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2006 Stories by John Tompkins

• Capsule Reviews

  published March 16, 2006

  "Alex Katz" Alex Katz made his name with hard-edged, flattened portraits. But just shy of 80, the painter has loosened up considerably.... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published March 9, 2006

  "Alex Katz" Alex Katz made his name with hard-edged, flattened portraits. But just shy of 80, the painter has loosened up considerably.... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published February 9, 2006

  "Round 23" For the latest round of installations at Project Row Houses, Michael Golden has hung hundreds (maybe thousands) of keys inside... More >>

• Drawn Together

  published January 26, 2006

  For her quirky drawings, the late American artist Eva Hesse utilized everything from paint and plaster to string and wire. "Eva Hesse:... More >>

• Solar Powered

  published January 26, 2006

  The works of Xul Solar -- the late Argentine painter, sculptor, architect and poet -- display a sporadic and sublime use of color and light.... More >>

• Deadly Photo Shoot

  published January 19, 2006

  Talk about a death wish: Oscar Bony may be the only person to have shot himself several times and lived. Today, the New World Museum... More >>

• Kitsch, Aisle Eight

  published January 12, 2006

  You wouldn't immediately think of My Little Ponies or conglomo-store shopping bags as art, but in Virginia Fleck's hands, they're as... More >>

• He Will Rock You

  published January 5, 2006

  Lichen on the rocks may sound like the latest funky cocktail, but it's actually the center of Steven Gilbert's new exhibit, "A Mountain of... More >>