Stories Collection

  1. ROBERT DASH Throughout the '60s and '70s, Robert Dash was a fixture on the New York...
  2. HELEN MIRRA Spread out on the malt brown floor of the Renaissance Society this summ...
  3. JOAN JONAS After a career of some thirty years, Joan Jonas is being rediscovered. T...
  4. Thirty years ago this month, Artforum turned its attention to avant-garde film and it...
  5. MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART We've always suspected that Roy Lichtenstein was more th...
  6. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY ART MUSEUM Though Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's artist...
  7. GALERIE NATIONALE DU JEU DE PAUME No season of architectural blockbusters would be ...
  8. KUNSTMUSEUM ST. GALLEN David Reed's paintings play fast and loose with the conventi...
  9. For all you youngsters who won't remember, 1992 was the year of the Post Human--at le...
  10. PURE NIGHTMARE OR FONDEST DESIRE, we all dreamed of it; Wim Delvoye has made it. Afte...
  11. RITAT MCBRIDE Rita McBride's art deflates the bloated tenets of high-modernist city...
  12. JEFF ELROD Jeff Elrod's starkly graphic paintings stem from preliminary drawings he...
  13. VINCENT GEYSKENS A successful painter can do a lot of damage in a small country. To...
  14. THE GAUL OF IT To the Editor: If Daniel Soutif wishes to appear testily Gallic, t...
  15. AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM, NEW YORK When Henry Darger died--in 1973, at the age of 8...
  16. BASS MUSEUM OF ART Long before supermodels and other sexed-up sybarites of the '90s...
  17. MOCA AT THE GEFFEN CONTEMPORARY In 1993, Douglas Gordon projected a super-slo-mo vi...
  18. CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU There may be no greater disappointment in Paris than Jean N...
  19. GENERALI FOUNDATION In 1988 and 1996, New York-based artist Hans Haacke developed p...
  20. Rachel Withers "Africa--the heart of darkness...or the 'chic continent'?" is the ba...
  21. It could be some late, last-gasp cultural tendency, a kind of postmodern dead-cat bou...
  22. HIROSHI SUGITO The wide gray fields that fill many of Hiroshi Sugito's big new pain...
  23. LARRY CLARK The sharpest parts of Larry Clark's movies are nonnarrative moments of ...
  24. ANN-SOFI SIDEN At Manifesta 2, Ann-Sofi Siden presented the video installation Who ...
  25. Marco Livingstone recounts the events early in the career of the British duo that led...
  26. MUSEUM OF MODERN ART Paris has already celebrated the centenary of Giacometti's bir...
  27. THE PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART'S "Thomas Eakins: American Realist," which opens in Oc...
  28. MOCA AT CALIFORNIA PLAZA Over the past fifteen years, Liz Lamer has charted a parti...
  29. FOR THOSE LOOKING TO HIT IT BIG on this year's Turner shortlist, bookmakers William H...
  30. ZENTRUM FUR KUNST UND MEDIENTECHNOLOGIE The twofold destiny of the spectator: A vie...
  31. Get ready to Drive a Crooked Road (1954) Toward the Unknown (1956): Incredible Instal...
  32. TATE MODERN, LONDON "Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera 1962-1972," an overdue museum su...
  33. SHIRIN NESHAT Despite Shirin Neshat's recent successes (her 1998 film Turbulent ear...
  34. DIRK SKREBER Dirk Skreber's recent works are disasters. In the paintings especially...
  35. RUNA ISLAM Director's Cut (Fool for Love), the main work in this show (all works 20...
  36. IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE David Sylvester is no longer with us. On both sides of the Atlan...
  37. WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART Whatever hope film and video work have for artistic ...
  38. WEXNER CENTER FOR THE ARTS In this survey organized by the Wexner and coproduced by...
  39. MUSEE D'ART CONTEMPORAIN Given her high-profile gallery career and participation in...
  40. CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU The French are at their best when honoring their own. The g...
  41. KUNSTSAMMLUNG NORDRHEIN-WESTERN Thanks to recent scholarship, Alberto Savinio has d...
  42. Never act with children or animals--and never with sets designed by photographers and...
  43. LOS ANGELES MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART Like other hard c and r words--culture, cura...
  44. DOUG HALL Modernism was great for slogans, from Mies's "less is more" and Sullivan'...
  45. FROM THE STREET, everything looks more or less the way it has since the Baroque era. ...
  46. THE BIG SHOW IS A SERIES OF EXHIBITIONS ON GLOBALIZATION. Three separate exhibitions ...
  47. Those crashing, rhythmic thuds you heard on entering Martin Kersels's latest show wer...
  48. The art-review format tends to encourage nutshell accounts of an artist's output, whi...
  49. Douglas Wada's new paintings depict icons of American life--things that otherwise ten...
  50. "I DREAMED I WAS PLAYING Handel's Messiah," a temporarily overworked cellist told me ...
  51. FEW MUSEUMS ARE LINKED TO THE NAME OF AN ARCHITECT AS DECIDEDLY AS THE GUGGENHEIM IS ...
  52. Luigi Ontani is that rare bird of art: an unforgettable face, a world-class dandy, an...
  53. Casts of antique statuary have formed the backbone of artists' education since the la...
  54. The crossover between art and life has been a defining feature of much of the art fro...
  55. In Germany, the opposition between realism and abstraction has always been intertwine...
  56. ON JAPANESE TV, the later the hour, the weirder the programming. After midnight (when...
  57. CLYFFORD STILL's sustained disappearing act has made his achievement among the most e...
  58. You'd think every angle on Picasso had been worked to death by now--that each period,...
  59. Like Warhol and Johns, Aaron Cobbett started out in the trenches of fashion, dressing...
  60. With so many works taking the body as the basis of their aesthetic discourse, it come...
  61. Jun Yang's method is simple and catchy: juxtaposing Western symbols with Eastern ones...
  62. www.vet-alfort.fr/fr/musee/musee.htm Founded in 1765 by eccentric veterinarian Hono...
  63. Jointly sponsored by Creative Time and Panasonic for "The 59th Minute: Video Art on t...
  64. Our habitat is being restructured on an order of magnitude beyond ken. What began as ...
  65. For the past several years, Rainer Ganahl has been lurking in the corridors of higher...
  66. Books lined up on shelves can elicit strong emotions. There is the desire to know and...
  67. William Anastasi explores the elementary constituents of art--the viewing space, the ...
  68. BALTHAZAR KLOSSOWSKI, OR BALTHUS, or the Count de Rola, as he preferred to be known l...
  69. user.xpoint.at/epm/ The brainchild of Viennese physician Stefan Jellinek (1871-1968...
  70. Long before the renovations of Krefeld's Haus Lange and Haus Esters were completed la...
  71. The moniker has stuck since Grace Glueck coined it in 1965, but Ray Johnson's days as...
  72. Not long ago, uniformed Thai policemen raided Top Changtrakul's tiny studio in the co...
  73. The word, the signifier that defines the word, the object the word indicates--these m...
  74. Ever since modernism taught us the apparently unbreakable habit of reading works of a...
  75. Honore de Balzac, The Unknown Masterpiece. Translated by Richard Howard. Introduction...
  76. www.specola.unifi.it/cere/wax-collection.htm An eighteenth-century anatomical museu...
  77. This May 17, TSAI MING-LIANG's fifth feature film, Et la-bas, quelle heure est-il? (W...
  78. Slyly lovely and perversely indirect, Ellen Gallagher's work concerns inscription and...
  79. It might not seem that Internet porn bears any similarity to houses for sale in Orang...
  80. The three works Davide Bertoccbi presented here were each quite different but were su...
  81. The greater an object's size, according to Edmund Burke, the more violently it excite...
  82. Manifesto: A Century of Isms. Edited by Mary Ann Caws. Lincoln, NE, and London: Unive...
  83. www.plastination.co Gunther von Hagens, a professor at the University of Heidelberg...
  84. Best known outside the UK for his sardonic send-ups of all things English, Mark Walli...
  85. Glen Baxter's work hasn't changed much, happily, since he last showed it in New York,...
  86. An exhibition featuring thirty international artists, "Painting at the Edge of the Wo...
  87. The exhibition began outside, on the street: Drawings were painted on the gallery win...
  88. William Tucker's career has been sliced down the middle. Born in 1935, he made his na...
  89. Bruce Mau, Life Style. London: Phaidon Press, 2000. 625 pages, $75. GRAPHIC DESIGN ...
  90. This time out, the Brooklyn Museum of Art won't be able to bank on New York mayor Rud...
  91. This time Philip-Lorca diCorcia's stage set is Mayor Giuliani's tarted-up Times Squar...
  92. Barbara Hepworth was a master of subtle form. Though her abstract works often contain...
  93. Al Souza's extravagant "paintings" are so visually disruptive they demand to be stare...
  94. Whether in the form of sculpture, installation, or video, the work of Alain Sechas al...
  95. Peter Peryer's best-known photograph may be the dead cow with legs akimbo that featur...
  96. "SKIS WITH VALENTINO, dines with Audrey Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor ... lives on the...
  97. JUSTIN SPRING revisits Wayne Thiebaud's 1962 New York debut at the Allan Stone Galler...
  98. Years before I saw any of Cameron Jamie's work, the artist Larry Johnson had told me ...
  99. You might have hesitated at the gallery door, thinking the installation was still in ...
  100. During the last fifteen years of his life, avant-garde composer John Cage produced a ...
  101. The title of an exhibition curated by Bice Curiger precedes it like a magical incanta...
  102. In the May zoor issue, Artforum accompanied else preview of SITE Santa Fe's "Beau Mon...
  103. Come October, the Swedes take over the Japanese capital with a two-week cultural fest...
  104. Matthew Higgs is associate director of exhibitions at the ICA, London, where he curat...
  105. The Wadsworth Atheneum's recent Sol LeWitt exhibition included just one of the artist...
  106. Happily for horror vacuists, Jim Shaw's recycling of cultural detritus continues unab...
  107. I'd like to call Vanessa Beecroft the Leni Riefenstahl of performance art, but that w...
  108. The word "Demokratie" (Democracy), printed in white, gleams on a black background on ...
  109. John Miller, The Price Club: Selected Writings (1977-1998). Dijon, France, and Geneva...
  110. RACHEL KUSHNER ON WALTER HOPPS THE ANNOUNCEMENT IN MARCH of Walter Hopps's appointm...
  111. HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN Nobody, but nobody, could cop attitude like C...
  112. CENTRO CULTURAL BANCO DO BRASIL Rio-based Waltercio Caldas has yet to gain the inte...
  113. CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE In Sam Taylor-Wood's art everything seems to hap...
  114. KUNSTLERHAUS WIEN Sixteen years after Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie gave us "We...
  115. Are Franz West's "Pa[beta]stucke" sculptures or props? Either way, his portable objec...
  116. THE TALENT OF AUSTRIAN ARCHITECTS IS baroque. They celebrate space, unlike the Calvin...
  117. SALANDER-O'REILLY GALLERIES For many, the name Larry Poons will never signify anyth...
  118. SHOSHANA WAYNE GALLERY The most telling photograph in Kelly Nipper's latest exhibit...
  119. GALERIE CORA HOLZL More than fifteen years ago the Austrian artist Brigitte Kowanz ...
  120. www.artmuseum.net/refresh/index.html Here's a great way to collect art for free--an...
  121. RICHARD SHONE ON THE FRANCIS BACON STUDIO There are immaculate studios and there ar...
  122. WEXNER CENTER FOR THE ARTS When is a sculpture, an installation, a photograph, or a...
  123. TATE MODERN The development of arte povera in Italy coincided with the rise of Mini...
  124. CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU Rumor has it that Raymond Hains is one of the most influent...
  125. WIENER SECESSION Architecture has provided a principal frame of reference for Simon...
  126. JAMES MEYER ON THE FACE OF IT, "THE CRYSTAL LAND," THE EARLIEST OF Robert Smithson'...
  127. AVANT-GARDISTS USED TO HOLD THEIR AUDIENCES in contempt, but today times are friendli...
  128. KIM FOSTER GALLERY The paintings here were all from the series "slow, same, slow," ...
  129. MARC FOXX The modestly scaled, square color images included in Dutch artist Hellen ...
  130. KUNST-WERKE Start cramming. Catherine David is back with "L'Etat des choses (Iere p...
  131. This past November, I was astonished to note that a truly momentous political event--...
  132. Andrea Bowers is a Los Angeles-based artist whose work can currently be seen in "Maki...
  133. MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART H.C. ("Cliff") Westermann had everything a real artist n...
  134. TATE MODERN Although it's been less than two years since London's last Morandi show...
  135. CNAC-LE MAGASIN Architecture may be the oldest art form, but for Monica Bonvicini a...
  136. AKADEMIE DER KUNSTE Organic functionalist Hugo Haring (1882-1958) remains a mysteri...
  137. I'm traveling mentally, the way I usually do, from a lush marsh, to a secluded road, ...
  138. Italy is the destination of choice for many Albanian immigrants. It is the closest We...
  139. GAVIN BROWN'S ENTERPRISE On the heels of an edition of prints for the New Museum, a...
  140. LOW Dean Sameshima eyes skinny boys with wan complexions and an air of Anglophilia....
  141. VAN ABBEMUSEUM Pierre Huyghe conceived his exhibition "Interludes" as being similar...
  142. WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, NEW YORK In appraising its acknowledged masters, ar...
  143. ART INSTITUTE Edward Weston is best known for the clinical precision with which he ...
  144. HAYWARD GALLERY "It is much more difficult to make an abstract painting that is rea...
  145. MUSEU D'ART CONTEMPORANI When did criticality get a bad name? In the go-go fin de '...
  146. KUNST- UND AUSSTELLUNGSHALLE DER BRD Taken singly, some of David Hockney's best-kno...
  147. As LA MoCA's traveling survey "The Architecture of R.M. Schindler" opens the eyes of ...
  148. CENTER GEORGES POMPIDOU, PARIS There is, it seems, no definitive way of organizing ...
  149. P.P.O.W. GALLERY / LITTLE JOHN CONTEMPORARY Julie Heffernan's imagination looks sus...
  150. FUNDACIO ANTONI TAPIES Art is a play of light and shadows from whose tangle arise p...
  151. KONSTMUSEUM "Physical Sightseeing," the first comprehensive solo museum show of Mag...
  152. BRAD GOOCH looks back at the events leading up to Philip Taaffe's breakthrough one-pe...
  153. SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM Frank Gehry, as we all know, is the guy who designed...
  154. IF IT'S SUMMERTIME, THE ART MUST be easy, right? Not judging by a host of upcoming ex...
  155. SERPENTINE GALLERY Surprisingly, this is the first survey in London of Rachel White...
  156. PALAZZO DELLE ESPOSIZIONI Curators Bartolomeo Pietromarchi and Maria Grazia Tolomeo...
  157. ROOSEUM CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART Under director Charles Esche and deputy directo...
  158. AFTER SEARCHING UP AND DOWN Micheltorena Street, one finally comes across the Oliver ...
  159. P.S. 1, NEW YORK Child's play or warfare? Among the recent offerings at MOMA'S Long...
  160. ANDREW KREPS GALLERY First developed in the late '20s, the com positing technique k...
  161. VOLUME! Volume! is a new exhibition space founded and run by the collector Franco N...
  162. LISSON GALLERY Everything here is a sample. What do you want-man or woman? Both? Se...
  163. RICHARD SHIFF ON LEO STEINBERG Leo Steinberg, Leonardo's Incessant Last Supper. New...
  164. STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM "Freestyle" is former Whitney curator Thelma Golden's first...
  165. "Race in Digital Space"(MIT List Visual Arts Center, Apr. 26-July 1) is also a race t...
  166. "CUBISM IS SPANISH IN ORIGIN, and it was I who invented Cubism. We should look for Sp...
  167. "CECILIA, HOW MANY ARTISTS DO WE HAVE?" inquires Harald Szeemann, director of this su...
  168. IF YOU'RE ALONE AND LIFE IS making you lonely, you can always go downtown-or, alterna...
  169. I HAD THE GOOD FORTUNE OF BECOMING acquainted with Rudolph Schindler not long after m...
  170. NATIONAL GALLERY, WASHINGTON, DC In the first half of the twentieth century, Alfred...
  171. PIEROGI Video's ability to highlight the elasticity of time has fascinated artists ...
  172. GALLERIA FRANCO NOERO/GALLERIA FRANCESCA KAUFMANN Maurizio Cannavacciuolo stands ou...
  173. ARTANGEL, C&A, OXFORD STREET Peter Vanezis, a forensic scientist who specializes in...
  174. HOWARD HAMPTON ON ALLEN SMITHEE Directed by Allen Smithee, edited by Jeremy Braddoc...
  175. THE JEWISH MUSEUM Although Chagall's name now draws mostly polite disdain from art-...
  176. Yet another single-aspect show of Picasso's work. Guest curator Michael FitzGerald, w...
  177. One of Basel's favorite sons, Arnold Bocklin (1827-1901) is up for a second survey in...
  178. Does the world really need another every-other-year contemporary art exhibition? The ...
  179. The Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie in Karlsruhe is mounting a show of some f...
  180. Self-love and love of others are both modes toward increasing self valuation and enco...
  181. GAGOSIAN GALLERY This retrospective of Neil Jenney's "bad paintings" makes it clear...
  182. LFL GALLERY While most people's efforts to track their expenses fizzle after a few ...
  183. MUSEE D'ART MODERNE DE LA VILLE DE PARIS "Paris pour escale" (Paris stopover) was p...
  184. In "Net Gains: A Roundtable on New Media Art" [March 2001, p. 118], Artforum omitted ...
  185. www.sissyfight.com Were you a problem child in grade school? Whether you were a dir...
  186. MASS MOCA The games we play! And if games linguistic, chance-based, and skilled can...
  187. SANTA FE Critic turned indie curator Dave Hickey, our flaneur du jour, welcomes us ...
  188. MUSEUM OF MODERN ART If architect and urbanist Richard Rogers's 1997 figures still ...
  189. PAC AND PALAZZO DELLA TRIENNALE Milan still doesn't have a museum of contemporary a...
  190. www.vuitton.com Almost as inventive as Costume National's site and equally elegant ...
  191. John Pilson loves boxy, putty-colored computers; he hates those "designed" Macs on wh...
  192. NICOLE KLAGSBRUN Living in Rome for most of the '80s, American artist Donna Moylan ...
  193. CHICAGO PROJECT ROOM Taco Stand; Shelf; Amt fur Au[beta]en Dienst (Office for exter...
  194. KATY SIEGEL looks back at the 1962 studio visit by gallerist Richard Bellamy that res...
  195. Harriet Vyner, Groovy Bob: The Life and Times of Robert Fraser. New York: Faber and F...
  196. nikeid.nike.com In the realm of new media, where you can customize a homepage and c...
  197. INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY, NEW YORK Andy Warhol is to photography as Sha...
  198. COHAN LESLIE AND BROWNE "Dear Stranger": On its own, the phrase that titles Shizuka...
  199. K. SARANTOPOULOS FLOUR MILLS In Greek, thrilos means "legendary" or "heroic." Today...