Final issue of File Megazine published in 1989 and edited by General Idea. "This last issue of FILE looks at the City, and interventions in the life of the city." Contains artists' projects by Matt Mullican and Krzysztof Wodiczko and public art projects by Dennis Adams, Alan Belcher and Dennis Oleksijczuk. ... [details]
Double sided postcard / announcement published in conjunction with project for New York City subway cars, December 1989. [details]
Monograph on General Idea's AIDS project published in celebration of the the 1988 Gershon Iskowitz Foundation 1998 Prize recipients, AA Bronson Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal of General Idea. Text by Allan Schwartzman. [details]
Sheet of perforated stamps by General Idea published for the special edition of Parkett, no. 15 (1988). Appropriates Robert Indiana's "LOVE" graphic, changing the text to read "AIDS." Signed and numbered by General Idea. [details]
Issue edited by Bice Curiger. Essays "Gilles Peress And The Politics Of Space," by Max Kozloff; "'Nothing's Final - The Sculptural Principle - Flight Into Mania' Thoughts On The Roles Of Form And Material In George Herold's Work," by Friedemann Malsch; "Places For Here And Now In Impenetrable Places, Mario Merz's Travel Pictures 1987," by Marlis Grüterich; "Mario Merz's Future Of An Illusion," by Jeanne Silverthorne; "Did I Say It Or Didn't I?," by Mario Merz; "The 'Jen' Of Kung Fu-Tse And The Merzian City," by Demosthenes Davvetas; "Presence - Riddle - Entities," by Harald Szeemann; "The Work's Present," by Denys Zacharopoulos; "Francesca Woodman," by Brunella Antomarini; "René Daniels: The Space Of Transitive Images," by Alain Cueff; "Les Infos Du Paradis: Decently Facing The 21st Century The Publisher Johannes Gachnang," by Rudolf Schmitz; "Cumulus From America," by Dan Cameron; "Cumulus Aus Europa," by Renate Puvogel; "Balkon: Butchery And Slaughter," by Danielle Bazzi. ... [details]
Next to last issue of File Megazine critiques the art market on the heals of the sale of Vincent van Gogh's masterpiece Sunflowers for a then record price of $39,921,750 on March 30, 1987 at Christie's. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held in September 1987. Includes text by exhibition curator Christian Leigh as well as excerpts from poems by EE Cummings and Rodney Frame. Includes artists: Ross Bleckner, John Dogg, Nancy Dwyer, Christian Eckart, Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler, General Idea, Fariba Hajamadi, Jim Isermann, Annette Lemieux, McDermott & McGough, John Miller, Tony Tasset, B. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held in 1987 at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, September 4 - October 18, 1987. Traveled to Museum of Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA, October 6 - November 15, 1987 ; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, September 17 - November 1, 1987 ; Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln, Germany, October 29 - November 22, 1987 ; Kunsthaus, Zürich, Switzerland, November 1987 ; Centro Videoarte, Palazzo die Diamanti, Ferrara, December 1 - December 20, 1987 ; Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, January - February 1988 ; Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, March - April 1988 ; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, Spring 1988 ; Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, 1988 ; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Fall 1988 ; Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, November - December 1988 ; Tate Gallery, London, November - December 1988. ... [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]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held September 25 - November 30, 1986. Curated by David Joselit and Elisabeth Sussman. Extensive essays by Thomas Crow, Yve-Alain Bois, Hal Foster, Bob Riley, Joselit, Sussman. ... [details]
