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 #11/12


Contents


2      Group Material, an interview by Peter Hall

7      Radical Culture, by Mundy McLaughlin

7      Past Present Future, by Julie Ault

8      Particles, 1980-83, by Tim Rollins

9      Kiss of Death, by Doug Ashford

10    Paintings by Adolf Hitler, reprinted from LIFE, October 30, 1939

12    The Secret Agent, an interview with Jacki Ochs, by Robin Winters

15    Repression and Resistance at the University of El Salvador, 1968-83,

        by Coosje van Bruggen

19    Komar and Melamid, an interview by Thomas Lawson

22    Epic Images and Contemporary History, by Joseph Nechvatal

27    Alcohol and Advertising, by Elizabeth Winter

29    Brie Popcorn, an interview with the directors of Nature Morte Gallery,

        by Rex Reason

34    Born in Flames, by Carole Spearin McCauley

36    A Conversation with Lawrence Weiner, by Robert C. Morgan

40    A Blinding Light, by Judith Kirschner