Stories Collection

  1. Wolfgang Laib, whose largest US retrospective to date began its tour at the Hirshhorn...
  2. Looking at Henri Michaux's drawings, I can't help but think of D.W. Winnicott's squig...
  3. After meeting in New York, the Spanish artists Elena del Rivero and Tere Recarens dec...
  4. The Turin-born, London-based photographer Elisa Sighicelli looks for signs of the num...
  5. WHILE THE LAS VEGAS STRIP is home to a facsimile of Manhattan, a faux Paris, and an e...
  6. BROOKLYN MUSEUM OF ART Organized by a team of four led by BMA curator of photograph...
  7. IN THE VAST POST-FORMALIST LAND-scape, a Robinsonade: Artists wandering the shifting ...
  8. TATE MODERN Forget Acoustiguides: Kaleidoscope eyes would be more the thing for the...
  9. GALLERIA CIVICA Domenico Gnoli (1993-70) spent much of his life away from his nativ...
  10. MUSEUM VILLA STUCK As Europe was busy declaring the death of the author, Frantz Fan...
  11. Originally a slogan of the fight for nuclear disarmament, the phrase "protest and sur...
  12. Imagine Texas situated on the eastern seaboard, New Mexico boasting the charms of Eau...
  13. In the '70s and '80s, Zush showed widely not only in Spain but also internationally (...
  14. Hands up, all those who find the Ten Commandments irrational, inconsistent, and scary...
  15. On November 21, the Bienal Foundation of Sao Paulo confirmed the appointment of Germa...
  16. MUSEUM OF ART Contemporary artists just can't seem to leave Minimalism alone. In "B...
  17. It's been almost eight decades since Duchamp elevated dust-gathering to an art form w...
  18. INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS In 1993, betting shop-turned-gallery City Racing hos...
  19. KUNSTHALLE An adept chronicler of the industrial age, Almond uncovers the eerie tra...
  20. VARIOUS VENUES When the first installment of the Berlin Biennale was held in 1998, ...
  21. Natural elements and industrial materials meld in the work of Icelandic installation ...
  22. It should come as no surprise that Merce Cunningham's drawings demonstrate an extraor...
  23. The first solo museum exhibitration of the work of Giuseppe Gabellone originated in F...
  24. ONLY ONCE IN MY LIFE have I contributed to a publication that sold out virtually as i...
  25. NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART Picabia called Alfred Stieglitz "the man best informed in t...
  26. In 1974, five years before Erno Rubik's maddening little puzzle hit the shelves, Sol ...
  27. IRISH MUSEUM OF MODERN ART Back in the late '60s the young Dennis Oppenheim said di...
  28. I read Amy Newman's oral history Challenging Art: Artforum 1962-1974 (Soho Press) wit...
  29. 1 Can-Do Art I'm with Stephen King: In art as in writing, the active construction rul...
  30. 1 Errol Morris, First Person (Bravo Network) To my mind, Morris has evolved into the ...
  31. DEITCH PROJECTS There's an idea afloat these days that art movements are purely aca...
  32. SUSANNE VIELMETTER How do you get a gestural abstract painting to yield clean, prec...
  33. PAUL ANDRIESSE Contemporary film and video artists often try to develop a different...
  34. Science Is Fiction: The Films of Jean Painleve, edited by Andy Masaki Bellows and Mar...
  35. 1 Vincent Gallo 1962-1999 (Petit Grand Publishing, Tokyo) Last June in Paris, I picke...
  36. GAGOSIAN GALLERY, NEW YORK Having entered the arena of mass-media attention occupie...
  37. AMERINGER/HOWARD FINE ART I don't know if Jules Olitski is the greatest living pain...
  38. KARYN LOVEGROVE GALLERY One good look at a painting by Ingrid Calame will reveal th...
  39. GAGOSIAN GALLERY The landmarks by means of which Dexter Dalwood maps out a cultural...
  40. Terry Pinkard's marvelous biography Hegel (Cambridge University Press) brings the gre...
  41. DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS, PACEWILDENSTEIN/MITCHELL ALGUS GALLERY, NEW YORK I still h...
  42. BRENT SIKKEMA Rachel Berwick's art is haunted by extinction. For previous exhibitio...
  43. NEW IMAGE ART "Gary Boas does not consider himself an artist, although he might be ...
  44. SOUTH LONDON GALLERY The South London Gallery, founded in 1891, has become one of t...
  45. Rosalind Krauss's "A Voyage on the North Sea": Art in the Age of the Post-Medium Cond...
  46. 1 "100 Days No Exhibition" (Salzburger Kunstverein) While the overriding tendency amo...
  47. CHINATI FOUNDATION, MARFA, TEXAS The West Texas town of Marfa is a dusty, one-traff...
  48. CYNTHIA BROAN GALLERY In "Little Corner of the World," his first solo show in New Y...
  49. MUSEO CARRILLO GIL Suppose the lotto ticket you bought today happens to have the wi...
  50. SERPENTINE GALLERY Mounting an exhibition of the work of the late Cuban-born Americ...
  51. It's fashionable now to insist that there is no such thing as an architectural avant-...
  52. 1 Jeff Koons, Puppy One of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World blossomed this summe...
  53. LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA Although Manifesta has been loosely dedicated since its incepti...
  54. THOMAS ERBEN GALLERY For seventeen years, Irish-born Tom Wood took photographs whil...
  55. GALERIA JUANA DE AIZPURU Dora Garcia's work represents a subtle, self-reflective ap...
  56. ART GALLERY OF NEW SOUTH WALES "Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius" was the first maj...
  57. Those of us who live and breathe contemporary art will hold to the idea that art does...
  58. Diana Muir's Reflections in Bullough's Pond: Economy and Ecosystem in New England (Un...
  59. 1 Doug Aitken (Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zurich) With the five-screen ins...
  60. MODERNA MUSEET, STOCKHOLM After centuries of experimentation, it might have seemed ...
  61. WHITE COLUMNS According to the Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky, it is cinema more...
  62. MUSEO CASTEL NUOVO The work of thirty-one-year-old Loris Cecchini takes two apparen...
  63. TAIPEI FINE ARTS MUSEUM For its fifth edition the Taipei Biennial has made itself r...
  64. John Waters 1. Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier) The most hilariously moving, "fe...
  65. Encounters with Rauschenberg (University of Chicago Press), Leo Steinberg's witty lec...
  66. 1 Men's Shoes Liberated from their long sleep of black and brown, men's shoes have di...
  67. GALERIE LELONG "Like you I have longed for a memory beyond consolation, for a memor...
  68. LAWRENCE MARKEY It would be a mistake to read Acharaya Vyakul's luminous work as na...
  69. LE CASE D'ARTE Painting is very popular among today's young artists, but in an idio...
  70. Molly Nesbit's Their Common Sense (Black Dog Press) isn't exactly an art book--it's n...
  71. In the '90S, photographer Lee Friedlander embarked on a remarkable series of self-por...
  72. 1 Saul Fletcher (Anton Kern Gallery, New York) Fletcher's third show of unfashionably...
  73. 303 GALLERY In Victor Pelevin's 1993 novel Omon Ra, a Russian boy who dreams of bec...
  74. ROSE ART MUSEUM Although you might not expect it, Clay Ketter and George Stoll shar...
  75. GALERIE HUBERT WINTER The Swiss artist Annelies Strba gained recognition in the ear...
  76. Tim Hilton's John Ruskin: The Later Years (Yale University Press), together with The ...
  77. 1 "Making Choices" (Museum of Modem Art, New York) A show of shows in two senses: It ...
  78. 1 Gary Boas, Starstruck: Photographs from a Fan (Dilettante Press, Los Angeles; Deitc...
  79. JAMES COHAN GALLERY Had we but world enough, and time...Old-master painting breathe...
  80. ALDRICH MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART "Glee"? Only in the wake of 13,000-plus stock-ma...
  81. NATIONALGALERIE IM HAMBURGER BAHNHOF A faint, unmistakable odor filled the air: saw...
  82. One is grateful to those who invest in the economically doubtful business of republis...
  83. 1 Tate Modern The plant is grand, the site unique. Yes, the rearrangement of the coll...
  84. 1 "1900: Art at the Crossroads" (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York) I haven't tr...
  85. MATTHEW MARKS GALLERY For his first solo exhibition in New York, Darren Almond park...
  86. NEWSPACE For a few years now, David Grant has been stretching fabrics and skins ove...
  87. PLANTIN-MORETUS MUSEUM As curator Moritz Kung acknowledges in his catalogue preface...
  88. ARTFORUM IS SUCH AN UN-NEEN MAGAZINE. (If you don't know what that means, go to www.n...
  89. LE MAGASIN, GRENOBLE For example: What relationship is there between a French car f...
  90. DAVID ZWIRNER Marcel Dzama's drawings are like frozen moments from dreams and night...
  91. GALERIA RAY GUN Spain, which during the Franco era forced its political dissidents ...
  92. ENTWISTLE "What is the flesh? What is the physical being of man? What exactly is he...
  93. So far "online museum" have been pretty hohum affairs, consisting mostly of links to ...
  94. SEOUL, KOREA "No city changes as quickly... None has so short a memory or is so hea...
  95. LANCE FUNG GALLERY Weimin Huang's paintings are at once subdued and stunning: subtl...
  96. MASSIMO DE CARLO/ MART Tristan, 2000, is a video game in the form of an animated ca...
  97. In the September 2000 issue, the institution credited for assembling the accompanying...
  98. 1. MORGAN FISHER, "PAINTING FOR BEGINNERS" The ex-filmmaker and chronic dabbler's tre...
  99. DRAWING CENTER, NEW YORK It was 1920 when Hans Prinzhorn wrote to asylums in Austri...
  100. ANDREW KREPS Jonah Freeman examines American living spaces as though he were an ant...
  101. ARTRA Continuing with his methodology of melodrama and reinterpretation, Claudio Gu...
  102. GREEN MOVEMENT To the Editor: In crediting the influence of Clement Greenberg for...
  103. With the nearing of the new century, Richard Artschwager made a double return, both t...
  104. MARIAN GOODMAN GALLERY The idea that art's illusions of life can confuse with the r...
  105. DRAWING CENTER/GREENE NAFTALI Dutch artist Mark Manders's recent installation at th...
  106. STUDIO CASOLI As communication spreads via the Internet and computers, the resistan...
  107. IT'S CUSTOMARY TO KICK OFF a review of an artist's biopic with a few chuckling asides...
  108. Jim Shaw TALKS ABOUT HIS DREAM PROJECT I dreamed I was in a Japanese gallery and th...
  109. LUHRING AUGUSTINE A dark-haired figure leans against a car, her long mane streaming...
  110. TEAM/P.S. 1 The centerpiece of Slater Bradley's second solo show in New York was a ...
  111. MUSEE D'ART MODERNE DE LA VILLE Unlike most thematic exhibitions, which in their at...
  112. Eugene R. Gaddis, Magician of the Modern: Chick Austin and the Transformation of the ...
  113. THE ART OF PIERRE HUYGHE IN THE END, JOHN WOJTOWICZ'S STORY WAS TOO GOOD TO RECOUNT...
  114. DEITCH PROJECTS The creepily lifelike sculptures of photo-realists like Duane Hanso...
  115. HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN It is entirely fitting that Cathy de Monchaux...
  116. KUNSTMUSEUM The more virtuality encroaches on daily life, the more art seems to wan...
  117. ASKED TO COMMENT on the recent ad campaign he shot for Versace, Steven Meisel tells m...
  118. PURVEYOR OF SCANDAL-FOR-SCANDAL'S-SAKE OR SCREAM THERAPIST PURGING THE PATIENT? MOST ...
  119. ANTON KERN GALLERY Drawings seem to pour out of Ellen Berkenbilt like daydreams. Th...
  120. MEXICAN FINE ARTS CENTER MUSEUM The idiosyncratic and evocative work of Remedios Va...
  121. WIENER SECESSION Florian Pumhosl's relationship to modernity has nothing to do with...
  122. SINCE EARLY MAY, the Sao Paulo Bienal has been embroiled in perhaps the greatest cris...
  123. It is a truism nowadays that television not only brings us the world but helps fashio...
  124. GAVIN BROWN'S ENTERPRISE Udomsak Krisanamis lives, paints, and golfs in upstate New...
  125. JENNJOY GALLERY Video is the only visual medium with no artifact. Television isn't ...
  126. CONTEMPORARY FINE ARTS Among Europeans, Finnish culture stands for melancholy and d...
  127. THEY DON'T MAKE 'EM LIKE KASPER KONIG anymore, and maybe for Daniel Birnbaum that's a...
  128. MUSEU D'ART CONTEMPORANI DE BARCELONA Kinetic art suffered the unhappy fate of a fl...
  129. KLEMENS GASSER & TANJA GRUNERT Conventions of communication have long been the subj...
  130. REGEN PROJECTS Encircled by an inky Stonehenge of noses hangs one of the most seemi...
  131. ANDREHN-SCHIPTJENKO Annika Eriksson's exhibition here in 1996 comprised a single fi...
  132. "The role of this institution is not to be a collector but rather a producer of cultu...
  133. KUNSTMUSEUM BASEL "One must desire the ultimate essence even if it is 'contaminated...
  134. CURT MARCUS GALLERY Since 1983, Richard Misrach's ongoing photographic explorations...
  135. SUSAN HOBBS GALLERY Since the '70s, Max Dean's interactive installations have solic...
  136. INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART The Baghdad-born, London-based architect Zaha Hadid i...
  137. YVE-ALAIN BOIS ON CHALLENGING ART: ARTFORUM 1962--1974 Amy Newman, Challenging Art:...
  138. orang.orang.org Peer-to-peer computing may be the wave of the future, but while Nap...
  139. FOREVER TORN BETWEEN ITS AMBITIONS as art and its allegiance to commerce, fashion pho...
  140. D' AMELIO TERRAS In her latest show, Erica Baum's approach is almost absurdly simpl...
  141. BARRY WHISTLER GALLERY The permutations of color and image in Ted Kincaid's photogr...
  142. CABINET The invitation card announcing Marc Chaimowicz's Celebration? Realife Revis...
  143. PETER PLAGENS ON MADELEINE GRYNSZTEJN GIVE MADELEINE GRYNSZTEJN some credit for dip...
  144. www.ekac.org/timec.html If Survivor epitomized the summer of surveillance in the Un...
  145. CHRISTOPHER MUNCH TALKS WITH LODGE KERRIGAN Lodge Kerrigan's two feature films, Cle...
  146. 303 GALLERY Laylah All's latest "Greenhead" paintings, on view recently in the youn...
  147. UCLA HAMMER MUSEUM James Gobel makes pictures of what he likes: guys with protrudin...
  148. NORWICH GALLERY/NORWICH SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN Norwich, East Anglia's bijou cathe...
  149. JAMES HALL ON KASPER KONIG Big things are expected of Kasper Konig when he becomes ...
  150. metaphor.ucsc.edu/[sim]sdaniel/NCintro.html A number of artists, including Toni Dov...
  151. A skater advances through the fog on a frozen lake covered by a layer of thick red je...
  152. BRENT SIKKEMA Curator Trevor Schoonmaker titled his six-artist show "The Magic City...
  153. GALLERIA FRANCO NOERO For his first solo show in Italy, Swiss artist Costa Vece fil...
  154. DOUGLAS COUPLAND ON VERNER PANTON FIVE YEARS AGO I was having lunch at a friend's p...
  155. c5corp.com/1to1 But what does the Internet look like? As in the classic Borges tale...
  156. SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, NEW YORK Think art in the year 1900: the young Picass...
  157. CASEY KAPLAN British duo James White and Tim Sheward "embrace the delusion perpetua...
  158. FONDAZIONE PRADA For once, the Prada Foundation did not have to transform its space...
  159. DENNIS COOPER ON LARS VON TRIER'S DANCER IN THE DARK IT SOUNDS GOOD on paper. Lars ...
  160. The Third International Browserday competition in Amsterdam this May gave fifty-two d...
  161. THE JEWISH MUSEUM, NEW YORK Poor Annclise Else Frieda Fleischmann. Born a century a...
  162. ADMIT ONE GALLERY / DEBS & CO. Rina Banerjee was one of those new faces that got lo...
  163. STUDIO GUENZANI In Margherita Manzelli's new, large-scale oil paintings, space beco...
  164. KENT JONES ON EDWARD YANG'S YI YI DESPITE SOME RECENT, heartening development--stat...
  165. LEE SMITH ON MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ'S PRESENCE HUMAINE ONE OF THE MORE TELLING recent d...
  166. KUNSTHAUS ZURICH Cezanne's oeuvre is littered with paintings in various states of i...
  167. DEE / GLASOE Each of Yeardley Leonard's canvases consists of about ten to twenty ho...
  168. GALERIE BOB VAN ORSOUW First you were plunged into sudden darkness and could see no...
  169. DANIEL PINCHBECK ON JEAN ROUCH "WE WANTED TO MAKE A FILM of love, but in the end it...
  170. JOHN TREMBLAY 1 "BIG BROTHER" Not the TV show and not the camera at Houston and Fir...
  171. KUNSTVEREIN BRAUNSCHWEIG/FRANKFURTER KUNSTVEREIN The characterization of Isa Genzke...
  172. CENTER FOR FIGURATIVE PAINTING Paul Georges wants to paint "The Big Idea," as the t...
  173. GALERIE VERA MUNRO Natural science is embarrassed by the question of the missing li...
  174. HOWARD HAMPTON ON JEAN-LUC GODARD ECM Records' imposing, slipcased five-disc sound-...
  175. LONG A CULT FAVORITE, PAINTER JOHN WESLEY RECEIVES AN OVERDUE FIRST U.S. RETROSPECTIV...
  176. TATE BRITAIN, LONDON/VARIOUS VENUES "PEAS ARE THE NEW BEANS," declares a 1999 paint...
  177. MUSEUM OF AMERICAN FOLK ART For more than sixty years, the limestone sculptures of ...
  178. KUNSTHALLE BIELEFELD Why did Kasimir Malevich, whose name has become the very embod...
  179. IN HIS 1997 BOOK INTERFACE CULTURE, Steven Johnson suggests that the interface, the s...
  180. Vik Muniz TALKS ABOUT "CLAYTON DAYS" While in Pittsburgh some time ago, I took the ...
  181. STORM KING ART CENTER/GALERIE LELONG Andy Goldsworthy's outdoor art has prehistory ...
  182. LARRY BECKER CONTEMPORARY ART The expansive abstract paintings in Buy Shaver's rece...
  183. C/O BERLIN Matthieu Laurette is a sort of modern-day hunger artist. Currently based...
  184. "They all came, some wore sentiments / Emblazoned on T-shirts, proclaiming the latene...
  185. king.dom.de/parole "Parole" is best described as a database manifesto. Scrolling de...
  186. DENNIS COOPER TALKS WITH MIKE KELLEY DENNIS COOPER: Extracurricular Activity Projec...
  187. NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART Unlike Walt Disney's corporate-sponsored global pavi...
  188. BODYBUILDER & SPORTSMAN Harvey Opgenorth knows that one way to consider the many le...
  189. GALERIE XAVIER HUFKENS Patrick Vanden Eynde's work incorporates time as well as spa...
  190. College students may annoy neighbors and whoever's in charge of forwarding mail at th...
  191. ARTHUR C. DANTO ON THE NEW VIENNA SCHOOL Alois Riegl, The Group Portraiture of Holl...
  192. NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART In the decade since this French collaborative team l...
  193. Guests at the 1966 opening of MOMA'S "Responsive Eye" were treated to an eye-popping ...
  194. MAISON EUROPEENNE DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE Second-generation (read post-1968) Magnum phot...
  195. RACHEL WITHERS ON THE 2000 TURNER PRIZE SHORTLIST HOW LONG MUST NONNATIVE artists l...
  196. With its paranoid-sublime vision of sleepless alienation in a perpetual present, tech...
  197. PALAIS DES BEAUX-ARTS In Brussels, the last autumn of the century (depending on how...
  198. MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, LOS ANGELES On the occasion of his first major survey e...
  199. MARLBOROUGH GALLERY Ignacio Ituttia's characters are not so much painted as built o...