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***Art-Rite*** was a cheaply produced newsprint [art magazine](/source/Art_magazine) that was published from 1973 to 1978.[1] Located in [downtown New York City](/source/Downtown_New_York_City), it was distributed freely there. Its editors were [Mike (Walter) Robinson](/source/Walter_Robinson_(art_critic_and_artist)), [Edit DeAk](/source/Edit_DeAk), and Joshua Cohn. Cohn dropped out of Art-Rite relatively early.[1]

## Formation and Trajectory

DeAk, Robinson, and Cohn met in 1972 in an [art criticism](/source/Art_criticism) class taught by [Brian O'Doherty](/source/Brian_O'Doherty) at [Barnard College](/source/Barnard_College) in New York.[2] Based on this experience, the [artist-run magazine](/source/Artist-run_publishing) took an agglomerative ground-level view of the art world. The editors often wrote anonymously, reflecting a collaborative process. Indeed, *Art-Rite* had a collaborative relationship with the art world (particularly with its own generation) and had a close relationship with the [post-minimal](/source/Post-minimal) and [post-conceptual](/source/Post-conceptual) downtown art community that was in the process of moving away from [formalism](/source/Formalism_(art)) and towards an [art of appropriation](/source/Appropriation_(art)).[1][3]

*Art-Rite* appeared irregularly; according to a subscription flier, there were to be four to nine issues per year. Some appeared out of sequence, and #16 was never published.[4] The magazine ceased publication in 1978.[5] A facsimile edition published in 2019 includes the complete collection of twenty issues of the underground arts magazine.[6]

## Covers

The magazine was famous for its covers, made by such artists as [Alan Suicide](/source/Alan_Vega), [Carl Andre](/source/Carl_Andre), [Dorothea Rockburne](/source/Dorothea_Rockburne), [William Wegman](/source/William_Wegman_(photographer)), [Christo](/source/Christo), [Vito Acconci](/source/Vito_Acconci), [Pat Steir](/source/Pat_Steir), [Joseph Beuys](/source/Joseph_Beuys), [Judy Rifka](/source/Judy_Rifka), [Robert Ryman](/source/Robert_Ryman), [Rosemary Mayer](/source/Rosemary_Mayer), and [Ed Ruscha](/source/Ed_Ruscha).

## References

1. Frankel, David (Summer 2005). ["On Art-Rite Magazine"](http://www.032c.com:80/2005/on-art-rite-magazine/). *032c*. No. 9. pp. 77–82. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20120320033817/http://032c.com/2005/on-art-rite-magazine/) 20 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine.

1. Bui, Phong (5 November 2014). ["In Conversation: Walter Robinson with Phong Bui"](http://brooklynrail.org/2014/11/art/walter-robinson-with-phong-bui). *[The Brooklyn Rail](/source/The_Brooklyn_Rail)*

1. Frankel, David (January 2003). ["The Rite Stuff: Art-Rite"](https://www.artforum.com/inprint/issue=200301&id=3961). *[Artforum](/source/Artforum)*

1. Allen, Gwen (2011). *Artists' magazines: an alternative space for art*. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-01519-6. [OCLC 636567924](https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/636567924)

1. Grimes, William (22 June 2017). ["Edit DeAk, a Champion of Outsider Artists, Dies at 68"](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/22/arts/edit-deak-dead-downtown-art-critic.html). *[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)*

1. ["Art-Rite"](https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/54596/). *Printed Matter*. Primary Information, Printed Matter Inc. 2019. Retrieved 5 November 2021.

## External links

- [Interview about *Art-Rite*](http://www.brooklynrail.org/2014/11/art/walter-robinson-with-phong-bui) by [Phong Bui](/source/Phong_Bui) in *[The Brooklyn Rail](/source/The_Brooklyn_Rail)*
- *[Art-Rite](http://catalog.nypl.org/record=b10126093~S1)* at [New York Public Library](/source/New_York_Public_Library)

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