Beyond Repair
Regarding torture at the Berlin Biennale
Idle Hands
Surrealism versus the work ethic
Nick Drnaso
Drawing from the performance of everyday life
States of Mind
Toward an alternative future for Jewish art
Under the Cover
Coco Fusco talks about her 2021 video Your Eyes Will Be an Empty Word
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PRINT February 1982
Editorial
Whether we like it or not, much of the significant art of our century has been “inaccessible” even to the well-rounded and well-educated because full access depends heavily on one’s possession of a complex cultural and physical reference system, which expands not only with art-historical information, but with perceptual ability, a philosophy of looking, and a broad vocabulary of signs. Some of the most radical works have been articulated in such a specialized language that, as is often the case with scientific experiment, breakthroughs are recognized only by the immediate professional community.