It has been claimed that during the 1970s, “the ‘Age of Criticism’… [gave] way … to ‘The Age of the Interview.’” In magazines from Playboy and Rolling Stone to AndyWarhol's famous Interview magazine itself, the celebrity interview fed America's hunger for the spectacular revelation of private lives. Within the art world, however, the artist interview manifested a different set of public concerns in the pages of AYalanche, a magazine founded by Willoughby Sharp and Liza Bear in 1968 to document performance- and conceptual-art practices. AYalanche countered Interview's uptown glam with downtown grit.