Stories Collection

  1. On entering Fernanda Gomes's second New York solo show, the viewer was immediately co...
  2. Trajan's Market, in the center of the Eternal City, is one of the entrances to the Ro...
  3. The first thing I felt as I began to take in Jeffery Camp's paintings was a sense of ...
  4. Jan Tumlir looks back at the shot heard round the art world--Chris Burden's 1971 perf...
  5. Does a painting by Alex Katz have an inner life? Silly question, you sys: Of course i...
  6. At the start of his career, around 1932-33, William Baziotes made a drawing that, in ...
  7. Literary critic Lucien Dallenbach, who has previously written on Balzac, Claude Simon...
  8. There is an inherent difficulty, even an incongruity, in attempting to address such a...
  9. John Waters 1. Bully (Larry Clark) My favorite movie of the year: a dirty true-crim...
  10. As Ben Katchor is the first to admit, there's something counterintuitive, even perver...
  11. Japanese-born, Boston-based artist Ayae Takahashi reads between the lines of popular ...
  12. What exists--something? Or, more likely, nothing? Markus Raetz spatially unravels thi...
  13. MARK WIGLEY ON REYNER BANHAM Nigel Whiteley, Reyner Banham: Historian of the immedi...
  14. David Korty is quickly gaining a reputation for paintings imbued with the woozy atmos...
  15. Not so many years removed from having been there herself, Jennifer Reeder is enormous...
  16. The candle burning in Marine Hugonnier's exhibition in Vienna was first lit in the ye...
  17. Bob Nickas 1. Rodney Graham, Getting It Together in the Country Is this the sound t...
  18. This crowded and pleasantly fusty show presented not artists' books but artworks prem...
  19. For Cuban artist Jose Toirac, the mythology of the universal hero--a story of revolt,...
  20. Since the '70s, Izabella Gustowska has played a leading role in the conceptually incl...
  21. DAMON KRUKOWSKI ON NAM JUNE PAIK Nam June Paik, Works 1958.1979. Sub Rosa (SR 178)....
  22. Tim Litzmann lists the medium of his pictures as "acrylic/cast acrylic," and at first...
  23. In an era when the tyranny of "signature style" has meant that an artist's production...
  24. As you felt your way around the dark room, the silhouettes of a jungle very gradually...
  25. Twenty years ago, poet Rene Ricard's "Radiant Child" manned the front lines of the In...
  26. By addressing the complex relation between photography and the construction and disse...
  27. It's an understatement to note that the world changed profoundly between the completi...
  28. Every well-stocked porno shop has two types of sex dolls for sale: the classic blowup...
  29. Vince Aletti 1 Philip-Lorca diCorcia (Pace Wildenstein, New York) Because the subje...
  30. Now that video art has evolved (or degenerated) to the point that it simulates the sl...
  31. Spanning four decades, these twenty-seven drawings offer a glimpse of the most delica...
  32. Let's say this much up front: In the welter of theme-based exhibitions, "Neue Welt?" ...
  33. For those who have never been to the Giacometti Foundations in either Zurich or Basel...
  34. The Austrian collective Gelatin was supposed to open its New York show on September i...
  35. His annus mirabilis was 1976. While continuing to work for long-term client Roland Jo...
  36. The focal point of this show by the architectural firm MVRDV was a large projection o...
  37. Sam Taylor-Wood makes big photographs. I like photographs that are small, made to be ...
  38. Installation art is in a precarious state. It has been criticized in recent years for...
  39. In industrialized nations--those German sociologist Ulrich Beck describes as risk soc...
  40. The first time I met Roger Hiorns was in his art-school studio in the mid-'90s. I ask...
  41. On September 11 and in the days after, I happened to be reading Czeslaw Milosz's New ...
  42. As the cold war gave way to the Gulf War and the New World Order, America found itsel...
  43. SIDNEY TILLIM WAS BORN on June 16, 1925, and died on August 16, 2001, in New York Cit...
  44. When Wolfgang Staehle's exhibition "2001" opened in early September at Postmasters ga...
  45. Jim Lambie's work is governed by a kind of Pop alchemy. Covering, wrapping, and adorn...
  46. Make a letter crystal clear or fuzzy, give it good posture or a slouch, shear its edg...
  47. Mathias Poledna, an Austrian artist living in Los Angeles, has repeatedly delved into...
  48. It may seem odd to reach for Gertude Stein's Wars I Have Seen, the autobiography publ...
  49. During the last few weeks, I found myself turning to the two seventeenth-century poet...
  50. Ken Goldberg, an artist and associate professor of engineering at the University of C...
  51. In the distance, a jumbo jet takes off from Newark; others circle in a holding patter...
  52. "Dear Cruel and malevolent Master," read one of the index cards punctuating Kara Walk...
  53. Leave it to Karen Carson to pay homage to Cezanne's landscapes in a format usually re...
  54. "Agony Hall," "Big Gender Junction," and "Sentimental Library" are just a few of the ...
  55. My first bookish instinct was to remind myself of what the neighborhood around the to...
  56. I have already had the benefit of the book that helps me understand such acts of mali...
  57. FRANCIS BACON ONCE DECLARED, "All art has become a game by which man distracts himsel...
  58. Sitting on an awards panel this summer, I was shown the work of a husband-and-wife ar...
  59. Some of the people seen in this show of photographs, subtitled "Travel and Tourism at...
  60. In photographer Amir Zaki's vertiginous, depopulated views, usually long exposures sh...
  61. Cosima von Bonin's art is dry. And it's not easy to decipher. This is as true as ever...
  62. Living in our ecumenical age, it is assumed as common wisdom that the three monotheis...
  63. My recommended reading after the events of September II is Karen Armstrong's The Batt...
  64. TEEMING WITH POOP, spew, blood, guts, and jism, Peter Saul's visceral, virtual-toon p...
  65. David Reed's exhibition begins in the half-light of the stairwell. Ascending the step...
  66. Burgoyne Diller's drawings and collages are quirky little things. Made a few years be...
  67. The fine color gradations that enliven the apparent chromatic uniformity of Adriana V...
  68. Eva Grubinger's Operation R.O.S.A., 2001, is a kind of Gesamkunstwerk, orchestrating ...
  69. Jorge Luis Borges's 1936 essay "The Translators of the Thousand and One Nights," an i...
  70. The Lady works in mysterious ways, and the morning after the tragedy in New York, I u...
  71. 1 NYFD, NYPD, MAYOR GIULIANI, ET AL. When I sat down to write a Top Ten in the wake o...
  72. The visually complex and thematically rich cinema of Alfred Hitchcock has inspired nu...
  73. Kathleen Gilje's line of inquiry is anything but unfamiliar. The unmasking of the mal...
  74. Although in Spain his name is associated with video, Carles Congost's work is not to ...
  75. It's been suggested that moving pictures represent an advance over still images insof...
  76. Fallen towers, falling idols. What has befallen the ideals of global progress now tha...
  77. Several weeks before the attack on the World Trade Center, a friend gave me a copy of...
  78. Thirty years ago in Artforum, Robert Pincus-Witten turned to Eva Hesse's diaries and ...
  79. A startling feature of the otherwise straightforward catalogue that accompanies Frank...
  80. The White House has always been the focus of memorable scenes emblematic of American ...
  81. Mimmo Jodice is one of a handful of artists--among them Franco Mulas, Gabriele Basili...
  82. Born in Spain in 1970, Juan Cruz has lived in the United Kingdom since he was eight, ...
  83. My internal transmitters were knocked out and I've been reduced to about two programs...
  84. For several years, I have been reading semi-popular books of cosmology. Most recently...
  85. It has proved difficult to imagine what sculpture could be at the beginning of the ne...
  86. Politica1 art has received a bashing of late. Explicit forms of critique have been sc...
  87. In the first chapter of his 1977 text Noise: The Political Economy of Music, French e...
  88. Luigi Ghirri, who died unexpectedly in 1992 when he was not yet fifty, occupied a ver...
  89. "War itself," Kant wrote, "if it is carried on with order and with a sacred respect f...
  90. ADAM LEHNER IN THE DAYS FOLLOWING September 11, it was agreed upon by just about ev...
  91. The Phonokinetoscope comprises a five-minute 16 mm film loop and a twelve-inch vinyl ...
  92. William Kentridge's first American retrospective opened with a recent film, Shadow Pr...
  93. All bad art, Oscar Wilde once observed, is sincere. Yet it's hard to imagine a more s...
  94. As deep as our sleep, as fast as your heart, 2001, is the work of Emmanuelle Antille,...
  95. I was thinking about contradiction when September 11 came. Awake all night, strugglin...
  96. NEW YORK CITY IS, at its healthiest, a crucible of one-upmanship. So it was heartenin...
  97. "THEY'RE ABOUT AWARENESS and a will to comprehend the world in its entirety," says Ga...
  98. Benjamin Edwards's first solo exhibition showcased his adventuresome approaches to po...
  99. Some artists seem to grow younger as they grow older. There is lilt, buoyancy, a sens...
  100. In every respect, Claudio Moser's works deal with transition zones. The motifs of his...
  101. AFTER THOUGHTS To the Publishers: A11 of us here at the Centre for Contemporary A...
  102. I have been through the process of mourning before, but what struck me was that this ...
  103. EVEN IN DEATH, Pierre Klossowski was inevitably linked with his younger brother, the ...
  104. STRADDLING THE PERIOD OF SOVIET DISINTEGRATION and perestroika/post-perestroika liber...
  105. Frances Stark's aesthetic might be thought of as eponymous. Her drawings are evocativ...
  106. Beatriz Milhazes's acrylic paintings have the surging, breathtaking rhythm of a good ...
  107. Over the centuries, the tiny town of Melle (4,000 souls at last count) has accumulate...
  108. GEOFFREY O'BRIEN ON THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE IN MICHAEL POWELL'S 1946 fantasy A Mat...
  109. LANE RELYEA ON MINIMALISM James Meyer, Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties....
  110. MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, CHICAGO People often complain, and they're probably rig...
  111. MAX PROTETCH The fascination of Byron Kim's work has always been the way it held it...
  112. THE POWER PLANT For more than a decade, Christine Davis's installations have combin...
  113. GALERIE VAN GELDER In terms of scale, the most prominent work in Marijke van Warmer...
  114. KENT JONES ON MULHOLLAND DRIVE THAT DAVID LYNCH IS A GENUINE VISIONARY may be indis...
  115. NICO ISRAEL ON "THE ART OF WASTE" "THE PURE, PRODUCTS OF AMERICA," according to Wil...
  116. MUSEO DE BELLAS ARTES, CARACAS "Gego" impresses itself on the memory: two short syl...
  117. ANDREA ROSEN Published in 1972, Learning from Las Vegas was the ultimate postmodern...
  118. GALERIA JUANA DE AIZPURU Juan Goytisolo, one of Spain's most combative novelists, h...
  119. ANTHONY WILKINSON GALLERY Since 1994, the London-based Spanish artist Angela de la ...
  120. REENA JANA ON DAVID A. ROSS'S RESIGNATION AS ABRUPTLY AS THE DEATH of a Silicon Val...
  121. Marcel Dzama is a Winnipeg-based artist whose work can currently be seen at the Carra...
  122. SITE SANTA FE For those desperate to jump from Venice Biennale curator Harald Szeem...
  123. HOWARD SCOTT GALLERY The image that immediately caught my eye in William Willis's s...
  124. THE BOX Angiola Gatti is a self-effacing painter from Turin who has been working fo...
  125. DULWICH PICTURE GALLERY Collections of historical masterpieces have two main ways o...
  126. ADAM LEHNER ON CATHERINE DAVID IT CAME AS SOMETHING of a surprise to art-world obse...
  127. Twenty years ago this month, artist and critic Thomas Lawson filed his survey-cum-man...
  128. UCLA HAMMER MUSEUM, LOS ANGELES In the slim catalogue to this latest overview of "N...
  129. P.P.O.W. Teun Hocks has a flair for the absurd. In his recent large, hand-tinted ph...
  130. GALLERIA DINA CAROLA Classical in appearance, Marisa Albanese's sculptures reveal, ...
  131. AUSTRALIAN GALLERIES Unlike other painters who came into vogue in the '80s, Scottis...
  132. JENNIFER ALLEN ON UDO KITTELMANN The fact that Udo Kittelmann--who takes over as di...
  133. KATY SIEGEL TALKS WITH DAVID REED ABOUT THE LEGACY OF LEE LOZANO LEE LOZANO ISN'T E...
  134. TRANS HUDSON Sidney Tillim was a true-blue American as well as a modernist in the E...
  135. JACK SHAINMAN GALLERY In Indian cosmogony, the serpent is assigned a variety of som...
  136. GALERIE LE SOUS-SOL In 1999, Swiss photographer Istvan Balogh produced a series cal...
  137. In the September issue, Artforum mis-credited the cover-image photographer. Ron Mueck...
  138. artcontext.net/progload Mass-media buzzwords, decontextualized to the point of mean...
  139. Today, the art of the '80s sits on a cusp. Too near to be "historical," the period ha...
  140. ANTON KERN GALLERY "I'm in New Yok, and in New Yok the tradition is that the ahtist...
  141. CLIFFORD SMITH GALLERY In his second solo show, "Lap and Beyond," New York-based Po...
  142. KUNSTHALLE The ground floor of the Kunsthalle Basel comprises a sequence of individ...
  143. Tuomo Manninen has been taking portraits of social and professional groups in various...
  144. www.artbrain.org Inspired by the link between computers and cognitive neuroscience ...
  145. "Things don't matter," William Eggleston told me, years ago, when I made the mistake ...
  146. LESLIE TONKONOW ARTWORKS + PROJECTS It's been a good year for Fluxus. With elegant ...
  147. ALDRICH MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART The fact that artists respond to and intervene a...
  148. VELETIRZN1 PALAC Since the '6os, Czech artist Adriena Simotova has been concerned w...
  149. The History: hubert.retrogames.com/article. php?sid=1 The Flash Movie: www.people.f...
  150. I think I reached some kind of threshold where I needed to look back to move forward....
  151. AMERICAN FINE ARTS, Co. For the past decade Nils Norman has been devising a series ...
  152. PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS Even in this nineteenth-century museum/ schoo...
  153. KLOSTERFELDE When Martin Kiosterfelde decided to move his gallery to a new location...
  154. www.bangaloreworldu-in.co.nz/salla/default.html If you saw the ads, the trailer, or...
  155. THE ARTIST-CURATED EXHIBITION is an inherently enticing proposition, but in practice ...
  156. SPENCER BROWNSTONE GALLERY The Sun is Rebecca Quaytman's latest work: a group of fo...
  157. STEPHEN WIRTZ GALLERY The houses in Todd Hido's new color photographs all exude an ...
  158. GALERIE WIELAND Artistic practice is becoming ever more dispersed. Now there is the...
  159. BARRY BERGDOLL ON ROBERT VENTURI AND DENISE SCOTT BROWN ROBERT VENTURI, whose semin...
  160. NEW-MEDIA HOUNDS, start lining up for popcorn. This fall at the New Museum of Contemp...
  161. Thomas Eggerer's paintings produce vertigo through formal means: Figurative vignettes...
  162. D'AMELIO TERRAS Maybe it's because his black-and-white text paintings referred so c...
  163. GOLDMAN TEVIS Why are there so few great green paintings? Put another way: Why has ...
  164. PALAIS DES BEAUX-ARTS Marthe Wery's exhibition included work by the artist from 196...
  165. THE ORGANIZERS OF THIS YEAR'S Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria, which takes ...
  166. DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS Who was Alfred Jensen (1903--81)? A geometric abstractionis...
  167. CONTEMPORARY ARTS MUSEUM An innovator in the field of discomfort, Vito Acconci is n...
  168. MUSSE D'ART MODERNE ET CONTEMPORAIN Most people equate the Situationist Internation...
  169. MODERNA MUSEET Every now and then an example of Botero's Michelin Men figures, with...
  170. A larger-than-scale replica of the famous California landmark, Maurizio Cattelan's Ho...
  171. PHILIP PEARISTEIN After almost forty years, we can presume to know Philip Pearistei...
  172. GALE GATES ET AL. Michael Counts's So Long Ago I Can't Remember--a divine comedy wa...
  173. MAKI TAMURA Art reflects the movements that stir society, transposing them onto an ...
  174. Catherine Millet, La vie sexuelle de Catherine M. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 2001. 2...
  175. INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART Richard Tuttle, master of the deceptively slight hand...
  176. IT'S A BIG YEAR FOR BRAZIL. AFTER all, not everyone gets to celebrate a 500th birthda...
  177. BARBICAN ART GALLERY According to the exhibition organizers, American art underwent...
  178. FUNDACIO ANTONI TAPIES Hans-Peter Feldmann's artistic bio commences with his decisi...
  179. KIASMA Held approximately once every six years, the ARS exhibitions might be dubbed...
  180. STEPHANE MALLARME'S DREAM of the ideal book, a book capable of encapsulating the enti...
  181. TAKASHI MURAKAMI On the wall flanking the entrance to Takashi Murakami's "Mushroom"...
  182. CHUCK HOLTZMAN Long known for his intricate, architectonic wood sculptures, Chuck H...
  183. DARIO ROBLETO Dario Robleto considers himself a kind of DJ: "What I do," he once to...
  184. Peter Plagens You can just hear 'em at the story meeting: "Look, what we want to do...
  185. HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN Juan Munoz's series of cast-resin and bronze ...
  186. If you were a resident of Mali's capital city in the '40s or '50s and sat for a portr...
  187. TATE MODERN The Tate press packet calls Katharina Fritsch "one of the most importan...
  188. MUSEO NACIONAL GENTRO DE ARTE REINA SOFIA On the heels of the Tate Modern/ Walker A...
  189. VARIOUS VENUES In 1987 Istanbul broke the ice for the new biennials-in its wake cam...
  190. When South African-born, New York-based photographer Gary Schneider began making port...
  191. JAMES ROSENQUIST I hereby pledge to stop repeating along with everyone else that Je...
  192. WEXNER CENTER FOR THE ARTS The four sections of the sprawling multimedia exhibition...
  193. STEFAN BANZ "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee." Muhammad Ali's motto was an...
  194. Lisa Ruyter, a New York-based artist, exhibited most recently at the Galerie Georg Ka...
  195. PHILLIPS COLLECTION Curators have lately been slicing the blockbusting Impressionis...
  196. Los Angeles continues to nurture its reputation for innovative building with the Muse...
  197. IKON GALLERY Julian Opie is known for his multimedia installations, all realized in...
  198. PALAZZO GRASSI Was the late Paris-born painter Balthus just another Humbert Humbert...
  199. Rachel Withers Ow! Ow! For crying out loud, put down that cat-o'-nine-tails and pay...