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If you like imagery, drawings, art-in-general but just haven’t gotten off your duff to go to the local museum or gallery row, you might check out ANTI Magazine. Don’t look for it on a newstand. It’s a PDF-Magazine. There’s a whole world of people making magazines that they only publish as PDF’s for free download.

ANTI has no text, no articles. Once you’ve downloaded it and opened it, you just flip through its pages, looking at imagery. Each page is one work by one artist. Sometimes they will have a few pieces. They are all loosely on a theme. Some drawings. Some computer work. Some photos. Some collage. All on a theme. All very contemporary. Big emphasis on design. I’ve looked through “Born” and “Tree” so far.

The one downside is that, being PDF, they can’t make links. If an artists work really grabs you (like Andre Greppi, Alvaro Sanchez and Patric Sandri all did for me in “Tree”), there’s no easy way to find out more about them.

The point here, though, is to make a little art gallery run on your Desktop. This can do it for you. In fact, you’ll feel like you’ve been to five or six galleries, and no awkward small talk with the weird lurky guy and no waiting for the two people on the date, pretending to be paying attention to the art, to get out of the way of the painting you want a closer look at.