Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "[Thump Thump]," by Richard Nonas; "Picasso's Absinth Glasses: Six Drinks to the End of an Era," by Brooks Adams; "Spero's Apocalypse," by Donald B. Kuspit; "The Expulsion from the Garden: Environmental Sculpture at the Winter Olympics," by Kay Larson; "Michael Asher: Recent Work," by Anne Rorimer; "The Lightning Field," by Walter De Maria; "Progress--Discontinuous," by Regina Cornwell; "Perfecting the Imperfect: Noguchi's Personal Style," by Margaret Sheffield; "Books: Dore Ashton's 'A Fable of Modern Art'," by Kate Linker. Reviews by Hal Foster, Ronny H. Cohen, Colin L. Westerbeck, Jr., Carrie Rickey, Joan Casademont, Judith Lopes Cardozo, Joanna Frueh, Susan Platt, Richard Armstrong, Stuart Morgan, Adrian Searle, Micky Piller. Cover: Walter De Maria.