Creative practices
How to talk about your creative work at a party
Plus a charming new artist book from Japan
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Creative practices
The artist and the inner retreat
After recent reflections on the challenges we feel about needing to promote our work (here and here), we’ve come to better understand the pressure many of us feel. We’re stuck between modern ways and ancient wisdom. The modern world tells us to get out there and promote ourselves.
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Editor's Picks (June 24, 2024)
Featured Releases Shantell Sans Shantell Martin Font library | .zip download Open edition Beloved visual artist Shantell Martin returns to Metalabel with a release that turns her iconic handwriting — the star of her visual work — into a font that anyone can use. The radicalness of this act should not be underestimated.
Creative practices
Promotional principles for creative people
Plus the Creative Independent reissues “On making a living as an artist”
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"mollysstuff" IRL with Molly Soda
Plus a special performance by Mackenzie Thomas, Maya Man, and Maya Martinez
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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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