Editor's Letter

Ida Panicelli

SECRET VICES

Manohla Dargis on Bad-Girl Boots

UNDERTONE

Ann Marlowe on Rap Hermeneutics

BOOKS

David Levi Strauss on Crack Wars

CURIES’ CHILDREN

Vilém Flusser on the Term “Design”

top ten

Greil Marcus' Real Life Rock

SIR ANTHONY CARO AND HIS CRITICS

Michael Corris

RECASTING THE CANON: NORMAN LEWIS AND JACKSON POLLOCK

Ann Gibson

IDENTIKIT

Giulio Paolini with “Along the Edge,” a text by Ida Panicelli

LIFE AFTER HUMANISM

Bojana Pejić

YOUR.ART.IS., a project for Artforum

Jochen Gerz

The Emperor's New Monument

Miriam Rosen

THE HAUNTED WOMEN

Jeanne Silverthorne

THE PICTORIAL TURN

W. J. T. Mitchell

FLESH AND BONES: JANA STERBACK

Nancy Spector

SPIRAL

David Wojnarowicz

New York

• Donald Kuspit on Enzo Cucchi

• Donald Kuspit on Stanley Boxer

• Donald Kuspit on Alan Belcher

• David Rimanelli on Pruitt • Early

• Jan Avgikos on Jörg Immendorff

• Jan Avgikos on “1969”

• Keith Seward on McDermott & McGough

• Keith Seward on “The Hybrid State”

• Lois E. Nesbitt on Ana Mendieta

• Thad Ziolkowski on Ronald Jones

• Kirby Gookin on Imi Knoebel

• Lisa Liebmann on Lois Lane

• Matthew Weinstein on James Nares

• Justin Spring on Adam Straus

• Jenifer P. Borum on Arte Debole

• John Yau on Kathy Muehlemann

• Ronny Cohen on Jane Wilson

• Ronny Cohen on Duncan Hannah

Philadelphia

• Eileen Neff on Ray Johnson

Chicago

• James Yood on Alan Rath

Milwaukee

• James Yood on Jackie Winsor

San Francisco

• Maria Porges on John Randolph/Bruce Tomb

Los Angeles

• Colin Gardner on Fandra Chang

• Amy Gerstler on Raymond Pettibon

• Benjamin Weissman on Ellen Phelan

Toronto

• Linda Genereux on Roland Brener

Barcelona

• Anaxtu Zabalbeascoa on Joan Fontcuberta

Rome

• Massimo Carboni on Robert Rauschenberg

Milan

• Maria Nadotti on La Trilogie des Dragons

Paris

• Jean-Pierre Criqui on “Virginia Dwan”

• Anne Dagbert on Lea Lublin

• Miriam Rosen on Gisèle Freund

• Olivier Zahm on Véronique Joumard

Cologne

• Sabine B. Vogel on Keith Sonnier

• Norbert Messler on Titus

• Norbert Messler on Hubert Kiecol

• Noemi Smolik on Klaus Rinke

Amsterdam/Rotterdam

• Frank-Alexander Hettig on Michael Byron

Stockholm

• Lars O. Ericsson on Dan Wolgers

Helsinki

• Kimmo Sarje on Sean Scherer

London

• Michael Archer on Ramsay Bird

• Michael Corris on Sonia Boyce