Stories Collection

  1. Different artists achieve their maturity at different times. In the last five years, ...
  2. In a series called "Friends," Constanze Schweiger creates a nexus of invisible links ...
  3. It's hard to say what made the strongest impression in Jeff Colson's recent show, whi...
  4. The Penny McCall Foundation recently presented seven $30,000 awards. The visual-arts ...
  5. Squelching rumors that it might permanently shut down its Chelsea quarters--a pioneer...
  6. I first saw Bus Jan Ader's work in Southern California in the mid-'70s and was transf...
  7. The work of Tam Van Tran, a Vietnamese-born artist who currently lives in Los Angeles...
  8. If contemporary art criticism still invented labels for movements, Julie Heffernan's ...
  9. In his second solo exhibition at Jack Shainman, Madrid-born, New York-based Carlos Ve...
  10. In 16 recent mixed-medium paintings executed on wood panels, Griff Williams manages t...
  11. The Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts has awarded seven $20,000 grants to ...
  12. The 400-member U.S. chapter of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) re...
  13. Just what is it that makes Kim MacConnel's art so different, so appealing? Part of th...
  14. Passages of the posthumously published diaries of Ossie Clark, fashion designer to Sw...
  15. Composed of parallel, vertical rows of buttons sewn to canvas, alternating with bands...
  16. Like the meditative paintings of Aboriginal Australian artists, Henry Pearson's drawi...
  17. Joseph Biel's exquisite new figurative drawings, in graphite or pastel, are irrationa...
  18. The Joan Mitchell Foundation recently gave its 2003 grants, worth $15,000 each, to 10...
  19. German critic and curator Roger Buergel has been named director of Documenta 12, open...
  20. Despite widely reported disputes between architects David Childs and Daniel Libeskind...
  21. Peg Alston Fine Arts Tel: 212.663.8333 By Appointment Only. Specializing in Afr...
  22. By way of introduction to the theme of this exhibition, Judy Glantzman's preoccupatio...
  23. Robert Kelly, who has been represented by Linda Durham since 1984, frequently shows a...
  24. Nicole Eisenman excels at off-the-cuff feints and large-scale blow-outs, raggedy-edge...
  25. For her second show at this gallery, titled "Some Things You Are Not Allowed to Send ...
  26. The National Endowment for the Arts recently announced the first recipients of its 20...
  27. Critic and curator Dave Hickey has been appointed to a two-year post as guest profess...
  28. In recent months, the London art world has been buzzing about the decision by mega-co...
  29. The 1970s trend toward incorporating pattern, decorative motifs and the often underva...
  30. Ingrid Calame traces the contours of stains she finds on the streets of New York and ...
  31. Francisca Sutil uses color to communicate spiritual and psychological states. Her rec...
  32. Timothy App's precise, clean-edged abstractions are carefully toned with muted blacks...
  33. The recent photo works of the Belgian artist David Claerbout lb. 1969) were installed...
  34. Sweden's Moderna Museet in Stockholm reopens on Feb. 14, after the completion of an e...
  35. Thom Collins is the new executive director of the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore. H...
  36. The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., recently unveiled plans for the $...
  37. Montien Boonma's art is inseparable from certain facts of his life. The herbs that ma...
  38. German-born Clemens Weiss, a resident of both Germany and New York, presented a rambl...
  39. Ruth Root is an artist with an insider's sense of humor. Taking cues from painters as...
  40. Six installations and three suites of performance photos composed this mini-retrospec...
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  42. Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum recently closed its doors for an extensive renovation an...
  43. Nannette V. Meciejunes was recently named executive director of the Columbus Museum o...
  44. Almost since the day it was installed on a London construction site in early December...
  45. Pop art in the United States has had a pretty smooth ride. Apart from some predictabl...
  46. In this confident New York debut, Bombay artist Atul Dodiya proposed a long list of g...
  47. This exhibition of recent paintings (all works 2003) captured Brenda Goodman at a dec...
  48. Need confirmation that contemporary Chinese art is steadily gaining ground in U.S. mi...
  49. Grayson Perry, who makes ceramic vases featuring provocative imagery, is the winner o...
  50. The O. Winston Link Museum, a venue devoted to works by the photographer best known f...
  51. Stephen Snoddy is the new director of the Baltic contemporary art center in Gateshead...
  52. Foul Perfection: Essays and Criticism, by Mike Kelley, edited by John C. Welchman, Ca...
  53. In the late 1950s, James Rosenquist (born in 1933 in Grand Forks, N.D.) made a living...
  54. Eschewing the Duchampian tactics that have informed much of his work to date, Gabriel...
  55. The latest artists-in-residence program at the Studio Museum in Harlem concluded with...
  56. In 1999, after many years in New York City, abstract painter Mark Schlesinger moved t...
  57. The American Institute of Architects awarded its 2004 Gold Medal to the late architec...
  58. Ibram Lassaw, 90, sculptor, died in East Hampton, N.Y., on Dec. 30, 2003. He is best ...
  59. Lynn D. Marsden-Atlass, former curator of American and contemporary art at the Chrysl...
  60. Polychrome Profusion: Selected Art Criticism 1990-2002, by Raphael Rubinstein, Lenox,...
  61. A modest gallery at Harvard University's Fogg Art Museum last year held a show of kee...
  62. There was a lot going on in Jason Middlebrook's drawing installation, but one motif w...
  63. William Beckman's latest exhibition included several landscape paintings and some cho...
  64. In these recent sculptures and works on paper, Rome-based artist Tristano di Robilant...
  65. Independent Curators International has given its Leo Award to philanthropist Ann Tene...
  66. The winner of the World Trade Center Memorial competition was announced on Jan. 6, as...
  67. Art might be among the first casualties in an education budget cut, but that doesn't ...
  68. The punning event title for this year PhotoEspana in Madrid--"NosOtros," which transl...
  69. On the evening of Sept. 15, 2003, a large crowd assembled in Central Park to witness ...
  70. "Playing with line, I imagine myself as one of those old-time storytellers--a storyte...
  71. For Danish painter Maja Lisa Engelhardt, Norse mythology, pre-historic archeology and...
  72. Argentinean-born, Miami-based artist-architects Rosario Marquardt and Roberto Behar a...
  73. Silke Otto-Knapp's luscious watercolors were a welcome reprieve from an adjacent show...
  74. SITE Santa Fe recently announced that it has finalized the purchase of its building a...
  75. Americans for the Arts, a nonprofit advocacy group, recently presented its National A...
  76. The Illinois Institute of Technology's chief claim to architectural fame rests with M...
  77. Gathered under the rubric "Maritime Works," this collection of well-crafted objects e...
  78. Susan Weil's 21-piece pictorial salute to James Joyce, accompanied by excerpts from h...
  79. The writer, theater director and founder of Zurich Dada Hugo Ball, presented the perf...
  80. This recent series of nine paintings by Judy Ledgerwood marks a significant pass in t...
  81. For his first show with Max Hetzler, Andre Butzer presented eight large oil paintings...
  82. Mario Merz, 78, Italian artist, died Nov. 9 at his home in Milan. A central figure in...
  83. During the 1940s and '50s, Graham Sutherland (1903-1980) was widely regarded as Brita...
  84. In the early '70s, as feminism was finding its way to the art world, Joan Semmel comm...
  85. Helmut Federle's recent exhibition of drawings dating from 1969 to 2001 illustrated t...
  86. Two recent installations, one by Kathleen McCarthy, the other by Patrick McGee, simil...
  87. NEW ENGLAND The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University 700 Beacon Street Bo...
  88. Things are looking iffy for the proposed branch of the Guggenheim Museum in Taichung,...
  89. A lawsuit was filed in State Supreme Court in Manhattan in November to prevent the Me...
  90. Francoise Sullivan's retrospective at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts surveyed 63 ye...
  91. It is not easy to practice painterly abstraction with any intelligence and avoid the ...
  92. Ena Swansea's earlier paintings, shown at Robert Miller in the late 1990s, were, for ...
  93. Dotty Attie creates picot-narratives by juxtaposing small paintings that contain appr...
  94. Utilizing photography, text, sculpture and video, Finnish-born Kati Toivanen homes in...
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  96. In early November, three preservation groups filed a suit to prevent the City of New ...
  97. In recent months Robert Smithson's monumental earthwork Spiral Jetty, built in 1970 i...
  98. Robert Whitman remains at the vanguard of a remarkable generation of artists whose wo...
  99. This was a breakthrough exhibition for painter Greg Stone, who has long been a mainst...
  100. Jane Wilson belongs to a generation of painters who are either devoted primarily to l...
  101. Chinese conceptualist Hong Lei is perhaps best known for his elusive photo-based work...
  102. Munakata Shiko (1903-1975) was one of Japan's great eccentrics, best known for high-s...
  103. Arne Glimcher, chairman of PaceWildenstein Gallery in New York, has been made a cheva...
  104. Less than a year after scrapping its ambitious $300-miliion expansion and renovation ...
  105. The Lower Manahattan Development Corporation (LMDC) recently announced the selection ...
  106. Polly Apfelbaum once used the phrase "geometric clarity" in an artist's statement, wh...
  107. There is formal grace and internal logic to the subtle misalignments of Stephen Westf...
  108. "Business art is the step that comes after Art," Andy Warhol wrote in 1975. What he m...
  109. The title of Jeff Brouws's show--"American Typologies: 117 Photographs of 10 Differen...
  110. The Anonymous Was A Woman Foundation has presented its 2003 prizes, worth $25,000 eac...
  111. The New Museum of Contemporary Art in Manhattan recently unveiled plans for its first...
  112. "Dali 2004," an extensive series of events, mostly in Spain, celebrating the 100th an...
  113. The landmark exhibition "Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch Master (1558-1617): Drawings, Print...
  114. Leo de Goede, a Dutch-born artist now living in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, by way of Lon...
  115. In her first New York exhibition, titled "Le pavilion du Quebec," Canadian artist Cyn...
  116. If the external world bursts with dazzling color, the domain of the psyche exists in ...
  117. Lisa Adams's recent paintings offer an uncomfortable look at beauty and miscommunicat...
  118. Margaret Klimek Phillips (1926-2002), former professor at the School of the Art Insti...
  119. Marilu Knode, senior curator of the Institute of Visual Arts (INOVA) at the Universit...
  120. The Cedar Rapids Art Museum recently acquired the historic home and studio of Grant W...
  121. P(l)ain Truth (1993), Ilppo Pohjola's film about transgender metamorphosis, runs just...
  122. This museum-quality display of over 60 of Kurt Schwitters's collages, paintings and d...
  123. The strategy of replicating the out-of-focus effects produced by film and photography...
  124. Los Angeles-based artist Meg Cranston has a reputation for clever yet humbly presente...
  125. Robert Yoder's recent solo exhibition was an advance on a number of fronts. Cut-up fr...
  126. The Washington, D.C.-based Phillips Collection has given its Duncan Phillips Award fo...
  127. The Dallas Museum of Art recently named Roslyn Adele Walker senior curator of the art...
  128. After several years marked by slumps and scandals, New York's three biggest auction h...
  129. Simply looking at the shimmering squares of Warren Rohrer's late abstract paintings, ...
  130. At some moments, with their palettes of muted grays and greens and their flat, stiffl...
  131. In Mario Naves's second one-person show at Elizabeth Harris, the artist again present...
  132. Coming off the critical and popular success of her contributions to "Greater New York...
  133. A recent show of drawings, plans and models by French architect Jean Renaudie (1925-1...
  134. Annu Palakunnathu Matthew is the winner of a $5,000 John Gutmann Photography Fellowsh...
  135. Liz Thompson, executive director of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council since 1997, ...
  136. Alberto Giacometti: Myth, Magic, and the Man, by Laurie Wilson, New Haven, Yale Unive...
  137. Realism is one of those apparently self evident concepts that disintegrates under scr...
  138. Overt displays of intelligence are considered just dandy in the art world so long as ...
  139. Michel Alexis is a French-born, New York-based painter with a penchant for lyrical ab...
  140. Organized by the Michener Art Museum as one in a series of shows focusing on Pennsylv...
  141. Now in his early 40s, Stefano Arienti belongs to the generation of Milanese artists w...
  142. The Seattle Art Museum recently unveiled its ambitious expansion plans designed by th...
  143. The winners of the National Medal of Arts were recently announced by President Bush. ...
  144. Amal Al-Khedairy, the founder and director of Al-Beit Al Iraqi (Iraqi House), Baghdad...
  145. Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988), born in Los Angeles to an American mother and a Japanese f...
  146. China Blue's less-is-more approach to installation art takes its inspiration from the...
  147. Suzan Frecon's abstractions appear to draw from the deep recesses of world culture. T...
  148. It is not often that a photographer in this city is given the extensive coverage Jose...
  149. Larry Sultan's "The Valley," a series ongoing since 1997, offers a behind-the-scenes ...
  150. The Japan Art Association has presented its Praemium Imperiale awards, worth approxim...
  151. Marked by three sweeping shells or arcs, the new Jubilee Church designed by Richard M...
  152. Chelsea Bowery Gallery 530 West 25th Street, 4th Floor New York, NY 10001 Tel...
  153. Almost 15 years after Isamu Noguchi's death, his reputation would not seem to need bu...
  154. Eduardo Sarabia's futile quest for buried treasure in the mountainous domain of Mexic...
  155. Fledgling artist Dorota Kolodziejczyk had her first solo exhibition at Joseph Helman ...
  156. In May and June, Richard Rezac showed 10 wall, floor, shelf and suspended sculptures ...
  157. Milena Dragicevic is a London-based painter, born in Serbia and educated in Canada. H...
  158. Artist Bill Viola and Susan Weber Soros, founder and director of the Bard Graduate Ce...
  159. The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York has announced its plans for the 2004 B...
  160. PALM BEACH (1) PATRICIA CLOUTIER GALLERY Gallery Square North 377 Tequesta Drive,...
  161. Judy Pfaff's installations have always danced at the edge of chaos, with their tangle...
  162. The two small drawings at the beginning of this exhibition of 28 self-portraits are f...
  163. Anyone who has watched evening fog roll into the temperate Pacific Northwest rain for...
  164. In the summer of 2002, Fort Lauderdale's Museum of Art held a retrospective exhibitio...
  165. In 1979, when he was 21, Marcel-li Antunez helped found La Fura dels Baus, a Barcelon...
  166. The Menil Collection in Houston has selected Josef Helfenstein as its new director. S...
  167. Over the last half year or so, there seems to have been an upsurge of interest in the...
  168. Californian Jason Rhoades, artist and agent provocateur, likes to put anything into t...
  169. In his first selo show, New York-based artist Jeff Sonhouse exhibited 12 works from 2...
  170. Over the nearly four decades of her career, New York-based Louise Fishman has amply d...
  171. The surface charm of Lourdes Cue's three-part installation "Dins liquidos" (Liquid Da...
  172. For over 30 years, German painter and autodidact Rune Mields has sought to represent ...
  173. The Nancy Graves Foundation has announced the recipients of its $25,000 grants for vi...
  174. The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) unveiled projects by eight finalis...
  175. The international Center of Photography's decision to organize its first Triennial of...
  176. Kenneth Snelson's sculptures are articulated by the artist in a system he calls "tens...
  177. For her first New York solo show, Jessica Rohrer embarked on an autobiographical tour...
  178. "Sci-Fi Bargello." That's one of the notes I made while looking at this recent collec...
  179. Jun Kaneko, Japanese-born but based in America for the last 40 years, is internationa...
  180. The Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum recently presented its Nation...
  181. The lawsuit brought in Paris against writer Hector Feliciano by the Wildenstein famil...
  182. Over the course of the past few months, as I was gathering information to write this ...
  183. The ingenuity of German oddball-artist Olav Westphalen lies in his ability to perform...
  184. Despite the ever-diminishing number of artists making art in the spirit of political ...
  185. The two worst years of a woman's life, it has been said, are when she is 13 and when ...
  186. For more than a decade, Liz Ward has been devoted to the study of natural forms and t...
  187. A loft space with views of the Acropolis housed this third solo show by 30-year-old, ...
  188. Atlanta's High Museum of Art unveiled newly renovated and reinstalled galleries throu...
  189. On Oct. 27, a congressional committee voted to increase the budget for the National E...
  190. The second Cooper-Hewitt National Design Triennial has a decidedly different feel tha...
  191. Berlin-based conceptualist Bjorn Dahlem made his New York solo debut with "Coma Sculp...
  192. For his second New York solo show, "Artificial Paradise," French photographer Didier ...
  193. Honolulu-born, Brooklyn-based Dan McCarthy uses oil on canvas, but his paintings ofte...
  194. The serenity in Melissa Miller's paintings and drawings of the past three years seems...
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  196. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art recently received a gift of some 100 photograp...
  197. Double Star Antares (1988), a public art work in Cincinnati designed by Athena Tacha,...
  198. Legal controversy has erupted over the estate of revered Malian portrait photographer...
  199. At first, glance, the title of the eighth Istanbul Biennial, "Poetic Justice," seemed...