Carter Ratcliff

While browsing the A.i.A. archives for content to publish online in recognition of Independence Day, we were surprised to find an exhibition review on the 1986 Fourth of July fireworks display in the New York Harbor... Read more

Swiss duo Peter Fischli and David Weiss began collaborating in 1979 (Weiss died in 2012), imbuing varied works—almost all concerned with the banality of the artists' everyday lives—with their trademark wit, both casual and absurd. The Guggenheim Museum opens "Peter Fischli David Weiss: How to Work Better" on February 5 (through Apr. 27), a retrospective presentation bringing together over 300 sculptures, photographs, videos and installations. Here, we take a look back at Carter Ratcliff's January 1987 review of Fischli/Weiss's first New York solo at Sonnabend Gallery... Read more

If I say "Harper Lee," you say "To Kill a Mockingbird."  That is, after all, the only novel Lee published. If I say "Joseph Heller," you'll probably say "Catch-22," and if I ask a follow-up question-"Yes, and what else?"-you might be stymied for a moment... Read more