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]