Stories Collection

  1. "Faces in the Crowd," a lively and ambitious exhibition that debuted at the...
  2. Nearly everything in Rainer Ganahl's engrossing show, four years' worth of work disse...
  3. At once endearing, twisted and sophisticated, Laylah Ali's work has long played on th...
  4. In 1967, Brazilian conceptual artist Nelson Leirner submitted to the Brasilia Nationa...
  5. What began as an image in a dark box in the times of Leonardo and Vermeer has come fu...
  6. The George and Helen Segal Foundation recently announced the recipients of its 2004-0...
  7. "Degrees of Fluency" was an exhibition of nine bright canvases, ranging fro...
  8. Kenzo Tange, 91, Japan's leading architect in the postwar period, died Mar. 22 of hea...
  9. The Armory Show, the annual international fair of new art, once again brought togethe...
  10. There is" something about these images ... these patterns, these funny silhouett...
  11. Based in Delhi, Raqs Media Collective was formed in 1991 by Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Na...
  12. Like a spectacular TV commercial, Benjamin Edwards's paintings represent not only the...
  13. Whether David Reed, now in his fourth decade as a painter, is refining his exquisite ...
  14. Joseph D. Ketner II, director of the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University in Waltha...
  15. The Art Museum of Western Virginia in Roanoke recently unveiled plans for its new bui...
  16. This quarter-century retrospective (1980-2004) of Meridel Rubenstein's photography sp...
  17. Walter Hopps, 72, museum curator and director and independent curator, died in a Los ...
  18. The late Dieter Roth [see A.i.A., Sept. '04], the German-born Swiss artist who also l...
  19. In an opening-day walk-through of the big. densely installed and (in both senses) str...
  20. The powerful grouping of four works in Steve McQueen's recent show offered strongly o...
  21. Tires, painted notices, graffiti and traffic signs trail like random spoors across th...
  22. How closely should we scrutinize for allegorical content a group of 11 views of an ev...
  23. Jessica F. Nicoll, chief curator at the Portland [Me.] Museum of Art since 1995, has ...
  24. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco recently announced that it will receive, over ...
  25. Evan Holloway belongs to a young generation of LA.-based artists who have questioned ...
  26. In March, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo was forced to lay off 20 people fr...
  27. Ghost Ships: A Surrealist Love Triangle, by Robert McNab, New Haven and London, Yale ...
  28. In March 1969, Barry Le Va realized a haunting work in the original 1927 Walker Art C...
  29. At the heart of Annika Larsson's artistic project is an obsession with masculinity or...
  30. Ever since his groundbreaking videos of the early '70s, including Double Vision (1971...
  31. This show featured 15 recent abstract works by New York painter John Greer. These met...
  32. Danielle Rice, associate director of programs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, is t...
  33. Describing Pauline Stella Sanchez's recent work is somewhat like making a Hollywood p...
  34. Several components of a large-scale abstract bronze sculpture, The Ides of March (196...
  35. Upon viewing the fascinating exhibition of the art of Sister Gertrude Morgan (1900-19...
  36. Tony Fitzpatrick, 47, denizen of Chicago, artist, actor, poet, tattooist, musician an...
  37. A sardonic narrative threads through Julio Larraz's extravagant, light-filled paintin...
  38. The ability to edit films on home computers has given new direction to the Cubo-Futur...
  39. This was Ohio-based Audra Skuodas's first solo show in New York, despite a career spa...
  40. Neil Watson, executive director of the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts in W...
  41. The sculptures Tom Bills showed here were substantially smaller than his usual fare. ...
  42. Anthony G. Hirschel has been appointed director of the University of Chicago's David ...
  43. The Gwangju Biennale With an estimated 200-plus international biennials vying for p...
  44. By the time I got to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, around 11:30 on Saturday morning...
  45. The son and grandson of British portrait painters, Damian Elwes was born in England i...
  46. The most interesting of Keith Sonnier's recent neon wall works include conglomeration...
  47. The Spanish artist Jorge Galindo, who lives and works in Madrid, used collage and pai...
  48. Christo and Jeanne-Claude are the winners of the annual Doris C. Freedman Award for t...
  49. This exhibition presented an overview of mainly large bronze sculptures Dine has prod...
  50. Laura Steward Heon, curator since 1998 at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Mass., is the new...
  51. Harald Szeemann, 71, Swiss curator, died Feb. 18 while hospitalized for pleural cance...
  52. Visitors last fall to the gritty Polish industrial center of Lodz, 80 miles southwest...
  53. "Sculpture doesn't leave you alone," Natalie Charkow Hollander says. "...
  54. In her first exhibition at Zabriskie, in 2003, Tomoko Sawada extended her permutation...
  55. Born in Minnesota, Gerome Kamrowski (1914-2004) studied at the Art Students League in...
  56. Since the mid-1970s, Lutz Bacher has consistently sought to challenge ideas about aut...
  57. American-born Suzanne Scherer and Russian-born Pavel Ouporov are a husband-and-wife a...
  58. Evan M. Maurer, director and president of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts for 16 ye...
  59. Architect Santiago Calatrava has received the 2005 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts...
  60. The Franz and Virginia Bader Fund has awarded grants totaling $50,000 to three artist...
  61. Sara Pasti has been appointed executive director of the Hudson Valley Center for Cont...
  62. When curator Aneta Szylak was offered the Poznanski Palace, now Lodz's history museum...
  63. It seems hardly credible today--the supposed rawness, the inherent aggression, the de...
  64. Carol Szymanski is something of a shape-shifter. She's painted "portraits" ...
  65. John Biggers (1924-2001) is an African-American artist whose work deserves greater re...
  66. Pairing wax colored in rich hues with wood, Johannes Girardoni has concocted a winnin...
  67. Tom LaDuke alternates between painting and sculpture, handling both mediums with equa...
  68. Max Henry, freelance critic and curator, is the new art editor of the Paris Review. ...
  69. Gary Schneider has been presented with the $40,000 Lou Stoumen Prize, given by the Mu...
  70. Fritz Scholder, 67, painter, died Feb. 10 in Scottsdale, Ariz., from complications of...
  71. As founder of the Viennese activist art group Sabotage, Robert Jelinek visited the U....
  72. Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) was one of the most prolific figures of the early 20th-centu...
  73. Two simultaneous exhibitions--around a dozen recent paintings at Betty Cuningham (&qu...
  74. Judging from the vigorous sweep of 14 large oil paintings (more than half of them fro...
  75. Contemporary artists use quotidian objects to express everything from Duchampian iron...
  76. Michael Knutson titled this exhibition of ten oil paintings (all 2004) "Convolut...
  77. The Menil Collection in Houston has appointed Kristina Van Dyke as the museum's first...
  78. Fernando Botero recently established in his home country a prize for a young (under 3...
  79. In its proposed budget for fiscal year 2006, the Bush Administration has asked Congre...
  80. Multimedia in nature, and with a florid, larger-than-life presence, opera would seem ...
  81. Chelsea Bespoke Gallery 453 West 17th Street, 2nd Floor, NY, NY 10011 Tel: 646....
  82. Los Angeles at last seems to be acknowledging that its art history did not begin with...
  83. Lisa Hoke and her assistants spent a lot of time attaching a profusion of plastic and...
  84. After moving from Chicago to New York in 1947, Lester Johnson gained early acclaim as...
  85. You can brush, trowel, throw, squirt, drip or pour paint onto a canvas, or stain it w...
  86. Known in the Northwest for the fleshy self-portraits that won him the Seattle Art Mus...
  87. The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) recently announced several gifts of art works and cash...
  88. Charles Guilbert and Serge Murphy were recently presented with the $10,000 Bell Canad...
  89. The Terra Foundation for American Art has given a grant of $3.6 million to the Smiths...
  90. Durham, N.C., will open its new art museum, now named the Nasher Museum of Art. Desig...
  91. I'd been harboring a desire to travel to Australia and New Zealand for the past four ...
  92. Bryan Hunt is best known for cast-metal sculptures that translate the movements of st...
  93. For his third solo exhibition with Leo Koenig, Torben Giehler presented recent painti...
  94. Since 1995, Paris-based Brice Dellsperger (b. 1972) has been creating video remakes o...
  95. Regarded as a "painter's painter" over his more than 50 years of practice, ...
  96. Cartographers of an earlier era used the term "terra incognita" to denote l...
  97. The College Art Association recently presented its awards for academic and artistic a...
  98. During his six-month stay in the Los Angeles area in 1932, the eminent Mexican painte...
  99. From rock stars to presidents, literary figures to actors, not to mention pretty much...
  100. The Pasadena-based Flintridge Foundation has presented 10 biennial awards of $25,000 ...
  101. New York's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum recently proposed a $75-million expan...
  102. Visiting a Verne Dawson show is a bit like entering a curio shop in some obscure quar...
  103. Perhaps to be a great artist you have to be willing not only to create but also to de...
  104. The latch and padded binding of a childhood diary seem scarcely stout enough to prote...
  105. For a body of work that has loomed so large since the 1980s, Cindy Sherman's performa...
  106. Heimo Zobernig's show of geometric abstract paintings and drawings from 2004 was a me...
  107. Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum recently hired architect Renzo Piano to desi...
  108. The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture has ...
  109. The new Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon (MUSAC), focusing on recent in...
  110. The controversial scheme proposed by the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) to overhaul ...
  111. Miami Art Central (MAC) is our youngest exhibition space. The one-year-old kunsthalle...
  112. Oliver Herring, sculptor, videomaker, performer, expert knitter, photographer and who...
  113. Wang Tiande, born in Shanghai in 1960 and educated at the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Ar...
  114. This fall exhibition was the sixth by Brooklyn-born painter Richard Segalman at Katha...
  115. Marcos Raya creates images from fragments of his life, putting himself and his friend...
  116. The sea is the subject of Spanish painter Javier de Juan's series of 10 large oils (t...
  117. Recipients of the Skowhegan Awards, given by the Skowhegan School of Painting and Scu...
  118. The Mitchell Prize, given biennially for outstanding scholarship in the visual arts, ...
  119. The Studio Museum in Harlem recently announced that executive director Lowery Stokes ...
  120. The Pennsylvannia Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia recently unveiled a new 300,00...
  121. When I first came across Terry Winters's paintings, in the early '80s at Sonnabend Ga...
  122. David Wojnarowicz would have turned 50 in 2004. The career-spanning P.P.O.W. show of ...
  123. "Everlasting Gobstopper," the title for this exhibition of Kristin Calabres...
  124. On a recent drive through the countryside, I kept recalling a group of paintings by t...
  125. In his recent exhibition, "Always Almost New," St. Louis artist Daniel Raed...
  126. Color Q 2710 Dryden Road, Dayton, OH 45439 1-800-999-1007 or 937-294-0406 www.c...
  127. Artists Louise Bourgeois, Helen Frankenthaler and R.B. Kitaj were each recently award...
  128. Artist Pierre Bismuth, along with co-writers Charlie Kaufman and Michel Gondry, won t...
  129. To the Editors: I would like to congratulate Peter Selz on his fine article on my f...
  130. Marnie Gillett, 51, executive director of SF Camerawork, died Dec. 3 in San Francisco...
  131. The third edition of Art Basel Miami Beach (ABMB), held Dec. 2-5, 2004, at the Miami ...
  132. For several decades, the Brazilian artist Cildo Meireles has deployed simple, familia...
  133. One of the earliest works in this nearly four-decade mini-retrospective of Dan Christ...
  134. This show of 11 recent paintings by Harold Stevenson was full of youthful vitality. T...
  135. Dan Peterman's well-known investigations of recycling systems and material waste were...
  136. The Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts recently gave 10 grants of $10,000 e...
  137. The spectacular landscape vistas from atop the ruins of the ancient city of Teotihuac...
  138. Feb. '05, p. 150: Our obituary of Chicago Imagist painter Ed Paschke failed to note t...
  139. Jim Nichols, 76, painter and collagist, died Dec. 18 in San Francisco. He became know...
  140. We have a lot of really abstract emotions not caused by anything in this world.... Yo...
  141. Thanks to the efforts of numerous artists since the 1970s, the esthetic hierarchy tha...
  142. In a pluralist art world we can no longer count on being periodically embraced by a z...
  143. NEW ENGLAND The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University Orifice of Admission...
  144. The Joan Mitchell Foundation has presented 20 awards, worth $20,000 each, to developi...
  145. When it opened last November at the Centro Cultural Recoleta in Buenos Aires, Leon Fe...
  146. RULES OF ART NO THANKS art is beautiful Thanks Dali for showing me how to make ...
  147. The Whitney Museum of American Art has selected Chrissie lies, its curator of film an...
  148. Given how many reflective surfaces (mirrors, Plexiglas, crystals) David Altmejd uses ...
  149. "From Life," as this show is titled, can only be taken ironically, for even...
  150. Quiet, luminous fields of painted gold underlie the regimented visual cacophony of th...
  151. Carolyn Swiszcz's acrylic paintings on paper are markedly awkward in execution, but t...
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  153. In 1969, when he was not quite 25, Joseph Kosuth published an essay about art that qu...
  154. Dating to 1896, when Pittsburgh philanthropist Andrew Carnegie established a series o...
  155. Born in 1912 in Macklin, Saskatchewan, Agnes Martin died in December at the age of 92...
  156. Gary Garrels, chief curator of drawings and a curator in the department of painting a...
  157. The Louvre and the Centre Pompidou each recently announced plans to open new branches...
  158. Elizabeth Simonson's work is based on investigations of mathematical systems that rep...
  159. Peter Greaves is interested in the high finish and small format of traditional portra...
  160. As John Waters aficionados know, the world suffers no dearth of suburban camp: fortun...
  161. Monochrome artist James Howell's distinctive body of work is based on an ongoing stud...
  162. A visitor's perception of Monterrey as Mexico's boomtown begins at the Monterrey Inte...
  163. Charles Biederman, 98, abstract artist, died Dec. 26 in Red Wing, Minn. Born in Cleve...
  164. Yve-Alain Bois, currently professor of modern art at Harvard University, has been app...
  165. Elinor Milchan has invented a wonderful photographic process. She takes time-lapse ph...
  166. Like the music he makes as half of the alt-country duo National Braid, Kahlhamer's ra...
  167. Recently, a British Museum official visiting Iraq reported that coalition troops, usi...
  168. Somewhere near the end of modernism, a couple of years after John Latham chewed up Cl...
  169. Susan Sontag, the novelist, essayist and critic whose ardent advocacy of artistic inn...
  170. Husband-and-wife artists Chris Burden and Nancy Rubins resigned from the UCLA art dep...
  171. Turkey's first modern art museum opened its doors to the public on Dec. 12. With some...
  172. Over the past few years, Brooklyn-based artist Lisa Sigal has been making multidimens...
  173. Lined up demurely in two tidy facing rows, the dozen little girls of Elise Siegel's 2...
  174. Over the centuries, the male nude has had its ups and downs. It was a signature subje...
  175. On Jan. 19, as a result of increasing displeasure with the way Guggenheim Museum dire...
  176. Starting last year, with the 100th anniversary of the birth of the great masturbator,...
  177. Guy Davenport, 77, writer and artist, died Jan. 4 in Lexington, Ky., of lung cancer. ...
  178. Arno van Roosmalen is the new director of Stroom The Hague, a visual arts and archite...
  179. Nearly all of Philip Johnson's obituaries have identified him first and foremost as a...
  180. Going nearly three years without a visit to MOMA has been a challenge for countless a...
  181. Garish color, awkward composition and unpleasant surfaces have for some years been am...
  182. For her first New York solo exhibition, Chicago-based sculptor Lucy Slivinski made us...
  183. This show of Sharon Louden's paintings and sculptures demonstrated her propensity for...
  184. After a five-year run, the privately funded Palm Beach institute of Contemporary Art ...
  185. Once upon a time TV and movies didn't exist. It was a very dark time indeed. It's har...
  186. To the Editors: I appreciate Carter Ratcliff's recognition of "large cultural ...
  187. Harley Baldwin, 59, Aspen businessman, philanthropist and art dealer, died Jan. 23 of...
  188. French architect Jean Nouvel is the recipient of this year's $100,000 Wolf Prize for ...
  189. Among the delights of travel is to come upon a superior museum that was planned as a ...
  190. Chelsea A.I.R. Gallery 511 West 25th Street, #301, NY, NY 10001 Tel: 212.255.66...
  191. When Clement Greenberg dismissed decoration as "the specter that haunts modernis...
  192. Jene Highstein's six new sculptures (all 2004) at Anthony Grant were carved in Sweden...
  193. This comprehensive career overview of Italian architect and designer Ettore Sottsass ...
  194. A talented draftsman, Andrew Myers has produced a series of huge and engaging self-po...
  195. Kori Newkirk is the winner of the $25,000 William H. Johnson Prize, given annually to...
  196. Twenty-two years ago, I moved into a squat in the East Village. As my neighbors and I...
  197. To the Editors: I am troubled by a few sentences in Sandra Phillips's otherwise ins...
  198. Wai-kam Ho, 80, art historian and curator, died Dec. 28 in Shanghai of complications ...
  199. Kellie Jones, assistant professor of art history and African-American studies at Yale...