Cabinet Magazine, Pastelegram, and Triple Canopy

Cabinet Magazine, Pastelegram, and Triple Canopy come together for this Tuesday Evenings presentation to consider and discuss the vibrant life and perceived challenges of today's art publications. Each has thoughtfully considered its unique contribution to a discourse that keeps us all engaged and informed, encouraging our intellectual curiosity to face the challenge of not becoming complacent in a gluttonous world of information that can leave us knowing and caring about less rather than more.

Triple Canopy's beautifully crafted online format determined five years ago to "create a magazine that could be read, really read online. Art that would be looked at for more than a few seconds. Small and large ideas given the time to make their case." Since then, it has pursued an "expanded field of publication," charting the relationships between digital technology and printed volumes, Web-specific artist projects and critical writing, and their various publics.

For its dense and handsome magazine, Cabinet looks to curiosity and method, represented philosophically and poetically by the fox and the hedgehog as their guiding principle, "dedicated to staging an encounter between these two outlooks in the belief that each can disrupt the familiar comforts and presumptions of the other, and that an ethics for how to understand-and therefore possibly change-the world can emerge from the fiction between them."

Finally, Pastelegram represents Texas. It is a new, innovative online and biannual print publication based in Austin that "takes focused looks at individual artist's projects and the texts and images that informed their creation. Dedicated to contemporary artists, art historians and critics as well as the myriad ideas that inform their projects, Pastelegram provides an international platform for the examination of artistic and historical practice."

This evening promises to be a lively and productive conversation that touches on the most contemporary and real issues of communication and art, as well as the broader culture that art engenders and shares.