TheArtiverse
An independent magazine of art & culture

The voices
shaping this moment.

We don't sort artists into established and emerging. We ask a simpler question — is this the work that matters now? The craft, the conviction, and the story worth telling.

The Inaugural Issue →
Volume One — September 2026
Reporting from Frieze · Art Basel Miami Beach
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Est. from Mom&I · 1999
The Art & Culture pages Artiverse grew from
Independent · Print · Digital · Archive
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01 / The Brand

One name. Three ways of keeping the record.

i Print

The Magazine

The face · print first

The printed issue is where a voice is first set down — the craft recorded as carefully as the work itself. Print gives the story its weight; it is the source of everything that follows.

ii Recognition

The Award

The gesture · not a trophy

Not a competition and not a prize. We go looking for an artist whose voice is unmistakably their own — and then we do the thing we do best. We tell the story, at length and on its own terms.

iii Digital

The Archive

The memory · lives online

Where the magazine and the award keep growing. A living record that returns to each artist over the years — until the pages become a history of who Artiverse saw first.

Print → Archive online → Digital edition
The issue makes the authority. The archive keeps it alive.

02 / The Magazine

What we ask of a story

That it be true. That it be well made. And that it matter to someone beyond the room it came from.

A ceramicist refining a single form for a decade. An architect rethinking how we live. A painter the market hasn't caught up to yet. What they share is not a career stage — it is craft, conviction, and a story worth telling.

This is an era when the lines are dissolving: between disciplines, between art and technology, between where a voice comes from and where it's heard. Artiverse follows the work across those lines — and records the making, not just the made.

We go, and we look
Frieze London Art Basel Miami Beach Frieze Los Angeles
26
Years of editorial
legacy from Mom&I
01
Voice recognised
per issue, no ranking
03 / The Artiverse Award

Most awards end when they're given. Ours begins there.

There is no ranking. No first place. No entry fee. We don't wait for artists to apply — we come to them.

The Artiverse Award is not a trophy and not a competition. What we look for is singularity — the sense that no one else could have made this, or said it quite like this.

The recognition is not an object on a shelf. It is the story itself, kept and returned to, until it becomes something rarer than a prize: a record.

— Because years from now, the most valuable thing
won't be the trophy. It will be the record that says:
Artiverse saw it first, and never looked away.
01

The Feature

A full feature in print — the making rendered as carefully as the made. The moment a voice is first set into the record.

02

The Conversation

A recorded conversation in our studio — the artist in their own words, their own voice, kept as a lasting document.

03

The Living Archive

We return to the work as it grows. One feature becomes a years-long record of an artist the world is still catching up to.

How the award works
  • 01We select, not solicit. There is no open call, and no entry fee.
  • 02One voice is recognised each issue — never ranked against another.
  • 03The feature runs in print first, then extends into a studio conversation.
  • 04We return to the artist over the years. The record stays open.
The Selection · Jury

The Artiverse Award is decided by a small jury of curators, critics, and cultural figures whose judgement we trust. The inaugural jury will be announced ahead of Volume One.

i
To be announced
Curator
ii
To be announced
Critic / Writer
iii
To be announced
Museum / Institution
04 / Lineage

Artiverse grew up inside another magazine.

For more than twenty-six years, Mom&I has been the largest Korean-American magazine on the East Coast of the United States — a publication that earned its readers' trust one issue at a time, and built real relationships with the museums, galleries, and universities around it.

Art was a section at first. A fair reported here, an artist interviewed there, month after month. The section kept growing because the work kept demanding it.

Eventually it needed a name of its own. In September 2026, it gets one.

1999

Mom&I is founded

A trusted voice for the Korean-American community on the East Coast.

The years between

The Art & Culture section

Monthly exhibition coverage, artist interviews, and dispatches from the world's major fairs.

September 2026

The Artiverse, Volume One

An independent magazine, carrying the legacy forward onto a global stage.

05 / About Us

The people keeping the record.

Sylvia Kim
Publisher

Sylvia Kim

Founder & Publisher

A publisher, community advocate, and entrepreneur with more than 26 years leading media in the Korean-American community on the East Coast — with experience spanning News Corp and Fox News, and years as a publisher in New Jersey.

She is the founder of Mom&I and of FLAG Art Group in Fort Lee, and has built lasting alliances with state and city agencies, cultural institutions, and community organizations. Storytelling, for her, is the tool that connects industries and people — the thesis Artiverse is built on.

26 years in media & publishing
Founder — Mom&I · FLAG Art Group
Studio — Fort Lee, New Jersey
Nino Macharashvili
Co-Publisher

Nino Macharashvili

Co-Publisher & Curator

A curator and art historian from Tbilisi, Georgia, Nino has curated more than sixty exhibitions across North America, Europe, and Asia, and has presented at international fairs including Contemporary Istanbul, Art Dubai, and Kyiv Art Week.

She has worked with Project ArtBeat and Sotheby's, and holds an MA in Art History and Theory with a focus on contemporary art and new media. She and Sylvia have built art and culture programming together in Fort Lee since FLAG Art Group.

60+ exhibitions curated worldwide
MA — Art History & Theory
Formerly — Sotheby's · Project ArtBeat
06 / The Studio

Where the story gets recorded.

Artiverse studio, Fort Lee
Fort Lee, New Jersey

A studio built for the record

Artiverse is anchored by a fully equipped video and podcasting studio in Fort Lee — the room where the award conversations are filmed and the voices behind the work are kept.

It is what lets the Award be more than a page: an artist can be invited in, interviewed, filmed, and released across the same channels that have already produced hundreds of cultural conversations.

300+
Video productions
to date
$250K
Invested in the
studio build
07 / The Record So Far

Not a promise. A practice.

For years, the Art & Culture pages of Mom&I have carried exhibition reviews, fair dispatches, and conversations with artists. Artiverse is what that practice became.

Past Art & Culture feature
Artist interview
Exhibition coverage
Fair dispatch
Studio conversation

Selected pages and moments from the Art & Culture practice — 1999 to today.

08 / Volume One

The inaugural issue, taking shape.

The Artiverse · Vol. 01
ArtiverseVolume One
September 2026 · Inaugural Issue
In production

Now being edited

Volume One is in active development under Co-Publisher Nino Macharashvili — the cover conversation, the first recognised voice of The Artiverse Award, and the season's dispatches.

Features and interviewees will be announced as they are confirmed.

09 / Engage

Two ways in. Both begin with a conversation.

For artists & writers

Contribute

Be part of the record.

We are commissioning interviews, features, essays, and studio conversations for Volume One and beyond. We are looking for voices that are unmistakably their own — and for writers who can render craft as carefully as the work deserves.

  • Artists whose practice tells a story worth keeping
  • Writers, critics, and curators with a point of view
  • Photographers working in the language of reportage
  • Nominations — including your own — are welcome
Pitch or nominate a voice →
For brands & institutions

Partner

Stand where culture is made.

Artiverse partners with a small number of brands, galleries, and institutions whose values meet our own. This is not ad space by the page — it is a considered association with a publication built on craft, trust, and cultural authority.

  • Founding partnerships for Volume One
  • The Artiverse Award & studio programming
  • Events, launches, and cultural convenings
  • Bespoke editorial collaborations
Start a partnership conversation →
10 / The Readership

Not a circulation number. A room worth being in.

Artiverse reaches the people who decide what matters — collectors and curators, cultural leaders and founders, the artists shaping the moment and the audiences who follow them across borders.

The foundation

26 years of trust. Built on the legacy of Mom&I — a publication that earned real relationships with museums, galleries, universities, and the Korean-American community across the East Coast.

The network

Where influence gathers. A studio in Fort Lee that has hosted politicians, community leaders, and cultural figures — and editorial ties reaching from New Jersey and New York to Seoul.

The reach

Print, archive, and the fairs. A physical issue collectors keep, a digital archive open to the world, and firsthand presence at Frieze and Art Basel Miami Beach.

A note on figures. As an independent publication launching Volume One in September 2026, circulation figures will be confirmed with our first print run. Partnership conversations begin now, with founding partners recognised across the inaugural issue.

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Volume One · September 2026

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