ELASTE: Last Exit, First Return
From DIY zines to AI manifestos—culture never dies, it mutates.ELASTE was born in the noise of photocopiers and subway nights, shaped by pop culture, politics, and the restless pulse of early ’80s New York. Forty years later, it wakes again—rewired with AI, but carrying 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
The Making of ELASTEDINNER WITH ANDY
The King of Pop Art, our biggest inspiration, and the most enormous influence in contemporary art were coming to visit the Hinterland.
Always be Sceptical About Simplicity
Ping Pong mit den Rolling Stones (Deutsch)
You can't always get what you wantHero For One Day
Fool For a Life TimeP.L.O.
REBEL REBEL
VISIONS OF CHINA
Looking for the Thin White Duke
Joi Trouvé
DA DA DASOUNDS AND VISION
We are the Goon Squad and we're Coming to Town.
THE GERMAN DAYS
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 Baltimore, Maryland with her...
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 increased cultural, social and...
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 anything but canned, weaving...
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 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...
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 perspective. The artworks—all...
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, 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
Appropriateness of Appropriation
Alexander Fury is becoming my favorite fashion writer. Here he takes on appropiation of cultures for designer's collections. What is inspiration and when are you crossing the lines? And how did the sensitivity changed throughout the past decades: Despite the fashion...
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 who have...
DON BUCHLA SYNTHESIZED
Don Buchla, a pioneer and maverick of electronic music who had a lifelong fascination with the ways that humans, technology and sounds interact. Mr. Buchla was an instrument builder, musician and composer. He conceived his instruments, including a voltage-controlled...
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 the late '70s and early...
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...
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Shit Robot
GRIM RECEIVER
ENDLESS
Frank Ocean release. Sort of.
21 Pop Up
Depression.
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...
Disillusion According to Yacht
I thought the future would be cool'. https://youtu.be/aP5fZVqoFLE
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 into being; “minimalism”...
18+
Swinburne and Mirza launched the 18+ project in 2011. The Internet-Based Pop Band talks about “Three Song Medley”, an Exclusive Director’s Cut of Their New Music Video Trilogy: The concept for these videos was that we would take this sort...
LITERALLY
“Yes, design can make you happy.”
Stefan Sagmeister
NAPKINKILLA
Strikes Again
Tricolore
by #The Drawbertson.
Independence Day
x David Hammons.
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.“
