Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Michael Tracy: A Full-Blown Geophysical Presence," by Lisa Liebmann; "Contention between Two Cities about a Disagreeable Beauty," by Max Kozloff; "The Patients and the Doctors," by Julian Schnabel; "Conceptual Art," by Ian Wilson; "Models of Our Present," by Kathy Acker; "The Auto-Representation of Pina Bausch," by Franco Quadri; "These Things Are in the Hands of God," by David Frankel; "Books: Jack Flam on 'Jazz' and 'Cinéma 'Calendrier du coeur abstrait. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "De Kooning," by Sidney Tillim; "Bob Colescott Ain't Just Misbehavin,'" by Lowery S. Sims; "Picasso's Late Work - Swan Song or Apotheosis? An Interview with Gert Schiff," by Ronnie Cohen; "My Dog Neo," by Thomas McEvilley; "Eric Fischl's Year of the Drowned Dog: Eight Characters in Search of an Autumn," by Lisa Liebmann; "William Eggleston's View of Graceland: The Absence of Elvis," by Greil Marcus; "Psychedelic Art: Flashing Back," by Glenn O'Brien; "Books: An Interview with Eiko Ishioka," by Ingrid Sischy; "Never Too Late," by Greil Marcus; "Forum," by Donald Kuspit. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "The Sublime and the Avant-Garde," by Jean-François Lyotard; "From Imitation, to the Copy, to Just Effect: On Reading Jean Baudrillard," by Kate Linker; "Hiroshi Sugimoto: No Such Thing as Time," by John Yau; "The Critic Sees Through the Cabbage Patch," by Edit deAk; "Cheez Whiz (Roy Lichtenstein)," by Richard Armstrong; "The View from Past 50," by Sidney Tillim; "Forum," by Thomas McEvilley; "Books: Joe Lewis on 'How to Commit Suicide in South Africa," by Joe Lewis; "Books: Donald Kuspit on 'Art Worlds' and 'Patrons Despite Themselves," by Donald Kuspit. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Chasing Dreams: Victor Hitchcock and Alfred Burgin," by Jean Fisher; "Obsessive Pictures or Opposition to the Norm: Noteworthy Aspects of the Engaged Imagination in the New German Art," by Annelie Pohlen; "A Progression by Chuck Close: Who's Afraid of Photography?" by Chuck Close; "The Death of Semiotics (In Late Modern Architecture); The Corruption of Metaphor (In Post-Modernism); The Birth of the 'Punctum' (In Neomania)," by Douglas Davis; "Romare Bearden Sees in a Memory," by Myron Schwartzman; "Books: For Georges Remi/Hergé," by Frederic Tuten; "Free Speech," by Greil Marcus; "Forum," by Max Kozloff, Kay Larson, and Donald Kuspit. ... [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: 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 "Alexis Smith R Tist: Cliché Verité," by Hunter Drohojowska; "Inside the Tomato Jungle: André Masson on Greek Ideas, French Painting, and American Prodigies. A Conversation," by Demosthenes Davvetas; "The Mausberg Collection: A Project for Artforum," by Reinhard Mucha; "Things That Go Bump: At Documenta 8, Curators with Causes. ... [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]