Donatien Grau, scholar and head of contemporary programmes at the Louvre, and Thomas Lenthal, art director and co-founder of System, are launching a new bi-annual print magazine: Alphabet.
The title taps artists of all kinds — writers, musicians, designers and sculptors — to cover art and culture through essays, fiction, visual projects, recommendations and games, giving them significant editorial and creative control. “Artists will rejuvenate what magazines are, and magazines will be kept forever young by and with them,” reads the magazine’s manifesto.
Alphabet’s first issue, launching July 5, will include a piece by model Naomi Campbell on Africa’s cultural renaissance, a Juergen Teller-lensed exploration of the concept of adoration, a poem by writer Ian McEwan, a tutorial on how to make a kitchen tap by industrial designer Marc Newson and a piece in which the multi-hyphenate Michèle Lamy unpacks Zoom selfies. Theatre director and visual artist Robert Wilson designed the cover.
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