Metalabel Director
Release strategies
If content is king, then context is queen. We can all enjoy creative work as a pure sensory experience. YES. But it’s when we get context for that work — who made it, how it was made, what ideas, scenes, and history surround it — that joy turns into a deeper
New Creative Era
Most creator lore encourages creative people to start your channel, get subscribers, be the star. These instructions have zero relationship to making great creative work, pursuing creative fulfillment, or making something that becomes bigger than you. They just want to make you feel like you need to post more to
Releases we love
New Releases Rebecca Clark Book of Hours: An Artist’s Book for the Anthropocene Drawings, poetry, meditations 236 page PDF Rebecca Clark’s Book of Hours brings together a rich and calming collection of drawings of the natural world, poetry, and quotes from literature (including a stunning opening dialogue from
Releases we love
Photobooks from Japan; poetry and wrestling in NYC; and a second printing from the Dark Forest of the Internet
Releases we love
New Drops this week: Hard Art featuring Brian Eno, Es Devlin, and Jeremy Deller; Artist Shantell Martin; Artist Josh Citarella; and Artist and Filmmaker Cristine Brache
Releases we love
Maggie Dunlap is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work spans sculpture, photography, and performance, and blends themes of girlhood, gore, and Southern Gothic. Collect Maggie read Klaus Theweleit’s 1977 book, Male Fantasies for the first time in 2019 while she was doing research for her senior thesis at the School
Releases we love
Issue VI: RELICS
About Metalabel
Introducing Metalabel
About Metalabel
In the beginning, there was a release. A release is a vehicle for a vision. A release is an expression and a manifestation. A release shifts consciousness towards the truths revealed by the artist. In 2024, Metalabel will introduce a new space for releasing, selling, and exhibiting creative work. A
About Metalabel
An online collection of recipes for creative projects, with a companion printed edition
Creative practices
A peer group for writers providing creative mutual support
Quality Drops
A new physical zine and optimistic drop from Metalabel