REALLIFE Magazine


When Thomas Lawson and Susan Morgan started REALLIFE Magazine in 1979, they wanted to make a publication that would be “by and about artists.” The magazine’s first issue was made possible by an NEA grant in art criticism, awarded to Lawson through Artists Space. During the 1980s, REALLIFE Magazine attentively addressed current art and its influences while continuously speculating about culture and questioning politics.

Issues

REALLIFE Magazine #1

REALLIFE Magazine #2

REALLIFE Magazine #3

REALLIFE Magazine #4

REALLIFE Magazine #5

REALLIFE Magazine #6

REALLIFE Magazine #7

REALLIFE Magazine #8

REALLIFE Magazine #9

REALLIFE Magazine #10

REALLIFE Magazine #11/12

REALLIFE Magazine #13

REALLIFE Magazine #14

REALLIFE Magazine #15

REALLIFE Magazine #16

REALLIFE Magazine #17/18

REALLIFE Magazine #19

REALLIFE Magazine #20

REALLIFE Magazine #21/22

REALLIFE Magazine #23



Book


2007            REALLIFE Magazine: Selected Writings and Projects 1979-1994



Exhibitions


2007            REALLIFE Magazine 1979-1990 Artists Space, New York.


2005            backroom #4 the backroom, Los Angeles


1983            Curated REALLIFE Magazine presents... White Columns, New York.


1981            Curated REALLIFE Magazine presents... Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London.

REALLIFE Magazine #10


Cover: Jessica Diamond, Helpless Peabrains.


Contents


2      Ruins in the Realm of Thoughts, by John Roberts

7      Songs, by Peter Nadin

10    Fucked by Dracula, by J. Smith

12    From the Permanent Collection, by Paul McMahon

16    Beyond the Pale, Jo Baer and Bruce Robbins

18    “Courage,” by Kathi Norklun

22    More Positions than Modernism ever Dreamt of, by Dena Shottenkirk

25    The Sunrise, by Bodil Hansen and Walter Robinson