Friedenstauben im Kalten Krieg: Wie mit Picasso Politik gemacht wurde.

Plus: Rebecca Horn, Kara Walker und Mode Spezial.

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Autumn/Winter 2021 features legendary musician and artist Laurie Anderson (photographed by Mayan Toledano) on our main release cover and world-renowned British artist John Akomfrah (photographed by Lauryn-Alexi Ipinson-Fleming) on our special release issue. 

A conversation between Akomfrah and Ayana V Jackson can be found in Encounters, alongside interviews with Anderson,  Larry Achiampong and Haegue Yang. 

Yan Wang Preston shares her recent photography project from England’s moors: With Love. From an Invader evokes the powerful, primal connection that humans have with the land. In State of a Nation, Furmaan Ahmed visits six young artists who discuss their first-hand experiences of living and making art in the UK. 

Toyin Ojih Odutola explores the notion of home; Charlotte Jansen questions the connection between creativity and raising children; and Jayden Ali discusses the city of Liverpool, from its history as a slave port to a hopeful possible future. 

The new issue also features contributions from Duro Olowu, Danielle McKinney, Julie Verhoeven, Jammie Holmes, Billie Zangewa, Tomoo Gokita, James Barnor, Anya Paintsil, Tanoa Sasraku, Phumzile Khanyile and more. 

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Established in 2010, Elephant celebrates creativity and contemporary culture in the visual arts. We cover the international art world, with a focus on emerging artists, designers and photographers. 

We publish daily stories online, and publish a biannual print magazine that is distributed internationally. Our audience is based all over the world, and we champion a diversity of voices in our commissioning. 

Elephant takes a non-hierarchical approach to contemporary art, bringing together pop culture, music, graphic design, illustration and memes in our coverage. We are an art magazine for modern life, exploring how politics, the internet and creativity collectively shape our world. 

Nomas Magazine proudly presents issue 14 dedicated to the Greek island of Patmos

They call it the “Jerusalem of the Aegean” and the truth is that Patmos is unlike any other island in Greece. Maybe because despite its natural beauty, it also retains an authenticity and a nearly mystical energy that seduces its visitors. It is said that if you visit the island twice, you will never stop craving to return. Issue No 14 is a rich journey to Patmos. It is the stories of Greeks who were born there and foreigners who fell in love with the island and chose it as their home. There are stories about architecture, but also stories around a dinner table. There are the unique photographs of  Sabina Sarnitz Ifigeneia Filopoulou Rene Habermacher Ioannis Nikolaou Dimosthenis Grivas Alexis Vasilikos and Yannis Bournias that narrate their own stories.

An issue that came out despite the strict quarantine, even when covid swept Greece - along with half of our office. This is why this issue seems like a miracle-and we present it with great emotion.

Creative direction:Bureau Borsche

Cover Photos: Ioannis Nikolaou& Ifigeneia Filopoulou

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NOMAS magazine gazes at people and places with the curiosity, the joy and the longing of a nomad, the desire to belong, even for a while, to another culture.
Every issue explores a different destination, or a theme. The magazine is the common ground for photographers, artists, writers and creative wanderers who share the same passion, for experiencing and documenting travel narratives about the unseen and the untold.
NOMAS is a limited edition that shapes a contemporary perception in Art and the travel culture industry, through its most comprehensive, best curated and researched content.

Headmaster returns with its largest issue yet, featuring ten original projects by artists, musicians, and writers from seven countries. Contributors include Argentine skate punks, queer Black twins from Alabama, and the only all-Asian drag house in Vancouver. The cover features drag performer Dol of Siam as a Goddess of Enlightenment, part of a new queer zodiac system developed for this issue. A cross between an art book and a traditional magazine, this issue features multimedia work that cannot be seen anywhere else. The issue also includes two inserts: a risograph poster by Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin, as well as a 16-page zine of erotic stories from writers Lawrence Schimel (Spain) and Alejandro Córdova (El Salvador/Argentina), who wrote their stories separately and then translated them for one another. Readers will also be given exclusive access to an EP from queer Portuguese duo Fado Bicha, who produced a nine-song EP just for Headmaster. All work featured in Headmaster is completely original and cannot be seen anywhere else!

Limited edition of 1000 copies worldwide.

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Headmaster is a print magazine for any sophisticated man-lover who appreciates contemporary art and writing. Each issue features original projects by nine or ten contributors, each a response to assignments specially written by the magazine’s two editors. Issues of our magazines are birthed slowly and carefully – we’ve released eight magazines in seven years – and we only print 1000 copies of each issue.

In Issue No. 5 we travel to the mountains via the paintings of Etel Adnan, along coastlines wherever waves roll in, and then all over the world through the photographic archive of Lindsay James Stanger. We celebrate the history of hair braiding in South Africa, Salasacan weaving techniques in Ecuador, Vedic jewellery traditions and the new sound of Ukraine. We meet Cassi Namoda, an artist painting stories of Mozambique; Chinese dancer and choreographer Yang Liping; and Mark Klauber, whose lace-making business is one of the last surviving in New York. And we visit a bakery in Tel Aviv, discover the joys of making the anise spirit arak, and spend a summer stretching mozzarella in Italy.

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Lindsay is a biannual print and online magazine celebrating the importance of different cultures and places around the world. It launched online in March 2017 and its first print issue was published in 2018. Founded and edited by Melbourne-based photographer and designer Beth Wilkinson, Lindsay is an independent magazine created in collaboration with brilliant and curious writers, photographers and artists from around the globe. Lindsay was founded in Australia, on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. We pay our respect to their ancestors and elders—past, present and future—and value the role of storytelling in their culture, which is amongst the oldest living cultures in the world.

‘Paula Rego’s most enduring theme is women alone, dealing with their lot’ – Katherine Angel

In the September issue of frieze, Katherine Angel profiles the irrepressible Paula Rego on the occasion of the painter’s long-overdue major retrospective at Tate Britain, London. Also, Sophie Hughes, Theo Imani, Andrew Maerkle,Vanessa Peterson and Evelyn Taocheng Wang contribute to a dossier on art English and the untranslatable. And Avery Singer answers our questionnaire.

Profile: Katherine Angel on Paula Rego

‘One might wake in the dark, heart pounding, disconcerted by how an apparently simple scene could feel so potent.’ On the occasion of the artist’s largest retrospective to date, at Tate Britain in London, Katherine Angel considers Rego’s powerful, unsettling works and praises a career dedicated to portraying women in all of their complexity and contradiction.

Dossier: English and the Untranslatable

‘A translation can challenge occlusions in the original language’s worldview.’ Sophie Hughes, Theo Imani, Andrew Maerkle, Vanessa Peterson and Evelyn Taocheng Wang reflect on what it means to express yourself in a language that is not your own.

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Ahead of a major exhibition of her work at Brussel’s WIELS, artist R. H. Quaytman speaks with historian Yve-Alain Bois. Tom McCarthy pens ‘1500 words’ on a recent visit to Danh Vo’s studio and farmhouse in rural Brandenburg. Philomena Epps writes on the rediscovery of female pop artists, considering femininity, plasticity and the body in works by Rosalyn Drexler, Nicola L and Niki de Saint Phalle. And Steve Locke responds to a single work by Mickalene Thomas.

Columns: Rude Awakenings

Leila Sackur on how Magnus von Horn’s Sweat questions the emotional labour of influencers; So Mayer on two new novels – by Juliet Jacques and Isabel Waidner – that track the legal recognition of transgender people; and Kamayani Sharma on the photojournalists who documented India’s COVID-19 crisis. Plus, Lewis Bush on the political power of photographic archives and Ismail Einashe on Europe’s quarantine boats and the crisis of belonging.

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Frieze is a media and events company that comprises three publications, frieze magazine, Frieze Masters Magazine and Frieze Week; and four international art fairs, Frieze London, Frieze LA, Frieze New York and Frieze Masters; a programme of courses and talks at Frieze Academy, and frieze.com - the definitive resource for contemporary art and culture.

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Frieze was founded in 1991 by Amanda Sharp, Matthew Slotover and Tom Gidley with the launch of frieze magazine, a leading magazine of contemporary art and culture. Sharp and Slotover established Frieze London in 2003, one of the world’s most influential contemporary art fairs which takes place each October in The Regent’s Park, London. In 2012, Frieze launched Frieze New York taking place in May; and Frieze Masters, which coincides with Frieze London in October and is dedicated to art from ancient to modern. In February 2018, Frieze announced the launch of Frieze Los Angeles, opening February 14-17, 2019 in Paramount Pictures Studios. In 2016, Frieze also launched Frieze Academy, a year-round programme of talks and courses. 

This is the FIRE edition, the second in our series navigating the elements. Ignited by the transformational power of the mythical Phoenix, we’ve collected over 40 contributions of art, text, sound and smell across 72 pages and five continents from artists and academics, musicians and makers, scientists and researchers, therapists and occult practitioners, wildlings and writers.

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Wild Alchemy Lab is a resource for seekers, makers and imaginators. We are a multi-sensory publishing platform and global collective of artists, academic researchers and occult practitioners. Our transdisciplinary practice explores nature, science and esoterica at the intersection of plants, planets and people.

Alchemy is the arcane art of transformation, the physical and psycho-spiritual practice of turning the basic elements of our existence into a unified field that is aligned with nature and the cosmos.  It is an incremental process of recalibration that supports and informs how we are able to digest our experiences and consciously navigate the future. Wild Alchemy Lab evolved out of experimental botanical studio Mama Xanadu, founded by author and practitioner Jemma Foster, as a vehicle for distilling our experience in a time of crisis. We view creative expression, immersive experience and community action as an alchemical process that can lead to more valued ways of being.

The classical elements of earth, fire, water, air and aether provide a lens through which to investigate how both we place ourselves, and are placed, within our environment. These fundamental forces exist in the physical and non-physical worlds; the seen and unseen. In becoming apprentices to the wild and integrating the ancient wisdom and practices of our ancestors, we look towards our past in order to guide our future. We take up the macro-microcosmic vision of the Hermetic axiom ‘as above, so below’ – that everything in the universe is interrelated, nothing exists in isolation. By observing this phenomenon, we are able to work towards diffusing the myth of separation.

We prioritise real human connection to nature but also accept technology as part of our evolutionary road map and as a tool for expanding the horizons of our creative potential. If emergent digital platforms and innovations are co-created with nature as guide and medium, this can positively enhance, rather than distract, from our embodied experience and assist in our quest for future-facing solutions and inner expansion.

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August / September 2021

The pace at which technology continues to develop amazes me. I have recently come across digital fashion, for example. In its simplest terms, it basically means owning a “digital wardrobe” to dress your virtual self or avatar. It’s hard to believe that the idea of truly existing in an online format is at the cusp of becoming a reality. The metaverse is expanding everyday. It’s incredible how these virtual experiences, environments and assets developed so quickly during the online shift, as a result of the pandemic and its various lockdowns. I believe that these things are here to stay. But I like real life so much.

Inside this issue we look at the critically acclaimed The British Isles by Jamie Hawkesworth, which offers a portrait of Britain from 2007 through to 2020. The photographs, shot across those 13 years, capture the beauty and diversity of the UK. The title is highly relevant as the continued struggle for equality resonates now more than ever. I predict that this publication will endure as a time capsule of early 21^stcentury life. Meanwhile, we chat to Namsa Leuba about her vivid images that explore the distinction between “looking” and “seeing” in an in-depth interview about her dual heritage and artistic practice.

We then survey Richard Mosse’s new large-scale project, Tristes Tropiques, which maps the environmental destruction unfolding across Brazil’s “arc of fire.” The series is an example of what cartographer Denis Wood has termed “counter-mapping” – a form of resistance mapmaking that exposes endangered landscapes, depicting the extent of human activities that threaten our climate and ecosystems. 

I am also thrilled to bring you 2021’s Next Generation of photographers in partnership with London College of Communication, as well as series from Benoit Paillé, Karen Navarro, Massimo Colonna, Gerwyn Davies and our cover photographer Thandiwe Muriu. Finally, the last words come from Centre national de l'audiovisuel's curator Daniela Del Fabbro on the ecological impact of agriculture. 

‘The Tourist’ contains all the hallmarks of Kourtney Roy’s recognisable and appealing style: self-portraiture, a filmic approach, and characteristic vivid colour palette. But it also shows a tension between the witty and the sinister, the conventional and the unorthodox, the glamour and the sleaze. Roy is a virtuoso of context creation, and her exceptional crafting of the point where we depart our existential world and enter the intentional one she provides for us is nothing short of admirable. Roy creates a playful visual metaphor for a world we believe we know, yet through her clever use of juxtaposition we quickly realise that it is not quite the world it seems to be.

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well, well, well, what do we have here? just another rad issue of frankie magazine (if we do say so ourselves)! issue 101 is officially on sale, and here’s a taste of what you’ll find within its pages: folks who are partners in both work and life; jewellery that’s a little bit bad taste and a little bit nice; recipes to keep your tummy full on the lead-up to payday; and one vibrant fibro shack in paradise. there’s also a confession from a feminist who loves housework and a rundown of some of history’s most notorious conwomen. we road-test everyday pens, investigate the science of accents and meet some rescued chooks who have started a sweet new life. magic, grief, dog wee and compost – we discuss all that and an awful lot more. see for yourself by picking up a copy, if you wish! we really hope you enjoy it.

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Printmaking is a useful prism to look at life through, using art to explore a world of your own creation or take a deep dive into the things you love – be that nature, architecture or in some cases skulls and flames. In the pages of this issue, we see our featured artists stretch out into their worlds through the medium of ink and paper, with fantastic and often thought-provoking results.

We’re excited to have opened up our magazine insert to the printmaking community  – we launched our 'Black & Red' insert challenge on Instagram at the start of May and it was fabulous seeing all of the submissions throughout the month. We’re pleased to showcase a wide variety of entries along with the winner. We hope you enjoy checking out a selection of wonderful work, made with just two colours.

And we’ve already got our thinking caps on for next issue’s challenge, so you can look forward to more inky ideas and inspiration in the magazine and beyond.

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Featured artists/studios:

Beyond Letterpress • Bryan Angus
Black & Red Insert Challenge
Pauline Cremer • Andrew Dolinski
Karin Eremia • Robert Grieve
HawaiianSalad Studio
Carlos Hernandez • Lizzie Hillier
Adam Hogarth • Luiza Holub
Thomas Mayo • Tanaka Ryōhei
Angela Snieder • Zarina

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100 page perfect bound publication, printed by Park Communications on Edixion Offset paper (including 2 page insert with art print by Black & Red insert challenge winner printed on GF Smith 270gsm Colorplan Pristine White stock.)

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Pressing Matters magazine is an independently-run publication, honing in on the people, passion and processes behind the artform of printmaking. From curious beginners to those exploring the world of fine art editions, there are all sorts who are making their mark out of printmaking. We hope to inspire newcomers and give a voice and a face to the increasingly vast number of people calling printmaking their ‘thing’...

GRUPPE ISSUE 3 with Anna Uddenberg / Thomas Hirschhorn / Ilya Lipkin / Vincent Bevins / Dennis Brzek / Jordan Wolfson / Anna Konda / Isaac Lythgoe / Adam Martin / Daniel Roché / John Dolan / Vitali Gelwich / Gerhard Haderer / Anne de Vries / Robert Hamacher / Matt Horwich / Erica Ohmi / Antje Peters / Rowan Ben Jackson / Joseph Kadow / Phillip Koll / Theo Belci / Byrdie Perkins / Esme Thompson-Turcotte / Remko Van der Auwera / Natacha Voranger / Issy Wood / Gersande Spelsberg

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Gruppe is a collaborative online platform for young artists, designers, and writers. The team of Gruppe is available for creative services of all kind, including creative and art direction, visual and graphic design, video and editorial production, event conception and management, advertising strategy, copywriting and consultance.

Summer 2021, and a measure of positivity – yay. here in the middle east, we step outside less cautiously. The stashes of sanitizing hand sprays we drudged around town, hosing down door handles and dinner tables like ghostbusters with proton packs, still number in the hundreds, but they’re at home, not in our handbags. Big gorgeous cities like london, paris, and new york look set to boom, and people are planning their long awaited holidays to mykonos, puglia, and saint tropez.

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The Long Way Home of Ivan Putnik, Truck Driver is a collection of photographs and notes on the surroundings of remote Siberian roads and towns. Presented as an archive from a truck driver named Ivan Putnik, the photographs are actually made by various amateur photographers who uploaded the photospheres to Google Street View.

Fascinated by the visual variety, Vaste Programme (IT) recontextualized the images to create a fictional story. Apart from showing life in a remote area of the world, the cropped stills present universal environmental concerns such as pollution, the extraction of fossil fuels and the transformation of the landscape. Even though the available imagery originates from a specific subset of the population, it does not amplify the archetypal image of life in Siberia, but rather provides the reader with a combination of both classic and unusual sights. From the beauty of unspoiled nature to grotesque industrial projects, and from monolithic Soviet-era suburbs to weirdly charming interiors. The Long Way Home highlights what is often overlooked, and focuses on the hidden gems of vernacular photography.

About Vaste Programme
Vaste Programme is the pseudonym of the young artistic trio from Rome (IT) consisting of Giulia Vigna, Leonardo Magrelli and Alessandro Tini. Their practice focuses on post-photography and new media, aiming to shine a light on everyday visual matter and to reveal new meanings by appropriating this imagery as storytellers. The Long Way Home of Ivan Putnik, Truck Driver is their first published photo book.

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