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FEATURES 1998 ARCHIVES THE 1998 REVUE by Walter Robinson 12/31/98 The art stars at auction, in the museums and the galleries -- that was the year that was 1998. MY EYE by Thomas Hoving 12/23/98 Recent acquisitions -- and proposed deaccessions -- at the Metropolitan Museum. ENLIGHTENING STROKES by Fred Stern 12/23/98 Modern Zen artists at the Japan Society. KIEFER AT THE MET by Brian Boucher 12/22/98 The Metropolitan Museum shows its recent acquisition of works on paper by Anselm Kiefer. CANDID CHRONICLES by Tosha Grantham 12/18/98 Three exhibitions celebrate the work of Constance Stuart Larrabee. LET IT DRIP by Jerry Saltz 12/16/98 Jackson Pollock at the Museum of Modern Art. DESIGNING DELUSIONLAND by Michael Brennan 12/15/98 Walt Disney's dreams unraveled at last. MORI PHANTASMAGORY by Tom Wolf 12/10/98 Mariko Mori's seductive space-age spirituality. WAR AND PEACE by Jerry Saltz 12/3/98 Hiroshi Sugito's paintings at Nicole Klagsbrun. A VIEW FROM TIBET by Fred Stern 12/2/98 At the Metropolitan Museum, a survey of Tibetan thankas and mandalas. MY EYE by Thomas Hoving 12/1/98 Nothing but the best in the fine and decorative arts. FLEETING LIFE by Jerry Saltz 11/25/98 Live now, live here, in photos by Wolfgang Tillmans. TALKING PICTURES by Carlo McCormick 11/25/98 An interview with Wolfgang Tillmans. KARA WALKER by Jerry Saltz 11/24/98 Hysterical ecstasy with slaves, masters, sex and art. THE FIRST BERLIN BIENNALE by David Allen and Dominic Eichler 11/23/98 Highlighting Berlin as the hip art capital of Europe. DID NAPOLEON WEAR ARMOR? by Fred Stern 11/17/98 A tour through the Metropolitan's exhibition of Renaissance armor by Filippo Negroli. THE SILENT BOOM by Andrew Decker 11/5/98 Quietly, the high end of the art market has been taking off. FROM CLOTH TO COIF by John Mendelsohn 10/30/98 Pithy textiles and ceremonious sculptures stand in as art. JACKSON POLLOCK by Michael Brennan 10/29/98 MoMA unveils its retrospective of America's greatest modern painter. HAITIAN FASCINATION by N. F. Karlins 10/29/98 Two shows of Haitian Vodou mesmerize New York. PICASSO MOUSE by Amy Fusselman 10/27/98 Maurizio Cattelan at the Museum of Modern Art. FAREWELL COLUMN by Peter Schjeldahl 10/22/98 Peter Schjeldahl says goodbye to the Village Voice. FROM VAN EYCK TO BRUEGEL by Paul Jeromack 10/22/98 The Metropolitan Museum presents its Netherlandish pictures. TOUCHING THOMPSON by Peter Schjeldahl 10/19/98 Bob Thompson at the Whitney Museum of American Art. ETRUSCAN SHADOW by N.F. Karlins 10/16/98 "L'ombra della sera" at Baruch College in New York. LOVING LAS VEGAS by Amy Fusselman 10/15/98 Critic Dave Hickey on Stephen Wynn's Bellagio Gallery of Art. AB EXALTATION by Peter Schjeldahl 10/2/98 Mark Rothko at the Whitney Museum of American Art. THIRD-EYE FOCUS by Paul Hasegawa-Overacker 9/25/98 Kerry James Marshall at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. GIRLY GROTESQUERIE by Peter Schjeldahl 9/25/98 Lisa Yuskavage at Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York. STRANGE DAYS by Peter Schjeldahl 9/17/98 Why Surrealism now? "Julien Levy" at Equitable Gallery. DINNER WITH ARNOLD by Ysabel de la Rosa 9/16/98 A conversation with photographer Arnold Newman. CARCASSES AFTER THE FEAST by Victor M. Cassidy 9/10/98 Photographer David Plowden documents a fast-changing American landscape. SEATTLE: A MUSEUM TRIPLE PLAY by N. F. Karlins 9/3/98 A look at the Seattle Art Museum, the Seattle Asian Art Museum and the Frye Art Museum. GEHRY IN GEAR by Peter Schjeldahl 8/28/98 New York needs a Gehry museum. SEX-RAY VISION by Meredith Mendelsohn 8/27/98 The freak-show mysticism of Pavel Tchelitchew. THE PROPHET by Peter Schjeldahl 8/13/98 An esthetic visionary whose prophecies came true -- Tony Smith at MoMA. FIRE THE BOSS by Peter Schjeldahl 8/5/98 Pipilotti Rist wuz robbed. MILITANT MILDNESS by Peter Schjeldahl 7/30/98 A new cohort of consumers reflected in summer group shows at D'Amelio Terras, Matthew Marks, Pat Hearn and Spencer Brownstone. THE MASTER BATHER by Peter Schjeldahl 7/27/98 Pierre Bonnard at the Museum of Modern Art. THE REVOLUTIONARY by Peter Schjeldahl 7/16/98 At the Museum of Modern Art, a long-awaited retrospective of Aleksandr Rodchenko. TONY SMITH: ARCHITECT, PAINTER, SCULPTOR by Phyllis Tuchman 7/14/98 At the Museum of Modern Art, a survey of the career of the late Abstract Expressionist artist. PURE ARTIFICE by Peter Schjeldahl 6/24/98 A spare, powerful survey of work by L.A. artist Charles Ray. ART AND SEOUL by Fred Stern 6/22/98 A delectable new Korean gallery opens at the Metropolitan Museum. ULTRALOUNGERIE by Peter Schjeldahl 6/18/98 Hip new painting at Deitch Projects and Max Protetch. ART DECO VIRTUOSO by Mary Anne Hunting 6/11/98 Jean Dunand at the Metropolitan Museum. SEARCHING FOR DAVID NOVROS by Michael Brennan 6/9/98 A studio visit with the New York painter. MEXICO'S GIFT TO CHICAGO by Victor M. Cassidy 6/8/98 Things are happening at Chicago's Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum. THE X FACTOR by Peter Schjeldahl 6/4/98 A pocket retrospective focuses on Marsden Hartley's spirituality. THE SOCIAL COMEDIAN by Peter Schjeldahl 5/28/98 In Robert Colescott's paintings, crazy energy from crude iconography. AALTO'S PARADISE 5/22/98 by Donald Kuspit Did the architecture of Alvar Aalto achieve a more humanely built environment? A ROYAL FLUSH SPECIAL: THE AVANT-GARDE IN EXHIBITION 5/18/98 by Charlie Finch Avant-garde antics, from the Fauves to Conceptualism. An interview with Bruce Altshuler. LETTER FROM WYOMING by Cindy Tower 5/8/98 An adventure out West. THE JAZZ PAINTER by Peter Schjeldahl 5/7/98 In the paintings of Chaim Soutine, life stands at full flood. OCTOPUS WITH THE INITIALS V. H. by N. F. Karlins 5/5/98 At the Drawing Center, 20th-century artistic experiments from the 19th-century Romantic, Victor Hugo. FERNAND LEGER by Donald Kuspit 5/4/98 Allegories of mechanical movement, the heroic aspect of modern life. ACADEMIC GROOVES by Peter Schjeldahl 5/4/98 The Dahesh Museum provides a backstage look at academic art. JOAN SNYDER: WORKS ON PAPER by Michael Klein 5/1/98 An emotional tangle of thought, word and image. ANISH KAPOOR: ICON AND ILLUSION by Donald Kuspit 4/29/98 At Barbara Gladstone Gallery, recent works by the British sculptor. PERMANENT WHITNEY by Peter Schjeldahl 4/22/98 The Whitney Museum's new permanent collection galleries provide a dawning epiphany of painting's power to reinhabit dead-brain imagery. MANET, MONET & THE RAILWAY STATION by J. Martin Hill 4/21/98 The topological locus of Impressionism. LOVE FOREVER: KUSAMA IN L.A. by Stephan Pascher 4/17/98 The legendary avant-gardist makes her mark with an L.A. performance. LAS VEGAS ROCOCO by Peter Schjeldahl 4/16/98 Tony Cragg's new work is wildly subjective and coolly objective. CHARLES-HONORE LANNUIER: CABINETMAKER FROM NEW YORK by Mary Anne Hunting 4/7/98 Parisian cabinetmaking traditions adapted to the American way. 20TH-CENTURY STRAND by Peter Schjeldahl 4/3/98 Photography becomes modernist in the early work of Paul Strand. PIERRE-PAUL PRUD'HON: ROMANTIC ALLEGORIST by Fred Stern 3/30/98 The first-ever U.S. survey of paintings and drawings by the French Neoclassical artist. A GUY THING by Peter Schjeldahl 3/25/98 The mania for identification, bureaucratic and artistic. AN INTERVIEW WITH ALVIN HALL by Mary Barone 3/20/98 An inside look at the Wall Street financial analyst and art collector. MARY REBOP by Peter Schjeldahl 3/20/98 Sincere ideals of abstract art played like computer games. TREASURES OF A LOST CIVILIZATION by Fred Stern 3/19/98 At Asia Society, artifacts from the Indus Valley in ancient Pakistan. THANKS FOR PAINTING by Peter Schjeldahl 3/12/98 Confident new works entrusted to rhythms of lived life. WILLIAM CONGER'S SUMMER OF PAPER by Victor M. Cassidy 3/4/98 New organic abstractions from one of Chicago's most important artists. LETTER FROM MILAN: AN INTERVIEW WITH ADRIAN PIPER by Franklin Sirmans 3/3/98 Conducted by the U.S. editor of Flash Art in Milan, Oct. 1997. FRANKENTHALER: MOUNTAINS AND SEA by Michael Klein 3/2/98 Optical paintings created with joyous abandon. AUGUSTIN PAJOU: NEOCLASSICAL REALIST by Fred Stern 2/27/98 At the Metropolitan Museum, a first-ever survey of the 18th-century sculptor to the king. MAN OVERBOARD by Peter Schjeldahl 2/25/98 Leger became a sign painter for the spiritual department store of modernity. ANDY WARHOL: PURE PAINTER by John Zinsser 2/25/98 A little-known Abstract-Expressionist interlude from the Prince of Pop. TRUE ROMANCE by Robert Rosenblum 2/24/98 In memoriam, Archie, July 14, 1990-Feb. 19, 1998. FERNAND LEGER'S MECHANICAL BALLET by Fred Stern 2/24/98 A long overdue retrospective of the most modern French modernist. DUMB AND SMARTER by Peter Schjeldahl 2/20/98 George Condo's new show is like a cheeseburger with everything. WEIGHT AND PRESSURE: TONY CARO AND THE OLD MASTERS by David Cohen 2/20/98 At the National Gallery, London, new sculpture inspired by famous paintings. RALPH HUMPHREY: TWO VIEWS by Michael Brennan and Michael Klein 2/19/98 At Danese in New York, a survey of work by the late Post-Minimalist painter. LOST IN THE TERRAIN: ANSELM KIEFER by Peter Schjeldahl 2/12/98 Simultaneous extremes of epic and lyric, grand and humble, transcendent and workaday. CHINA UNEARTHED by Fred Stern 2/12/98 "China: 5,000 Years" at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. ERIC FISCHL: BODY EGO by Donald Kuspit 2/9/98 New sculpture that reaches for a visionary engagement with higher things. WONDERFUL CYNICISM: JOHN BALDESSARI by Peter Schjeldahl 2/5/98 At Sonnabend Gallery in New York, photo works considered less as brainy critique than as decorative accessory. GREENBERG AGAIN by Peter Schjeldahl 1/29/98 Color Field revisited, via Frankenthaler at the Guggenheim and "Green Mountain Boys" at Emmerich. A ROYAL FLUSH SPECIAL: AN INTERVIEW WITH ROBERT STORR by Charlie Finch 1/26/98 MoMA's curator talks about his Chuck Close retrospective, Taniguchi's expansion plan, the planned Tony Smith show and more, in a Royal Flush Special Report. TEENARAMA: RITA ACKERMANN by Peter Schjeldahl 1/22/98 New work by a magpie stylist on themes of adolescent joy, pain and effrontery. Features 2003 Archives Features 2002 Archives Features 2001 Archives Features 2000 Archives Features 1999 Archives Features 1998 Archives Features 1997 Archives Features 1996 Archives |
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