Issue number 122 of New Observations: "The Magazine that Lets the Artists Speak for Themselves." Guest edited by Todd Ayoung. Essays "Hows Angels Travel," by Todd Ayoung; "Iyali (Family)," by Fatimah Tuggar; "Frugality and the Urban," by May Joseph; "On Archives (A Fragment) by Brian Wallis; "Isis," by Fred Wilson; "Untitled (Hathor and Attendants)," by Fred Wilson; "Museum City," by Janet Koenig; "2nd Official Game," by Jun Ozaki; "Interface Passages," by Rainer Ganahl; "Place de La Chapelle," by Henry Du Moulin; "Transaction Profile," by Jim Costanzo; "Painting, Demography, and Global Communication," by Carsten Juhl; "Since '72," by Allison Smith; "Untitled (Excerpt from Paraiso en el Nuevo Mundo)," by Sergio Vega; "Toto, I Have a Feeling We're Not in Texas Anymore. ... [details]
"The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, America's oldest museum and school of fine arts, was founded in 1805. Today, the Academy boasts one of the nation's finest collections of American art and a roster of alumni representing the greatest artists this country has produced. ... [details]
Issue edited by Herbert George. Essays "Sites/Non-Sites: Smithson's Influence on Recent Landscape Projects," by Roelof Louw; "Statue in the Air," by Jirí Kolár; "Cross Out or Add," by Jirí Kolár; "Writings," by Piet Mondrian; "Natural Phenomena as Public Monuments," by Alan Sonfist; "Chapter 4 from PLEASURE," by Barbara Baracks; "My Molding, Flowing Conception of Image, and How It Affects the Universe," by Bernie Maisner; "Berkeley and Bullfighting," by Bruce Boice; "DEAN MARTIN/entertainment as Theater," by Dan Graham; "Past Tense," by Dorothy Dehner; "Two Lives," by Dorothy Dehner; "The Grotesque and the Classical in Sculpture," by Seymour Lipton; "Contexts," by Rosemary Mayer and Nancy Wilson Kitchel; "Fishing," by Dorothy Alexander; "What a Journey (Horror Trip to Poland)," by Harold Vogl; "A Parable," by Steve Martinot; "Tracings," by Jacki Apple; "Abstract architectural Space - The Empty Building," by Will Insley; "Man (=1, That is, Plus or Minus Being = X)," by Cioni Carpi; "Four Poems," by Barbara Kruger; "She Makes the Wrong Choices," by Barbara Kruger; "For Granny (1881 - ) Whose Lamps are Going Out: A Short Lecture on the Effects of Afterimages," by Alice Aycock; "Billy Builder, or The Painfull Machine," by Carl Andre. ... [details]