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If you were a resident of Mali's capital city in the '40s or '50s and sat for a portrait in photographer Seydou Keita's studio, you were defining yourself as not [...]

STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM 'Freestyle' is former Whitney curator Thelma Golden's first major contemporary exhibition since she landed at the Studio Museum as deputy director early last year, and it [...]

MASS MOCA The games we play! And if games linguistic, chance-based, and skilled can be adopted as artistic strategy, then why not as the theme for an exhibition? It sounds [...]

FRIEDRICH PETZEL GALLERY A few works by Jon Pylypchuk in a group show at this gallery back in September brought a whisper of hope that the coming New York season [...]

Imagine Texas situated on the eastern seaboard, New Mexico boasting the charms of Eau Claire, Little Rock, and New Haven, Oklahoma forming the southern border of Canada, and Kansas with [...]

WALKER ART CENTER The tune's familiar--group show featuring solid international cast organized around loose curatorial theme--but here it has a new refrain. Curator Douglas Fogle will focus on painting; the [...]

BROOKLYN MUSEUM OF ART Organized by a team of four led by BMA curator of photography Barbara Head Millstein, this selection of more than ninety photographers (from established figures like [...]

ALDRICH MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART 'Glee'? Only in the wake of 13,000-plus stock-market averages would such a title be imaginable. Optimism, confidence, and fun are the watchwords here, and the [...]

DAVID ZWIRNER Marcel Dzama's drawings are like frozen moments from dreams and nightmares. The twenty-six-year-old Canadian continues to add to his voluminous output of simple ink-and-watercolor drawings of various human [...]

JAPAN SOCIETY GALLERY While the title of this show refers to one of Yoko Ono's early works, the 'YES' must also be taken as a laconic riposte to that confused [...]

The first thing you noticed on entering Amy Sillman's show of new paintings was The Umbrian Line, 1999-2000, a group of twenty bright gouaches on paper. Mostly small and arranged [...]

POWER PLANT What do you get when you combine Popsicle sticks, socks, TV antennae, tin foil, electrical cords, and plastic doll eyes with an infusion of wacky Conceptual spirit? Tim [...]

FRIEDRICH PETZEL GALLERY Sarah Morris's recent paintings of midtown Manhattan buildings are very New York indeed: stylish, hip, loud, reflexive, and assured. Isolating fragments of the glass-curtain facades, the works [...]

DEITCH PROJECTS Entering Brad Kahlhamer's exhibition 'Friendly Frontier' was a bit like stopping off at a roadside attraction on Route 66. The viewer was immediately confronted by a wall-based installation [...]

WALKER ART CENTER Despite the ever-enervating onslaught of thematic exhibitions, I guess there's always room for one more. Besides, curator Philippe Vergne's first major effort for the Walker (fifty artists, [...]

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART Will the art world's love affair with the mise en abime ever end? Perhaps the 'language of dioramas' will bring out the lighter side .of the [...]

INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART Cornelia Parker's 1998 solo outing at the Serpentine Gallery may have cemented her position in the British art world, but American audiences know her for one [...]

FINE ARTS GALLERY, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND During the past three decades, Adrian Piper has amassed both artistic and scholarly oeuvres (she moonlights as a neo-Kantian philosopher), though the intellectual underpinnings [...]

After decades of revisionist art history, with its accompanying tendency to downplay the significance of biography, it's hard to believe that the oeuvre of Amedeo Modigliani remains colored by accounts [...]

At least since his 1998 show at Dallas's Angstrom Gallery, Erick Swenson has pursued a level of presentation and craftsmanship so exacting that it might attract phone calls equally from [...]

Carlo Mollino earned his place ill the history of design long ago. Lately, however, his idiosyncratic interiors have been discussed less than his stash of nearly 1,500 erotic photographs found [...]

Ivan Morley's paintings are inspired by the frontiersman's lore of scrappy, dried-out California towns with names like San Gabriel, El Monte, and Tehachapi. Such locales and their all-but-forgotten (and possibly [...]

By now, the uses and abuses of the grid are well known and well theorized. That simple network of verticals and horizontals is thoroughly modern in concept and perhaps as [...]

The decorative arts are noticed more widely now and then in fine-art circles, effectively deflating categorical hierarchies of media and genres--having been brought into the museum context to widen the [...]

APEXART Boredom used to be a sin, attendant cousin of sloth, a welcome state for the devil to seduce weak minds. We know what it did to Emma Bovary. For [...]

WHITE COLUMNS Any pop icon worth her salt is known by a single name: Jackie, Marilyn, Madonna. Back around 1970, there were plenty of Glorias around: Ms. magazine founder and [...]

MARY BOONE GALLERY Toland Grinnell is unapologetically aspiring to the condition of fashion. The young artist has gone from using Samsonite suitcases as quirky unfolding Duchampian constructions to designing and [...]

For his New York solo debut, Christoph Buchel created the kind of project that few artists could pull off, and few would want to take on. His large-scale architectural installation [...]

Dike Blair has always been a careful observer of scenes. His paintings of hotel lobbies, full ashtrays, car interiors, and glistening glasses of champagne amount to a compendium of luxury-class [...]

One might not guess that one of Louisianaborn, New York-based artist Cheyney Thompson's inspirations is Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin. But, starting with his 2002 exhibition '1 Scenario + 1 Situation,' also at [...]

In December 2002, Philippe Parreno and Pierre Huyghe retired Annlee, the Japanese anime character they'd bought the rights to in 1999 and who'd embodied personalities, narratives, and ideas for them [...]

WALKER ART CENTER Is this promising show (forty artists, 100 works, an extensive catalogue, and a great title) Walker curator Douglas Fogle's follow-up to his 'Painting at the Edge of [...]

STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM It's 1974. 'Kung Fu Fighting' is number one on the charts, the TV show Kung Fu airs every Thursday on ABC, and Bruce Lee (who died [...]

The art world is having a love affair with drawing. In the span of a year, we've had MOMA's 'Drawing Now,' the UCLA Hammer's 'International Paper,' and the traveling exhibition [...]

Theatrical, chaotic, but always tethered to a compositional logic, Jessica Stockholder's practice continues to advance despite the ubiquity of her whimsical constructions. Nearly fifty works by the doyenne of the [...]

It seems fitting that Polly Apfelbaum's first major museum show would be in Philadelphia. After all, the artist is a Pennsylvania native who graduated from Philly's Tyler School of Art. [...]

Jennifer Bartlett established her reputation with her 1975-76 work Rhapsody. The painting consists of a grid of 987 square panels offering a compendium of artistic genres and motifs--geometric structuralism, representation, [...]

P.S. 1, NEW YORK With the art-world radar now trained on the slightest aesthetic stirrings in every corner of the globe, it's only a matter of time before a local [...]

'FAMILY' Families are the stuff of great stories, both fictional and real, from Lear and the Sopranos to the Hapsburgs and Kennedys. We are all experts on the subject, whether [...]

CLEMENTINE GALLERY Wayne White's New York debut, 'I'm Not Going Around Advertising Surrealism,' is, of course, nothing less than surreal. What else could be invoked by gaudily framed seascapes and [...]

MATTHEW MARKS GALLERY/SWISS INSTITUTE I can't stand clowns. Although their ostensible purpose is to make people laugh, clowns seem to exist for the sake of sheer perversity and torment, functioning [...]

Guy Richards Smit's latest exhibition opened with a bash on New Year's Eve, as if to announce that in 2002 art could be funny again. Reveling in self-parody, Smit's videos [...]

WILL AMERICANS TURN TO ART AS an escape from trying times, or will we just keep going to the mall? Luckily for those of us who are feeling the squeeze, [...]

Curator Thelma Golden has taken risks in her career, most visibly with her 1994 'Black Male' exhibition at the Whitney, criticized by many for its propagation of 'negative' images of [...]