ELASTE: Last Exit, First Return
From DIY zines to AI manifestos—culture never dies, it mutates.ELASTE was born in club nights and backroom conversations—shaped by pop culture, politics, and the restless afterglow of 1970s New York, filtered through Hannover and Munich.
It grew out of what we called the Szene: DJs, bouncers, designers, photographers, publishers—people orbiting the same dance floors, arguing about art at dawn.
Four decades later, it surfaces again with the same refusal to conform.
This isn’t nostalgia. It’s a remix. A last exit that became a first return.
ELASTE 1980–1986 — The Book
Apparently, the ’80s weren’t done with us.
Thomas Elsner and Michael Reinboth have unearthed ELASTE — our restless, neon, and nicotine-stained child — and turned it into a 560-page time capsule. Published by DCV, Elaste 1980–1986 brings back the magazine’s beautiful confusion: Warhol, Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode, DAF, and the naïve belief that pop could still save the world.
Now reissued as a best-of anthology, Elaste. 1980–1986 collects original photographs, interviews, and essays from the magazine’s sixteen issues — featuring icons like Andy Warhol, Boy George, and Keith Haring — alongside new reflections by its founders and contributors. It’s a document of an era when print was bold, culture was experimental, and style had an opinion.
Available from DCV Books: Hardcover edition, 560 pages, bilingual version, set to be released on November 19.
Sniffin’ Glue
DINNER WITH ANDY
The King of Pop Art, our biggest inspiration, and the most enormous influence in contemporary art were coming to visit the Hinterland.
IN FLAMMEN
DOCUMENTA BOUND – KASSELER KREUZ
Always be Sceptical About Simplicity
Ping Pong mit den Rolling Stones (Deutsch)
Hero For One Day
P.L.O.
VISIONS OF CHINA
Looking for the Thin White Duke
Joi Trouvé
SOUNDS AND VISION
THE GERMAN DAYS
LC/SHT
Washington D.C.
x Jürgen Teller Washington D.C. x Jürgen Teller Washington D.C. x Jürgen Teller Washington D.C. x Jürgen Teller Washington D.C. x Jürgen Teller Washington D.C. x Jürgen Teller Washington D.C. x Jürgen Teller Inauguration Day Washington D.C. x Jürgen Teller Washington…
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 keeping up with the times,” Ms….
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 Baltimore, Maryland with her…
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 Avant-Garde traces the arc of the pioneering avant-garde…
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 questioned. So to do a show…
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 perspective. The…
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, international research trip with the…
TOMORROW COMES COMPLEX
On November 5 and 6, ComplexCon is taking over Long Beach, California, to offer you a glimpse into the future of art, music, film, food, and fashion. Our aim is to create an experience that will elevate your understanding of what our culture is and what it can be….
CÉLINE
The New York Cool
on the authority of Dao-Yi Chow and Maxwell Osborne. “Nothing is more of a buzz wrecker when you’re talking about cool than talking about cool. It is not, after all, a quality one can anatomize or acquire. People possess it inherently or not at all, and those…
MOMA 1929 <
Nine decades of modern art at MOMA now online. Pictured below: Useful Objects of American Design under $10. 1940.
QUEER CREATIVITY
GAY GOTHAM: ART AND UNDERGROUND CULTURE. Queer creativity in the 20th century is celebrated in this exhibition that includes familiar figures like Andy Warhol, Mae West, Leonard Bernstein and Robert Mapplethorpe. Oct. 7-March 26, Museum of the City of New York,…
Revolutionary
Wadsworth Jarrell’s “Revolutionary” (1972), part of an exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia.
Shift’s & Changes or You are in the Art World Now.
Leonard’s works often capture these sorts of societal shifts and changes (perhaps this is an inevitability when one’s practice involves patient, long-term looking). For INTERVIEW Magazine she speaks to the “different city” that she inhabited in…
Order in the Universe
“The First Known Map of the Moon,” opening Sept. 8, Mary Boone New York, brings together about half a dozen of Hashimoto’s meditations on that theme — each made from layers of overlapping, circular and intricate kites. He gets into the nitty-gritty in the annotated…
The Mother of Pop
Corita Kent was an American Catholic nun, artist, and educator who lived and worked in Los Angeles and Boston. She worked almost exclusively with silkscreen, or serigraphy, helping to establish it as a fine art medium. She developed innovative methods in screen…
Religious Ecstasy in Berlin
Chances are that if you have experienced reality, you have felt the urge to escape it. Artist Jeremy Shaw Speaks About Drugs, Religion, and the Power of Altered States All throughout history, from LSD to VR, humans have been inventing and tinkering with…
The Oppressive Gospel of ‘Minimalism’
“Is simplicity best Or simply the easiest The narrowest path Is always the holiest” Martin Lee Gore KYLE CHAYKA for the New York times is exploring the “Oppression” of minimalism. The word’s meaning wasn’t entirely literal when it first came…
LITERALLY
“Yes, design can make you happy.”
Stefan Sagmeister
NAPKINKILLA
Strikes Again
Tricolore
by #The Drawbertson.
Independence Day
x David Hammons.
Other People’s Pants
Tom Burr explores the ways in which we imbue the spaces and things by which we are surrounded—like clothing, furniture, or the patterns in wood—with our memories and emotions.
EAU DE COLOGNE
“EAU DE COLOGNE” A FEMALE GROUP EXHIBITION AT SPRÜTH MAGERS, LOS ANGELES On view until August 20th, 2016 at Sprüth Magers, 5900 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles. Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Cindy Sherman, Rosemarie Trockel The group show Eau de Cologne…
Peter Saville’s Tate Beer
Adding to the list of his projects which also include Joy Division, Supreme and Kanye West. The Tate Design Studio has partnered with critically-acclaimed British graphic designer Peter Saville and local British brewers Fourpure to create a beer can fit for the modern…
No Books No Bonking
John Waters likes to ask. “What do you read?” Shopping Bag for STRAND Bookstore New York.
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 Grindr, includes…
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 Pictures Generation, an aloof…
MUNICH DISCO DAYS
Accoording to South Korea’s MCM, former Michael Cromer Munich. “Referencing Bauhaus-inspired designs & David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust era, the exclusive campaign presents a modern narrative where disco becomes the inspiration for today’s contemporary…
Ham Kyung – Ah
at Art Basel Hong Kong.
曹斐 Cao Fei
Cao Fei, COSplayers 2004. From the underground of Guangzhou to the underground of the New York subway and to PS1 Queens, NY. Klaus Biesenbach has curated the sleeper show of the spring: a high-impact retrospective of videos, photographs, and digital simulations,…
Ma’ Ma’ Raschplatz Da
»Just what is it that makes today’s home so different, so appealing?«
(Richard Hamilton, 1956)
Wenn der Postmann zweimal klingelt, liegt meist ein kleines Kärtchen in meinem Flur. So auch diesmal »Basement« Hannover Raschplatz. Eröffnung Freitag 12.6.81 22h. Knapp am dreizehnten vorbei, dachte ich und lenkte meinen Wagen einige Tage später durch die trostlose Gegend hinter dem Bahnhof. Beinahe am Ziel angelangt ging ́s dann auch noch in den Keller. Gleißende Leuchtstoffröhren, Pirelli Gummi auf dem Boden, die Decke unverkleidet, hier und da ein bißchen Chrom. Der erste Blick signalisiert, hier wollte jemand der Café– und Diskothekenszene mit ihren pastellfarbigen, schimmernden Barocktempeln eine Ohrfeige verpassen.“
