Issue number 7 of ZG Magazine, edited by Rosetta Brooks. Contents include "A Woman is a Woman, but a Good Cigar is a Smoke," by Brian Hatton; "Saint Sebastian in Shinjuku," by Mark Holborn; "The Dark Night of the Body," by Ken Hollings; "We're Only in it for the Monet," by Dan Graham; "You Wish You Were Closer to You," Joan Wallace and Geralyn Donohue on David Salle; "Young Love for Sale," by Ian McMillan; "Malcolm MacLaren," interview by Krystina Kitsis; "Tail to the Wall," Jan Wandja on the drawings of Jo Baer and Bruce Robbins; "Everything You Want. ... [details]
Issue edited by Mark Holborn. Essays "Richard Prince," an interview by David Robbins; "Studio Still Lifes," by Robert Cumming; "Brian De Palma's 'Body Double,'" by Susan Dworkin; "The Future of Photojournalism," by Fred Ritchin; "Fidel Castro on Photography"; "Dream Portraits," photographs by Appalachian children; "People and Ideas: Ray Metzker," by Michael Berryhill; "People and Ideas: In Praise of Agee," by Danny Lyon; "People and Ideas: Agee and the Photographer's Art," by Andrew Mossin. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Books: Peter Galassi on 'Photography: A Concise History,'" by Peter Galassi; "David True's 'Pendulums,'" by John Yau; "William Eggleston's Color Photographs: Matters of Record"; "Eikoh Hosoe and Yukio Mishima: The Shadow in the Time Machine," by Mark Holborn; "Statuary Versus Idols," by Alain Kirili; "Escher or Newman: Who Puts the Ghosts in the Machine?" by Gary Stephan; "Bracusi + Mondrian: A Sum, a Summa," by Sidney Geist. ... [details]
Special Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. "I am on a train moving eastward," by Mark Holborn; "For some time now, in order to write this wretched article, I have been thinking about automatons," by Eugenio Battisti; "The monster and the city have always been symbiotic," by Philip Strick; "Since the late 18th century the function of art as a form of value, and how that value was to be defined, has been anything but clear," by Sidney Tillim; "There is more of traditional beauty in Modernist art than we care to admit," by Carter Ratcliff; "ANKEBUTA, AN ANCIENT BABYLONIAN SCIENTIST, WROTE A WORK ON ARTCRITICAL PRODUCTIONS IN WHICH HE CLAIMED TO HAVE MANUFACTURED A LIVING HUMAN BEING," by Thomas McEvilley; "God made the first copy," by Glenn O'Brien; "Culture in the most fertilized substance," by Edit deAK; "At this quick and weightless moment late in the Century of Abstraction. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "On Location: Milton Resnick, New York City," by Milton Resnick; "Turned Out: Christo in Paris, The Bridge Wore Beige," by John Howell; "Speaker to Speaker: Heart from the Heartland," by Greil Marcus; "Modern Life: AIDS, A Buried Allegory," by Carter Ratcliff; "Ground Up: Parabuilding - The Postmodern Tick on the Modern Elephant," by Herbert Muschamp; "Like Art: The Model Critic, A New Face in the Empire of Signs," by Glenn O'Brien; "Remote Control: Waiting for Gloria," by Barbara Kruger; "Books: Sarah Bodine on 'Moholy-Nagy;' Mark Francis on 'Ian Hamilton Finlay: A Visual Primer;' Charles Hagen on 'The Indelible Image: Photographs of War - 1846 to the Present;' Mark Holborn on 'Tokyo 1970 - 1985;' Donald Kuspit on 'The Sense of Sight;' Greil Marcus on 'Dada/Dimensions;' 'Herbert Muschamp on 'Ballet' and 'Balanchine's Tchaikovsky: Interviews with George Balanchine;' Carter Ratcliff on 'Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris;' Barry Schwabsky on 'Jim Dine Drawings;' Frederic Tuten on 'History of the Universe;'" "Hysterical Painting: Civilization and Francis Bacon's Exhibition of its Discontents," by Donald Kuspit; "A Project for Artforum: Written Leaf," by Mario Merz; "Cultivated Canvases: Richard Diebenkorn's Uneasy Grace," by Susan C. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "On Location: Balancing Bigger and Smaller, Alberto Burri's Studio," by Ida Panicelli; "Modern Life: Close Encounters with Unidentified Flying Zeitgeists," by Carter Ratcliff; "Turned Out: Biology 101 invades Art History 407. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ida Panicelli. Essays "Like Art," Glenn O'Brien on Advertising; "The Cave: Maria Nadotti on Film"; "Here, There & Otherwise," John Welchman on Elsewhere; "Object," Alessandro Mendini on Design; "Remote Control," Barbara Kruger on Television; "Curies' Children," Vilém Flusser on Discovery; "Special Effects," by Carol Squiers on the News and Its Pictures; "William Eggleston: Democracy & Chaos," by Mark Holborn; "Seductive Lures: Shirazeh Houshiary," by Pier Luigi Tazzi; "The Ground Has Been Covered," by Jimmie Durham and Jean Fisher; "Hinged Victories," by Patricia C. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ida Panicelli. Essays "What in the World," Andrew Solomon on the Art of Perestroika; "Here There & Otherwise," John Welchman on Elsewhere; "Like Art," Glenn O'Brien on Advertising; "Special Effects," Carol Squiers on the News and its Pictures; "Books," Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe on "Peter Halley: Collected Essays 1981 - 87"; "The World According to Douglas Huebler," by Colin Gardner; "The Benefit of Doubt or Loving Modernism to Death," by Judith Russi Kirshner; "Charon's Boat," by Francesco Pellizzi; "Image of a Second Skin," by Mark Holborn; "Miguel Angel Rios: Epics from the Earth," by Frederick Ted Castle; "A Gentle Guide," by Ida Panicelli, an Introduction to "Territory"; "Territory: A Project for Artforum," by Leonel Moura; "Face(t)s: Notes on Faciality," by John Welchman. ... [details]
Issue edited by Jack Bankowsky. Essays "Slant: Wayne Koestenbaum on paparazzi," by Wayne koestenbaum; "Passages: Joseph Kosuth on Douglas Huebler," by Joseph Kosuth; "Hot List: Timothy Druckrey on curating the Web," by Timothy Druckrey; "Thurston Moore on Sun Ra," by Thurston Moore; "Christoph Cox on Panasonic," by Christoph Cox; "David Poole on the Tindersticks," by David Poole; "Real Life Rock: Greil Marcus' Top Ten," by Greil Marcus; "Pascaline Cuvelier on the swing left," by Pascaline Cuvelier; "Olivier Zahm on Marc Atlan for Comme de Garçons," by Olivier Zahm; "Miriam Rosen on Catherine Trautmann," by Miriam Rosen; "Richard Tuttle: Just Exquistite?" by Robert Storr; "Fabrice Hybert: Studio Time," by Pascaline Cuvelier; "Critical Reflections," by Etienne Balibar with an Introduction by John Rajchman; "Openings: Steve McQueen," by David Frankel. ... [details]
Issue number 10 of ZG Magazine, edited by Rosetta Brooks. Contents include: "Editorial: The Body of the Image," by Rosetta Brooks; "The Wound in the Fa ce: the made-up face," by Angela Carter; "Richard Prince Interviewed by Peter Halley; "(Di-Vested Interests): The Calvin Klein Ads," by artist/writer Silvia Kolbowski; "The Resurrection of the Body: The Presentation of the Body in Art," by Gray Watson; "Cultural Scan: Speculations on 'the body' by artists and writers," by Josh Baer, Barbara Kruger, Jessie Holborn, Malcom Morley, Carlo McCormick, and Thomas Lawson; "Eiko Very Parco: A Critical Overview of the book 'Eiko by Eiko,'" by Mark Holborn; "Interview with Kartar Singh: The Influence of Eastern Philosophy on the West;" "Simulated Sexuality/Androgynous Outcomes," by Kristina Kitsis; "The Eternal Body," by Jonathan Miles; and "Silhouette Bodies: dance and performance," by artist/writer Craig Bromberg. ... [details]