THE THING Quarterly is a periodical in the form of an object. Each year, four artists, writers, musicians or filmmakers are invited by the editors (Jonn Herschend and Will Rogan) to create a useful object that somehow incorporates text. This object is reproduced, hand-wrapped at a wrapping party, and mailed to the homes of subscribers with the help of the United States Postal Service. THE THING’s current year of subscriptions (issues 19-22) will begin with an issue by UK-based visual artist DAVID SHRIGLEY, continue with visual artist TAUBA AUERBACH, followed by author BEN MARCUS, and end with visual artist JOHN BALDESSARI. Back issue orders of THE THING ship out every Thursday.

From time to time, THE THING releases special side THING projects. These are not part of the quarterly and range in terms of price and production: sometimes free, sometimes not, sometimes limited and signed and sometimes neither.