Stories Collection

  1. The Rise of the Sixties: American and European Art in the Era of Dissent, by Thomas C...
  2. Jim Drain, a former member of the disbanded art collective Forcefield, fearlessly tac...
  3. Janet Fish's recent oil-on-canvas still lifes testify to her regard for formal nuance...
  4. The men who come and go in Rosalyn Bodycomb's seven-painting series titled "Mili...
  5. Cornelia H. Butler, curator since 1996 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angel...
  6. "Hanging by a Thread," a big, lively group show of 29 artists from all over...
  7. Two concurrent Pierre Soulages shows were the first substantial New York exposure for...
  8. Barbara Rubin's 29-minute Christmas on Earth is the filmic record of an orgy staged i...
  9. Tara Donovan is the winner of the inaugural $50,000 Calder Prize, given by the Calder...
  10. With international biennial exhibitions now numbering in the hundreds, their curators...
  11. A pair of exhibitions collectively titled "Larry Rivers: Paintings and Drawings ...
  12. Gerard Mosse's brand of abstraction is still in thrall to formal elements--color, sha...
  13. Adam Ross's pictures have a futuristic feel that is conveyed through elegant combinat...
  14. The Praemium Imperiale awards, given by the Japan Art Association in Tokyo, were rece...
  15. In his very short and very active career, Roger Fenton (1819-1869) took photography f...
  16. Artist Francisco Toledo is the recipient of the $257,000 Right Livelihood Award for h...
  17. By opening its season with a show of abstract paintings by Melissa Meyer, the Elizabe...
  18. On her way by taxi to the airport in New York in 1962, Jackie Matisse saw an object i...
  19. This exhibition included paintings and works on paper from the last two years, plus t...
  20. "Ridicule is Nothing to be Scared Of" is the reassuring title of James Gobe...
  21. Maura Bendett's materially seductive sculptures subscribe to what could be called a &...
  22. Woes continue for the J. Paul Getty Museum. With one of its former curators, Marion T...
  23. To the Western art world, Central Asia might seem the Last Mystery. Since the 1989 ex...
  24. Most of the time it makes sense to approach an exhibition considering first what an a...
  25. The term retrospective has lost much of its impact in recent years through casual use...
  26. The Indianapolis Museum of Art recently opened its new contemporary art galleries. Th...
  27. Entering Sean Scully's first New York show since 2001 was like slipping into a warm b...
  28. Best known for his glass cube sculptures from the 1960s, Larry Bell has often been la...
  29. Though Vinod Dave has been based in New York since 1983, his imagination still lives ...
  30. Soo Kim's new series, "A Week Inside Two Days," might make you think of pai...
  31. Plans for the Calder Museum, which was to have occupied a prominent site along Philad...
  32. Zhou Xiaohu started working in video in 1997. In this, his first solo exhibition in A...
  33. Esther Parada, 67, Chicago artist, died Oct. 19 of gastrointestinal cancer. Parada wo...
  34. A friendly rivalry between the Pompidou Center in Paris and the Guggenheim Museum in ...
  35. Coincidentally enough, two of the best works at the last Venice Biennale were by Sout...
  36. This recent exhibition featured six new shaped paintings, two sculptures and a group ...
  37. Jonas Mekas, the 82-year-old filmmaker and guiding spirit of Anthology Film Archives ...
  38. In this quietly stunning debut show Tauba Auerbach presented works on paper of invigo...
  39. Arman, an artist whose career encompassed radical esthetic acts and crowd-pleasing pu...
  40. Driven by the engines of identity, status and culture, portraiture in a considerable ...
  41. Born and raised in Iceland, Hildur Asgeirsdottir Jonsson draws upon the awe-inspiring...
  42. William Bartman, 58, founder and executive director of Art Resources Transfer (A.R.T....
  43. Picasso's 1922 portrait Woman in White will remain in the hands of Chicago collector ...
  44. From the beginning of July until the middle of October, the interior of Sarah Bowen G...
  45. Like artists David Altmejd and Liza Lou, Lindsay Brant uses craft to create a certain...
  46. On July 9, 2005, David Bradshaw, an artist of unusual means and implementation, put o...
  47. For a project titled "Meant To Be Lived In (Today I am Feeling Prismatic),"...
  48. In September 1966 two important shows opened on the same day in the same building on ...
  49. "Connections over Time" paired works by Milton Avery (1885-1965) with simil...
  50. Laura Hoptman, curator of contemporary art at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburg...
  51. "Imagining America: Icons of 20th-Century American Art," an upcoming two-ho...
  52. Any artist who considers pissing on the Washington Monument an interesting analysis a...
  53. With little consideration for the faint of heart, the self-styled "carnal" ...
  54. What an artist fundamentally needs to carry on with work, besides space and intellect...
  55. Since 1978, a piece of precolonial forest has been growing on the northeast corner of...
  56. In his second show at Massimo Audiello, Korean-born, New York-based Changha Hwang pre...
  57. Marvin Israel (1924-1984) enjoyed a considerable reputation as a painter, art directo...
  58. Ryan McGinness made the shift from graphic designer to gallery artist without much re...
  59. The advocacy group Americans for the Arts recently presented its National Arts Awards...
  60. Even though the Museum of Modern Art inaugurated its new building just one year ago, ...
  61. One area of downtown Los Angeles looks a bit like rural Kansas these days, with a 32-...
  62. It was Sunday morning, before the storm. I woke by 6, clicked on the TV, and there it...
  63. Last June, Mobile's Centre for the Living Arts chose New Orleans to be the first subj...
  64. Selections from "Urbanus," a series of approximately 71-by-57-inch photogra...
  65. Jack Goldstein was born in Montreal in 1945 and as an adolescent moved with his famil...
  66. In this recent exhibition, "Steel/ Stage," Craig McPherson presented two di...
  67. Highly esteemed in his native Australia but little-known in the U.S.--a 1977 solo exh...
  68. The Nancy Graves Foundation has presented three grants, worth $25,000 each, to visual...
  69. State and local arts agencies, foundations and other philanthropic organizations have...
  70. On Nov. 12, Atlanta's Midtown arts district will gain a prominent new building in Ren...
  71. The soul and souls of New Orleans and the Mississippi River delta are snaking across ...
  72. Ascreening of Screaming Masterpiece (2005), an exhilarating documentary directed by A...
  73. Consisting of 20 pieces ranging from 1978 to 2001 and accompanied by a 60-page color ...
  74. Power, and specifically the power inherent in the gaze, is a palpable theme in Indone...
  75. "Video art" has become an increasingly diffuse category among artists. Acro...
  76. Jared Pankin's inventive new sculptures probe the increasingly murky distinction in o...
  77. Pietro Consagra, 85, Italian sculptor, died in his sleep July 16 in Milan. A prominen...
  78. Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism, by Hal Foster, Rosalind Kran...
  79. Robert Tannen is an artist, urban planner and one of the founders of the New Orleans ...
  80. From all appearances, the visual arts in the Basque Country are flourishing as never ...
  81. In the mid-1950s, Robert Morris produced gestural paintings, a practice he abandoned ...
  82. Fourteen of the 20 coldly beautiful pictures constituting Gregory Crewdson's new seri...
  83. Because they use simple words and pictures, Jim Torok's largely autobiographical acry...
  84. It may take some time before John Zurier's paintings reach the wider audience they de...
  85. The most relevant landscape painting today confronts our increasingly compromised exp...
  86. Patrick Caulfield, 69, prominent British Pop painter, died of cancer Sept. 29 in Lond...
  87. Evelyn Aimis Fine Art Miami, FL Tel: 305.792.0300 * Fax: 305.792.0391 eaimis@aol.com ...
  88. "Lespri Endepandan: Discovering Haitian Sculpture," presented at the Patric...
  89. In departing abruptly from the vocabulary of abutting, eccentric shapes for which she...
  90. Frank Stella's dramatic and drawn-out turn toward the Baroque has until now been more...
  91. It was Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart who in 1964 articulated this famous defin...
  92. This installation of light and sound overlaid on objects, in a darkened room of an ab...
  93. The 11 abstract paintings in Michael Wingo's recent exhibition, executed between 2002...
  94. Oct. '05, p. 174: The illustration of Joe Fyfe's abstract painting Library (2004) was...
  95. Chelsea Bowery Gallery 530 West 25th Street, 4th Floor, NY, NY 10001 Tel/Fax: 646.2...
  96. It's not entirely a mystery why the Basque sculptor and theoretician Jorge Oteiza was...
  97. David Diao's concern for the modernist residence as endangered species is the central...
  98. Already established as a journalist and an author of short fiction in Berlin, Unica Z...
  99. Puppets have a way of turning us all back into children, so it was quite savvy of con...
  100. An unusual art center in an unlikely location--downtown Oakland's "auto row"...
  101. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation announced in September that deputy director and ...
  102. The serpentine cantilevers and gleaming titanium cladding of Frank Gehry's Guggenheim...
  103. Another new biennial has joined the international art circuit, but this one has an un...
  104. "You've been (springboard?) (wings?) (slingshot?) to my art," Mark di Suver...
  105. What are the minimum requirements of a home equipped for bare-bones living? This seem...
  106. This exhibition, Ron Gorchov's first in over a decade, offered an overview of the pai...
  107. In contemporary art, references to Baroque and, even more so, Rococo painting and scu...
  108. At the core of Inigo Manglano-Ovalle's hybrid practice is an interest in the diversit...
  109. Not far from Barbara Hepworth's home and studio, on the Western tip of Cornwall, ther...
  110. Alison M. Gingeras has been named adjunct curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Founda...
  111. In the mid-1980s, inspired by conversations with John Coplans, Carol Ross made a rapi...
  112. The new Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, which opened in People's Park on Sept 24...
  113. Given that Joseph Zito's subject here was war and its effects, the sculptures in this...
  114. The celebrated Thai artist Rirkrit Tiravanija was the 2004 recipient of the Hugo Boss...
  115. The works in "Hot Hands Cold Heart," Amy Gartrell's solo show, express a li...
  116. Realist painter Robert Wilbert is known and loved as a teacher in the Detroit art com...
  117. Andre Cadere is probably the most important artist of the 1970s whom you've never hea...
  118. Carlos Basualdo, chief curator of exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Co...
  119. Marco Polo di Suvevo was born Sept. 18, 1933, in Shanghai, to Venetian parents who ha...
  120. In 1970, Robert Smithson sketched an idea for a public artwork to be called Floating ...
  121. Citing the July 7 terrorist bombings in London, Tate Britain pulled a work from a sho...
  122. Five gnarled blobs in dark, glistening bronze were arrayed on a white plinth near the...
  123. In an appealing New York solo debut, the young Tokyo-based artist Tabaimo (Ayako Taba...
  124. Arnold Helbling's new paintings are large (only eight filled the gallery), opulent, g...
  125. Ghostly abstracted figures float or tumble across iridescent colored backgrounds in J...
  126. An exile in Argentina during World War II, Roger Caillois--philosopher, anthropologis...
  127. Isabelle Dervaux, former senior curator of modern and contemporary art at the Nationa...
  128. As we go to press in early October, work is scheduled to begin in a few days on the t...
  129. Greg Parker's highly crafted paintings consist of 30 to 50 smoothed and sanded coats ...
  130. Sculptor and installation artist Christina Mackie is the winner of the approximately ...
  131. The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid's principal contemporary art mu...
  132. Aligned with the gallery's entrance were three elements signaling this Minneapolis-bo...
  133. Both Thornton Willis and James Little create large, colorful abstractions in which tr...
  134. A frequent theme in stories about New York is that of the out-of-towner's dream of cr...
  135. The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded 36 fellowships totaling $1....
  136. Renny Pritikin, former chief curator at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Fr...
  137. If nothing else, Tokyo-based Chinatsu Ban's first solo show outside Japan raised one ...
  138. Bernard Frize is a man of techniques. Since the late 1970s, the French artist has exp...
  139. The Demuth Foundation and Museum in Lancaster, Pa., has appointed Anne M. Lampe, form...
  140. Tom Otterness was recently honored by New York's Municipal Art Society for his outdoo...
  141. In six "Bedroom Scenes" in oil on linen, all dated 2004 and most 6 or 7 by ...
  142. The Art Commission of the City of New York recently gave its awards in design excelle...
  143. The Artist's Reality: Philosophies of Art, by Mark Rothko, edited and with an introdu...
  144. A turbulent, inky wash of rain cloud streaks down from an impossibly opalescent blue ...
  145. What is the function of painting, and can it still exist solely as an object of conte...
  146. Wilbur Niewald has been painting for over five decades. In the 1960s, he moved out of...
  147. Twelve Pew Fellowships in the Arts, worth $50,000 each, have been presented to these ...
  148. Hope Alswang is the new director of the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design....
  149. Andre von Morisse is a Norwegian-born artist who has lived in the United States since...
  150. NEW ENGLAND The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University Office of Admissions...
  151. Artist Harrell Fletcher and composer and sound artist David Dunn are among the winner...
  152. Jeff Koons recently won the Cranbrook Academy of Art's annual Creative Patronage Awar...
  153. This vibrant survey of works from 1936 to 2004 by sculptor Sidney Geist included a va...
  154. The New York-based American Academy of Arts and Letters recently presented its awards...
  155. Chelsea Bowery Gallery 530 West 25th Street, 4th Floor, NY, NY 10001 Tel/Fax: 6...
  156. An optometrist by profession, Ralph Eugene Meatyard obtained his first camera on the ...
  157. T.J. Wilcox is hooked on cinematic storytelling. Piecing together found footage, old ...
  158. The exhibition "Unspoken Ground: Two Views of Japan" at the Silver Eye Cent...
  159. The Adolph and Esther Gotllieb Foundation has given $25,000 grants to artists Clytie ...
  160. The University of Arizona Museum of Art has selected Lisa Fischman, director of the A...
  161. Just as the annual Tribute in Light commemorates the World Trade Center in New York w...
  162. Polish artist Dominik Lejman's thought-provoking solo show "ME counts:0.3 sec&qu...
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  164. Choreographer Rill T. Jones is the recipient of the $50,000 Wexner Prize, given by th...
  165. In August, the J. Paul Getty Trust announced that Michael Brand, director of the Virg...
  166. Carol Stakenas, former deputy director and curator of Creative Time in New York, is t...
  167. The 2005 Francis J. Greenburger Awards, which honor underrecognized artists, have bee...
  168. Robert Bechtle hit upon a photo-based approach to realism in the mid-1960s, clarified...
  169. Yossi Milo has developed something of a specialty in showing photographers who focus ...
  170. New York artist Nina Mushinsky bases her psychologically complex, labor-intensive bla...
  171. Apprehension, frustration, confusion, indecision--emotions that trouble the soul--are...
  172. The California Community Foundation presented 13 mid-career and emerging artists with...
  173. The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford has appointed independent scholar an...
  174. While the horrific loss of life and property continues to be assessed in the areas hi...
  175. In "14 Stations," his exhibition of large black-and-white photographs mount...
  176. At this writing, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is offering free admission to the ...
  177. Douglas Fogle, curator at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis since 2003, has left t...
  178. Sabine Eckmann has been appointed director of the Kemper Art Museum at Washington Uni...
  179. The exhibition "Little Boy: The Arts of Japan's Exploding Subculture," seen...
  180. The Berkeley Art Museum has given its 2005 Baum Award for Emerging American Photograp...
  181. I don't paint with ideas of art in mind. I see something that excites me. It becomes ...
  182. A few years back, Wayne Gonzales tackled the tradition of history painting with a ser...
  183. In an art world obsessed with novelty and youth, it's a relief to encounter quirky, c...
  184. Like Duchamp's 1941 Boite-en-Valise, the various small works in Michael Byron's recen...
  185. The City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department has presented its 2005 COLA Fello...
  186. Diane Mullin was recently named curator at the Weisman Art Museum at the University o...
  187. A feature film loosely based on the life of photographer Diane Arbus [see article thi...
  188. Amy Morken renders the world of the dysfunctionally hip, in which self-destructive be...
  189. Joseph Rosa, since 2002 curator of architecture and design at the San Francisco Museu...
  190. Okwui Enwezor, dean of academic affairs at the San Francisco Art Institute and artist...
  191. The more than 40 landscape paintings and drawings by April Gornik in this midcareer r...
  192. Suzanne Delehanty, director of the Miami Art Museum, announced that she will resign b...
  193. For almost four decades the complex, profound vision of Diane Arbus (1923-1971) has h...
  194. The Sculpture Center in New York has awarded its Sculpture-Center Prize of $5,000 to ...
  195. At a moment when young figurative painters just out of art school seem to be the hot ...
  196. For more than a decade, Robert Terry has been creating a series of modest but intense...
  197. San Francisco's de Young Museum reopens on Oct. 15, unveiling its new $135-million bu...
  198. The Museum for African Art in New York has named Enid Schildkrout its new chief curat...
  199. Even though New Zealand is a long way from New York and has only 3 Z million people l...