Stories Collection

  1. "Replica" is the apt title given by Deborah Oropallo to her new series (200...
  2. Spanning more than 50 years, this survey of June Leaf's drawings, plus a few sculptur...
  3. The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation has announced 12 recipients of its 2004 gra...
  4. Linda Shearer was recently named director of the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinna...
  5. To the Editors: It was such a satisfaction to see Suzaan Boettger's long and enthus...
  6. Even when we know history, we're doomed to repeat it. That's the lesson of the strong...
  7. For the past decade or so, Jim Nutt has concentrated on painting schematic heads of i...
  8. A Los Angeles-based hairdresser and self-described "beauty operator" who al...
  9. From murals woven of plastic caution tape, Linda Hutchins has moved to a smaller scal...
  10. Mary Neumuth Mito lives and works near Santa Fe. Her first exhibition in New York in ...
  11. The Nancy Graves Foundation has presented its 2004 grants, worth $25,000 each, to Xen...
  12. Former art dealer Tom Healy is the new president of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Coun...
  13. To the Editors: I read the last paragraph of Raphael Rubinstein's article on John C...
  14. The 1988 Winter Olympics in Seoul served as an international coming-out party for Kor...
  15. "Picturing New York: The Paintings of Peter Ruta" is the first in the Museu...
  16. Robert Taplin's sculpture installation, The Five Outer Planets, is a work both beauti...
  17. A new trust has been established with the aim of providing emerging and midcareer art...
  18. Despite the departure of one of its three founding members, the Havana-based artist c...
  19. If memory serves, back in the bombastic 1980s, an article about the hot artists of th...
  20. Terrie Sultan, director of the University of Houston's Blaffer Gallery, Lynn Gumpert,...
  21. Kathleen Harleman has been named director of the Krannert Art Museum at the Universit...
  22. Once again, a change in leadership at Madrid's Reina Sofia has been marked by bitter ...
  23. I'd like to begin with full disclosure. I've lived in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, since 1...
  24. Howardena Pindell's first show in New York in a decade included nearly three dozen sm...
  25. Stephen Hendee's latest site-specific installation, titled Iron Skies, was another of...
  26. The latest estimate of damages from the devastating fire at Momart, an upscale art st...
  27. In the gallery space of Jorge Pardo's recent show, visitors confronted four sets of v...
  28. Born in Berlin in 1915, Friedel Dzubas fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and settled in New Y...
  29. The sculptor Viola Fray, a pioneer of California ceramics known for her colossal clay...
  30. Melissa Chiu, curator for contemporary Asian and Asian-American art at the museum of ...
  31. Since May, Buffalo artist Steve Kurtz has been the subject of a highly publicized fed...
  32. Mirrors, masks and video cameras have long been Joan Jonas trademarks. Also character...
  33. Seriously engaged with grudges to bare, Alex Bag conjured the multifaceted installati...
  34. To look at a Sarah McEneaney painting is to enter her world as she experiences it, wi...
  35. An ad hoc collective of New York artists and writers has published The People's Guide...
  36. The recent New York installation of the sweeping Dieter Roth retrospective at the Mus...
  37. A pioneer of Post-Minimalism, Lynda Benglis remains best known for her poured sculptu...
  38. One possible subject of this exhibition by Lothar Baumgarten may have been the politi...
  39. The Maison Rouge, a new venue for contemporary art, recently debuted in Paris. Locate...
  40. Debra Singer, associate curator of contemporary art at the Whitney Museum for the pas...
  41. Governor James McGreevey of New Jersey recently announced that a proposal by architec...
  42. Sixteen silver spheres, each 9 inches in diameter, were lined up in an evenly spaced ...
  43. For her first New York solo show, "Smoke Signal," Fort Worth-based artist H...
  44. As a medium firmly entrenched in contemporary art, film can be time-scrambled by Doug...
  45. Among the razor blades, nails, knives, needles, fishhooks, pins and tacks that bristl...
  46. With its opposed laser-cut louvers set into a 35-inch circle in an 8-by-8-foot partit...
  47. John Waters began his moviemaking career in the bedroom of his parents' home in Balti...
  48. The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation recently selected New York's Drawing Cent...
  49. The Japan Art Association recently presented its Praemium Imperiale awards to five in...
  50. Following a year in which official taste was resurgent in Chinese institutions but ev...
  51. Bunnies and extreme physical ordeals--the two main ingredients of Nayland Blake's wor...
  52. The centerpiece of Jason Clay Lewis's multimedia installation "The Black Death&q...
  53. A student of Hans Hofmann in the 1920s and '30s, Doris Cross became a suburban housew...
  54. For "The Dreamland Artist Club," a public-art intervention funded by Creati...
  55. Ever since Marc Quinn made Self (1991), a cast of his own head that used nine pints o...
  56. In every industrialized city there are streets in transitional areas where graffiti c...
  57. The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York recently selected architect Renzo Pian...
  58. On June 7, the US. Supreme Court ruled in a 6 to 3 decision that Maria Altmann, an 88...
  59. In this season of war and rumors of war, it's a relief to find art that reminds us ho...
  60. The Wunderkammer, as a historical format for demonstrating erudition through the coll...
  61. Adjectives habitually associated with Wes Mills's work--doodly, intuitive, reticent, ...
  62. It is perhaps inevitable that the biomorphic work of Santa Fe-based sculptor and glas...
  63. This exhibition featured a dozen recent paintings and a series of charcoal and mixed-...
  64. New York's Guggenheim Museum recently announced that its Frank Lloyd Wright building ...
  65. This past spring and summer, art auction totals went through the roof at sales in the...
  66. This was an outstanding instance of a private commercial gallery mounting a museum-qu...
  67. Texas ABILENE 4954. The Grace Museum 102 Cypress St 79601 (325) 673-4587, fax...
  68. Maine BANGOR 2594. Clark House Gallery 128 Hammond St 04401 (207) 942-9162 ...
  69. ALBANY 3354. Albany Center Galleries 161 Washington Ave 12210 (518) 462-4775, f...
  70. North Carolina ASHEVILLE 4459. 16 Patton 16 Patton 28801 (828) 236-2889, fax ...
  71. Summer Courbet and Friends "Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet," features some 1...
  72. Georgia ALBANY 2128. Albany Museum of Art 311 Meadowlark Dr 31707 (229) 439-8...
  73. Listed below are highlights from the spring and fall 2003 auction seasons, featuring ...
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  75. CALIFORNIA Bonhams & Butterfields San Francisco gallery: 220 San Bruno Avenue...
  76. The Guide is a comprehensive alphabetical listing, arranged by state and city, of U.S...
  77. John Elderfield, chief curator at large at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, assu...
  78. 1 Takashi Murakami Reversed Double Helix. Two balloons, 30 feet in diameter, a 30-f...
  79. Mario Merz, 78, a central figure in the Arte Povera movement, known for his "igl...
  80. Nevada LAS VEGAS 3101. City of Las Vegas Charleston Heights Art Center Gallery ...
  81. Colorado ARVADA 1685. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities 6901 Wadsworth ...
  82. NEW ENGLAND The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University Office of Admissions...
  83. A May 3 press conference marked the debut of Italy's newest art institution, the Cent...
  84. Featuring the work of some 60 artists, "Between Past and Future: New Photography...
  85. Despite their designer clothes and well-practiced air of affectless boredom, the lang...
  86. Several paintings in this exhibition appropriate fragments from an untitled poem by R...
  87. These two young artists, one Taiwanese-born and living in Canada, the other from Beij...
  88. This intriguing show by Brazilian-born, Santa Fe-based artist James Westwater consist...
  89. The New York Foundation for the Arts recently honored Christo and Jeanne-Claude and D...
  90. As this issue went to press, a formal announcement was pending from the Whitney Museu...
  91. One of Europe's largest art fairs, and widely regarded as one of the world's most pre...
  92. Video is the medium of the moment in China, where younger artists have embraced the r...
  93. This exhibition of work by eight young Chinese photographers mixed staged and more or...
  94. Darren Waterston's seventh exhibition at Charles Cowles, titled "Ghosts," c...
  95. A collection of individual, small-scale installations constituted the second New York...
  96. Linda Fleming's recent show, "(Dis)Integrated Ingredients," continued her l...
  97. The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Conn., reopens June 13, after a $9...
  98. Amid the turmoil in Iraq this spring, Matthew Bogdanos, the U.S. Marine colonel in ch...
  99. The Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh has released the names of artists selected f...
  100. After the demise of Soviet-bloc Communism, sentimentalists on the left did a good dea...
  101. Known for the 101 covers he produced for Life magazine--more than any other photograp...
  102. Gang Zhao is a philosophical painter with a cavalier touch. His lighthearted painting...
  103. Leo Villareal has designed light shows for techno-musician Moby and an enormous strob...
  104. Marcin Maciejowski's first solo show in the United States--the second outside his nat...
  105. New York's New Museum of Contemporary Art announced it will open an interim space for...
  106. Sometimes regarded as the "other" Korean biennial city, Busan is giving the...
  107. In April, a lawsuit attempting to block the sale of Two Columbus Circle to the Museum...
  108. Beijing is on the more. Venues for contemporary art are multiplying exponentially. Of...
  109. This wonderful show could not have been the 10-year survey of works on paper promised...
  110. Just as each of Mary Hambleton's paintings aims to draw the viewer into close examina...
  111. For a number of years, Swiss artist Zilla Leutenegger has made videos, animations and...
  112. The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., has selected architect Norman Foster...
  113. Kimerly Rorschach, director of the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art at the Univer...
  114. Atlantic Avenue Metaphor Contemporary Art 382 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217...
  115. In addition to the internationally recognized SITE Santa Fe biennial opening in mid-J...
  116. For the past 10 years, China's contemporary art institutions have struggled to keep u...
  117. Hundreds of feet of painted foil garlands provided Jane Benson with the ammo for Unde...
  118. One key to understanding the psychic tug of Thomas Nozkowski's paintings lies in the ...
  119. Six monumental canvases from Leon Golub's "Graeco-Roman Colossi" series dom...
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  121. Cincinnati's Taft Museum of Art reopened May 15, following a $22.8-million, 2 1/2-yea...
  122. Elizabeth Dunbar, chief curator at the Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State Universi...
  123. Dashing any hope that the Elgin Marbles would be returned to Greece for the Olympics,...
  124. China: Art Now, text by Michel Nuridsany, photographs by Marc Domage, Paris, Editions...
  125. In a variety of ways, the traveling retrospective of works by Lee Bontecou represents...
  126. For some observers of the social landscape, the depth of an analysis is best measured...
  127. Amid the recent resurgence of interest in figurative painting, most of the attention ...
  128. A dozen serene, modestly sized paintings by Marcia Hafif--eight of them 16 by 20 inch...
  129. Raymond Pettibon has won the 2004 Bucksbaum Award, given to an artist in the Whitney ...
  130. The Rochester Art Center recently opened its new facility near downtown Rochester, Mi...
  131. Claudine Ise is the new associate curator of exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the...
  132. One of the centerpieces of the 2004 Cultural Olympiad program of the summer games is ...
  133. It has been over a decade since the infamous 1993 "political" Whitney Bienn...
  134. In some ways this midcareer retrospective of John Currin's paintings felt like a thro...
  135. The title of this exhibition, "Powers of Two," by veteran Canadian artist a...
  136. William Eggleston, the photographer most associated with the introduction of commerci...
  137. The title of this elegant show was "Body & Nature," referring to the ca...
  138. Cleveland-born, San Francisco-based artist Dale Kistemaker photographs the miscellany...
  139. Kara Walker is the winner of the 2004 Lucelia Artist Award, presented by the Smithson...
  140. The Austin Museum of Art has abandoned its plans to build a new $43-million, 125,000-...
  141. Adriana Proser has been appointed curator of traditional Asian art at the Asia Societ...
  142. Ballroom Marfa, a contemporary arts center in Marfa, Tex., was officially launched on...
  143. In the recent film Good-bye Lenin!, a nostalgic romp through the East German past, th...
  144. Over the past several years, Chakaia Booker has garnered significant acclaim for scul...
  145. Hong Hao was born in China in 1965, on the eve of the Cultural Revolution, which stif...
  146. Like many denizens of the global art world, Tiong Ang is difficult to categorize. Bor...
  147. The Chinese painter Xiao Fan Ru, born in Nankin, emigrated to Paris in 1983. A midcar...
  148. In Deb Lacusta's multimedia exhibition "loving Brando being," the artist's ...
  149. The William H. Johnson Foundation for the Arts has presented its 2003 prize, worth $2...
  150. Austin's Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art has selected artist Mel Chin and landscape arc...
  151. Sarah D. Coffin has been appointed to the newly created position of curator of 17th- ...
  152. Two monumental works by British sculptor Andy Goldsworthy are currently on view on th...
  153. On a trash-lined street in the Mustansiriya District of Baghdad squats the ministry o...
  154. I saw Julie Mehretu's traveling exhibition "Drawing into Painting" at its t...
  155. Gordon Terry's retina-testing abstract paintings are materially homogenous and formal...
  156. Arnie Zane is best known as the co-founder of the Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Dance Com...
  157. Born in Leipzig in 1970 and now based in Berlin, Norbert Bisky grew up during the wan...
  158. Over the past three years, Marcie Miller Gross has employed recycled hospital towels ...
  159. The International Center of Photography in New York recently presented its 2004 Infin...
  160. George Heard Hamilton, 93, professor and museum director, died Mar. 29 in Williamstow...
  161. The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has named 185 artists, scholars and sci...
  162. To the Editors: I just read Raphael Rubinstein's article on Philip Guston [A.i.A., ...
  163. The future of the Space Program, a project of the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, ...
  164. Costantino Nivola's father was a stonecutter, and Tino learned the trade while still ...
  165. In her second show at Feature in as many years, Tracy Miller continued her disarming ...
  166. "American Prospects and Before," Joel Sternfeld's exhibition at Luhring Aug...
  167. It's not uncommon for artists to inhabit galleries for the duration of their exhibiti...
  168. As she declares in the press release for her exhibition of Lambda prints and a video ...
  169. Visitors to Michael McMillen's captivating show passed through a squeaky screen door ...
  170. Milton Resnick, a pioneer of Abstract Expressionism known for heavily impastoed, near...
  171. "I could just make prints and be satisfied," Kiki Smith told Wendy Weitman,...
  172. Glenn Ligon is best known for his appropriations of texts, from anonymous slave narra...
  173. For the past two decades, Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky has been producing l...
  174. The Kitchen's gallery was moody with votive candles. In the oracle's back room, a lon...
  175. To the Editors: I am writing in response to Tom McDonough's reply to my letter abou...
  176. The year 2003 was the centennial of Mississippi modernist Walter Anderson's birth, an...
  177. Like a young skater at the Olympics, this San Francisco-based Chinese artist made sur...
  178. Since its radical, highly publicized expansion and reconfiguration plan designed by R...
  179. To the Editors: An unsettling discomfort washed over me as I read Arden Reed's revi...
  180. Matisse, by Pierre Schneider, new edition, New York, Rizzoli, 2002; 752 pages, $100. ...
  181. Joe Zucker has been a synthesizing original right from the outset. The homespun quali...
  182. Brooklyn artist Ward Shelley, whose work often mixes abject sculptural objects with s...
  183. Writer Janet Malcolm here presented 33 collages, each about the size of a sheet of ty...
  184. Employing the bravura manner of the master painters of the 17th century, and particul...
  185. Ever since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the city has become an emotionally loaded ...
  186. A new Internet radio station was launched on Apr. 19 by P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Cente...
  187. To the Editors: I'm a liberal guy. I believe in freedom of the press, reject the de...
  188. The 9th Cairo International Biennale opened on the night of Dec. 13, 2003, with a con...
  189. In one of Gorky's two paintings of himself as a child with his mother, the boy's slee...
  190. Billed as an international competition of three life-size robots of American, Europea...
  191. "Forest" was conceptual artist and gardener Paula Hayes's first show in New...
  192. The ancestry of Fletcher Benton's abstract sculptures goes back to Russian Constructi...
  193. This first museum survey of the Korean-American artist Michael Joo was organized by t...
  194. An ambitious collaborative effort by Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas and Angus Fairhurst, &...
  195. The Asia Society in New York has named Vishakha N. Desai as its new president, effect...
  196. Mar. '04, p. 100: The Harlem facility where Man Ray, early in his career, studied lif...
  197. Penelope was not alone in her longing for Odysseus. Their son, Telemachus, embarked o...
  198. The problems of cities--sprawl, crime, congestion and insufficient services being amo...
  199. As an art-world brand name, Jeff Koons has become synonymous with the elevation of ba...