Zingmagazine #5 / Volume 2: Winter 1998

Recently I’ve been mired by reading “editor’s notes.” Writing one . . . why would that be any different? Don’t get me wrong, this 5th issue rages and has loads of inspiring curated sections, and god knows, tons of reviews. It’s the “editor’s note” in magazines that has been my tedium, and as I can’t seem to find anything of interest in any that I’ve read—including mine—to further benefit the publication in question, I wonder—does anybody read these things? And does it matter? El Nino, the role of the paparazzi, and a host of other different things, because of their timeliness, might come into play, regarding what might don the cover, here or anywhere else. But, why?

“. . . she let me see that sympathy, in a sense of moved understanding, had always been lacking. “But then,” she added ingenuously, “I’ve never really been sure, because I’ve never told anyone my story. Only I take it for granted that, if I haven’t, it’s their fault rather than mine . . .”
—Mrs. Lizzie Hazeldean, Edith Wharton’s “New Year’s Day,” Old New York

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

featuring Chris Miles, Steven Severance, Liz Deschenes, Tom Rayfiel, Paul Graham, Diane Ludin & Ricardo Dominguez, Tricia Collins, Jane Hart