In this issue: Opinions: On Jargon “Critics generally fit into one of two groups: village explainers and village complainers. Both presume there’s a village to explain to or complain about. No one wants to be the last one left in the town square.” Pabl …

An unprecedented survey of more than 250 architects who continue to define one of the most polarizing yet celebrated of styles Brutalist architecture inspires a passionate response, be it adulation or contempt. There is no disputing, however, that the …

Grassroots activism encompasses so much. It doesn’t depend on what different groups do, but rather, how they do it. This issue looks into actions: how grassroots activists operate from below, addressing causes from their roots, and nurturing their memb …

We can count on one hand the chains that have bound us, one to the other, for centuries: the family, the nation, and the market. The holy trinity of modernity leaves outside of its triptych what is deemed subaltern, primitive, ready to be exploited, le …

Mixed Realities sind inzwischen nicht nur in der Gamingindustrie fest verankert, auch in den Künsten haben sie längst ihren Platz gefunden und reflektieren dabei eine wesentliche, geradezu existenzielle Rolle der Kunst: die Durchdringung von realen und …

ROZBEH ASMANI: 54 LITFASS KIOSK. Köln 2017. 14,5 x 24 cm. 56 S. mit farb. Abb., Ausst’verz., broschiert – Text in dt. & engl. Sprache.

Jedes Jahr prämiert der Verein 100 Beste Plakate e. V. die innovativsten und wegweisendsten Plakatentwürfe aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Das Jahrbuch, das von wechselnden Grafiker:innen und Designbüros entwickelt wird, stellt alle Gewinn …

  ABOUT i-D Over 40 years, i-D has carved its position as the premier source for fashion inspiration, and in 2012, joined the VICE Media family to expand VICE’s reach into digital fashion content. i-D has come a long way since its beginnings as a …

Author and film-maker Alexander Kluge and philosopher Oskar Negt, both of whom have strong connections to the Frankfurt School, have a long history of working together. Their collaboration began with the books Öffentlichkeit und Erfahrung (1972) and Ge …

Mysticism, magic, as well as individual interpretations and abstractions of spirituality and cultural rituals are the binding links between the contributions in this volume. It contains 175 pages of pure content. 176 Pages 21 x 28,5 cm Following contri …

Leipzig, 2023   jannis fray, Leni pohl, Noel wieder er, Andreas satzinger

Jannis fray, 2023

Curating has evolved into much more than creating interesting exhibitions, promoting artists, and caring for artworks: in this millennium, art and business are fused, transforming capitalism from the inside out. Curating Capitalism implies new ways of …

written & produced by Lorenz Lindner

FORMAFANTASMA: OLTRE TERRA – OSLO, THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ART, ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN – Catalogue ed. by Hanne Eide, Krisitian Wikborg Wiese & Marianne Yvenes. Oslo 2023. 21 x 28 cm. 192 S. mit 262 (154 farb.) teils ganzseit. Abb., broschiert – Te …

Die Galerie Ruttkowski;68 feiert ihr 10-jähriges Jubiläum! 2010 eröffnete Nils Müller, als Hommage an seinen verstorbenen Freund DJ Sven Ruttkowski, geboren 1968, in dessen ehemaliger Wohnung in der Bismarckstr. 68 in Köln, den ersten Galerieraum. Spät …

First of our Dazed Summer 2023 cover is Chain reaction Dua Lipa’s touched on pop perfection with mega hits tooled with laser precision. Now, she’s teaming with Versace on a new fashion line, bonding with fans over books Service95, her style, art and so …

Die Fotografien von Neven Allgeier (geb. 1986 in Wiesbaden, lebt und arbeitet in Frankfurt/Main und Wien) sind sinnlich, mittelbar und voller Wärme. Sie erlauben den Betrachter*innen einen intimen Einblick in Szenen und Subkulturen, die der Künstler au …

Seit vielen Jahren beschäftigt sich Carsten Nicolai (geb. 1965 in Karl-Marx-Stadt, heute Chemnitz, lebt und arbeitet in Berlin) mit Wahrnehmungsprozessen und macht die Mechanismen optischer wie akustischer Sinneseindrücke erlebbar. Von besonderem Inter …

Christian Jankowski, John Bock, Olaf Nicolai, Katharina Sieverding und Monica Bonvicini

There’s nothing new under the sun. But the promise of the new haunts us every season, a phenomenon that’s infinitely repeated. For those who find the past being called the present perplexing, the 032c Issue #43 by VICTORIA CAMBLIN and NICHOLAS KORODY ( …

What is the future of the book? And, specifically, what is the future of books on art, design and architecture, and cultural-critical publications? We asked a large number of international interested individuals to respond to this question. Journalists …

Over the past fifteen years, the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London, has brought together established and emergent scholars who convene to work with each other and share their ideas and insights. These assemblies have …

We say goodbye to The Happy Reader, the ingenious collaboration between @manfantastic and @penguinukbooks, who have just released their 19th and, alas, final issue. Ending certainly not for a lack of popularity and fandom, The Happy Reader struck that …

There is widespread consensus that we are living at the end—of democracy, of liberalism, of capitalism, of a healthy planet, of the Holocene, of civilization as we know it. In this book, drawing on radical futurisms and visions of justice-to-come emerg …

The twenty year jubilee edition, expanded with yet again 18 new series, of the numerous identities that Rotterdam-based photographer Ari Versluis and profiler Ellie Uyttenbroek systematically documented, inspired by interest in the striking dress codes …

Klub books, 2023

From the development of human settlements on the Moon to the mining of asteroids for rare minerals and metals – the wild imaginaries of extraction-driven growth have, quite literally, transcended the boundaries of Earth. This shifting of resource explo …

Jan Mammey and Falk Messerschmidt’s Statues Also Die records the artists criss-crossing Paris and documenting dormant monuments to French colonialism that can be found in the city. They made these traces, and sites, the focus of a six-month residency, …

No Words of Warmth / Keine wärmende Worte is a multifaceted and hybrid art book—combining text, sound, and images—that provides a glimpse of a young Jewish woman’s life as an artist in Germany. Associations relating to the roles of sister, daughter, mo …

magazine on photography and visual culture

204 Type-Gazette ist die halbjährlich erscheinende Publikation der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Die 204 Type-Gazette ist die halbjährlich erscheinende Publikation der Professur Typografie und Schriftgestaltung. Sie präsentiert in ihrer Erstausgabe die v …

HANS HOLLEIN PHOTOGRAPHED BY AGLAIA KONRAD AND ARMIN LINKE – MÖNCHENGLADBACH, MUSEUM ABTEIBERG – Catalogue ed. by Wilfried Kühn, Susanne Titz, Christoph Thun-Hohenstein & Marlies Wirth. Mönchengladbach 2014. Vorw. von Christoph Thun-Hohenstein. Ein …

Numéro Berlin is probably the boldest of all the Numéros. It definitely is the thickest. This brick of a magazine is always one step ahead and not afraid to combine luxury fashion with provocative thoughts and spreads. It comes out twice a year in a ma …

In the Swiss province, at the foot of picturesque mountains, on a quiet lake, a biotope of avant-garde design has formed. The self-proclaimed “Poster Town” Lucerne has managed to merge the boundaries between art and design, creating a contemporary desi …

nouveau magazine érotique

An occupied metropolitan theatre and a cruise ship on the Mediterranean: these are the two colossal, heavily laden vehicles on board which Jakko — an autodidact who likes to keep records, a Simplicissimus hooked into the internet — moves through the da …

Fashion photography reflects not only the desires and fantasies of the consumer, but also the changing face of cultural values in society as a whole. A stunning object in its own right, Fashion Photography – The Story in 180 Pictures charts the evoluti …

The late 1960s saw the publication of underground magazines almost everywhere in Germany. They were part of a broad cultural tendency that was seen as revolutionary—a “great social happening” (Rolf Lindner) that originated in the USA and encompassed fi …

„Bis zum heutigen Tag stellt die Commune den einzigen Versuch eines revolutionären Urbanismus dar“, schreibt Henri Lefebvre, während sich um ihn herum, an den Universitäten von Strasbourg und Nanterre, die Ereignisse von 1968 zusammenbrauen. In Auseina …

Now available in paperback, this book on the celebrated Dada artist Hannah Höch explores her use of collage as the artistic medium of choice for both satire and poetic beauty. World-renowned for her work during the Weimar period, Hannah Höch was a pion …

The two-dimensional drawing with plan layout, elevation, and section is a necessary prerequisite for all building. Perspectives help to give three-dimensional expression to the architect’s ideas. In order to convey architecture and to build it, drawing …

The first cover has a picture of Justice Smith talking to Julianne Moore. They are discussing something important. This second cover has Presley Gerber. He is the son of Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber, and the brother of Kaia Gerber. Our last of our t …

‘The Log’ takes a walk in the woods to explore the design and politics of timber. From the last Norwegian trunks that floated down the Glomma to the indigenous logs that help map the Amazon, and from Jamaican lacebark trees to online chatbots, meet the …

The issue is an exploration of routines, rituals and repetitions, the many ingenious ways in which the weak make use of the strong, how ‘common people’ reappropriate and subvert material culture to suit their own interests and rules, and a lyrical and …