Esopus 10

The tenth issue of this New York-based multidisciplinary journal includes artists' projects by Yvonne Jacquette, Dulce Pinzon and Berend Strik. The issue also features a series of color stills from At Sea, the stunning 2008 film by experimental filmmaker Peter Hutton; the never-before-seen "fictional" scientific drawings of Doug McNamara; new poetry from Jen Bervin; a short story by Lesley Clayton; and Angus Trumble's "1929 in Retrospect." Esopus 10 includes the latest installments from two regular series: Modern Artifacts, presented in partnership with The Museum of Modern Art, featuring never-before-published documents from MoMA's archives (in this case, selections from the sketchbooks of former MoMA director Rene d'Harnoncourt); and Guarded Opinions, in which museum and gallery guards are asked to offer their critical perspectives on the art they oversee. The issue's audio CD takes Good News as its theme: For it, 11 musicians were asked to choose a piece of news which they interpreted as positive and then craft a song around it. Participants include Ryan Adams, Neko Case and Carl Newman, Atlas Sound, Gowns, Man Man and The Real Tuesday Weld.