Guy Trebay writes for the Village Voice.

Greil Marcus is on sabbatical from his regular Artforum page. During his absence, different writers will count down their own Top Tens.

Glenn O’Brien is a writer living in New York.

Dennis Cooper is a writer based in Los Angeles. His novel Horror Hospital Unplugged is forthcoming from Juno Books in September.

Greil Marcus is on sabbatical from his regular Artforum page. During his absence, different writers will count down their own Top Tens.

Dave Hickey is a frequent contributor to Artforum.

Greil Marcus is on sabbatical from his regular Artforum page. During his absence, different writers will count down their own Top Tens.

Jim Lewis is the author of Sister (Graywolf Press, 1993).

Richard Flood is a writer and chief curator at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

Jeff Weinstein is a writer based in New York.

Simon Watney writes frequently for Artforum.

Greil Marcus is taking a sabbatical from his regular Artforum page to work on a book. During his absence, a different writer each month will count down his or her own Top Ten.

Mim Udovitch is a New York-based writer who contributes regularly to The Village Voice, Details, Rolling Stone, and the New York Times Book Review.

Griel Marcus is a contributing editor of Artforum. This will be his last column until he finishes work on a book about Bob Dylan's basement-tapes recordings. His book The Dustbin of History will be published this fall by Harvard in the U.S. and Picador in the U.K.