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Headmaster is the art magazine for man-lovers. Since 2010. Headmaster is made in Providence, Rhode Island. Headmaster No. 9 will be out in summer 2021.

08/07/2024

Since the new Headmaster is The Sports Issue, that's also on sale through the closing ceremony on Saturday. This detail is from Hilary Harkness and Ara Tucker's project about the Presidential Physical Fitness Test.

08/05/2024

Time for the newest installment of our monthly back issue sale. This month it's Headmaster No. 8, which featured this very colorful Bernhard Willhelm photo series.

08/04/2024

If you’ve been following along for the past few months you might have seen this coming. It’s time for our 8 / 8 / 8 Sale! (Yes, we are having two sales at once.) For the next 8 days, Headmaster No. 8 is only 8 dollars. This issue was inspired by the Village People and it’s one of our best sellers. Featuring Bernhard Willhelm, Mark Blane, Emmy Bright, Skylar Fein, Nicholas Galanin, Alan Ruiz, Micah Salkind, Joe Sinness, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Derrick Woods-Morrow

Get your $8 copy now!

07/07/2024

Four more hours of the
7 / 7 /7 sale.

07/02/2024

Time for our monthly Headmaster back issue sale! Issue 7 (The Field Trip Issue) is 7 dollars through 7/7.

pictured: Jaanus Samma

06/11/2024

Today's the last day of our monthly sale. Headmaster No. 6 is only six dollars until midnight.

(photo: Anthony DiCapua)

05/20/2024

Mark your calendars! Headmaster No.10 launch party (Providence edition) coming up soon.

Sunday 6/2
Riffraff (60 Valley St, Providence)
5-8pm

05/20/2024

Erma Fiend is a director of surreal stop motion animation. Fiend is known for documenting his gender transition over the years in hundreds of Escheresque stop motion self portrait loops, which play like Möbius strips in GIF form.

05/17/2024

Zhidong Zhang is an artist, educator, and plant lover. Their practice explores social, political, cultural, and sexual relationships among the institution, the body, and modes of embodiment. Working primarily with photography, text, and installation, their work negotiates and creates narratives where image-making becomes a form of history-making. Zhang’s practice and process invite alternative, autonomous modes of identity construction through/by/via metabolizing bodies that are often overlooked, eroticized, or politicized. Their Headmaster No.10 project is about artificial turf.

05/16/2024

Laurent Pellissier is an artist born in Aosta, Italy, living and working in Berlin. Populated by q***r and supernatural creatures, his paintings and sculptures evoke the night, the city, desire, and the forest. Experimenting with variance and seriality, he often uses techniques and materials discovered in the naïveté of his childhood: papier-mâché, modeling clay, linocuts, or pencil drawings. His works make unruly references to German Expressionism and Japanese cartoons – swinging from humor to horror, melancholy to sensuality, kawaii to the grotesque.

05/15/2024

Apolo Gomez was born in Austin, TX, and is a q***r Chicanx visual artist based out of Albuquerque, New Mexico. After a bout with lymphoma, he picked up his first camera and started documenting his friends and lovers. Through photography, painting, and installation, his interdisciplinary practice explores the complex multiplicity of personhood, q***rness, desire, and his latinx identity.

05/13/2024

Deb Sokolow is an artist whose semi-fictitious drawings speculate both comically and critically on a number of subjects including architecture, social engineering, world leaders and intelligence organizations. Her work has been included in the 4th Athens Biennale, the 5th Chicago Architecture Biennial and in exhibitions at Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Van Abbemuseum, Drawing Center, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. Sokolow’s drawings have appeared in BOMB Magazine, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s Best American Comics and Phaidon’s Vitamin D2. Sokolow is based in Chicago.

For Headmaster No.10, Sokolow looked at the life of wrestler Pat Patterson.

05/11/2024

Matthew Papa is a New York-based artist working primarily in photography. He has an MFA in Advanced Photographic Studies from ICP/Bard College and a BA in Philosophy from University of Michigan. His undergraduate study of philosophy informs his artistic practice and he’s interested in photography’s ability to complicate meaning. Desire and the body are often subjects in his work because our ideas around them are rife with conflict.

05/08/2024

Wayne Koestenbaum—poet, critic, fiction-writer, artist, filmmaker—has published over twenty books, including Ultramarine, The Cheerful Scapegoat, Figure It Out, Camp Marmalade, My 1980s & Other Essays, Humiliation, Hotel Theory, Circus, Andy Warhol, Jackie Under My Skin, and The Queen’s Throat (nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award). His newest book, Stubble Archipelago, was released by Semiotext(e) in March 2024.

Koestenbaum wrote the tenth and final chapter in the serial Story of Headmaster.

(photo: Jan Rattia)

05/07/2024

Christopher-Rasheem McMillan is a versatile artist, choreographer, and scholar who is an Assistant Professor of Dance Theory and Practice, as well as Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Iowa. He employs video, performance, photography, and oral storytelling to investigate themes of race, memory, q***r desire, religion, and personal and public mythology.

Tony Orrico is a visual and performing artist exploring the realms of physical and mental endurance, somatic movement, trace, memory, and social aesthetics. Orrico is an Assistant Professor of Sculpture, Intermedia, and Dance at the University of Iowa.

Together, Orrico and McMillan produced a project about sport, pageantry, and performance.

05/04/2024

Sam Nehila wears many hats in the art world of Providence, RI. He is a tour guide for Gallery Night Providence, a museum educator for K-12 student visits at the RISD Museum, and working on his personal practice of printing stone lithographs in his Providence studio. He is a co-organizer of PVDPrintmakers, an online and in-person community group working to support and connect printmakers across Rhode Island.

05/04/2024

Victor Luque is a Spanish visual artist based in Berlin. His work, while essentially documentary, uses elements of the autobiographical and explores themes of desire, sexuality and q***r identity, influenced by painting, sculpture and cinema. In exploring the landscape of his immediate reality, he uncovers a sense of something magical in the mundane, deifies his human subjects, and works to reveal the beauty in unexpected places and the otherness.

05/02/2024

Introducing Issue No.10 Artists!

Hilary Harkness is an artist known for her irreverent, provocative and meticulously crafted paintings. Harkness employs historic world events and art history as jumping off points from which to explore power dynamics and struggles through an intersectional lens. The worlds that unfold on Harkness’s canvases teem with the inescapable human foibles that plague each of us.

Ara Tucker is an artist storyteller whose practice focuses on the intersection of race, class, gender, sexual orientation as well as intergenerational memory and trauma. She applies humor in her depictions of the ways these intersections warp daily life.

For Headmaster No.10, Harkness and Tucker team up to reenvision the Presidential Fitness Test with the assistance of an unexpected historical figure.

05/02/2024

Melbourne-based collaborative performance and visual artists The Huxleys are a dynamic duo of cataclysmic proportion who present camp spectacle and disco-enthused wizardry. Since 2014 The Huxleys have performed, exhibited and participated in numerous exhibitions, projects and events in Australia, and internationally.

For Headmaster No. 10, The Huxleys give us a peek into the worlds of Australian Rules Football and several other sports.

04/30/2024

Introducing Headmaster No.10: The Sports Issue. Featuring 12 original projects from Erma Fiend, Apolo Gomez, Hilary Harkness & Ara Tucker, The Huxleys, Wayne Koestenbaum, Victor Luque, Sam Nehila, Tony Orrico & Christopher-Rasheem McMillan, Matthew Papa, Laurent Pellissier, Deb Sokolow, and Zhidong Zhang. Subjects covered include cheerleading, locker rooms, artificial turf, Muscular Christianity, the men's rhythmic gymnastics floor program, the Presidential Physical Fitness Test, and lots more. At 104 full-color pages it's the biggest Headmaster issue ever.

04/26/2024

New issue unveiling next week! The email list gets to see the cover first.

01/28/2024

Two Headmaster announcements. 1) We'll be in Jersey City next weekend for the 2nd edition of the Jersey Art Book Fair, and 2) We're looking for spring design and events interns as we pull this issue together.

11/27/2023

Last day of the sale!

11/22/2023

Clearing out some inventory so all magazines and prints are half off through Monday 11/26.

Cover art by flanKo, Matthias Herrmann, Drasko Bogdanovic, Cassandra Complex, Bernhard Willhelm, and House of Rice.

12/12/2022

Sale at the headshoppe! Magazines and prints are all 25% off for the next day or so. We're also down to the last remaining copies of Headmaster No. 3, if you're looking to complete your collection or order a seven-issue set for a friend.

10/01/2021

MONTREAL: Come see us this weekend at Volume MTL. Vaccine passport required (or proof of vaccination and a photo ID if you're not from Quebec).

08/28/2021

For their Headmaster No. 9 project, Texas artists Chuck and George developed iconography for their own secret society: snakes, dice, a two-headed chalice, and renderings of the artists themselves.

08/26/2021

Kris Harzinski and Will Haughery used some pandemic time to produce a Headmaster project about synaesthesia, taking advantage of energy drink flavor designations to make a series of short videos.

08/25/2021

Fado B***a produced Headmaster’s first music project, a nine-track EP picking up the serial Story of Headmaster that appears in each issue. The code to hear the album can be found inside Headmaster No. 9.

08/24/2021

Lawrence Schimel, an American living in Spain, worked with Alejandro Córdova, a Salvadoran living in Argentina, on a translation project for Headmaster No. 9. They each wrote prompts for the other one to write three short stories, then took those stories and translated them from English to Spanish (Schimel) and from Spanish to English (Córdova). The stories appear in a special standalone zine that comes with Headmaster No. 9.

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Pageantry! Performance! Muscles! Gymnastics! These are the sporty topics our No. 10 contributors explored. While the world watches the men and women in Paris, we’re looking at The Sports Issue of Headmaster and decided to have A Sale of Olympic Proportions. Get 20% off the new issue from now until the Closing Ceremony on Saturday. Get your copy now! #LinkInBio DYK?: The graphics for Headmaster No.10 are inspired by the iconic branding of the 1968 Mexico Olympics. @erma.fiend @APOLOGOMEZ @hilaryharkness @black_abstraction @garretthuxley @willhuxley @wayne.koestenbaum @don.victor.luque @ajorrico @geekonfire413 @sbhenila @come2papanyc @pellization @debsokolow @zhangzhidong_

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For Headmaster No.10 / The Sport Issue, 15 artists/artist-duos we given 11 assignments themed around the intersection of sports and queerness. Each assignment was written specifically for each artist (as always), asking them to explore topics including: Australian Rules Football Locker Rooms Cheerleading Rhythmic Gymnastics The Story of Headmaster Anatomical Accuracy Pageantry & Performance Pat Patterson Artificial Turf Muscular Christianity The Presidential Fitness Test  Get a copy of No.10 today to see how these played out! …… #AustralianRulesFootball #LockerRooms #Cheerleading #RhythmicGymnastics #TheStoryofHeadmaster #AnatomicalAccuracy #Pageantry #Performance #PatPatterson #ArtificialTurf #MuscularChristianity #ThePresidentialFitnessTest