Zingmagazine #15

Covers and idolization. Magazines, newspapers, press. NY Observer just rated editors of all of these “arbiters of taste” based on looks. Pictures were published. On the point basis—like 7.9. or 4.3. Two editors refused photos, 23 were game, and contributed.

These poor Mexicans, he reflected, were not the first to pour out their love in this simple fashion. Raphael and Titian had made costumes for Her in their time, and the great masters had made music for Her, and the great architects had built cathedrals for Her. Long before Her years on earth, in the long twilight between the Fall and the Redemption, the pagan sculptors were always trying to achieve the image of a goddess who should yet be a woman.
—Willa Cather, Death Comes to the Archbishop

zingmagazine is a contemporary art magazine composed of curatorial projects founded in 1995 by artist/editor/publisher Devon Dikeou

featuring Momoyo Torimitsu, Sarah Staton, Mike Paré, Luis Macias, Rainer Ganahl, Sam Hecht & Mary Barone, Amy Gartrell, Hans Winkler