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A phone of the artist as a young brutalist (Editor's Picks — Jan 29, 2025)
Editor's Picks (Jan 29, 2025)
Yancey Strickler
Metalabel Director
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Ceiling cat surprises you. You are now paralyzed. (Editor's Picks — Jan 22, 2025)
Editor's Picks (Jan 22, 2025)
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In praise of wet-book e-angels
Editor's Picks (Jan 15, 2025)
Creative practices
Stop posting, start releasing: The 2025 Creative Playbook
In December, an artist on Metalabel sold out an entire collection of NYC garbage — literal trash from the streets of NYC packaged in glass cubes for $100 each — in under an hour. No viral TikTok. No paid ads. Just by following a different way of releasing creative work. The internet
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The Metalabel rabbit hole
Want to understand where this project is coming from and going? A good place to start.
Creative practices
What we want in 2025
New year, new dreams
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The best things come to those who egg
Editor's Picks (Dec 18, 2025)
Creative practices
Creative work is changing in ways you can feel good about
The power of releasing, why small is beautiful, and the advantages of cooperation
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On finding your garbage
Editor's Picks (Dec 11, 2025)
Creative practices
What if we met at the intersection of art and creativity?
Metalabel + our readers get together IRL
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The Metalabel Gift Guide
Here in the frothy stages of late capitalism, all content must be gift guide content. A guide to buying this. A guide to buying that. Normally we’re not into the “go buy” movement, but if the train is moving anyway we’d love to get some things we believe
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“What Art Does” limited edition $1 PDF from Brian Eno and Bette A.
Available for a limited time on Metalabel and Enoshop