We never set out to create themed issues in our weekly magazine, but often the content falls into a natural rhythm and assumes a narrative all its own. This week we have arrived on the topic of paper in various mediums– books, aged photographs, collage scrap, digital magazine pages and poetry.  We learned from Amir […]

It’s easy to romanticize what it means to be an artist.  The mind’s eye produces a lone, backlit figure brooding in an industrial warehouse, lost in a euphoric trance of creative clarity, with only his genius, paints and palette to keep him company.  But nothing creative is ever that simple– or glamorous. Rarely do we […]

Another jet takes off from the nearby runway and quickly disappears into the fading California sky.  The residual drone of the engine briefly rattles the walls of our office and its roar then fades into silence.  The sound that we once blamed for interrupting our creative rhythm is now part of our sonic vocabulary, a […]

Installation Magazine was created because we felt that no other art magazine actually speaks to our generation, or gives emerging artists a voice that readers could hear. We inspire dialogues that transcend the “art world” and engage with those who are curious about what art actually is, or can be. Celebrating one year of Installation […]

A digital archive never expires and its pages never fade or yellow.  There are no borders in digital publishing.  The only obstacle we face is the limit of our own imagination.  Looking back on 12 issues of Installation it seems like the content has become richer and time has revealed the incredible possibility and growth […]

Editor’s Letter   We often hear the word “trust” in quotidian culture as a way of conveying a promise.  Employed by advertising agencies, corporations, and the US government, “trust” has disintegrated into a sea of semantics tugged and pulled at will to construct a manufactured state of stability. As certain as the rhythm of a […]