Slightly later than usual? Oh well, we’re not the only ones. We’re MARFA now. Just MARFA. We get called that all the time so we made life easier for everyone.

*Julia clicks and sends issue #14 PDF to the printers, ready to be delivered to the readers within three weeks*

That spice of life you’ve so missed will soon be back…

In a pleasantly surprising turn of events, this issue’s art department is quite the overachiever. One’s appetite will be whet reading how Tracey Emin nibbles on an amaretti biscuit and Matthew Barney is artistically interrogated by friend and collaborator Pierre Huyghe.

Trust us on this, you will find wise words from Chris Kraus, Laila Gohar, Thaddeus Mosley, Florian Krewer and Rebecca Ackroyd, who will delight and inform with their skilled manipulation of words, food, wood and resin.

All this and plenty of swish fashion piccies too: Vivienne Rohner makes a nice face, Hannelore Knuts wears Lutz Huelle and Grace Hartzel sweats her ass off in the Marseille heat.

Open wide for a serving of MARFA #14, which looks at advice, age and acting the part.

MARFAMILY #6

Issue #6 and it feels so good. After a long wait and a brief domestic disaster, MARFAMILY is back. Delayed due to a certain global event, perhaps you’ve heard of it?

We’ve gone to print and here to give your tired eyes a wakeup call are our beautiful covers. We may not be able to touch you physically but we can fondle you through the pages…

In print form alone, we reunite with our MARFRIENDS on a cover-to-cover storyline.Along the way, we meet Willem Dafoe, Sian Clifford, Mati Diop, Arizona Muse and many other delightful characters.

Reclining solo on our sofas, we may be missing others but enjoy a 50+ page MARFART study on the works of Belgian Artists Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys and go on a sophisticated design journey from Mayfair to Zurich, with Vivienne Rohner and her long legs, to find Trix & Robert Haussmann.

People do a lot of things in private that they couldn’t possibly explain in public. From the confines of their houses, MARFAMILY #6 thinks about art, personal expression and togetherness.

Covers by MARFRIENDS, old and new, include  Theo Wenner, Esther Theaker, Rachel Chandler, Alexandra Gordienko, Pascal Gambarte and Angela Hill.

Focused on the arts and culture, MARFOFFICE is a cross-disciplinary creative bureau formed around the bi-annual publication MARFA JOURNAL, and includes standalone special projects curated and designed by MARFAMILY, a bunch of geeks who love each other very much. Working together, they make brilliant stuff.