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As Annie Cohen-Solal shows in ''Picasso the Foreigner,'' the Spanish master was always under suspicion in France, simply for being not-French. PICASSO THE FOREIGNER: An Artist in France, 1900-1973, by [...]

THE GAUGUIN ATLAS By Nienke Denekamp Translated by Laura Watkinson SAVAGE TALES The Writings of Paul Gauguin By Linda Goddard GAUGUIN PortraitsEdited by Cornelia Homburg and Christopher Riopelle Complicated guy, [...]

CHALK The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly By Joshua Rivkin 478 pp. Melville House. $32.Some artists -- Picasso, say -- are limelight junkies. As such, they're a gift to [...]

CALDERThe Conquest of Time: The Early Years, 1898-1940By Jed PerlIllustrated. 704 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $55. Few popular modern sculptors present so consistent a mind-eye contradiction as does Alexander Calder. [...]

THE CONTEMPORARIES Travels in the 21st-Century Art World By Roger White Illustrated. 276 pp. Bloomsbury. $28. THE PAINTINGS THAT REVOLUTIONIZED ART By the staff of Prestel Illustrated. 283 pp. Prestel. [...]

THOMAS HART BENTON A Life By Justin Wolff Illustrated. 400 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $40. In 1934, Thomas Hart Benton, purveyor of muscular scenes of American life, was the [...]

The more popular digital books become, the bigger print books grow, or so it seems, especially around holiday time when jumbo is at a premium. THE ART MUSEUM (Phaidon, $200), [...]

REBELS IN PARADISE The Los Angeles Art Scene and the 1960s By Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Illustrated. 263 pp. A John Macrae Book/Henry Holt & Company. $32.50. For contemporary art in the [...]

MODIGLIANI A Life By Meryle Secrest Illustrated. 387 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $35. With his milky skin and sleepy eyes, Amedeo Modigliani was one of modern art's fabled beauties. His [...]

The history of women in art is such a great unruly subject that any curator trying to pull together a representative exhibition would probably start by having her head examined. [...]

DRAWN TO TROUBLE Confessions of a Master Forger: A Memoir. By Eric Hebborn. Illustrated. 380 pp. New York: Random House. $25. IN his account of his career as a forger [...]

BARONESS ELSA Gender, Dada, and Everyday Modernity: A Cultural Biography. By Irene Gammel, Illustrated. 534 pp. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press. $39.95. THE Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874-1927) - known [...]

John Peffer on Reading the Contemporary: African Art from Theory to the Marketplace, ed. Olu Oguibe and Okwui Enwezor; Holland Cotter on M/E/A/N/I/N/G: An Anthology of Artists' Writings, Theory, and Criticism, ed. Susan Bee and Mira Schor; Robert S. Slifkin on Michael Auping et al., Philip Guston Retrospective; and Daniel Sherer on Alan Colquhoun, Modern Architecture.

Focuses on five exhibitions staged in New York City in observance of the Day Without Art/World AIDS Da in 1996, which featured the work of artists who are either living with or have died of HIV/AIDS. Includes `A Living Testament of the Blood Fairies,' at Artists Space; `ABC Index,' at Gracie Mansion/Fred Dorfman Projects; `No Show: Art for a Day Without Art,' at Saint Mark's Church. INSET: Some history..

Examines some the works of Winslow Homer, featured in a retrospective that underlined the range of themes treated by the artist. Profile on Homer; Works featured; Themes; Interpretations.

Presents the `Piet Mondrian,' an exhibition of Pete Mondrian's abstract art works at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Titles of paintings featured in the exhibit; Samples of themes represented in Mondrian's works; Photographs.

Profiles Canadian artist Moira Dryer. Background; Influences; Artistic style; Use of fabric patterns; Association with other artists; Examples of paintings; Exhibition of works.

Interviews gay and lesbian artists on the subjects of their lives, work and culture. Frank Moore; Deborah Kass; Cary S. Leibowitz/Candyass; Hugh Steers; Louise Fishman; Ross Bleckner; Zoe Leonard; John Lindell; Donald Moffett; Lyle Ashton Harris; Ellen B. Neipris; Nichole Eisenman.

Features American painter James Bishop and his art works. Bishop's low profile in America; Influence of earlier European modernism; Exhibition in Paris, France by the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume; Combination of geometry and illusionistic form; Bishop's brown paintings; Assumption of expressive atmosphere in recent years.

Features Rebecca Horn's mechanical sculptures in a retrospective exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, entitled `The Inferno-Paradise Switch'. `Inferno' in deep shaft; Droplets of white ink of `Paradiso'; Babel of mechanical voices; Sense of interconnection in `The River of the Moon'; Merging of technological with biological; Use of animal imagery; References to site-specific installations.

Presents the author's personal interpretation of painter Agnes Martin's works and writings. Continuity; Air of quiet but concentrated obsessiveness; Spirit of joy; Motion picture `Gabriel'; Theme of arduous happiness; Biblical allusions; Resemblance of Martin's life to artist Georgia O'Keeffe.

Discusses the current exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., `Ellsworth Kelly: The Years in France, 1948-1954.' What is included in the show; Kelly's early life; Kelly in Paris; The Paris in Kelly's art; Kelly's conceptual method; Cutout in Wood; Plant II; Femme de chambre; Toilette; Face of Stones; More.

Reports on a recent art show in southern Spain which demonstrated the 700-year influence of Islam in that area. The Metropolitan Museum's Islamic rooms; `Al-Andalus: The Art of Islamic Spain,' an exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum; Conceptual and visual motifs of the show; Illuminated Qur'ans in the show; The Alhambra's Court of Lions; Pamplona casket; More.

Agnes Martin is a legend in American art. The spare abstract paintings she has produced over the past forty years—graphite lines drawn across white, gray, or delicately colored canvases—are as little-changing as icons. Her published observations on art and life are written in a style both oracular and Shaker-plain. Her long residence in New Mexico, in a house she built with her own hands on a remote mesa, has placed her, for many, in the august but eccentric company of the United States's isolated artists—Winslow Homer on the coast of Maine, Albert Pinkham Ryder in his Manhattan apartment—who choose to stay far removed from the mainstream.

The article focuses on the works of performance artist Robert Winters. His first experience in printmaking was in a silkscreen factory in Manhattan, New York City in 1978-1979. Winters' second major print project was in 1984 in Maastricht, Holland when he created an environment with artist Hans Peter Adamski. One of his prints called "Ghost Story" was derived from Japanese images of ghosts and goblins that traveled to Berkeley during the time he was at the workshop.

Reviews the exhibition of Ray Johnson's works, organized by Frances Beatty at Richard L. Feigen & Co. Description of some of the 125 collages and a representative selection of the mail art; Paintings titled `Calm Center,' `Corinne Marilyn,' and others; Collages titled `Snake Has a Heart,' `Yellow,' and others; Style of work and technique employed.

Features the video art works of Tony Oursler exhibited at Metro Pictures in New York City. Includes video projections of eyes; Installations.

The article discusses works by Alex McFarlane of New York City. The "Cenotaph for George Orwell" was considered as the most visible reminder of the utopia on which McFarlane's sights are set. Moreover, he employed scale, geometry and material as the central format of his works. McFarlane, who viewed sculpting as a process of working the poison out of one's soul, looked for a resonant black material to work with.

Reviews an art exhibit featuring Suzanne Lafont at the Jeu de Paume, Paris.

The article focuses on the life and works of artist Sue Coe. Coe is an English artist and illustrator working primarily in drawing and printmaking, often in the form of illustrated books and comics. Her work is highly political, often directed against capitalism and cruelty to animals. Details on her artworks are also considered in the article.

Reviews the exhibition, `From Media to Metaphor: Art About AIDS,' by over three dozen artists at the Grey Art Gallery in New York City.

With its lordly halls and capacious galleries, the Metropolitan Museum is designed for big art experiences. No space in the city delivers so many versions of awesome under one roof: a walk-in Egyptian temple, a floor-to-ceiling Buddhist mural, French tapestries scaled to palaces, with a Jackson Pollock the size of a small billboard and a Tiepolo painting of heaven thrown in. And yet surely no New York space packs such a wealth of eye-catching minutiae. For painters, sculptors, weavers and builders, art is, first and last, a science of details. Pollock painted skein by looping skein; weavers wove thread by thread. Temples, no matter how monumental, were constructed one stone at a time. The Buddhist mural and Tiepolo heaven are angels-on-the-head-of-a-pin confections, with crowds of bodhisattvas and classical gods replacing seraphim. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reviews George Condo's exhibition of sculptures at Bruni Bischofberger in Zurich, Switzerland.

Reviews an art exhibit featuring Pascal Bernier at Galerie Christine et Isy Brachot, Paris.