"EIN JAHR (ES GEHT VORAN)."
Not as a revival act. Not as an archive sealed in glass. But as a living magazine—once born in club nights, Cold War Germany, oversized layouts and restless curiosity, now returning with the same appetite for culture in flux.
This is where fashion meets theory, where images argue with politics, where style is treated as a system rather than a surface. Where new work sits next to old instincts. Where rebellion has aged into something sharper.
ELASTEMGZN is not interested in trend reports.
It prefers aftershocks.
Essays, visual archives, manifestos, forgotten futures, and contemporary signals—all running in parallel. Past and present in conversation. No nostalgia. No obedience.
INTERVIEW WITH PSYCHIC TV AND “GODSTAR”
SACRED BONES RECORDS presents PSYCHIC TV official music video for ‘Godstar’ directed by AKIKO HADA in 1985. The video also features an interview with GENESIS BREYER P-ORRIDGE commenting on their ‘Godstar’...
KEEP IT ALIVE
Keep IT Alive is an exhibition of Alan Vega’s final work, a suite of haunting large-scale paintings he had completed just before his death in July, 2016. Born in Brooklyn in 1938, Vega is known first as one-half of the groundbreaking...
Empty Gallery, Paris
Between Paris’s 10th and 18th Arrondissements on Wednesday evening, Virgil Abloh opened his pop-up Empty Gallery as a preview of his soon-to-arrive New York City store, which will go by the same name. The vaulted, light-filled space held...
Anish Kapoor Explores “Urgent Times”
Anish Kapoor has continued to explore the power of pigment by transforming a room into a bright red landscape based on the unseen borders that separate the modern world. The installation, titled Destierro, is on show at the Parque de la...
Umbrella, Umbrella
The Infamous Chalk Girl. In 2014, as a 14-year-old schoolgirl, she was arrested for drawing a chalk flower on a wall where thousands of people created protest artworks. It was the end of the umbrella...
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Original ‘Superstar DJ’ of the 1990s and prodigious hedonist, Sasha has become something of a pacified elder statesman of rave in recent years. Having played residencies at the Hacienda in Manchester, the Sound Factory in New York, and in...
OBEY, SYDNEY
Shepard Fairey unveils largest work to date in Sydney. The artwork is a 50m-high and 30m-wide woman with flowers behind her ears, holding a giant waratah – the floral emblem of New South Wales – and the word “OBEY”. It will take around...
OFF – WHITE
In this time of political protest, terrorism, warfare, and the mass displacement of people, what good can mere fashion do? Virgil Abloh, for one, decided that he was going to say something big with his Off-White menswear show in Florence....
“I’ve come to wish you an unhappy birthday, *
because you're evil And you lie." *Johnny Marr, Steven Patrick Morrissey
Producer Tony Visconti Breaks Down the Making of David Bowie’s Classic “Heroes”
Those familiar with David Bowie lore may know one or two things about the recording of his seminal 1978 track “Heroes.” One is that the recording studio did, in fact, look out over the Berlin Wall and the lovers that Bowie saw made it...
Our Word Now
Ice Cube Schools Bill Maher on the N-Word: "That’s Our Word Now. And You Can’t Have It Back." "It’s not cool because when I hear my homie say it, it don’t feel like venom. When I hear a white person say it, it feel like that knife...
MORTALITY
according to Leonard Cohen and David Bowie. https://youtu.be/rkSj5Z7oVYI
Ghosts
Jason Shulman captures the entire duration of a movie in a single image with his series Photographs of Films. Pointing his camera at a screen and making an ultra-long exposure of the film as it plays through, each scene from a movie is...
TRICKSTER
New York painter Kehinde Wiley’s latest exhibition features portraits of fellow artists, among them Derrick Adams, Sanford Biggers, Rashid Johnson, Wangechi Mutu, Mickalene Thomas and Carrie Mae Weems. Wiley examines the ways in which...
L.A. R I O T S
The 1992 Los Angeles riots, also known as the Rodney King riots, the South Central riots, the 1992 Los Angeles civil disturbance, the 1992 Los Angeles civil unrest, and the Los Angeles uprising, were a series of riots, lootings, arsons,...
Bunch of Kunst
Sleaford Mods film rips Austerity Britain a fresh one. Plugged into disaffection … Sleaford Mods in Bunch of Kunst We know about British bands making it big in their 20s – but what about in their 40s? Christine Franz’s excellent...
C H A N G E S
David Bowie Homage: Willow Smith, Zendaya, and Kiernan Shipka's Heartfelt Rendition of "Changes" W's April cover stars, Willow Smith, Zendaya, and Kiernan Shipaka, pay homage to the legend David Bowie with a performance of his iconic...
No I.D.. No Identity.
In the cover story for i-D's Creativity Issue, Tim Walker captures the energy of bright young things Adwoa, Slick, King, Leo and Elliott, against the distinct backdrop of East London.