Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "On Location: Alan Shields' Works of Paper"; "Marginalia: Will it Last, Does it Matter?," by Thomas McEvilley; "Modern Life: How Scale Works," by Carter Ratcliff; "Turned Out: In America, Love Means Never Having to Say Sari," by Sunil Sethi; "Like Art," by Glenn O'Brien; "Ground Up: The Piazza in the Living Room, Communion by Communication," by Herbert Muschamp; "Remote Control: Lip-Syncing Free Speech," by Barbara Kruger; "Speaker to Speaker: In the Kingdom of the Invisible," by Greil Marcus; "Liberations: The Minus Works of Michelangelo Pistoletto," by Denys Zacharopoulos; "The Cowboy Philospher: Adventures as Metaphor," by Greil Marcus; "Rainer Werner Fassbinder: A Comet Passed by - Energy Burnt Against Oppression," by Wolfram Schutte; "Toward Another Laocoon, Or, the Snake Pit: Sunday in the Park with Art. From the Impressionists to the Neo-expressionists, the Avant-garde's Will to Survive Art Production," by Thomas Lawson; "Barbaric Place: Project for Artforum," by Ettore Sottsass, Jr., with a note by Herbert Muschamp; "Flashes of Understatement: Four Decades of Elmer Bischoff's Reckoning with Paint," by Kenneth Baker. Reviews by Kenneth Baker, Glenn O'Brien, Patricia C. Phillips, Jean Fisher, Jeanne Silverthorne, Suzaan Boettger, John Howell, Ronny Cohen, Charles Hagen, Donald Kuspit, Carlo McCormick, John Yau, Jayne Merkel, Jeff Kelley, Ed Hill, Suzanne Bloom, Colin Gardner, Bill Berkson, Annelie Pohlen, Max Wechsler, Helmut Draxler, Barbara Maestri, Ida Panicelli, Gloria Moure, and Aurora Garcia. Cover: Alan Shields.