Variant (magazine)

{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Use British English|date=June 2017}} {{italic title}} '''''Variant''''' ({{ISSN|0954-8815}}) was a free cultural magazine based in Glasgow, Scotland, and founded in 1984. Available in both print and internet editions, it was distributed mainly though arts and cultural institutions through Britain and Ireland. Although nominally an arts and cultural bulletin, the magazine also dealt with broader social and political issues, often from a left-leaning perspective.{{Citation needed|date=August 2007}} 15,000 copies were distributed per issue.<ref name="Advertising info">[http://www.variant.org.uk/ads.html Variant Advertising] Retrieved 11 February 2010.</ref>

Volume 1 ran from issue 1 (1984) to 16 (1994), almost twice a year; volume 2 ran from 1996 to 2012,<ref>{{cite news|title=Variant Magazine Suspends Publication|url=http://gsavis.com/blog/2012/11/07/variant-magazine-suspends-publication/|access-date=21 March 2017|work=Visual Communication|date=7 November 2012}}</ref> two or three times a year. Contributors included people such as poet and community activist Lorna J Waite, cultural theorist Angela McRobbie, artist Mark Pawson, etc.

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==External links== *[http://www.variant.org.uk/ Variant.org.uk]

Category:Biannual magazines published in the United Kingdom Category:Defunct cultural magazines published in the United Kingdom Category:Triannual magazines published in the United Kingdom Category:Defunct political magazines published in the United Kingdom Category:Defunct magazines published in Scotland Category:Far-left politics in Scotland Category:Free magazines Category:Magazines established in 1984 Category:Magazines disestablished in 2012 Category:Mass media in Glasgow