New York, NY, August 3, 2011

Stephen Squibb, Barry Hoggard, and James Wagner announce three new editors for IDIOM:

Alyssa Reeder (Arts) was born and raised in California. She moved east to attend The New School of Liberal Arts, and is now a contributing writer and editor for The New York Times, Whoa Magazine and various other publications in New York City.

Morten Høi Jensen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is a freelance book critic and translator, and has written for Bookforum, The Quarterly Conversation and Open Letters Monthly. He is a founding editor of UgarteMagazine.

Tom McCormack (Film and Electronic Art) is a critic living in Brooklyn. His work has appeared in Cinema Scope, Film Comment, Moving Image Source, Rhizome, The L Magazine, and other publications. He is also an editor at Alt Screen.

New York, NY, February 24, 2011 – Barry Hoggard and James Wagner present IDIOMbooks.

IDIOM, an online magazine of artistic and cultural practice, is pleased to announce the launch of IDIOMbooks, a new section devoted to printed matter.

Edited by Jessica Loudis, IDIOMbooks will cover new and old titles in art and ideas, singly or in combination. To coincide with the launch, IDIOM is also announcing a site redesign, and the addition of Kristianna Smith as Staff Photographer.

Jessica Loudis (Books Editor) is a writer and critic living in Brooklyn. Her work has appeared in Bookforum, the Believer, the New Republic, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Times Literary Supplement, among other places, and she is a writer for Slate’s news feature, the Slatest. At one point in her life she knew all the words to the Honduran and Jamaican national anthems.

Kristianna Smith (Staff Photographer) was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and holds a BFA from the University of New Mexico. Her photos have appeared in SPIN, Blender, the Village Voice and Art in America, among others. Her first solo show, Object Amorist, recently closed at The Normal Gallery in Albuquerque.

Stephen Squibb (Editor) is Artistic Co-Director at Woodshed Collective, Associate Publisher at n+1, and one half of International Pastimes. He is a committee member for the Public School | New York, sits on the editorial board at NoPassport Press and is consigliere to Martha Rosler. He was formerly the Wine Critic for TimeOut : Istanbul.

Barry Hoggard and James Wagner support and make more visible the work of little-known artists. Years ago they began assembling a collection of such works, which is now being put online. They maintain separate blogs covering art and politics (bloggy.com and jameswagner.com), and together they publish an opinionated New York visual arts calendar (artcat.com). IDIOM, and the new books section, were founded to cover a larger cultural world, and also to offer visibility for emerging writers. Hoggard and Wagner are inveterate art junkies, wide-eyed amateur aficionados, and small-scale patrons of all the arts.