THE NEW YORK TIMES
And More Landed on the Roof
Frank Stella, known as a superstar painter, has always played with space in his art. In recent years his explorations have expanded...
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NYTIMES.COM
Frank Stella
"Frank Stella on the Roof" atop the Metropolitan Museum of Art features two large sculptures, a mammoth piece titled "Chinese Pavilion" and two smaller sculptures. After 11 tense days of preperations, the exhibition, which runs through Oct. 28, opened Tuesday in the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden. A section of stainless steel tubing from the sculpture "adjoeman" (2004) is lowered slowly toward the northern end of the roof garden...
ART + AUCTION
Frank Stella
It is difficult not to be overwhelmed by Frank Stella's studio. The building, in Rock Tavern, New York, near Beacon, measures 30,000 square feet and has a 28-foot-high ceiling. A long wall divides the rectangular room in half, with two large openings for crossover traffic. Stella stores many of his recent works here, as well as a number of pieces from the last two or three decades, such as the large metal painting Diavolozoppo, from 1984, which is prominately placed...
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ARTFORUM
Frank Stella: Painting into Architecture
This exhibition promises yet another round of what Michael Fried famously called the struggle for Frank Stella's soul - formalist flatness or minimalist objecthood? - now played out in strange fusions of pictorial composition and large-scale, often computer-generated structures...
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ART REVIEW
First to Arrive: Frank Stella
'Late Work' is a concept in desperate need of theoretical attention, especially for a figure such as Frank Stella. For many Art Historians still in thrall to the upheavels of formalist criticism in the 1960's, the bulk of Stella's art is 'late'. After 16 Americans at MoMA (1959), after the Black Paintings - perhaps even after the shaped canvases, and the irregular polygons, but definitely after the striped canvases - the deed was done...
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MEN'S VOGUE
Art Complex
Frank Stella turns 71 this spring, and his latest work - a series of mammoth sculptures, some of which will be need to be delivered by flatbed truck - demonstrates that he is more fearless than ever. Not that he'll tell you this himself. Stella is a wised-up, unsentimental type, with a Massachusettes accent gone New York...
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CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Celebration of Art Returns to the Mart
Visitors stroll past Frank Stella's II Palazzo della Scimmie at Artropolis in the Merchandise Mart on Friday. The trade show runs through Monday, along with an antiques fair and three satellite art shows...
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THE NEW YORK SUN
On the Museum Roof, with Holes
Frank Stella wears his credentials as an architect loosely, without too much concern for the pragmatic applications of his designs. "Good architecture has to be watertight," he said recently, with mock solemnity. Mr. Stella's designs, however, tend to be more permeable than habitable...
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ARTFORUM
Frank Stella 1958
'Frank Stella 1958' is a prequel. It extracts twenty-one works, some rarely or never before exhibited, from the genetic soup of a remarkable evolution. Your degree of interest may hinge on how invested you are in the outcome: 1959, the "Black Paintings." Viewing Stella's brightly striped canvases from 1958, it's hard to avoid mental comparison with the absent dark ones...
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THE NEW YORK TIMES
A Vivid Back Story for a Stella Legend
Every art form cultivates its creation myths. Rock 'n' Roll has Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis. The modern novel has "Ulysses" and its 18th century precedent, "Tristram Shandy." Late-night television has Jack Parr and Ernie Kovaks. Underground comics have R. Crumb...
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THE VILLAGE VOICE
The New Black: Brute Elegance on an Industrial Scale
When 23-year-old Frank Stella burst onto the scene in 1959, the flinty minimalism of his black stripe paintings was like a shiv plunged into abstract expressionism's colorful, passionate heart. These were paintings supposedly devoid of content or emotion; "What you see is what you see," he declared...
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THE NEW YORK SUN
Frank Stella
Frank Stella's magnificant new sculptures, on view at Paul Kasmin Gallery, are all flow, form, and energy. Mr. Stella is a streaky artist. Because he constantly searches out new means of art making, he occassionally slumps. A number of years ago he began producing polychrome sculptures that left me wondering if he'd gone entirely off the rails...
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ARTINVESTOR
Stella: Star Superstar
New York, 13th street, near Union Square. Here it stands, the 100-year-old gigantic auction hall for horses. And here he works. Coincidence? Yes, but: "I love horses, horse-racing and betting on horses," says Frank Stella. Given that, it is not surprising that the artist breeds his own racehorses at his ranch in Connecticut...
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THE NEW YORKER
Frank Stella
After the gonzo brutalism of his last works, often dubbed the "Ugly Series," these new aluminum sculptures look almost deliriously pretty. With the works now free of painterly decoration, Stella's exclamatory energy soars in spiralling 3-D scribbles, composed of slender tubing and long tapering truses...
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THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE
Frank Stella's Expressionist Phase
Frank Stella once remarked that no artist lives beyond the age of 40. He made the comment many years ago, and the implication was that he had no intention of sticking around to witness the diminuition of his own talent. It is a truism to say that artists do their most innovative work when they are young. It is also patently false...
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THE ART NEWSPAPER
Frank Stella: Bamboo, New Work
The horrible fact remains that most artists have perhaps a decade (okay, 15 years max) in which they do their great work which is both synchronous with and in advance of the wider Zeitgeist. Any dealer can assign those crucial years to an artist simply by price alone, their "desired period." This brutal rule is especially true if the artist is associated with a movement, such as, say, Surrealism or YBA, for such scenes never survive more than 10 years...
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ARTFORUM
Frank Stella
Frank Stella's recent exhibition consisted of sixteen new works in various, purposely indistinct media. There were some paintings - we know they are paintings because they are flat surfaces covered with paint. There was one rickety collage - pieces of paper covered in colored forms and rudely stapled together. There were sculptures...
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THE NEW YORK TIMES
Frank Stella Pops up all Over
Frank Stella, one of the foremost painters of the postwar period, is back. He's never been far from view, having had roughly 70 solo shows in galleries and museums in New York and around the world since 1987, they year of his second survey at the Museum of Modern Art...
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THE NEW YORK TIMES
Frank Stella Builds a Landmark out of Romanticism and Steel
Any day now, now heavily laden trucks will pull out of a speck on the map called Rock Tavern, N.Y., and set out on the 10-year journey to Washington. Threir cargo consists of a large disassembled sculpture by Frank Stella...
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