London: Gallery House Press, 1981. [24]pp; b&w illus. Unbound sheets, folded twice to form half-size covers; opens to 16-1/2 x 11-3/4 in. Crimping and wear at corners; creasing and short stress tears at junction of folds. Very good.
Fifth of fifteen total issues of this edgy UK artists' periodical comprised of "critical writings and artists' projects, approaching visual art as one facet of a wider arena of cultural production including fashion, punk music, and television" (Allen, Artists' Magazines, p. 313). This issue covering the New York art and music scene, with features including an interview with No Wave saxophonist James Chance; a review of a Bloomingdale mail-order lingerie catalogue by Rosetta Brooks; a profile of performance and conceptual artist Jack Goldstein, including interview; an article on noise music by Gary Zimmerman; an interview with avant-garde composer and guitarist Glenn Branca; an interview with vant-garde composer and guitarist Rhys Chatham; a Richard Prince text with illustration reprinted from Menthol Pictures (1980); an article on the New York art scene by Real Life editor Thomas Lawson; an article on avant-video arts by Jonathan Miles; an interview by John Sanborn of video artist Dara Birnbaum; an interview with painter Neil Jenney, etc.
