Can you sum up an artist’s practice in a single picture? On our covers, Damien Hirst mimes guns with his hands, Georgia O’Keeffe stares into the red New Mexican expanse, and Marina Abramovic stares. . . directly at you.
Barbara Kruger, February 1987.
Jeff Koons, March 1998.
Robert Longo, May 1985.
Pat Steir, November 1985.
Georgia O'Keeffe, December 1977.
Andy Warhol, November 1980.
Damien Hirst, November 1998.
Coosje van Bruggen and Claes Oldenburg, February 1990.
Marina Abramovic, November 2015.
Guillermo Kuitca, October 1991.
Romare Bearden, December 1980.
Paula Cooper, March 1989.
Kiki Smith, June 1998.
Eric Fischl, September 1986.
Elizabeth Murray, September 1984.
Vito Acconci, Summer 1981.
A version of this story originally appeared in the Winter 2018 issue of ARTnews on page 60.