The black figure has always been a subject of entertainment in popular culture, as well as an image to sell things. In some ways, that’s how people relate to us—because they’ve seen us on television.
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Derrick Adams
Three Paintings by Izhar Patkin
- Roland Joffé by Thomas Bird
- Gretchen Bender by Cindy Sherman
- Charles Henri Ford by Bruce Wolmer
- Martin Amis by Patrick McGrath
Interviews
- Three Poems by Sunil Gangopadhyay
- Opening Pages by Charles Henri Ford
- Four Poems by Alice Rose George
- Five Poems by Ashok Vajpeyi
- To the Consciousness of a Shooting Star by David Rattray & Gérard Charrière
- Merry Christmas, Dr. Title by Eileen Myles
- Endless Lunch by Gary Indiana
- Two Poems by Kedarnath Singh
- Song of the Earth by M. Gopalakrishna Adiga
- X≠Y by Susan Daitch
First Proof
- Two Works by Dona Nelson
- Two Photographs by Ellen Carey
- Three Works by Gary Stephan
- Two Paintings by Stephen Ellis
- Three Paintings by Izhar Patkin
- Selected Similarities: Notes and Drawings by Roberto Juarez
- Stomach by Kiki Smith
- Long Rain by Roberto Juarez
- Angst by John Wells
- Two Works by Lucio Pozzi
- Saning Sari by Marilyn Lerner
- Two Photographs by Annette Lemieux
- Monday Morning Early by Peter Nadin
- Two Works by Saint Clair Cemin
- Drawing by Robert Gober
- Drawing by Louise Bourgeois
- Untitled by James Wright
- Untitled Cardboard Drawing by Daniel Mahoney
- #7, St. Barts by Brice Marden
- Untitled by Robert Smithson
- Determined Girl Holds up the Igloo House by Rhonda Wall
- Riverside Drive 110th St. by Alice Neel
- Untitled by Curtis Lee Fairley
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Izhar Patkin, Virtue and Village, (The Black Paintings), 1986, enamel on chrome coat paper, 93 × 42 inches each. Courtesy Holly Solomon.
Izhar Patkin, Night at the Balagany, 1986, enamel on chrome coat paper, 93 × 42 inches. Courtesy Holly Solomon Gallery.
Related
MOLLY, MERCY, MADELINE,
MYRA, MAGGIE, MEREDITH,
MARLEY, MAGDA, MARGARET,
MINDY, MILLIE, MAGDALA,
MYRNA, MOIRA, MARIANNE,
MARLA, MAURA, MARIGOLD,
MEGHAN, MARY, MILLICENT,
MAITE, MAPLE, MITZI.
Originally published in
BOMB 18,
Winter 1987
Martin Amis, Gretchen Bender by Cindy Sherman, Charles Henri Ford, and Roland Joffé.
