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says her first solo institutional exhibition “feels like live editing.” In the Beaux-Arts building of New York’s Academy of Arts and Letters in Washington Heights, “In Pursuit of Feeling” hijacks our routine choreographies with the mediated world and stages an exhibition one might navigate as a game, or program. Over Zoom, we spoke about structural films, making a film the size of a button, and sonic forms of knowledge. Lily Kwak: When I walked into your exhibition, the first thing I encountered was a door, slightly ajar, and a computer connected to an entrail of cables that leads out to the first exhibition room. I began imagining you, the artist, behind the computer, producing the sound that’s omnipresent throughout the show and the videos that splay across the room and jump around in a sequence, sort of like a playlist. It felt wonderful to feel the intimacy of your imagined presence behind the door, and to observe and navigate a system you’ve designed for your audience. It reminde]]> Art Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:33:00 GMT https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/josiane-m-h-pozi-tk https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/requiem-for-a-meme-elan-alexander-presents-looksmaxxing
Terence McKenna presciently construed our zeitgeist as “so weird that people are going to have to talk about how weird it is.” While this weirdness is actively washing over our feeds and spilling into our hyperreality, Elan Alexander's (2026) investigates it straight from the eye of the storm. Condemning our era's bleakness has lost some of its discursive momentum, largely because everything unfolds simultaneously and our capacity to denounce it fails to keep pace. But let us linger for a moment on the phenomenon from which Alexander's short takes its name. A few years ago, boys injecting hormones to the point of impotence and (literally) smashing their bones as part of an arcane beauty pursuit would have sounded like a ludicrous Netflix Original premise. Today, a ritualistic subculture once confined to the viscera of obscure online forums, sheltered from gratuitous scrutiny, has metastasized into a common practice among those most vulnerable to social pressure. Unsurprisingly, a 202]]> Culture Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:28:00 GMT https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/requiem-for-a-meme-elan-alexander-presents-looksmaxxing https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/brenda-s-business-with-heidi-klum
If you are ever asked to list things associated with German cultural heritage, you can look to official sources, which often recommend places such as the Aachen Cathedral, Berlin’s “Museum Island,” and buildings associated with the Bauhaus. More unofficial tips about German culture might reference its people’s habits of being on time, respecting the rule of law and order, honesty to a sometimes hurtful degree, and iconic exports such as sausages, Berghain, and, of course, Heidi Klum. Few have managed to become both a famous national export and a permanent resident of German pop culture in the way that Heidi Klum has. In a world where attention spans collapse faster than startup valuations and cultural relevance changes with every scroll, the model-turned-businesswoman and host of has maintained a level of fame over the past three decades that feels almost structurally impossible today. I interviewed Klum over Zoom, where she preferred to keep her camera off—a choice that can easily fl]]> Culture Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:28:00 GMT https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/brenda-s-business-with-heidi-klum https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/belief-over-consensus-talking-to-ebony-l-haynes
Few curators have shaped the contemporary gallery landscape as directly and decisively as Ebony L. Haynes. First through 52 Walker, the experimental Kunsthalle she founded with David Zwirner, and now as Global Head of Curatorial Projects, Haynes has consistently resisted the art world’s pressure to accelerate, instead creating space for artists, ideas, and audiences to linger. Speaking shortly after returning from the Venice Biennale, she reflects on the artists who continue to inspire her, the intuition that guides her curatorial decisions, and why belief remains a more useful measure than consensus. Corri Greene: You just got back from the Venice Biennale. Where are you mentally right now? Is there an artist, pavilion, or exhibition you keep returning to? Ebony L. Haynes: Yeah, two things jump out the longer I'm back. One is that there felt like a big focus on object-making—not necessarily sculpture in a high-art definition of it, and not quite craft, though I don't really align myse]]> Art Mon, 13 Jul 2026 11:54:00 GMT https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/belief-over-consensus-talking-to-ebony-l-haynes https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/mastering-disruption-skrillex-in-conversation-with-ecco2k-interview
Shirt COURRÈGES, pants GUCCI, shoes ALEXANDER DIGENOVA, jewelry TALENT’S OWN Arguably the most influential electronic music producer of his generation, Sonny Moore consistently challenges existing structures. His discography destabilizes the hierarchies of old and new, kitsch and avant-garde – and dismantles prevailing beliefs about what popular music is, or can be. “FUCK U SKRILLEX YOU THINK UR ANDY WARHOL BUT UR NOT!! <3” is scrawled in graffiti on the cover art of an album released by Sonny Moore last year. Under that same title, the album is the third full-length Skrillex project Moore has put out in the last three years. Although it was made by one of the most popular electronic musicians alive, it is a 46-minute-long sonic experiment in temporality and song structure, created with fringe sounds and techniques. feels like riding every attraction at an amusement park simultaneously. It is whimsical, brash, even funny – and it continues the broader legacy of the Skrillex discograph]]> Music Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:32:25 GMT https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/mastering-disruption-skrillex-in-conversation-with-ecco2k-interview https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/recap-the-juergen-teller-signing
No temperature runs hotter than a Juergen Teller autograph, as not even the hottest day of the year so far could prevent the 032c community from getting their cover signed by the photographer himself. Having photographed Florentina Holzinger for the 49th issue, Teller and his partner, Dovile Drizyte, stopped by the 032c Gallery on Friday, June 26, to celebrate the launch of our summer issue. More than 200 people came by within the hour, while our team kept the growing queue supplied with Heineken beers and water. In case you missed it, fear not. You can still get the Juergen Teller x Florentina Holzinger ]]> Fashion Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:27:08 GMT https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/recap-the-juergen-teller-signing https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/notes-on-an-addling-weekend-down-at-le-mans
“For me, Le Mans almost feels like Burning Man for car culture, just with no drugs and debauchery, I guess. It is really a pilgrimage. People camp in tents next to their BMWs or Ferraris or Ford Fiestas next to the race track. I love sitting on the deserted grandstands at 3 AM and watching the race; the sounds get through your body like at a drone concert. It is the ultimate kinetic sound sculpture. Yet it can break at any time; the cars are pushed to the max in those 24 hours. Whether your daze derives from the scorching heat, the adrenaline rush, or the unending serpentine soundscape ceases to matter at the nonstop race in Le Mans. Established in 1923, back when Grand Prix racing reigned supreme in Europe, Le Mans has always drawn spectators to the race as much as the constellation of traditions and rituals its dominion evinced. For a brief weekend every year, the forlorn lands of the French Northwest open into a paradise city of almost half a million inhabitants, where there’s no t]]> Culture Mon, 06 Jul 2026 11:16:15 GMT https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/notes-on-an-addling-weekend-down-at-le-mans https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/the-juergen-teller-signing
passed by the 032c Gallery on Friday, June 26, to sign covers and posters. Over 100 people joined us for the exclusive launch of our summer issue in the presence of Teller and his partner, Dovile Drizyte. In case you missed it, fear not. You can still get the iconic Juergen Teller ]]> Fashion Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:41:00 GMT https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/the-juergen-teller-signing https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/objects-of-our-time-yoon-and-verbal-s-ap-royal-oak-concept
Lost amid a simultaneous forage for nostalgic sentiment, innovation, and the fuzzword-y , the circulation of luxury objects is at an impasse. To regain a sense of substance, consumption is often alchemized into cultural affiliation or leveraged by historic sermons that can efficiently uphold their relevance within the global market. Well-aware of this reality, we often close an eye to the processes that furnish our coveted highbrow commodities — because, in all candor, some of them are too successful in holding the fantasy untainted. One such category of objects are luxury watches. Whether it stems from earnest naïveté, novice admiration, or the impassioned confidence of an aficionado, the allure of a timepiece remains somehow inalienable. Regardless of its source, designer-duo Yoon Ahn and Verbal’s take on the Audemars Piguet’s Royal Oak Concept is both an emblem of such fascination and a veto against luxury’s faltering fantasy. Yoon Ahn comes from a design background, whereas Verbal]]> Design & Architecture Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:41:00 GMT https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/objects-of-our-time-yoon-and-verbal-s-ap-royal-oak-concept https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/judeline
I met Judeline in Berlin just before she took the stage for her tour, the album that has earned her three Latin Grammy nominations: Best Alternative Music Album, Best Engineered Album, and Best Alternative Song for „Joropo“. Her voice has a seductive, sandpaper quality even as it stays ethereal — and yet there's a restlessness in her songs, a constant element of surprise, that makes genre-categorization beside the point. It's music scaffolded around feeling: dark, a little wistful, dreamy, sexy, sometimes cheeky. In this singer of Andalusian roots, flamenco bleeds into trap, indie into R&B, neither dissolving into the other. Audiences have responded to her sensual and delicate aesthetic containing a certain edge and power — fast forward to 2025, that materialized in her playing Coachella. Her collaborators read like an insider's list of the untainted cool, with Sega Bodega and even Nine Inch Nails on it, who requested a feature from her for their soundtrack to Tron: Ares. When Lara F]]> Music Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:41:00 GMT https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/judeline https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/zuerich-beneath-every-ethos-of-restraint-flows-a-river-of-desire
In Zürich, it runs below motorcycles gathered above the lake at Outlook Waid, through diving bodies suspended over the Limmat, and past smoke collecting amid the industrial concrete of Escher Wyss, overshadowed by the glass austerity of the Prime Tower. The city’s heat reveals itself in flashes: to enter the Kunsthaus Zürich, you must pass through Auguste Rodin’s Gates of Hell. Zürich was built on the management of excess, not its suppression. Pierluigi Macor, photographer and resident of Zürich, went for a cruise together with our junior fashion editor Franka Rosa Maria Klaproth in his old Jaguar, showing her Zürich's most compelling spots. The upshot of the ride was a print editorial that explores the city's subtle tangencies of restraint and desire in expressive city shots, as well as in a joyous fashion story featuring the newcomer model Justin Mau. This editorial is a collaboration between 032c and ]]> Fashion Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:32:00 GMT https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/zuerich-beneath-every-ethos-of-restraint-flows-a-river-of-desire https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/it-was-an-internet-adjacent-pretty-sick-summer
blazer ANGELICA MONTINI gloves SQUILLACE heels VALENTINO tights STYLIST'S OWN The internet is often deemed moribund, but during its heyday, it felt as if a Garden of Eden cropped up at the feet of a generation whose interpersonal networks, self-concepts, and artistic taste couldn’t shake the digital logic informing them — or rather creating them altogether. Sabrina Fuentes, known for years by many by her Instagram shorthand @sickysab, has lead a life shaped by the intrigues of Web 2.0. Thrown into inexorable internet-captivity from the ripe age of 13, she discovered a sense of fulfilling connection and creative outlet in the chasms of Tumblr and a primordial, square-grid-laden version of Instagram. Nowadays, Fuentes is much less interested in hatching something out of these mediatic entrails, despite indulging in their bygone idealism as our interview progressed. Instead, the New York born-and-raised artist has been actively facing the other way in her more recent endeavors. This is mo]]> Music Thu, 02 Jul 2026 09:44:00 GMT https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/it-was-an-internet-adjacent-pretty-sick-summer https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/maja-malou-lyse-things-to-come
For the Danish Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale, Maja Malou Lyse takes as her starting point a real scientific finding: that men who watch pornography through VR technology produce measurably more motile sperm. The show, , developed with New York collective DIS, centres on a film shot in a real sperm bank, with Brazzers performers working the labs and directing humiliation at the donors — staged as a musical loosely scripted by writer Patrik Sandberg. Common Accounts extends the exhibition design into an adjacent installation of cryogenic sperm containers and screens playing sperm races, an online subculture in which men compete over their own virility. What makes the proposition work is that Lyse never seems particularly interested in delivering a lesson. Humor has always been her sharpest tool. The most catastrophic ideas in her work often arrive disguised as jokes, absurd enough to provoke laughter before their implications fully settle in. A sperm bank musical is a ridiculous ]]> Art Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:12:00 GMT https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/maja-malou-lyse-things-to-come https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/what-it-means-to-be-good-enough-as-told-by-blumengarten
they are elusive and entirely removed from our ability to pin down their machinations. Due to this cunning phenomenon, someone always gets lucky, including , the band reigning over the German charts and causing a massive furor on the world wide web. he lives of Samuel “Sammy” Eickmann and Rayan Djima revolve around a microcosm of friends in Cologne, Germany, whom they share a zipcode and lore with. The whimsical way in which they talk about this suggests a compound secluded from the real world. Recently, the Blumengarten compound has erupted into something grander: the duo’s song in collaboration with producer group KitschKrieg and rapper Shirin David is making waves on TikTok. Translated verbatim to “good enough,” their catchy chorus got rapidly entangled into the social media centrifuge and everted into something closer to “Doobie Scoot Canoe,” as dubbed by the international crowd. The song not only traversed as musical backrest to short-form content, but generated a prolific am]]> Music Thu, 25 Jun 2026 10:41:00 GMT https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/what-it-means-to-be-good-enough-as-told-by-blumengarten https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/marc-brandenburg-mainstream-allergens-and-other-urban-debris
Flotsam drifts in various forms across the white walls of “20th Century Debris,” Marc Brandenburg’s major retrospective currently on view at . A lone bench is scrawled with the word “Homo”; Madonna appears as the dominatrix from the music video (1992) in two separate, side-by-side vignettes; a (1939) lamp is affixed with a cutout of John Wayne Gacy and scrutinized under blacklight; a man, whose face is first digitally, then graphically-blurred, fists another man who is not afforded such anonymity. “20th Century Debris” encompasses 150 drawings and videos-turned-spectral gifs of the friends, lovers, passersby, rogue objects, and extant scenes that have crossed the West Berlin-born artist’s line of sight for the past four decades. It ventures from his early 1990s drawings, culled from advertisements, popular culture, and domestic scenes he photographed, through to the late 1990s, when he began reversing the positive images into negative drawings, and all the way to the 2000s-onwards, ]]> Art Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:40:00 GMT https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/marc-brandenburg-mainstream-allergens-and-other-urban-debris https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/coucou-welcome-to-candyland
top SAINT LAURENT skirt ALEXANDER MCQUEEN pumps SAINT LAURENT , French-born, London-based trifecta (singer, producer, and DJ) strikes rather than transpires. Last month, she dropped , a gritty and elastic corollary to her previous release, . Both singles serve as demarcators of CHLOE’s newly-adopted musical tenet: In CANDYLAND, for example, the samples are distorted and splintered, the drums are volatile, and the energy overall woozy and warping. This era’s genesis is not unfamiliar per-se, since CHLOE’s tonality keeps pace with all that precedes it. However, it manages to convey a novel sense of menace and delirium that lurches all throughout both tracks, rendering their sound distinct. , our editorial pays homage to said-new era, evacuating the labyrinthine setting of CANDYLAND in exchange for the liminal vacancy of a Parisian apartment – centering no one else than COUCOU CHLOE. Left: top SAINT LAURENT skirt ALEXANDER MCQUEEN pumps SAINT LAURENT Right: top GUCCI fur bolero MIU MI]]> Fashion Thu, 18 Jun 2026 09:19:00 GMT https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/coucou-welcome-to-candyland https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/eq-navigates-hyper-fragmentation
Estratosfera and Qiri are EQ. Their sound exists somewhere between a cold, calculated infrastructure and collective club heat. Buttressed by bilingual lyrics that set the coordinates for a new kind of electronica—one navigated by a “Latin-feminine vision,” ethics, and aesthetics—that is both a product of and a self-conscious response to contemporary hyper-fragmentation. Serving as creative directors, producers, and theorists of their own project, the duo’s universe ultimately responds to disillusionment under technocapitalism. The specific experience of being Buenos Aires-born, internet-raised girls who witnessed globalization’s fantasies through an iPod screen vantage their operation with sonic and visual precision. Six songs into their eponymous debut EP, released last year via Fractura, they were invited to play CONTRA at Kraftwerk Berlin. During the first hours of Monday, they walked into their set at Globus carrying a flag inscribed with “baile, resista, repita.” Julieta Colantoni]]> Music Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:21:00 GMT https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/eq-navigates-hyper-fragmentation https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/fire-island-musings-photographer-sam-penn-and-artist-ser-serpas-in-conversation
, the 27-year-old photographer, sits next to me on my couch in Chinatown waiting for . The 30-year-old artist and poet dials in from Fire Island Pines, with the screen name “Magdalena’s iPhone.” She has just woken up. The occasion for our call is the release of Penn’s first solo portrait of Serpas, a tied to Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art’s acquisition of work from the photographer’s fall show at Ethan James Green’s New York Life Gallery. Here, Penn shares an exclusive selection of night photographs taken in the Pines while Serpas talks to us poolside from the house where the hit gay porn film, (1971), was shot 55 years ago. Today, the house has been taken over by a cabal of dolls, including the painter Nash Glynn, the actress Hari Nef, and the writer Blythe Marks. Ser Serpas: I’m keeping my camera off. I didn’t sleep the night before last and I’m like, busted. Do you guys like my Muslim men’s shorts that I got in Egypt? Ser turns her camera on, she’s topless. The camera jolts past a ]]> Art Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:24:00 GMT https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/fire-island-musings-photographer-sam-penn-and-artist-ser-serpas-in-conversation https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/all-that-i-know-about-morality-and-obligations-i-owe-it-to-football
World Cup summer is in full swing: a season of screen-affixed gazes, hypnotic street chants, skin chafing in spandex jerseys, and never-ending beer hangovers. track jacket ADIDAS PERFORMANCE (DFB), shorts GESTUZ, jewelry OFF-WHITE T-shirt ADIDAS PERFORMANCE (DFB), pants GMBH, chain MODEL'S OWN. As part of 032c's collaboration with Zalando, one of the main sponsors of the German Football Association (DFB), we aimed to highlight the alternative culture of the pitch. While soccer’s complex dimensions are often reduced to the very apparent, empowerment and communion have always constituted the base of the sport — and disobedience still underpins it all. Our editorial, shot by Ela Klingler and styled by Franka Rosa Maria Klaproth, materializes these guiding beliefs through the lens of Zalando's seasonal styles. To get insight into how soccer, fashion, and kinship converge on the bleachers and in sports bars today, Luna Sferdianu additionally shot some rapid-fire questions to the editori]]> Fashion Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:10:00 GMT https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/all-that-i-know-about-morality-and-obligations-i-owe-it-to-football https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/brenda-s-business-with-mirko-borsche
There are jobs you don’t do forever simply because they have little chance of turning into a career. A graphic designer might be one of them. There is always someone younger with fresher ideas, who is not burnt out, who works faster, who has newer programs, who does it for less. They might even be dabbling in the field as a student to support their bills, their skate career, or to take someone out for dinner. And this works for them because ultimately, the profession rewards reinvention but rarely longevity. When Mirko Borsche asked me how many graphic designers I knew over the age of 40, my answer was embarrassingly short. Yet, for more than two decades, Borsche has managed to turn a profession notorious for burnout into a business. Through his studio, Bureau Borsche, he has created visual identities for everyone from Porsche, Supreme, and Rimowa to the leading cultural institutions, magazines, and brands shaping contemporary taste. At a time when design is increasingly treated as co]]> Culture Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:48:00 GMT https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/brenda-s-business-with-mirko-borsche https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/case-study-032c-x-cupra
On Monday, we unveiled our design for an inflatable car cover for the new CUPRA Raval, revealing our shared interest in themes of cultural (in)visibility and mobility. Born from a motorsport heritage and known for bringing a challenger spirit to the automotive industry, CUPRA has built a distinct identity through vehicles that merge emotional design, performance, and contemporary mobility. With the CUPRA Raval, the brand brings that energy directly into the context of the city. 032c responded to prompt with an accessories capsule that would meld the brand’s vocabulary of precision and performance with the subcultural ethos of Germany’s capital. We thought: we make garments and DIY emblems for people in our city, why not make them for cars, too? We borrowed from the unofficial visual systems that compete with advertising in Berlin every day: stickers, wheat-paste posters, flyers, temporary occupations of public space. The city already has a graphic identity. Most of it wasn’t commissio]]> Culture Fri, 05 Jun 2026 09:56:03 GMT https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/case-study-032c-x-cupra https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/design-in-the-age-of-mobility-the-2026-rimowa-design-prize
The primary mission of design is to somehow appease both aesthetics and pragmatism. For the past four years, the has been tracking the upcoming designers who, in spite of the nascent state of their practices, already wield this balance effortlessly. RIMOWA's annual celebration of young German talent gathered a diverse palette of finalist projects, each of them addressing an exigent facet of what is loosely referred to as “mobility.” The topic has been central to the prize since its outset, bearing little semblance to a too-literal interpretation of its meaning. This year’s stage welcomed, among other ideas, ancient migratory beekeeping techniques, actualized into ; a remedy for the rampant loneliness amid elders, materialized into aimed at environmental autonomy and the preservation of goods for those facing crises in arid climates. To ensure the projects were congealed at their peak capacity, the RIMOWA Team deployed a team of design experts, consisting of Konstantin Grcic, Hanne]]> Design & Architecture Fri, 05 Jun 2026 09:55:57 GMT https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/design-in-the-age-of-mobility-the-2026-rimowa-design-prize https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/zuerich-have-a-nice-time-bitte
Last week, we opened an exhibition featuring Pierluigi Macor’s photographs of Zürich at 032c Gallery. Construction workers, welders, motorcyclists, and Auguste Rodin’s technically unfinished flash as beacons amid the images of scaffolding, bridges, skyscrapers, and other urban infrastructures that decorate the walls. To celebrate the occasion, we hosted an opening evening in collaboration with Zürich Tourism, with whom the magazine and RTW partnered on the photo series and an original t-shirt dedicated to the city of restraint, desire, and playful discretion on the Limmat. Many of the images that appear in our Ku’Damm gallery are also included in an print editorial by Macor and 032c Junior Fashion Editor Franka Rosa Maria Klaproth.]]> Culture Fri, 05 Jun 2026 09:27:08 GMT https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/zuerich-have-a-nice-time-bitte https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/kate-mosher-hall-picture-as-topography-image-as-scar
Kate Mosher Hall’s second solo show at Miguel Abreu Gallery spans a violent territory.  (2026) read as corrupted CRT (cathode ray tube) signals. Magenta, blue, and chartreuse scanlines interlace, color diffusing the canvas like a social media feed dropping out from the screen. They are the most emphatically digital pieces in the room. At the other pole,   (2026), which are near-monochrome gray paintings where the image emerges as an embossed relief in the surface of the paint itself, implores you to look at the canvas almost edgewise to register that anything is there. Both sets of paintings enact picture as topography, image as scar. (2026), one of the largest paintings in the show, which features a photograph of Los Angeles taken during a night flight descent, tiled back onto itself, the fragments of the same view rotated and overlaid until the illuminated grid of streets and freeways breaks open along the dark angular seams where one screen layer cuts into another. The coherent god’]]> Art Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:52:17 GMT https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/kate-mosher-hall-picture-as-topography-image-as-scar https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/032c-issue-49-memphis-summer-2026
032c Issue #49—Summer 2026 “MEMPHIS” is now available for pre-order. The 5 additional covers will be revealed soon. “YOU HAVE TO EMBRACE THE TRUTH, DIFFICULT AS IT MAY BE, THAT THE ART THAT RESULTED FROM THAT FRICTION IS POSITIVE.” - Robert Gordon, author of The 032c Issue #49 dossier is dedicated to the influence of Memphis, Tennessee, on rap as we know it. PHILLIP PYLE speaks to at the northern point of the Mississippi Delta, where photographer NEVA WIREKO captures the city beyond Elvis’ Graceland and shopping at Bass Pro in a pyramidal mall. (Though we have those things too.) opens up to ECCO2K in his first formal interview in a decade, with photos by NOAH DILLON and styling by PERI ROSENZWEIG. shows JUERGEN TELLER and DOVILE DRIZYTE around the Volksbühne in Berlin before making a literal splash at the Venice Biennale, and SHANE ANDERSON chats to the artist about pimps and kabuki theater. talks sophistication and emotional resonance with , shot by COLLIER SCHORR and styled ]]> Culture Tue, 02 Jun 2026 08:24:08 GMT https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/032c-issue-49-memphis-summer-2026 https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/dennis-cooper-there-shouldn-t-be-any-restrictions-at-all
Dennis Cooper swears that his writing doesn’t come from a place of immorality, though he generally doesn’t care for moralism. Dennis Cooper photographed by Christopher Ho. Courtesy of Grove Atlantic. The author of thirteen novels—including the celebrated five-novel “George Miles Cycle” (1989-2000), and its namesake press, Cooper entered the literary underground unwilling to compromise and, five decades later, has yet to falter. In recent years, he has expanded into film, co-directing three features with Zac Farley, while continuing to publish daily entries on his often generous, occasionally deranged blog. Throughout it all, the Pasadena-born, Paris-based writer and critic is merciless in his treatment of taboos, whether they surround teenage sex, violence, drugs, or murder. Less discussed is his equally consistent commitment to a form of experimentation in which, no matter how razor-sharp the edge of its exploits, one still encounters the sophisticated prose and structure of a writer]]> Culture Fri, 29 May 2026 14:46:38 GMT https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/dennis-cooper-there-shouldn-t-be-any-restrictions-at-all https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/edward-skeletrix-the-mind-as-masterpiece
At an absinthe bar in London, artist Edward Skeletrix tells Cassidy George about “getting cancelled,” non-duality, and his new photo album, At an absinthe bar inside the Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities in London, Edward King Bass IV ordered the only two things on the menu that were not absinthe: a shot of vodka and a grilled cheese. I watched in fascination as he downed the lukewarm, bottom-shelf liquor without flinching, before proceeding to eat his greasy, overflowing sandwich while wearing a single red glove. We sat on velvet seats in a parlor bar surrounded by glass cabinets filled with a mixture of worthless tchotchkes and historical artifacts, which displayed, for example, a plastic Peppa Pig toy covered in spiderwebs next to the skull of an extinct animal. It felt like the most appropriate place to speak to Bass about his work, which also grapples with our relationship to the off-putting, unsettling, horrifying, and grotesque. Bass is known in the music world as Edward Skelet]]> Music Thu, 28 May 2026 15:08:43 GMT https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/edward-skeletrix-the-mind-as-masterpiece https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/theater-is-not-dead-calla-henkel-and-max-pitegoff-s-new-theater-hollywood
As the arenas of contemporary art, film, literature, and criticism have been ransacked by ongoing global political and economic crises over the past few years, theater is the only medium that I haven’t heard proclaimed “dead.” Perhaps this is because theater, as both an ecosystem and a form, has already had to make peace with loss. , were already intimately familiar with loss as both a metaphor and hard, real estate reality well before vibes-based declarations of certain mediums’ “deaths” became casual fodder and the publication of Josh Kline’s buzzy essay, “New York Real Estate and the Ruin of American Art," Having run multiple performance-oriented spaces in Berlin throughout the 2010s, including New Theater (2013-15) and Grüner Salon at Volksbühne (2017-18), the two entered the 2020s with one lingering question (to borrow the words of Henkel): “What would happen if we made one of our spaces open to the public, then privately used as a set?” In response to this query, they opened TV ]]> Culture Wed, 27 May 2026 15:39:08 GMT https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/theater-is-not-dead-calla-henkel-and-max-pitegoff-s-new-theater-hollywood https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/the-immaterial-is-my-favorite-material-hyd-and-tourmaline-in-conversation
Until last week, it had been nearly four years since presented a full body of work under the project Hyd. In the meantime, the Los Angeles-based artist, musician, and performer was showing her alchemical, sculpture-based works—which reflect on the primordial conditions of life, the cosmos, and their technological vectors—at venues such as the Gwangju Biennale in South Korea and Comprised of a floating, mobile-like constellation constructed from charcoal, filaments, lilies, and personal notes; a crystalline ladder that descends from the ground-floor gallery to the basement gallery; and a series of seven tangled sculptures enshrouding recording devices that hold the voices of friends, partners, and influences, including Octavia Butler, Pippa Garner, Radclyffe Hall, and Sophie Xeon, “NEVER IS OVER” bellows the artist’s belief in the law of reunion. That same conviction is at the center of her sophomore Hyd album, , which she revealed in an intimate listening event at Company two days ]]> Music Tue, 26 May 2026 14:44:26 GMT https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/the-immaterial-is-my-favorite-material-hyd-and-tourmaline-in-conversation https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/tadashi-kawamata-talks-with-nature
Contemporary living is marred by accumulation, expansion, and impermanence. Artist Tadashi Kawamata reminds us these forces play out in the architecture that surrounds us. Born, raised, and trained in Japan, the artist’s in-situ installations have been spawning around the world for almost half a century. From early on in his childhood, Kawamata was struck by the ephemerality of our natural and social surroundings. Eventually, this resulted in the sporadic and transitory forms for which he is known today. Assembled from planks, barrels, and chairs, his installations—while occasionally monumental in size— are less about grandeur than they are an attempt to find a visual and scalar language in harmony with with the world they reside in. , Ruinart’s artistic program highlighting biodiversity and sustainability, Kawamata does not stray from this worldview. Converging his ethos with the sensitivity champagne makers have been mastering for years, he revealed an exclusive work at Ruinart s Ch]]> Art Thu, 21 May 2026 14:16:00 GMT https://magazine.032c.com/magazine/tadashi-kawamata-talks-with-nature