SPREAD | ArtCulture

SPREAD ARTCULTURE IS THE ANNUAL ART TITLE CREATED BY, FOR, AND ABOUT CULTURAL INSTIGATORS

WHO ARE THE CULTURAL INSTIGATORS?

Cultural Instigators are those creatives who change the cultural landscape through provocative, inspiring, fresh, and original work.
Cultural Instigators are those individuals whose decisions affect and influence popular tastes.
Cultural Instigators are conduits for ideas and concepts; they introduce them to the population at large.
Cultural Instigators make the difference between the success and failure of an idea, a concept, or a brand.
Cultural Instigators know their ideas will be acted upon by others.
Cultural Instigators change the world.

SPREAD ARTCULTURE ALWAYS PUSHES THE BOUNDARIES WITH THE FRESHEST CONTENT—THE BEST, MOST INTERESTING TAKE ON CONTEMPORARY CULTURE ON NEWSSTANDS.

WHO HAS BEEN FEATURED IN SPREAD ARTCULTURE?

M.I.A., PHARRELL WILLIAMS, AARON ROSE, GEORGE LOIS, KANYE WEST, MARTIN SCORSESE, DAVID LYNCH, TRACEY EMIN, TAKASHI MURAKAMI, RAYMOND PETTIBON, TOM SACHS, LUPE FIASCO, SHIRIN NESHAT, ANNA PAQUIN, MATTHEW WILLIAMSON, KAWS, CASSIE, JEAN PAUL GOUDE, MASAMICHI KUTAYAMA OF WONDERWALL, JOHN JAY, SIR PETER BLAKE, JOEL MEYEROWITZ, ERIC WHITE, JORDAN LADD, DONNY MILLER, MIMI SO, ERNESTO CAIVANO, NAVI RAWAT, IAN SCHRAGER, SEBASTIEN AGNEESSENS, RYE RYE, AKRON FAMILY, BAT FOR LASHES, WILL OLDHAM, LITTLE BOOTS, ROSEY CHAN, OPENING CEREMONY, O.H.W.O.W., PHILLIPS DE PURY, MIZUO PECK, MIKE FIGGIS, THE WEBSTER, MIKE SHINE, D*FACE, AND MORE…

STAFF

Editorial Director/Publisher
Howard Bernstein

Creative Director:
Eddie Brannan

Consulting Editor:
Ken Miller

Managing Editor:
Louisa St. Pierre

Art Director:
Alexander Wolf

Photo & Production Editor:
Helen Shih

Copy Editor:
Tiffany Yannetta

Circulation & Distribution Consultant:
Richard Rhodes

Blog Editor:
Kiša Lala

CONTRIBUTORS

WRITERS
Maxwell Williams: Editor of Flaunt magazine, contributor to Interview, Heeb, Plastique, Intermission (DK) and more. If you live in Brazil, you can see him in a national Dr. Scholl’s ad campaign walking on his hands.

Kiša Lala: Kiša writes for art publications and websites, and has written prose in collaboration with many visual artists. For this issue 5, she continent-hopped to interview Tracey Emin, Anish Kapoor and Shirin Neshat.

Dominic Lutyens: London-based arts and style journalist who writes for Guardian, Telegraph, The Sunday Times, Financial Times, Vogue and Elle Decor. He is the co-author with Kirsty Hislop of the book 70s Style & Design from Thames & Hudson, and is currently writing a book on textile designer Celia Birtwell for uK publisher quadrille.

Amy Lau: founded her interior design firm in 2001, and in 2005 she co-founded the prestigious Design Miami fair. Her residential interior designs have been featured in The New York Times, Elle Decor, Metropolitan Home, Traditional Home, Gotham and House & Garden, as well as on HGTV. She was recently named one of New York magazine’s “Next Garde.”

PHOTOGRAPHERS

Ruud Baan, Kareem Black, Stewart Cohen, David Eustace, Bobby Fisher, Nick&Chloé, Dana Gallagher, Stuart Hall, Justin Hollar, Mark Lund, Joel Meyerowitz, Matthew Monteith, Emily Nathan, Erwin Olaf, Michael Schnabel, The Selby, Michael Turek, Matthew Welch, Stephen Wilkes, Stephan Würth, Roy Zipstein

ILLUSTRATORS

Staffan Larsson, Alberto Seveso, Luke Wilson, Ben Wachenje