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.
—
Derrick Adams
Untitled Sculpture (My Arms are Ready to Embrace the Universe with Love) by Ken Lum
- Three Painters: April Gornik, Freya Hansell, and Susan Rothenberg by Betsy Sussler
- Paul Auster by Joseph Mallia
- Black-Eyed Susan by Kate Simon
- Jeanne-Pierre Gorin by Lynne Tillman
- The Round Table Project: Part I by Saul Ostrow
Interviews
- Precious In His Sight by M. E. Hughes
- Marlene by Mariarosa Sclauzero
- Family by Brad Gooch
- Horse Crazy by Gary Indiana
- Raucous Sun by Geneviève Letarte
First Proof
- The Zulu (European Version) by Robin Collyer
- The Statues by Andy Patton
- Toxic Imaging by Betty Beaumont
- Proper Fit by Nancy Johnson
- Blade Study by Philip Taaffe
- Untitled Drawing by Claudia Hart
- Not Being Born by Ross Bleckner
- Study for Axon by David Row
- Tableau with Beast & Pillars by Bernie Miller
- Taj by Tim Zuck
- Excerpts from a Description of the Universe by Tom Dean
- Canuck Canuck Who’s There (Toronto) by David Craven
- Leg of Mutton by Tony Scherman
- Two Pespectives by JoAnne Tod
- Four Sculptures by Wade Saunders
- Bad Faith-Yellow and Bad Faith-Blue by Will Gorlitz
- Untitled by Julian Lethbridge
- Two Works by Willy Heeks
- Untitled Sculpture (My Arms are Ready to Embrace the Universe with Love) by Ken Lum
- Untitled Painting by Al Taylor
- Fashion by José Arman-Pita
- Pines by Louisa Chase
- Condo by Alan Belcher
More
Ken Lum, Untitled Sculpture (My Arms are Ready to Embrace the Universe with Love), 1987. Courtesy Nature Morte.
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 23,
Spring 1988
Paul Auster by Joseph Mallia, Black-Eyed Susan, Jeanne-Pierre Gorin, April Gornik, Freya Hansell & Susan Rothenberg.
