Issue edited by Philip Leider. Essays "An Interview with Joseph Beuys," by Willoughby Sharp; "A Dan Flavin Retrospective in Ottawa," by Jack Burnham; "An Interview with Richard Van Buren," by Phyllis Tuchman; "Problems of Criticism VII: To Save Painting," by Justin Schorr; "Modern American Art at the Metropolitan Museum," by Philip Leider. Reviews by Manny Farber, Robert Pincus-Witten, Rosalind Krauss, Jean-Louis Bourgeois, Jerrold Lanes, Peter Plagens, Palmer D. French. Cover: Michael Heizer.