We’re nearly on time – it’s a miracle. Whoever said leopards can’t change their spots? With issue #15, we’ve barely lifted a finger. How breezy, we didn’t break a sweat in its production; hardly an email exchanged or a fashion sample misplaced. Easy peasy lemon squeezy.

We may have always been your cup of tea but you drink champagne now and MARFA knows it. Under our new elegant format, everything is more showier than ever.

Efficiency and proficiency may be a modern cult but these lot show better than anybody the fruits of such hard work. Prepare yourself for a feature-length interview with Paul McCarthy, an extended chat with Anthea Hamilton and an in-depth chinwag with Rose Wylie.

Alongside conversations with Daniel Lopatin of OneOhTrix Point Never and writer Maggie Nelson too. And there’s some to-die-for fashion content: shoots with Evie Harris, Malika Louback, and Lily McMenamy as Pina Bausch… with a strong menswear presence from artist Neal Jones and actor Denis Lavant. 

Covers created by Esther Theaker, Mark Borthwick, Tim Elkaim, Alexandra Gordienko and others with our MARFAWARE series opening the issues with Save the Whales by Russian artist Maya Golyshkina and closing with a postcard from the project Now You See Me Moria.

Don’t let your derriere despair, park yourself in a chair with MARFA #15 and indulge in thoughts on productivity, minimising workloads and mapping out a route to ‘easy street’. 

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About

Marfa Journal (formally Marfamily) is a collaborative project, presenting an intimate take on the current state of culture. It blends various disciplines of contemporary arts into the format of a hardcover book.

MARFA offers intimate conversation with artists all around the word like Michael Dean, Urs Fischer, Paloma Varga Weisz, Jenny Holzer, Nate Lowman, Lizzie Fitch / Ryan Trecartin, Jeffrey Deitch, Adam McEwen, Lynda Benglis, Enzo Cucchi, Nicole Wermers, Agathe Snow, Richard Mosse - we even talked to Harmony Korine’s whilst swimming in the pool of his home in Miami. Ozzy Osbourne by Rachel Chandler & Olympia Scarry by Alexandra Gordienko 4 ABOUT The VIPs of the creative world from Anjelica Huston, Ozzy Osbourne, Lana Del Rey, Chloe Sevigny, Anne Hathaway, Kirstn Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg and even Larry Flynt have memorably graced its covers. List doesn’t stop with the VIPs - MARFA model division includes Lindsey Wixson, Gemma Ward, Natasha Poly, Lexi Boling, Catherine McNeil and many more.

The biannual title is crafting itself a multi-faceted profile with public events and branded t-shirts that are true to the zeitgeist spirit of the magazine.

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.