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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

Elephant Magazine Website Launch

Elephant, a quarterly contemporary art and visual culture magazine, has officially launched on the web. The website offers a store, stocking the same high end design books as editor-in-chief Mark Valli’s Magma shops in London. A full rundown of the…

Grab Magazine No. 9

Issue number 9 from Grab is out now. The free publication includes a number of artistic features including editorials on Banksy’s takeover of the Bristol Museum and Nissan’s crossover campaign. Grab’s presentation is sound, and the visuals alone are worth…

Japanese Drain Designs

Kristina Dryza has placed an intriguing post on The David Report about an under-examined piece of Japanese visual culture. As she reports, in the 1980s one Japanese bureaucrat devised a public art project that makes manhole covers a bit more…

Bill McMullen: “Hype, Hustle, Rip Off”

Bill McMullen’s work is at the locus of control between contemporary culture’s learned helplessness and mass production’s planned obsolescence. The seduction of immediate consumption, along with its resulting hand-to-mouth futurism, are analyzed by McMullen as one half civics lesson and…

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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

Elephant Magazine Website Launch

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

Grab Magazine No. 9

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

Japanese Drain Designs

Saturday, February 7th, 2009

Bill McMullen: “Hype, Hustle, Rip Off”