"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.
Talking God, Sex, Money and Bodybuilding
The Milan-based duo shares their take on contemporary obsessions.– Laura, you’re the first partner in a design office I’ve come across who is also a professional opera singer. Laura Baldassari: In addition to being an opera singer, I’m a...
A DOCUMENT
Turns Five – "In a political climate that aims to tear us apart, we are reminded of the common capacity to marvel at the power of beauty and creativity. This issue marks a milestone—our five-year anniversary—and ten editions in, we...
Memorized
You get the idea, meeting Helmut Lang as I did on a recent afternoon at the Sperone Westwater gallery on Bowery amid his peculiarly assertive, fossil-like memory-foam sculptures, shellacked wall objects (some of which look almost edible,...
Glenn O’Brien, the Last Great New Yorker, Will Continue Schooling Kids in the Afterlife
Glenn O’Brien was a one-man crash course in classic alternative culture. In some ways, he was the last bastion of the “old New York” so many people lament about missing — Warhol’s warehouse, the days when SoHo was covered in SAMO tags,...
SOMEDAY WE CAN:
Using her simple trademark linework—black ink on white surfaces — Shantell Martin transforms everything from walls to found objects, ceramics, toys, sneakers, and even the faces and bodies of participants and passersby into a signature...
Good Fences Make Good Neighbors
Ai Weiwei will build more than 100 fences and installations around New York City this fall for “Good Fences Make Good Neighbors,” one of his most large-scale public art projects to date. Mr. Ai, who lived in New York during the 1980s,...
Electronic Renaissance
From 10 March to 23 July 2017 the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi will be introducing the Florentine public to Bill Viola. Thus the exhibition is a celebration of Bill Viola’s special relationship with Florence, where his career in video art...
Chen Wei Recreates China’s Neon – Lit 90s Clubs
The artist imagines the dancefloors where rebels, thinkers and creatives got together. “While they were once the realm of intellectuals and artists as a place to exchange ideas, nightclubs are no longer radical spaces,” says Chen Wei of...
Promnite’s ‘Snake Charmer’
LA producer Promnite first appeared on P&P with his powerful single "Gunsmoke" featuring a ton of our favorite rising artists. The record touched on the "kill or be killed" mentality of many cities today and the problems a lot of...
SOFTlab (American), Spectralline, 2016. Dichroic acrylic, aluminum, LEDs.
Inspired by the ordered asymmetry of crystals, New York design studio SOFTLab has created an immersive installation that looks different from every angle. By cladding the complex aluminum structure with 3M dichroic acrylic, the piece...
PARIS FASHION WEEK
by Vanessa Friedman.
NOPE
Never-before-seen photos behind the scenes at the Women’s March.
Chinese Photographer 航 任 Ren Hang Dies (1987-2017)
Ai Weiwei Reflects on the Sadness of Ren Hang's Photographs. The sudden death of photographer and poet Ren Hang on Feb. 24 shook the art world to its core. His photographs were a radiant celebration of sensuality and the naked beauty of...
Bristol punks Idles have been toiling on the toilet circuit for yonks without ever getting a finger in the door proper – they threatened a while back with a clutch of ferocious singles and the Welcome EP, but it wasn’t until last year...
KINGS & QUEENS KOLLECTION
By Karen Bystedt Please Do Not Enter is thrilled to open its first Pop-Up Gallery at the historic Pacmutual Building: 523 W 6th Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90013. Starting on March 1st, our Pop-Up Gallery will feature DTLA based Artist Karen...
The Future According to Coco
Coco Capitán Sounds Off on Her Gucci Collab for Fall 2017.In the mix of biological prints and crystal sequin body suits were some simply printed tops and parasols on the Gucci runway today. Those poignant pieces, scrawled with phrases...
Touch Faith
Nothing Comes Between Me and My Calvins
"This is Not America", Calvins in front of artwork of Sterling Ruby.