Stories Collection

  1. Until the past decade or so, interactions between artists and writers, or between art...
  2. Happenings have found only a minor spot in histories of post-1945 art activity. Overv...
  3. Max Ernst, John Heartfield, and Hannah Hoch were all present at the First Dada Art Fa...
  4. The "psychotic" Andy Warhol opened "the Pandora's box of pathologies that art can rep...
  5. Interest in Chinese art has been growing in recent years, and much new scholarship in...
  6. In 1925 Kurt Tucholsky, Weimar Germany's leading satirical essayist, opened an articl...
  7. Art Committed to Social Justice in Mexico During the twenties and thirties, Mexican a...
  8. These two titles justifiably are reviewed in tandem, for both are interdisciplinary s...
  9. This section illustrates covers of political journals of varying political factions, ...
  10. The convulsive political changes that occurred in Spain during a little more than a d...
  11. At last we have a book that lays out the issues surrounding the nature of cultural pr...
  12. The issue of art and politics is the subject of the moment in contemporary art-histor...
  13. Theories of Art and Revolution in France between the Wars After World War I and the R...
  14. Politics and Art in Soviet Journals, 1917-20 In October 1917 the Bolshevik Party over...
  15. A fascinating dialogue on the issue of culture and political ideology appeared in var...
  16. Despite the large amount of political capital made out of the minuscule portion of th...
  17. The Emigre Hungarian Journals Egyseg and Akasztott Ember, 1922-23 We have to imagine ...
  18. From The Liberator to Art Front Two major formulations of the relationship between ar...
  19. The avant-garde, a notion infested with paradox, was invented by one subculture and a...
  20. Though he lived in New York for 45 years, the late James Kelly (1913-2003) was little...
  21. Winter brought mixed news on the European art-heist front, as one major work was reco...
  22. Over the years, Ann Agee, best known as a figurative ceramist, has created work that ...
  23. Dimitrije Basicevic (1921-1987), a Croatian art historian, critic and curator who liv...
  24. Each of Stanley Whitney's nine paintings on view at Esso, his first show at the galle...
  25. In the late 1960s, needing a source that would serve for the cut-up technique he was ...
  26. Beginning in mid-July, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo turned over its entir...
  27. In the hair-raising third act of Marc Blitzstein's 1949 opera Regina, the venal title...
  28. Kindred Spirits (1849), considered by many to be the most important work by Hudson Ri...
  29. When the space shuttle Challenger exploded after takeoff on Jan. 28, 1986, Brian Alfr...
  30. Colonial Williamsburg is a re-creation of the town as it flourished in the 18th centu...
  31. Asserting that the proposed International Freedom Center had drawn "too much opp...
  32. What might Ian Kiaer mean with his abject evocations of utopian architecture? Often b...
  33. Aida Ruilova is one of a number of young artists articulating a neo-goth esthetic, an...
  34. This summer saw the opening of Bern's new $86-million Paul Klee Center, designed by R...
  35. Art that thoughtfully responds to the current insanity in American politics and the c...
  36. As a result of what many art world observers are calling censorship, the Drawing Cent...
  37. A recent exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Miquel Barcelo, a durable figu...
  38. More contentious than contrite, Philippe de Montebello, director of the Metropolitan ...
  39. Whose Muse? Art Museums and the Public Trust, edited by James Cuno, with essays by Ja...
  40. In his testy but well-reasoned Jan. 29 decision about the Barnes Foundation's proposa...
  41. Does the financial survival of the Barnes Foundation depend on violating the wishes o...
  42. Hoping for the same bounce from Jean Nouvel's partly underwater museum that Bilbao re...
  43. Despite the hard line it has assumed publicly, the British Museum may attempt some qu...
  44. In late January, the trustees of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation approved procee...
  45. Hoping to secure a long-term loan of the so-called Elgin marbles from the British Mus...
  46. Once again this year, the "Armory Show," the annual international fair of n...
  47. A$50-million addition and renovation at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, designed b...
  48. On view at the University of Washington's Henry Art Gallery in Seattle through Feb. 2...
  49. Since Seattle was last the focus of feature articles in this magazine--Bill Berkson's...
  50. Andrew Lord's ceramic vases, jars, pitchers and other forms might have emerged from a...
  51. On Apr. 17, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis opens a new south wing that doubles ...
  52. 20th Century Ceramics, by Edmund de Waal, London, Thames & Hudson, 2003; 224 page...
  53. In 1955, in the Osaka area of Japan, the avant-garde Gutai group held the first of se...
  54. The exhibition "Dove Bradshaw: Formfoormlessness 1969-2003," mounted at the...
  55. The words I associate with Ron Nagle's sculptures are: Bay Area, Finish Fetish, tiny,...
  56. At Socrates Sculpture Park on the Queens waterfront, Andrea Zittel's "High Deser...
  57. Working from a live model generally results in visual imagery of some kind. Fiona Ban...
  58. To make a film about trees falling in a forest is to risk both the sophomoric and the...
  59. Twenty-five years' worth of objects both collected and created by Elizabeth King were...
  60. There is a delicious absurdity in being first among simulators. But Elaine Sturtevant...
  61. Jon Pylypchuk's sense of humor is pitch black, and won't tickle everyone's funnybone....
  62. Sleek white towers liberally adorned with a mass-market miscellany--modernist icons r...
  63. Picking up on the primal creepiness of a current official spy-on-your-neighbor campai...
  64. Yoshitomo Nara is a very successful artist by any standard, and wildly popular in Jap...
  65. Sophisticated, deeply intelligent and often very funny in a mordant sort of way, Soph...
  66. Bruno Peinado, a French national who lives and works in France, has made a name for h...
  67. Adam Stennett has a thing about mice. In his first show at 31 Grand, he had them scur...
  68. The identical twin brothers Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo--"Os Gemeos" means ...
  69. Johan Nobell's oil-on-linen paintings (all approximately 20 inches square) seem meant...
  70. This was the second London solo show of Joel Croxson, who has already begun to make a...
  71. After the success of the first two seasons, "Art 21: Art in the 21st Century&quo...
  72. In Shiri Mordechay's first New York solo show, the expanse of white gallery wall was ...
  73. The Spanish-born Enrique Marty's introductory U.S. show comprised painting, video and...
  74. Ursula Wyndham achieved unlikely celebrity late in life by publishing two volumes of ...
  75. Contemporary art can now be added to a list that mainly includes horse racing and bou...
  76. Throughout its history, Cuba has inspired larger-than-life flights of imagination. So...
  77. In this impressive exhibition with the unusual title "[c]," French-born New...
  78. This exhibition, titled "Kaaterskill," featured a series of 12 recent photo...
  79. "Melancholia Passing into Madness," the title of Jack Pierson's recent show...
  80. The hype, hoopla and jaw-dropping statistics surrounding the European FineArt Fair (T...
  81. Less than two decades after the 1918 Armistice--in December 1936--with global politic...
  82. Tara Donovan is known for the simple transformation of vast amounts of ordinary, inex...
  83. Long before Sherrie Levine rephotographed photographs and "appropriation art&quo...
  84. New York-based Brazilian artist Solange Fabiao is in the midst of an ambitious and mi...
  85. On Wednesday, Apr. 5, Allan Kaprow, the Master of the Happening, the pathbreaking art...
  86. An international Dada exhibition presenting hundreds of works--paintings, sculptures,...
  87. This exhibition included and expanded on elements from Wilson's presentation at the A...
  88. This past winter, art from war-torn Baghdad made its way to SoHo. A two-part exhibiti...
  89. The storied "Northern Light" that serves as title to this exhibition--coope...
  90. Late last year, the Berlin-based collective Wooloo Productions was honored with a Fut...
  91. Dada: Zurich, Berlin, Hannover, Cologne, New York, Paris, edited by Leah Dickerman, W...
  92. On the night of Apr. 16, 1933, John Heartfield climbed out a window of his apartment ...
  93. With surgical precision, Holli Schorno excises linear illustrations from discarded ta...
  94. Matthew Higgs's new exhibition proves again that conceptual work does not have to be ...
  95. One summer 15 years ago, a macaque monkey sat in a special lab chair in Parma, Italy,...
  96. In "Frank Stella 1958," curators Harry Cooper and Megan R. Luke examine the...
  97. Above the elevators on one of the floors of the Whitney Museum occupied by the 2006 e...
  98. The focus of this lively survey, Al Hansen (1927-1995), was one of the early celebran...
  99. Robert Attanasio is a scavenger artist, forever on the lookout for the glorious absur...
  100. Feb. '06, p. 117: Lenore Malen's exhibition "New Society for Universal Harmony&q...
  101. These days Duncan Hannah is known for his nostalgia-ridden figurative paintings that ...
  102. When Eva Hesse and Tom Doyle arrived for a 15 month residency in Germany in the summe...
  103. Pirates, long a romantic symbol of the subversion of authority and the rejection of a...
  104. Stuart Horodner, since 2005 gallery director of the Atlanta College of Art, has been ...
  105. In 1920, artist and social activist Katherine S. Dreier [see article this issue] met ...
  106. An unusual thing happened the second time I went to see Thomas Hirschhorn's recent ex...
  107. In Billy Sullivan's previous exhibition at Nicole Klagsbrun there was a vertical pain...
  108. Bruce Robbins's architecturally based assemblies were inspired by the construction an...
  109. Lorie Mertes, assistant director for special projects/curator at the Miami Art Museum...
  110. It is a measure of the importance of Katherine Dreier to the development of modernism...
  111. Tactility is paramount in Cy Twombly's best paintings. Their surfaces, skittish plast...
  112. Al Loving died in June of 2005 at age 70. This show at Kenkeleba House presented 13 o...
  113. Possibly the tip-off was that I was scribbling down "Art Projects That Need Your...
  114. The dark side of the "Happenings" phenomenon, the often-extreme, occasional...
  115. An artist who became deaf as a young child, Joseph Grigely is best known for his inst...
  116. Michael Borremans's portraits of somber young men, elusively posed before muted backg...
  117. Prada's downtown Manhattan store reopened Apr. 18, after a January fire in its SoHo b...
  118. A Proposed perimeter of air whose method of demarcation is never specified, a unit of...
  119. Sherrie Levine's decision to call her exhibition "Men, Women and Dogs" was ...
  120. Steve Tobin's often-large-scale assemblies that he calls paintings, untitled and for ...
  121. Mary Frank, an artist ever renewing herself, combines an earthy; hands-on approach to...
  122. In 1909, Raymond Jonson (1891-1982) became the first pupil to enroll in the new Museu...
  123. Maxwell Anderson, director of New York's Whitney Museum of American Art from 1998 to ...
  124. Rebecca Holland is a Santa Fe-based artist who, over the past 15 years, has been show...
  125. Born in pre-partition India and now based in New York, Zarina (she goes by one name) ...
  126. Kim MacConnel's new series of 28 small pseudo-origami and watercolor collages focus o...
  127. On Mar. 28, the state of Pennsylvania announced a $25-million grant to the Barnes Fou...
  128. Any notion of hand-drawn animation being naive was turned upside down in Serge Onnen'...
  129. Continuing Linda Stojak's expressive depiction of isolated figures of women whose pri...
  130. It's hard to say whether the latest endeavor of the group known as Los Super Elegante...
  131. The College Art Association recently presented its annual awards to artists and schol...
  132. "Painting has one foot in architecture and one foot in dream," wrote the Ch...
  133. In a compelling show of recent paintings and drawings, Medrie MacPhee offered work in...
  134. On Dec. 22, 1895, a German physician named William Conrad Rontgen set his wife's hand...
  135. After a three-year, $102-million expansion and renovation, New York's Morgan Library ...
  136. San Francisco-based Amy Rathbone has become known for subtle site-specific installati...
  137. The allusive images of Michel Francois's "Theater of Operations" proposed l...
  138. Leo Saul Berk often employs wood to create wall sculptures that suggest real or imagi...
  139. Flashing irony, eyebrows and snappy titles, New York-based Tejano artist Franco Mondi...
  140. In "Ode to Life," her third solo exhibition at Jerome de Noirmont, French-b...
  141. It was a radical act when Andy Warhol rifled through the storerooms at the Museum of ...
  142. The vividly colored, tumbling ellipses that seem to spill through the painterly field...
  143. For the more than three decades he has lived in the U.S., Cuban-born Agustin Fernande...
  144. Athough Catrin Otto first studied painting, she turned away from that medium over ten...
  145. Feeling underrepresented in the other New York fairs, 16 of Los Angeles's top galleri...
  146. Anyone thinking about Tracey Emin's work can't help but take her tumultuous life into...
  147. Throughout his long and productive career, Chaim Gross (1904-1991) invested his exube...
  148. If an argument were to be made that an art gene selecting for abstraction exists and ...
  149. John Wilde, 86, American Surrealist painter who spent most of his life in Wisconsin. ...
  150. Art and the Power of Placement, by Victoria Newhouse, New York, Monacelli Press, 2005...
  151. This exhibition included well over 100 of Marvin E. Newman's vintage black-and-white ...
  152. Remembered architectural spaces, distorted by nostalgia, are a primary subject for Ma...
  153. Ken Fandell is either a Romantic Conceptualist or a Conceptual Romantic. His seven-pa...
  154. Catherine de Zegher, executive director of New York's Drawing Center since 1999, resi...
  155. During John Szarkowski's tenure as chief of the photography department at the Museum ...
  156. Anyone who knows Raimund Abraham's knifelike tower for the Austrian Cultural Forum on...
  157. Bob Emser's sculptures want to fly. When the artist was a boy, pioneer aviators fasci...
  158. For the next two months, visitors to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art will be abl...
  159. In 2004, L.A. artist Kirsten Everberg contributed two memorably pretty paintings to &...
  160. Gabriel Orozco is the winner of the second blueOrange award, worth approximately $92,...
  161. The Judd Foundation will auction 35 Donald Judd works at Christie's on May 9 in an ef...
  162. Embattled Getty Trust board president Barry Munitz resigned on Feb. 9, in the midst o...
  163. The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture recently announced the winners of its ...
  164. There are few facets of Roy Lichtenstein's Pop art production that have not been exte...
  165. The evocatively titled "Your Light" was British painter Vicken Parsons's fi...
  166. Stephan Jost, director of the Mills College Art Museum in Oakland, has been named dir...
  167. Rooted in abstract forms that allude to figuration and in stolid forms that aspire to...
  168. Lora Urbanelli, assistant director of the RISD Museum in Providence since 1999, is th...
  169. The artist Jim Klein, born in Little Rock, Ark., and based in New York since the earl...
  170. Rudolf Frieling is the new curator of media arts at the San Francisco Museum of Moder...
  171. Colossi are endlessly fascinating. They were produced in antiquity and revived as a f...
  172. Like Philip Guston, his mentor early on, Jon Imber has no qualms about disturbing his...
  173. The ongoing reassessment of 20th-century art prompted by curators, critics and art hi...
  174. In this exhibition of lively fabric-collage paintings and stuffed-vinyl sculptures (a...
  175. Marcia Vetrocq, senior editor at A.i.A. for seven years, recently left to become dire...
  176. In his third solo at Team Gallery, Benjamin Butler, who resides in New York and New H...
  177. For over 25 years, painter Barrie Mottishaw has been documenting the effects of spraw...
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  179. Tracey Bashkoff: Have you ever made photographic portraits? Hiroshi Sugimoto: Of li...
  180. The Penny McCall Foundation recently presented its inaugural Ordway Prize to artist D...
  181. Okwui Enwezor has been named adjunct curator at the International Center of Photograp...
  182. The University of Florida's Ham Museum, in Gainesville, recently unveiled a new addit...
  183. London's Saatchi Gallery has lost a major court battle with the landlords of its curr...
  184. In title and composition, a number of Paul Brach's abstractions of the last 10 years ...
  185. Since the mid-1980s, Phyllis Galembo has produced an impressive body of photographs d...
  186. In the late 1960s, Barbara Crane, the Chicago photographer, was handling a sheet of 3...
  187. In his recent exhibition "Sublimation: Life during War," French artist Step...
  188. Seemingly coming from left field, Los Angeles artist John Sonsini has given new vigor...
  189. The Museum of Modern Art recently announced that it has received a gift of 174 works ...
  190. When Tobias Putrih debuted his work here in 2003, the sculpture that generated the mo...
  191. On a work in this show, Peter Gallo scribbled "I wish I could draw like Joseph B...
  192. Ezio Martinelli (1913-1980), an almost completely forgotten gestural artist of the Ne...
  193. You might say it has taken Per Kirkeby an entire career to accept his artistic callin...
  194. In its fourth year, the international fair Art Basel Miami Beach (Dec. 1-4) once agai...
  195. Sex, violence and strange idylls are the subjects of Jansson Stegner's weirdly compel...
  196. Elizabeth Ockwell revels in ornate architecture. Baroque ornamentation, marble cupids...
  197. Michael L. Royce is the new executive director of the New York Foundation for the Art...
  198. In order to capitalize on the booming art market in China, Christie's auction house r...
  199. There was something very appealing about Frances Stark's fourth exhibition at CRG, &q...