Issue edited by Jack Bankowsky. Essays "Marx to Sharks: The Art-Historical '80s," by Thomas Crow; "Unhappy Returns: The Po-Mo Decade," by John Rajchman; "Making Difference: The Legacy of the Culture Wars," by Homi K. Bhabha; "'80s Then," Haim Steinbach talks to Tim Griffin; Julian Schnabel talks to Max Hollein; Bertrand Lavier talks to Daniel Birnbaum; Gran Fury talks to Douglas Crimp; Tim Rollins talks to David Deitcher; Jenny Holzer talks to Steven Henry Madoff; Philip Taaffe talks to Bob Nickas; Albert Oehlen talks to Eric Banks; Sherrie Levine talks to Howard Singerman; Mike Bidlo talks to Robert Rosenblum; Group Material talks to Dan Cameron; Tony Cragg talks to Barry Schwabsky; Georg Baselitz talks to Pamela Kort; Jonathan Borofsky talks to Mark Rosenthal; James Welling talks to Jan Tumlir; Thomas Ruff talks to Daniel Birnbaum; Mike Kelley talks to Dennis Cooper; "'80s Again," by Keith Edmier, Lisa Yuskavage, Vik Muniz, Rob Pruitt, Matthew Ritchie, Rachel Harrison, Chris Ofili, Nils Norman, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Mark Dion, Doug Aitken, Sarah Lucas, Erik Parker, Gabriel Orozco, John Pilson, Roe Ethridge, and Jason Rhoades; "A Project for Artforum," by Raymond Pettibon; "1986-1990," by David Rimanelli; "1986: David Lynch's 'Blue Velvet,'" by David Frankel; "1986: Jeff Koon's 'Rabbit,'" by Kirk Varnedoe; "1987: Todd Haynes's 'Superstar,'" by Rhonda Lieberman; "1987: Andy Warhol, 1928-1987," by Stephen Koch; "1988: 'Deconstructivist Architecture,'" by Anthony Vidler; "1988: 'Freeze,'" by Matthew Higgs; "1988: Robert Mapplethorpe's Self-Portraits," by Richard Flood; "1989: The Removal of 'Tilted Arc,'" by Arthur C. Danto; "1989: New German Photography," by Carol Squiers; "Thick and Thin: A Roundtable," Keynote by Robert Storr, moderated by Tim Griffin, roundtable discussion by Carroll Dunham, Helmut Federle, Jutta Koether, Jonathan Lasker, Monique Prieto, Lane Relyea, Terry Winters, and Lisa Yuskavage; "Bright Light, Big City: The '80s Without Walls," by Molly Nesbit; "My '80s: Better Than Life," by Sylvère Lotringer; "Whatever Happened To: Laurie Parsons," by Bob Nickas; "Cents and Sensibility: Collecting the '80s," by Peter Plagens; "Moving Pictures: The Market History of an '80s Artwork," by Daniel B. Schneider; "My '80s: Called Me," by Wayne Koestenbaum: "Editing the '80s: Salad Days," Moderated by Dacid Frankel, roundtable discussion by Ingrid Sischy, Amy Baker Sandback, and Anthony Korner. Cover: Martin Kippenberger.
