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 #4


Cover: Matt Mullican


Contents


3      Long Distance Information, by Thomas Lawson

6      The Golden Age, by Ross Skoggard

9      Desperate Character, Joseph Bishop

11    A Mood on the Rise, by Jennifer Bolande

14    Motorway Movie, by Don MacPherson and Paul Taylor

17    Radical Genitalia, by Jim Bradley

22    Sam and Dotte Dance, by Laurie Simmons

24    Devils with Red Dresses on, by Barbara Kruger

27    Ericka Beckman; Movies for the New American Adult, by Richard Baim

29    Menthol Pictures, by Richard Prince