Featuring work by:

Jessica Gnyp Suzie Smith Divya Mehra Jordan Abel Jacob Wren

Magazines are so often considered temporary or ephemeral — less permanent than books, buildings, and hopefully people. Nonetheless, or maybe for this very reason, they are kept, archived, and digitized — obsessively collected and even passionately curated. Perhaps you own or wish to disown a magazine collection or two; perhaps you only read them on the Internet. However eternal or fleeting, the magazine format, in its original multiplicity, is still more affordable, portable, and networked; designed to reach more people than most paintings or sculptures, artists’ magazines create a publicity for art more or less secret, democratic, counter-, or resurgent, possibly making Museums — not so much obsolete, but — not necessarily necessary. The Art & Wonder editorial collective would rather not reinscribe condescending liberal discourses that reduce artists’ publishing to communication, dismiss it as a cheap and minor form or, for that matter, foreclose upon its possible subversions. Proudly cheap and minor, Art & Wonder presents Issue 2 — magazine ~ magazine — as art, and also wonder. Five new works and one editorial by contemporary artists engage the ideologies, conventions, materials, and etymology of the magazine format, often by considering it with other media.