Charles Ray

"NYC 1993": The New Museum Takes Us Right Here, Right Then

Nontrivial pursuits, 1990s edition

Best in Show: B. Wurtz at Metro Pictures

Ken Johnson's 'Are You Experienced?'; George Kroenert at Elizabeth Harris Gallery

A Guide to Jeff Koons's "Skin Fruit" New Museum Sausage Party

ON THE EDGE

Catch what’s new in art at the Whitney Biennial

(Untitled) Aims Wide and Misses

Bones' Beat: The Uncomfortably Great Charles Ray Show at Matthew Marks

Charles Ray, a Californian artist who has been active for about 35 years, mostly makes sculptures. Their formidable weight, fragility and cumbersomeness means they don't travel as much as they might, and there have never been many of them--a few a year, perhaps, with long gestation periods before th ... More >>

Bones' Beat: Andrew Kuo's I'm Dying Over Here! at Taxter & Spengemann

Over the past decade, Andrew Kuo has become the sort of energetic, omnipresent New Yorker who appears, like magic, wherever you may be. I last encountered him in the backstage guts of Terminal 5, a ghastly cement nightclub in the hinterland of the West 50s. It took a few days before I even thought t ... More >>

Carey Young's "If/Then," 'The Office,' and Jean Foos's 'The Other Me'

Recommendations by R.C. Baker

The Anxiety of Realism

Huge toy meets flea-market lady—the unsettling sculpture of Charles Ray and Duane Hanson

Deadpan Handling

Performance art and the rise of contemporary photography

Bipolar

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Artist

If there's no iconic image, does an artist's work risk becoming fuzzy in the mind?

The Ruling Class: Seeking the Poetic Potential of Neutral Signs

A Modest Proposal

Our critic has a few ideas about how to put the new Museum of Modern Art in order

An Artist Worms Into Some Nicely Dicey Sculptural Terrain

Listings

Like Life

Psychitectural Digest

Stop Making Sense

Substitute for Love

Incredible Shrinking Art

Anything Goes

Where The Boys Are

Naked Eye

An American Family

'Duane Hanson: A Survey of His Work From the '30s to the '90s'