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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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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
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A wildly imaginative new release based on a fictional TV show
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Whitney Mallett reviews the sold out performance of a new book of poetry
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About Metalabel
A few years ago we were speaking with our friend Clare Farrell, cofounder of Extinction Rebellion and Hard Art, about the big idea behind Metalabel: that all creative people could start “labels” to put out work by themselves and others that reflected their shared worldviews. Clare, always brilliant, called the
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The Whitney Review of New Writing Issue 003 Edited by Whitney Mallett Featuring reviews, interviews, and essays from Mary Gaitskill, Pamela Sneed, Dennis Cooper, and many more In celebration of The Whitney Review of Books Issue 003, which premieres exclusively on Metalabel this week, we invited Anika Jade Levy, editor
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New Releases Twins By Paul Waters and Jamie Nami Kim 18 x 24 inch fine art print 50 editions This week on Metalabel we premiere work by two NYC-based painters who have come together to bridge differences in backgrounds to make a stunning piece that reflects them as distinct individuals
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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
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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
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Photobooks from Japan; poetry and wrestling in NYC; and a second printing from the Dark Forest of the Internet