Issue nine of art magazine ANP Quarterly is out. The magazine disappears quickly so pick it up while you can. ANP Quarterly is a full color, oversized art magazine that is published for free and without advertising.
So here we are, issue number nine of ANPQuarterly. That’s a funny number, right? The last issue marked two years of our publishing, so we’ve made it through our terrible twos - now and what an awful way to speak about children, right? If you call the kid terrible, then what can you really expect beyond that? Empowerment parenting anyone? The last issue, #8, was the infinity sign issue. But what is a 9? A nine? Well…in the tarot card deck, the number nine stands for a wish come true. That certainly is beautiful. Also, it’s the start of our third year, which is exciting, but perhaps more exciting, we are trying this new thing out: cover people that already have a ton of coverage. It’s true, we have covered oh so many legends in the past, but they have all been legends that were sort of in non-spotlight phases, in between career spotlights. We have never listened to publicists and always avoided locking into the overriding media timetable. We’ve even cut articles because people had new stuff coming out too close to the release of an issue, and thus their impending shine was to be plentiful enough. But somehow it turned out that this time around we are taking on three of our favorites who happen to be EVERYWHERE right now. Harmony Korine has a new movie, Mister Lonely, (his first in eight years!) coming out in a matter of months, Uta Barth just opened a major show at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in NYC that the press rightfully loves, and Tomoo Gokita is in every magazine right now. But how deep is anyone really going with any of them?
Well, we’ll tell you where we’re going: we had old friends Aaron Rose and Ari Marcopolous visit the notoriously snarky and goat-getting Harmony Korine and they got him to say everything, seriously, finally the real story behind his landmark career in confrontation…it’s extra exciting to have such a comprehensive and personal account. Regular ANPQ contributor David Horvitz sits down with his mentor, contemporary photography legend Uta Barth, to have an incredibly heartfelt conversation about inspiration, career, working practice and other things that close friends discuss. Also, though there have been many beautiful reproductions of his art out there, we have never seen an interview with Tomoo Gokita ever except the one here (and the very short and sweet one in the new issue of The Journal that comes out right now as well see?) Who is this guy? We’ll let him tell you himself.
And actually, the thing in this issue about Wildfire Wildfire and the current state of underground art music in Baltimore fits into this pattern as well as does the New York Art Book Fair, and the artwork and DIY approach of Mark McCoy and his notorious hardcore record label Youth Attack, both of which are included in this issue as well. Huh. But then again, we’re giving space to artists Ashley Macomber and Leigh LeDare, both of whom are just warming up in the world, but have so so much more to come and we’re beyond honored to have them in here. And there’s more…
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