Issue edited by Ida Panicelli. Essays "Expertise: Neil Smith on Making M/other Nature," by Neil Smith; "The Cave: Greg Tate on 'Looking for Langston,'" by Greg Tate; "Books: Mira Schor on Remedios Varo," by Mira Schor; "Exits and Entrances: Peter Stellars on Opera," by Peter Stellars; "Troubleshooters: David Sternbach on the Trials of Men," by David Sternbach; "Special Effects: Carol Squiers on the New Racism," by Carol Squiers; "Lili Dujourie's Image and Afterimages," by Michael Tarantino; "We Eat We Are Eaten: A Project for Artforum," by David Byrne; "A Systematic Bewildering: The Art of John Baldessari," by Colin Gardner; "On Gérôme, Bouguereau, Ingres, and 'They Died with their Boots on: Notes from a Journal," by Sidney Tillim; "Stages of Strehler," by Maria Nadotti; "The Word Unspoken," by Pat Steir; "Critical Reflections," by Bice Curiger; "Narrative Art: Twelve Artists on the Year's Books," by Papo Colo, Jessica Diamond, Braco Dimitrijevic, Michele Oka Doner, Candida Höfer, Cristina Iglésias, Alfredo Jarr, Robert Kushner, Hirsch Perlman, Lucio Pozzi, Stephen Prina, Nancy Spero. Reviews by John Miller, David Deitcher, John Yau, Kirby Gookin, Donald Kuspit, Patricia C. Phillips, Catherine Liu, Charles Hagen, David Rimanelli, Jack Bankowsky, Richard C. Ledes, Jenifer P. Borum, James Lewis, Ronny Cohen, Lois E. Nesbitt, Hilton Als, Kathy O'dell, John Howell, Melissa Harris, Francine A. Koslow, Howard Risatti, Vincent A. Carducci, James Yood, Joan Seeman Robinson, Bill Berkson, Amy Gerstler, Buzz Spector, Benjamin Weissman, Linda Genereux, John Howell, Menene Gras Balaguer, Pier Luigi Tazzi, Alessandra Mammi, Anthony Iannacci, Miriam Rosen, Uli Bohnen, Norbert Messler, Noemi Smolik, Lars O. Ericsson, Desa Philippi, Natasha Edwards, Donald Kuspit, Charles Green. Cover: Giorgio Strehler's 1972 production of Brecht's 'The Threepenny Opera,' 1928.