Stories Collection

  1. ALESSANDRA MAMMI: Your arrival at Artforum, in 1988, coincided with a crisis in what...
  2. 1 Andre Braugher: in Homicide--Life on the Street, "Three Men and Adena" (NBC, March ...
  3. Like ancient sites abandoned for centuries, Louise Bourgeois' sculptures remind me of...
  4. The British novelist and essayist Brigid Brophy considered masturbation an invaluable...
  5. In Jerk, artist Nayland Blake and writer Dennis Cooper have crafted the most successf...
  6. As the trendy language of virtuality and the simulated hyperreal becomes the lingua f...
  7. INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY On the one hand, Roman Vishniac shows us images o...
  8. JOHN WEBER GALLERY In this startlingly seductive show sculptures, drawings, and texts...
  9. GRACE BORGENICHT GALLERY Under the title "Better Nature," Jane Rosen assembled an int...
  10. WHITNEY AT PHILLIP MORRIS For the past two decades, Amalia Mesa-Bains has examined ri...
  11. UKRAINIAN INSTITUTE OF MODERN ART Harold Haydon, now in his 84th year, has argued for...
  12. INSTITUTO DE COOPERACION IBEROAMERICANA Since the mid '60s, Alberto Heredia has been ...
  13. GALERIE FANNY GUILLON-LAFFAILLE Time in Michel Semeniako's black and white photograph...
  14. JOHNEN & SCHOTTLE In a series of 13 small, square pictures of trees, Alice Stepanek a...
  15. The World Trade Center bombing contributed only a few images to the media memory bank...
  16. Is this what cyberpunks would look like if they took off their mirror shades? Would t...
  17. Sally Potter's Orlando has a certain miraculous quality in that it makes a much-loved...
  18. The first sentence of this book begins with a conjunction--"And what about little Joh...
  19. Robert Hughes' Culture of Complaint is the wittiest and perhaps the most sensible boo...
  20. True to its title, the 90 or so color pictures in this book are of birds' nests, bird...
  21. SONNABEND Her voice restrained, even detached, despite the terror of her tale, she ex...
  22. GAGOSIAN A volcanic mass of rocky landscape at once wrapped with and penetrated by mo...
  23. ROBERT MILLER GALLERY The bland, unruffled look of high cool that typifies both the p...
  24. FINE ART STUDIO How refreshing, in this year of the politically correct, to come acro...
  25. THE FORUM GALLERY Curated by Carlos Gutierrez-Solana, this show of contemporary photo...
  26. DIVERSEWORKS "Without," curated by David Cannon Dashiell and Peter Edlund (originally...
  27. GALERIA LA MAQUINA ESPANOLA The first impression one had upon entering this exhibitio...
  28. GALERIE LOUIS XIV Formerly a chapel, this gallery was an appropriate venue for Jerzy ...
  29. MAX HETZLER One needed imagination and humor in order to enjoy this exhibition of Geo...
  30. Rhonda Lieberman on Dorothy's Daughter Every day I have the choice to be my most beau...
  31. In a recent exhibition by Jean-Marc Bustamante, one room--either the first or the las...
  32. Yet already he concludes, before the kaleidoscope of her expressions, before this fac...
  33. Peter Watson's Manet to Manhattan traces the development of the auction and art galle...
  34. Whether in a ruled panel or in some alien environment, a comic strip character isn't ...
  35. PACE/MACGILL GALLERY Does Joel-Peter Witkin's photograph of a headless corpse (its ne...
  36. JOHN POST LEE GALLERY Fabian Marcaccio uses the conventional elements of Modernist pr...
  37. E. M. DONAHUE To the casual observer, Lisa Bradley's paintings may simply suggest spe...
  38. FABRIC WORKSHOP Louise Bourgeois combined her sculptural installation with a performa...
  39. LAURA CARPENTER FINE ART There's a segment on the Ren and Stimpy show--a commercial f...
  40. NUOVA PESA In this show Marco Lodola presented figures cut out of Plexiglas--a comple...
  41. SKOPIA For the past ten years Anne Sauser-Hall has been investigating how the interwe...
  42. MUSEUM FRIDERICIANUM Fewer and fewer artists--Sigmar Polke and Gerhard Richter are tw...
  43. Arthur Jafa on the Hughes Brothers' Menace II Society It is only with difficulty that...
  44. Though we use, handle, and observe objects of every sort, with the widest range of fe...
  45. Mourning (the Sadness) finds itself in the in-between. I mean, it (the Sadness) is a ...
  46. With the publication of John Spike's lush Fairfield Porter: An American Classic (by H...
  47. It is a tale passed down through the ages, a prophetic conjuring of man's most basic ...
  48. Clinton Heylin claims in his introduction that you're about to read "the best of the ...
  49. HIRSCHL & ADLER MODERN Even though Gregory Amenoff apparently still believes in conte...
  50. JOSH BAER GALLERY The vital impetus behind Carter Kustera's art is assassination. In ...
  51. COHEN GALLERY John LeKay's recent two-part exhibition "The Separation of Church and S...
  52. FEATURE Most of Tom Friedman's recent works result from some extremely obsessive proc...
  53. RHONA HOFFMAN GALLERY Procedure most assuredly can become its own esthetic, and Roger...
  54. The "Los Angeles International" made it painfully clear that if the "global village" ...
  55. GALLERIA EMI FONTANA In her recent show, "Il Maestro e un mostro" (The master is a mo...
  56. GALERIE STAMPA A series of black and white, and colored drawings hung around the wall...
  57. VICTORIA MIRO GALLERY Francisco Goya began work on the portfolio of etchings titled D...
  58. Jean Baudrillard started out in the '60s on the track of our biggest symptom--the att...
  59. A wave of infatuation for the 1960s has lately passed through the art institutions of...
  60. The pitcher fingers the brim of his cap, he brushes dust from his brow. His cleats gr...
  61. Larry Rivers' title can be read two ways. Place the emphasis on "what" and the author...
  62. This dreamlike tale, translated by Paul Bowles from a tape-recorded conversation, is ...
  63. Anthologizing work by and about cyberpunk writers and visual artists who respond "to ...
  64. THREAD WAXING SPACE Paul Pagk's abstract paintings show that the renewal of painting ...
  65. PHYLLIS KIND GALLERY With the skill of a political cartoonist, Robert Colescott draws...
  66. 303 GALLERY In Thomas Ruff's latest photographs lurid green light shines on residenti...
  67. GALERIE CHRISTIANE CHASSAY Laurie Walker's Altus, 1992, was filled with sensory ambig...
  68. CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU In "IT'S OK TO SAY NO!" Bernard Bazile's position was one of ...
  69. GALERIE KRINZINGER This exhibition of nine artists, which drew from Paul Schimmel's s...
  70. WADDINGTON GALLERIES LTD. The four paintings of collections of plates in this exhibit...
  71. Projecting an endearing combination of self-effacement and plantation cynicism, Shacq...
  72. On the branch of a tree, larvae cling to a jellied blue egg sac, a yellow butterfly h...
  73. The first thing you should understand about Lubbock is that there isn't much there; i...
  74. Founded in 1990 by artists Joseph Strau and Stephan Dillemuth, Friesenwall 120 is a s...
  75. Deftly negotiating Puerto Rican cultural traditions, ambitious political issues, lite...
  76. This first retrospective of Susana Solano's work is an exhibition of breadth in every...
  77. "Truth lies in the surface, deep in the surface." This comment by Robert Wilson about...
  78. Klaus vom Bruch's video installation, Jam-Jam-Projekt, 1993, asserts actuality throug...
  79. An examination of borders--of conditions at the edges of culture, politics, and scien...
  80. REAL LIFE ROCK 1 Popinjays: Flying Down to Mono Valley (Epic/One Little Indian). A sn...
  81. Released nearly two years ago, Richard Linklater's Slacker continues to inspire heads...
  82. It is worth puzzling over the fact that American artists strategically reworking such...
  83. Andres Serrano's new, large color photographs taken in morgues are portraits, figure ...
  84. Toshio Shibata's landscape photographs are perhaps most extraordinary for their start...
  85. To the art world's chronic Brobdingnagism, Charles LeDray opposes his own private Lil...
  86. Terry Fox was chosen as the first artist of the Moore International Discovery Series,...
  87. Fundamental things, like light and time, the sea and the sky, meet up with the utter ...
  88. A ray of light was projected from the interior of the gallery towards the exterior. W...
  89. Bertrand Lavier's first one-person exhibition in Austria presented the best installat...
  90. Although Katharina Karrenberg's artistic practice is undoubtedly based upon her highl...
  91. Unlike Deee-Lite, I have never dreamt that I was falling through a hole in the ozone ...
  92. Cyberspace is where you are when you're talking on the telephone. --John Barlow Willi...
  93. MICHAEL CORRIS: In the service of a souped-up formalist view of Modernism, Rosalind K...
  94. In Albert Oehlen's recent show--six canvases displayed along with three "computer dra...
  95. "Diana Michener is not shy when she chooses her subject matter," the press release st...
  96. One of the first photographers to add color to black and white photographs, Josef Bre...
  97. Since 1991 the paintings of Anton Solomoukha, an artist born in Kiev but living in Pa...
  98. This exhibition of Dale Chihuly's work foregrounded the dialogue between classical co...
  99. Consisting wholly of decisive starts and sudden stops--of thick strokes of paint and ...
  100. For her first solo exhibition in Italy, Angela Bulloch presented a composite array of...
  101. Pal Gerber's paintings of reworked "everyday" objects, scenarios and texts--torn from...
  102. Olav Christopher Jenssen's series of works entitled "Lack of Memory," 1990-92, shows ...
  103. German TV news and newspapers are still reporting small-scale attacks on foreigners (...
  104. The American/Mexican border has been described as "una herida abierta |an open wound~...
  105. David Hockney's new paintings are entirely of a piece. Uniformly small in size ("My g...
  106. In his soulfully surreal narratives, Frank Moore weaves together a series of allegori...
  107. Between the photographic and printed works of 1949 and the "Combine Paintings" of 195...
  108. In his recent work, Graham Durward takes on the archetype of the male artist-hero who...
  109. This retrospective of 20 years of Carl Toth's work is called "Slightly Torqued," that...
  110. For young artists such as Lazar Khidekel, Kazimir Malevich's doctrines were full of p...
  111. Martin Honert's sculptures are a form of insistence: readable at first glance, they r...
  112. Truls Melin's painted, glossy sculptures have been "fertilized" by American Minimalis...
  113. As my grueling quest for fabulosity staggers on well past my early twentysomething pe...
  114. There is a passage in the writings of Karl Marx that is as fateful as it is famous, a...
  115. Though striking and technically accomplished, Odd Nerdrum's recent paintings seem at ...
  116. Comprising variously patterned and colored throw pillows of outsized proportions casu...
  117. Both Jose Bedia's crypto-symbolic figurative paintings and his compelling mixed-media...
  118. Eva Lundsager's luminous paintings, small oils on wood surfaces, possess a transcende...
  119. Libby Wadsworth's pictorial contributions to the ambiguities of the image/text dichot...
  120. In his recent show, Jene Highstein presented two sculptures and a series of drawings....
  121. This retrospective of the works of Martial Raysse afforded an opportunity to see his ...
  122. Thomas C. Demand seems to have found a place somewhere between Paul Cezanne and Andy ...
  123. Canonization, of a sort, in journalistic art criticism is always in vogue, but one mu...
  124. Eleventh Dream Day: El Moodio (Atlantic). Singer/drummer Janet Beveridge Bean throws ...
  125. Realizing that "Youth Music and Youth Culture," a Princeton conference last November,...
  126. The period is still recent when the authority of museums was widely taken for granted...
  127. There is a heartbreaking quality to Ketty La Rocca's images, and it has to do with th...
  128. Perhaps erroneously and unfairly, one expects to find signs of Wilhelm Lehmbruck's su...
  129. Call Me Barbra: call me an appropriation, a recasting, a challenge to concepts of eth...
  130. Ranging in size from the 5-by-4-inch miniature, LAUNDRY AT TWILIGHT, 1992, to the 72-...
  131. This show of new, never-before-exhibited works by Gerhard Richter inaugurated a new i...
  132. Christoph Rutimann proves once again that you know what you see, but you don't necess...
  133. "'No poetry after Auschwitz and Hiroshima,' Adorno is reputed to have written! Who is...
  134. Michael Jackson, Aretha Franklin, Kenny Rogers, Bill Clinton, James Ingram, Stevie Wo...
  135. The shock of David Mamet's Oleanna, a play about a female student's charges of sexual...
  136. Contemporary air travel has replaced the individual's instinctive sense of danger wit...
  137. Jacques Lacan is responsible for saying, "there is no sexual relation." This should n...
  138. Matthew Weinstein's newest work underlines the curious fact that a young artist does ...
  139. Entropy disintegrates and is simultaneously regenerated in Lydia Dona's mappings of t...
  140. Superpowers would still be going at it with crossbows or flintlocks if new weapons we...
  141. This very surprising exhibition marked a decisive change in the tactics and esthetics...
  142. The world within Tom Knechtel's drawings and paintings consists of two principle elem...
  143. In his latest works, Jean Le Gac indirectly follows a tale of a painter's adventures ...
  144. Luc Tuymans is a painter who consciously rejects theoretical aspirations in his work....
  145. The preeminence of South Beach at the forefront of fashion has been unequivocally con...
  146. Peter Blegvad, Roman Bunka, Holger Czukay, Raymond Federman, John Greaves, John Sass,...
  147. A man's home is his castle. A woman's place is in the home. A house is not a home. Ho...
  148. Nick Waplington's photographs of nuclear sites are far more interesting than statisti...
  149. In this ongoing series, writers are invited to introduce the work of artists at the b...
  150. From the early '60s to the late '80s, the grid in Agnes Martin's work shifts from rel...
  151. Andreas Schon's pantings are constructed from a lattice of straight lines and arcs th...
  152. Even before encountering the works in Gotscho's exhibition "Skins," the visitor was c...
  153. Karen Finley's installation, Written in Sand, 1992, adopted a subtle and dark strateg...
  154. Through the representation of bodies inscribed with or supplemented by texts, this tr...
  155. "It gets harder and harder to throw things away," Andy Fabo says, in a taped studio v...
  156. One can always recognize a student of Bernd and Hilla Becher. Volker Dohne is a first...
  157. Inge King's sculptures are an intensely cosmopolitan revision of Modernist abstractio...
  158. The Hellenistic Greeks invented historical self-consciousness as we know it when, fiv...
  159. Social Distortion: "Cold Feelings" (Epic). The subjectivity--the passion and flair--i...
  160. Of all the intellectual projects that have come to strange life in the last thirty ye...
  161. Abel Ferrara takes no prisoners--not in conversation and certainly not in the seven f...
  162. It's gotta be sheer coincidence that Mike Kelley's exhibition opened the same month t...
  163. Lois Conner's panoramic platinum prints of China give us the provinces before mechani...
  164. For nearly a decade, the French artist Michele Blondel has been developing the variou...
  165. "Fragile Ecologies: Contemporary Artists' Interpretations and Solutions," a traveling...
  166. Although billed as "environmental theater," Lauren Elder's immensely ambitious multi-...
  167. For the majority of the 15 artists included in the exhibition "Algunos Artistas" (Som...
  168. Corinne Mercadier's photographs are like memories: they evoke places, times, and mood...
  169. "It is It," a three-part exhibition, celebrates the 25th anniversary of the gallery a...
  170. Set in Tupelo in the midst of an international barbecue cook-off, this entrancing mur...
  171. David Lynch, director: Twin Peaks--Fire Walk with Me (New Line Home Video). Though no...
  172. Save for Antoni Tapies and the odd group show or pavilion exhibit, Spanish art was al...
  173. Saul Steinberg's America is a peculiar place; its buildings tend to be absurdly big, ...
  174. Pat Steir's new paintings, exhibited under the Goethean title "Elective Affinities," ...
  175. In its arrangement of images that span the history of art, and film stills, book illu...
  176. Self-taught, Chicago-based artist Tony Fitzpatrick began showing in New York's East V...
  177. Notably small in scale, Laurie Carlos' theater drew its listeners into a storyteller'...
  178. Todd Murphy's pieces are striking for several reasons, including their scale--a third...
  179. Salome Cuesta's strategy is one of representational suspension. Her installations pre...
  180. The starting point of Martin Eiter's paintings is the revolutionary spirit of the '80...
  181. Exhibitions don't really begin and end at the gallery; for Caroline Russell, whose in...
  182. bell hooks on Spike Lee's Malcolm X Shortly after the assassination at the Audubon Ba...
  183. Fairytales can come true, it can happen to you. . . . But maybe not exactly the way y...
  184. I was real pleased to welcome Ulrike Ottinger to the University of California, Santa ...
  185. ANDRE EMMERICH GALLERY The key to Karel Appel's work is his amazing volume, Psychopat...
  186. E.M. DONAHUE GALLERY Brenda Zlamany's works depict the bodies and parts of bodies of ...
  187. Perhaps his own best critic, Chuck Connelly declared in 1991, "I am on a journey dren...
  188. 1301 GALLERY Thaddeus Strode employs the Zenned-Out-Euphoric-Get-Stupid Principle to ...
  189. GALLERIA ALESSANDRA BONOMO During the '80s, the work of Salvatore Astore developed in...
  190. ARS FUTURA This exhibition, entitled "La vie en rose," was dominated by the color pin...
  191. PRODUZENTENGALERIE Developments within an artist's oeuvre lead to new definitions of ...
  192. At some point in our youths, most of us were invited to ponder the "mystery" of the E...
  193. Crossover between the studio and the seminar room has been a conspicuous feature of a...
  194. It is astonishing that turning criminals into sailors used to be regarded as a form o...
  195. NOLAN/ECKMAN GALLERY This remarkable miniretrospective of A. R. Penck's drawings crea...
  196. HIRSCHL & ADLER MODERN For the last 30 years Philip Pearlstein has, somewhat unfashio...
  197. PHYLLIS KIND GALLERY Adolph Wolfli (1864-1930), who was admitted to the Waldau hospit...
  198. JULIE SAUL GALLERY Sally Gall's idyllic, gelatin silver-print landscapes record the n...
  199. BETSY ROSENFIELD GALLERY Italo Scanga's recent work continues to provide his signatur...