Judith Hoffberg’s Umbrella has provided a major resource for all things related to alternative and experimental art–with a special focus on artists’ books, mail art, and visual and concrete poetry–for 28 years now. The latest issue is the last before the magazine, along with its extensive archives, becomes an electronic publication only available on the net. It’s always amazed me how the editor packs the 70 odd pages of each issue with so much useful information from reviews of the latest book on Weegee and Robert Smithson to listings of one-of-a-kind journals and publications with names like Doggy Bag and Lend Me a Memory. Good stuff and we can only applaud her decision to soldier on into the electronic future.

For more information contact the editor at:

umbrella[AT]ix.netcom.com

or visit the Umbrella website at www.colophon.com/journal