Stories Collection

  1. Few critics have written on cinema with the verve and dexterity of Manny Farber, whos...
  2. More than twenty years after Albert Oehlen's first solo show, in Stuttgart in 1981, t...
  3. In his recent video projections Tiong Ang makes the feelings of estrangement and diso...
  4. An armoire, a mattress, a few stools, some plates, a steel table, and a mirror--the o...
  5. Using concepts of the French sociologist Henri Lefebvre as a point of departure, Dori...
  6. Sung Neung-kyung has made deliberately marginal, semiprivate photo installations and ...
  7. Writing in the first half of the nineteenth century, Honore de Balzac set out to dist...
  8. It's impossible to account for the past three decades of Texas art without including ...
  9. Strip away the lush trappings of The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of...
  10. "The newest trend and the art scene are unnecessary distractions for a serious artist...
  11. About halfway through this selective survey of formal and conceptual circularity in c...
  12. Jean-Marc Bustamante's new photographs, part of the "Tableaux" he has been working on...
  13. "You'll always find me in the kitchen at parties": This syndrome could almost be the ...
  14. Dubbed by W a "ruler of the Hollywood heap," screenwriter Charlie Kaufman authored th...
  15. ARTIST-PUBLISHED MAGAZINES around 1972 were concerned primarily with art. This is not...
  16. In 1991, more than forty years after he had completed his first nudes, Irving Penn de...
  17. Janet Sobel probably never read Clement Greenberg's glancing tribute to her in his re...
  18. The fact that Thomas Demand is only now being granted a traveling museum survey in th...
  19. LOW-KEY AND REAL. That was how most people described Sundance 2002. The crowds were s...
  20. One new photograph, specially commissioned for this 215-image retrospective, shows a ...
  21. The women in Amy Cutler's world don't have it easy. Two especially surly specimens, u...
  22. Even the most accurate representation or display of an object taken directly from rea...
  23. Doodle or drawing? Kerstin Kartscher's work combines the pleasures of both. The Germa...
  24. Thirty years ago, Leo Steinberg's "Reflections on the State of Art Criticism" punctur...
  25. Do we need a survey of new American art in London? That's the question one asked befo...
  26. Richard Caldicott photographs Tupperware. This might sound like an interesting new fo...
  27. The gallery seemed to be piled with garbage--dead car batteries, torn boxes, kitschy ...
  28. Andrew Kearney's first major Irish exhibition in seven years, in his native Limerick,...
  29. AS THE PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART'S RETROSPECTIVE "BARNETT NEWMAN" GOES ON VIEW THIS ...
  30. Frank Stella's recent exhibition consisted of sixteen new works in various, purposely...
  31. Lynne Yamamoto's recent exhibition, "Resplendent," immersed viewers in a pastoral tab...
  32. Even without knowing the facts of Grete Stern's long life--she was born in Wuppertal-...
  33. In the January issue, Artforum provided incorrect dimensions for Richard Prince's The...
  34. Alexi Worth recounts the series of visits Richard Bellamy made to James Rosenquist's ...
  35. Much has been said about the artifice of James Casebere's works--studio photographs o...
  36. John Currin seems to be cleaning up his act, at least a little: no more extravagantly...
  37. For his New York solo debut, Christoph Buchel created the kind of project that few ar...
  38. For many years now, Candida Hofer has been photographing public or semipublic spaces ...
  39. Seydou Keita was seventy-eight years old and long retired when he died last November....
  40. Latter-day defenders of the one true path of modernism may think that they were blind...
  41. More than a decade ago, Carl Ostendarp emerged as a deadpan formalist, with bulging f...
  42. Ostensibly shot from a moving train, Eileen Neff's blurry, digitally altered photogra...
  43. It was around 1940 that Frederick Kiesler developed his Vision Machine, an exhibition...
  44. Brushes with History: Writing on Art from The Nation, 1865-2001. Edited by Peter G. M...
  45. What triggered this piece were the mice. We had a big influx of field mice that summe...
  46. Flea markets are famously fecund places. Treasure troves of detritus, they offer a ri...
  47. When Tom Nakashima moved his studio from Washington, DC, to the Virginia countryside,...
  48. Yuko Hasegawa, curator of this year's Istanbul Biennial, set out to make an exhibitio...
  49. In the Jittery, smoke-streaked weeks following the attacks on the World Trade Center,...
  50. Pauline Kael, the New Yorker's film critic from 1968 until 1991 (save for a brief hia...
  51. While Zhang Huan was an art student in Beijing in the early '90s, his art history pro...
  52. Self-imposed restrictions play a major role in Jane Hammond's art. In the past she ha...
  53. Selected works from the past four years have been brought together for Wolfgang Tilim...
  54. Net-art pioneer Vuk Cosic lives and works in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and represented his...
  55. The lore of Western realism is full of blunders, a slapstick succession of mistakes a...
  56. In 1999, Maciej Wisniewski launched his digital-art career with Netomat, a browser th...
  57. Delia Brown's recent show, her first at Margo Leavin, comprised thirty-six drawings, ...
  58. The subtitle of "4FREE" holds nothing back: It promises "art-politics-science & aes...
  59. Is Pirated Material the electronic-age scion of the readymade? "Kingdom of piracy" (k...
  60. I couldn't find precious amid the blizzard of words that composed the floor sculpture...
  61. Per Kirkeby's recent paintings, simultaneously refined and raw, are about memory: the...
  62. In a career defined by attempts to give physical form to complex language-based narra...
  63. The centerpiece of Job Koelewijn's show was the complex installation Time Machine, 20...
  64. The idea sounded promising, if a bit quixotic: Ask an international group of artists ...
  65. "Brazil: Body and Soul" is among the most expensive and polemical museum exhibitions ...
  66. There's not much clowning around in Rhona Bitner's recent Big Top photographs, even i...
  67. This was Basque artist Ana Busto's third foray into the controversial world of boxing...
  68. Collectors, save this issue! The review you are reading will soon be an artwork, or p...
  69. Toby Webster, director of the Modern Institute, Glasglow, is cocurating "My Head is o...
  70. In 1987, as Liz Larner's career came into focus, she was making modest but vivid scul...
  71. This exhibition, the first major presentation of Shaker "gift" drawings and song manu...
  72. As an art of both space and time, video succeeds in telling us something interesting ...
  73. It is easy to see why much of the comment that circulates around Keith Tyson's work f...
  74. WALTER BENJAMIN SAID it's the winners whose histories are told, but Todd Solondz's la...
  75. There is a photograph in this retrospective of a spacious white house on a hilltop ov...
  76. In the heyday of modernism, numerous theorists of art and architecture considered pat...
  77. The Hindu festival of Mahakumbhmela takes place over the course of several days, ever...
  78. Todd Haynes's curious film Safe (1995) tells the tale of a woman who becomes "allergi...
  79. Laurie Simmons's work is currently on view at 20.21 Galerie in Essen, Germany. Her ne...
  80. Jean Dubuffet (1901-85) was a big deal to an adolescent art lover in Chicago in the '...
  81. Whatever else it may be, postmodern painting tends to be art-historically self-consci...
  82. Two basic elements made up Liliana Moro's installation, " ", 2001. The first was a ma...
  83. Julian Opie is becoming the latest master of the long British tradition of landscape ...
  84. Twenty years ago this month, editor Ingrid Sischy's eyebrow-raising cover image of a ...
  85. As a child there are three main things you learn about art. First, it's supposed to b...
  86. In his first one-person show in New York, British artist Peter Liversidge reproduces ...
  87. That nomadism is a characteristic condition of life in the age of globalization has b...
  88. Until recently, being an American admirer of the photographer Bill Henson was a lonel...
  89. The blind men would have had quite a time with this elephant called "Des territoires....
  90. James Hegge's first solo show in New York comprised three sculptures, two series of d...
  91. Like many photographers, Eric Rondepierre travels to find his images. And yet he is n...
  92. AT THE HARVARD DESIGN SCHOOL, HI-LO [C] ARCHITECT AND INTER-disciplinary smarty-pants...
  93. What can one say about Louise Bourgeois but that she is master of her form and mistre...
  94. Harking back to elaborate tree forts hosting gangs of neighborhood kids, "Mirz," a gr...
  95. Who hasn't wanted, just once, to be alone with Paris? One of the great laboratories o...
  96. EXTRA PONT To the Editor: In his thoughtful review of the exhibition of late de K...
  97. Last year I installed three big pieces between May and October: The Deliverance and t...
  98. A map of Julie Mehretu's career thus far would have the scattered, centripetal look o...
  99. Christopher Wilmarth developed a kind of melancholic minimalism during his brief care...
  100. Ernst Schmidt Jr. (1938-88) was one of Vienna's most important avant-garde filmmakers...
  101. JOHN BALDESSARI--"the world's tallest leprechaun," as denizens of an earlier LA art w...
  102. THAT SARAT MAHARAJ IS A BIT TOO INTELLIGENT for the art world, as a friend of mine re...
  103. Jorg Sasse has refined the role of artist as technician. He scans photographs of arch...
  104. For the past thirty-five years Fred Sandback has been creating barely-there yarn inst...
  105. Elizabeth Peyton is a small woman who works for the most part on a small scale, but s...
  106. Daumier said: "We must follow our own time." And Ingres said: "But what if the time i...
  107. Saul Fletcher shot the austere landscapes on the following pages at the end of a frus...
  108. One thing I'm tired of--just so you know--is people setting up some dreary idea of fe...
  109. In her recent show, Marlene McCarty continued her study of adolescent girls who becom...
  110. Berlin's Mitte has lost much of its attraction for the art market. Too much tourism, ...
  111. Diana Thater's exhibition "Knots + Surfaces" is currently on view at the Dia Center, ...
  112. IT TAKES A SPECIAL TURN OF MIND to look at the sky and see goats, celestial twins, an...
  113. Robert Frost famously remarked that poetry is what gets lost in translation. Berlin-b...
  114. Fooling around with spiritual imagery is tricky business. When it comes to the eterna...
  115. Damien De Lepeleire is a Belgian painter whose work proceeds in series, with all that...
  116. A pet only Steven Spielberg could love? Sony commissioned Japanese animator Katsura M...
  117. I find digital photography vaguely depressing, an oxymoron like the advertising sloga...
  118. There is something exquisitely tacky about Petah Coyne's latest work. Made with beads...
  119. Eliminating considerations of taste was a common goal during the golden age of Minini...
  120. The paintings in Rachel Howard's second solo exhibition are variations on a theme: th...
  121. Ten years ago this month, Michael Corris introduced Damien Hirst to Artforum's reader...
  122. "The Photogenic" is not about fashion models or other young-thing handsomeness; it is...
  123. The burgeoning rediscovery of Mel Bochner's early work--for the moment overshadowing ...
  124. A muffled yawn might be an excusable reaction to learning of another show devoted to ...
  125. Is the obsession with the present, the Now, a consequence of accelerated capitalism? ...
  126. Unlike the bulk of his re-photography peers--Sherrie Levine, Robert Longo, Jack Golds...
  127. To begin, a niggly question: When painting or sculpture is labeled "uncanny," what is...
  128. Dike Blair has always been a careful observer of scenes. His paintings of hotel lobbi...
  129. To be honest, I've always found Chris Finley's work hit-or-miss at best. His early- t...
  130. What's wrong with this picture? The German artist Heike Baranowsky would be happy to ...
  131. Eva Hesse, with her lumpy, handmade sculpture, her bumpy, dramatic personal life, and...
  132. You'd never know that Edvard Munch, like James Ensor, went on living and painting wel...
  133. Though far too individualistic to be labeled the Chicago School, Harry Callahan, Aaro...
  134. When, in the 1980s, the Royal Academy instigated a series of country-by-country twent...
  135. Whether portraying the chic shiver of a heroin fix, the rebel spirit of trashy punk, ...
  136. Jana Sterbak cites among her influences the grim/droll Magic Realism of her Czech com...
  137. After the September II attack on the World Trade Center, some psychologists discovere...
  138. Mark Bradford, an artist who works as a hairstylist in South-Central Los Angeles, dis...
  139. It's tough to be a painter these days, let alone one who has reached midcareer having...
  140. Dan Peterman's work comes from a brick building in Chicago ("the Building"), whose pr...
  141. Gerhard Richter shows come and go with an anodyne regularity; each occasion is more o...
  142. Jack Pierson is not unlike the little girl with the curl (when he's good he's very, v...
  143. Fifty years ago Willem de Kooning shocked the art world with his "Woman" paintings--n...
  144. In 1946 Sicilian artist Carla Accardi decided to relocate from Tripardi to Florence, ...
  145. Enfin. On January 19, the long-anticipated Palais de Tokyo opens its doors as the wor...
  146. Lars Nilsson is part of a generation of Scandinavian artists who came of age in the '...
  147. Works of visual art that rely on sound, site-specific projects that induce an overwhe...
  148. Perhaps it's a mark of my own post-feminism (or just squeamishness) that I assumed th...
  149. Unlike their typical repertoire of embroidered objects made from simple materials suc...
  150. A quality of restrained, forceful inquisitiveness pervaded the small but intense grou...
  151. This comprehensive exhibition of 300 Russian artist's books and manifestos, organized...
  152. Sue Williams made her reputation in the late '80s and early '90s with crudely painted...
  153. To re-create the itinerary of the historical avant-garde, LACMA curator Timothy O. Be...
  154. Inspired by Douglas Cooper's 1983 show "The Essential Cubism, Werner Spies is setting...
  155. Set like a jewel in London's Kensington Gardens, the Serpentine Gallery is "probably ...
  156. When Eija-Liisa Ahtila captured the first Vincent award for European art in 2000, it ...
  157. The hard thing about Roy Lichtenstein's paintings of brushstrokes isn't getting the j...
  158. It's hard to find stranger, more uncanny sculptures in early avant-garde art than Ott...
  159. Sunday Jack Akpan's business card bears the following words: "Undertakes Construction...
  160. In Sarah Dobai's photograph Above the City (all works 2001), London stretches out tow...
  161. LOST AND FOUND To the Editor: As it happens, Lee Lozano ["Making Waves: The Legac...
  162. After a significant show at the Whitney in 2000, Roni Horn might be excused from moun...
  163. During the '90s, Agnes Martin fell into the role of a celebrated--if slightly improba...
  164. Since the beginning of her career, in the mid-'80s, Jac Leirner's works have stood as...
  165. A card-carrying member of the '8os "Pictures" fraternity, Jack Goldstein all but disa...
  166. SPONTANEITY SURE AIN'T WHAT IT used to be. Nowadays acting off the cuff takes detaile...
  167. On her next return run, globe-trotting Tracey Moffatt will overshoot her Australian h...
  168. James Siena's small enamel paintings on aluminum are always absorbing, his drawings o...
  169. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, where Laura Owens spent a month in residence in ...
  170. When people leave the places where they live and work, it sometimes seems that those ...
  171. Like an unsigned will, Willem de Kooning's 1980s paintings ended his career with a ki...
  172. John Berger, Selected Essays. Edited by Geoff Dyer. New York: Pantheon, 2001. 608 pag...
  173. Throughout his career, Irving Penn has offset the flawless chic of his fashion photog...
  174. Gary Simmons is on the young side of midcareer, an artist whose concerns dovetail nic...
  175. Having survived the political rumblings that shook its foundations in 2000, the twent...
  176. We all know that artists dream of being rock stars. One symptom of this desire is the...
  177. Grandes equipamentos culturais": With that useful phrase the organizers of the fourth...
  178. When an artist settles into the niche of her obsessions, the line can become very fin...
  179. Jim Waters paints in series: Each group of works on shaped panels explores a single f...
  180. The world upside down: The artist is standing in a suit and tie; he has climbed onto ...
  181. New York September 11, by Magnum Photographers. New York: powerHouse Books, 2001. 144...
  182. The September II World Trade Center attack was probably the most photographed event i...
  183. "SO YOU GOT THE LIST?" ASKS LAWRENCE RINDER, chief curator of the Whitney Museum's 20...
  184. Like Picasso, Andy Warhol has kept the wheels of the art industry turning, inspiring ...
  185. Since the end of World War II, Tuscany has been home to many first-rate artists who f...
  186. Raymond Pettibon's early works--of the late '70s and early '80s--grew out of the Los ...
  187. "THEY ARE CONFRONTATIONAL, TOUGH," says Cady Noland about the artists she brings toge...
  188. Keith Sonnier gained recognition in the early '70s for work that engaged the "new" me...
  189. The threat of terrorism and the fear that follows a terrorist attack reduce "normalcy...
  190. A "retouched self-portrait" published in 1962 presents Robert Breer--an American arti...
  191. JUNE 17, 2001. In a muddy field in the north of England near a giant slag heap, Briti...
  192. Curator Thelma Golden has taken risks in her career, most visibly with her 1994 "Blac...
  193. Countries come in and out of fashion, and this seems to be primetime, in New York at ...
  194. Martin Harrison's survey of art made and shown in London in the 1950s will surely pro...
  195. Organized by Kunsthalle Zurich director Beatrix Ruf, this is essentially a Prince sur...
  196. The wide-ranging work of Danish artist Poul Gernes (1925-96)--Op-art target paintings...
  197. A voluminous canopy in translucent celadon silk is suspended from the gallery ceiling...
  198. Well-known in Vancouver as a founder of photoconceptualism, Ian Wallace has had a pro...
  199. Helen Altman's recent show "My Best Eggs" included fifteen "torch" drawings of animal...