Cabinet also has their new issue out* and I decided that I an forgo two packs of cigarettes for either Frieze or Cabinet…or something else awesome that I haven’t even thought of yet. DECISIONS!!!!
Honestly? I’ll probably go with Frieze because of their section on Zhang Huan.
*Funny how all these magazines come out at the same time, the begining of the month. Weird.
New Frieze is out. I can’t really afford to buy it with rent coming up. Now I’m depressed.
That’s ok, I find solutions! I don’t take no for an answer! I will sit outside my local newsstand and read the whole thing whether he likes it or not! Unless it’s too cold in which case I’ll run to B & N. I’m a problem solver!
New magazine that I will lust over alert:
The Exhibitionist, a new journal made by curators, for curators, focusing solely on the practice of exhibition making. The objective is to create a wider platform for the discussion of curatorial concerns - encourage a diversification of curatorial models, and actively contribute to the formation of a theory of curating. It is published by ARCHIVE BOOKS and will be distributed internationally, selling at major and specialty bookstores and newsstands.
I don’t want to go to the website because I don’t want to see that it’s $30 an issue 2x a year. Alright, I just checked anyway and it’s only half that, if you subscribe.
“Testing” is here! Your examination will cover
- Mark Dery’s IQ test results
- Tom Holert on art psychology testing
- D. Graham Burnett on Princeton University’s long-term “mind over matter” project
- Michael D. Gordin on nuclear dustcatching
- John Downer on aircraft bird-ingestion tests
- Joshua Katz on the etymology of the word “test”
- Colin Burgess on animals in space
- Mats Bigert on the pitch drop experiment
- Tom Waidzunas on phallometry testing
- A portfolio of projective personality tests
- A whole buncha red-faced Cabinet subscribers
Hey Cabinet Magazine,
Congrats on having the most interesting cover for an art magazine in longer than I care to think about.
Your favorite Hyde,
Hyde
The current issue of “Texte zur Kunst” gathers contributions from art historians, critics, artists, and curators under the programmatic title “13 Theses on Contemporary Art” – each attempts to outline the parameters, phenomena and trends with a normative claim in the field of contemporary art that are crucial for their respective current projects. The crisis in the finance market and its gradual effect on the so-called “real economy,” or the provisional end of the “boom” in contemporary art are everywhere associated with the ominous hope that it is “finally” once more all about “content.” via…
Why are all the good magazines so expensive? This is a crisis in my financial market.
Consider my curiosity peaked…
‘Deception’ is here! Get your fill of lies, damned lies, and
-D. Graham Burnett interviewing historian Anthony Grafton on the development of the concept of historical “truth”
-Christine Wertheim on the Ern Malley poetry hoax
-Jonathan Allen on the history of the marked playing card
-Brian Dillon’s startling confession to the editors of frieze magazine
-Julieta Aranda on the uncanny connection between the world fiscal crisis and scam e-mails in her inbox
- Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin’s photographs of the typewritten manuscript pages of Jack Torrance’s novel in Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”
-A working passport bearing Richard Nixon’s face…but not his name
What is Brian Dillon’s confession!? Now I have to buy* the magazine. Touche Cabinet, touche.
*Oooh, it’s on sale.
