''Cabinet Magazine'' is a quarterly,

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-based,

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art and culture

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established in 2000. ''Cabinet Magazine'' also operates an event and exhibition space in Brooklyn. In 2022, ''Cabinet'' transitioned its magazine to be a digital publication, although it still publishes print books.

Issue structure

''Cabinet Magazine'' issues are divided into three sections.

Section 1: Columns

Each issue begins with four of the magazine's recurring columns. Some columns have (or have had) recurring writers. Some columns appear more frequently than others: * "The Clean Room" is David Serlin's column on science and technology. (First appearance: issue 1.) * "Colors", which appears in every issue, presents a writer or artist's response to a specific color assigned by the editors. (First appearance: issue 1.) * "Ingestion", a column originated by Allen S. Weiss, explores food within a framework informed by

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, and

philosophy Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. ...

. (First appearance: issue 1.) * "Leftovers" examines the cultural significance of detritus. (First appearance: issue 1.) * "Thing" invites writers in various fields to take a shot at identifying a single found object not recognizable to the magazine's editors. (First appearance: issue 12.) * "Inventory" is an occasional column that features and sometimes examines a list, catalogue, or register. (First appearance: issue 13.) * "Black Pyramid" is Peter Lamborn Wilson's column on the

poetics Poetics is the theory of structure, form, and discourse within literature, and, in particular, within poetry. History The term ''poetics'' derives from the Ancient Greek ποιητικός ''poietikos'' "pertaining to poetry"; also "creative" an ...

of esoterica. (First appearance: issue 18.) * "Object Lesson", a column by Celeste Olalquiaga, "reads culture against the grain to identify striking illustrations of historical process or principle." (First appearance: issue 20.) * "A Minor History of," a column by Joshua Foer, examines an overlooked cultural phenomenon using a timeline. (First appearance: issue 25.)

Section 2: Main

The Main section features miscellaneous essays, interviews, and artist projects.

Section 3: Theme

The third section features essays, interviews, and artist projects related to a specific theme. For example, the summer 2012 issue theme was "punishment" and featured a column on capital punishment by philosopher

Justin E. H. Smith Justin Erik Halldór Smith (aka Justin E. H. Smith) (born July 30, 1972, in Reno, Nevada) is an American-Canadian professor of history and philosophy of science at the Université Paris Cité. His primary research interests include Leibniz, Post ...

, an interview with Danielle S. Allen talking about punishment and the construction of authority, and a themed artist project by photographer Carl De Keyzer. A theme-based CD is included in issues 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, and 13.

Magazine and book

Though ''Cabinet Magazine'' is distributed to newsstands as a magazine (with

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), individual issues are also distributed as books, with

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numbers. Each issue is printed in two editions: one with a magazine barcode on the front cover and the other with a book barcode on the back cover.

Logo

The logo was designed by Richard Massey, and is derived from the fragmented elements and ligatures of an early twentieth century stencil often used in

Le Corbusier Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 188727 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier ( , , ), was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture. He was ...

's architectural drawings and manifestos.

Other projects

In addition to publishing the quarterly, ''Cabinet Magazine'' also publishes books, curates art-related exhibitions, and stages conferences and live events. In October 2008, the magazine opened a public venue at 300 Nevins Street in Brooklyn, where it operates an exhibition area, reading lounge and a 64-seat screening room and lecture space.

Books

* ''The Book of Stamps'', a book of 15 artist-designed stamps by

Walead Beshty Walead Beshty (born London, UK, 1976) is a Los Angeles-based artist and writer. Beshty was an associate professor in the Graduate Art Department at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, and has taught at numerous schools including University of ...

, Melissa Brown, Melissa Dubbin & Aaron S. Davidson,

Spencer Finch Spencer Finch (born 1962 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American artist. After attending Hotchkiss School, The Hotchkiss School, he graduated ''magna cum laude'' with a B.A. in comparative literature from Hamilton College (New York), Hamilton Col ...

Carl Michael von Hausswolff Carl Michael von Hausswolff (born 1956) is a composer, visual artist, and curator based in Stockholm, Sweden. His main tools are recording devices (camera, tape deck, radar, sonar) used in an ongoing investigation of electricity, frequency, ar ...

Leif Elggren Leif Elggren (born 1950, Linköping, Sweden), is a Swedish artist who lives and works in Stockholm. Active since the late 1970s, Leif Elggren has become one of the most constantly surprising conceptual artists to work in the combined worlds o ...

, Jonathan Herder, Mikhail Iliatov,

Emily Jacir Emily Jacir ( ar, املي جاسر) is a Palestinian artist and filmmaker. Biography Jacir was born in Bethlehem in 1973, Jacir spent her childhood in Saudi Arabia, attending high school in Italy. She attended the University of Dallas, ...

Julia Jacquette Julia Jacquette (born 1964) is an American artist primarily based in New York City and Amsterdam. She grew up in the Upper West Side by Columbus Avenue which was where her families apartment was. Jacquette studied at Skidmore College in Saratoga S ...

, Vandana Jain, Sandra Eula Lee, Line Up, Frank Magnotta, Michael Oatman and David Shrigley. With text by

George Pendle George Pendle (born 1976) is a British author and journalist. He was educated at Stowe School and St Peter's College, Oxford. After working at '' The Times'' from 1997 to 2001, Pendle wrote his first book, ''Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life ...

. (Cabinet Books, 2008) Kastner Book of Stamps 2008 cover.jpg, Cover Kastner Book of Stamps 2008 content.jpg,

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* ''Ilf & Petrov's American Road Trip: The 1935 Travelogue of Two Soviet Writers'', by Yevgeni Petrov and

Ilya Ilf Ilya Arnoldovich Ilf (born Iehiel-Leyb Aryevich Faynzilberg, russian: Иехи́ел-Лейб Арьевич Фа́йнзильберг) ( in Odessa – 13 April 1937, Moscow), was a popular Soviet journalist and writer of Jewish origin who us ...

, edited by Erika Wolf, translated by Anne O. Fisher (Cabinet Books and

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, 2006) * ''Letters From Mayhem'', by Roger Andersson, with poems by

Albert Mobilio Albert Mobilio is an American poet and critic. He teaches at Eugene Lang College, the liberal arts college of The New School university. His work appears in ''Bomb'', '' Salon'', '' Postmodern Culture'', '' Harper's''. He is co-editor of ''Bookfo ...

(Cabinet Books, 2004) * ''Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark's Fake Estates'' (Cabinet Books, The Queens Museum of Art, White Columns), * ''The Paper Sculpture Book'' (Cabinet Books, Independent Curators International, and

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, 2003) * ''Presidential Doodles: Two Centuries of Scribbles, Scratches, Squiggles & Scrawls from the Oval Office'', by The Editors of ''Cabinet Magazine'', with accompanying captions by David Greenberg, and introductions by Paul Collins and David Greenberg (

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, 2006)

Exhibitions

* ''Cabinet''s 2005 exhibition "Odd Lots: Revisiting

Gordon Matta-Clark Gordon Matta-Clark (born Gordon Roberto Matta-Echaurren; June 22, 1943 – August 27, 1978) was an American artist best known for site-specific artworks he made in the 1970s. He was also a pioneer in the field of socially engaged food art. ...

's ''Fake Estates''," at The Queens Museum of Art and at the White Columns gallery was chosen by ''

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Michael Kimmelman Michael Kimmelman (born May 8, 1958) is the architecture critic for '' The New York Times'' and has written about public housing, public space, landscape architecture, community development and equity, infrastructure and urban design. He has repo ...

as one of the ten best shows of the year. * In 2003, Cabinet co-produced "The Paper Sculpture Show," a traveling exhibition of 29 paper sculptures, each one devised by a different artist. The sculptures themselves are collected as tear-out, do-it-yourself projects in ''The Paper Sculpture Book''.

Conferences and events

* In 2006, Cabinet presented ''Iron Artist'', a live artist-versus-artist competition modeled after

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, at

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. * In March 2010, Cabinet presented ''Not Knots'', a workshop on "knots, knitting, and string figures" at the magazine's art space in Brooklyn, where

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said "actual experts, not just some Bryn Mawr dropouts that the manager of Yarn Tree met outside of an Animal Collective show" would guide aspiring craft makers through "a hands-on exploration of knots, knitting, and string figures" that sounded somewhat mesmerizing.

References

External links

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