Issue edited by Jack Bankowsky. Essays "Slant: Ronald Jones on 'Black Like Who?,'" by Ronald Jones; "Museum Piece: Wayne Koestenbaum on Vanessa Beecroft," by Wayne koestenbaum; "Hot List," by Simon Lamunière; "Hot List: David Frankel on Rirkrit Tiravanija," by David Frankel; "Passages: Barbara Rose on Richard Bellamy," by Barbara Rose; "Music: Ben Ratliff on Tony Conrad," by Ben Ratliff; "Music: Glenn O'Brien on John Lurie," by Glenn O'Brien; "Top Ten," by Peter Halley; "Giorgio Verzotti on the New School of Milan," by Giorgio Verzotti; "Gabriele Guercio on Spazio Aperto," by Gabriele Guercio; "Marco Meneguzzo on Casina Pompeiana," by Marco Meneguzzo; "A Tree Grows in SoHo: Alex Katz's 'Blue,'" by Tom Breidenbach; "Robert Smithson: 'The Monuments of Passaic,' 1967," by Luc Sante; "Surf and Turf: LA Art Schools," by Andrew Hultkrans; "A Thousand Words: Gabriel Orozco Talks About His Films," by Daniel Birnbaum; "Covering the Spread: Vincent Gallo's 'Buffalo '66,'" by Dale Peck; "Openings: Tomoko Takahashi," by Louisa Buck. Reviews by David Frankel, Tom Breidenbach, David Rimanelli, Jean-Pierre Criqui, Peter Plagens, John Perreault, Bruce Hainley, Andrew Perchuk, Barry Schwabsky, Mason Klein, Donald Kuspit, Joshua Decter, Nico Israel, Carlos Basualdo, Kirby Gookin, Adriano Pedrosa, Justin Spring, Ingrid Schaffner, Julie Caniglia, Tom Moody, Kristin M. Jones, James Yood, Rosetta Brooks, Lisa Anne Auerbach, Lisa Gabrielle Mark, Pablo Llorca, Mario Codognato, Miriam Rosen, Christian Kravagna, Harald Fricke, Yilmaz Dziewior, Michael Archer, Marek Bartelik, and Anna Miles. Cover: Vanessa Beecroft.