Afterall, it’s an art magazine
Los Angeles has rarely been a hospitable place for magazines, especially not art magazines. Last December, the bimonthly Art issues closed shop after 13 years of publication here.
Maybe academe can do it better.
This month, a new art journal is coming to the Southland through a joint effort between CalArts and London’s Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design. Afterall was launched in 1998 but has not, until now, had American newsstand distribution. Each $12.50 issue covers five contemporary artists and offers essays on contemporary art.
CalArts is providing an editorial assistant and an office for the publication, which will be headed here by School of Art Dean Thomas Lawson.
The closure of Art issues “left a terrible gap, and to some extent we’ll be filling that,” he said, but there won’t be local reviews. Still, “artists here can see what’s on the international radar. And artists here can be read about by readers drinking coffee in Cologne.”
The next issue of Afterall, which comes out twice yearly and has a circulation of 2,000, should be on newsstands within weeks.
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