Issue edited by Michelle Kuo. Essays "Books: J. Hoberman on 'Mad' Magazine's Early Imitators," by J. Hoberman; "Film: Michael Wood on Grant Gee's 'Patience (After Sebald),'" by Michael Wood; "News: Elizabeth Schambelan talks with Curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev About Documenta 13," by Elizabeth Schambelan; "Slant: Ken Okiishi on Forrest Bess," by Ken Okiishi; "Slant: Elizabeth Mangini on Arte Povera in Naples," by Elizabeth Mangini; "Top Ten," by Adriana Lara; "Summer 2012 Exhibitions: 45 Shows Worldwide"; "Graham Bader on 'Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective,'" by Graham Bader; "Image of the People: Mike Kelley (1954-2012)," by Ann Goldstein, Michael Smith, Tony Oursler, Paul McCarthy, Jim Shaw, and Kim Gordon; "Magnificent Obsession: The Films of Werner Schroeter," by James Quandt; "False Front: The Art of Ming Wong," by Joan Kee; "A Room of Their Own: Three Views on the Whitney Biennial," by David Rimanelli, Amy Taubin, and David Velasco; "1000 Words: Kraftwerk," by Michelle Kuo; "After Effects: The Art of Anja Kirschner and David Panos," by Martin Herbert; "Openings: Dave Miko," by Sam Pulitzer. ... [details]
Issue edited by Michelle Kuo. Essays "Books: Eric L. Santner on Giorgio Agamben's 'The Kingdom and the Glory,'" by Eric L. Santner; "Film: P. Adams Sitney on Jerome Hiler's 'Words of Mercury,'" by P. ... [details]
Issue edited by Michelle Kuo. Essays "Passages: Claes Oldenburg, Paul Kaiser, and Robert Whitman on Robert Breer," by Claes Oldenburg, Paul Kaiser, and Robert Whitman; "Books: Malcolm Bull on Jacques Derrida's 'The Beast & The Sovereign,'" by Malcolm Bull; "Film: James Quandt on Steve McQueen's 'Shame,'" by James Quandt; "Film: Amy Taubin on Nuri Bilge Ceylan's 'Once Upon a Time in Anatolia,'" by Amy Taubin; "Film: Tony Pipolo on Jean-Marie Straub," by Tony Pipolo; "Vault: Martin Kemp on Leonardo da Vinci's 'The Virgin of the Rocks,'" by Martin Kemp; "Slant: Nasser Rabbat on the New Islamic Art Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art," by Nasser Rabbat; "Slant: Saskia Sassen and Hans Haacke on the Spaces of Occupation," by Saskia Sassen and Hans Haacke; "Slant: Annie Ochmanek on Christopher D'Arcangelo," by Annie Ochmanek; "Top Ten," by Uri Aran; "Winter 2012 Exhibitions: 45 Shows Worldwide"; "Julia Robinson on 'Claes Oldenburg: The Sixties,'" by Julia Robinson; "Dark Matter: The Art of Liu Wei," by Pauline J. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Remembrance of Objects Past," by Rosetta Brooks; "Andy Warhol: Top Gun and Brancusi," by J. Hoberman; "Flurries of Design," by Joost Elffers; "Decoding the Coating," by Seigow Matsuoka; "An Ornamented Joke," by Joyce Kozloff; "Representing Paper," by Sidney Tillim; "The Lovers," by Ulay & Marina Abramovic; "Art to the Power N," by Germano Celant; "Ground Up," by Herbert Muschamp; "Icons at Large," by Lisa Liebmann; "Objects," by Alessandro Mendini; "Like Art," by Glenn O'Brien; "A Canvas of Episodes," by Frederic Tuten; "The Cave," by Wolfram Schutte; "Speaker to Speaker," by Greil Marcus. ... [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 "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 "A Canvas of Episodes: Rex, A Fictional Artist, Arrives in a Real New York," by Frederic Tuten; "Books: A Review of Umberto Eco's 'Travels in Hyperreality,'" by Max Kozloff; "Exits and Entrances: How to Move Through This Century in Four Exciting Steps"; "Icons at Large: Chewing on Cigars," by Lisa Liebmann; "Special Effects: The News. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "The Arc of a diver - Judy Pfaff," by John Yau; "Vienna and Her Sisters, A Parable, with Strings," by Lisa Liebmann; "The Art of Filming Painting: Derek Jarman and Caravaggio, Peter Greenaway and Jan Vermeer, Paul Leduc and Frida Kahlo," by Wolfram Schutte; "Taking Liberty with Symbols," by Herbert Muschamp; "The Tourist Industry's Dramamine Against Terrorism: Seeing the World Through Travel Ads," by Glenn O'Brien; "The Big Fight. ... [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 "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]