You can tell it’s our last episode of Season 3, because we have a small tangent festival discussing art critiques and browsing discarded magazines in public places. This really is what it’s like to pull up a chair behind the desk! (PS - The book we discuss about formal art critique is What Art Is by Arthur C. Danto, the conference Jen attended was the Ohio X Conference, and the essay collection Kat discusses is The Most of Nora Ephron.)

Christina shares her favorite culture magazines: New Yorker (check out their Britney coverage by Jia Tolentino and Ronan Farrow, as well as Tolentino's essay collection Trick Mirror,) Gawker, and N+1 (Check out On Fire from their publishing imprint Paper Monument.) and her favorite art magazines: Frieze, Juxtapoz, Hi Fructose, and Nobrow.  And she celebrates the self-publishability of magazines, including some great zines to look up by local artists: Free Period Press' Collage Kit Magazine, Kate Atherton's zines, University Heights Library's Zine Collection, and the zines of Justin Michael Will.

Jen brings some of her favorite décor magazines, including Mountain Living, Atomic Ranch, American Farmhouse Style, lifestyle magazines including Mingle, Foxfire, and Good Magazine, travel magazines including Wanderlust, National Parks Magazine, and Flaneur Magazine, and design magazines including Alliance of American Museums' Museum Magazine, Exhibition Magazine – “Public Spaces and Potential Places” , and Print. Right now she's reading Harvard Business Review's May 2022 issue, about "Designing Work That People Love," and she misses Lucky Magazine, & How.

Kat wraps up our grand cultural tour with Black+White Photography Magazine, the beautiful magazine-as-art-object Kinfolk, and Womankind.