Profane
No 8
A magazine devoted to the amateur.
People obsessed with things they aren’t paid to do are the stars of these pages; in her editor’s letter for this issue — Profane’s eighth — editor Carine Soyer harks back to the 18th century for Alexander Pope’s idea that to truly know someone, you must discover their “ruling passion”. Beautiful and idiosyncratic, treasures inside include a tour of Belgian and German living rooms, and an exploration of world leaders who have taken up painting alongside their politics, and who are ultimately found to be “falsely naive and truly narcissistic”.
No 8
A magazine devoted to the amateur.
People obsessed with things they aren’t paid to do are the stars of these pages; in her editor’s letter for this issue — Profane’s eighth — editor Carine Soyer harks back to the 18th century for Alexander Pope’s idea that to truly know someone, you must discover their “ruling passion”. Beautiful and idiosyncratic, treasures inside include a tour of Belgian and German living rooms, and an exploration of world leaders who have taken up painting alongside their politics, and who are ultimately found to be “falsely naive and truly narcissistic”.
No 8
A magazine devoted to the amateur.
People obsessed with things they aren’t paid to do are the stars of these pages; in her editor’s letter for this issue — Profane’s eighth — editor Carine Soyer harks back to the 18th century for Alexander Pope’s idea that to truly know someone, you must discover their “ruling passion”. Beautiful and idiosyncratic, treasures inside include a tour of Belgian and German living rooms, and an exploration of world leaders who have taken up painting alongside their politics, and who are ultimately found to be “falsely naive and truly narcissistic”.