My impulse was to write the last black play ever for myself. I really believed if I put it all into one play, people would leave me alone.
—
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Harbor Fire by Donald Sultan
- The Score: to Richard Stark by April Bernard
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- Detail of Kissing Dogs by Not Vital
- Claude’s Trees by Pierluigi Consagra
- The Colossus by Arnold Mesches
- Stack by Robert Moskowitz
- Untitled Painting by Ross Bleckner
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- Dracula by Tim Rollins & KOS
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- Untitled Drawing by David Salle
- Four Photographs by Wendel A. White
- Journey by David True
- Western Sky by Yolanda Shashaty
- Rushing Water IV by Deborah Kass
- Santa Cruz by Denise Green
- Harbor Fire by Donald Sultan
- My Dog Dick by Ed Rainey
- Daddy’s Girl by Eric Fischl
- The Saints by Forrest Bess
- Untitled Painting by George Condo
- Bacchus and Ariadne by Georgia Marsh
- Photograph of Michael Heizer’s Complex I, Nevada 1975 by Gianfranco Gorgoni
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Donald Sultan, Harbor Fire, Oct. 25, 1984, acrylic spackle and tar on vinyl tile over wood, 96½ × 48½ inches. Courtesy Blum Helman Gallery.
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Originally published in
BOMB 11,
Winter 1985
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