March 1987 issue of Artforum, edited by Ingrid Sischy. Contents include: "The Opposite of Emptiness: On the Spirit in Art," by Thomas McEvilley; "Excuse Me Madame But It Seems To Me Unless I'm Mistaken That I've Met You Somewhere Before: A Conversation with Eugène Ionesco," by Sanda Miller; "Nine Beatitudes on Eight Pages: After 'Four Saints in Three Acts,' Another Act, with Pictures," by Ingrid Sischy; "Hans Haacke's Corporate Muse: 'Unfinished Business,'" by Jean Fisher; "The Sleeping Beauty in the Castle of Modern Art: A Slumberer Stirs," by Ida Panicelli; "Louise Bourgeois: Where Angels Fear to Tread, A Profile in Courage," by Donald Kuspit; "Museum Piece: Rain. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ida Panicelli. Essays "Exits and Entrances: Maria Nadotti on Reinterpreting Chekov," by Maria Nadotti; "Remote Control: Barbara Kruger on Television," by Barbara Kruger; "Appetizers: Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett on Edible Art," by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett; "Undertone: Scott Gutterman on Rhythm and Rage," by Scott Gutterman; "Books: Diedrich Diederichsen on Greil Marcus' European Dream," by Diedrich Diederichsen; "Icons at Large: Maureen Connor on Modesty," by Maureen Connor; "Another Alphabet: The Art of Marcel Broodthaers," by Thomas McEvilley; "On Fire: A Project for Artforum," by Nic Nicosia; "Critical Reflections," Cornel West; "Listen Carefully: The Mahabharata on Film," by Ida Panicelli; "Contents Under Pressure: Equipo Crónica," by Dan Cameron; "Hapless Figures in an Artificial Storm," by Max Kozloff; "Satanic Paintings: A Project for Artforum," by Mario Nigro; "Nancy Dwyer Makes Trubble," by Marcia Tucker. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held July 14 - September 2, 1984. Text by curator Hilary Gresty, Charles Harrison, and Victor Burgin with additional artists' statements and essays for each individual artist represented. ... [details]
"How can an art exhibition function as a stand-in for the artists and their studios? How can a gallery project provide greater insight into an artist's practice, the way the formality of a slide lecture or the intimacy of a studio visit can? How can the back-story of the work on display be understood, without being solely reliant on a curatorial statement, catalogue essay or press release? This exhibition allows art to be understood as an ongoing and slippery practice, and less the finite, linear and object-oriented one assumed by the standard exhibition format. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "The Play's the Thing: The House that Bene's Built," by Franco Quadri; "Weavings: Anni Albers Reconciles the Hand and the Machine; Fifty Years Later, Jonathan Williams Picks Up Some Threads"; "Putty as a Picture: The By-products of a By-product," by Carlo McCormick; "On the Earth and in the Air: Panamarenko. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Not Utopia: Jan Vercruysse: The Present Unclosed," by Pier Luigi Tazzi; "Three's a Company: James Ivory, Ismail Merchant, and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Talk Talkies," by Anthony Korner; "Baptism: A Project for Artforum," by Jeff Koons; "Renovating the New: The Art of Lucio Fontana," by Jole de Sanna; "Black and White Light: Getting Home in Charcoal and Pastel," by John Yau; "Artist Envy: The Art of Interpretation and its Interpretation of the Artist," by Donald Kuspit; "A Song to the Avant-Garde: 'Tadeusz Kantor and the Duck, Robert Wilson Riding Hood, Un Mélange de Styles,' and Six More Plays by Kenneth Koch Here Staged on the Page in a Project for Artforum by Larry Rivers"; Book Preview: The sounds of Silents. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Today Crossed Out," a Project for Artforum by Hanne Darboven with an Introcuction by Coosje van Bruggen; "Zarina's Balm: Objects of Exchange," by Lisa Liebmann; "Just Say Noh: The Esthetics of Banality," by Richard Goldstein; "Enter Elliott Erwitt"; "Time Bandits, Space Vampires," by Thomas Lawson; "Ostentatious Perfectionism: Four-Color Whites, 'One Hundred Flowers,' Georgia O'Keefe. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ida Panicelli. Essays "Books," Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe on Fashion and Surrealism; "Object," Alessandro Mendini on Design; "Remote Control," Barbara Kruger on Television; "Curies' Children," Vilém Flusser on Discovery; "Believe it or Not," J. ... [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]