The Die-In at the Cathedral
Closed mid-January 1990 · On stands late January 1990
The Front
Index of the Close
Numbers of December — Rust Belt plant closings, network ratings shuffles, blood-disorder obituaries
A Sculptor Uninvited
Mark di Suvero turned from his own award dinner at the Union League Club, December 7, over the club's dress code
The Essay
The Foreign File
The General's Surrender
Manuel Noriega's surrender to American forces and the first weeks of a country under a new government not of its own choosing
The Feature Well
The City
The Record, Kept Selectively
ACT UP's protest inside St. Patrick's Cathedral against Cardinal O'Connor, entered into the month's index
Stop the Church
The December 10 die-in inside St. Patrick's, ACT UP's fullest confrontation yet with the Cardinal
The Back
Alvin Ailey, 1931–1989
The company gives the cause as a blood disorder
Fox's Arithmetic
A network-strategy note on prime-time ratings and where an animated half-hour fits the schedule
A Day Without Art
New York's galleries close for a day, December 1, the season's first collective AIDS memorial gesture
Winter Books
Short notices on the season's memoirs and one reissued travel classic
Galley Proofs
The house parody column, unsigned since 1958, on the year just closed