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]
A chronology of No! Art exhibitions, with biographies of the artists that were involved. Includes work or contributions of text by Brian O'Doherty, Harold Rosenberg, Thomas B. Hess, Tom Wolfe, Marcel Yanco, Dore Ashton, Gerard Gassiot-Talabot, Gregory Battcock, Mario de Micheli, Jean Toche, Lil Picard, Wolf Vostell, and others. ... [details]
Two volumes, all published. Volume One: poetry, fiction, non-fiction, art portfolios, book reviews, essays and criticism. Contributions by Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler, Benjamin Weissman, Lane Relyea, Elaine Equi, Mitch Sisskind, Nathaniel Tarn, Eileen Myles, Edward Ruscha, Dennis Cooper, Tom Clark, Bob Flanagan and David Trinidad, Janet Kauffman, Kathleen Frazer, Stephen Rodefer, Pasquale Verdicchio, Charles Ray, Corrado Costa, Nancy Reese, Merion Estes, Patrick Hogan, Tom Wudl, James Griffith, Robert Helm, Constance Mallinson, Norman Klein, Marjorie Perloff and Richard Gehr. ... [details]
Issue number 51 of New Observations: "The Magazine that Lets the Artists Speak for Themselves." Guest edited and with text by Collins & Milazzo. Artists include Ross Bleckner, Saint Clair Cemin, Philip Taaffe, Abraham David Christian, James Welling, Jeff Koons, Haim Steinbach, Allan McCollum, Annette Lemieux, Sarah Charlesworth, Gretchen Bender, Jonathan Lasker, David Diao, Salvatore Scarpitta, Not Vital, Meg Webster, Peter Nagy, Suzan Etkin, Peter Halley, Joel Otterson, John Dogg, Ti Shan Hsu, and Joel Fisher. [details]
Issue number 45 of New Observations: "The Magazine that Lets the Artists Speak for Themselves." Guest edited by Curt Belshe, Ana Busto, Sarah Drury, Hilary Kliros, Lise Prown, and Steven Schiff. Contents include: "Introduction," by the guest editors; "Fairytale as Myth / Myth as Fairy Tale," by Jack Zipes; "The Perfect Crime: Oscar Wilde's 'The Happy Prince,'" by Didi Heller; "A Possible Model For Fairy Tales," by Vito Acconci; "Four Ways of Looking at a Fairy Tale," by Fredric Jameson; "Rumpelstiltskin is My Name," by Martin Winn; "Coyote Comes Laughing," by Jean Fisher; "Fairy Tales," by Andrea Fraser; and "'Beauty and the Beast;'" The Survival Story," by Betsy Hearne. [details]
Issue edited by Bice Curiger. Essays "Alighiero E Boetti: Paradox And Its Double," by Alain Cueff; "Jenny Holzer And The Spectacle Of Communication," by Jean-Pierre Bordaz; "Where The Telephone Never Rings Tansey's 'Conversation' - 1986," by Douglas Blau; "The Countermoving Concert: Description of an Installation," "The Keep: History of a Building," by Rebecca Horn; "Gentle Transference," by Bice Curiger; "The Bird In Rebecca Horn's Work," by Demosthenes Davvetas; "Buster's Bedroom - A Synopsis of a Film Project by Rebecca Horn," by Martin Mosebach; "Plume Aged," by Felix Philipp Ingold; "Trickery And Display," by Daniel Soutif; "Katharina Fritsch 'Elephant,'" by Jutta Koether; "The Vampire Of The Next," by Jean Fisher; "Choros," by Judith Barry; "Les Infos Du Paradis," by "Bären-Raffael"; "Cumulus From America," by Amei Wallach; "Cumulus Von Europa," by Jean-Christophe Ammann; "Balkon: Romance Language," by Richard Flood. ... [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 "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]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Alexis Smith R Tist: Cliché Verité," by Hunter Drohojowska; "Inside the Tomato Jungle: André Masson on Greek Ideas, French Painting, and American Prodigies. A Conversation," by Demosthenes Davvetas; "The Mausberg Collection: A Project for Artforum," by Reinhard Mucha; "Things That Go Bump: At Documenta 8, Curators with Causes. ... [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]