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THE 12 musicians sit one behind the other like oarsmen in a shell. The bass drum, the instrument capable of the lowest sound, is in front; the triangle brings up […]

EVEN at their matching height of 5-foot-5, they seemed an odd couple. The sculptor Isamu Noguchi was slight and elegant; at 80 he retained the charismatic blue eyes of a […]

After the Sept. 11 attacks, Jenny Holzer, like so many artists, got calls asking how she would memorialize the events. All she could think of at the time was to […]

In the Garden Michael Steinberg Fine Art 526 West 26th Street, Chelsea Through July 29 Gerald Monroe has been painting since the 1950's, and he has buried his heart in […]

Walking the dilapidated streets of Havana, the Cuban artist Carlos Garaicoa imagined an alternative universe. He pondered the Art Deco facades behind which dogs prowled debris-strewn lots and the disintegrating […]

'HALF the world wants to be like Thoreau at Walden worrying about the noise of traffic,' the artist Franz Kline once said. 'The other half use up their lives being […]

OUTSIDE the State Hermitage Museum on June 22, the paparazzi were waiting in the wet summer chill, along with black-windowed limousines, bodyguards bearing visible weapons and several hundred spectators elbowing […]

WALID RAAD was 15 in 1983 when his family shipped him out of Beirut to Boston, just ahead of the militias that were targeting teenage men for enlistment during one […]

RIDING in a steeply banking Cessna four-seater three years ago, David Maisel leaned out into a clamorous, icy wind and photographed the toxic, desiccated surface of Owens Lake. 'You feel […]

THE photographers Cindy Sherman and Robert Mapplethorpe were friends, in their fashion, in the 1980's. It was an art-world kind of friendship, laced with competition, envy and schadenfreude. 'I confess […]

THERE are artists whose deaths define the way you tell their stories: the poets Sylvia Plath and Frank O'Hara, the photographer Diane Arbus, the painters Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock. […]

THERE was a total eclipse of the sun on the day in August when Shirin Neshat began shooting her new film installation, 'Soliloquy,' in the hill town of Mardin in […]

DURING the hot summer of 1956, in the cramped upstairs bedroom that served as her studio, Lee Krasner found herself unhinged by a painting she had just completed. It consisted […]

THE first impression is that Jasper Johns, on the cusp of 70, is looking great. He has shed that C.E.O.'s look of pressured prosperity that he wore in the months […]

THE first time Europeans got a good look at avant-garde New York painting, it was called American painting. The year was 1958 and the Museum of Modern Art's touring exhibition, […]

KIM DINGLE was 40 in 1991 when she burst upon the art scene here, a fully developed painter with a lithe touch and yeasty content. She painted George Washington sporting […]

SHIMON ATTIE listens with the rapt, I-feel-your-pain concentration you pay a psychotherapist to give you. In fact, he was a psychotherapist once, in San Francisco, before he gave it all […]

GOEBBELS is long and thin; Hitler closely resembles a Charlie Chaplin impersonator. Dressed in clown ruffs, they nudge each other onto the stage in the Irondale Ensemble Project's musical theater-cabaret […]

After years of tumult and controversy, Marcia Tucker has announced that she will step aside as director of the New Museum of Contemporary Art in SoHo, which she founded 21 […]