Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "On Location: Inventing Pangaea, Jon's and Ginzel's Whole-earth Recipe"; "Ground Up," by Herbert Muschamp; "Like Art: The Star-spangled Pitch," by Glenn O'Brien; "The Cave: Local Technicolor," by Wolfram Schutte; "Object: Abracadabra, The Magic Space of Supple Geometry," by Seigow Matsuoka; "Slant: On Success and Pittsburgh's 1985 Carnegie International," by Donald Kuspit; "Modern Life: The Manet Tapes and More Recent Dupes," by Carter Ratcliff; "Speaker to Speaker: The Clash find the Sound of Silence, Plus the 1985 Top Ten," by Greil Marcus; "Ask Not What: The Kennedys, the Camera, and Us," by Thomas McEvilley; "Earth Angles: Michael Heizer's Sculpture at Buffalo Rock, A New Species of Life for Trampled Soil," by Klaus Kertess; "Blinky Palermo: Abstract Medicine for the Senses," by Donald Kuspit; "The Stridentists: Excavating a Forgotten Avant-garde; the Revolutionary Forebears of Mexico's Muralists," by Serge Fauchereau; "Hungary by Heart: A Trip with André Kertész," by Sylvia Plachy; "Project for Artforum: Two Moods," by Sylvia Plimack Mangold. ... [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 "On Location: Balancing Bigger and Smaller, Alberto Burri's Studio," by Ida Panicelli; "Modern Life: Close Encounters with Unidentified Flying Zeitgeists," by Carter Ratcliff; "Turned Out: Biology 101 invades Art History 407. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Diagnostic Malpractice: The Nazi's on Modern Art, Germany, 1937," by Donald Kuspit: "Rites of Exchange: Louise Lawler, from Place to Place and Hand to Hand, with a Project by the Artist," by Kate Linker; "Locus Lotus: Omnidimensional Archeologies, Project for Artforum," by Shoichi Ida; "In the Twentieth Century C. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "On Location: A Park Grows in Paris. bernard Tschumi's La Villette Project"; "Modern Life: After the Loss of Challenger, the Cost of Instant Replay," by Carter Ratcliff; "Like Art: Surrealism with Everything on it," by Glenn O'Brien; "Turned Out: The Return of an Endangered Species - the Artist's Model," by William Wilson; "Ground Up: The Picturesque of the Urbanesque," by Herbert Muschamp; "The Cave: German Film's Archaeology of the Present Past," by Wolfram Schutte; "Speaker to Speaker: Blowing in the Wind or Facing Into It, Writing a Song or Crafting a Career - For Example, Bob Dylan," by Greil Marcus; "Building a Passage: Reflections on the Vision of Gae Aulenti," by Vittorio Gregotti; "The Imagination in Sheep's Clothing: Francois Boucher Delivered from the Guillotine of Taste, and 'Living Fragonardishly' Today," by Lisa Liebmann; "Courbet the Moon, Van Gogh the Wind: Glimpses of the Sound in a Seashell, Project for Artforum," by Pat Steir; "Through the Narrative Portal: Our Stake in the Plot Thickens," by Max Kozloff; "Wrestling the Image into Shape: Rebecca Howland's Vulture-Culture Sculpture," by Carlo McCormick; "Mel Bochner: Point to Point, the Thought of Emotion, The Feel of Thinking," by Jan Van Der Marck. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Animarum Venator (Hunter of Souls): An Interpretation of Arcimboldo," by Massimo Cacciari; "'I Like the Free World.' Arcadian Settlements on the Edge of the Unknown from the 1600s to the Present: Part II of a Series on Different Styles of Vision," by Carter Ratcliff; "Louis Sullivan's Clay Gardens: Pod-Modernism," by Colin Westerbeck; "Harlequinade for an Empty Room: On David Salle, Classical Steps Toward the Year 2000," by Lisa Liebmann; "Jannis Kounellis and the Reenchantment of Contradiction: Diverting Fact to Possibility," by Kenneth Baker; "Who Told Thee That Thous Was't Naked: The Immaculate Commission in the Emperor's New Clothes," by Thomas McEvilley; "Museum Piece: Los Angeles' Recent Acquisitions," by Joseph Giovannini; "Icons at Large: Knowing Who Your Friends Are," by Lisa Liebmann; "Like Art: Birthday Suits for Different Parties," by Glenn O'Brien; "Speaker to Speaker: Listening to the Words," by Greil Marcus; "Books: A Review of Art Spiegelman's Maus: A Survivor's Tale," by Richard Gehr; "A Canvas of Episodes: On the Wings of Love, Rex Finds Out What Give-and-take is All About," by Frederic Tuten. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Museum Piece: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Whitney Museum of American Art Additions. Round Two," by Joseph Giovannini; "A Canvas of Episodes: A Test. A Sentence. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Museum Piece: On the Job," by Jan Hoet; "Ground Up: Dresser and Bureaus of Internal Affairs," by Herbert Muschamp; "Like Art: H-h-h-heads and Tails," by Glenn O'Brien; "Speaker to Speaker: S--f-censorship," by Greil Marcus; "What in the World: Missing Sign Language," by Andrew Solomon; "Production Values: Tinkering with Toys," by Dan Cameron; "On Location: At Noriyuki Haraguchi's Studio on Tokyo Bay," by Kazue Kobata; "Customs: A Roman Correspondent Observes a New York Instituition," by Ida Panicelli; "A Canvas of Episodes: Mazel Tov," by Frederic Tuten; "The Dictatorship of Clement Greenberg: A Critic Looks at a Critic," by Kay Larson; "The Adventure of the Third Essay: In Which We Lose Our Bearings and Gain Our Freedom. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Corporate Arcadias: Green Thumbs and Gray Flannel," by Dan Graham and Robin Hurst; "Haim Steinbach's Wild Wild West: Serving Color on the Horizon," by Germano Celant; "Arms: Around Chet Baker," by Bruce Weber; "Kane's Welles: The Phantom of the Opus, Velásquez in Xanadu," by Brian O'Doherty; "Ventriloquism. ... [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]