Leaving The Nest

Magazines that attempt to explore the art world without confining themselves to a rigid format frequently fall prey to irrelevance or flippancy, but this autumn has seen the demise of what AJ Blogger Nancy Levinson calls “one of the strangest, smartest, most idiosyncratic and eccentric periodicals ever to maintain a quarterly publication schedule… Nest wasn’t everyone’s cup of oolong souchong, but it was the sort of periodical that’s become increasingly rare, not to say endangered: a magazine shaped by the passions and ideas of its leading editor.”