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
E IS FOR ELASTE
An A - Z Of The Modern World by DEYAN SUDJIC
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.
Black Iggy
or is it Black Mick? Panda is only Black and White. https://youtu.be/_w3ejy6FOr8
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...
Disintegration
"Oh i miss the kiss of treachery the aching kiss before i feed the stench of a love for a younger meat and the sound that it makes when it cuts in deep the holding up on bended knees the addiction of duplicities as bit by bit it starts the...
ESCAPING THE POLICE
How Stings's daughter sabotaged her music career. My music is like an amazing pub that nobody else has heard about. My life has been about music from the age of four, when my dad bought me my first guitar. Music is in my bones and my...
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...
Generation Terrorists
The Manic Street Preachers in the early Nineties. "Everything Must Go" 20th anniversary.
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 look at the carefully filmed...
MOSS2000
Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin, Brandenburger Tor.
Leaving AC
Atlantic City 2014
In Vitra
Vitra Design Museum in in Weil am Rhein.
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 erlebt, was an die Erfahrung...
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 Grindr, includes posters of a...
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...
Qu’est-ce que c’est?
AMERICAN PSYCHO The Musical “My first impression is that it’s strange that something I wrote 30 years ago is a musical on Broadway,” Bret Easton Ellis said. “To witness its tortured history, from this thing that was a quasi-victim of censorship to a mainstream...
MUNICH DISCO DAYS
Accoording to South Korea's MCM, former Michael Cromer Munich. https://youtu.be/xWi8ozJ-jPA "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...
Excellence = Basic Commodity x Excess Commodities x Delight / Cost
A real architect is also good with constraints, whether they be constraints of materials, site, budget, etc. I like Ove Arup’s line: “To me, the skill of an Architect, and the excellence of an architectural solution is measured by the ration between what is obtained,...
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,...
HEIZER WERDEN
Dig Into Munich Depression. The Ins And Outs And Ups And Downs of Digging a Gigantic Hole on The Outskirts of Munich. It is one of the great 20th century works of art you've never seen, and it was developed and constructed—dug, really, over the course of about a...
The Blitz London
Flash & Trash
Watch this video on The Scene.
“We need to explode all the shit once more.”
The son of the late Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren is planning to burn his collection of punk memorabilia, estimated to be worth around £5m. Joe Corré, who set up lingerie brand Agent Provocateur, says the ceremonial burning is a protest at the way punk’s legacy...
Lucid
Dreaming x Iris van Herpen and Nick Knight. https://youtu.be/0u4QF6cUjCM Continuing van Herpen’s vigor of fusing technology with handcraft, the collection features two 3D printed Magma dresses that are combining flexible TPU printing, creating a fine web together with...
NEW ORDER
The original “Blue Monday” never quite won me over. We celebrate the song's 30th birthday. The original “Blue Monday” never quite won me over. I was never a New Order kinda guy, though New Order had good art work. This adaptation was...
In a Manner of Speaking
"One of the greatest underground bands of the 80-ies" Photo: Thomas Elsner Tuxedomoon is an experimental, post-punk, new wave band from San Francisco, California, United States. The band formed in the late 1970s at the beginning of the punk rock movement. Pulling...
The Fundstück of The Month
Im Pop-Archiv von Pop-Zeitschrift.de werden jeden Monat Fundstücke aus der Pop- und Populärkulturgeschichte dokumentiert und kommentiert. Den Anfang macht die Zeithistorikerin Anne Kurr mit Anmerkungen und Analysen zur Elaste.
Heaven
Depeche Mode has come a long way since its 1980s debut as part of Britain's New Wave scene, and as it prepares to tour behind its 13th album, no one appears more surprised at the group's longevity than the band members themselves. The...
Freak Flag Fly
U.S. Girls is the recording moniker of American-Canadian musician Meghan Remy. "Damn The Valley", a song about the loss experienced by partners of servicemen and women.The video contains ferocious imagery from the widow’s perspective, standing in front the various...
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.“
