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 "Museum Piece: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Whitney Museum of American Art Additions. Round Two," by Joseph Giovannini; "A Canvas of Episodes: A Test. A Sentence. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Esthetics and Loss: AIDS," by Edmund White; "Imi Knoebel's Triangle: The Ecology of Nonobjectivity," by Donald Kuspit; "The Mirror Turned Lamp: Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner defy the Forces of Gravity," by C. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Diagnostic Malpractice: The Nazi's on Modern Art, Germany, 1937," by Donald Kuspit: "Rites of Exchange: Louise Lawler, from Place to Place and Hand to Hand, with a Project by the Artist," by Kate Linker; "Locus Lotus: Omnidimensional Archeologies, Project for Artforum," by Shoichi Ida; "In the Twentieth Century C. ... [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]
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 "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: 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 "The Real Experiment," by Allan Kaprow; "Triumph of Representation, a project," by Giulio Paolini; "Against the Return to Order," by Nicolas Calas; "A Project," by Sigmar Polke; "Dispensable Friends, Indispensable Ideologies: Andre Bréton's Surrealism," by Donald Kuspit; "Popcorn and Canvas," by Carrie Rickey; "Books: Frederic Tuten on 'Ranxerox' (continued)," by Frederic Tuten; "Forum," by Glenn O'Brien. ... [details]