Edited by Walter Robinson, Edit DeAk, and Joshua Cohn, Art-Rite was published in New York City between 1973 and 1978. The periodical has long been celebrated for its underground/overground position and its cutting, humorous, on-the-streets coverage and critique of the art world. Art-Rite moved easily through the expansive community it mapped out, paying homage to an emergent generation of artists, including many who were—or would soon become—the defining voices of the era. Through hundreds of interviews, reviews, statements, and projects for the page—as well as artist-focused and thematic issues on video, painting, performance, and artists’ books—Art-Rite’s sharp editorial vision and commitment to holding up the work of artists stands as a meaningful and lasting contribution to the art history of New York and beyond.
Issue 10 - Published 1975
Guest editor, John Howell. Cover by Joseph Beuys. This special issue on performance includes performance photo documentation, and contributions from David Antin, Guerrilla Art Action Group, John Howell, Lucy Lippard, Walter Robinson, Diego Cortez and others
Good: Yellowing of the pages, water mark at bottom right corner, small tears in front cover, final page and back cover.
Issue 15 - Published 1977
April 1977 single artist issue composed by Rosemary Mayer and entitled Surroundings. Featuring collages of text, black-and-white photographs and drawings, and artworks by Jacopo da Pontormo and Jacques Bellange.
Very Good: Yellowing of pages and slight watermarking.
Issue 17 - Published 1977
Special project by Kim MacConnel. This text-free issue of Art-Rite contains twenty-two pages of MacConnel’s Chinese brush paintings.
Good: Yellowing of the pages, slight watermarking, first page missing.
Issue 18 - Published 1978
Guest edited by Image Bank’s Vincent Trasov and Michael Morris, this “mondo artie correspondance collage” features collage by John Dowd, Ray Johnson, General Idea, Genesis P-Orridge, Cozey, Eric Metcalfe, John Jack Baylin, Albrecht D., Terry Reid, Robert Fones, Environmental Communications, Les Levine, Paul Cotton, Robert Cumming, Gilbert & George, Brian Buczak, G.A. Cavellini, John Giorno, Andy Warhol and Zeke.
Very Good: Yellowing of the pages, slight watermarking.
Issue 20 - Published 1978
Illustrated with charming line drawings of urban love, this score includes music and lyrics for eight voices and clavichord, bell, flute, violin, oboe, horn, cymbal, drum. Each of the three acts are introduced with a plot synopsis of the amorous adventures of protagonists Pearl and Anthony. The libretto ends with a thoughtful epilogue: “As young lovers Pearl and Anthony must acknowledge the reality of their sentiment for each other as a separate and a whole reality from their surroundings they must effectively substitute the …skylines that they could inhabit for the places and constructs as spiritual parts of themselves and to the intuitions and instincts to their intentions and to their youth as ingenuous their present and their future have become realized as each other they must consider a different sort of naiveté…”
Good: Yellowing of the pages, small watermark on front and back cover. Small tears on back cover.
