Editor's letter.(Editorial)

LESS THAN A WEEK BEFORE "PUTTING TO BED" THE SECOND half of Artforum's two-volume look back on the '80s, organized by my predecessor, Jack Bankowsky, I found myself seated across from sculptor Haim Steinbach at a Brooklyn kitchen table, a late winter light waning on the running tape recorder and half-finished plate of marzipan between us.

Our interview had already lasted a couple of hours, and we had reached the kind of conversational pause that usually precedes a conclusion. But then Steinbach said something that caught me completely off-guard: "There seemed to be a ...

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