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THIS MONTH IN PRINT
![]() “Stop saying stupid shit.” So begins Derek McCormack’s profane hymn to Vivienne Westwood, the keystone of Artforum’s package devoted to the mutineer couturier. McCormack wants us to quit the platitudes, to do Westwood right by adopting her “Destroy” heuristic. Westwood’s dexterous and enlightened oppositionality finds good company in the February issue, where Sarah Schulman writes on the early work of the brilliant insurgent Nicole Eisenman and Dodie Bellamy tackles the singular art of Joan Brown. On the cover is Alex Katz, another artist committed to cutting his own path. He’s feted here by four uncommon painters: Sam McKinniss, David Salle, Amy Sillman, and Jamian Juliano-Villani. “We need to be moved because we need to move on,” writes McKinniss, who is taken by Katz’s desire to go places “unstable and terrifying.” It’s a call for our arts to uproot and usurp, to push us to burn the barren past, to stop saying stupid shit. —David Velasco ON THE COVER
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