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How is New American Paintings?

― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 30 December 2004 20:05 (nineteen years ago) link

I should start getting National Geographic again, yes? It would be a good randomizer function. And probably the Atlantic Monthly and maybe New York Review of Books.

I get the New Yorker, but can't remember if I pay for it or not. I don't read it often.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 30 December 2004 20:05 (nineteen years ago) link

my dad for ages has given me gift subscriptions to mags without taking into account my personality or interests. for years it was Readers Digest, which is pretty hilarious. then a year or so ago he called and said it was time to renew and would i like to maybe switch to Consumer Reports. ha! i said sure. the back page is funny sometimes. "this new cookie packaging says '10 percent more.' more what, we ask? it's actually .05 grams less than the previous packaging!"

my TapeOp recently ran out. need to renew or someting.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Thursday, 30 December 2004 20:06 (nineteen years ago) link

I should maybe get Consumer Reports too.

what about online subscriptions?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 30 December 2004 20:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Ooh, I keep forgetting to change my Tape Op subscription, since we moved.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 30 December 2004 20:10 (nineteen years ago) link

How is New American Paintings?

It's great but I wouldn't recommend it unless you were really into painting. It's $20 an issue and you get a thick glossy bound index of artists based on region. Each artist gets four pages - three for paintings and one for bio. It can be hit-or-miss as far as quality goes.

― I'm serious ... Ti-i-i-i-im (deangulberry), Thursday, 30 December 2004 20:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Harper's
The Nation
Z Magazine (I just resubscribed recently)

I'd love to get more, but I hardly keep up with the ones I get. Politics is urgent to keep up with and I like the idea of supporting news coverage/analysis/propaganda that I think is valuable. Even if I could read a lot of it online, I don't mind paying a little bit for a subscription. (Of course, an ordinary subscription isn't going far in providing support.)

I've been enjoying the New York Review of Books more than I remember doing in the past, when I read issues of it, but it's kind of pricey.

― RS LaRue (rockist_scientist), Thursday, 30 December 2004 20:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Urgh, way too many.

I pay for: The Wire, The New Yorker, Macworld, Gourmet
On the comp list: An Honest Tune
My wife gets: Newsweek, Entertainment Weekly
Recently dropped: Wired, Southern Living, MacAddict

― I Am Curious (George) (Rock Hardy), Friday, 31 December 2004 02:31 (nineteen years ago) link

one year passes...

Currently : New Yorker, Res, Artforum, Film Comment, and Dwell. I ditched Wired because it was hot and cold and I can just read Bruce Sterling's blog.

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:05 (eighteen years ago) link

And the Guardian Weekly! (if that counts)

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:05 (eighteen years ago) link

I do. I want to subscribe to two more, but in the past couple months, I haven't at all been keeping up with reading the three I get.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:06 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm about to get subscriptions to:

businessweek
wsj
food & wine
wired

and either time or newsweek -- this is all part of a frequent-flyer deal so it's all free.

― danielle the animal steel (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:08 (eighteen years ago) link

i wish magazines would arrive BEFORE they showed up in teh stores, not after

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:09 (eighteen years ago) link

Every day, I just drag a messenger bag full of magazines with me to work. I can't be without magazines!

I also have an OCDish problem with throwing them away, especially Artforum because I like looking at all the colorful spines lined up together.

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:09 (eighteen years ago) link

is travel and leisure any good or will it make me depressed? i used to know someone who worked there but i never really talked to him about it.

― danielle the animal steel (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:10 (eighteen years ago) link

xxp - yes that is annoying. Dr Morbius got his Film Comment, like, THREE days before mine arrived! but he's in NYC, so I suppose that makes sense.

xp - I LOVE Travel & Leisure but it I'm not sure what it would be like to actually, you know, pay for.

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:11 (eighteen years ago) link

and yes, it is a bit depressing, looking at all these places you will likely never get to (in my case, at least).

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:11 (eighteen years ago) link

here's the magazines i would get if i got magazines:

new yorker
gourmet
entertainment weekly

i wish there were more good magazines out there these days!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:12 (eighteen years ago) link

I'd LOVE to get gourmet but I feel like a lack a basic food education.

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Now that I'm taking French again, I would also love to find Les Inrockuptibles but you can't get it here.

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:14 (eighteen years ago) link

i could send you issues!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:15 (eighteen years ago) link

seriously? you might regret saying that!

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:16 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm going to try the Alliance Francasie but that's the only place I might find it.

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:16 (eighteen years ago) link

you would have to send me something san francisco-ish

burritos

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:18 (eighteen years ago) link

sure.

I could stick a few in a padded envelope with some ngiri and a couple of dumplings.

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:22 (eighteen years ago) link

put a nice cocktail in there too--free pour

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:24 (eighteen years ago) link

and a grime dj night

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:24 (eighteen years ago) link

The New Yorker and The Wire are both coming up for renewal and I'm letting them both lapse. That leaves me with Gourmet and Macworld, and my wife gets a shitload more.

― truck-patch pixel farmer (my crop froze in the field) (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:24 (eighteen years ago) link

and a grime dj night

ha, I'm not sure if these are still an SF thing!

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:28 (eighteen years ago) link

Right now we get The New Yorker, New York Review of Books, Control Engineering, Cook's Illustrated, One, and Gastronomica. Used to get The Believer, Slow, and because of a huge mixup - Practical Horseman. Sometimes I miss Slow, but never The Believer. I'm ambivalent about renewing Gastronomica - it's beautiful, generally has some interesting stuff, but Cook's is so much more practical.

Oh, and my sister got me a subscription to Bookmarks at xmas! That won't start until March.

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:35 (eighteen years ago) link

i'd do the believer.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Cook's Illustrated

i want

― danielle the animal steel (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:37 (eighteen years ago) link

The Believer's so twee and breathless. I couldn't take reading yet another interview of the sort: "OOOOOHHH! You write books!?!?! What's that like?!?" Just too precious or something for my jaded old brain.

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Cook's Illustrated is great fun. The editor guy's column is so, I don't know - New Hampshire-ish and they document all the things that go horribly wrong with their recipes, which I think is great. Their new one, Cook's Country (I think), was bad.

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 19 January 2006 03:43 (eighteen years ago) link

What're the pros and cons of Artforum vs Art in America?

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Thursday, 19 January 2006 04:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Art in America is like Artnews, I think. Heavy emphasis on sales, prices, collectors, museums that are vanity pieces for the wealthy, etc.., leans kind of populist in the art featured.

Artforum is big, heavy, expensive, kind of boring to read at times, has a heavy emphasis on the contemporary art/gallery scene. Is, in its own way, almost as boring as the other status mags (Art in America, Artnews) only more appealing to thirtysomething yuppies instead of boomer yuppies.

My favorite art mag right now is Art on Paper, when I can find it.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Thursday, 19 January 2006 04:19 (eighteen years ago) link

now:

the economist
harpers
atlantic monthly

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Thursday, 19 January 2006 04:27 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm letting my Wire sub slip too. I know I'll still read it in the shops though. And I do like having every issue for back-references. Maybe I should renew. Fuck it!

― Mestema (davidcorp), Thursday, 19 January 2006 13:15 (eighteen years ago) link

I am thinking about getting a subscription to Country Life - but I would have to get it sent to work, as my stupid postie bends everything that goes in the letterbox and the whole point of Country Life is the architectural pr0n luscious photos.

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Thursday, 19 January 2006 13:17 (eighteen years ago) link

four years pass...

I still love magazines

― Nano McPhee (admrl), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 02:26 (thirteen years ago) link

probably going to subscribe to The New Yorker soon

― markers, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 03:06 (thirteen years ago) link

Vanity Fair though I'm regretting it with every new issue lately

― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 03:07 (thirteen years ago) link

I only subscribe to Decibel currently

― markers, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 03:10 (thirteen years ago) link

does anyone read Interview? i'm loving the celeb-orientated stuff but there's so much fashion bullshit i'm a little hesitant. also it just gives me a real "women's only" vibe.

― lieutenant jimmy john (kelpolaris), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 03:39 (thirteen years ago) link

Just was given a subscription to The New Yorker for my birthday, really excited about this!

― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 03:48 (thirteen years ago) link

awesome!

― markers, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 03:50 (thirteen years ago) link

i just started this too! we're getting vf and harper's and the new yorker if i get my act together and order it.

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 03:51 (thirteen years ago) link

some subs are so insanely cheap

― markers, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 03:52 (thirteen years ago) link

new yorker subscription is something i can never imagine stopping, still amazes me they can put it out (almost) every week

― just sayin, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 07:57 (thirteen years ago) link

my last magazine subscription was to gourmet (r.i.p.), but i've been thinking of subscribing to metropolis or good. it's nice to get real mail.

http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/

http://www.good.is/magazine/

― corn smut (get bent), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 08:01 (thirteen years ago) link

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