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 #20


Cover: Thomas Lawson “Light in LA.”


Contents


2    No Bull, by Thomas Lawson

3    Real life was elsewhere, by John Roberts

4    excerpts from Death Poems, by Komar & Melamid

6    Union of Large & Small Welders, by Jennifer Bolande

7    The End is Always at Hand: Confessions of a PostMarxist, by Jim Bradley

9    Untitled, John Miller

10    Girl Vent Press Shot (2), by Laurie Simmons

12    Untitled, by Dena Shottenkirk

14    Two Husbands and a Wife, by Richard Prince

15    Arapaho Maiden, by Paul McMahon

16    The Wondering of Context, by Dara Birnbaum

18    Introduction to Epistemology, by Adrian Piper

20    Korea: Divide and Rule, by Nancy Chunn

21    Hypertext, by Critical Art Ensemble

29    Untitled, by Steve Gianakos

30    Corridor, 1989, by James Welling

32    One Look and Another: Two Paintings by Robert Moskowitz, by Michael Hurson

34    John Beck, by Richard Baim

36    Mike, by Michael Smith & R. Sikoryak

38    Manifesto, by Richard Hertz

39    from the Archive, by Douglas Blau

40    Manifesto for the Last Decade of This Century, by Jamie Davidovich

42    & So It Goes, by Lawrence Weiner

43    Thinking, by Susan A. Davis

44    Aura 1979; Ladung (Explosive) 1989, by Alex Silber

46    Photo From TV (With Paintings), by Allan McCollum

47    Drive-In or Walk-In Museum, by Judith Barry

50    Fortune Teller, by Richard Dunn

52    Untitled, by Felix Gonzales-Torres

53    Declassified, by Robert C. Morgan

55    Vogue, Life & Time, by Derek Boshier

56    AIDS Timeline, by Group Material

58    Naked City, by Gerry Morehead

59    Hurricane Season (for Bruce Cliborne), by Susan Morgan

60    Three Cancelled TV Families, by David Robbins

62    Untrue Haiku, by Jessica Diamond

64    Untitled 1988, by Louise Lawler