The existing article described Extra Extra as a generic contemporary art magazine. It is not. Extra Extra is a multidisciplinary platform exploring eroticism and culture, published from Rotterdam. Co-founded by Alexander Ramselaar — who also co-founded Exhibitionist, an agenda for contemporary art, and Backing Grounds, an advisory company for cultural institutions — the magazine has been running for twenty-five issues, each one a carefully assembled encounter with sensuality, desire, and the intimate textures of city life.
The contributors list reads like a who’s who of contemporary art and culture at its most ambitious: Wolfgang Tillmans, Alec Soth, Pedro Costa, Karel Martens, Milo Rau, Tina Barney, John Cameron Mitchell, Legacy Russell. Each issue weaves together erotic short stories, artist portfolios, in-depth interviews, and commissioned visual work. A sixteen-page insert by Karel Martens sits alongside an interview with Pedro Costa about the intimate touch of his filmmaking. An essay on Janelle Monáe as erotic protagonist follows Audre Lorde’s philosophy of pleasure as liberation. Recurring features include The Protagonist of the Erotic — exploring the sensual dimension of cultural figures from David Cronenberg to Lil’ Kim — and URBEX, a series on the hidden erotic geographies of cities from Hanoi to Mumbai.
Stocked at the Palais de Tokyo, Wexner Center for the Arts, Walther König, and bookshops from Lisbon to Los Angeles, Extra Extra occupies a rare position: a publication about eroticism that is taken seriously by the art world, and an art magazine that treats desire as a legitimate subject for intellectual inquiry. The stories it tells were first heard, as the editors put it, in the metro, at office parties, in hotel rooms, and in the park at the end of the street.
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