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 "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 "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 "Not Utopia: Jan Vercruysse: The Present Unclosed," by Pier Luigi Tazzi; "Three's a Company: James Ivory, Ismail Merchant, and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Talk Talkies," by Anthony Korner; "Baptism: A Project for Artforum," by Jeff Koons; "Renovating the New: The Art of Lucio Fontana," by Jole de Sanna; "Black and White Light: Getting Home in Charcoal and Pastel," by John Yau; "Artist Envy: The Art of Interpretation and its Interpretation of the Artist," by Donald Kuspit; "A Song to the Avant-Garde: 'Tadeusz Kantor and the Duck, Robert Wilson Riding Hood, Un Mélange de Styles,' and Six More Plays by Kenneth Koch Here Staged on the Page in a Project for Artforum by Larry Rivers"; Book Preview: The sounds of Silents. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ida Panicelli. Essays "Like Art," Glenn O'Brien on Advertising; "The Cave: Maria Nadotti on Film"; "Here, There & Otherwise," John Welchman on Elsewhere; "Object," Alessandro Mendini on Design; "Remote Control," Barbara Kruger on Television; "Curies' Children," Vilém Flusser on Discovery; "Special Effects," by Carol Squiers on the News and Its Pictures; "William Eggleston: Democracy & Chaos," by Mark Holborn; "Seductive Lures: Shirazeh Houshiary," by Pier Luigi Tazzi; "The Ground Has Been Covered," by Jimmie Durham and Jean Fisher; "Hinged Victories," by Patricia C. ... [details]
Spring 1981 issue of High Performance, The Performance Art Quarterly, edited by Linda Frye Burnham. Contents include: "Point Out: Paul McCarthy points out seven artists;" with artist features on Walt Churchill, Valie Export, "George Maciunas: In Memoriam," written by Ken Friedman, Lil Picard, Adrian Piper and Wolfgang Stoerchle; "Eleanora Antinova's Journal," by Eleanor Antin; "Ten from Academe: Ten artists talk about teaching performance" by Jan McCambridge, with texts by Allan Kaprow, Eleanor Antin, Charles Garoian, Barbara Smith, Cheri Gaulke, Michael Meyers, Suzanne Lacy, Linda Montano and Paul Best. ... [details]
Chronological anthology of performance art in California from 1970 - 1988 in the style of Lucy Lippard's book "Six Years." Edited by Carl E. Loeffler and Darlene Tong with essays by Tom Marioni, Allan Kaprow, Linda Frye Burnham, Judith Barry, and Moira Roth. ... [details]
Double / "flip" issue of the socio-political publication, The Flue, published by avant-garde arts organization Franklin Furnace. Publication reads on one side as "Sex, Performance and the 80's" and on the other side as " L. ... [details]