Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Museum Piece: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Whitney Museum of American Art Additions. Round Two," by Joseph Giovannini; "A Canvas of Episodes: A Test. A Sentence. A Change," by Frederic Tuten; "Like Art: Of the People, By the People, For the People," by Glenn O'Brien; "Object: Undesigning Design," by Alessandro Mendini; "Special Effects: Friskiness Around the Runways," by Carol Squiers; "Speaker to Speaker: Phantasmic Rockabilly," by Greil Marcus; "Icons at Large: Ions," by Lisa Liebmann; "Remote Control: Glued to the Spot," by Barbara Kruger; "Talking Architecture: 'Fragments,' a Project for Artforum," by Aldo Rossi with an introduction by Germano Celant; "Where the Birds Fly, What the Lines Whisper: Ross Bleckner's Humming Canvases," by Pat Steir; "Turning on the Northern Light: Explorers who Rechart the Landscape in Swedish Art," by Lars Nittve; "Something Magix by Robert Mapplethorpe: The Action of a Kaleidoscope," by Stuart Morgan; "Guided Tour of the Hoskins County Historical Museum: With Your Tour Guide Mable Ann Troy. A Project for Artforum," by Roz Chast; "Klee's Array of Angels: A Compleat Abecedarium for Angelologists, Including Majestic, Forgetful, Smiling, Doubting, and Guardian Angels, and One Serving Breakfast," by Gert Schiff; "Suburban Hamlets: Across the Land, an Art of Plots and Developments," by Susan Freudenheim. Reviews by Susan Freudenheim, Lisa Liebmann, Thomas McEvilley, John Yau, Ronny Cohen, Donald Kuspit, Charles Hagen, Patricia C. Phillips, Jean Fisher, Buzz Spector, Carlo McCormick, John Howell, Nancy Stapen, Glenn Harper, Charlotte Stokes, Colin Westerbeck, Bill Berkson, Colin Gardner, Gloria Moure, Ida Panicelli, Pier Luigi Tazzi, Barbara Maestri, Daniel Soutif, Helmut Draxler, Wolfgang Max Faust, and Doris von Drateln. Cover: Robert Mapplethorpe.