This issue is dedicated to American poet, artist, and activist John Giorno in honor of the exhibition Ugo Rondinone: I ♥ John Giorno, which opened on June 21, 2017, across thirteen non-profit and alternative spaces in New York City: Artists Space, High Line Art, Howl! Happening, Hunter College Art Galleries, The Kitchen, New Museum, Red Bull Arts New York, Rubin Museum of Art, Sky Art, Swiss Institute, White Columns, and 80WSE Gallery.

INTERVIEWS
ART - IMAN ISSA by Andrew Weiner
ART and FILM - ERIC BAUDELAIRE by Benoît Rossel 
ARCHITECTURE - SHARON JOHNSTON and MARK LEE by Frank Gesualdi

PERFORMANCE - IEVA MISEVIČIŪTĖ by Melanie Bonajo
 

ART and POETRY - JOHN GIORNO by Verne Dawson
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LITERATURE - DANIEL BORZUTZKY by Joyelle McSweeney

LITERATURE - LIDIA YUKNAVITCH by Porochista Khakpour 


FEATURE
John Giorno, Poet ♥
by Chris Kraus and Rebecca Waldron

FIRST PROOF
Portfolio
Sam Contis

Poetry
Daniel Borzutzky, Lake Michigan, Scene 10
Ben Lerner, The Snows of Venice

A special poetry section in honor of John Giorno
John Giorno, Wish-Fulfilling Jewels & the Poet ♥
Todd Colby, Two Poems ♥
Ariana Reines, SKULL&BONES ♥
Andrew Durbin, Two Poems ♥

Comic
Bianca Stone, Three Poetry Comics

SELECTIONS
The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington
by Sarah Resnick

Albert Serra’s The Death of Louis XIV
by Clinton Krute

Zinzi Clemmons’s What We Lose
by Yasmin Roshanian

Anne Garréta’s Not One Day
by Youmna Chlala

Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen
by Michael Wilson

Christos Chrissopoulos’s The Parthenon Bomber
by Saul Anton

Laura Poitras’s Risk
by Anya Jaremko-Greenwold

MORE
Project
John Giorno’s Archives, Curated by Marcia Bassett ♥

Artists on Artists
Jordan Kantor by Dean Rader
Ed Atkins by Terence Trouillot
Pradeep Dalal by Nancy Davenport

End Page
Kamrooz Aram

On the cover: John Giorno, YOU GOT TO BURN TO SHINE, 2016, 40 × 40 inches. Courtesy the artist and Elizabeth Dee, New York. Photo by Etienne Frossard.