Hauser & Wirth launches Ursula, a quarterly art magazine

Hauser & Wirth has announced the launch of Ursula, a new quarterly contemporary art magazine, with its first issue due in December 2018. The publication will feature essays, interviews, and photography by international writers and artists, including Luc Sante, Robin Coste Lewis, Alissa Bennett, and Pipilotti Rist. The title honors Ursula Hauser, co-founder of the gallery alongside Iwan Wirth. Randy Kennedy, a former New York Times special projects editor, will serve as editor. Kennedy aims to involve writers who do not typically cover art but have a genuine affinity for specific works or periods. The magazine will include regular columns with recommendations from Hauser & Wirth staff, artists, and friends on what to see, visit, and eat in cities where the gallery has spaces. Its focus will span the entire 20th and 21st-century international art scene, not just the gallery's represented artists, and will maintain accessible language for a broad audience. This move follows David Zwirner's launch of the podcast Dialogues in July 2018, though Hauser & Wirth's project uses a different medium.