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2004 Stories by Vince Aletti

• John B. Evans, 1938-2004

  published April 6, 2004

  John B. Evans, the publisher of The Village Voice from 1983 to 1985, died March 28 at his home in Annandale, New Jersey, at age 66. Born in... More >>

• Art

  published March 30, 2004

  Barbara, Treadwell 1986-2001," as its title suggests, is a memorial show. Its subject is a girl Andrea Modica met by chance in 1986, when she... More >>

• Art

  published March 23, 2004

  Demand's meticulously fabricated work is a seamless interplay of sculpture and photography. Working only with colored paper, Demand constructs... More >>

• Art

  published March 16, 2004

  The Whitney Biennial, which has never quite known how to deal with photography, ignores it almost completely again this year, but Catherine Opie's... More >>

• Art

  published March 2, 2004

  Doherty, born and based in Derry, Northern Ireland, has always had a subtle, insinuating way of channeling his country's conflicts (and the larger... More >>

• Art

  published February 24, 2004

  The small color photographs Duane Hanson made as studies for his hyper-realist sculpture fill the gallery's main space. Nearly 1,000 were found in... More >>

• Listings

  published February 24, 2004

  ALEC SOTH March 12-April 24 Yossi Milo Gallery, 552 West 24th Street, 212.414.0370 The New York debut of a... More >>

• Loving the Alien

  published February 17, 2004

  Loretta Lux makes pictures of children that are as charming as they are creepy—a sweet-and-sour combo that proves surprisingly hard to... More >>

• Art

  published February 17, 2004

  With Irving Penn appearing so regularly in the pages of Vogue (see his portraits of Helmut Newton, Lee Bontecou, and Zaha Hadid in the... More >>

• Falling in Love With Love, and Other Critical Dilemmas

  published February 10, 2004

  Every once in a while, but much more often than I'd expect, I see a show so attuned to my sensibility that it might have been made just for me.... More >>

• Art

  published January 27, 2004

  Although it's hard to resist quoting playwright Robert Patrick's description of artist Patrick Angus (1953-1992) as "the Toulouse-Lautrec of Times... More >>

• Art

  published January 20, 2004

  It's probably too late for a belated footnote to my list of the best photo books of... More >>

• Art

  published January 13, 2004

  This is a rarity: a bad show you shouldn't miss. It's based on the understandable premise that Diane Arbus is important and intriguing enough to... More >>

• Picture This

  published January 6, 2004

  As usual, compiling a list of last year's best photo books proved devilishly difficult, not because there were too few worthy titles but because... More >>