The Editorial Magazine

Don’t be fooled by the pink hues in Heather Benjamin’s curatorial debut “Maiden Form,” currently on view at Andrew Eldin Gallery. The last decade’s trend of all-girl group shows arguably only perpetuated the myth of the eternal feminine, seemingly fixated on the cis woman’s experience of erotica and menstruation. What makes Benjamin’s exhibition stand out is her selection of artists, who responded to her call for “meditations on femininity” with subversive and poignant work centred on their individual experiences.

Los Angeles artist Annabell P. Lee is making an indelible impression with her signature hand-painted checkered designs. We’re excited to show her latest collection of hyper-saturated corsets and denim in this shoot styled and photographed by Lee herself, featuring Clarissa as model.

Have you ever really seen a face in a dream? We supposedly remember our stronger dreams, ones wrought with sexual tension, sexual release. But at most, we can only place a person’s presence – shadowy, and blurred. Leaking Visions of Red, George Rouy’s current show at Anna Zorina Gallery, feels like a sexual dream, seedy, misty and strange

PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 17   Our Tokyo editor Monika Mogi captures the day to day fashions of Japanese construction workers. Collages made up of construction site signage collected and arranged by Goichi Hosaka. Featured on the cover of Issue 17.   

Khotin told me that the phrase ‘beautiful you, thanks for the smile,’ was scribbled on a note left anonymously on his windshield years ago, while he was parked outside of a bottle depot. His new tape, Beautiful You plays the same way, a tender and mysterious…

Behind the scenes footage from Maya Fuhr & Talvi Faustmann’s editorial in issue 18! Come celebrate the new issue in Toronto this Thursday!    Toronto launch party info HERE.

LA Bougainvillea is irritatingly picture-perfect; it couldn’t be more perfect if it was packed up inside a fur-lined shoe box with a lid that reads “Vital Perfection”—a box of which Fleury herself produced a hundred.

Revisiting PlayStation’s 1997 car racing game Gran Turismo is both thrilling and nauseating, the only way I could describe it is as “accelerated nostalgia.” Is this what happens when you die? Gran Turismo is a fitting name for Cristina Tufiño and Jonny Negron’s duo show at Selena Gallery, a…

Published in Issue 18 Chloë Sevigny reunites with X-GIRL for their new look book shot by Monika Mogi.  Back when Kim Gordon and Daisy von Furth founded the androgynous, skater-girl brand, the actress and filmmaker was the original face of the brand, appearing in their…

Garbage Doctor Snow Car An interview with the artist Quintessa Matranga about her solo show at The Loon, Toronto by Darby Milbrath Many associate winter with the snow, cold weather, and longer days, but the season also brings with it popular holidays and the transition…

TEXT BY ARIELLA STARKMAN   I am running to catch up with my heartbeat, as if I need to be close to death for the speed of its rhythm to make sense. Some days I stop and look around at the stillness—what I see are…

PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 17 BY KATE HOWELLS Jupiter, what a beauty. The curves, swirls, delicate shades of beige and brown. You don’t have to know anything about this planet to see that it’s gorgeous. But what makes Jupiter so beautiful is that it’s a gas…