"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.
Artists Become Famous through Their Friends, Not the Originality of Their Work
While past studies have suggested that there is a link between creativity and fame, Ingram and Banerjee found, in contrast, that there was no such correlation for these artists. Rather, artists with a large and diverse network of contacts...
Of course we’re fucking relevant
Frieze L.A.
Kori Newkirk's "Signal" is made of television antennas. The artist says, “I was born analog, but I will die digital and my experience is of both.”
Ton, Steine, Scherben.
Paris, a Porsche vandalized during scuffles with riot police by Gilet Jaunes
Hear Siouxsie Sioux’s Powerful Isolated Vocals on “Hong Kong Garden,”.
https://youtu.be/MJM1kxD-g0E
New York Posts
Scott took direct aim at his theme, which was the news. Fake news. Clickbait. Tabloids screaming horrors. Jeremy Scott working with the artist Aleksandra Mir, conjured a collection that felt very much like falling down the rabbit hole of...
Andy Warhol on Junk Food, Coca-Cola, Drugs, Painting, and God
by Christian Wegner This interview was conducted at the third Factory, at 860 Broadway, in June 1977. It took 90 minutes — or the time of one full tape. I had thoughts about some of the questions, but mostly the interview was improvised....
Internationalists
If you believe you have an equal share In the whole wide world and all it bears An' that your share is no less or more than Your fellow sisters and brother man Then take this knowledge and with it insist...
Poundshop Kardashians
I drink and watch the zoo in motion Beautiful people devoid of emotion Sterilized, pedicured, pedigrees and mankind Thick as fuck and soulless And no longer fear genocide It’s gonna end from...
Andy Warhol – From A to B and Back Again
A sweeping retrospective shows a personal side of the Pop master — his hopes, fears, faith — and reasserts his power for a new generation. Andy Warhol’s “Flowers” series from 1964 has been set against “Cow Wallpaper [Pink on Yellow]” from...
Ghosts Don’t Walk in Straight Lines
Opening next Thursday at Red Hook Labs in New York, “Ghosts Don’t Walk in Straight Lines” is a chronicle of the artist and model Saskia de Brauw’s slow, southward amble from Manhattan’s 225th Street to Battery Park over the course of a...
Advice for Young Creatives
“Destroy your computer,” says Jamie Reid when asked what guidance he would give young artists. “Most jobs are about enslavement, break free if you can.” It’s the sort of no-nonsense advice you’d expect from a man who has spent five...
A Very Los Angeles Welcome
Since leaving his native Australia in 1980, the musician Nick Cave has made his home in many cities, from London to Berlin to Brighton. But perhaps nowhere does his lushly dark aesthetic make more sense than in Los Angeles, where he now...
ST. VINCENT
'Savior (piano version)' performed live at The Belasco in Los Angeles with pianist Thomas Bartlett.
Love is Magic
A silly, smutty slice of arch brilliance that also makes room for quiet introspection, John Grant, the American musicians's fourth album is an accomplished balancing act. An epic of squelching synthesisers and breathlessly far-ranging...
Ugly Beauty
Cindy Sherman’s Instagram Selfies Mimicry in nature was first observed in butterflies, in the 19th century. Certain breeds pose as wasps; others bear marks falsely advertising that they are poisonous. Desire for survival alone couldn’t...
Plasti Elasti
Kid playing with Plasti Elasti, London. Photo: Peter Nicholls/Reuters
“Work Hard, Live Hard, and Fuck hard.”
Richard Bernstein, Andy Warhol’s Favorite Artist What does it take to become a star? In the 1970s and ’80s, it seemed as easy as sitting for artist Richard Bernstein. “Bernstein’s faces are wonderful,” Andy Warhol once...