THE-ICONOMIST© is a post-digital artist’s magazine and research project. Founded in 2021.

appropriation

“80 per cent of artists are dealing with mother issues.” In this personal interview the internationally praised German artist Hans-Peter Feldmann muses on the magnetic power of women, and shares how he has used art as both escape and therapy. “Make a job out of it and all is lost.” Feldmann does not consider being … Frauen, Hans Peter Feldmann

At what scale should we consider the lives of Black Americans? For more than thirty years—starting while he worked as a cinematographer—Jafa has sought to answer that question, compiling notebooks with clippings from magazines, newspapers, and advertisements. Images of Mickey Mouse and Sojourner Truth intermingle with pictures of insects and astronomical phenomena; Black athletes, musicians, … Arthur Jafa, Notebooks (1990-2007)