Category Archives: Art (Periodicals)
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
Wedge
We have 2 issues of Wedge, no.1(1982:summer) and no.2(1982:fall). The 10 numbers published between 1982 and 1988 represent the entire run. Some issues were published in combined form; no issues were published for fall 1983, spring 1984-fall 1984, summer 1985-1987. They have the following subject headings in our catalog, the links for which you can follow to other material in our catalog with the same assigned subject heading:
Art, Modern–20th century–Periodicals.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)–History–20th century–Periodicals.
Art, Modern.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Each issue had a distinct title. You can see the title for number 1 below. Number 2 was called The Spectacle.
The First Issue of Wedge was dedicated to the poet James Laughlin.
Back Cover, n. 2 fall 1982
The content includes interviews with visual artists, writers, and filmmakers, as well as essays on various art forms. They also published poetry and various writings, such as “The Thomas Crown Affair” in which Richard Prince chronicles what he did instead of going to work (which included going to the Orleans Theater to watch porno movies and a Howard Johnson’s for a meal). Below are the table of content pages.
Table of Contents, n. 2.
Table of Contents, n. 1.
And as a last enticement, here is an insert called the License Action by the Guerrilla Art Action Group from issue no. 1. These are business card sized and all came in a tiny envelope.
It is a highly entertaining read/browse that provides a snapshot of the early 1980’s art world.
Umbrella’s Art Crimes
Umbrella
1983-2005 (incomplete)
umbrellaeditions.com
Librarian Judith Hoffberg created Umbrella in 1978 as “a means of intercommunication for art historians, artists, librarians and anyone else who is interested” in “news and information relative to a part of art history that usually never gets discussed in the mainstream.” This meant artist books and mail art, mostly, but the journal’s blue and black pages were open to more.
Eric Drooker, L, December 1990
In the listings section of each issue is the heading Lost and Found, under which went news briefs related to artistic heists and recoveries. Below is a sampling of the reach of art’s underworld.
October 1983
December 1990
December 1998
August 2004
December 2005
Umbrella ran in print to 2005 and then online until 2008. Hoffberg passed away in 2009.
Find our incomplete collection (30+ issues) of the irregular journal in Periodicals.
The Sienese Shredder
The Sienese Shredder
nos 1-4; 2006-2010
www.sienese-shredder.com
The Sienese Shredder #1 has a mango cover with a fox and a clock. Inside, right off the bat, is History and Truth (a commencement address), followed by Gérard de Nerval’s Chantilly (“filled with very old retired servants, walking their limping dogs”), postcard collages by John Ashbery, music by Alan Shockley, the marketing of surrealism, Ron Padgett, Harry Mathews, A Parliament of Refrigerator Magnets, delirious episodes in contemporary art, a poem played out through a lyrical Twister, a Duchampian chess challenge bearing a cupid, Honey’s Metaphoric Energy Transfer, The New Crustacean, and more, ending after over 200 pages with J-K Huysmans, of Against Nature, in Haarlem.
Flip through the next three and find currency collages, mute critics, bughouse poets, Whitman’s glasses, Toilet Rolls, Macintoshages, octopussarian impulses, de Kooning’s last drawing, epitaphs by William Beckford, eyeballs, giant-size mini books, spools by Crumb, and Jesus Christ. These aren’t even the highlights.
Founded and edited by Brice Brown and Trevor Winkfield, The Shredder ran for four issues, 2006-2010. Each issue contained an audio CD. “Contents can include writings by visual artists; art by writers; poets as installation artists; photographers as poets, and the range of contributors moves from the well-known and up-and-coming to the unknown or forgotten,” says the website (which has excerpts and issues for sale).
The complete series is available in our Periodicals archive.
Shirley Jaffe, Paintings (Issue #1)
Raphael Rubinstein, In Search of the Miraculous: 50 Episodes from the Annals of Contemporary Art (Issue#1)
Jane Hammond, Paintings (Issue #1)
Ron Morosan, Louis Eilshemius Drawings (Issue #1)
John Graham, The Case of Mr. Picasso (Issue #3)
Larry Rivers, Poems and Drawings from the 1950s (Issue #3)
SVA Library Picture & Periodicals Collections 