Esopus 3 included artists’ projects by Andrea Dezsö, Jenny Holzer and Mark Keffer, a pull-out poster of 100 frames from Bruce Conner’s 1966 film Breakaway (with an appreciation by artist Doug Aitken), portraits of Marcel Duchamp, Franz Kline, Louise Nevelson, Isamu Noguchi, and many others, by the late photographer Marvin Lazarus (accompanied by Lazarus’s journal entries from the early ’60s recounting each sitting), a new “Dear Sissy” letter-monologue by playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis, Alex Shear’s Object Lesson #3 (a removable poster), Angus Trumble’s “1849 in Retrospect,” and an interview with alternative rock band the Wrens, who discussed the making of their acclaimed 2003 album The Meadowlands. The issue concluded with “Means without End,” in which four New York City-based arts publicists offered proposals for promoting Esopus that the magazine chose to publish rather than institute.

Also featured: a 10-track invitational CD on the theme of “Product Displacement,” for which musicians Sonic Boom (Spacemen 3), Jad Fair (Half Japanese), Scott McCloud (Girls vs. Boys), New York jazz/scat singer Connie MacNamee, and The Baptist Generals, among others, “embedded” advertising jingles or slogans in their original songs.