Issue nine of Real Life Magazine, edited by Thomas Lawson. Contents include: "Paul McMahon," by Susan Morgan; "Nancy Chunn," interviewed Susan Davis; "Condensation and Dish-Placement," by The Holy Ghost Writers [ZouZou Lebovici, Lisa Phillips, Bérénice Reynaud, and Lyn Shapiro]; "POPISM," by Paul Taylor; "Paragraphs Toward an Essay Entitled 'Restoration Comedies,'" by Howard Singerman; "Laurie Anderson," by Sarah Taylor States; and "This Indigestible Wedding Cake," by Bérénice Reynaud. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Painterly Edge: A Conversation with Ralph Humphrey," by Amy Baker; "Patience, Observation, and Investigation: Learning from Audubon," by Mike Glier; "Abstract Beauty - Friend or Enemy?" by Wu Guan-zhong; "Marks: Cy Twomby," by John Bernard Myers; "Komar and Melamid from Behind the Ironical Curtain," by Jamey Gambrell; "Presenting the Unpresentable: The Sublime," by Jean-François Lyotard; "Fear of Clay," by John Perreault; "Books: Sarah Charlesworth on 'Camerca Lucida,'" by Sarah Charlesworth. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Editorial: An Appreciation of H.C. Westermann; "Parody and Appropriation in Francis Picabia, Pop, and Sigmar Polke," by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh; "Approaching the Abyss: Monet's Era," by Roger Shattuck; "Strangers in a Strange Land: Timothy O'Sullivan and Henry Adams," by Colin Westerbeck; "Scattered Pictures: The Movies of Werner Schroeter," by Gary Indiana; "Looking Up at Jeff Wall's Modern 'Appassionamento,'" by Donald Kuspit; "Clay and Bronze," a project by Lucas Samaras; "Books: Robert Kushner on 'Man as Art,'" by Robert Kushner. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "The Gallery as a Gesture," by Brian O'Doherty; "The Radiant Child," by Rene Ricard; "A Project," by Nicholas Nixon; "Absent-Minded Female Nude on Bed," by Peter Schjeldahl; "Not Post-Modernism: History as Against Historicism, European Archetypal Vernacular in Relation to American Commercial Vernacular, and the City as Opposed to the Individual Building," by Dan Graham; "Looking at Life," by Carol Squiers; "A Conversation with Pontus Hulten About the New Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. ... [details]
Issue six of Real Life Magazine, edited by Thomas Lawson. Contents include: "Brigitte Bardot," an interview by Hervé Guibert; "Post-Modernism: A Symposium," Christian Hubert, Sherrie Levine, Craig Owens, David Salle, and Julian Schnabel; "Bow Wow Wow (the Age of Piracy)," by Dan Graham; "The Artist as Adolescent," by Howard Singerman; "Excerpts," by Richard Baim; "A Young German Gallery Introduces Itself," about Galerie Grunert Müller, Stuttgart; "Amos Poe," an interview by David Robbins; "Your Everyday Critic," by Elsa Bulgari; "Something About Art," by Joan Wallace; "Building Conventions," by Judith Barry; and "Belmondo is Belmondo," by Michael Oblowitz. [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "William Klein and the Radioactive Fifties," by Max Kozloff; "Tattoo: the State of the Art," by Marcia Tucker; "Pressing On: Thomas Nozkowski's Paintings," by Joseph Masheck; "Leon Golub's Murals of Mercenaries: Aggression, 'Ressentiment,' and the Artist's Will to Power," by Donald B. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Post-Performance," by Douglas Davis; "Last Exit: Painting," by Thomas Lawson; "Paul Thek: Real Misunderstanding," by Richard Flood; "Painting Metaphorically: The Recent Work of Gary Stephan, Stephen Mueller, and Bill Jensen," by Klaus Kertess; "A Project," by Sol LeWitt; "Cashing in a Wolf Ticket (Activist Art and Fort Apache: The Bronx)," by Jerry Kearns and Lucy R. ... [details]
Special combined issue of Art-Rite (No. 19) and LAICA Journal (No. 19). Issue edited by Walter Robinson, Edit deAk, Bridget Reak-Johnson, Debra S. Burchett. Essays "Projects," by Edit deAk and Walter Robinson; "Homespun cersions of Mass Media," by Walter Robinson; "Teen Genius," by Kickboy Face; "Swim Parables," by Robert Morgan; "X & Y Offer," by X & Y; "Conversation: Between Craziness and Clarity," by John McCracken; "Swim Parables: Given to 4/4 Rhythms 5x," by Robert Morgan; "Texts," by Dick Miller; " Reifying the Heifetz-Trotsky Axis," Ronald Al Robboy; "Two Painters: Welcome in L. ... [details]
Special combined issue of LAICA Journal (No. 19) and Art-Rite (No. 19). Issue edited by Walter Robinson, Edit deAk, Bridget Reak-Johnson, Debra S. Burchett. Essays "Projects," by Edit deAk and Walter Robinson; "Homespun cersions of Mass Media," by Walter Robinson; "Teen Genius," by Kickboy Face; "Swim Parables," by Robert Morgan; "X & Y Offer," by X & Y; "Conversation: Between Craziness and Clarity," by John McCracken; "Swim Parables: Given to 4/4 Rhythms 5x," by Robert Morgan; "Texts," by Dick Miller; " Reifying the Heifetz-Trotsky Axis," Ronald Al Robboy; "Two Painters: Welcome in L. ... [details]