Magazines of the Week 25th August 2023

Picnic Magazine – Issue 3 🌺

Hollywood Special

“Picnic Magazine is a London based food & lifestyle publication for the caff-hopping, sandwich-scoffing, beer-bellied-bohemian, or anyone with a long list of recommendations in their notes app. Championing beekeepers, bike couriers, chefs, diners and delis and celebrating wider food culture from the boroughs of London to the sun-kissed shores of California.”

Issue 3 of Picnic Magazine takes us to Los Angeles where we hop in the backyard pool with Eric Wareheim & Joel Burt of Las Jaras Wines, talk rice with brothers Nakul and Arjun Mahendro of Badmaash and discuss America’s best bagels with Arielle Skye and Chris Moss of Courage Bagels.

We also catch up with Armen Martirosyan at his neighbourhood Armenian spot Mini Kabob, share rotisserie chicken with the founders of Kismet Rotisserie Sara and Sarah and join Dow Panyawong for a Thai-inspired feast in the pub back in London.

Icarus Complex – No.05

Loving these ‘Snapshots from a Near Future’ attempting to visualise what a future under climate change will look like. How will those regions most affected by the climate emergency choose to design their dwellings?

These images are created using AI technology by architect team Matteo Artico and Silvia Fracassi.

Icarus Complex is a publication that takes an in-depth look at the issues surrounding climate change. Icarus Complex’s aim is for its readers to ‘feel the urgency of the threats our planet is facing’ without becoming overwhelmed by the climate crisis.

DAMN° – No.85 Summer 2023

The Seduction Of Magic.

DAMN° is an independent quarterly print magazine that explores opinions on contemporary culture.

Each printed issue has a theme, a contemporary and urgent topic that we curate to build a deep understanding from a cultural perspective full of surprise and insight.

DAMNº’s editorial content moves beyond glossy hype and dry academic debate. It celebrates imagination and is unafraid to define links between what’s personal, political, economic, emotional, stylistic and social.

DAMN° is ultimately about understanding reality – defiantly using creative minds to poke holes in conventional media for a fuller understanding of what’s shaping our world today.

Third Text – 180 📖

Volume 37 Issue 1

Third Text has established itself as the leading international journal dedicated to the critical analysis of contemporary art in the global field. It has brought with that analysis a particular focus on both the impact of globalisation on cultural practices and the lessons of postcolonial theory.

In this issue:

Grid Locks: The Social Life of Abstraction, from Agnes Martin to Mark Bradford

Mining Matter/s: Bonnie Devine, Anishinaabe Cosmologies, and Uranium Extraction on the Canadian Shield

Woman as Battleground: Marc Garanger’s Identity Photographs from Algeria and their Long Afterlives

Cosmos, Fiction and Transcendence: Photography and Conceptual Art in Communist Bratislava

Transformation of Political Discourse in Turkish Cinema from the 1960s to the 1990s

Doors, Windows and the Notebook of Solidarity: Rethinking Abbas Kiarostami’s Where Is the Friend’s House? (1987)

MASS Sculpture Magazine – Issue 2 🍌

“In the same spirit with which Turps Banana Painting Magazine spans the conversation from the painter’s palette to the gallery wall, so to MASS magazine intends to explore the urge to manipulate material from the sculptor’s thumbs to the museum floor. Our remit is by no means about clay figures in all directions, but consciously embraces undervalued and neglected skills and processes that deliver the thrill of manipulating form in space, in both historical and contemporary contexts.”

FEATURING:

Nick Cave makes sculptures: Marcus Harvey

Marianne Walker and Egyptologist Elizabeth Frood

Sabine Elsa Müller talks with Martina Geccelli

Marcus Harvey on John Davies

Nicky Hirst talks with Annie Cattrell

Richard Perry: Reflections on Stone

Edmund de Waal: During the Night

Katrina Blannin meets Cedric Christie

Memories of Phyllida Barlow 1944 -2023

Laura White: Pasta Baroque

Replica Man – Issue 12 💜

Replica Man, is a biannual men’s fashion and culture magazine, based in London. Always visually challenging, and featuring iconic collaborations with some of the most interesting Artists, Photographers and Designers.

This latest issue contains interview and photoshoot with German Trap artist Ufo361, and tons of amazing contemporary fashion photography, including photos by local legend @kuba_ryniewicz