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ANNIE MAE YOUNG is looking at a photograph of a quilt she pieced together out of strips torn from well-worn cotton shirts and polyester pants. "I was doing this quilt […]

Steven Lerner transformed the former Sean Kelly Gallery in SoHo from a loft-gallery-apartment to a spacious, 19-window residence that properly reflects its artist-owners' tastes.

By Mary Gabriel. Algonquin. 372 pp. $24.95. Imagine someone a century from now setting out to examine our age through the lens of The Bill & Monica Show. The players [...]

By Barbara Goldsmith. Knopf. 531 pp. $30. Imagine someone a century from now setting out to examine our age through the lens of The Bill & Monica Show. The players [...]

By Ursula Hegi. Simon & Schuster. 302 pp. $24. A disproportionate number of the German-born baby boomers and their older siblings whom Ursula Hegi interviewed for her oral history see [...]

The article presents information about art in the form of exhibitions. Traditionally there have been a few other reasons for curators to mount exhibitions. Until a few season's back, the curator's priviledged and discerning eye appeared relatively immune to alterations in the museum environment. The need to follow money cannot wholly account for the growing disposition among curators to appropriate the apparatus of fiction and dramaturgy: character, narrative, action, emotion, conflict, drama.

A mother and daughter travel together in the Yucatan, and discuss their past. The mother immigrated from Germany when she was young, and has spent much of her life coming to terms with the loss of her homeland.

January 2003: The steel industry was in a slump. At the Charles C. Lewis steel processing plant in Springfield, Massachusetts, president Robert Cournoyer was facing the prospect of layoffs. Then [...]

At 2,250 degrees Fahrenheit the fire burns lime green. Embers and scraps of molten bronze skitter onto the concrete floor of an open-air shed housing the furnace. 'Sweep it up,' [...]

It's only fitting that the most eagerly awaited museum in the world of contemporary art is more than an hour removed from New York City's frenetic art scene. Many of […]

There comes a moment during the concert when Yoko Ono throws the audience an appraising look over her jumbo blue rimless glasses. She's a woman of 67 -- hard to [...]

After Victor Ganz died in 1987, his widow, Sally, spent much of her time in the room they had painted Picasso-red to set off the five paintings from Picasso's variations [...]

The article focuses on career development and work of artist Shahpour Pouyan. Topics include studying Neoplatonism at the Iranian Institute of Philosophy, and teaching history of Persian architecture at the University of Science and Culture in Tehran, Iran; his participation in the exhibition "Global/Local 1960–2015: Six Artists from Iran" at New York's Grey Art Gallery; and learning painting with artist Morteza Katouzian.

The article discusses two books "Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull," by Barbara Goldsmith and "Notorious Victoria: The Life of Victoria Woodhull, Uncensored," by Mary Gabriel. In Other Powers, Barbara Goldsmith tells the story of Woodhull and her idealistic and corrupt times through a prism of the Beecher affair and trials that radiated from it. The another book by Gabriel, is an old-fashioned biography of Woodhull. It is simply the story of an extraordinary, maddening and paradoxical woman which is presented in a comprehensive manner.

The article focuses on the book, "Tearing the Silence: On Being German in America," by Ursula Hegi. A disproportionate number of the German-born baby boomers and their older siblings whom Ursula Hegi interviewed for her oral history see themselves as yet another species of hyphenated American "others," of the pink-cheeked, blue-eyed variety. They're sick of being called Nazis. Hegi's way of dealing with the dilemma is to expose the biographical viscera of the people she interviewed. Exorcism and forgiveness are Hegi's prescriptions for shame.

An interview with Russian-born, American-based artists Ilya Kabakov and Emilia Kabakov is presented. Topics discussed include the nature of their collaboration in 1997, "The Palace of Projects" canvas was their first collaborative project, and "The Ship of Tolerance" art is becoming interactive. Also mentioned are the element of fantasy, "Triptych Three Dark Paintings," and Ilya Kabakov's belief that art is being politicized.

TO THEM, ART SPEAKS WITH SUCH URGENCY AND RESONANCE THAT THEY SIMPLY MUST LIVE WITH IT. Remember the Eighties? That's when collectors made it off the art pages and into […]

The article presents a profile and discusses the work of the Croatian conceptual artist Sanja Iveković. Much of the discussion centers on the political and feminist content of her work, which includes performances and videos. Several of her works are pictured and discussed in detail including the 1974 video "Sweet Violence" and the 1982 performance piece "Practice Makes a Master." The author also comments on the exhibition "Sanja Iveković: Sweet Violence" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

An essay on the work and artistic process of artist Jane Hammond is presented. Several of Hammond's paintings and photographs are criticized in order to demonstrate the evolution of her work including "The Wonderfulness of Downtown," "Bee Line Trucking" and "Perpetual Love." The author highlights Hammond's ability to create meaning in her work by decontextualizing her subjects.

The article reports on various developments during the 12th Documenta survey of contemporary art in Kassel, Germany in 2007. It includes information on various sculpture and other artworks that were on display during the event, as well as art world followers, curators, artists, collectors, dealers, critics and museum directors who took part in the event.

Interviews sculptor Steve Tobin regarding his visual science or the act of turning the aspect of nature into sculpture. Background in sculpting; Description of his house; Estimated value of his works.

Features the "Berlin-Moscow/Moscow-Berlin" art exhibition at the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin, Germany. Art pieces featured; Artists particiapting; Sculptures and paintings. INSET: Joseph Stalin Superstar.

Discusses the returning focus on abstraction in the art field. Reenvisioning of abstraction through the lens of conceptualism; Exhibitions of abstract paintings by three generations of artists in the U.S. and Europe; Abstract art's provision of a primary experience for the viewer.

Reports on the groundbreaking of an art exhibit at the Dia:Beacon museum in New York City. Source of inspiration for the artworks; Objectives of the exhibition; List of artists who contributed to the exhibition.

Focuses on the widening gap between museum curators and directors in the U.S. Conflict over the changing social role of art museums; Consequences of increased marketing and development; Formation of the Association of Art Museum Curators.

Features Shirin Neshat, an Iranian-born maker of film and video installations, and her iconic exploration of Islam. Popular works that reflect the tensions of Muslim society; Neshat's conflicted role as an Iranian woman living in the West; Themes, sounds and images.

Focuses on the life and works of Russian artist of Ilya Kabakov. Theme and principles of Kabakov's art installations; Details on The Palace of Projects and Life and Creativity of Charles Rosenthal art installations; Interpretations of the paintings in the Ten Characters installation.

Profiles artist and musician Yoko Ono. Sean Ono Lennon's opinion that what makes Ono unique as an artist is her holistic view of artistic expression; Discussion of her art exhibit 'Yes Yoko Ono'; Biographical information, including her tenure in a sanitarium and marriage to John Lennon; Opinion that Ono's real contribution was to make celebrity into a performance-art piece.

Catherine Craft on Walter Hopps and Susan Davidson, Robert Rauschenberg: A Retrospective; David Carrier on Gary Tinterow et al., The Private Collection of Edgar Degas; Daniel Adler on Rosalind E. Krauss and Yve-Alain Bois, Formless: A User's Guide; Amy I. Schlegel on Phaidon Press's Contemporary Artists series; Amei Wallach on Stephanie Barron et al., Exiles and Emigrés: The Flight of European Artists from Hitlerand Susan W. Morgenstein and Marvin Liberman, Assignment Rescue: The Story of Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee; John Fuller on Jeanne Winston Adler, Early Days in the Adirondacks: The Photographs of Seneca Ray Stoddard; Pamela Wye on Constance Lewallen, Jay DeFeo: Selected Works1952–1989.

The article reviews "The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World," an exhibition of abstract paintings, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City from December 14, 2014 to April 5, 2015, curated by Laura Hoptman, featuring works by artists such as Matt Connors and Dianna Molzan.

The article reviews the art exhibition "Breaking Ground," which featured various photo-based digital prints and other works by the contemporary artist Allan Wexler, held at the Ronald Feldman Fine Arts gallery, located in New York City, in early 2014.

The article reviews several Havana Biennial Art Exhibitions held across Cuba on art of Latin American which includes the exhibitions such as "Las Metàforas del Cambio" featuring video animation Carrera de Relevo of Sandra Ramos; and "Puentes" featuring photographs of seascapes.

Profiles artist, Leon Golub, who died at the age of 82 from complications following surgery. Themes of his paintings; Exhibition credits; Educational achievement; Notable art works.

Features Melvin Edwards' sculpture exhibit at CDS in New York. Materials used; Comparison with Edwards `Unruly Fragments' series.