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Reviews the art exhibition "CY Twombly: Fifty Years of Works on Paper," at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, through May 8, 2005.

Reviews art exhibition of Lyonel Feininger at the Achim Moeller Fine Art in Manhattan, New York.

ROBERT COLESCOTT 'Works on Paper From the 1970s' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THINK of the artist Paul McCarthy, and it's hard not to imagine him the way he has appeared in countless videos and performances through the years -- stuffing a bunch of mayonnaise-and-ketchup-slathered hot dogs in his mouth, as he did, say, in ''Hot Dog'' (1974), or wearing a clown's nose and muttering maniacally while sloshing paint on canvas (''Painter,'' 1995), or running amok with a gang of elves in a filthy, chocolate-smeared Santa suit (''Santa Chocolate Shop,'' 1996-97). Or else doing other things in projects over the years -- things involving Barbie dolls, sausages, Vaseline and his own and other people's bodily orifices -- that cannot be described here. But during a recent interview at the Hauser & Wirth gallery in New York, the day before the opening of his new show of works on paper there, ''White Snow'' (through Dec. 24), Mr. McCarthy presented a strikingly different persona. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reviews the art exhibitions "Paper Museums: The Reproductive Print in Europe, 1500-1800" and "Room With a View: Paintings by Andrea Facco" at the Grey Art Gallery of New York University in Greenwich Village, New York City, through December 3, 2005.

Reviews the exhibition "Oil Paintings and Works on Paper" of the artist Marlene Dumas shown at the Zwirner & Wirth in Manhattan, New York.

Reviews "Painter of Modern Life," an exhibition featuring paintings and works on paper by Guy Pene du Bois, at Graham in Manhattan, New York City through July 9, 2004.

Reviews the exhibition of ink-on-paper paintings of Wei Dong in New York City, New York.

The fine art of printmaking is not what it used to be. To produce printed images using tools more sophisticated than potatoes and rubber stamps once required the esoteric knowledge of an alchemist and the manual skills of a surgeon. Today anyone with the right software and a good color printer can make infinitely reproducible images that are hard to distinguish from professionally made drawings, paintings, montages, commercial illustrations and other sorts of pictures. Which raises the question: What should a major, international exhibition devoted to contemporary printmaking entail? Going by ''Philagrafika 2010,'' the first in what its organizers hope will become a triennial citywide festival here devoted to the print in contemporary art, the technical possibilities are unbounded. ''Philagrafika'' includes etchings and woodcuts, vinyl graphics, comic books, videos and complicated, conceptually driven projects intended to raise social consciousness. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]