"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.
Baby’s On Fire
DECLINE x Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno. – We’ve been in decline for about 40 years since Thatcher and Reagan and the Ayn Rand infection spread through the political class, and perhaps we’ve bottomed out. Brian...
Paul Jarvis Manifesto
Evil and hate are circling back around to mainstream, and it’s not just in one place or one country either. It’s everywhere. While this feels new, it’s not. It’s just come round again. There’s lots of talk about what we can do, or how we...
Washington D.C.
x Jürgen Teller
Ecotricity
After having shown her clothes on the runways of Milan and Paris since 1982, Dame Vivienne Westwood made a dramatic return to the city that made her a fashion star for London Fashion Week Men’s. “The last thing I’m interested in is...
We Live in Troubled Times
GOOD ARTISTS STEAL
Julia Kim Smith with Banksy. Smith has had the pleasure of working as a chef for the James Beard Award-winning Moosewood Restaurant in Ithaca, New York, and visiting Ferran Adrià in his kitchen at elBulli in Roses, Spain. She lives in...
THE NORTH
Essay: The Constructed North Adam Murray explores the way the North of England has been presented in fashion imagery, referencing editorials involving Corinne Day, Kate Phelan, Alasdair McLellan and more. The last decade has seen an...
Fake News, a Fake President and a Fake Country. Welcome to America, Land of no Context.
Donald Trump's supporters have locked themselves in a "Matrix"-style simulated America — but they're not alone by Andrew O'Hehir How much of the “news” is fake? How much of reality is “real”? After an election cycle driven by lies,...
Watch Iggy Pop & Debbie Harry Sing a Swell Cole Porter’s “Did You Evah,”
to Raise Money for AIDS Research (1990). “Well, Did You Evah!” from the 1939 Broadway musical DuBarry Was a Lady, is the brattier cousin of such Porter hits as “You’re the Top” and “Let’s Do It.” Pop and Harry are dangerous, funny, and...
Project for the Affirmation of the New
A Revolutionary Impulse: The Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde December 3, 2016–March 12, 2017 Covering the period of artistic innovation between 1912 and 1935, A Revolutionary Impulse: The Rise of the Russian...
Punk Funeral: Joe Corré Burns £5m of Memorabilia on Thames
The son of Vivienne Westwood and the late Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren has set fire to an estimated £5m worth of punk memorabilia on a boat on the river Thames.
The View from Within
Muhal Richard Abrams Octet
Mark Leckey: Containers and Their Drivers
“Art is changing — I don’t know if what I’m doing feels like it belongs to an older era, one older white man having a show,” Mr. Leckey said, standing by the sink throughout an interview. “The idea of celebrated artists is being rightly...
From Russia with Love
Not Putin's puppet on this one. The better side of Russia. https://youtu.be/Bp-KeVBNz0A
CREATIVE PROCESS: Rick Rubin and Kendrick Lamar
Inspiring talk about music production. https://youtu.be/4lPD5PtqMiE
Eight Tales of Our Time
Eight projects commissioned by younger artists from Hong Kong, Taiwan and China present startlingly fresh points of view in this show at the Guggenheim Museum. "Tales of Our Time" highlights the unique aspects of several Chinese artist’s...
Post Punk Barcelona
Marc Wirbeleit flashing ELASTE.
The New It Boy of the Art World
At the age of 22, the Chinese it-boy Michael Xufu Huang has positioned himself as one of the most important names in the young art world, navigating, seemingly seamlessly, between NYC gallery dinners, Gucci fashion shows in Milan,...