Esopus 17 (Fall 2011)

Metagame (Culture Edition)

Designed by Local No. 12

Playing this game requires cultural literacy, strategic thinking, and social negotiation skills.

Artist’s Project: Alyson Shotz

By Alyson Shotz; with Priyamvada Natarajan and Satyan L. Devadoss

For “Triple Infinity,” Shotz takes three different approaches to the subject of infinity.

Analog Recovery 1: Bal d’Hiver

Photos by Inge Morath; edited by John Jacob

Images from a 1955 Paris charity ball; first in a series presented with the Magnum Foundation.

Artist’s Project: Thomas Lawson

By Thomas Lawson

A suite of drawings and a removable 18" x 22" poster by the artist, critic, and educator

100 Frames: Tulpan (2008)

Film by Sergey Dvortsevoy; introduction by Jim Shepard

100 still images from the Moscow-based documentarian’s unforgettable feature debut

New Voices: “The Pepsi”

By Rick Stinson

Ninth in our series of fiction by never-before-published authors

Guarded Opinions 5

By Casey Costa and Robert Canedy; edited by Paul VanDeCarr

Two museum guards comment on the works they oversee at MASS MoCA.

Modern Artifacts 10: Rent to Own

Introduction by Michelle Elligott

Never-before-seen materials related to the Museum’s discontinued Art Lending Service

Oddments

By Jessica Elsaesser

A suite of new work by an emerging Brooklyn-based poet

Artist’s Project: Adam Chodzko

By Adam Chodzko

A journey to one page

Angus Trumble’s 1877 In Retrospect

By Angus Trumble

One year. One page. (16th in a series)

Found Object: Optical Allusions

Recovered by Rich Remsberg

Rebus puzzles found in a bound volume of a Victorian-era children’s magazine

SUBSCRIBER INVITATIONAL #5: IRRATIONAL FEARS

We asked readers to share their darkest, most disturbing phobias, and musicians turned them into songs

Esopus CD #17: Fear Itself

13 musicians, including Meursault, We Are Augustines, and Corey Dargel, created songs inspired by Esopus readers’ irrational fears.