As artists, we have to find the antidote to this darkness right now, to how everything feels so compressed rather than expanded.
—
Meredith Monk
- Five Poems by Aimé Césaire
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- Untitled Drawing by Mimmo Paladino
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- Photographic Light Drawing by Philip Pocock
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- CIA in Nicaragua by Rebecca Howland
- Street Portraits by Rachael Romero
- Untitled Painting by Richard Milani
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- Untitled Drawing by Dan Asher
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- Untitled Painting by David Deutsch
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- Matter Study by Shelley Kaplan
- After Willem de Kooning by Sherrie Levine
- G.T. by Stephen Lack
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- Untitled Drawing by George Peck
- Untitled Drawing by Susan Rothenberg
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- Untitled Drawing by William Burroughs
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Stephen Lack, G.T., oil stick on Hydro Paper, 18 × 24 inches. Courtesy Piezo Electric.
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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 8,
Winter 1983
Edouard Roditi by Bradford Morrow, Taylor Meade, art by Elizabeth Murray, Ellen Phelan, Keith Sonnier, Mary Heilmann, Pat Steir, Malcolm Morley, and more.
