Gwen Allen’s comprehensive 2011 book about the 20th century American art magazine, Artists’ Magazines: An Alternative Space for Art, devotes a chapter to Phyllis Johnson’s game-changing 1965-71 mixed-media art magazine, Aspen. I first ran into the magazine five years ago at the “Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era” exhibition at the Whitney Museum, a

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“The little magazine is not difficult to define,” write David Miller and Richard Price: it is an anthology of work by strangers; an anthology of work by friends; an exhibition catalogue without the existence of the exhibition; a series of manifestos; a series of anti-manifestos…It’s printed by photo-litho; or typed onto a mimeograph stencil…It’s a

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