Full set of issues 1-3.
“The Fox was a magazine published out of New York in 1975 and 1976. It only ran for three issues. It was involved in conceptual and political art of the time and relates directly to Art & Language in the UK. For me, there is something really resonant today in the viewpoints, intellectual conflicts and voices present in The Fox. At the time there was the aftermath of the oil crises of 1973 going on, and New York was becoming quite a messed up city. What is also reflected in The Fox is the art scene and a sort of post-conceptual crisis, the magazines were quite uncompromising with almost no images. Questions about what it is to make art and for whom, social questions about society and politics, were prevalent then. I guess I’m interested in those radical voices from the past and their attempt at changing things. Those original ambitions and questionings in the The Fox seem to me to have some contemporary relevance.
To do a re-issue partly historicizes the material at hand, and partly attempts to draw some useful things for the contemporary context. The show at Unitt/Pitt is about the re-issuing, but it’s also going to be about scripting some of those debates and ideas present in The Fox and seeing how they pan out in our contemporary situation, forty years later.” - Arnaud Desjardin of The Everyday Press in an interview with Project Space.
