ANPQuarterly vol.2 #5

ANPQ Volume 2/Issue 5 is guaranteed not to disappoint. We spent the good majority of last year trudging through the cultural wilderness looking under rocks and behind tree trunks, in the temples of culture and the dregs of back alleys in search of the the most diverse and inspiring specimens we could dig up. We hope you’re pleased. Our cover girl is astrologer Susan Miller photographed by Terry Richardson. Inside you’ll also find features on Alexi Wasser, Weird Records, Brian Roettinger, Elad Lasery, and a whole bunch more. Enjoy!

"As people get older their relationships to time change. Many people go through some degree of a school system and over the course of vears develop a sense of a calendar based around the school year, nature's seasons, and how the two feel in relation to each other. Then as they enter the work force, different careers will assert different calendar structures, with some schedules operating in cycles larger than the standard 365 day lunar calendar. In the course of nostalgia, sometimes we hold on to the feelings afforded by different calendars while functioning within newer ones, creating concentric concepts of time within our own lives. Picture if you will, for example, someone named Stephen who lives in New York and works in the fashion industry, preparing for the Fall and spring runway shows every year, moments which are certainly easy to think of in terms of weather and school-year-like bittersweet stress/joy dichotomies, as well.
Stephen is also big tan of the artist Christopher Wool, who has a solo show at his New York Gallery, Luhring Augustine, every even-numbered year. Stephen, our fashion industry insider/ art fan, is basing his work year around the international fashion calendar, but his personal entertainment/ inspiration life revolves around Wools biannual exhibitions. Now, take into consideration the fact that in reality Wool doesn t actually have a show in NY every two years. He had a show at Luhring Augustine in 2001 and then not again until 2004 and then 2008.
He did have several solo shows at different galleries in different cities in between, including a 2006 show at Gogosian Gallery in Los Angeles, which our protagonist happened to see while in town for work, the effect of which -combined with time's unavoidable bleeding/blurring- was a sense that Wool absolutely has a solo show in NY at Luring Augustine every even-numbered year. Fast forward to late 2009: Stephen asks two separate directors of Luhring Augustine on two separate occasions when exactly when Christopher Wool's 2010 show will be. The first, taken off guard, replies that she's not sure yet. The second tells him politely but definitively that Christopher Wool is not actually having a show there in 2010. Stephen is totally thrown. Life goes on, the fashion industry keeps its manic pace, but what light is there for Stephen if not a Wool show to look forward to when he was expecting it? Fast forward a few months to the Summer of 2010. Stephen is meeting with a client in the Italian countryside and realizes that solo show at Goosian Galery Rome location. Stephen and his Wife take the train there, see the show, and take the train back to the villa. He doesn't actually like the show that much, but the fact that he sees it, the it which possibly only he is sure will exist, is really all that he needs to hold him over for another two years. I tell this story not to insinuate any sort of a connection or comparison between this magazine and the fashion industry or Christopher Wool, but rather to propose a concept of time in which time itself can be simultaneously a very concrete idea and a very personal and intuitive idea. Time can be a feeling as much as anything. What is a quarterly when you have two seasons to plan for and another two years before the next Wool show? Enjoy the issue.
Truly Yours, Ed Templeton"

ANPQuarterly is published four times a year by RVCA Corp.
Printed November, 2010 on Crumple Street in Gardena, California.