Welcome to Plush
Plush is an Arts Mediazine. Not only do we exhibit Art and Poetry, but we intend to bring in the full gamet of Artistic endeavors, thanks to the merciful embrace of advancing technologies.
In this premiere issue, we are here presenting the work of brilliant poet/publishers Jim Feast (Autonomedia), Ron Kolm (Autonomedia and founder of The Unbearables multimedia collective), and Jeffery Cypers Wright ( legendary publisher of Cover magazine). Joseph Nechtaval, notorious multi-media artist and multi-media writer/scholar rounds out this edition of the mediazine with his forever sensuous art and engaging enlightening scholarly and colorful writing. Vincent Katz from Vnitas Magazine, and Jane Dickson, from Marlborough gallery, have done a stunning collaboration. Addihm.tionally, Joseph Nechvatal has also included a free pass in these pages to his suite of Virtual Virus videos, in collaboration with programmer Stephane Sikora, including music by Rhys Chatham.
Finally, due to the sheer weight of the very time consuming nature (15 years) of the project - that being the publication of the collaboration of PlushCompanyNY's Editor Dan Freeman, with poet Jim Feast, we humbly present "Con Lady and the Unknown Gangster",written by Jim Feast in 1995.
FAQs
What does Plush mean? Why the name Plush? And what is this 'Down Under Manhattan Bridge Magazine subsidiary publication' business anyway?
Down Under Manahattan Bridge or DUMB Magazine, arrived on the crest of a wave of New Expressionist painting a long time - 30 years - ago. Complementing Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's great German Expressionist magazine "Die Bruke" (translated as 'The Bridge'), this DUMB Magazine was too a Bridge Magazine, a link with the German Expressionists and foster a 'movement' of new American Expressionism.
In the process of creating the DUMB magazine archive (http://dumbmag.com) in 2010, the Editors decided that it was time for a change. Realistically, any magazine referred to as 'Dumb' in 2010 would clearly be misinterpretted and avoided by any new talented artists. Sadly, the name of the magazine looks like a real resume killer. (Even though DUMB is in some really great libraries). It became urgent to rename the erstwhile artist magazine and to revamp the concept.
AND SO... The magazine's name, coming from the Underground in the beginning, as in - as noted - as in the 'Velvet Underground' , became 'Plush', the texture and the color of Velvet. That is not to say that the name isn't partly acronymical, which it isn't, really. of the new neighborhood where the editor now lives: Prospect Lefferts Gardens Underground, Sweet Heart. Thus, a subsidiary publication of Down Under Manhattan Bridge, still underground, but smoother, sleeker, richer, born on St. Valentine's Day. (And something that doesn't have to worry about printing and distribution as paper magazines!)
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