Long Shot was a leftwing magazine of the arts published first from New Brunswick and then from Hoboken by poet and teacher Danny Shot. It ran for 27 issues from 1982 to 2004 and took inspiration from sources as varied as The Beat Generation, Punk and the political commitment of Italian film director Lina Wertmüller. Danny Shot and cofounder Eliot Katz published the first issue of Long Shot in early 1982 with the help of Allen Ginsberg, whom Katz had met at Naropa University…
Abracadabra was an international magazine of poetry and arts that ran for 5 issues from 1977 to 1981. Editor-in-chief of the short-lived magazine was Marcello Angioni (1939), a Sardinian who had moved to Luxembourg and from there published Abracadabra with co-editors poet, artist and Swiss-Italian architect Franco Beltrametti (1937-1995) and Dutch photographer Harry Hoogstraten (1941). The magazine brought together a choice of American and European poets and artists, combining English and Italian poems and texts…
Abracadabra was an international magazine of poetry and arts that ran for 5 issues from 1977 to 1981. Editor-in-chief of the short-lived magazine was Marcello Angioni (1939), a Sardinian who had moved to Luxembourg and from there published Abracadabra with co-editors poet, artist and Swiss-Italian architect Franco Beltrametti (1937-1995) and Dutch photographer Harry Hoogstraten (1941). The magazine brought together a choice of American and European poets and artists, combining English and Italian poems and texts…
L’Assiette au Beurre was an anarchist French satirical magazine founded by Samuel Schwarz in 1901. The magazine was published as a weekly from 1901 to 1912 and as a monthly from 1921 to 1925. Under the editorial supervision of Schwarz – which only lasted from 1901 to 1903 – the magazine invited established artists, such as Félix Valloton, Jacques Villon, Kees van Dongen and Frantisek Kupka, to take care of the design. In January 1902 Kupka produced an issue of L’Assiette au Beurre…
Soon after Ischa Meijer was born in Amsterdam in 1943, he and his parents were deported by the Nazis to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The young Jewish family survived the camp and returned to Amsterdam after the war, where two more children were born. Fearing the rise of communism in Europe, Meijer’s parents and their children moved to Paramaribo in the early 1950s but, unable to adjust to life in Surinam, returned to Amsterdam a couple of…