Matthew Buckingham: Mill Creek Valley

A photo diptych of two apparently identical images but with a subtle shift in focus; in one the focus falls on the utopian lines of the 1950s automobile; in the second, the focus lies on the mundane contemporary landscape through which the car is traveling.

Digital C-print
18.5 x 25.5 inches
Edition of 100
Courtesy of the artist and Murray Guy Gallery

Justine Kurland: Circus Scene

C-print
16 x 20 in.
Edition of 100 printed by the artist; signed and numbered; unframed
Courtesy of the artist and Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York

Justine Kurland’s photographs examine—and also create—fantasies of utopian community, typically capturing inspired loners or gangs of girls in landscapes that are sometimes lushly pastoral and at other times insidiously poisoned by industrial decay. Pursuing the American archetype of the maverick or outlaw, but filtering this ideal through a truculent and sensuous adolescent femininity, Kurland often hires nonprofessional actors to stage her scenes. In recent work, she continues to explore theatricality, self-presentation, and ideas of companionship and freedom, though her bands of dreamy teenagers have been expanded to include members of functioning present-day communes.

Kurland has exhibited internationally since receiving her M.F.A. from Yale University in 1998. She has recently had a one-person show at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, and her work was included in the International Center of Photography’s 2003 triennial.

Jude Tallichet: C Note

This 1:1 aluminum replica of a coconut is hand-engraved with the words "In God We trust" in the Federal font found on $5 bills.

Statement by Jude Tallichet: "The tropical fantasy of an easy, cash-free, work-free, nomadic paradise life is embodied in the coconut. The coconut has other things going for it too; it can do just about anything. You can eat it, drink it, and make rope, cups, brassieres, and clip-clopping horse hooves for radio dramas out of it. You can carve faces on it, paint landscapes on it, sell it to tourists, or send it as a postcard through the mail. And, the coconut is hilarious."

Hand-engraved aluminum sculpture
6 x 5 x 5 inches
Edition of 100
Courtesy the artist and Sara Meltzer Gallery

Paul Noble: Acumulus Noblitatus

An unfolded, 26" x 18" poster of Paul Noble'sAcumulus Noblitatus, 2000-2001, originally included in Cabinet issue 10.

Paul Noble is an artist based in London. He is represented by Maureen Paley Interim Art.

This item will be sent in a sturdy poster tube. To combine shipping with other posters for cheaper shipping rates, please email us a shop (at) cabinetmagazine (dot) org.

Matthew Buckingham: Mount Rushmore in 500,000 Years

An unfolded, 17" x 23" poster of "The Six Grandfathers (also known as Slaughterhouse Peak, Cougar Mountain, and now Mount Rushmore) in the year 502,002 C.E." Originally included with Cabinet issue 7.

Matthew Buckingham is an artist living in New York. He is represented by Murray Guy Gallery in New York.

This item will be sent in a sturdy poster tube. To combine shipping with other posters for cheaper shipping rates, please email us a shop (at) cabinetmagazine (dot) org.

Rutherford Chang: Alphabetized Newspaper

This poster, included in Cabinet issue 15, consists of the entire front page of the New York Times of 12 May 2004 rearranged in alphabetical order.

Dimensions: 14" x 22". This item will be sent in a sturdy poster tube. To combine shipping with other posters for cheaper shipping rates, please email us a shop (at) cabinetmagazine (dot) org.

The silhouetted animals on this giftwrap are taken from the insignia and flags of various countries and placed into one dizzying menagerie sure to combat any jingoism.

"New World Order" giftwrap by the New York-based design firm 2X4, commissioned for Cabinet issue 16.
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A little city, a little country. Laser-engraved log and fake gold chain.

Only for the brave.

Cabinet is an award-winning quarterly magazine of art and culture that confounds expectations of what is typically meant by the words "art," "culture," and sometimes even "magazine." Like the 17th-century cabinet of curiosities to which its name alludes, Cabinet is as interested in the margins of culture as its center.

Subscriptions start with the current or next issue. Includes online access to the entire sold-out issue archive.

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Cabinet's fox-and-hedgehog shield printed on a durable sticker. Laminated and suitable for indoor and outdoor use.

Roughly three inches wide by four inches tall (at the shield's point).

Bigert & Bergström: Weather Mug & Glass

In conjunction with the Weather section of Cabinet issue 3, Swedish artists Bigert & Bergström have used Tor Bergeron's meteorological symbols for hot and cold weather fronts to design a set of glasses for cool drinks and mugs for warm beverages.

These mugs and glasses were featured in Phaidon's recent book Spoon on the 100 most interesting designs of the past decade.
Hot Front Mug is dishwasher safe, but Cold Front Glass is not.

Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark's Fake Estates

Edited by Jeffrey Kastner, Sina Najafi and Frances Richard. Essay by Jeffrey Kroessler.

In the summer of 1973, artist Gordon Matta-Clark discovered that the city of New York occasionally auctioned improbably tiny and frequently inaccessible parcels of land created by zoning eccentricities. Fascinated by these spaces, he bought 15 of them (14 in Queens, and one in Staten Island) for between $25 and $75 each, photographed them and collated the photographs with the appropriate deeds and maps. He called the project Fake Estates.

Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark's Fake Estates further documents and advances this seminal work, and accompanies Cabinet magazine's exhibition at the Queens Museum of Art and White Columns in New York. Included here are responses to Matta-Clark's original artwork by 20 contemporary artists including Francis Alÿs, Jimbo Blachly, Mark Dion, Sarah Oppenheimer, Dan Price and Mierle Ukeles. Odd Lots also provides the definitive Fake Estates history, thus adding new dimension to the scholarship on this important artist-- all within the spirit of collaboration and experimentation that marked Matta-Clark's short but influential career.

Paperback, 8 x 10 in. / 96 pgs / 40 color / 20 b&w.
Published by Cabinet Books/The Queens Museum of Art/ White Columns

A new documentary film by Bigert & Bergström on the historical practice of allowing prisoners who are about to be executed to have a final meal of their choosing. Read Terri Gordon's essay on the film here.

57 minutes. Comes in a specially designed tin container, accompanied by a 40 page-long booklet.
Please note that the DVD is region-free but in PAL format.

Vincent Mazeau: Evil/Exit

New York-based artist Vincent Mazeau's developed this unlimited edition for Cabinet's Winter 2001 issue on Evil. The glow-in-the-dark sign can be stuck directly to a wall or mounted to a board and then attached to the wall. A great holiday gift.

Measures 9" x 12".

Tote bag featuring Cabinet's fox-and-hedgehog shield.

As the eighth of its Unlimited Edition series, Cabinet and Trevor Paglen present a replica of a secret military patch commemorating the test flight of the B-2 Bomber. The patch references a 1962 Twilight Zone episode in which an alien book called "To Serve Man" turns out to be a cookbook. The dog-Latin phrase "Gustatus Similis Pullus" translates as "Tastes like chicken."

T-shirt featuring Cabinet's fox-and-hedgehog shield. The very soft, 100% cotton T-shirt is this model from Alternative Apparel.

Women's comes in Shady Navy.
Men's comes in Light Navy.

The world's smallest and most widely reproduced work of art, the postage stamp was an official vehicle for extraordinary visual work for more than 100 years before twentieth-century artists and activists began to appropriate the format as a potential venue for their own unsanctioned expressions. From the stamp experiments of Fluxus mail artists like Robert Watts to fantasy stamps issued by fictional countries, this humble canvas has been home to all manner of free expression.

The Book of Stamps is at once an homage to and continuation of this tradition. Sumptuously designed and printed, this cloth-bound volume features 15 detachable, perforated and gummed full-page sheets of limited edition, artist-designed stamps by Walead Beshty, Melissa Brown, Melissa Dubbin & Aaron S. Davidson, Spencer Finch, Carl Michael von Hausswolff & Leif Elggren, Jonathan Herder, Mikhail Iliatov, Emily Jacir, Julia Jacquette, Vandana Jain, Sandra Eula Lee, Line Up, Frank Magnotta, Michael Oatman and David Shrigley. A must-have for collectors of artist multiples and stamps alike, the edition also includes a text by George Pendle.

Edited by Jeffrey Kastner, Sina Najafi. Introduction by George Pendle.
Published by Cabinet Books
Format: Hardcover / 8.25 x 10.25 inch / 46 pages / Color

Artist Roger Andersson and poet Albert Mobilio team up for this ABC book on adolescence and the loss of innocence.

Letters from Mayhem is an artist book consisting of 26 duotone watercolors by Roger Andersson, each depicting one letter of the alphabet. Accompanied by a fragmentary text by poet Albert Mobilio, the book is printed on heavy board in the format of a children's ABC primer. Each letter is embedded in a fairytale setting in which wispy long-haired teenagers lie around stoned, sniffing glue, listening to heavy metal, and so on.

Full of messages hidden within plants, ponds, and clouds, Andersson's drawings and Mobilio's text evoke a soft nostalgia for childhood tempered by images of soft-edged romantic decadence.

Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip

In 1935, well into the era of Soviet Communism, Russian satirical writers Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov came to the U.S. as special correspondents for Pravda. They drove cross-country and back on a two-month trip, recording their impressions of American life with text and photographs.

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