Stories Collection

  1. Thomas Trosch is an amusing, playful painter whose work could easily be dismissed as ...
  2. Spain is a country of silences. A sort of tacit pact exists that certain aspects of t...
  3. Formed in 1982, Gruppa (Ryszard Grzyb, Pawel Kowalewski, Jaroslaw Modzelewski, Wlodzi...
  4. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but that doesn't mean that artists take word...
  5. GREIL MARCUS' TOP TEN 1 Lee Smith: The Devil's Dream (Ballantine, $10). "One time yea...
  6. I am standing before James Coleman's La Tache Aveugle (The blind spot, 1978-90), a sl...
  7. By refusing to have a career or to make history, |Chet Baker~ managed to do both, and...
  8. Director Derek Jarman began writing his autobiography in 1982, while sitting out the ...
  9. The original "Louie Louie" was an r&b shuffle cut by Richard Berry in Los Angeles in ...
  10. Specificity is what Bernd & Hilla Becher's work has always really been about, which e...
  11. In 1968 Herschel B. Chipp published Theories of Modern Art, an anthology that soon be...
  12. Alexis Rockman's new series of paintings, collectively titled "Biosphere," 1992-93, i...
  13. "Public Projects: 1990-1993" displayed the archive of Ben Kinmont's ongoing investiga...
  14. For her second solo show, Linda Stojak relied heavily on the redoubtable image of the...
  15. Ben Pranger wistfully transforms found objects with an eye toward making them reveal ...
  16. Philippe Favier draws minuscule figurines or borrows tiny images from encyclopedias, ...
  17. Stephan Balkenhol's recent exhibition consisted of 12 small female nudes carved from ...
  18. It's terribly difficult knowing what to think about Leni Riefenstahl's Memoir. She be...
  19. Like fashion, current art is seeking to "get over" the '80s, and is looking to the '7...
  20. "In using what I considered traditional symbols," W. B. Yeats observed ruefully towar...
  21. In this ongoing series, writers are invited to introduce the work of artists at the b...
  22. David Hockney may well be one of today's most important painters, but his refusal to ...
  23. In this loosely connected group of essays, which span the Central Park jogger attack,...
  24. The universality of fears, whether adult or childhood, is attested to in this combina...
  25. It's all very Russian. The work for which Komar and Melamid became famous was about t...
  26. Jane Kaplowitz would agree with Jean Cocteau that "style is the soul." She is a conno...
  27. The first thing everyone notices about the nude figures in Aziz + Cucher's new series...
  28. Featuring four contemporary Australian artists of Aboriginal heritage--Lin Onus, Bron...
  29. Nancy Olivier treats painting and drawing as equals rather than as elements in a stri...
  30. Like ruins from some future archaeological dig, James Hyde's nonrepresentational "fre...
  31. David Tremlett's exhibition consisted of both large wall drawings and a small series ...
  32. In the past, Anya Gallaccio has used chocolate, cactuses, and oranges in her work. In...
  33. Angus Fairhurst revels in disjointed humor which he has compared to the move of the k...
  34. Vienna suddenly seems quieter than it has been for some time. Curator Kasper Konig ha...
  35. As Bertolt Brecht once pointed out, Hell looks suspiciously like Heaven, and both loo...
  36. The racial stereotype, considered "a major discursive strategy" of imperialism, is en...
  37. The Invisible Dragon is an eventful, sometimes jerky ride through known, gnarled terr...
  38. Unlike many fairy tales, this one is not a romance but a parable. And unlike most par...
  39. Never fails--every time I read tales of avant-garde culture, I get sucked in for minu...
  40. So far, most of the attention surrounding Katie Roiphe's The Morning After: Sex, Fear...
  41. "Patrick Ireland" is a pseudonym adopted by Irish-born Brian O'Doherty in 1972, "unti...
  42. These two monumental--indeed, gigantic--sculptures, Big, Big Black, 1957 (a mobile) a...
  43. Suzan Etkin's work seems divided against itself: though her concerns merit a certain ...
  44. In her recent work, Eve Andree Laramee continues to follow her interest in the estran...
  45. Race, ethics, gender politics, cultural history, geography, the Torah, the Koran, and...
  46. This recent exhibition of Susan Fenton's painted photographs presented two bodies of ...
  47. Dodes 'Ka-dan, 1993, the centerpiece of Kim Adams' latest show, examines a consumer c...
  48. With its constellations of tentacled playpens, prophylactic umbrellas, sacred-heart m...
  49. Claudia Hart's most recent show, "NEW WORLD ORDER," was a variation on an earlier sho...
  50. These glazed-ceramic faces by Thomas Schutte are confusing and upsetting at the same ...
  51. With his new paintings, Hakan Rehnberg continues along the narrow path he embarked on...
  52. ECOCULTURE This summer's most unlikely club hit took you by complete surprise by bein...
  53. Rosa von Praunheim's new movie, I Am My Own Woman, made the rounds last year in Europ...
  54. "Is this a bed or a cloud?" sighed John. "Percy, Percy--before you go, I want to apol...
  55. The great value of this posthumous collection of Craig Owens' essays lies in how reso...
  56. This is the first full-length study in English of the most original Dada/post-Dada co...
  57. They're sure to be duking it out for years to come over just what kind of a spin to p...
  58. The heftiest and most ambitious artist's biography to emerge this fall is James E. B....
  59. Cornel West is one of the few contemporary African-American writers to have turned di...
  60. Without the boxiness of his previous work, Sean Scully's new paintings are certainly ...
  61. Perhaps the most interesting thing about a Jonathan Lasker painting is its title, or ...
  62. In The Uses of Enchantment, 1975, Bruno Bettelheim asserts that, for a child, the psy...
  63. "I know that what I'm saying is wrong, but still I think it could be right," reads th...
  64. Geoff Lowe's visits to Vietnam, in 1991 and 1992, are reflected in three groups of wo...
  65. Reading Richard Slotkin's Gunfighter Nation and Jane Tompkins' West of Everything rem...
  66. Too often, too many of us talk one theory but live another. In his rigorous examinati...
  67. The trilling wire in the blood sings below inveterate scars. --T.S. Eliot, "Burnt N...
  68. Le Corbusier's Unite d'Habitation, a monumental block of low-income apartments awkwar...
  69. Stephen Mueller's art has taken a turn toward Buddha. His vividly hued elliptical and...
  70. "There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of bar...
  71. Caio Fonseca's semaphoric abstractions, collectively entitled "Tenth Street Paintings...
  72. Masterpieces (In Absentia), 1993, seemed at first glance to be a reedition of Regina ...
  73. Mark Tansey's paintings conjure a dream world--that of someone who's fallen asleep du...
  74. In a country where the work of most artists seems to have absorbed a foreign discours...
  75. A garden table's four legs fly away with a bang, while the top crashes, distressingly...
  76. The floor was covered with gray carpet, the ceiling with penetrating, domineering til...
  77. For more than a decade gay men have responded to the presence of HIV and AIDS in our ...
  78. It was hard to tell what this exhibition was trying to be. A showcase for the already...
  79. This exhibition of Antonius Hockelmann's drawings and sculptures from the '60s made i...
  80. Nobody, it seems, likes rats. Mice are cute; rats, just dirty. Stuart Little is a mou...
  81. These two very different shows marked Swiss artist Carmen Perrin's solo debut in the ...
  82. Catherine Stine reenergizes the genre of landscape painting, transforming it into a m...
  83. Ian McKeever's recent paintings are abstract in the same way spider webs are: though ...
  84. Teresa Cullen's painterly surfaces seem simultaneously to explode and engulf the obje...
  85. With the democratization of Eastern European countries in the past few years, many We...
  86. Here's the pitch: Guy Debord meets Marshall McLuhan. The interior monologue of a star...
  87. American painting triumphed sometime after 1945 and began a golden 25 years of New Wo...
  88. About a year into a brief but zealous correspondence I struck up with the late custom...
  89. Though Patrick Van Caeckenbergh is an essential figure in the currently lively Belgia...
  90. That Cheryl Goldsleger's deserted architecture is a kind of grand world theater is ce...
  91. "A toy is a child's first initiation to art," Charles Baudelaire once claimed; conver...
  92. The only disruption in this austere, brightly illuminated space was the diminutive wo...
  93. In Michael Byron's recent exhibition, two candles, in the shape of life-sized busts c...
  94. Renee Petropoulos revives the large-scale circular format of the tondo, so prevalent ...
  95. Eberhard Bosslet's works evoke extremely strong emotions. Here, his works were instal...
  96. I am tempted to conflate two of Paul-Armand Gette's phrases: "On exoticism as banalit...
  97. When photographed by Thomas Struth, sunflowers, yarrow, mallow, lilies, and delphiniu...
  98. Reading Richard Slotkin's Gunfighter Nation and Jane Tompkins' West of Everything rem...
  99. "Somalia is the only place in the world where I wouldn't go out without a gun," said ...
  100. Gus Van Sant eases borders into oblivion. In all four of his feature films--Mala Noch...
  101. Swamped by rain, and not to mention hordes of day-trippers passing through en route t...
  102. It's a considerably more delicate problem than usual to articulate the unity of viewp...
  103. Reading the massive pile of critical literature on Rona Pondick is like crawling nake...
  104. With El Monte: Homenaje a Lydia Cabrera (Homage to Lydia Cabrera, 1993), Arturo Linds...
  105. This year the annual "Currents" exhibition at Boston's ICA examined transvestism, gen...
  106. By collaborating on 100 small drawings over a one-and-a-half year period, Drew Beatti...
  107. The Venice Biennale, founded in 1895, is the oldest and, along with Germany's Documen...
  108. An actor read a long text from a video screen. If one listened closely it became clea...
  109. When relating the story of the Ujlak Group, one is tempted to resort to a narrative o...
  110. It's a provocative enough title, "Der zerbrochene Spiegel" (The broken mirror), for i...
  111. "Something dead in the street commands more measured units of visual investigation th...
  112. Paradoxically, the Holocaust seems to have given new life to Joel Shapiro's sculpture...
  113. Vivid memories of World War II and four decades of communism inform the art of the Po...
  114. It would be nice to write a review of Tina Barney's splendid new photographs without ...
  115. Adam Cvijanovic's installation was a delightful surprise: at once a visual pleasure a...
  116. From the late '50s to the present, performance-oriented body art has radically displa...
  117. "Women's philosophy should be brief, clear, and elegant," a woman's voice intones on ...
  118. At the last Documenta, Gary Hill's installation was one of the few works that appeale...
  119. "Art is still and dead": such is the frostbitten assessment Vija Celmins delivers in ...
  120. Scientific socialism is the most religious of all religions. Anatoli Lunacharsky, 190...
  121. The unofficial art movement of the old Soviet Union was formed by an absence of marke...
  122. Nicole Eisenman's figures cavort across page and wall with raunchy perversity. In her...
  123. It's very seductive to suggest, as Jackie McAllister does in reference to his LEGO ar...
  124. Featuring 24 of Jon Serl's paintings from the past thirty years, this retrospective f...
  125. In post World War II Germany, the green shoots of an "invisible college" of photograp...
  126. In Ida Applebroog's installation the intimacy of her images reverberated within the v...
  127. The New York Times called it "death in Venice," Time magazine called it "a shambles."...
  128. When the turquoise-green refracted laser beams radiated from the top of the White Tow...
  129. Jusuf Hadzifejzovic started to make his "depots" in 1984 in Sarajevo, where he lived ...
  130. "I sometimes ask myself how it happens that I attract nothing but crackbrained indivi...
  131. If postmodernity is postmarked (like the repressed according to Freud) "made in Germa...
  132. Gesture's painterly dynamic may seamlessly fuse raw strength and refinement, as in Jo...
  133. Haim Steinbach seems set on hiding it away. Closeting things in boxes, dressers, and ...
  134. Looser and more insouciant than anything he has painted, Manny Farber's most recent a...
  135. Is Orlan a Dr. Benway groupie? Since 1990, the French artist has undergone elective p...
  136. After viewing this remarkable exhibition of 25 years of wall drawings (1968-93), one ...
  137. From Murphy Brown to Dan Quayle, from Daniel P. Moynihan to the Urban League, everyon...
  138. Ann Preston is one of the strangest, most inspired, reclusive, and underrated artists...
  139. What do you have to do in a former life to come back as the sibling of Cher, Barbra, ...
  140. Data multiplies. More data is pouring out of more terminals all the time. Nobody can ...
  141. After years of ironic denial that his work is part of the tradition of portraiture, C...
  142. It is a contemporary cliche: the painter who frenetically switches modes, so as to un...
  143. This show of five, multipaneled, abstract paintings was easily Linda Daniels's strong...
  144. Simultaneously conservative and eerie, David Klamen's recent paintings depict curious...
  145. Although Catherine Wagner is known for studies of public environments--schools, a Wor...
  146. A floor-level flood of 40,000 red, yellow, brown, and orange figurines, Field filled ...
  147. "I have been interested in a certain melodramatic curve of flight through the air for...
  148. In an anonymous lithograph from 1840, we see a Shaker meeting. The believers dance in...
  149. Under the aegis of a facile appropriation of Foucauldian theory, artists continue to ...
  150. 1 Michael Stipe, directed by Peter Care: "Man on the Moon" (Warner Bros.). This is th...
  151. MANOHLA DARGIS TALKS WITH VICTOR NUNEZ Victor Nunez's Ruby in Paradise jump-starts on...
  152. Hanne Darboven's STUNDENBUCH (Book of hours, 1991), was a diary of gestures that unfu...
  153. Some people get to play out their obsessions in public. In the case of Richard Pettib...
  154. The visual presentation of Dennis Balk's work is dead simple; so much so that at firs...
  155. THE CONTEMPORARY In "The Art of Hitler," curator Steven Kasher presented a dense, tho...
  156. In her recent exhibition, Kerri Scharlin encircled the gallery with life-size drawing...
  157. After the resumption of his career as an artist in 1985, David Cannon Dashiell's work...
  158. Having read in Italian newspapers that the Whitney Biennial was an overwhelming exper...
  159. A famous Brassai portrait of Jean Genet adorns the dustjacket of Edmund White's new b...
  160. When I first started writing this column I promised a friend, who knows my fickle way...
  161. I love soul singing but I can't sing at all, so I paint. Maybe I'm a soul painter? I ...
  162. Tony Smith's sculpture Willy, 1962, and his series of drawings of the cube, in variou...
  163. Chilean artist Arturo Duclos makes elegantly rebuslike paintings filled with thorny c...
  164. Is it merely "camp" to enjoy the latter-day production of a second-generation Color F...
  165. Over the past several years, Fred Tomaselli has introduced otherworldly, mind-alterin...
  166. Molissa Fenley's 1993 trilogy of intensely rich works placed new demands on both danc...
  167. Organized by Michael Auping of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, this exhibit...
  168. Damien Hirst keeps turning out variations on his grisly menagerie, extrapolating on t...
  169. Displayed at one of Los Angeles' newest and funkiest gallery spaces, Anna-Maria Sirce...
  170. This first exhibition organized by Ida Panicelli--the new director--was based on an u...
  171. "You saw nothing at Hiroshima, nothing." The phrase from Alain Resnais' Hiroshima, mo...
  172. HENRY GELDZAHLER: Artforum got started in San Francisco in 1962. When did you get i...
  173. I take it that my task her is to select a single work that has provided me particular...
  174. Philip Pearlstein's Portrait of Linda Nochlin and Richard Pommer ties together the pe...
  175. A casino in the south of France. A suicide at the blackjack table. A magician fanni...
  176. A recent change in the writing of cultural criticism has left the prose plainer, less...
  177. The task of writing on the occasion of Artforum's 30th anniversary entails far more t...
  178. Once a person, or a public institution, has reached a certain age, retrospection, if ...
  179. It has all, maybe more than I would want, from a photograph of this world. Andre Bre...
  180. One of the most important events in the last thirty years of art history has been the...
  181. Eros rules the World, and Robert Mapplethorpe celebrates eros. But rather than locat...
  182. Three decades in a magazine's life can see a number of professional generations come ...
  183. I was in a hospital the other day and I saw a guy sitting in a wheel chair wearing a ...
  184. If John Irwin, the absolute founder of Artforum (he dreamed of a sort of Hugh Hefner ...
  185. It was 16 years ago, and already there had been too much harping on the "end" of pain...
  186. Lorna Simpson's photograph Waterbearer was reproduced in 1987 in one of the early iss...
  187. Turning-points shows in art come with a sense that you know everything about them sub...
  188. Dear Heidi, Thank you for the videotape that Mr. McCarthy and Mr. Kelley have made of...
  189. JACK BANKOWSKY: When you took over Artforum you were only 27. How were you received...
  190. John Coplans works as an artist in New York. An exhibition of his photographs initia...
  191. Considerations of modesty, fortified by counsels of prudence, must caution philosophe...
  192. I first saw Midday in Anthony Caro's courtyard in the fall of 1961. Between the fall ...
  193. Anniversaries mean trips down Memory Lane; and now, thinking of 30+ years of Artforum...
  194. First the story and then the moral. That the story itself concerns a specific act of...
  195. Cracking open a magazine can be like opening a box of chocolates: knowing more or les...
  196. In Los Angeles, on La Cienega Boulevard, Phil Leider sat in an office above my head f...
  197. Certain works of art make their mark in history by breaking the thread of a tradition...
  198. Nineteen-sixty two was the year I found out there was more to movies than rooting for...
  199. When God Art Happens to Bad People Adorno pointed out that our biggest tragedy unde...