For our Second Life series, we work with writers and publishers to present selected essays, magazines, ephemera, and other previously published material that is out of print or hard to find, giving it a second life online.
Chrysalis: A Magazine of Women’s Culture (1977-1980) was a short-lived but influential feminist publication that was collectively produced by artists and writers active in the Los Angeles feminist movement. Chrysalis’ complete integration of art, literature, and cultural studies was distinct from other journals of the era, in particular, Heresies, which began the same year in New York.
In 1973, artist Lloyd Hamrol and a group of students constructed Woven Cone, a teepee shaped rope sculpture, on a rise overlooking the rear parking area of the CalArts campus in Valencia, CA. The piece stood there as an iconic presence until this past summer, when it was dismantled following the discovery of a severe termite infestation. Hamrol came to the campus to remember his experiences...
Omni was around the house in the 80’s. The magazine header was often obscured by coke paraphernalia or the odd Soldier of Fortune of Magazine picked up at the regional mini-mart; the only place to buy beer within 30 miles there in the Midwestern countryside.
I’ve spent much of the summer thinking about AIDS and what I assume is called 'the politics of barebacking'. I know. Super fun-tastic. The photographs of Peter James solarize the sweet antithesis of all of that, although, if I were to put his work through the theoretical paces it deserves, I’d point out that he captures the male body in the sunset of its innocence, re: AIDS, when, in a desperate attempt to escape a virus, men, as depicted in popular culture (i.e., on the level of the imaginary), put all their attention into girding themselves with gym regimes and juicing on steroids for grander, quicker results.
The first time I saw Jack, he was standing on a ladder putting some white paint on a wall at Artists Space. He had recently arrived in NY from LA, where he’d already been working as an artist and teaching for a number of years. I was 19 years old, still in art college, and working part time at Artists Space. I had come to New York to study dance and performance art.
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An online archive of a scandalous and short-lived teen groupie magazine centered on the Sunset Strip. …
The substantial, if little known, history of arts publishing in Los Angeles includes some surprising moments. …
West was a weekly magazine supplement of the Los Angeles Times from 1967-1972, art directed by …
"As architectural historians Robert Winter and David Gebhard first stated unequivocally in 1965,“Our present awareness of …
"Museums and magazines, [...] because they do not talk to artists, sometimes get hold of an …
The self proclaimed “Magazine of International Boondocks,” 4 Taxis was founded in 1978 by Michel Aphesbero …
Founded in 1968 by the Northern California-based writer Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Catalog was an …
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