I'm in the process of creating an arts magazine called SNARK, which is a derivative of the adjective 'snarky' (or wiseass).  The purpose of this magazine will be to examine contemporary arts (books, theatre, art, and music) through a Modernist lens.  I''ll be incorporating several aspects of the publications we've examined in class.  For example, I will be the only staff member but will write under four different identities, which was practiced by various contributors to Modern mags, particularly women who may not have been published as women writers.  Also, in my criticism of the arts, I will be contradicting myself to reflect the often conflicting messages that could occur in one magazine.  

One of the major farcical things I will be doing in SNARK is pushing a not-so-secret agenda: Black art is the only real art and the only art that matters.  Of course, I don't believe this but I found that no matter how avant garde and socialist a mag purported itself to be during the Modernist movement, everyone was pushing an agenda, whether it was,  "Socialism was the only way to truth and enlightenment" or "Anyone who can't come up with his or her own ideas isn't really a person."  

For each of my genres of art, I'll be talking about the good (things one should go buy or experience), the bad (things that suck), and the good old (things that are old but the reader should rediscover to find some real truth).