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
To The Island by Jennifer Bartlett
- Angélica Gorodischer by Marguerite Feitlowitz
- Jeanne Silverthorne by Saul Ostrow
- Griselda Gambaro by Marguerite Feitlowitz
- Mark Leyner by Ameena Meer
- Deb Margolin by Lynne Tillman
- Richard Nelson by Craig Gholson
- Alain Kirili by Saul Ostrow
- Blue Man Group by Stanley Moss
- Barbet Schroeder by Bette Gordon
- Ed Lachman by Lynn Geller
- Percy Adlon by Lance Loud
- Volker Schlondorff by Claudia Steinberg
Interviews
- An Important Man by Angélica Gorodischer
- Information for Foreigners: A Chronicle in 20 Scenes by Griselda Gambaro
- Tuna by Alan Planz
- An Evening in Paris by Ameena Meer
- Atlantis by Liza Béar
- Rio Bang Bang by Matias Viegener
- Four Poems by Robin Becker
First Proof
- Remember and Forget by Ed Ruscha
- La Combe II by Ellsworth Kelly
- Erica Lennard by April Gornik & Erica Lennard
- Paravent by Francesco Clemente
- Gateway 8/12 by Helen Frankenthaler
- Tabriz by Jack Youngerman
- To The Island by Jennifer Bartlett
- Landscape Screen (Sky, Sun, Grass, Snow, Rainbow) by Jim Dine
- Surprise Valley by Jim Jacobs
- Screen by Lucas Samaras
- The Days of the Year by Edward Albee & Roberto Juarez
- Screen with Brushstrokes by Roy Lichtenstein
- The Folding Screen by Ursula Helman
- Angel Estrada by Isabel Toledo
- Lola Ehrlich by Kimberly Carter
- Untitled Drawing by Allan McCollum
- Caribbean Tea Time by David Hockney
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Jennifer Bartlett, To The Island (detail), 1982, enamel on mahogany, seven panels, 72 × 131¾ inches. Photo ©1982 by Geoffrey Clements. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery.
Related
Lithograph, screen print, collage and stencil piece on a folding, five panel screen of a table set for tea, Caribbean Tea Time by David Hockney. This piece appears in the portfolio The Folding Screen, curated by Ursula Helman.
Five standing lacquered wood panels in relief, Remember and Forget by Ed Ruscha. This piece appears in the portfolio The Folding Screen, curated by Ursula Helman.
Oil painting on nine wood panels, La Combe II by Ellsworth Kelly. This piece appears in the portfolio The Folding Screen, curated by Ursula Helman.
Originally published in
BOMB 32,
Summer 1990
Featuring interviews with Barbet Schroeder, Blue Man Group, Jeanne Silverthorne, Angélica Gorodischer, Richard Nelson, Ed Lachman, Alain Kirili, Griselda Gambaro, and Deb Margolin.
