From House of Pies to Louis Vitton leather flowers

Waht the fuck happened to Tribeza? In the three months since this promising new magazine from Austin opened in Houston with a polished graphic look and high fashion photography their content has gone from cross-culturally relevant articles to publicity photos from high-end shoe stores and vapid press release articles.

From curator Franklin Sirman in K. Bernstein's Otabenga mention: "I love collective work, where the individual gets subsumed... It's really powerful and rare these days when individuals prepare to subsume themselves in the collective."

Umm... isn't collective work on a rise in popularity is the past decade? Would The Wrong Gallery, Assume Vivid Astro Focus, Paper Rad, Animal Collective, Critical Art Ensemble, or online collectives like Wooster or ST/ART been accepted even ten years ago? (Not to say that there isn't a long history of collectives in the past century, but they weren't as successful, prevalent or diverse as the ascendant crop)