DROME magazine is a prestigious, alternative and cosmopolitan Italian quarterly that deals with the contemporary world of art and culture, taking on a different theme in every issue.

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Website: www.distilldigital.com

It was total psychic horror: death, decay, dissolution, cold empty black malevolent lonely voided space. It was the worst thing I have ever confronted . . . I understood on an intuitive level why people kill themselves. If I had to go for any length of time with that feeling, I’d surely kill myself.” (‘Infinite Jest’, 1996).

Brrrrrr! this is what’s waiting for you in Lodown 63!

More info at www.lodownmagazine.com

Luis Mendo shows the new issue of POP is in a split run of no less than 6 different covers. With beautiful typography. See them in all glory here on Luis Mendo’s blog: http://bladblog.nl/

A lot of designers regard the practice of infographics as dull and boring — but this is almost certainly because they’ve never tried it. The 10 we spoke to, and whose work we’ve used to illustrate this feature, love what they do and believe it offers as big a challenge and as great a satisfaction as any other kind of design.

IdN have also published the new book “Pens are my Friends” dedicated to Jon Burgerman’s works.

For the first time ever Jon Burgerman’s commercial, personal and collaborative works are collected together in one lavish publication. Included amongst the many projects are toys, clothing, exhibitions, murals, customizations, sketchbooks and a sick bag.

Accompanying the hundreds of pages of brain melting doodles, drawings, characters and colours are essays by the Pictoplasma team and editor of Modart Magazine, insights into Jon’s working process and, of course, photos of salads.

More info at : www.idnworld.com

Produced and published by Pump Diseño, Acido Surtido number 18 is in the streets. Alert! is the new topic with a cover by the Canadian designer Marian Bantjes and works by Wen Tomada, Paula Mizraji, Nicolás Pisano, Paula Mariasch, Diego Levy, Nerdiseña, Sol Santarsiero, Hermenegildo Sábat, Leo Arias, Guido Bartolotta Tobío, Lucas López, Ariel Di Lisio, Federico Díaz Mastellone and a poster by the designer Octavio Martino’s team.

Photo by Julián Vázquez

Fall issue is available now, including “wonderful goodies from amazing profiles”, fall fashion regarding the cooling weather, coverages about Creativity Now Conferences held past Summer in New York and Stockholm and contents of selected panel discussions if you missed it. Rita Ackermann is on cover recovered by colors. Indefinable, almost. Featuring Louise Bourgeois retrospective at the Guggeheim, French Conceptual artist Sophie Calle in an exclusive interview with artist Jill Magid. Special menswear preview and a very hot promise which will vaporize this issue lava. Let’s see…

Tokion’s website: www.tokion.com

Photo: Grant Willing

This is a magazine – Episode 25: Activities in time and space

Intra-dimensional episode with: aids-3d, Center for Tactical Magic, Damon Zucconi, Francesco Spampinato, Grant Willing, Harm van den Dorpel, Loshadka, Nikola Tosic, Oliver Laric, Shane Hope , Yoshi Sodeoka.

With site-specific performative installations – Happening 20 September 2008 8pm

8.00pm Francesco Spampinato x Sbudellatron “Unbounded”
8.30pm My Cat is an Alien “Beyond yr shadow – I am / I am not (here?)”

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The episode continues from 19 September – 11 October 2008, Tuesday to Saturday 3.00 – 7.00pm

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DEVORA RAN® presents it’s second issue debating and discussing porn, eroticism and art.

DEVORA RAN® is a magazine about the sex culture, founded by two women who are sick of a traditional and repetitive vision of pornography. DEVORA RAN® is the unedited showroom of the sexual revolution that society is experiencing; a real alternative to the current sex industry’s conventionalism.

DEVORA RAN® is directed at women and men, which makes it the first sex magazine aimed at a mixed audience. The strength of DEVORA RAN® lies in the fact it is the alternative everyone has been waiting for. It makes its debut in the market, without any competition, ready to satisfy consumers who are culture loving and unrepressed in their sexuality.

DEVORA RAN® is not a porn magazine. It includes much more than penetration, fellatio and big cocks. It doesn’t only depict posing models, but explores real people’s sexual attitudes and culture.

DEVORA RAN® is a showcase for its collaborators’ work: portraying sex through photography, cinema, music, literature, philosophy, painting, illustration, design, etc.
DEVORA RAN® fuses pornography and art, organizing events and publishing the work of the best artists.

DEVORA RAN® is edited in Spanish and English and publishes every two months the most recent contents online. Eventually, luxury editions will be printed.

More info: www.devoraran.com

Hot Desk / Paris
Saturday 20/09/08 from 12h to 22h

For Paris event, Point Ephémère host the first step of the project with the release of the special Manifesta issue of the magazine J’aime beaucoup ce que vous faites and a one day show Last chance to see the Show. This new issue takes the notion of “Broken English” as starting point for exploring language experiments. In response to Raqs Media Collective’s proposal, the magazine focus on the transfer of their notion of value of residue into language and tries to figure out the creative potential of failure, errors in translation and miscommunication. Last chance to see the Show is  conceived as a fiction for a forthcoming exhibition that never happen. Discussing the process of a show, the hidden part of an exhibition is revealed to the audience, turning traditional formats such as artist talk, interviews, press conferences, set up into something unexpected.

Hot Desking- Paris/Istanbul/Rome/Stockholm – Manifesta 7 special project
Hot Desking is a collaboration between Manifesta 7 and Curatorlab/Konstfack* as part of the exhibition The Rest of Now curated by Raqs Media Collective in Bolzano, 2008,  which takes The Rest of Now as a point of departure for further discussions and explorations. The project consists of four broadsheets and four discursive events in four cities – Rome, Stockholm, Paris and Istanbul – which function as independent but related satellites of The Rest of Now. The broadsheets and events link ideas, themes and discussions initiated by the exhibition in Bolzano to the local context of the four cites.

Magazine Palais/ Issue 7 – Fall 2008

New issue entirely devides with Jeremy Deller: a conversation with the artist around the exhibition, an exclusive interview of the glam rock wrestler Adrian Street, an article about eletronic music in the 1920s in USSR, numerous portfolios, and also a complete guide selection. For futher informations: http://www.palaismagazine.com

In the frame of the exhibition From a revolution to another.
Carte Blanche to Jeremy Deller. with Ed Hall, Alan Kane, Scott King, Matt Price, William Scott, Andrei Smirnov, Marc Touché, White Columns.

Carte blanche
Every year the Palais de Tokyo gives an artist carte blanche. This carte blanche is a powerful concept that structures the Palais de Tokyo’s programming. The artist, placed at the center of the decision-making process, is free to devise and stage more than an exhibition, a real program. This carte blanche to an artist, revealing a kind of map of the artist’s brain, desires and influences all at the same time, is an opportunity to tackle the processes of creation and esthetic cross-fertilization from a novel angle. Artists are never where we expect them to be. The way they look not only at our reality and our everyday life, but also at the works of their contemporaries is unique and illuminating.

Jeremy Deller
After Ugo Rondinone in 2007, this year Jeremy Deller is being offered carte blanche to come up with an exhibition. Born in 1966 in London where he lives and works, Jeremy Deller was awarded the prestigious Turner Prize in 2004. His multi-form body of work brings several artistic disciplines into play, combining a passion for music, social phenomena and popular traditions. Jeremy Deller succeeds in bringing these separate realities into dialogue with one another by creating unexpected meeting grounds. Thus for the project Acid Brass (1997) he got a traditional brass band from a Manchester factory to play pieces of acid house music.

From one revolution to another
Taking as his starting point the “Folk Archive” collection which assembles British folklore items and documents, such as customized motorbike helmets, collections of tattoos, or banners from demonstrations, D’UNE RÉVOLUTION À L’AUTRE (From one revolution to another) follows a path that takes us from the British Industrial Revolution to the contemporary digital revolution. Thus we witness in turn the history of electronic music in the Soviet Union in the 1920s, the birth of rock-’n'-roll in France based on the Golf Drouot in the 1960s, and life in industrial Northern Britain in the 1970s. The exhibition, devised in collaboration with 9 other guests – Peter Clare, Ed Hall, Alan Kane, Scott King, Matthew Price, William Scott , Andrei Smirnov, Marc Touché, White Columns – invited by Jeremy Deller, presents archives, previously unpublished photographs, films and audiotapes in which Eddy Mitchell, Léon Theremin, glam-rock singers and English wrestlers, the Happy Mond ays, a mechanical elephant, etc. are all muddled up together.

September 26- January 4 2009
Show opens
Thurday September 25th, 2008
From 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.: press visit
From 8 p.m. to midnight: public opening

The new domus issue (September, #917) dedicated to the 11th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice is out now in your newspaper kiosk.

The theme for this issue is `Construct´ and features six portfolios from various photographers whose work questions the reality of photographs by constructing objects, situations and spaces, or by intervening in those that already exist, in order to translate them through the eye of the camera into a particular image. New York based photographer Amy Stein photographs physical encounters between man and the natural world by placing taxidermied animals in unnatural locations which are in fact re-enactments of real incidents reported in local newspapers and oral histories.

More info at: www.1000wordsmag.com

Feature articles

Berlin: 3 angles David Ulrichs (The Berlin gallery scene; The 5th Berlin Biennial; Artist profile: Aleana Egan) | Inner space: Science fiction and Irish art Chris Fite-Wassilak – a local ’science fiction of the present’? | They’re not going to change it, are they? The Museum of Natural History Dublin as material culture Sherra Murphy – a look at Dublin’s ‘dead zoo’ as material culture | The glue and the wedge: The cases of Claire Fontaine and Canell and Watkins Isobel Harbison and Ilaria Gianni – investigating two forms of artist collaboration | Hou Hanru: Art, ev+a and the global bazaar Peter Murray – a look at a ’star’ curator and his impact on this year’s ev+a |

Reviews

Belfast Two places Niall de Buitléar | Brendan Jamison IN-BETWEEN: New work and JCB BUCKET series Slavka Sverakova | James Merrigan … could we talk before and after… (part 1) / Pascale Steven Erasure David Hughes | Carrick-on-Shannon Clea van der Grijn Moment(ous) Maurice O’Connell | Cork Seán Lynch: Joseph Beuys (still a discussion) John Kelly | An incomplete survey of artist-run spaces in Cork Fergal Gaynor | Dublin Colin Darke: The Capital paintings Tim Stott | Lightwave Paul O’Brien | Defining space Eimear McKeith | Phoenix Park / Séamus Nolan: Demesne Gemma Tipton | Glasgow Brian Connolly: History lesson Michelle Browne | Glasgow International Festival 2008 Susan Thomson | Limerick Two places Karen Norm oyle-Haugh | ev+a Jessica Foley | Montreal Re-enactments Judith Wilkinson | New York Katie Holten: Uprooted Tim Maul | Portadown Ronnie Hughes: Manifest Slavka Sverakova |

Now open: the Circa online shop, with books, catalogues and magazines relating to art in and from Ireland; see http://www.recirca.com/shop

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Happy birthday VICE! VICE has 2 years and celebrates this anniversary this Friday 13rd in Brussels. Entrance with invitation at Viceland http://www.viceland.com/ or tatijana@vicemagazine.be Friday 13rd June 2008
Recyclart, 17, rue de ursulines, 1000 Brussels, belgium.

20 June 2008, from 6.30 to 9.30 pm, Galerie Issue, 38, rue Quincampoix, 75004 Paris

New issue of Blaadje is out now! Release of Blaadje issue Nr.4 was held in Amsterdam on Thursday 6th March 2008.Inspiration a capricious thing? Of course not. It comes standard with Blaadje 4. Blaadje 4 is the best medicine against falling leaves and hibernation. With Blaadje Nr.4 go completely inspired in 2008. Blaadje 4 is the reference for editors, advertising agencies, modeling agencies and for every communications professional.
“For the operation of Blaadje and the annual Magazine Party, we have decided to set up a foundation: Stichting The Black Tiger. The foundation is named after the giant prawns that are served annually at Totempaal’s Gamba Party for publishers and marketing managers. The foundation has been deliberately created to make it clear that Blaadje and the Magazine Party are non-profit projects. The foundation sit Ernst Coenen, Frank Meijer (Totempaal Media) and Rupert van Woerkom (Hemels)”.

More info at http://www.blaadje.nl/site/