Earlier this month, White Zinfandel was a part of the Food Book Fair at the Wythe Hotel in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

The New York Times wrote about the show, commenting that White Zinfandel is like “if Marcel Duchamp guest-edited Bon Appetit.”

Read the full article here: T Magazine

The second post in Ashley Rawlings’ Documents residency at Kunstverein NY is by Cyril Duval, who works under the name Item Idem.

Duval has created three mixed-media collages entitled “Basic Forumlas for Demolitions Use, 2012.”

View the post here: Kunstverein.us

For his Documents residency with Kunstverein NY, White Zinfandel‘s contributing editor Ashley Rawlings is inviting artists and writers to respond to chapter headings in The Anarchist Cookbook, written by William in 1971 in protest against the Vietnam War. Taken out of context, many of the chapter headings become abstract and incomprehensible—potent starting points for flights of free association that appropriate, embellish, undermine or reinforce the subversiveness of the original text. 

This residency explores the cognitive dissonance that arises when one broaches the perhaps impossible task of reconciling the finite formats of the printed page with the borderless world of online publishing. It addresses the paradox of responding to the clandestine character of The Anarchist Cookbook within the networked and trackable forum of the internet. With contributors’ otherwise malleable, searchable texts uploaded not as HTML but as Jpegs, the works produced during this Documents residency live online in relative obscurity until technology is fully able to reach in and catalogue their content for unfettered consumption.

View the first post here: Kunstverein.us

For the exhibition “The Art of Cooking” at Los Angeles-based Royal/T Gallery, White Zinfandel has built an installation organized around the theme of Issue No. 3: Food Fights. Inspired by the Low-Fi and the DIY, “Napalm Bouffé” is an assemblage of ingredients found in recipes from William Powell’s Anarchist Cookbook. The piece references celebratory food-related sculpture: a banquet reception, a wedding cake, a champagne fountain. The elaborately ordered display is intentional, as if the sliced tennis balls become ramekins that hold the ingredients, ready to serve, consume, and disrupt.

“The Art of Cooking” is curated by Hanne Mugaas and on view through August. It includes works from Olaf Breuning, Jim Drain, Amy Yao, Takeshi Murata, Confettisystem, Kenny Scharf, B.Wurtz, Marilyn Minter, Yoshitomo Nara, William Wegman, and many others.

Photos by David Brandon Geeting, James Gaddy, and Chris Leong

Through May 14, White Zinfandel is on view as part of MoMA’s “Millenium Magazines,” a survey of experimental art and design magazines published since 2000 that explore how contemporary artists and designers are using the magazine format as a way to present both artworks and text. The exhibition, drawn from the holdings of The Museum of Modern Art Library, collects a broad array of titles to illustrate the diverse range of image-making, editing, design, printing, and distribution practices of publications like 0_100, Bad Day, Cabinet, Fillip, Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, Kaleidoscope, Log, LTTR, Megawords, PIN-UP, Toilet Paper, Useless, and Veneer.

Big thanks to Rachael Morrison and David Senior, who organized the show. More information about the exhibition here.

Photos by David Brandon Geeting