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 "A Canvas of Episodes: Rex, A Fictional Artist, Arrives in a Real New York," by Frederic Tuten; "Books: A Review of Umberto Eco's 'Travels in Hyperreality,'" by Max Kozloff; "Exits and Entrances: How to Move Through This Century in Four Exciting Steps"; "Icons at Large: Chewing on Cigars," by Lisa Liebmann; "Special Effects: The News. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Remembrance of Objects Past," by Rosetta Brooks; "Andy Warhol: Top Gun and Brancusi," by J. Hoberman; "Flurries of Design," by Joost Elffers; "Decoding the Coating," by Seigow Matsuoka; "An Ornamented Joke," by Joyce Kozloff; "Representing Paper," by Sidney Tillim; "The Lovers," by Ulay & Marina Abramovic; "Art to the Power N," by Germano Celant; "Ground Up," by Herbert Muschamp; "Icons at Large," by Lisa Liebmann; "Objects," by Alessandro Mendini; "Like Art," by Glenn O'Brien; "A Canvas of Episodes," by Frederic Tuten; "The Cave," by Wolfram Schutte; "Speaker to Speaker," by Greil Marcus. ... [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 "Animarum Venator (Hunter of Souls): An Interpretation of Arcimboldo," by Massimo Cacciari; "'I Like the Free World.' Arcadian Settlements on the Edge of the Unknown from the 1600s to the Present: Part II of a Series on Different Styles of Vision," by Carter Ratcliff; "Louis Sullivan's Clay Gardens: Pod-Modernism," by Colin Westerbeck; "Harlequinade for an Empty Room: On David Salle, Classical Steps Toward the Year 2000," by Lisa Liebmann; "Jannis Kounellis and the Reenchantment of Contradiction: Diverting Fact to Possibility," by Kenneth Baker; "Who Told Thee That Thous Was't Naked: The Immaculate Commission in the Emperor's New Clothes," by Thomas McEvilley; "Museum Piece: Los Angeles' Recent Acquisitions," by Joseph Giovannini; "Icons at Large: Knowing Who Your Friends Are," by Lisa Liebmann; "Like Art: Birthday Suits for Different Parties," by Glenn O'Brien; "Speaker to Speaker: Listening to the Words," by Greil Marcus; "Books: A Review of Art Spiegelman's Maus: A Survivor's Tale," by Richard Gehr; "A Canvas of Episodes: On the Wings of Love, Rex Finds Out What Give-and-take is All About," by Frederic Tuten. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "The Play's the Thing: The House that Bene's Built," by Franco Quadri; "Weavings: Anni Albers Reconciles the Hand and the Machine; Fifty Years Later, Jonathan Williams Picks Up Some Threads"; "Putty as a Picture: The By-products of a By-product," by Carlo McCormick; "On the Earth and in the Air: Panamarenko. ... [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 Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Corporate Arcadias: Green Thumbs and Gray Flannel," by Dan Graham and Robin Hurst; "Haim Steinbach's Wild Wild West: Serving Color on the Horizon," by Germano Celant; "Arms: Around Chet Baker," by Bruce Weber; "Kane's Welles: The Phantom of the Opus, Velásquez in Xanadu," by Brian O'Doherty; "Ventriloquism. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Today Crossed Out," a Project for Artforum by Hanne Darboven with an Introcuction by Coosje van Bruggen; "Zarina's Balm: Objects of Exchange," by Lisa Liebmann; "Just Say Noh: The Esthetics of Banality," by Richard Goldstein; "Enter Elliott Erwitt"; "Time Bandits, Space Vampires," by Thomas Lawson; "Ostentatious Perfectionism: Four-Color Whites, 'One Hundred Flowers,' Georgia O'Keefe. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ida Panicelli. Essays "Books," Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe on Fashion and Surrealism; "Object," Alessandro Mendini on Design; "Remote Control," Barbara Kruger on Television; "Curies' Children," Vilém Flusser on Discovery; "Believe it or Not," J. ... [details]