Arts Magazine was a prominent American monthly magazine devoted to fine art. It was established in 1926 and last published in 1992.
Arts Magazine was a prominent American monthly magazine devoted to fine art. It was established in 1926 and last published in 1992.
Launched in 1926 and originally titled The Art Digest, it was printed semi-monthly from October to May and monthly from June to September. [1] Its stated purpose was to provide complete coverage of arts exhibitions in America, collated from all relevant news sources.
Art Digest was later purchased by James N. Rosenberg and Jonathan Marshall, who subsequently owned and published the Scottsdale Daily Progress newspaper. In 1954, the title was changed to Arts Digest; [2] then, in 1955, the title was changed to ARTS. The word "Digest" was dropped because, as Marshall explained in the September 15, 1955 issue, the magazine was introducing newer features, design modernization, and seeking a widening audience. "We realized that there was a great need in this country for a serious art magazine to serve the growing public," the announcement stated. "Perhaps," he continued, "the best description of our editorial aims in the new ARTS can be found in the words interesting, unbiased, and authoritative." [3] Contributors to that issue included J.P. Hodin, Martica Sawin, Robert Rosenblum, Ada Louise Huxtable, and Dore Ashton, whose article "What is 'avant-garde'?" was the feature essay.
Three years after Marshall and Rosenberg sold the publication in 1958, in 1961, its name was changed to Arts Magazine. [4] Regular contributors at the time included Donald Judd, Sidney Tillim, Annette Michelson, Michael Fried, Lawrence Alloway, Jan Butterfield, and April Kingsley.
The magazine's offices were in New York City and it was last published by Art Digest, Co. [5] The magazine was glossy and priced at $4.00 a copy in 1981. The April 1981 issue had a cover story called "Gertrude Greene: Constructions of the 1930s and 1940s", written by Jacqueline Moss.
The last issue to reach subscribers was in March 1992, featuring Alexandra Anderson-Spivy on artist Rackstraw Downes and Annie Sprinkle on Jeff Koons. The April issue was published but never mailed. Editors at the time [6] included Dore Ashton, Jerry Saltz, Barry Schwabsky, Bill Jones, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Peter Selz, John Yau, Elizabeth Frank, and Jeanne Siegel.
As of 2020, the magazine is in the process of a revival. A new team of writers from leading media publications (e.g. The New York Times) and universities (Vanderbilt, New York University) has been assembled and website in developed and prepared for the official launch. [7]
Smithsonian is a science and nature magazine, and the official journal published by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.; although editorially independent from its parent organization. The first issue was published in 1970. The Smithsonian holds events such as the American Ingenuity Awards, Future Con and Museum Day.
Weird Tales is an American fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine founded by J. C. Henneberger and J. M. Lansinger in late 1922. The first issue, dated March 1923, appeared on newsstands February 18. The first editor, Edwin Baird, printed early work by H. P. Lovecraft, Seabury Quinn, and Clark Ashton Smith, all of whom went on to be popular writers, but within a year, the magazine was in financial trouble. Henneberger sold his interest in the publisher, Rural Publishing Corporation, to Lansinger, and refinanced Weird Tales, with Farnsworth Wright as the new editor. The first issue under Wright's control was dated November 1924. The magazine was more successful under Wright, and despite occasional financial setbacks, it prospered over the next 15 years. Under Wright's control, the magazine lived up to its subtitle, "The Unique Magazine", and published a wide range of unusual fiction.
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