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 Works by Fred Valentine
- Clifford Owens by Nick Stillman
- Eve Sussman by Matvei Yankelevich
- Lisa Yuskavage
- Sanford Biggers by Terry Adkins
- Geoff Dyer by Jonathan Lethem
- Kenneth Goldsmith by Marcus Boon
- Neil Michael Hagerty by Keith Connolly
- Peter Eisenman by Carlos Brillembourg
Interviews
- How to Crash Cannes by Zachary Mason
- Three Works by Fred Valentine
- Poems from Opuscula by Craig Dworkin
- Four Poems by Harvey Shapiro
- The New Us by Thom Donovan
- Les Baigneuses by Jeffrey DeShell
- Chai Wan Four by Helen Phillips
- Peacock by Dawn Raffel
- Borders by Margaret Zamos-Monteith
- Three Photographs by Jane Hammond
First Proof
- Andrea Blum by pamela lins
- The Chadwicks by Ellen Harvey
- Phoebe Washburn by Abby Goldstein
- R. M. Fischer by Daniel Wiener
Artists on Artists
- Encyclopedia Vol. 2 F-K by Alan Gilbert
- Jac Leirner in Conversation with Adele Nelson by Ursula Davila-Villa
- It Is Almost That: A Collection of Image+Text Work by Women Artists and Writers by Cameron Shaw
- Shake: 4-song 45-rpm record Black Lake by David Brody
- Unknown Mortal Orchestra by Peter Moysaenko
- dongghab by Sowon Kwon by Moyra Davey
- Yvonne Rainer’s Poems by Corina Copp
- David Antin’s Radical Coherency by Danny Snelson
Editor's Choice
Fred Valentine, Large Clown, 2005, charcoal on torn and disrupted paper, 50 × 38 inches.
Fred Valentine, Atoon for a Wobbly Optimism, 2010, oil on canvas, 9 × 12 inches
Fred Valentine, Lure, 2008–09, oil on wood panel, 10 ½ × 14 inches.
This issue of First Proof is funded, in part, by the Bertha and Isaac Liberman Foundation and the Thanksgiving Fund.
Additional funding is provided by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the New York State Council on the Arts, and readers like you.
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Great to see you as always. A few questions came to me, typically after all was said and done. I thought I’d send them over while our very interesting conversation was still fresh in my mind.
Section titled “The Folding Screen,” curated by Ursula Helman featuring folding screen works by Ed Ruscha, Lucas Samaras, Helen Frankenthaler, and Jennifer Bartlett among others.
Originally published in
BOMB 117,
Fall 2011
Featuring interviews with Clifford Owens, Eve Sussman, Lisa Yuskavage, Sanford Biggers, Geoff Dyer, Kenneth Goldsmith, Neil Michael Hagerty, and Peter Eisenman.
