Artforum

For the nonprofit organization, see Artforum Culture Foundation.
Artforum

April 1996 cover
Editor Michelle Kuo
Categories art magazines
Frequency Monthly
Founder John P. Irwin, Jr.
First issue  1962 (1962-month)
Country  United States
Based in New York City
Language English
Website www.artforum.com
ISSN 0004-3532

Artforum is an international monthly magazine specializing in contemporary art.

Publication

The magazine is published ten times a year, September through May, along with an annual summer issue. Distinguished by its 10½ inch square format, with each cover devoted to the work of a single artist, the magazine is widely acknowledged as a decisive voice in its field.[1]

The magazine features in-depth articles and reviews of contemporary art, as well as book reviews, columns on cinema and popular culture, and numerous full-page advertisements from prominent galleries around the world.[2]

History

Artforum was founded in 1962 in San Francisco by John P. Irwin, Jr. The next publisher/owner Charles Cowles moved the magazine to Los Angeles in 1965 before finally settling it in New York City in 1967, where it maintains offices today. The move to New York also encompassed a shift in the style of work championed by the magazine, moving away from California style art to Late modernism, then the leading style of art in New York City. The departure of Philip Leider as editor-in-chief in 1971; and the tenure of John Coplans as the new editor-in-chief roughly coincided with a shift towards more fashionable trends and away from Late modernism. A focus on Minimal Art, Conceptual Art, Body art, Land art and Performance art provided a platform for artists such as Robert Smithson, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt and others. In 1980 after opening his own gallery in New York City Charles Cowles divested himself of the magazine. Sister magazine Bookforum was started in 1994.

On Artforum

A book by Amy Newman chronicling the early history of the magazine, Challenging Art: Artforum 1962-1974, was published by Soho Press in 2000.

Sarah Thornton's documentary book Seven Days in the Art World (2008) contains a chapter titled "The Magazine" which is set in the offices of Artforum. In it, Thornton says, "Artforum is to art what Vogue is to fashion and Rolling Stone was to rock and roll. It’s a trade magazine with crossover cachet and an institution with controversial clout."

Notable contributors

Editors-in-chief

(Philip Leider left the magazine at the end of the Summer 1971 issue, but remained on the masthead until December 1971)

References

  1. "1982 interview with Ingrid Sischy and Anthony Korner" (Audio). KPFA. March 1982. Retrieved July 16, 2012.
  2. 1 2 Mandarino, Grant (March 7, 2010). "Taking stock of the "Griffin years" at Artforum". artnet.

External links

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