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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 1970: Philip Leider on “How I Spent My Summer Vacation”
April 1973: Lowery Stokes Sims on “Black Americans in the Visual Arts”
April 1975: Annette Michelson on “Beaubourg: The Museum in the Era of Late Capitalism”
April 1990: Greg Tate on “Black to the Futurism”
November 1994: bell hooks on “Critical Reflections”
March 2001: Vincent Fecteau talks with Bruce Hainley
Summer 2002: The first installment of David Rimanelli’s Monthly Diary
April 2003: Sylvère Lotringer on “My ’80s: Better than Life”
January 2006: Dennis Cooper on Ryan Trecartin
January 2018: Johanna Fateman on “Fully Loaded: Power and Sexual Violence”
February 2018: Sarah Nicole Prickett on “Serious Sex Battle”
November 2018: Charles Gaines on “The Double Consciousness of the Lincoln Memorial”
