Esopus [With CDROM]

This issue includes artists' projects by Oliver Herring, Peter Krashes, Jeff Gibson and Mickey Smith, plus a portfolio of previously unseen work by Alex Masket. Other contents include excerpts from a memoir by poet Jennifer Moxley, new fiction from Kelly Sandoval and artifacts from the collection of the late, esteemed rare books librarian Marjorie G. Wynne. Also featured are new installments of two regular "Esopus" series, "Modern Artifacts," which reproduces in facsimile documents related to the museum's first Matisse exhibition, and "Guarded Opinions," featuring museum guards' impressions of the art they oversee. French historian Stephane Gerson closes the issue with a fascinating analysis of visual representations of Nostradamus over the past 500 years. For the issue's CD, 11 musicians (including Frightened Rabbit, Laura Gibson, Phil Kline and Natureboy) were asked to create a new song inspired by one of Nostradamus' quatrains.