Contemporary is a visual arts The visual arts are art forms that create works which are primarily visual in nature, such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, architecture, printmaking, modern visual arts , design and crafts. These definitions should not be taken too strictly as many artistic disciplines (performing arts, conceptual art, textile arts) involve aspects of magazine, published every month. Founded and edited by Keith Spencer in 1992, it was originally called Contemporary Art. It later changed name to Contemporary Visual Art and CVA, finally settling for Contemporary in 2002.
Its website claims that it is the world's most widely distributed arts magazine, with an estimated international readership of around 7,500. Contemporary was based in Bermondsey Bermondsey is an area in London on the south bank of the river Thames, and is part of the London Borough of Southwark. To the west lies Southwark, to the east Rotherhithe, and to the south, Walworth and Peckham, south-east London, but moved its administrative offices to Panama City to start a Spanish-language edition in 2007.
In May 2009, it was reported that the magazine hadn't paid its contributing writers for over a year. [1]
The magazine is published by Brian Mūller, who currently serves as editor and publisher, following the resignation of Emiliano Valdes in December 2008.
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The magazine contains news, features, interviews and reviews focused on contemporary visual art. Damien Hirst Damien Steven Hirst is an English artist and the most prominent member of the group known as "Young British Artists" (or YBAs), who dominated the art scene in Britain during the 1990s. He is internationally renowned, and has been claimed to be the richest living artist to date. During the 1990s his career was closely linked with the, Maurizio Cattelan, Terry Riley Terrence Mitchell Riley, born June 24, 1935, is an American composer associated with the minimalist school of Western classical music, Matthew Barney Matthew Barney is an American artist who works in sculpture, photography, drawing and film. His early works were sculptural installations combined with performance and video. Between 1994 and 2002 he created the Cremaster Cycle, a series of five feature-length films described by Jonathan Jones in The Guardian as "one of the most imaginative, Pipilotti Rist, Yoko Ono Yoko Ono is a Japanese-American artist, musician, author and peace activist, also known for her marriage to John Lennon and her groundbreaking work in avant-garde art, music and filmmaking. Ono brought feminism to the forefront through her music, and is also considered a pioneer and major influence of the 1970s new wave genre. She is a supporter and Tracey Emin Tracey Karima Emin RA is a British artist and part of the group known as Britartists or YBAs (Young British Artists) have all featured in the magazine. Contemporary's marketing strategy includes the distribution of specially commissioned limited edition prints by well-known artists free to its subscribers.
Notable contributors
- Ian Carr-Harris
- Dennis Cooper Dennis Cooper is an American novelist, poet, critic, editor and performance artist
- Liam Gillick Liam Gillick is a British artist living in London and New York. He is often associated with the artists included in art critic and curator Nicolas Bourriaud's 1996 exhibit Traffic, which first introduced the term Relational Art. These artists include Rirkrit Tiravanija, as Claire Bishop states, "Bourriaud deems them both to be paradigmatic of
- Mark Gisbourne
- Tony Godfrey
- RoseLee Goldberg RoseLee Goldberg is an art historian, author, critic and curator. She pioneered the study of performance art with her seminal book, Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present. First published in 1979 and now in its third edition , Goldberg's book is now the key text for teaching performance in universities throughout the world[citation needed]
- Katerina Gregos
- Martin Herbert
- Vincent Honoré
- Thomas McEvilley Thomas McEvilley is an American art critic, poet, novelist and scholar, who was a distinguisted lecturer in art history at Rice University and founder and former head of the Department of Art Criticism and Writing at the School of Visual Arts in New York City
- Lucy McKenzie McKenzie studied for her BA at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee from 1995-1999 and at Karlsruhe Kunstakademie in Germany in 1998
- Hans Ulrich Obrist
- Sally O'Reilly
- Barry Schwabsky
- Katy Siegal
Editors-in-chief
- Brian Müller (2008–Present)
- Emiliano Valdes (2007–2008)
- Michele Robecchi (2005-2007)
- Roger Tatley (2003-2004)
- Mark Rappolt (2002-2003)
- Keith Patrick (1993-2002)
- Keith Spencer (1992-1993)
External links
- The magazine's homepage
- "Contemporary Magazine Writers Scandal" [2], Artnet News, May 19, 2009
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