Issue edited by John Coplans. Essays "The Great Curatorial Dim-Out," by Lawrence Alloway; "Accumulation: Power and Display in African Sculpture," by Arnold Rubin; "A Tough Nut to Crack," by Nicolas Calas; "The Lord Nelson of Painting," by Max Kozloff; "The Groupie and The Commissar: Revolutionary Posters and Capitalist Billboards," by Peter Plagens; "A Conversation on Knokke and the Independent Filmmaker," by Annette Michelson and P. Adams Sitney; "Pasadena, Lika a Real Museum," by Peter Plagens; "Book Review," by Sol Yurick. Reviews by Roberta Smith, Susan Heinemann, Alan Moore, Jeff Perrone. Cover: Mayombe (Zaire), Nkonde figure.