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FEATURES 1996 ARCHIVES ARTIST PROFILE: REUBEN COX by William McCollum 12/18/96 Works by a young photographer who finds echos of classic myth and symbol in the social interaction of contemporary life. THE NAN GOLDIN STORY by Mia Fineman 12/12/96 Passionate loves and tragic losses, chemical highs and gut-wrenching lows are all part of Nan Goldin's photographic romance of urban bohemia. DADA INVADES NEW YORK by Alan Moore 12/10/96 At the Whitney Museum, the first comprehensive look at Dada in America is full of surprises, with a wealth works by Duchamp, Man Ray and Picabia, American modernists like Demuth and John Covert, and a number of now-forgotten women artists. PUFF THE MAGIC DRAGON (OR, BREAKING THE TERRORISM OF ABSTRACTION) by Richard Milazzo 12/10/96 An Interview with Michele Frčre PAULA REGO: NEW WORK by David Cohen 12/04/96 In her large new pastels, the British artist Paula Rego creates mythic compositions that combine an observational intensity with a gender challenging sense of masquerade. NEW WORLD ORDERS: CASTA PAINTING AND COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA by Yasmin Ramirez 12/03/96 The Americas Society presents a show of casta paintings, incredibly frank documents--unparalleled by anything in our time--of the race-based social hierarchy that existed in colonial Latin America. CONTEMPORARY ART IN ASIA: TRADITIONS/TENSIONS by Peter von Ziegesar 11/27/96 A rich and ambitious show of new art from the East includes works that address a range of contemporary issues, including religion, colonialism and forced industrial development. COROT: GARDENS OF HISTORY, SITES OF TIME by Suzaan Boettger 11/22/96 A pair of Corot shows in New York feature jewel-like works of clarity and grace by the artist who bridged Neo-Classicism and Impressionism. BRUCE NAUMAN at Leo Castelli and Sperone Westwater by Donald Kuspit 11/26/96 Is the concept of world peace a bad joke? A new two-gallery installation by the bad boy of conceptual art seems to argue that it is. ROBERT COLESCOTT at Phyllis Kind by Eduardo Costa 11/22/96 On view in his New York gallery, sensuously inventive work by the artist who will represent the U.S. at the 1997 Venice Biennale. A REFLECTION OF THE AIDS MEMORIAL QUILT by Ola Butler 11/22/96 A meditation of the three-day celebration in October at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. TALK SHOW: THOMAS CROW ON JASPER JOHNS by Suzaan Boettger 11/14/96 The artist's early success at the Museum of Modern Art was due, not to his rejection of Ab-Ex heroics, but to his embrace of an aristocratic model of a folk-art pastoral. STUDIO VISIT: ALIX PEARLSTEIN by Elisabeth Kley 11/06/96 An inside look at the work and ideas of the provocative and witty New York video artist. MAX BECKMANN IN EXILE by Donald Kuspit 11/01/96 Beckmann's late triptychs at the Guggenheim Museum Soho are emotionally charged personal statements that were also meant to be social allegories--statements about the struggle for survival during the Hitler era. PANELMANIA:FROM ARTAUD TO 2001 by Suzaan Boettger 10/28/96 A report on a pair of downtown, interdisciplinary discussions--Artaud at the Drawing Center (one of October's hottest tickets) and "Art and Science" at SVA. ROMAIN SLOCOMBE: MEDICAL ARTIST an interview by Walter Robinson 10/24/96 The French cartoonist, photographer and painter has a thing about young Japanese women wearing white gauze bandages. WARNING: Adult material. ELECTION `96--A SPECIAL SECTION VOTE FOR AN ARTIST FOR A CHANGE THE MAGAZINE RACK by Patterson Beckwith 10/18/96 Herewith, after a lenghty sojourn halfway around the world in New Zealand by its illustrious author, is your latest installment of our art-magazine digest. As a special feature, it includes only September issues. October is on the way, promise! ANDY WARHOL: RORSCHACH PAINTINGS by Mia Fineman 10/16/96 A new show of Warhol's 1984 Rorschach paintings demonstrates that there's no form so abstract that it can't be turned back into a tree or a bird or a flower. DRAWINGS AND POEMS by Duncan Hannah 10/15/96 An exploration of first love by the New York painter. WARNING: Adult material. NEGATIVELY SUBLIME IDENTITY: PIERRE SOULAGES'S ABSTRACT PAINTINGS by Donald Kuspit 10/10/96 The traveling retrospective of the French abstractionist Pierre Soulages (b. 1919) occasions this extensive mediation on abstraction, blackness and the negative sublime. TALK CITY: SHAMAN OF THE EARTH by Suzaan Boettger 9/30/96 In town to install a new public sculpture, the Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz reflected on the animism that inhabits her work. BLUE BOY WELCOMES YOU TO THE SOHO ARTS FESTIVAL by Walter Robinson 9/27/96 The new art season got off with a bang, curiously drum-majored by this weird, blue, 30-foot-tall inflated Australian creature with a perplexed look. Plus, three reports: ARTIST'S DIARY SONJA SEKULA: ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST, LESBIAN AND MAD by Walter Robinson 9/23/96 The Swiss Institute mounts an impressive retrospective of the accomplished work by the troubled Abstract Expressionist painter and poet. PANELMANIA: BANGERS AND MASH by Suzaan Boettger 9/16/96 A recent panel at the Drawing Center sought to explain the triumph--as a New York import--of the new British sculpture. LOSING TIMES SQUARE by Bruce Benderson 8/19/96 An autobiographical essay on the transformation of Times Square from a place of illicit pleasure to a prefabricated theme park for the family. QUASIMODO AT THE ANCHORAGE by Robert Mahoney 8/23/96 This year's summer installation at Art in the Anchorage, with its notable video installations, conjured up a kind of ominous Disneyana for our correspondent, who visited the show with tot in tow, happy father that he is. CHINESE SCHOLARS' ROCKS A thousand years before Europe discovered the objet trouvé, Chinese connoisseurs developed an elaborate art of found stones. Here, two takes on the exhibition at the Asia Society that was easily one of New York's best summer shows: CHINESE SCHOLARS' ROCKS: SIMULTANEOUSLY ORIGINAL AND SIMULACRUM ANIMISTIC MINIMALISM: JENE HIGHSTEIN AT ACE GALLERY NEW YORK by John Mendelsohn 7/30/96 New works by the veteran New York sculptor mysteriously render abstraction as a repository of history, time and desire. TRAUMA CULTURE by Hal Foster 7/26/96 Today there is a general tendency to redefine experience, both individual and historical, in terms of trauma. Does this represent a refusal of power or its reinvention in a strange new guise, or is it somehow both? GLOW, WHIR AND BABBLE: FILM AT 100 by Peter Frank 7/19/96 Caught between artifact and cyberspace, cinema as we know it may be passing into history. The issue gets a thorough going-over in "Hall of Mirrors: Art and Film since 1945" at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. DENNIS ADAMS at The Queens Museum by Susan Silas 7/12/96 In search of the Utopian Ideal, via the 1964 World's Fair, Michelangelo's Pieta and the Pepsi-Cola pavilion. THE MAGAZINE RACK by Patterson Beckwith 7/11/96 It's summertime, we should be catching up on our reading, but it's so nice out...and hey, wait a minute, we have this column by Patterson "I read the art magazines so you don't have to" Beckwith! Let's go to the beach! ART CRITICISM AND THE VANISHING PUBLIC: IN CONTACT WITH METAPHYSICS by Donald Kuspit 6/24/96 Observations made on the occasion of a panel discussion titled "Invisible Ink: Art Criticism and a Vanishing Public," held at the American Craft Museum on May 15, 1996. ART CRITICISM AND THE VANISHING PUBLIC: IN SEARCH OF SOME INTERESTING READING by Peter Plagens 6/24/96 Observations made on the occasion of a panel discussion titled "Invisible Ink: Art Criticism and a Vanishing Public," held at the American Craft Museum on May 15, 1996. TALES OF BRAVE ODYSSEUS by Stewart Waltzer 6/24/96 Notes on Sotheby's and Emmerich's brave new adventure. COMPUTERIZING THE ART EXPERIENCE by Jed Perl 6/21/96 Can museums and masterpieces survive on the worldwide information system? THE MAGAZINE RACK by Patterson Beckwith 6/5/96 Our man in the reading room reports on recent developments in art-magazine-land. Yes, we know they're last month's issues, but we bet you still read it here first. THE MUSES ARE WOMEN: PICASSO AT THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART by Berta Sichel 5/31/96 "Picasso and Portraiture: Representation and Transformation" at the Museum of Modern Art features 130 paintings and almost 100 works on paper, many of which had been little seen by the public. JANE DICKSON by Carlo McCormick 5/24/96 The cityscape of seduction unfolds in the neon glow of the perpetual tease, promising a pay-off somewhere between a piece of paradise and a dead end alley. COMPLAINING ABOUT ABSTRACTION by Walter Robinson 5/16/96 For a brief moment in time, the Guggenheim Museum's giant survey of abstract art had the whole city talking...trash...about circles, lines & squares. IDEAS FROM RUSSIA, LIGHT FROM PARIS by John Mendelsohn 5/16/96 The Jewish Museum's "Marc Chagall 1907-1917" presents the artist as a canny synthesizer of shtetl folklore and the avant-garde. THE JET PILOT'S MEMOIR by Bill Rabinovitch 4/30/96 The popular SoHo painter and star of cable TV's Art Seen reminisces about his early days as a test pilot and MIT engineer. MORIMANIA: WELCOME TO THE NEW CENTURY by Robert Mahoney 4/30/96 The high-tech photographic installations by Tokyo-born Mariko Mori capture, our correspondent maintains, the energy of the contemporary. THE MAGAZINE RACK by Patterson Beckwith 4/22/96 A look at the current (April 1996) issues of some leading art journals produced on, uh, what is that stuff called...paper. KIELY JENKINS by Carlo McCormick 4/23/96 New mondo sculpture from the veteran East Village caricaturist. TOPLESS AT THE MET by Frank Harris 4/10/96 In "Bare Witness: Clothing and Nudity," the Metropolitan Museum Costume Institute gives us 200 years of the most revealing fashions. On view from Apr. 2 to Aug. 18. MUSEO DE LOS BALSEROS by Mary Ann Staniszewski 4/5/96 In his Franklin Furnace Installation, Cuban-American artist George Sánchez focuses on the human dimension of the ongoing Cuban refugee crisis. OUTSIDE IN by Alan Moore 4/5/96 The New Museum's ambitious "Labor of Love" survey of contemporary craft, folk and outsider art challenges the art-world status quo. RICHARD KERN by Carlo McCormick 3/22/96 New photographs from the controversial Punk filmmaker. WARNING: Adult material. THE MORAL RESPONSIBILITY OF THE ART CRITIC by Eleanor Heartney 3/22/96 Observations on the culture wars. ACCORDING TO WHAT by Richard Milazzo 3/22/96 A "trialogue" between the noted New York critic and curator and two mysterious friends begins with Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven and moves on, with assorted vulgar asides, to a discussion of new paintings by Michel Frere, Alex Katz, Jonathan Lasker, Stefano Peroli, Milton Resnick and Julian Schnabel, among others. ALTERNATIVE ART AND POLITICS by Alan Moore 3/22/96 Two SoHo alternative spaces, Exit Art and the Drawing Center, reassess the counterculture from the '60s to the present via an extensive array of underground publications, radical posters and broadsides, and art works. DAVID LIVES: AN INTERVIEW WITH JAMES ROMBERGER by Walter Robinson 3/22/96 The celebrated Lower East Side cartoonist James Romberger talks about his collaboration with the late artist David Wojnarowicz on a new DC comic. CREATIVITY 3/22/96 What is creativity? We sent out a questionnaire, and received illumination in return. 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