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The Artforum archive
The entirety of Artforum’s archives, going back to our first issue in 1962, is fully accessible online to all subscribers. These essays, reviews, and projects represent an encyclopedic history of contemporary art, tracing the rise of some of the most remarkable artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
For the month of August, the following selection of articles will be in front of the paywall.
September 1966
Annette Michelson on Breton’s Esthetics
Summer 1967
Sol LeWitt on Paragraphs on Conceptual Art
March 1969
Michael Fried on Manet’s Sources: Aspects of His Art, 1859–1865
Summer 1974
Rosalind Krauss on Painting Becomes Cyclorama
February 1982
Editorial—Ingrid Sischy and Germano Celant
September 1991
Howard Hampton on Rest in Peaks
January 1993
Lane Relyea on Hi-Yo Silver: Cady Noland’s America
May 1993
Hilton Als on Ru Paul and the Whitney Biennial 1993
January 1996
Bruce Hainley on Alex Bag
October 1997
Gary Indiana on Insistent Director: Jack Smith
April 2009
Huey Copeland on Figures and Ground: The Art of Barkley L. Hendricks
September 2015
Ina Blom on Dream Work: The Art of Torbjørn Rødland
Summer 2016
Hannah Black on the Identity Artist and the Identity Critic
December 2018
Elizabeth Schambelan on Eclipse of the Sun: The Year in Monsters
April 2019
Johanna Fateman on Wise Guys: The Art of Nicole Eisenman
December 2019
David Velasco on the Year in Friendship