September 1987 issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "The Tale That Wags the Dog: Documenta 8. A Bite Before the Show"; "What Was that Masked Museum? The Mind's Construction in the Face. Gaetano Pesce," by Germano Celant; "Hugo: Ink into Ocean," by Donald Kuspit; "A Foundry of the Figure: Antonin Artaud, To be Somebody," by Stephen Barber; "Nuclear Towers Town & Country: A Project for Artforum," by Ilona Granet; "An Encounter with a Secret: The Sculpture of Susana Solano," by Gloria Moure; "Untitled Drawings: A Project for Artforum," by William Bailey; "The Critics' Way: Sculpture Goes to Town," by Donald Kuspit, Max Wechsler, Dan Cameron, Pier Luigi Tazzi, and Ingrid Rein, with photography by Shigeo Anzai; "Icons at Large: Icontact," by Lisa Liebmann; "Like Art: Amaretto di Ollie," by Glenn O'Brien; "Believe it or Not: Comrades in People," by J. ... [details]
Monograph about Colin De Land and his gallery American Fine Arts. Chiefly composed of photographs from the Colin De Land Photo Archive documenting art, installations, and activities at the gallery. Edited by Dennis Balk. ... [details]
Issue edited by Michael R. Goldstein. Contents include "First Cut," by Doug Ireland; "The Week that Was," by Clyde Haberman, with John Gruber; "FBI Probes Goldin's Office for Bus Shelter 'Bribery'," by Ann-Byrd Platt; "UN Declares War on Chemical Bank," by Allan Wolper; "Mixed Media," by Jane Perlez; Comic by Bill Plympton; "It Can't Happen Here?," by David Hershkovits; "Eigth Street Lives, Again," by Peter Freiberg; "Artful Dodger," by Gerald Marzorati; "Roller Queen," by Joanna Kyd; "Sports: Life Turns Sour for 'The Juice,'" by Barry Bloom; "On the Line," by Larry Merchant; "Donna Summer: How They Packaged Me," by Steve Bloom; "Behind the Trout Mask: This Is Your Captain Speaking," by Michael Shore; "Style," by Sarah Montague; article by Bob Weiner; "Child's Play," by Sharon Lee Ryder; "cookiemania," text and photos by Nina Meledandri; "A Dancer's Fairy Tale," by Michael Robertson; "'A Whole Different Movie from the One I Wrote'" by Cynthia Heimel; "Love Story with Dancing," by Stephen Saban; "Nervous Clouds of Glory," John Perreault on Mark Rothko; "The Spell of Nubia," by William Zimmer; "The Eyes Have It," Ellen Lubell on Dorothea Rockburne and Leatrice Rose; "This Week," edited by Steogen Saban and Robert Pierce; "Old Fang Style," by Tom Wynbrandt; "Image-Making," by Shelley Rice; "Van Morrison: Caught One More Time," by Peter Occhiogrosso; "Ryder Gets Rolling," by Crispin McCormick Cioe; "Rocks Off," by Ira Kaplan; "Rockabilly Rebels Raise the Roof," by Pat Wadsley; "Key Notes," by Ken Terry; "Halloween Horror, Dangerous Dummy," by Stephen Saban; "Tragic Flaws," by Noel Carroll; "The Other Cinema," by Noel Carroll; "Captives," by Tish Dace; "Dark Relatives," by James Leverett; "Oli and Trash," by William Harris; "Mixed Metaphors," by Donald R. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ida Panicelli. Essays "What in the World: Arthur C. Danto on Haruspicy," by Arthur C. Danto; "Believe it or Not: J. Hoberman on American Myths," by J. Hoberman; "Slant: Manohla Dargis on the Deadman," by Manohla Dargis; "Museum Piece: A Project for Artforum," by William Anthony; "The Cave: Marco Giusti on Federico Fellini," by Federico Fellini; "Troubleshooters: Stuart Morgan on English Drag," by Stuart Morgan; "Curies' Children: Vilém Flusser on Future Architecture," by Vilém Flusser; "Left-Right: A Project for Artforum," by Judy Pfaff; "Requiem for the Degas of the B-Boys: Keith Haring," by Robert Farris Thompson; "Light in Geometry: A Project for Artforum," by Dorothea Rockburne; "Fausto Melotti, The Enchanted Lyricist," by Jole de Sanna; "The Weather is Here, Wish you Were Beautiful," by John Miller; "Invocations of The Surge Protector: Doug Hall," by Bill Berkson; "Heads: A Project for Artforum," by Jeanne Dunning; "Syncopated Thriller: Dennis Potter's Singing Detective," by Therese Lichtenstein; "Joyce Kozloss's Crimes of Passion," by Peggy Phelan; "Modernism's Many Lives: David Diao," by Bruce Ferguson. ... [details]
A profusely illustrated documentation of New York City's Lower East Side "alternative" space ABC No Rio. Edited by Alan Moore and Marc Miller. Contributions by Moore, Miller, Lucy R. Lippard, Leonard Abrams, Walter Robinson, Steven Vincent, Eric Darton, Group Material, Thomas Lawson, Elizabeth Hess, Tim Rollins, Peter Hall, PADD, J. ... [details]
Book with Audio CD. "The groundbreaking mix CD that accompanies this book features Nam Jun Paik, the Dada Movement, John Cage, Sonic Youth, and many other examples of avant-garde music. Most of the CD's content comes from the archives of Sub Rosa, a legendary record label that has been the benchmark for archival sounds since the beginnings of electronic music. ... [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 "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 "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 "The Play's the Thing: The House that Bene's Built," by Franco Quadri; "Weavings: Anni Albers Reconciles the Hand and the Machine; Fifty Years Later, Jonathan Williams Picks Up Some Threads"; "Putty as a Picture: The By-products of a By-product," by Carlo McCormick; "On the Earth and in the Air: Panamarenko. ... [details]