Modern and Contemporary Art

Michèle with Roland Barthes

Articles, Essays, Book Reviews

  • “New York School Confidential" Book Review of Goodbye to Tenth Street by Irving Sandler, Art in America Vol. 107, No. 9, (October 2019), pp. 32-34.

  • “Disguised as a Joke” Book Review of Saul Steinberg: A Biography by Deirdre Bair, Art in America Vol. 101, No. 4, (April 2013)

  • “Rosamond and Friends” Book Review of Some of My Lives: A Scrapbook Memoir by Rosamond Bernier, Art in America Vol. 100, No. 2, (February 2012)

  • “Red Grooms” Interview with the Artist in Old Masters and Modern Muses: Red Grooms’s Portraits of Artists, 1957-2009, Bryn Mawr College, Pa., (March 25-June 5, 2011) 

  • “Joan Mitchell, (She's No) Lady Painter” Book Review of Joan Mitchell: Lady Painter, A Life by Patricia Albers, Artnet Magazine, (June 21, 2011)

  • “The Success of Castelli” Book Review of Leo and His Circle: The Life of Leo Castelli by Annie Cohen-Solal, Artnet Magazine, (April 26, 2010)

  • “Video Cabaret” Exhibition Review of "Virtuoso Illusion: Cross-Dressing and the New Media Avant-Garde" at MIT List Visual Arts Center, Artnet Magazine, (February 24, 2010)

  • “Lolitos in Fag Limbo” Exhibition Review of “Hernan Bas: Works from the Rubell Family Collection” at the Brooklyn Museum, Artnet Magazine, (April 20, 2009)

  • “Shinique Smith” Exhibition Review of “Shinique Smith: Ten Times Myself” at Yvon Lambert, Art in America Vol. 97, No. 9, (October 2009)

  • “Death and the Artist” Exhibition Review of “Yoko Ono: Touch Me” at the Galerie Lelong, Artnet Magazine, (May 20, 2008)

  • “The Last Sensualists” Book Review in Artnet Magazine, (October 3, 2007)

  • “Female Troubles” Exhibition Review of “Global Feminisms” at the Brooklyn Museum, Artnet Magazine, (May 3, 2007)

  • “Translating Muntadas” Muntadas con-textos II: una antología crítica (Nueva Libreria, 2007), pp. 587-594 

  • “An Allegory of Sublimation” Exhibition Review of “Jasper Johns: An Allegory of Painting, 1955-1965” at the National Gallery, Artnet Magazine, (February 21, 2007)

  • “Patrick Hall and the Erotic Resonance of Lostness” Patrick Hall: Drawings (Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2007)

  • “Who can forget Ultra Violet?” Exhibition Review of “Ultra Violet” at Stefan Stux Gallery, Artnet Magazine, (February 28, 2006)

  • “Excellence Has [No] Sex” Exhibition Review of “Eva Hesse: Sculpture” at the Jewish Museum and “Eva Hesse Drawing” at the Drawing Center, Artnet Magazine, (May 24, 2006)

  • “Translating Muntadas” Interview with the Artist in Artnet Magazine, (June 9, 2005)

  • “The End of Pleasure” Book Review of The End of Art by Donald Kuspit, Artnet Magazine, (February 17, 2004)

  • “Romping through History” Book Review of Mistress of Modernism: The Life of Peggy Guggenheim by Mary V. Dearborn, Artnet Magazine, (December 22, 2004)

  • “Pierre Matisse and His Artists” Exhibition Review at the Morgan Library, Art News, (February 2002)

  • “A Taste for Triumph” Art in America Vol. 90, No. 5, (May 2002) 

  • “The Minotaur’s Muses” Book Review in Art in America Vol. 89, No. 6, (June 2001)

  • “Matisse” Book Review of Matisse: Father and Son by John Russell and Ruthless Hedonism: The American Reception of Matisse by John O'Brian, Art Journal, Vol. 59, No. 1, (Spring 2000)

  • “Siah Armajani” Art News, (February 2001)

  • “Joan Jonas” Art News, (March 2000)

  • “Carolee Schneeman” Art News, (May 2000)

  • “Pierre Restany and the Nouveaux Réalistes” Yale French Studies, No. 98 The French Fifties, (2000)

  • “Can Painting be Saved?” Book Reviews of Art of the Postmodern Era: From the Late 1960s to the Early 1990s by Irving Sandler; Art into Ideas: Essays on Conceptual Art by Robert C. Morgan; Critical Condition: American Culture at the Crossroads by Eleanor Heartney; Capacity: The History, the World, and the Self in Contemporary Art and Criticism by Thomas McEvilley, G. Roger Denson, Art Journal Vol. 57, No. 1 (Spring 1998)

  • “‘Metro, Boulot, Dodo’: The Art of the Everyday in France, 1958-72” The Art of the Everyday: The Quotidian in Postwar French Culture at the Grey Art Gallery (NYU Press, 1997)

  • “Mierle Ukeles: L’oeil face à l’art politiquement correct” Regard d’Ecrivain, Parole de Peintre (joca seria, 1994)

  • “Baroque Nature” Arts Magazine (March 1991)

  • “Dove va il sogne” D'Ars, Vol. 131 (Winter 1991)

  • “Canonicita e la questione dell altro (Tim Rollins, Dawoud Bey, Jimmie Durham, and Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds)” D'Ars, (Summer 1990)

  • “Interview with Cady Noland” Journal of Contemporary Art, (Fall/Winter 1990) Reprinted in Witness to Her Art (CCS Bard, 2007)

  • “A Conversation with Pierre Restany The Late ‘50s in Europe” Arts Magazine, (January 1990)

  • “Gary Simmons” Atlantica, (1990)

  • “Damien Hirst” Atlantica, (1990)

  • “Strange Attractors/Signs of Chaos” Art press, (November 1989)

  • “The Rise and Fall of Anselm Kiefer” Arte en Colombia, n. 41, (September 1989)

  • “Suspicious Unheimlich and Ambivalence in the Appropriation Strategy of Anselm Kiefer” Art Criticism (November 1989)

  • “Cady Noland” à American Fine Arts, Art press, (June 1987)

  • “Ready-Mades on The Couch” with Jeff Koons, Heim Steinbach, Robert Gober, Saint Clair Cemin, Artscribe (June 1986)

  • “Peter Halley” Flash Art, (March 1986)

  • “Robert Yarber” Flash Art, (December/January 1986)  

  • “Heim Steinbach” Artics, (April 1986)

  • “Nicolas Moufarrege” Flash Art, (May 1985)

  • “L’art de Nova York 1960-1980” Barcelona- Paris- New York (Departament de Cultura de la Generalita de Catalunya, 1985)

  • “Sandro Chia” Artistes, (April 1984) 

  • “Cindy Sherman” Flash Art, (March 1984)

  • “Francis Picabia” Flash Art, (January 1984)

  • “Artists’ interventions in French new towns: Can artists humanize Urban environments?” Re-dact, an Anthology of Art Criticism (Locker & Owens, 1984)

  • “A Saint's Foot, A Moral House and Two Voyeurs. The Italian New Wave Connects” Artxpress (January 1982)

  • “Scenography: The Deconstruction and Reconstruction of Mise-en-Scene” Beauty and Critique (TSL, 1982)

  • “Robert Longo” Men in the cities Artxpress, (1981)

  • “The Question of Post-Modernism at the Modern Language Association meeting” The Women Artists Newsletter, (February 1979)

  • “A Sublime Folly: Christo's Running Fence” The Atlantic (September 1976 Issue)