ARTnews, Volume 88, Number 8, October 1989

In the section "What is Pornography?" (pages 138-143), at page 139, William S. Burroughs affords a one-paragraph response to the question.

Published in New York City by ARTnews Associates in October, 1989.

Bibliographic Information:

• Shoaf III.375
• Schottlaender v4.C592, v5.620
• Raven 19891000ARTN.88.8, b6

Selected Contents:

• Sandra Yolles: "Junk Magic" (on Tyree Guyton)
• Abe Frajndlich: photograph
• Ken Gittell: photograph
• Eleanor Heartney: "Blindness and Insight" (essay)
• Ginger Danto:
• "Restoring a Marriage" (essay)
• "Paris: Joint Ventures for '92" (essay)
• Gennifer Weisenfeld: "Inside, Outside, Upside Down" (essay)
• Andrew Decker:
• "Keeping the Flame" (on Otto Kallir)
• "De Kooning's Co-Conservators" (essay)
• news
• Godfrey Barker: "Beuys' Fleet-Footed Hare" (essay)
• Richard W. Walker and Lisbet Nilson: "Rightful Owners" (essay)
• Daniel Waterman: "'Stacks' of Complaints" (on Yale)
• Janet Kutner: "Kimbell Times Two" (on the Kimbell Art Museum)
• Tom McGhee: "Unanswered Questions" (on van Gogh)
• Jonathan Turner:
• "Ho Chi Minh City: The Spirit of Inventiveness" (essay)
• "Carlo Mollino: Fifties Flyer" (essay)
• Ernest Beck:
• "Bern: Tempest in a Fountain" (essay)
• "François Daulte: Scholarly Sleuth" (essay)
• Ferdinand Protzman: "Vienna: Double Departure" (essay)
• Nadar: photograph
• Michael Levey: "Claude Monet: The Luncheon" (essay)
• Fietta Jarque: "Valencia: Something Old, Something New" (essay)
• Bonnie Barrett Stretch: "The Modern's Master" (essay)
• David E. Scherman: photograph
• Avis Berman: "Everybody's Favorite Model" (essay)
• Richard B. Woodward: "Talking Pictures" (on Hockney)
• Matthew Ward: "Suffocating the Monster" (on Jean Dubuffet)
• John Baldessari, Mary Schmidt Campbell, Kaspar Koenig, Robert Rauschenberg, William S. Burroughs, William F. Buckley Jr., Louise Bourgeois, Michael Levey, William Bailey, June Wayne, J. Carter Brown, Linda Shearer, Jenny Holzer, Joseph Papp, Albert Elsen, Nancy Spero, Barbara Kruger, Benny Andrews, David Leavitt, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and Suzanne Delehanty: "What Is Portnography?" (Q&A)
• Ralph Lerner and Judith Bresler: "Obscenity: What the Supreme Court Says" (excerpt from Art Law: The Guide for Collectors, Investors, Dealers, and Artists)
• Chuck Close: painting
• Hunter Drohojowska: "The 80's: Stop Making Sense" (on LACMA)
• Ann Summa: photograph
• Steve Melnick: photograph
• Richard Prince: art
• Mitchell Syrop: "Lift and Separate" (art)
• Timothy Greenfield-Sanders: photograph
• Barbara Bloom: "The Reign of Narcissism" (installation view)
• Diana Ketcham: "Time Pieces" (on Stephen de Staebler)
• Jim McHugh: photographs
• Scott McCue: photographs
• William Innes Homer: "The Ryder Cover-Up" (on Albert Pinkham Ryder)
• Barbara Kafka: "Pleasing the Palette" (on food)
• Jules Allen: photograph
• Peter Lemos: "Indiana in Maine" (on Robert Indiana)
• exhibition reviews
• Meir Ronnen: "Romancing the Stones" (essay)
• Stephen E. Weil: "Too Much Art?" (essay)

Publishing Information:

• Editor and Publisher: Milton Esterow
• Executive Editor: Steven Henry Madoff
• Managing Editor: Mary Haus
• Editor-At-Large: Sylvia Hochfield
• Senior Editors: Ronald De Feo, Barbara A. MacAdam
• Associate Editors: "Peter Haldeman, Robin Cembalest
• Art Director: Cynthia Eyring
• Assistant Art Director: Julie L. Farrar
• Photo Editor: Nancy Jo Johnson
• Editorial Assistant: Stacey Bernstein
• Assistant to the Publisher: Louise Greene
• et al