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
Still Life by Kevin Larmon
- Michael McClard by Betsy Sussler
- Paul Bowles by David Seidner
- Clinton Street: Olivier Mosset and Fred Brathwaite
- Georgia Marsh by Betsy Sussler
- Duncan Hannah by Simon Lane
Interviews
- Evening by Barry Yourgrau
- The White Shirt by Burt Barr
- I.T.I.L.O.E. by Constance DeJong
- Baltimore 1969 by Cookie Mueller
- Now Here Nowhere by Craig Gholson
- Principia Martindale by Edward Swift
- Pillow Talk by Gary Indiana
- Is It Hemingway Or Is It Memorex by Glenn O'Brien
- Some Photographs and Brian by Jane Warrick
- D.S. Part II of Desire, A Play by Kathy Acker
- Entrapment by Liza Béar
- Summer 1980 by Luc Sante
- Words Without Pictures by Lynne Tillman
- Donkey Work by Matthew Fleury
- Harry At Work by Michael Kozlowski
- Untitled Story by Mindy Stevenson
- The First Poem I Ever Wrote by Peter Schjeldahl
- Nervous and Joking Joseph by Richard Elovich
- Gray Pants by Rosemary Moore
- The Concertina Earring by Simon Lane
- The Hour of the Fey by Terence Sellers
First Proof
- Susan Rothenberg by Mary Heilmann
- Un Tour D’Horizon by Richard Armstrong
- Michael Alfe and Dru Kim
Artists on Artists
- Two Videotapes by Mark Magill
Editor's Choice
- Lizbeth Marano, Louisa Chase, Jan Hashey, Elizabeth Pardi, Jenny Snider, Guy Goodwin, Mitch Fox, Kristen Huntley, Terry Winters, Moira Dryer, V. Alzamora, Bob Gober by Elizabeth Murray
- Altar of Good Fortune by Jack Barth
- Graffiti by Kiely Jenkins
- Terminal Bar by Jane Dickson
- Agony of the Feet by Jean Michel Basquiat
- Untitled Sculpture by Robert Hudson
- #45 by Robert Mangold
- It was Very Hot the Day I Decided to Wash the Car… by Jessica Lenard
- Two Paintings by Robin Bruch
- Round #13 by Joe Zucker
- Shitting and Laughing by Ross Bleckner
- Burnt Umber by John Egner
- Devil’s Gate on the Sweetwater after 1870… by Shelley Kaplan
- Regular Painting #33 by John Ford
- Monk and Bedding by Stephen Mueller
- Untitled Painting by Terry Winters
- O.B. by Tom Butter
- Moondance #2 by Abbott Burns
- Skellital Sea by Adolf Benca
- Cruciform with Red Marks by John Torreano
- Bwana’s Night by Jonathan Lasker
- Cathexsis 48 by Joseph Kosuth
- Julian Schnabel, Installation at Mary Boone Gallery by Alan Kleinberg
- Keith Haring by Tseng Kwong Chi
- Still Life by Kevin Larmon
- Two Paintings by Walter Robinson
- Anya Phillips by Walter Steding
- Four Drawings by William Wegman
- Untitled by Kit Grover
- For Djuna Barnes by Lan Payne
- Veil Portraits by Alf Young
- Untitled Painting by Betsy Berne
- Bobbie Oliver by Mimi Thompson
- Archaic Head by Brett DePalma
- Jack Rabbit by Cara Perlman
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Two photographs, No Room For Squares and I Feel the Goodness Going Out of Me, by Elliott Schwartz.
Silverprint, Kitchen Window with Corrall by James Casebere.
Two cibachrome prints, titled Kiwi Neutral and Aleseir Nesore by Clegg and Guttman.
Originally published in
BOMB 4,
Fall 1982
Georgia Marsh, Paul Bowles, Michael McClard, Olivier Mosset & Fred Brathwaite, and Duncan Hannah. Cover by Mary Heilmann.
