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POSTMASTERS Diana Cooper's new show had something for everyone. For that side of you that loves chaotic dispersions, there was installation; for those who prefer the lure of the autonomous […]

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 [...]

IT'S A BIG YEAR FOR BRAZIL. AFTER all, not everyone gets to celebrate a 500th birthday. Along with the Guggenheim's all-out bash (see p. 65), the festivities include two relatively [...]

GAVIN BROWN'S ENTERPRISE On the heels of an edition of prints for the New Museum, an interview in Time Out New York, a page in the new magazine Gotham, and [...]

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 [...]

AUDIELLO FINE ART, INC. Warren Isensee's paintings draw on his memories of domesticated modernism. Evoking the interior color schemes and the bright prints of '60s and '70s suburban TV rooms [...]

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 [...]

CASEY KAPLAN British duo James White and Tim Sheward 'embrace the delusion perpetuated by the worship of false icons.' In their ongoing project of simultaneously critiquing and reveling in manufactured [...]

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 [...]

You may not actually have known any of the songs, but with their pleasingly familiar New Romantic techno-pop beat, you felt like you should. In any case, by the time [...]

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 [...]

There's a group of girls in New York that I photograph regularly. They call me all the time and talk about their moms and share ideas for photos. I have [...]

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 [...]

JAMES GRAHAM & SONS Continuing a trajectory from his earlier portraits of dogs whose faces appeared to be melting, Andrew Ehrenworth's eleven new paintings are based on standard-issue photographs of [...]

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 [...]

In the '70s and '80s Senga Neugudi was at the forefront of the African-American avant-garde in Los Angeles and New York. Along with artists like David Hammons mad Suzanne Jackson, […]

'Make it new' was the mandate of Gutai, a pioneering collective in postwar Japan. The dictum was realized emphatically in many of the group's performance works, such as Kazuo Shiraga's [...]

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 [...]