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This week, Jennifer Krasinski, editorial director of Artforum digital, introduces Jack Pierson’s “People’s Parties: Billy Sullivan / Marcelo Krasilcic” from 1994’s summer issue. Pierson’s Silver Jackie, 1991, is not only the subject of David Rimanelli’s essay “Stages of Grief,” which appears in this month’s issue, but is also featured on the cover. Once upon a time, before he was a celebrated artist, Jack Pierson was a wide-eyed newbie in New York with visions of the glitz the city would bequeath him. “ I would step out of the limo in Times Square, pausing to offer my a...

JACK PIERSON’S SILVER JACKIE looks like nothing much: a rickety little postage stamp of a stage, just a raised platform made by the artist himself, and he says he’s no carpenter. (“Those early stage pieces I did myself—and I’m not a woodworker—so they have a real slapdash quality.”) Behind the stage, there’s a silver Mylar curtain that I can’t pry apart from my memories of 1970s Christmas decorations. It looks cheap; the materials are cheap. This sort of bedraggled, taped-together curtain and stage feel appropriate to those venues that one comes to with few expectations. Th...