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 "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]
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 "Museum Piece: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Whitney Museum of American Art Additions. Round Two," by Joseph Giovannini; "A Canvas of Episodes: A Test. A Sentence. ... [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 Ida Panicelli. Essays "Troubleeshooters: C. Carr on Trying Times," by C. Carr; "Remote Control: Barbara Kruger on Courtroom Drama," by Barbara Kruger; "Democracy, Inc.: Our Beating Hearts, A Project for Artforum," by Karen Finley; "Undertone: Miriam Rosen on Ari," by Miriam Rosen; "Commedia Dell'Arte: The Art Deal, A Project for Artforum," by Lynda Barry; "Books: John Miller on 'Notes on the Underground,'" by John Miller; "Believe it or Not: J. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ida Panicelli. Essays "Museum Piece: Deborah Drier on Masquerade," by Deborah Drier; "Believe it or Not: J. Hoberman on the Potlatch Principle," by J. Hoberman; "Slant: Tom Kalin on Queer Nation," by Tom Kalin; "Real Life Rock: Greil Marcus' Top Ten," by Greil Marcus; "The Public Eye: Stuart Ewen on Barney's Ads," by Stuart Ewen; "Commedia Dell'Arte: A Project for Artforum," by Jacques Loustal; "The Cave: Maurice Berger on Yvonne Rainer's 'Privelege,'" by Maurice Berger; "A Drawing Page: A Project for Artforum," by Martin Kippenberger; "You're History, Pal: Reading Nayland Blake," by Maria Porges; "Doppel Jeopardy," by Giorgio Verzotti; "Hyperdeath and the Scopic Corpse," By Joseph Nechvatal; "In Their Own Image," by Kellie Jones; "Conjunct: City of Light, A Project for Artforum" by Maria Nordman with "Three Passerby at the Intersection Fifth Avenue and 60th Street, New York, June 1990. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ida Panicelli. Essays "On Location: Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett on Producing Ellis Island," by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett; "Special Effects: Carol Squiers on Photo Allure," by Carol Squiers; "Real Life Rock: Greil Marcus' Top Ten," by Greil Marcus; "The Cave: Michael Tarantino on Krzysztof Kieslowski," by Michael Tarantino; "Head to Toe: Valerie Steele on Retro Fashion," by Valerie Steele; "Curies' Children: Vilém Flusser on Art and Politics," by Vilém Flusser; "Exits and Entrances: Joan Acocella on Martha Clarke's 'Endangered Species,'" by Joan Acocella; "A Drawing Page: A Project for Artforum," by Jonathan Borofsky; "Read Read Rosens," by Judith Russi Kirshner; "Skyscrapers, the Late Imperial Mob," by Max Kozloff; "AIDS Timeline: A Project for Day Without Art 1990," by Group Material; "Industrious Art," by Amy Baker Sandback; "Medium Hot: Alberto Burri," by Massimo Carboni; "High Art Lowdown: A Project for Artforum," by Art Spiegelman; "Ryder on the Storm," by Bill Jensen; "Art or the Caress: A Project for Artforum," By Aimee Morgana; "Off Kilter: The Citizens' Theatre," by Michael Coveney. ... [details]