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 "Light," photographs by Joel Meyerowitz; "Light," watercolors by Agnes Martin; "A Light Opportunity," editorial by Edit deAk and Ingrid Sischy; "A Light Compass"; "Northern Lights," by Per Kirkeby and Komar and Melamid; "Eastern Lights, Western Lights," by Francesco Clemente, Eiko Ishioka, Gerhard Richter, Pat Place, and Linda Yablonsky; "Southern Lights," by Nicola De Maria and Peter Magubane; "Shadow Captions. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "On Location. Robert Ryman's Studio: A Wall of Reminders," by Amy Baker Sandback; "Ground Up. Science Fiction, Westerns, Odysseys, Romance, Head-Lines, Obits: Narrative Architects Design the City as it Lives, Stories on Top of Stories, A Plot on Every Plot," by Herbert Muschamp; "Remote Control: Television, the Permanent Guest - We'll Be Right Back," by Barbara Kruger; "Modern Life. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "On Location: Cindy Sherman's Camera Kabuki," by Ingrid Sischy; "Marginalia: Who Will Occupy the Deep Space in Recent Painting?" by Thomas McEvilley; "The Cave: Claude Lanzmann's Film 'Shoah' (Annihilation) and the Ethics of Reconstructing the Third Reich," by Wolfram Schutte; "Ground Up: Time-Sharing," by Herbert Muschamp; "Object: Duchampian Chance and Poetry in Japanese-Language Word Processors. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "On Location: Milton Resnick, New York City," by Milton Resnick; "Turned Out: Christo in Paris, The Bridge Wore Beige," by John Howell; "Speaker to Speaker: Heart from the Heartland," by Greil Marcus; "Modern Life: AIDS, A Buried Allegory," by Carter Ratcliff; "Ground Up: Parabuilding - The Postmodern Tick on the Modern Elephant," by Herbert Muschamp; "Like Art: The Model Critic, A New Face in the Empire of Signs," by Glenn O'Brien; "Remote Control: Waiting for Gloria," by Barbara Kruger; "Books: Sarah Bodine on 'Moholy-Nagy;' Mark Francis on 'Ian Hamilton Finlay: A Visual Primer;' Charles Hagen on 'The Indelible Image: Photographs of War - 1846 to the Present;' Mark Holborn on 'Tokyo 1970 - 1985;' Donald Kuspit on 'The Sense of Sight;' Greil Marcus on 'Dada/Dimensions;' 'Herbert Muschamp on 'Ballet' and 'Balanchine's Tchaikovsky: Interviews with George Balanchine;' Carter Ratcliff on 'Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris;' Barry Schwabsky on 'Jim Dine Drawings;' Frederic Tuten on 'History of the Universe;'" "Hysterical Painting: Civilization and Francis Bacon's Exhibition of its Discontents," by Donald Kuspit; "A Project for Artforum: Written Leaf," by Mario Merz; "Cultivated Canvases: Richard Diebenkorn's Uneasy Grace," by Susan C. ... [details]
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 "What in the World: Eureka - Mona Helga," by Herbert Muschamp; "Object: Antiques Regain Their Youth," by Alessandro Mendini; "Exits and Entrances: Oedipus in Reverse," by Jon Savage; "Speaker to Speaker: Can We Talk?," by Greil Marcus; "Books: A Review of David Byrne's 'True Stories' and Nan Goldin's 'Ballad of Sexual Dependency," by John Howell; "Like Art: Extrasensory Perception," by Glenn O'Brien; "A Canvas of Episodes: Rex Gets His Feet Wet," by Frederic Tuten; "The Leap of Faith: In Colin McCahon's Paintings, the Cliffs of Otakimiro and Motutara Describe a Path of Grace," by Stuart Morgan; "Ettore Spalletti's Archipelago of Color: Islands and Gardens, Basins, Columnns, and Hills, in Sensuous Dust," by Germano Celant; "Peter Hutton: A Tale of Two Cities, An American Avant-garde Filmaker in Budapest," by J. ... [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 "Not Utopia: Jan Vercruysse: The Present Unclosed," by Pier Luigi Tazzi; "Three's a Company: James Ivory, Ismail Merchant, and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Talk Talkies," by Anthony Korner; "Baptism: A Project for Artforum," by Jeff Koons; "Renovating the New: The Art of Lucio Fontana," by Jole de Sanna; "Black and White Light: Getting Home in Charcoal and Pastel," by John Yau; "Artist Envy: The Art of Interpretation and its Interpretation of the Artist," by Donald Kuspit; "A Song to the Avant-Garde: 'Tadeusz Kantor and the Duck, Robert Wilson Riding Hood, Un Mélange de Styles,' and Six More Plays by Kenneth Koch Here Staged on the Page in a Project for Artforum by Larry Rivers"; Book Preview: The sounds of Silents. ... [details]