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THESE DAYS, VOLUNTEERS IN NEW ORLEANS'S Lower Ninth Ward can be found trimming, uprooting, and generally hacking at vines, ferns, and feral shrubbery. Louisiana has a lot of 'exuberant vegetation,' [...]

EVERY TEN YEARS, sculpture's still-expanding field maps itself across a particular geographical terrain: the streets of Munster, Germany, where Skulptur Projekte Munster was inaugurated in 1977. The show, which brings [...]

IN AMY GRANAT AND DREW HEITZLER'S 2007 double-screen film, T.S.O.Y.W., on view in the 2008 Whitney Biennial, a motorcyclist travels from Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty, on the banks of the [...]

THE SO-CALLED UTOPIA OF THE CENTRE BEAUBOURG: AN INTERPRETATION, BY LUCA FREI. LONDON/UTRECHT, THE NETHERLANDS: BOOK WORKS/CASCO, 2007. 211 PAGES. $20. HENRI LEFEBVRE CALLED IT an 'immense boutique,' the 'Palm [...]

With their stark, rectilinear compositions and their palette of unmodulated blacks and retina-searing fluorescents, the nine large paintings in 'Peter Halley: Early Work, 1982 to 1987' still pack a visual [...]

There's a storied moment in Andrea Fraser's 2001 video Little Frank and His Carp: Touring the Guggenheim Bilbao, the artist, exhorted by her audio guide to admire the architecture, proceeds [...]

ADAPTED FROM the 1984 biography by Patricia Bosworth, the new Arbus biopic has been a long time coming--twenty-two years, to be exact. Bosworth's article in the August issue of Vanity [...]

A. R. Penck was born in Dresden in 1939 and lived there until 1980, when he emigrated to the capitalist side of the Iron Curtain. As a young man, in [...]

'I am not at all interested in having a retrospective exhibition of my work,' artist Al Hansen (1927-1995) wrote toward the end of his life, adding that such a show [...]

In the nearly two decades since the Smiths broke up, the band's music seems to have become a lingua franca for teens the world over who suspect that life is [...]

TRYING TO COME UP with a taxonomy for the burgeoning idioms of contemporary sculpture is probably ill advised. But one can't help wishing for a bit of handy nomenclature to [...]

Los Angeles-based artist Matthew Monahan has said that figurative drawing is the 'core' of his practice--in graduate school in the mid-'90s, while his fellow students delved into video and installation, [...]

Around the turn of the millennium, as a widespread reappraisal of the art of Jack Goldstein (1945-2003) got underway--perhaps prompted by the zoo' re-creation at New York's Artists Space of [...]

Seamus Harahan's large-scale, three-channel video projection Holylands, 2004, documents the street life of an urban community that looks as if it's populated almost entirely by men and boys. By day, [...]

In his illustrated text Dispersion, 2002--which appeared in the catalogue of the 2003 Ljubljana Biennial and has since been taught in art and critical-theory classes at Columbia, Yale, NYU, and [...]

Every cultural movement spawns its own lingo, some of which inevitably becomes vestigial and embarrassing, and feminist art is certainly no exception. About 'fem-mage,' the less said the better, but [...]

German artist Katharina Sieverding is oddly little known, or at least little shown, in the United States. In organizing the first comprehensive survey of her work in this country, curator [...]

'Too many stripes can finally drive you mad,' Michel Pastoureau, the chief historian of this elemental pattern, has observed. But how many is too many? Glasgow-based artist Jim Lambie seems [...]

In A Voyage on the North Sea, Rosalind Krauss recalls that in the late '60s and early '70s artists including Richard Serra and Robert Smithson made a habit of visiting [...]

In George Eliot's Middlemarch, the character Edward Casaubon famously devotes his life to deducing 'the key to all mythologies'--a sort of ur-fable underlying and explaining all others--only to realize that [...]