IRL
"mollysstuff" IRL with Molly Soda
Plus a special performance by Mackenzie Thomas, Maya Man, and Maya Martinez
Yancey Strickler
Metalabel Director
Q&As
Q&A: Forever Magazine on making your own magazine
Behind the scenes of a Downtown NYC staple
Creative practices
Rethinking the unbearable weight of self-promotion
In the past thirty years what it means to be an artist has dramatically changed. Before the internet being an artist meant operating in a very specific area where the gatekeepers, critics, and ways of doing things were well-structured and defined. You as the artist plugged into this system if
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Editor's Picks (June 6, 2024)
木 mù and 水 shuǐ by Anonymous — 木 mù and 水 shuǐ are two art books by a studio based in Singapore and Thailand that playfully explore two of the most ubiquitous substances in our daily lives: wood and water. We cherish the thoughtful and imaginative meditations on materials we
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Editor's Picks (June 5, 2024)
Today we’re honored to introduce a new work by one of our favorite artists: Molly Soda and her piece “mollysstuff” — a series of twenty unique .zip folders, each containing 100 files, physically embodied as one-of-a-kind artist books. Molly Soda (b. 1989) is one of the most iconic and prolific
Creative practices
Guest Essay: The courage to let your guts out
By Paul Waters and Jamie Nami Kim
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Editor's Picks (May 29, 2024)
Drawn Without Looking By Ian Bruce Label: Hard Art 100 editions Hard Art — the UK-based collective of artists, activists, and community leaders who debuted with us earlier this year — are back with their fifth release: a physical art book featuring drawings of 100 members made through a participatory art practice.
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In groups we become stronger
Wires are crossing. Scenes are building. Can you feel it?
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Editor's Picks (May 22, 2024)
Featured Release Salon du Monde, Fremont: The Soundtrack Format: Cassette, MP3s, video Logline: A concept album based on a fictitious TV show and world 50 editions A “concept album” is a work of music in which the individual parts add up to more than the whole. The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’
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Editor's Picks (May 15, 2024)
Autonomous Worlds N1 By the Autonomous Worlds Network Physical book plus PDF 333 editions As a source of self-legitimization, the internet is on par with the printing press in its impact on redefining and redistributing agency. The web set humanity onto a new course whose future remains unclear, but where
Q&As
Q&A: Salon Du Monde, Fremont on collaboration
A wildly imaginative new release based on a fictional TV show
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In review: "Goodnight Sweet Thing"
Whitney Mallett reviews the sold out performance of a new book of poetry