Category Archives: Periodicals
Features new subscriptions, recent acquisitions, dead runs of interest, and generally highlights the Visual Arts Library Periodicals Collection.
Star Wars – The Print Awakens
Star Wars is getting the cover treatment from satirists, advertisers, motion graphics/animation/specicial FX artists, newsies, entertainment newsies, techies, and the world of science. Following is a sample of current, and a few historical covers in the SVA Library featuring the world’s foremost Space Opera.
Looking back through the archives there are many more opportunities to spot friendly Jar Jars or the face of C-3PO’s from an earlier age of unrest within the empire.
Or an even earlier (though chronologically later) cover treatment.
Bidoun
Bidoun
v.1:no.1(2004:summer) &
v.1:no.7(2006)- present
In Issue 14: Objects, Sophia Al-Maria writes through her newborn cousin’s Allah-shaped ear into the shimmer of sign, symbol and story, the difference that dissolves into image or mirage, distance that folds and enfolds, the mutable mystery of letters and language. The vectors, the reach of the issue (see sample TOC below) make it a worthy spot to begin to get lost, art’s challenge accepted, a labyrinth of the unshelved. Bidoun means ‘without’ in Arabic and Farsi and its push against the meaning of ‘Middle East’ is a breathing thing that flees easy grasp.
Issue 13: Glory, cover by Babak Radboy
Safya, Issue 25
Issue 1: We Are Spatial
Issue 16: Kids
“Hand Baggage Control,” Issue 1: We Are Spatial
Issue 23: Squares
Issue 1: We Are Spatial
Issue 26: Soft Power
Issue 12: Projects
Issue 14: Objects
Hicham Benohoud, “La Salle de Classe,” Issue 14: Objects
Lisa Farjam, “Sweet Sixteen,” Issue 16: Kids
Roman Ondak, “Sated Table,” Issue 14: Objects
Negar Azimi, “Brown Girl in the Ring,” Issue 18: Interviews
Trisha Donnelly, “Untitled,” Issue 14: Objects
Issue 22: Library
Issue 22: Library
Sophia Al-Maria, “Tone Poem,” with photos by Adrian Gaut, Issue 19: Noise
Issue 1: We Are Spatial
Issue 25
Issue 26: Soft Power
Then and Now: Aperture
Aperture
n. 1 (1952) – current
The editors’ note of a recent Aperture (n. 217) quotes the magazine’s first issue musing about the relative places of pictures and words. This isn’t the only way #1 and #217 seem to reference each other, despite being almost entirely different publications. It’s remarkable how much the photographic mainstay has developed. Read on for alternating glimpses of issues with 215 iterations between them.
Then and Now: Artforum
Artforum
Vol. 1, n. 1 – current
We were wondering what an art magazine’s evolution might say about about art, magazines, and everything else, so we dug in the stacks and held the first and latest Artforum side by side. At a glance, the contributors look different, the contents have grown into genres, the reviews expanded, the gallery ads reached out, the interviews got sexy, the list suggests a response to conformity, the fights to be made have shifted targets, but through it all, like a real friend, that cover font remains the same.
Back in the Stacks: 1992
Since it feels like summer was decades ago, we took a look at summer decades ago; a sampling of our periodicals. It was hot. Once upon a time.
Open the The New Yorker, what’s the first thing you see? The New Yorker, June 1992.
Rappers in recovery. Alan Light, “L.A. Rappers Speak Out.” Rolling Stone, June 25, 1992.
Still maybe an issue. Mad, June 1992.
Walter De Maria and El Greco in Stockholm’s Moderna Museet, from “All Fives, Sevens, and Nines,” by Lars Nittve. Artforum, Summer 1992.
Mad, June 1992.
Danny Tisdale, Lynching 1930. From “Engendered Species,” by Kobena Mercer. Artforum, Summer 1992
“On the Road to Kassel,” Artforum, Summer 1992.
The hits. Rolling Stone, June 25, 1992.
Novum, June 1992.
More car ads featuring cops. Vanity Fair, June 1992.
Before mixology. Rolling Stone, June 25, 1992.
From an interview with George Condo, by Anney Bonney. Bomb, Summer 1992.
Vogue, June 1992.
Be thankful for lasers. Vogue, June 1992.
Checking up on the crooks. Annie Leibovitz, “Watergate.” Vanity Fair, June 1992.
Before Bill did it. Julia Reed, “Clinton on the Brink.” Vogue, June 1992.
“Documenting Documenta.” Interview, June 1992.
Fashion fish. Vogue, June 1992.
It doesn’t stop. Interview, June 1992.
And no one is pretending. Interview, June 1992.
Religion. Vanity Fair, June 1992.
From John Ashbery’s “Baked Alaska.” The New Yorker, June 29, 1992.
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