Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Bill Woodrow: Material Truths," by Mark Francis; "In the Heart of the Tinman. An Essay on John Chamberlain," by Duncan Smith; "A Project by Pontus Hulten and Jean Tinguely;" "Freeing Dance from the Web: On Collaboration, Trisha Brown's 'Set and Reset,' and 'Lucinda Childs' Available Light," by Thomas McEvilley; "Two Sides of the Brain: Molissa Fenley's Hemisphere's," by RoseLee Goldberg; "Up Rocking, Locking, Old Style, 1990 Moves," by Michael Holman; "Selected Funk Lessions: a project," by Adrian Piper; "A Use for Beauty," by Kenneth Baker; "Executioner's Song," by Greil Marcus; "Books: Gilles Deleuze on Francis Bacon," by Gilles Deleuze; "Forum," by Kate Linker. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "The Sublime and the Avant-Garde," by Jean-François Lyotard; "From Imitation, to the Copy, to Just Effect: On Reading Jean Baudrillard," by Kate Linker; "Hiroshi Sugimoto: No Such Thing as Time," by John Yau; "The Critic Sees Through the Cabbage Patch," by Edit deAk; "Cheez Whiz (Roy Lichtenstein)," by Richard Armstrong; "The View from Past 50," by Sidney Tillim; "Forum," by Thomas McEvilley; "Books: Joe Lewis on 'How to Commit Suicide in South Africa," by Joe Lewis; "Books: Donald Kuspit on 'Art Worlds' and 'Patrons Despite Themselves," by Donald Kuspit. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Chasing Dreams: Victor Hitchcock and Alfred Burgin," by Jean Fisher; "Obsessive Pictures or Opposition to the Norm: Noteworthy Aspects of the Engaged Imagination in the New German Art," by Annelie Pohlen; "A Progression by Chuck Close: Who's Afraid of Photography?" by Chuck Close; "The Death of Semiotics (In Late Modern Architecture); The Corruption of Metaphor (In Post-Modernism); The Birth of the 'Punctum' (In Neomania)," by Douglas Davis; "Romare Bearden Sees in a Memory," by Myron Schwartzman; "Books: For Georges Remi/Hergé," by Frederic Tuten; "Free Speech," by Greil Marcus; "Forum," by Max Kozloff, Kay Larson, and Donald Kuspit. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Stampede to the Figure," by Carter Ratcliff; "Gilbert & George: Shake Hands with the Devil," by Rosetta Brooks; "'On the Manner of Addressing Clouds,'" by Thomas McEvilley; "Just North of Modernism," by Kenneth Baker; "Broadway and 42nd Street in the Grass," photographs by Larry Fink; "Markus Raetz: Delusive Illusions," by Max Wechsler. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "About Garry Winogrand," by Ben Lifson; "Astral America," by Jean Baudrillard; "Once Upon a Time in Amerika: Straub/Huillet/Kafka," by J. Hoberman; "De Chirico in America, 1935-37: His Metaphysics of Fashion," by Maurizio Fagiolo dell'Arco; "Signs: A Conversation with Luis Jimenez," by Amy Baker Sandback; "Waiting for Dr. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Doctor Lawyer Indian Chief: 'Primitivism' in 20th Century Art at the Museum of Modern Art in 1984," by Thomas McEvilley; "Sign on a Truck," by Jenny Holzer; "Campaign 1984," by Alison Gardner Pratt; "Terry Winters' Earthly Anecdotes," by Prudence Carlson; "Naming Pictures: Conversations between Lee Krasner and John Bernard Myers," by John Bernard Myers; "In the American Grain: Robert Helm," by James Ivory; "Tracking Some Angles: A Talk with Alain Resnais," by Frederic Tuten; "Poets and Art: John Ashbery, Tony Towle, Ann Lauterbach, and Barry Schwabsky interviewed by John Yau; with poems by Michael Brownstein, Ashbery, Towle, Lauterbach, Schwabsky, and Rene Ricard"; "Hilton Kramer: An Appreciation," by Thomas Lawson; "Books: Lionel Lambourne on 'The Collected Letters of William Morris,'" by Lionel Lambourne; "Forum: Philosophy and Art: Elective Affinities in and Arranged Marriage," by Donald Kuspit; "Bruce Springsteen: In Your Heart You Know He's Right," by Greil Marcus. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Forum: Art in Cuba," by Rudolf Baranik; "Audience and the Avant-Garde," by Donald Kuspit; "A Project by Louise Bourgeois: 'Child Abuse,'" by Louise Bourgeois; "The Field of Rhetoric: An Interview with Christopher LeBrun," by Stuart Morgan; "Elizabeth Murray's Colored Space," by Ronny H. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "On Location: Alan Shields' Works of Paper"; "Marginalia: Will it Last, Does it Matter?," by Thomas McEvilley; "Modern Life: How Scale Works," by Carter Ratcliff; "Turned Out: In America, Love Means Never Having to Say Sari," by Sunil Sethi; "Like Art," by Glenn O'Brien; "Ground Up: The Piazza in the Living Room, Communion by Communication," by Herbert Muschamp; "Remote Control: Lip-Syncing Free Speech," by Barbara Kruger; "Speaker to Speaker: In the Kingdom of the Invisible," by Greil Marcus; "Liberations: The Minus Works of Michelangelo Pistoletto," by Denys Zacharopoulos; "The Cowboy Philospher: Adventures as Metaphor," by Greil Marcus; "Rainer Werner Fassbinder: A Comet Passed by - Energy Burnt Against Oppression," by Wolfram Schutte; "Toward Another Laocoon, Or, the Snake Pit: Sunday in the Park with Art. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Today Crossed Out," a Project for Artforum by Hanne Darboven with an Introcuction by Coosje van Bruggen; "Zarina's Balm: Objects of Exchange," by Lisa Liebmann; "Just Say Noh: The Esthetics of Banality," by Richard Goldstein; "Enter Elliott Erwitt"; "Time Bandits, Space Vampires," by Thomas Lawson; "Ostentatious Perfectionism: Four-Color Whites, 'One Hundred Flowers,' Georgia O'Keefe. ... [details]
Issue edited by Jack Bankowsky. Essays "Andrew Ross' Weather Report," by Andrew Ross; "Special Effects: Carol Squiers on Presidential Abjection," by Carol Squiers; "Press: John Weir on Discontents," by John Weir; "Lawrence Chua on Queer 'Zines," by Lawrence Chua; "Real Life Rock: Greil Marcus' Top Ten," by Greil Marcus; "Art Wars: Lorraine O'Grady on WAC," by Lorraine O'Grady; "Film: Luke Gibbons on the Other Ireland," by Luke Gibbons; "People Like Us: Tina Barney's Pictures," by David Rimanelli; "The Library in Your Good Hands: Raymond Pettibon," by David Deitcher; "Pwo Artists Sitting under a Tree: Chez Neil Jenney's Lumberyard," by Izhar Patkin; "America is an Old Country," by Dick Hebdige; "At Home in His World: The Pleasure of Henri Matisse"; "Martisse, Art, and Le Bonheur," by Arthur C. ... [details]