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 #3


Cover: Thomas Lawson, Afternoon TV, 1980.


Contents


3      Primary Transfers, by Richard Prince

5      The Destroyed Room of Jeff Wall, by Dan Graham

7      Fashion Moda, an interview by Thomas Lawson

11    Trash Drugs and Male Bonding, by Kim Gordon

13    Going Places, by Thomas Lawson

14    Laurie Speigel, by Steven Fraccaro

15    Inserted Realities: Corner Insert, by Dara Birnbaum

17    Michael Hurson, an interview by Susan Morgan