I believe that each of us is given one sentence at birth, and we spend the rest of our life trying to read that sentence and make sense of it.
—
Li Young Lee
Embrasure II by Georges Rousse
- John Patrick Shanley by Craig Gholson
- Sandra Bernhard by Gary Indiana
- Gregor Von Rezzori by Bruce Wolmer
- Richard Prince by Marvin Heiferman
- The Round Table Project: Part II by Saul Ostrow
Interviews
- Four Poems by Roberto Sosa
- Three Poems by Roque Dalton
- The Dogs by Burt Barr
- Four Poems by Claribel Alegría
- The Simplest Thing by Cookie Mueller
- Two Poems by Daniel Flores y Ascencio
- Shadow of Angels by Gary Indiana
- Seven Poems by Henrik Ibsen
- Twisted Intentions by Lynne Tillman
- Paulie Is Born by Michael Greenberg
First Proof
- Eagle Mound Earthworks, Newark, Ohio by Suzanne Williamson
- Elizabeth Cannon by Taro Suzuki
- Untitled by William Anastasi
- Two Photographs by Adam Fuss
- Playing on the Girls’ Team by Katherine Kreisher
- Remembering Barbara Ess: Untitled Photograph by Barbara Ess
- Standard Wait (silent C for MD) by Alan Scarritt
- John Galliano by Lynda Benglis
- Christian Lacroix by Billy Sullivan
- Classroom by Lynne Cohen
- Artists Choose Designers by Elizabeth Cannon
- Azzedine Alaïa by David Walter McDermott & Peter McGough
- Sally Beers (Umbrella Raincoat) and Yorke & Cole by Ray Smith
- Cristobal Balenciaga by David Seidner
- Fallingwater by Dennis Adams
- Yohiji Yamatoto by Robert Longo & Frank Okenfels
- Sixth Leaf by Sokhi Wagner
- Embrasure II by Georges Rousse
- David Mark Winfield by Susan Grayson
- Isaac Mizrahi, #104, 605, 200 (1988) by Suzan Etkin
- Kitchen Window with Corrall by James Casebere
- Charge II by Jane Dickson
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Georges Rousse, Embrasure II, 1987, cibachrome mounted on aluminum, 62 × 48½ inches. Courtesy Farideh Cadot Gallery.
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Pacale Marthine Tayou is a Cameroonian artist based in Belgium. His work has appeared in documenta11 (2002) in Kassel, two Venice Biennales (2005 and 2009), and numerous international exhibitions. Recent solo exhibitions took place at the Serpentine Galleries, London, and Fowler Museum, Los Angeles, both in 2015.
Gabriele Beveridge has quite the eye for sad-looking models in posters—the kind of women who hawk things like hair dye and shampoo.
Originally published in
BOMB 24,
Summer 1988
Richard Prince by Marvin Heiferman, Christian Lacroix, Sandra Bernhard by Gary Indiana, John Patrick Shanley, Gregor von Rezzori, Cristobal Balenciaga, and more.
