Stories Collection

  1. Achieving the perfect anomaly--the object that doesn't belong in any imaginable order...
  2. Karen Lebergott's paintings are about the layers of civilization that humankind leave...
  3. Underrated in his lifetime and now largely overlooked, at least in his own country, A...
  4. Twinning is a trope of horror flicks, its philosophical equivalent the eternal return...
  5. To the Editors: Pepe Karmel's ambitious and very knowledgeable essay "The Year...
  6. Charles Searles, 67, painter and sculptor, died Nov. 27 in New York. He is best known...
  7. Jesus Rafael Soto, 81, prominent figure in Latin American art, died Jan. 14 of cancer...
  8. The World Monuments Fund (WMF) recently announced that it has received a $550,000 gra...
  9. A controversial work from 2000, Leak, reveals much about the manner in which the youn...
  10. When Xu Bing first visited Durham, N.C., at the invitation of Duke University in 2000...
  11. Mark Tansey's work has always been characterized by a dissonance born of the contrast...
  12. A smoldering mandala featuring Kali as tropical princess, Ashley Bickerton's A God (2...
  13. Of the formerly avant-garde practice of gestural abstraction, Cora Cohen is a promine...
  14. Lionel Budd is engaged in a strain of self-effacing conceptualism that runs through c...
  15. Arthouse (formerly the Texas Fine Art Association), a nonprofit visualart organizatio...
  16. In an introduction to one of three volumes documenting the 26th edition of the Bienal...
  17. Pat Lipsky began exhibiting in New York in the late 1960s at Andre Emmerich Gallery, ...
  18. The 15 pieces in Charles Ginnever's last show were billed as "Large Sculpture Ma...
  19. Fledgling authors are often taught that perfectionism--not error--is the enemy of gre...
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  21. Tom Wesselmann, 73, a seminal figure in the Pop art movement, died of heart failure i...
  22. Ariane Lopez-Huici's portrait photographs have a definite performative aspect. By act...
  23. Gilbert & George have long trafficked in perversity, filling their large, gridded...
  24. Among eternal everyday mysteries, the inner world of childhood ranks high. Maria Mars...
  25. "Joseph Fiore: The Stone Paintings, 1975 to the Present" gathered 21 oils b...
  26. Agnes Martin, abstract painter, died Dec. 16 in Taos, N.M., age 92. An obituary will ...
  27. Osaka Japan's second largest city, recently inaugurated its new National Museum of Ar...
  28. A decade after South Africa held its first democratic elections in 1994, exhibitions ...
  29. For Alex Forman's first New York solo show, the gallery's walls were painted a rich, ...
  30. Elliott Arkin's first solo exhibition turned the tables on our tendency to reduce the...
  31. Jim Sanborn's complex installation "Critical Assembly," the most striking p...
  32. This month, the Museum of Modern Art in New York presents "Contemporary Voices: ...
  33. A keen observer of the mysteries of the emblematic in Western art, Vincent Desiderio ...
  34. Described by turns as inevitable, imprudent or tragic, the planned relocation of the ...
  35. These are good days for Kutlug Ataman, a 43-year-old Turkish artist who divides his t...
  36. At first glance, many of the nudes featured in Kenro Izu's "Blue" series--l...
  37. Michael Bevilacqua's slick, eye-assaulting paintings have, in the past, appropriated ...
  38. The thickly painted splashes and splats derived from clip art in Aaron Parazette's pr...
  39. In December, the Guggenheim Museum in New York announced the cancellation of "Ce...
  40. A large-scale sculpture by Janet Echelman will soon be inaugurated near Porto on the ...
  41. The six freestanding bronze figural sculptures in this recent exhibition dated from 2...
  42. Some 400 members of the U.S. chapter of AICA (the International Association of Art Cr...
  43. The concept of sculpture has changed so much in recent decades that most of what is c...
  44. How do paintings look after-hours? Offstage? Is there indignity in being moved around...
  45. Edith Isaac-Rose makes no attempt to seduce the eye in her figurative drawings and pa...
  46. Charles Desmarais is the new deputy director for art at the Brooklyn Museum. From 199...
  47. Maria Prather has been named curator of American art at the Tate Modern in London, a ...
  48. Born in Lodz, trained in New York and based since 1995 in Wiesbaden, Sofi Zezmer has ...
  49. Everyone is astonished by Shanghai, above all the Chinese themselves. The city's head...
  50. China Marks began using a sewing machine to make her artwork only three years ago, bu...
  51. Jerome Witkin's recent show, titled "Site and Insight," was a museum-qualit...
  52. Okwui Enwezor, artistic director of Documenta XI in 2002 and curator of the 1997 Joha...
  53. In the conventional version of photographic history--a story of technological advance...
  54. For her first solo exhibition in New York, L.A.-based artist Margaret Honda presented...
  55. Photographers are drawn to children for good reasons: they are open and unself-consci...
  56. Plans for the second Yokohama Triennale were abruptly thrown into disarray when archi...
  57. Gary Schneider, who was born in South Africa in 1954, is best known today for Genetic...
  58. Having exhibited widely in Europe, Dusseldorf-based Dirk Skreber recently made his Ne...
  59. Not since the Swingline factory was converted into MOMA QNS has the lowly staple rece...
  60. Jacci Den Hartog's colored, cast polyurethane and steel sculptures of falling or movi...
  61. Catherine David, chief curator at Witte de With in Rotterdam, has completed her three...
  62. In December, the Boston-based firm Fernwood Art Investments, a recently formed privat...
  63. In a monochrome blue light, amid a cold landscape of bare trees and gentle hillocks, ...
  64. When, in the not-too-distant future, glossy shelter magazines feature moon-base decor...
  65. If her slightly warped geometry and dissonant, high-keyed colors sometimes suggest th...
  66. For his first exhibition at Lorcan O'Neill, Luigi Ontani pulled out all the stops. Ti...
  67. Jeremy Deller has won the 2004 Turner Prize, worth approximately $48,000 and given by...
  68. It's easy to imagine Dirk Westphal's meticulous C-prints of preternaturally colorful ...
  69. Postmodern Heretics: The Catholic Imagination in Contemporary Art, by Eleanor Heartne...
  70. Rackstraw Downes's stated aim to paint what lies before him in as straightforward a w...
  71. Through a finely honed selection of works, most dated 2004, the exhibition "Noth...
  72. The lyrical, reductive paintings of French-born, New York-based artist Vicky Colombet...
  73. Founded by a young artist named Nguyen Minh Phuoc, Ryllega is the first commercial ga...
  74. Winners of the National Medal of Arts for 2004 were recently announced by President B...
  75. On Nov. 9, shortly before the highly publicized opening of the Museum of Modern Art's...
  76. Mean-looking skulls, Osama bin Laden and a ranged, tattooed bikini girl decorate some...
  77. For his first solo exhibition in New York (after several in Los Angeles, where he wor...
  78. An inveterate surfer, Bill Komoski takes as his point of departure the play of light ...
  79. Fresh on the heels of Alan Davie's well-received retrospective at Tate St. Ives early...
  80. This retrospective, curated by Pamela Kort and Robert Storr, made a strong case for J...
  81. Dynacolor Graphics Inc. P.O. Box 699037, Miami, FL 33269-9037 800.624.8840 ext. 3...
  82. The University of Michigan Museum of Art has announced a new $35-million building pro...
  83. Susan Vogel, founder of the Museum for African Art and former director of the Yale Un...
  84. Rirkrit Tiravanija has won the 2004 Hugo Boss Prize, given by the Guggenheim Museum. ...
  85. A noteworthy portrait by Picasso, Woman in White (1922), was recently seized by the F...
  86. The exhibition honoring Ansel Adams's centenary (the last stop of its extensive tour ...
  87. Jon Gregg's new paintings, mostly 52 inches square or 48 by 56 inches, can be read al...
  88. Julia Jacquette has been working for three years on the eight paintings with wedding ...
  89. There is a telling comparison contained within this small retrospective survey of the...
  90. The Italian artist Maurizio Cannavacciuolo's first solo museum show in the U.S., an i...
  91. The J. Paul Getty Trust recently announced new fellows and scholars for 2004-05. The ...
  92. Ezra Stoller, 89, architectural photographer, died Oct. 29 in Williamstown, Mass. He ...
  93. Carin Kuoni has been named director of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at t...
  94. Americans for the Arts, a nonprofit advocacy organization, recently presented its Nat...
  95. Last fall, Paris's Tajan auction house held a three-day sale on Oct. 5, 6 and 7, of m...
  96. The art historian Leo Steinberg began a long-ago lecture in Rome with a question that...
  97. Li-lan's pre-Internet world of postal artifacts conjures recent history and brings it...
  98. A jewellike 58-by-43-inch embroidery on linen after Pieter Brueghel's famous Tower of...
  99. Hawaiian-born Ralph Iwamoto moved to New York in 1948, at the age of 21. There he stu...
  100. Indian-born, Washington-based artist Anil Revri has an abiding interest in diverse cu...
  101. Catherine Opie is the winner of the $25,000 Larry Award, given to emerging and midcar...
  102. A monumental public sculpture by Sol LeWitt that was recently unveiled at Syracuse Un...
  103. Toby Kamps, curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego since 1998, is the n...
  104. While most art institutions are pinching pennies these days, the Metropolitan Museum ...
  105. It's no secret that the number and influence of on-line Web logs, or blogs, have grow...
  106. The results of this fall's big evening sales in New York of Impressionist, modern and...
  107. The British artist Helen Chadwick was born prematurely in 1953 and died prematurely 4...
  108. Nothing is simple in the young Canadian artist Paul Fenniak's mostly everyday scenes....
  109. Last year, composer Ronald J. Kuivila sent out an open call for submissions to an exh...
  110. Things are a mess in T.L. Solien's new paintings (all works 2003). In The Great Skate...
  111. Sanford Biggers's new work develops the artist's earlier explorations of hip-hop's et...
  112. Hamza Walker, director of education and associate curator of the Renaissance Society ...
  113. Throngs of art and architecture enthusiasts and crowds of the just plain curious turn...
  114. Tim B. Wride, curator of photography at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art for 12 y...
  115. January 5-February 3, 2005 Harold Gregor, Illinois # 186 (Trail Series), 2004 oil &...
  116. One of the most stimulating exhibitions I've seen recently is "The Undiscovered ...
  117. Jake Berthot, an artist known for his long engagement with pure, painterly process, t...
  118. The new sculptures that the 80-year-old box-assemblage artist La Wilson presented thi...
  119. Titled "Claustrophilia Paintings," this recent show of large canvases by Gr...
  120. "Betwixt and Between," the title of Christina Shmigel's recent show, is als...
  121. The Rema Hort Mann Foundation, based in New York, has announced the recipients of its...
  122. With the newly expanded Museum of Modern Art in New York City now open, architect Yos...
  123. The University of Michigan Museum of Art has selected James B. Wyman as its first chi...
  124. Lines flow toward the infinite, while color is in the infinite....--Yves Klein &quo...
  125. To the Editors: Charles Stuckey's comprehensive review of the book Joseph Cornell: ...
  126. The Life of Isamu Noguchi: Journey without Borders, by Masayo Duns, trans. Peter Duns...
  127. As a boy growing up in Indiana, Don Gummer liked assembling model airplanes, Erector-...
  128. In "Infinite Invisible Soft-Shoe," her gripping and unforgettable debut at ...
  129. Although sculptor Vincenzo Amato has lived in New York for over a decade, his artwork...
  130. Nancy Chunn's long-standing commitment to political issues provides the visual logic ...
  131. John Miller exhibited 15 digital inkjet prints--eight 72-by-64-inch diptychs, three 4...
  132. The California Community Foundation in Los Angeles recently awarded grants to eight m...
  133. Klaus Biesenbach has been appointed to the new position of curator for the Museum of ...
  134. Susan H. Edwards is the new executive director and CEO of the Frist Center for Visual...
  135. To the Editors: In her article critiquing the 2004 Whitney Biennial [A.i.A., June/J...
  136. This handsome assembly of more than 40 small, vigorously modeled terra-cotta busts is...
  137. It's a little surprising that Cindy Sherman hasn't explored clowns before. She has en...
  138. Cheyney Thompson's installation "1998" consisted of many small paintings of...
  139. Secure in his search for meaningful linkages among the things of the world, Christoph...
  140. For $1,000, Austin-based artist Mel Ziegler will strap you into a safety harness, sus...
  141. The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, recently broke ground for its new building...
  142. Michael Klein, curator of the Microsoft art collection since 1999, has been named exe...
  143. The Museum of Arts & Design in New York has selected independent curator Dorothy ...
  144. To the Editors: I have just received the June/July 2004 issue, the first of your pu...
  145. Ant Farm may be largely unknown to the general public, but many people, even those wi...
  146. For all its apparent haphazardness, Rachel Harrison's new work adheres to a few stead...
  147. Walking into this exhibition, I thought that nothing could be more in conflict with t...
  148. John Monti has exhibited regularly in New York since the mid-1980s. Against a fluctua...
  149. At first glance, the artists of this "visual marriage" seem to say little t...
  150. Mark Handforth is known for his adaptations of industrial signage and urban "fur...
  151. The University of Oklahoma in Norman opens its newly expanded and renovated Fred Jone...
  152. Charles Stainback, executive director of SITE Santa Fe since September 2003, has left...
  153. Rick Stewart, director since 1995 of the Amon Carter Museum in Ft. Worth, will step d...
  154. The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art, by Martha Buskirk, Cambridge, Mass., MIT P...
  155. Bjorn Amelan's debut show was surprisingly resolved. Drawing on his background design...
  156. Kutlug Ataman is the winner of the $10,000 Carnegie Prize, given to an artist in the ...
  157. In Pleace (2004), one of the signature oil-on-canvas abstractions in Richmond Burton'...
  158. Varujan Boghosian takes surreal trips though the imagination in his mixed-medium cons...
  159. In a study concerning perceptions and markers of race and culture, the 20-by-32-inch ...
  160. Richard Avedon, 81, Manhattan-based photographer and portraitist, died Oct. 1 of a ce...
  161. The strength of Manifesta has always been its nomadic nature. Situated each time in a...
  162. The Art of the Steal: Inside the Sotheby's-Christie's Auction House Scandal by Christ...
  163. A modest but tightly focused and enthralling museum exhibition, "Yves Klein: Air...
  164. The shortlist for the 2004 Turner Prize, given by the Tate Britain, was recently anno...
  165. The international fair Art Basel Miami Beach (Dec. 2-5) offers visitors multiple oppo...
  166. ... [I]t is precisely this masquerade of fictions and ironies and fantastic scenarios...
  167. David Row has spent over 20 years devising abstract paintings that seek to capture th...
  168. In her deadpan installation "Empire Style," Jean Lowe presents a new kind o...
  169. Since the mid-1980s, sculptor Willard Boepple has been exploring the implications of ...
  170. When curator William Seitz popularized Dubuffet's term "assemblage" with th...
  171. Attracted to light as moths are to a flame, Mike and Doug Starn have in fact spent mu...
  172. This compact survey was almost perfect. Comprising some 40 works, the show opened, in...
  173. How many art historians does it take to write a timeline of art history? At least 100...
  174. Bill Henson is one of the best known and most widely exhibited artists in Australia. ...
  175. For his most recent show at Marian Goodman, William Kentridge showed two 8-minute fil...
  176. This exhibition might have been titled "The Return of Judith Miller." The a...
  177. Jacques Derrida, 74, philosopher, died Oct. 8 in Paris of pancreatic cancer. In the c...
  178. Bill Scott has long admired the paintings of Berthe Morisot and Joan Mitchell. In add...
  179. Crackpots or visionaries, art partners Liz-N-Val have spent more than two decades as ...
  180. In March 1967, the cover of Arts Magazine posed the question: Would there be "A ...
  181. No longer quite so far away--22 hours from New York as Qantas flies--lies Sydney, Aus...
  182. Among Berlin's most surprising recent exhibitions was this two-gallery show of collab...
  183. "Pink Flag--White Horse," a traveling Canadian exhibition of about 26 large...
  184. Five of eight works (all dated 2003) in Jeff Wall's recent exhibition of color transp...
  185. Simon Lewty's first solo show outside the U.K. introduced a mesmerizing voice of rapt...
  186. Milwaukee's art museum has expanded, the university is hiring and, judging by the new...
  187. Deborah Gribbon, director of the Getty Museum since 2000, resigned her post on Oct. 1...
  188. Taking her cue from film and animation storyboarding, Amy Pleasant, a young painter b...
  189. Eighteen years after a landmark exhibition, "The Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Rit...
  190. Raised in Lagos and now living in London, Yinka Shonibare is known for his eye-catchi...
  191. FIAC: This year, organizers of Paris's Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain (FIAC)...
  192. Daniel Joseph Martinez's architectural installation The House America Built indulges ...
  193. It has seemed from the beginning of Justine Kurland's career, just a few short years ...
  194. One of Portugal's leading artists, Helena Almeida began to develop a hybrid of drawin...
  195. The Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass., is gearing up...
  196. Anri Sala's work has prompted numerous discussions as to whether he is a documentaria...
  197. Now 75, Luis Caruncho has been the key proponent of geometric abstraction in his nati...
  198. An estimated 42,000 visitors queued up for hours at the entrance to Regent's Park to ...
  199. To prove that elaborate sculpture can, like origami, be made from a single sheet of p...