Subscription Management

Time to sign up for Private Circulation’s mailing list.  Distributed through email alone, the monthly pdf just sent Art Fag City a special sneak preview of their newest issue.  It’s great.   Based on artist Max Gudmunson’s dispursed/lost collection of “captioned” New Yorker covers, Private Circulation asked the artist to reproduce a few of them using the publication’s cover archives. I’ve reproduced two preview images  [one above and below], but you’ll want to shoot an email off to to privatecirculation[at]gmail[dot]com to subscribe to the publication.

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Meanwhile, the Star Wars/Film/Fine Art aficionado demographic will love John Powers’ essay Star Wars: A New Heap (or How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Death Star) at Triple Canopy.  It’s one of the longer pieces I’ve read on the site to date, and is heavily footnoted.  The crux of the essay as Powers tells it, is that  “the Death Star has never been recognized as an essential work of minimalism,” nor it’s destruction a turning point for modernism.  I won’t go into the finer points of the essay, but one of the more interesting points below:

In defiance of conventional wisdom, Lucas revealed a place that was modern, but not new, a future long occupied, unfinished, worldly. Modernity is the presumption that the natural environment for man has yet to be built. Lucas was the first to imagine that future built environment as already old.

Of course today it’s hard to imagine an environment that doesn’t imagine the old and the new simultaneously.  We recycle images constantly, but we also remake them.

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In other art publication news, Blackbook’s Rohin Guha just sent me a link to his latest non-Blackbook endeavor, At-Large, a prose/poetry/art webzine.  Denise Markonish and video artist Pawel Wojtasik contribute the art component of their latest issue filthy and toothsome, The Teeth Issue, and while it may not satisify the Star Wars, film, New Yorker nerd, it will be right up the alley of Fine Art professionals interested in dental autopsy.