[!@#$%!]

i wanted to ask for some advice because i'm looking to subscribe to something that will keep me up to date with the art world. since moving away from DC to the land of malpais (huxley reference) i've felt culturally isolated, and i'd like to compensate this with a decent publication.

what i'm LOOKING FOR:

-something contemporary, that tells me what's going on today. i'm not interested in articles about the paintings of renoir and where they are doing a traveling exhibition (thought it would be nice to know, ha ha). i'm more interested in current trends, emerging artists, etc.

-something that can somehow (somehow! i understand the limitations!) compensate for not being able to go to galleries, museums, etc., for 11 months a year.

what i DO NOT want:

-something printed in europe where i'll have to pay a fortune & receive it 2 months late (as often happened to me w/ wire mag).

-something for art collectors who're looking to buy shit & amass their fortunes. i'd like news and commentary, not buying tips.

-something that describes exhibits that i can't see (envy is such a toxic emotion)

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so...

art news? art in america? NYarts magazine? something i haven't heard of but should?

thank you. my brain will be forever indebted to you.

[SynthethicalY]

I somehow ended with this one, http://artforum.com/ It may be crap, don't know got it online.

[atari 2600]

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

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so...

art news? art in america? NYarts magazine? something i haven't heard of but should?

thank you. my brain will be forever indebted to you.

You just named them.

Also Art Forum.

[atari 2600]

Hmm..no google results for Picasso's cover for the first issue of Minotaur (Minotaure) magazine in 1933...bastards.

Used to be here (apparently):
http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:ODZz2sOgOGoJ:www.martinries.com/article1972-73PP.htm+picasso+%22minotaure%22+1933&hl=en&ct=cln k&cd=10&gl=us


Huxley persistently poo-pooed Jackson Pollock. Fuck Aldous Huxley. Little overrated twit. I guess he got on the cover of Sgt. Pepper though...the Peter Principle in action in the realm of philosophy, I suppose.
This thread reminded me of SyntheticalY's little "shout-out grouping threads."

[val-holla-ing]

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

-something printed in europe where i'll have to pay a fortune & receive it 2 months late (as often happened to me w/ wire mag).

that's crazy. i subscribe to wire and i get my copy earlier than barnes and noble get theirs.

i'd recommend 'giant robot'. it's interesting, aesthetically.

[atari 2600]

Yeah, Giant Robot is so much better than Art Forum, Art News, or Art in America. You're so fucking cool.

[atari 2600]

jus' the way you write it and ev'rything

bash!

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later

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by SynthethicalY

I somehow ended with this one, http://artforum.com/ It may be crap, don't know got it online.

you got subscription? you like it?

Originally Posted by atari 2600

You just named them.

Also Art Forum.

oh, im trying to pick one though, i can't get all 4, and i dont have a nice boosktore nearby that carries them so i can't compare them myself...

Originally Posted by val-holla-ing

that's crazy. i subscribe to wire and i get my copy earlier than barnes and noble get theirs.

i'd recommend 'giant robot'. it's interesting, aesthetically.

hm, just looked at the website, looks pretty interesting! thanks!

about wire: it was hit & miss. & the crackheads @ the post office would jam it into my box, not good...

I'd say check out Tate Modern's website to see if they sell on the internet. Their bookshop is one of the best ones i've ever been to, if a little pricey.

[atari 2600]

ARTnews, Art in America, and Art Forum have long histories as being the best. They are all New York-based publications though.



Maybe he wants some parisian mag for whateva reason.
...Or to go to London for a ride on that Tate slide...I know I do.

[atari 2600]

You mentioned Huxley in yr post and I've already
commented and although no one will care what
I write next, I am still motivated to do so because
it's relevant to this discussion on some (admittedly obtuse) level.

You see, the thing about Aldous Huxley is he was a
Brit and he didn't want New York gaining even more
cred as the world art capital with abstract expressionism,
so he liked to make fun of it.
Which is ridiculous considering that
a) he was supposed
to be a "metaphysical" free-thinker according
to many of his books
and
(most importantly)
b) the guy was legally blind (or just about there)
and he fancies himself an art critic!

Yet, there he is as the main intellect in a
panel discussion in several issues of Life magazine
in the early '50s putting down American
Abstract Expressionist painters and cow-towing
to the lowest common denominator by calling it a sham.

I'll write it again.

Fuck Aldous Huxley.

(He's a) tremendously overrated author,
(& a) tremedously overrated intellectual as well.

http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:QbJhytHFWTwJ:www.newcriterion.com/archive/21/feb03/huxley.htm+huxley+aldous+%22life+magazine%22&hl=en &ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us
The frustration of Huxley’s natural scientific bent also had at least one malign consequence: a much too uncritical attitude towards fringe and crank sciences, especially those that offered some hint of a connection to the world of the spirit. He was an early enthusiast for the work of Dr. J. B. Rhine of Duke University, which Huxley believed had established the reality of extra-sensory perception. Huxley’s 1954 essay in Life magazine probably did more than anything else to bring Rhine’s “results” (which rested on a misapplication of the rules of statistical inference) to the attention of the broad general public. J. W. Dunne’s “experiments with time,” which involved sifting through one’s dreams for episodes of precognition, got Huxley’s attention. So did dianetics, which was later incorporated into Scientology. Huxley and Maria, his first wife, had three or four sessions with L. Ron Hubbard.

Ok, we got your point atari. Chill out, man.

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by atari 2600

You mentioned Huxley in yr post and I've already commented and although no one will care what I write next, I am still motivated to do so because it's relevant to this discussion on some (admittedly obtuse) level.

You see, the thing about Aldous Huxley is he was a Brit and he didn't want New York gaining even more cred as the world art capital with abstract expressionism, so he liked to make fun of it.
Which is ridiculous considering that a) he was supposed to be a free-thinker according to many of his books
and
(most importantly)
b) the guy was legally blind or just about there

Yet, there he is as the main intellect in a panel discussion several issues of Life magazine in the '40s putting down American Abstract Expressionist painters and cow-twoing to the lowest common denominator by calling it a sham.

I'll write it again.

Fuck Aldous Huxley.

(He's a) tremendously overrated author, (& a) tremedously overrated intellectual as well.

fuckin shit man take a deep breath, i only mentioned huxley because of MALPAIS is like new mexico, where i moved from dc; in fact, we have a national park here with that name. the word means "bad country". and im only asking for magazine recommendations here, thanks...

[atari 2600]

You mentioned Huxley in yr post and I've already commented and although no one will care what I write next, I am still motivated to do so because it's relevant to this discussion on some (admittedly obtuse) level.


what part of my opening statement does you Neitzsche & Huxley-addled brain not get?

[atari 2600]

(He's a) tremendously overrated author,
(& a) tremedously overrated intellectual as well.


Not !@#$%!, Huxley haha.



Quote:
http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:QbJhytHFWTwJ:www.newcriterion.com/archive/21/feb03/huxley.htm+huxley+aldous+%22life+magazine%22&hl=en &ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us
The frustration of Huxley’s natural scientific bent also had at least one malign consequence: a much too uncritical attitude towards fringe and crank sciences, especially those that offered some hint of a connection to the world of the spirit. He was an early enthusiast for the work of Dr. J. B. Rhine of Duke University, which Huxley believed had established the reality of extra-sensory perception. Huxley’s 1954 essay in Life magazine probably did more than anything else to bring Rhine’s “results” (which rested on a misapplication of the rules of statistical inference) to the attention of the broad general public. J. W. Dunne’s “experiments with time,” which involved sifting through one’s dreams for episodes of precognition, got Huxley’s attention. So did dianetics, which was later incorporated into Scientology. Huxley and Maria, his first wife, had three or four sessions with L. Ron Hubbard.

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[atari 2600]

look ---

ignore my posts if they bother you

and just let them stand.

don't fucking quote me
and tell me to chill out
...

because I did nothing wrong.

(This is a) stupid thread anyway.

[atari 2600]

you know, i anticipated that reply from you, !@#$%!
"hay, hey ...all i did was write malpais..."
and it was specifically why I prefaced my remarks.

But, you know, I'll JJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJ JJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJ JJJJJJJJJJust stop prefacing anything .................................................. ............................

[atari 2600]

boring

I feel sorry for you, atari.

[atari 2600]

Originally Posted by sarramkrop

I feel sorry for you, atari.

What, no goofy thread stating it? Just a post?

I suppose you have other brain-farts brewing for your incessant hodgepodge threads.