Journal tagged by Close-up

This Close-up excerpt is our first from a brand new magazine. Open Spaces launched recently from New York, and covers land art. In our selected piece, writer Diana Irvine drives cross country to visit one of the seminal examples of the form, Robert Smithson’s ‘Spiral Jetty’ in deepest Utah.

Our latest excerpt comes from Noble Rot, the mag that uses flourescent inks, vivid illustrations and a generous pouring of iconoclasm to enliven the tired world of wine publishing. A regular feature is a long lunch with a celebrity, in this case two: artist Grayson Perry and his psychotherapist wife Phillipa.

Our regular Close-up excerpt is designed to confound your expectations of the source magazine; in this case, The Skirt Chronicles selected a story by recent graduate Rose Higham-Stainton. A rewritten version of her RCA thesis, it re-examines the Graces from Greek mythology through the work of artist Megan Rooney.

This latest Close-up excerpt comes from the always excellent The Modernist. Each issue celebrates a different aspect of modernism, and this issue adopts the theme ‘Killer’ to examine ‘buildings designed for taking the lives of our fellow human beings.’

For our latest Close-up excerpt, we hook up with Record Culture and the opening section of Terry Craven’s cover interview with London DJ Bradley Zero. In a typically in-depth profile, Bradley talks about how discovering a love for dancing helped him develop his live career.

Our latest Close-up excerpt comes from the seventh issue of It’s Freezing in LA!, the independent magazine about climate change. The piece, by Arielle Domb, illustrates how the subject figures in all areas of life and culture; in this case indie music.