Tenth anniversary issue of the biannual publication "Purple," published in Winter of 2003. Edited by Elein Fleiss and Olivier Zahm. Contents include: "Fall/Winter 02/03," by Laetitia Benat; "The Imaginary World," by Jeff Rian; "New York Lowdown," by Bruce Benderson; "Avenidas," by Jens Hoffmann; "Ma couleur préférée," by Claude Closky; "Absolute Beginners," by Maurizio Cattelan; "Portrait," by Wolfgang Tillmans; "Calme Plat," by Pierre Leguillon; "Therefore," by Elein Fleiss; "Surface," by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster; "Pablo Leon de la Barra," interviewed by Lupita Peckinpah; "Purple Special: 1992," with texts by Elein Fleiss, Jeff Rian, Claude Closky, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Olivier Zahm, Bennett Simpson, Lee Ranaldo, Sharon Mesmer, Marina Faust, Dike Blair, Mark Kingwell, Claude Lévêque, Richard Prince, Tim Griffin, John Kelsey, Sébastien Jamain, Michel Cloup, Mark Borthwick, Mark Fishman, and Jutta Koether; "Grand National Styling," by Terry Richardson; "Berlin Stories," by Heinz Peter Knes; "Man in the Shadows," by Emma Mafille; "Raf Simons/Louis Vuitton," by Frederike Helwig; "Hotel Okura," by Masafumi Sanai; "Dominique Sanda," by Henry Roy; "Baretto," by Giasco Bertoli; "Look But Don't Touch," by Mauricio Guillen; "Mexico City," by Marlene Marino; "AC/OC," by Banu Cennetoglu; "Rock Feller," by Christophe Brunnquell; "Emilie," by Gérard Duguet-Grasser; "World History," by Rita Ackermann; "I feel 'Lucky,' Oh so 'Lucky'!," by Glen Szabo; and "Hope" by Alex Antitch. ... [details]
Vinyl record soundtrack by Richard Landry to the film "A First Quarter" by Lawrence Weiner. Featuring musical contributions by Bella Obermaier, Mel Kendrick, Elaine Grove, Richard Peck, Robert Prado, Rusty Gilder, and David Lee. ... [details]
Issue seven of Real Life Magazine, edited by Thomas Lawson. Contents include: "Too Good to be True," by Thomas Lawson; "Paintings Are More Than Medals of Honor," by Malcolm Kesselman; "Out of Breath," by Mitchell Kriegman; "Painted Babies," by Paul McMahon; "Michael Powell," an interview by Laura Cottingham and Richard Martin; "Better Living Through Chemistry," by Susan Morgan; "Untitled," by Mike Roddy; "Elk Grazed as if Nothing had Happened," by Jenny Bolande; "Notes Toward Film," by David Robbins; "Driftings," by Douglas Blau; "Filmmaker Seeks Funding," by Richard Howorth; "The Extinction of Sculpture," by Robin Peck; "Pissing on Ice," by Fulton Ryder [Richard Prince]; and "Fascination," by Eric Bogosian. ... [details]
Program for a concert by Philip Glass held November 18, 1972. Program included "Music for Voices" (1972) sung by members of the Mabou Mines: Joanne Akalaitis, Jeffrey Bingham, Thom Cathcart, Dawn Grey, Ruth Maleczech, Fred Neumann, Jack Thibeau, Pam Thibeau, and David Warrilow. ... [details]
The Grand Union and Friends and Associates calendar of events for April / May 1973. Incorporates April 3, 1973 New York Times review of a Grand Union performances. Performers in April and May included The Grand Union, Yvonne Rainer, Douglas Dunn, Steve Paxton, Trisha Brown, Barbara Lloyd, [Richard] Dickie Landry, Mabou Mines, Tina GIrouard, Jack Thibeau, Carmen Beuchat, Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co. ... [details]
Flyer published in conjunction with a performance held at Paula Cooper Gallery, February 23 and 24th, 1975 featuring Barbara Dilley, Nancy Lewis, Batya Zamir, Larry Bennett, Johnny Berger, Richard Peck, and Richard Van Buren. [details]
Documents exhibitions from the first eight years of the New York alternative art space 112 Workshop. Entries are organized in chronological order, with textual information on the artists involved in each exhibition, as well as full page reproductions of works shown. ... [details]
Issue edited by Michelle Kuo. Essays "Passages: Paul Griffiths on Milton Babbitt," by Paul Griffiths; "Music: Cory Arcangel on Euro-Trance," by Cory Arcangel; "Slant: Okwui Enwezor on Ai Weiwei and Sharjah Biennial 10," by Okwui Enwezor; "Slant: Carol Armstrong on Paul Cézanne," by Carol Armstrong; "News: Catherine Wood on the Manchester International Festival," by Catherine Wood; "Film: Amy Taubin on Cristi Puiu's 'Aurora,'" by Amy Taubin; "Film: Steven Watson on Wynn Chamberlain's 'Brand X,'" by Steven Watson; "Archictecture: Owen Hatherley on Renzo Piano's Shard," by Owen Hatherley; "Top Ten," by Leilah Weinraub; "Acting Out: The Ab-Ex Effect," Introduction, Michelle Kuo; "Spatter and Daub: The Contradictions of Abstract Expressionism," by Harry Cooper; "Ab-Ex and Disco Balls: In Defense of Abstract Expressionism II," by Amy Sillman; "Close-Up: Carroll Dunham on William Baziote's 'Dwarf,'" by Carroll Dunham; "Depth Charge: Terry Winters talks with John Elderfield about Willem de Kooning"; "Close-Up: Jordan Kantor on Albert Oehlen's 'Fingermalerei,'" by Jordan Kantor; "Landmarks Preservation: Conserving the Monochrome," by Carol Mancusi-Ungaro; "Close-Up: Ann Temkin on Cy Twombly's 'Academy,'" by Ann Temkin; "Emptied Gesture: Roy Lichtenstein's 'Brushstrokes,'" by Graham Bader; "Close-Up: Molly Warnock on Georges Mathieu's 'Battle of the Bouvines,'" by Molly Warnock; "Signal Processing: Abstraction Then and Now," by David Joselit; "Close-Up: Mark Godfrey on Christopher Wool's New Work," by Mark Godfrey; "Eyes in the Heat: Jean Dubuffet, Cathy Wilkes, and Josh Smith," by Daniel Marcus; "Artists on Ab-Ex," by Rodney Graham, El Arakawa, Richard Prince, Jennifer West, Richard Jackson, Katharina Grosse, Jon Pestoni, Liang Yuanwei, Jacqueline Humphries, Katy Moran, Scott Lyall, Julian Schnabel, Lesley Vance, Nicole Eisenman; "Playing the Field: Computational Architecture and Abstract Painting," by Sean Keller; "1000 Words: Heimo Zobernig," by Achim Hochdörfer; "Openings: Matheus Rocha Pitta," by Irene V. ... [details]
Edited by Betsy Sussler. Essays "The Red Cloud," by Burt Barr; "The Children's Stories," by Jane Warrick; "Revolutionary Black Workers," by Felice Rosser; "Interview by Bradford Morrow," by Edouard Roditi; "The Birth Cave," by Susan Friedland; "Ferrements," by Aime Cesaire; "Sounds in the Distance," by David Wojnarowicz; "The Earth is a Sattelite of the Moon," by Philip Pocock and Leonel Rugama; "Portrait by Alf Young," by Taylor Meade; "In and Out," by Bob Perlongo; "Knife Story," by Paul Benney / Leslie Dick; "Skeleton," by Liz Cash / Jim Jarmusch; "Porcupines and Other Travesties," by Kiki Smith and Emily Listfield. ... [details]