Musée #29
230 x 300 mm, 272 pages
New York, US
Founded in 2011
Founder/editor-in-chief: Andrea Blanch
Creative director: Sam Shahid / Matthew Kraus
Created by editor-in-chief Andrea Blanch, Musée is a veritable bible exploring the art and culture of photography and image-making. Inside, world-famous artists, curators, collectors, critics, and thinkers abound.
This is the 29th edition themed: Evolution, featuring photographers Mickalene Thomas, Heji Shin, musician Michael Stipe and the ways their practices have shifted overtime. Moreover, issue twenty-nine questions the general intimidation surrounding AI in art, arguing that it is a technology artists should embrace. Throughout is a balanced curation of photography swaying from the surreality of synthetic images to the more grounded, yet profound 'Fragile Beauty' collection from Sir Elton John and David Furnish.
Cover image: Mickalene, Nus Exotiques #2, 2023