Introduction: but what has changed? / Philip Yenawine
Artist's project: talking to Art Matters / Andrea Fraser
pt. 1. New approaches to visual culture. Artist's project: "Dear friend of the arts" / Julie Ault. Too political? Forget it / Lucy R. Lippard. Passionate irreverence: the cultural politics of identity (1993) / Coco Fusco. Postcards from America: x-rays from hell (1989) / David Wojnarowicz
pt. 2. AIDS, art, and reaction. What does silence equal now? / David Deitcher. How to have promiscuity in an epidemic (1988) / Douglas Crimp
pt. 3. Demanding presence: identity politics. The culture war within the culture wars: race / Michelle Wallace. Skin head sex thing: racial difference and the homoerotic imaginary (1991) / Kobena Mercer
pt. 4. Censorship and the chilling effect. The war on culture (1989) / Carole S. Vance. Homophobia at the NEA (1990) / Holly Hughes and Richard Elovich. Are content restrictions constitutional? (1992) / Kathleen M. Sullivan
pt. 5. Cultural policy and funding for the arts. The children of John Adams: a historical view of the debate over arts funding / Lewis Hyde. Theses on defunding (1982) / Martha Rosler. The privatization of culture (1997) / George Yudice.
