Artists' book edited by James Hoff -- a recompilation of Artforum magazine's monthly Top Ten column written by a rotating cast of artists, scholars, actors and other superstars from 1998 to 2008. Comprised of direct copies of the author's pages from the magazine coupled with black boxes representing the supporting images. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "The Extravagant Depression: John Gutmann's Photographs of the Thirties," by Max Kozloff; "The Pledge of Allegiance," by Rene Ricard; "Portrait of Patti Astor," by Jimmy de Sana; "Heads It's Form, Tail It's Not Content," by Thomas McEvilley; "The Dark Side of the Bright Light," by Thomas Lawson; "Constructive Issues in Relief," by Joseph Masheck; "Venice Biennale 1982: No Form, Little Contentment," by Kate Linker and Ida Panicelli. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Animarum Venator (Hunter of Souls): An Interpretation of Arcimboldo," by Massimo Cacciari; "'I Like the Free World.' Arcadian Settlements on the Edge of the Unknown from the 1600s to the Present: Part II of a Series on Different Styles of Vision," by Carter Ratcliff; "Louis Sullivan's Clay Gardens: Pod-Modernism," by Colin Westerbeck; "Harlequinade for an Empty Room: On David Salle, Classical Steps Toward the Year 2000," by Lisa Liebmann; "Jannis Kounellis and the Reenchantment of Contradiction: Diverting Fact to Possibility," by Kenneth Baker; "Who Told Thee That Thous Was't Naked: The Immaculate Commission in the Emperor's New Clothes," by Thomas McEvilley; "Museum Piece: Los Angeles' Recent Acquisitions," by Joseph Giovannini; "Icons at Large: Knowing Who Your Friends Are," by Lisa Liebmann; "Like Art: Birthday Suits for Different Parties," by Glenn O'Brien; "Speaker to Speaker: Listening to the Words," by Greil Marcus; "Books: A Review of Art Spiegelman's Maus: A Survivor's Tale," by Richard Gehr; "A Canvas of Episodes: On the Wings of Love, Rex Finds Out What Give-and-take is All About," by Frederic Tuten. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "The Play's the Thing: The House that Bene's Built," by Franco Quadri; "Weavings: Anni Albers Reconciles the Hand and the Machine; Fifty Years Later, Jonathan Williams Picks Up Some Threads"; "Putty as a Picture: The By-products of a By-product," by Carlo McCormick; "On the Earth and in the Air: Panamarenko. ... [details]
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. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ida Panicelli. Essays "Museum Piece: Deborah Drier on Masquerade," by Deborah Drier; "Believe it or Not: J. Hoberman on the Potlatch Principle," by J. Hoberman; "Slant: Tom Kalin on Queer Nation," by Tom Kalin; "Real Life Rock: Greil Marcus' Top Ten," by Greil Marcus; "The Public Eye: Stuart Ewen on Barney's Ads," by Stuart Ewen; "Commedia Dell'Arte: A Project for Artforum," by Jacques Loustal; "The Cave: Maurice Berger on Yvonne Rainer's 'Privelege,'" by Maurice Berger; "A Drawing Page: A Project for Artforum," by Martin Kippenberger; "You're History, Pal: Reading Nayland Blake," by Maria Porges; "Doppel Jeopardy," by Giorgio Verzotti; "Hyperdeath and the Scopic Corpse," By Joseph Nechvatal; "In Their Own Image," by Kellie Jones; "Conjunct: City of Light, A Project for Artforum" by Maria Nordman with "Three Passerby at the Intersection Fifth Avenue and 60th Street, New York, June 1990. ... [details]
Issue edited by Jack Bankowsky. Essays, Artforum '62 - '79, "Ars Longa, Pecunia Brevis," by John Irwin; "Phil Leider, Editor: No Phil, No Forum," by Walter Hopps; "Phil Leider, Editor: He Was a Great Editor," by Richard Serra; "Phil Leider, Editor: He Was Extremely Talkative," by Irving Blum; "Phil Leider, Editor: He Was Extremely Terse," by John Coplans; "Phil Leider, Editor: He Called Me Chuck," by Chuck Close; "Phil Leider, Editor: He Was a Great Editor, and He Loved his Wife," by Michael Fried; "John Coplans: A Conversation with Peter Plagens"; "Let Slip the Dogs of War: Editing Artforum," by Angela Westwater; "Charles Cowles: A Conversation with Henry Geldzahler"; "The Page Was My Party," by Robert Pincus-Witten; "Yours Faithfully, Joseph Masheck," by Joseph Masheck. ... [details]
"This book makes available a series of documents concerning the attempt by a United States Government Agency (the General Services Administration) to remove and thereby destroy Richard Serra's Tilted Arc, a sculpture at Federal Plaza, New York City. ... [details]