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]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held August 26 - October 1, 1988. Organized by Maureen Sherlock and Dan Mills. Essay by Maureen Sherlock. Artists included are Dennis Adams, Nicholas Arbatsky, Doug Ashford, Joe Cavalier, Dan Coma, Carlos Cortez, Leon Golub, Thomas Hancock, Edgar Heap of Birds, Jenny Holzer, Jerry Kearns, Tom Kalin, Janet Koenig, Dennis Kowalski, Edward Larson, Joe Matunis, Daniel Peterman, Robert Peters, Faith Ringgold, Joe Seigenthaler, Greg Sholette, Nancy Spero, Tim Tobin, Bill Walker and John Pitman Weber. ... [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 "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 "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]
March 1987 issue of Artforum, edited by Ingrid Sischy. Contents include: "The Opposite of Emptiness: On the Spirit in Art," by Thomas McEvilley; "Excuse Me Madame But It Seems To Me Unless I'm Mistaken That I've Met You Somewhere Before: A Conversation with Eugène Ionesco," by Sanda Miller; "Nine Beatitudes on Eight Pages: After 'Four Saints in Three Acts,' Another Act, with Pictures," by Ingrid Sischy; "Hans Haacke's Corporate Muse: 'Unfinished Business,'" by Jean Fisher; "The Sleeping Beauty in the Castle of Modern Art: A Slumberer Stirs," by Ida Panicelli; "Louise Bourgeois: Where Angels Fear to Tread, A Profile in Courage," by Donald Kuspit; "Museum Piece: Rain. ... [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 "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]
September 1987 issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "The Tale That Wags the Dog: Documenta 8. A Bite Before the Show"; "What Was that Masked Museum? The Mind's Construction in the Face. Gaetano Pesce," by Germano Celant; "Hugo: Ink into Ocean," by Donald Kuspit; "A Foundry of the Figure: Antonin Artaud, To be Somebody," by Stephen Barber; "Nuclear Towers Town & Country: A Project for Artforum," by Ilona Granet; "An Encounter with a Secret: The Sculpture of Susana Solano," by Gloria Moure; "Untitled Drawings: A Project for Artforum," by William Bailey; "The Critics' Way: Sculpture Goes to Town," by Donald Kuspit, Max Wechsler, Dan Cameron, Pier Luigi Tazzi, and Ingrid Rein, with photography by Shigeo Anzai; "Icons at Large: Icontact," by Lisa Liebmann; "Like Art: Amaretto di Ollie," by Glenn O'Brien; "Believe it or Not: Comrades in People," by J. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held in dual venues : "The Eighties" at MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, December 19, 1987 - February 7, 1988 and "Pioneers" at Bank of Boston Gallery, Boston, MA, November 23, 1987 - January 15, 1988. ... [details]