"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.
Generation Terrorists
The Manic Street Preachers in the early Nineties. "Everything Must Go" 20th anniversary.
Fire Power to the People
Sick & Sauer. How They Got Their Guns.
No Books No Bonking
John Waters likes to ask. "What do you read?" Shopping Bag for STRAND Bookstore New York.
FUCKERS
Savages are indisputably a good thing: the world is hardly wallowing in unapologetically serious, all-woman bands at the moment. Especially not ones who have put so much thought into their aesthetic – have a...
MOSS2000
Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin, Brandenburger Tor.
Leaving AC
Atlantic City 2014
In Vitra
Vitra Design Museum in in Weil am Rhein.
NEVER AGAIN
Give birth to a violent man.
Grand Canyon
Richard Serra, today’s greatest living sculptor of Minimalist abstraction. This is sculpture is an engulfing experience. Moving through the construction, you become acutely attuned to sight, touch and sound and to your own being in time...
Transit
We came a long way. Riding the Hannover - Berlin Autobahn. Einleitung Die nach dem Krieg geborenen oder groß gewordenen Deutschen sind - im Westen mehr als im Osten - in relativ glücklich-harmlose Zeiten hineingewachsen. Sie haben nichts...
Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Dame Vivienne Westwood Wants You To Get a Life in the EU. And I want to give her a hug.
ELASTEEN
Two Buildings on Canal Street Are Waging a Post-it War in Their Windows
West Side Highway
Courtesy of PS1.
ROCKAWAY!
Adding a Splash of Color. A rendering of Katharina Grosse’s “Rockaway!,” which involves Fort Tilden’s decaying aquatics building in Queens, New York.
FREE RADICAL
Visionaire Is Giving Out Free Artwork in Times Square. ELASTE was free before you were free. Starting tomorrow, Visionaire will be handing out free art prints to celebrate the magazine's "65 FREE" issue. The giveaway, promoted with...
“Ornementation Brutaliste”
With the exhibition "Ornementation Brutaliste", French designer Mathias Kiss demonstrates his virtuoso handling of gold in a series of dazzling installations. Ornamentation which is said to have got stuck in the 18th century, with the...
Richard Prince
always wanted to be the coolest artist in the world: “I’m just — I want to make cool shit. I want to be a cool dude, or whatever.” Today Prince is one of the most successful and influential artists of his generation — specifically, the...