Article: Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.(appointment)(Brief Article)

Article: Down and dirty. (form in modernist art)(interview with curators ...
Artforum International;  June 22, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... Professor of Art History at Columbia University, and Yve-Alain Bois, Joseph Pulitzer Jr. Professor of Modern Art at Harvard ... indefinable, opaque. Is this a form of provocation? YVE-ALAIN BOIS: In a way it is. The word's untranslatable, but you can ...

Article: Specific objections: Yve-Alain Bois on Donald Judd ...
Artforum International;  June 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ...I AM NOT SURE DONALD JUDD WOULD HAVE LAUGHED--HIS CLOSE CIRCLE might know better, but he never struck me in deed or word as having much of a sense of humor. Yet John Waters's poster Visit Marfa, 2003, like all his other satirical endeavors, is pitch-perfect in its irreverent and bittersweet take on

Article: Piece movement: Yve-Alain Bois on Mark Wallinger's ...
Artforum International;  April 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ..."Is this for real?" The tone of the question was a mixture of disgust, sarcasm, and self-righteousness, but it was uttered just loud enough to betray some outright anxiety. It stopped me in my tracks. I had just passed the smartly dressed, bejeweled young woman who asked it and her tuxedoed beau as

Article: Russian revolution: Yve-Alain Bois on the politics ...
Artforum International;  February 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...THE ARTIST AS PRODUCER: RUSSIAN CONSTRUCTIVISM IN REVOLUTION, BY MARIA GOUGH. BERKELEY: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS. 2005. 280 PAGES. $50. IMAGINE NO POSSESSIONS: THE SOCIALIST OBJECTS OF RUSSIAN CONSTRUCTIVISM, BY CHRISTINA KIAER. CAMBRIDGE, MA: MIT PRESS, 2005. 384 PAGES. $40. OUR KNOWLEDGE OF

Article: Address unknown: Yve-Alain Bois on the sculpture of ...
Artforum International;  May 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...WHAT IS IT ABOUT MATISSE the sculptor that he should be forever haunted by the specter of Matisse the painter? Matisse is, to my mind, one of the most important (and modern) sculptors of the first half of the past century. Yet he has never been thought so--in part, perhaps, because he was not

Article: World and a string: Yve-Alain Bois on Fred ...
Artforum International;  October 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...IN 1986 FRED SANDBACK concluded one of his rare written statements with the words: "Perhaps indeed, I have nomadicized my existence." He was speaking about his unexpected disaffection for the museum dedicated to his work in Winchendon, Massachusetts, which he had opened five years earlier with the

Article: COMMITTEE APPOINTED TO CONDUCT SEARCH FOR ART MUSEUM DIRECTOR
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  March 5, 2008 ;     450 words ... ... and Karin Trainer, University librarian. In addition, the committee includes Yve-Alain Bois, professor of art history at the Institute for Advanced Study, and Mark Stevens, a 1973 alumnus, Pulitzer-Prize-winning author and member of ...