Dusting Off Shelves
Sunday, May 3rd, 2009So I was looking around my bookshelves the other day and ran across these magazines:
I don’t know much about Ricochet other than that it launched in the fall of 1987 and as far as I know there were only two issues released. It was the only magazine I had bought a subscription for on seeing the premiere issue. Of course it died. Because that’s just the way it is. I bought a subscription and most people aren’t interested in the stuff I am, or at least not interested enough in it to support it.
Anyway, Ricochet was cool in that it was not only all about art, art in both the States and in Europe, and a little bit of culture and observation of place (its second issue was on New Orleans) but it was multi-lingual. English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. That should have been a clue of its early demise, I suppose. Since most Americans aren’t multi-lingual and wouldn’t be interested in buying magazines where half the pages weren’t readable.
I’m not entirely sure that these are the only two issues ever published, but they are the only two issues that I received. I gave away years and years worth of Art in America and a Art News and other boxes of art magazines, but I kept these two. I loved the concept (they were on my page, so to speak), and I like the covers. They had good stories. Too bad they disappeared.
