schoolroom are white Cyrillic letters tha...
  10. Many of the 11 paintings in Richard Bosman's first solo show in New York since 1994 f...
  11. Allan Sekula's most recent series of photographs, collectively titled "Black Tide," d...
  12. Frederick John Lamp has been named the first curator of African art at the Yale Unive...
  13. The University of Michigan Museum of Art in Ann Arbor has selected the proposal of Br...
  14. As we get to press, a clear assessment of damages caused by the deadly fires that too...
  15. Like Duchamp with his snow shovel, Austrian artist Erwin Wurm can make art with littl...
  16. For his third solo exhibition in New York, Marco Maggi presented a new version of Hot...
  17. In a portentous fragment of dialogue from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, re...
  18. Barbara Goodstein is a gifted sculptor. Since 1983, she has worked with white plaster...
  19. Berkeley-based artist Dean Byington makes only five to 10 works per year. Ranging fro...
  20. Art historian and A.LA. contributor Maura Reilly has been appointed curator of the El...
  21. Jack and Jane Meador, brother-and-sister pair involved in a high-profile post-WWII ar...
  22. On Sept. 20, the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, previously the Forum for Contempo...
  23. Cuba's economy today is in tatters, barely supported by tourism and the limited growt...
  24. As weightless as dreams and as elusive as their meaning, Do-Huh Suh's installation Th...
  25. Color was the driving force behind Nola Zirin's eight abstract canvases made during t...
  26. Known in the art world for appropriating famous paintings and selectively removing th...
  27. In her installation last season at MAM, Teresita Fernandez continued her minimalist r...
  28. Charles Desmarais, director of the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati for eight y...
  29. The Edstrand Foundation, based in Malmo, Sweden, has presented its Edstrandska Prize ...
  30. To help museums defray skyrocketing insurance rates affected by the 9/11 terrorist at...
  31. The Barnes Foundation is making slow but steady progress in its bid to relocate its r...
  32. The heart of the Museum of Modern Art has long been its unrivaled collection of paint...
  33. In his recent exhibition titled "The Singing Posters," Allen Ruppersberg created a ma...
  34. Peggy Cyphers's abstract, mixed-medium paintings often seem to have been created thro...
  35. In an unlikely but intriguing pairing, Latino painter Miguel Trelles and Korean-born ...
  36. Robert Miller, owner of one of New York's leading galleries, was originally trained a...
  37. James N. Wood has announced his intention to resign within the year as director and p...
  38. ArtTable, a national organization of women visual-arts leaders, has presented its fir...
  39. New York's Museum of Modern Art has appointed Ann Temkin and Joachim Pissarro as cura...
  40. Despite attempts by architectural preservationists to purchase Mies van der Rohe's Fa...
  41. Many visitors attending the opening of the Sixth Sharjah International Biennial in ea...
  42. In his second solo show at The Project, Kori Newkirk continued to explore identity po...
  43. Greg Bogin navigates between the rock of hard-edge painting and the hard place of the...
  44. Nalini Malani was in the forefront of a generation of Indian artists who, in the 1980...
  45. Over more than three decades, Joseph Marioni has refined his beautiful and intelligen...
  46. Art historian Mark Rosenthal has been named adjunct curator of contemporary art at th...
  47. The Smithsonian American Art Museum recently awarded its $2,000 Eldredge Prize for di...
  48. A number of well-known architects have recently signed on to assist in rebuilding Low...
  49. The last sculptural environment created by Niki de Saint Phalle--and the only one in ...
  50. What intrigued me about the exhibition "Donald Judd: Early Work 1955-1968," and promp...
  51. When I visited the Louvre as a teenager, I stood before the Mona Lisa with a throng o...
  52. This recent show was the first New York exhibition since 1986 for Chinese-born, Paris...
  53. This exhibition brought together four of Dan Devine's sculptures made since 1998. Eve...
  54. A slew of sculptors have emerged in Los Angeles in the last few years, but most seem ...
  55. Kenneth J. Foster was recently named executive director of the Yerba Buena Center for...
  56. The Whitney Museum of American Art recently inaugurated a new conservation studio. Lo...
  57. The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, Conn., will auction 310 works f...
  58. On a Personal Note I'm trying to figure out why it has taken me so long--five years...
  59. The distinction of "art" from "life" established around 1800 led, within 100 years, t...
  60. Tom Wesselmann and his fellow Cincinnatian Jim Dine, as well as Larry Rivers, Claes O...
  61. Sharon Engelstein's two very large, flesh-colored balloon sculptures initially resemb...
  62. Charles Long's amiable, spacey sculptures and interactive play stations are quintesse...
  63. Matthias Waschek has been appointed director of the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts ...
  64. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art recently announced that it has received 11 major...
  65. Landlocked scholars no longer have to travel to the East or West Coasts to consult th...
  66. Like other conceptual works that map complex systems, such as Sol LeWitt's "Incomplet...
  67. In late 1966, when resistance to the war in Vietnam was beginning to roil, Conceptual...
  68. Enlivening the solitary practice of Net surfing, Thomas Ruff created the estheticized...
  69. Two "companion" exhibitions, curated by Judith Tannenbaum of the RISD Museum, examine...
  70. Frank Lobdell first came to public notice as one of the generation of artists who cre...
  71. Eleanor Jones Harvey is the new chief curator of the Smithsonian American Art Museum,...
  72. The Santa Monica Museum of Art has received $1 million from the Annenberg Foundation ...
  73. The Museum Kampa, a venue in Prague that houses international contemporary art and an...
  74. We know him best for the groundbreaking abstractions done in Berlin in 1914 and '15, ...
  75. Based on reproductions of paintings famous in part because of the frequency of their ...
  76. The howling figures of Francis Bacon's caged and martyred men resurface in Lyle Ashto...
  77. "Edna Andrade: Optical Paintings, 1963-1986" at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Un...
  78. Davis Birks is a 45-year-old Seattle native who lives and works in Guadalajara, Mexic...
  79. With the Oct. 7 opening of the 12,000-square-foot, $2.5-million Center for Architectu...
  80. The Latino Cultural Center, a new art, performance and education facility designed by...
  81. The Bellevue [Wash.] Art Museum made a surprising announcement in late September that...
  82. For the past 10 years, Sharon Ellis has been making paintings of nature transfigured....
  83. Nancy Becker-Pettibone's meticulous watercolors fall within the generous embrace of a...
  84. On first view, the image on the gallery announcement for Beverly McIver's exhibition ...
  85. This was the first U.K. solo show for Dublin-born artist David Timmons. Titled "Deep ...
  86. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation recently announced 24 recipients of...
  87. Terry Frost, 87, British abstract painter, died of cancer at his home in Newlyn, Corn...
  88. River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West, by Rebecca Soln...
  89. One could well appreciate Janine Antoni's excellent new sculpture To Draw a Line with...
  90. John Newman's new sculptures are like picaresque novels. They carry us from volumetri...
  91. Emerging as a young artist in the 1940s, Charles Seliger circulated among Mark Rothko...
  92. The specific clarity of Ray Charles White's photo-derived, editioned silkscreen views...
  93. The white, wooden, three-dimensional works of Gerhard Doehler are based on simple geo...
  94. German painter Markus Lupertz has been awarded the International Prize "Julio Gonzale...
  95. The U.S. Supreme Court recently announced that it would hear an appeal by the Austria...
  96. Andy Goldsworthy's installation Garden of Stones, a memorial dedicated to the victims...
  97. The white cube, virtually unchallenged as the reigning' museum and gallery paradigm, ...
  98. Tony Oursler's recent show included seven video-sculptures, all from 2003. A variatio...
  99. This exhibition at Garth Clark's new outpost demonstrated why the gallery needs a sup...
  100. After some 20 years of exhibiting regularly in Europe, Tom Levine had his first solo ...
  101. "I took this picture a long time ago. It's different now. I'm not supposed to use air...
  102. To the Editors: After reading the article "Feminism at 40" by Carey Lovelace in the...
  103. When, in 1980, John Coplans went back to being an artist, he said that he couldn't po...
  104. "What's the matter?" might have been the most relevant question to ask as you walked ...
  105. For his first New York solo show, Israeli-born Omer Fast, now based in Berlin, presen...
  106. If for no other reason than that she introduced the term "Bad Girl" into art discours...
  107. For his first New York solo exhibition, Jim Dingilian purchased thrift shop silver-pl...
  108. Throughout his career Stephen Estock has constantly refined his love of visual sensat...
  109. R.B. Kitaj's "Los Angeles Pictures," made since the artist returned to L.A. from Lond...
  110. Adam D. Weinberg, director since 1999 of the Addison Gallery of American Art at Phill...
  111. The Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach recently named Jonathan Stuhlman curator ...
  112. Laurie Winters, curator of earlier European art at the Milwaukee Art Museum, was rece...
  113. For a 2004 exhibition, the Institut Valencia d'Art Modern (IVAM) seeks films or video...
  114. By Ann Reynolds, Cambridge, MIT Press, 2003; 364 pages, $39.95. In 1973, Robert Smi...
  115. It is a given that most museum shows of recent art serve to ratify accepted tastes an...
  116. Putting a human face on the Palestinian side of the Middle East conflict, Emily Jacir...
  117. Cui Fei received her undergraduate degree from Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts in her n...
  118. Italian artist Luisa Rabbia began exploring the intimate world of sleep in a 1999 per...
  119. "Faustroll Landscape," presenting portraits and landscapes from the 1980s by Thomas C...
  120. Lori Starr has been appointed director of the Skirball Museum in Los Angeles; she wil...
  121. Americans for the Arts recently presented its newly created Public Art Network Award ...
  122. June '03, p. 43: Contrary to our report, the Tallix art fabricating facility in Beaco...
  123. by Uwe Koch, D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, New York, 2003; 335 pages, $55. It'...
  124. In his refined images featuring idealized, Neo-Classical figures, painter Carlo Maria...
  125. A catalogue of bloody wounds constituted the newest phase of this mini-retrospective ...
  126. Since 1965, Roman Opalka has been painting the same thing, number sequences. You know...
  127. Robert Wogan's recent installation, Below (United Radiance), evoked the labyrinthine ...
  128. A hundred years ago this year, when Isabella Stewart Gardner opened her palazzo-style...
  129. Michelle Grabner and Brad Killam are both consummate multitaskers of the kind that ar...
  130. The UCLA Hammer Museum and the UCLA Film and Television Archive recently announced th...
  131. Meg Linton has been named director of exhibitions and public programs at the Otis Col...
  132. The Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis has awarded six Eiteljorg Fellowships for Native...
  133. The state of California can't get a break, from the dot-com bust to rolling blackouts...
  134. At a time when international art festivals seem excessive in both number and scope, i...
  135. Newton and Helen Mayer Harrison's first solo show in New York in 10 years, at Ronald ...
  136. Knox Martin named his new series of generously scaled, unframed drawings "Caprichos" ...
  137. This exhibition of 24 recent works by Virginia-born New York painter Carter Hodgkin f...
  138. With certain utterly simple works, as with Maggie Michael's "Clones" series in this s...
  139. Internationally admired for her excellent skills in weaving, needlework and crochet, ...
  140. Peter Morrin, director of the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Ky., has been appointed...
  141. Stacey McCarroll, photography historian, has assumed the post of director and curator...
  142. The Pew Charitable Trusts has awarded $50,000 Fellowships in the Arts to 12 Philadelp...
  143. On Oct. 19, the long-awaited Nasher Sculpture Center will open in Dallas on a 2.4-acr...
  144. With her first major exhibition, "Splat Boom Pow!: The Influence of Cartoons in Conte...
  145. Lyrical scenes of woods, pastures, lakes, streams, coastal sites and, perhaps most fa...
  146. Despite the annoying persistence of the myth of the isolated genius, contemporary art...
  147. Michael Madore's debut show at Phyllis Kind presented 26 paintings and drawings from ...
  148. Carl Plansky has an enviable facility with oil paint. A single work may be thickly en...
  149. On a recent visit to the Chinati Foundation, Donald Judd's sculpture compound in Marf...
  150. In this recent exhibition titled "The Burnished Ramp," Neal Tait's second solo show a...
  151. Don Bacigalupi, director since 1999 of the San Diego Museum of Art, has been named di...
  152. Patrick Shaw Cable, assistant curator of prints at the Cleveland Museum of Art, has b...
  153. The Bush Foundation, based in St. Paul, Minn., recently announced the recipients of i...
  154. In the wake of the looting of Iraq's National Museum in Baghdad last April, estimates...
  155. Salvador Dali spent considerable time in New York in the 1930s, cultivating an audien...
  156. Using a deceptively limited vocabulary--chiseled cedar, a few traces of graphite--Urs...
  157. May Stevens regards the cursive, richly allusive and nearly unreadable texts she inco...
  158. In the seven new abstract paintings that comprised his recent show, Salvatore Federic...
  159. This exhibition was an impressive presentation of six huge acrylic paintings by Hansp...
  160. Mark H.C. Bessire, director of the Institute of Contemporary Art at the Maine College...
  161. The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond recently unveiled its plan for a $100-mi...
  162. The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, Conn., broke ground in Septembe...
  163. A billboard on the highway from Noi Bai Airport to Hanoi depicts a smiling woman wear...
  164. The five large, untitled abstract sculptures Joel Shapiro showed at Pace Wildenstein ...
  165. Skillfully if summarily painted in the manner of high-quality adventure-book illustra...
  166. Judith Murray's recent abstract works (oil on canvas, 1999 to 2003) speak of the plea...
  167. A halo is a circle of sacredness, a light-emanating form that signals a holy presence...
  168. Gillian Brown and Inga McCaslin Frick have shown together in the past, and they paire...
  169. Friederike Feldmann's approach to painting appears both scientifically methodical and...
  170. Olga Viso, a curator at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden since 1995, has bee...
  171. The Art Institute of Chicago recently announced that it has received a $2.75-million ...
  172. To the Editors: Thanks to Lyle Rexer for his article on the exhibition "The History...
  173. A new venue for contemporary art, the Schaulager, recently opened on the outskirts of...
  174. "The Smiths," which appeared last winter at the Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary ...
  175. When Basque modernist Jorge Oteiza announced his retirement from sculpture in 1959 at...
  176. Duncan Hannah's atmospheric realism recalls that of Edward Hopper by way of 1930s and...
  177. In the early 1960s, Tony Berlant came across a pile of metal advertising signs that, ...
  178. Gabriela Machado is a Brazilian artist whose flowing, gestural brushstrokes--crimson ...
  179. Kit Keith, a longtime St. Louis resident now based in Brooklyn, is a denizen of thrif...
  180. NEW ENGLAND The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University Office of Admissions...
  181. So just how big is the 50th Venice Biennale? Although the Italian pleas has tried to ...
  182. Writing in these pages last year, Marcia E. Vetrocq suggested that "Arte Povera has b...
  183. In 1986, Lynn Davis began a photographic cycle of great monuments in the tradition of...
  184. This exhibition of John Cage's celebrated "Ryoanji Drawings" and Merce Cunningham's f...
  185. An unusually coherent group show at the National Museum of Contemporary Art offers ph...
  186. Anne Little Poulet, curator emerita of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has been name...
  187. Dorothy Miller, former MOMA curator, died on July 11. Her obituary appears on p. 29. ...
  188. In mid-July, Egypt contacted several foreign institutions to ask for the return of a ...
  189. Wandering in a Zurich museum some years ago, with dreary weather outside and drearier...
  190. After Athanasius Kircher's Search for the Geometry of Illusion is the title of one of...
  191. Equipped with an 8-by-10 view camera and a patient regard for the history of place, J...
  192. Jane Irish, given the opportunity to show in the Pennsylvania Academy's Morris Galler...
  193. For the last 20 years, Rob van Koningsbruggen has been renowned in Holland as a color...
  194. Charles A. Stainback, professor of liberal studies at Skidmore College and director o...
  195. Ongoing turmoil at the Terra Foundation over the future of the Terra Museum of Americ...
  196. Ever since his thickly impastoed canvases were first shown internationally in the mid...
  197. Yoke One at P.S. 1 In Ceiling Painting (YES Painting), 1966, Yoke One intends a parti...
  198. Nell Blaine's paintings of the 1950s are of interest not just in themselves, but for ...
  199. A couple of years ago, sculptor Yuriko Yamaguchi started working with the imagery of ...