The cover photo is Wallace Berman's Portrait of Jay De Feo. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Out of Africa, by Steven Vincent reviews the exhibition curated by Tom Phillips "Africa: Art of a Continent" opening at the Guggenheim Museum. The show which was principally curated for the Royal Academy in London presents the Africa continent's "objects...as works of art equal in aesthetic quality to Western artwork." The Sackner Archive holds the elegant, well illustrated catalog for this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Kaelen Wilson-Goldie contributes an essay, "The Rematerialization of Artists' Books" in which she mentions the Sackner Archive as the largest collection of artworks that blend text and image in private hands. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Schwartzlin-Berberat wrote poetry in journals with obsessive, back-slanted handwriting. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This copy is the 2nd edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Exhibition curated by Christian Schlatter. This catalogue contains reprints of critical texts and documents regarding Conceptual Art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book lists and depicts the holdings of art games (mostly fluxus boxes) collected by Hans Sohm and now held by the Stuttgart Museum. Ina Conzen prepared this catalogue that is an excellent source book for such materials. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This issue includes a reproduction of page 17 of "A Humument" by Tom Phillips from 2006. It is listed in the index as Pen and Ink without any further references. Vincent Katz contributes and indepth essay entitled "Bartlett Shows Her Colors" stating the Jennifer Bartlett is a Conceptualist by origin, a painter at heart, and increasingly a rollicking storyteller who has recently received wide attention for work both old and new. Katz describes the technique and ideas of the the early plate works one of which from 1970 is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

John Wilde painting is illustrated in an essay by Michael Duncan "Heretics of the Heartland." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Carter Ratcliff contributes an essay "And the Beats Go On." Al Hansen's exhibition at Gracie Mansion is reviewed as is Sherin Neshat at Annina Nosei. The photograph reproduced from Neshat's exhibition review is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This issue includes an essay by Ann Temkin, curator of 20th century art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, that is entitled "Wolfli's Asylum Art." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Raphael Rubinstein contributes an in depth essay "Fahlstrom Afresh" reexamining Oyvind Fahlstrom's timely art in the first U.S. retrospective in 20 years. Marcia E. Vetrocq writes abour the work of Alighiero Boetti in "Rules of the Game." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Gregory Volk contributes an essay on the culture of the visual arts in Brooklyn titled "Big Brash Borough." In it, he mentions and depicts the works of Joe Amrhein and Ward Shelley, artists held in the Sackner Archive. He also describes Pierugi Gallery founded by Amrhein. John Paoletti reviews the retrospective exhibition of Deiter Roth at MoMA Queens and PS 1. Sue Taylor writes about Lucas Samaras in her essay "From Tortured Youth to Enchanted Sage." Arden Reed reviews an exhibition of Doris Cross' "Dictionary Columns" in Santa Fe. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Tom Phillips' exhibition :Humument Fragaments" at Flowers Gallery in New York was reviewd by Faye Hirsch. She writes, " Phillips here freshens his decades-old project, turning Matlocke to sudden currency." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Eileen Myles contributed an essay "True to Type" dealing with the concrete poetry and word art of Kay Rosen. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.