Created to provoke readers to recognize the day-to-day relevance of art, we use the\u00a0lenses of pop and high culture to challenge the assumptions of a sprawling America. We strive to provide our readers with thoughtful coverage on everything from completely unknown independent artists to the kingpins of pop culture from bygone generations. We also provide a forum for authors of original\u00a0poetry, memoir and fiction.<\/p>\n
Click here<\/a><\/span> for more info on how you can be a part of this.<\/p>\n Founded as a full-size print publication in 1997 by John W. Whitehead, Gadfly Magazine\u2014the progenitor of the beautiful website you now browse\u2014provided a forum to artists known, unknown and some still in the embryonic stages of their development. The magazine transitioned from a print publication to an online hub in 2001, and the mission has remained the same ever since. Many of the articles published in Gadfly Magazine are preserved and available in our online archive.<\/p>\n Pronounced \u201codd, eccentric and eclectic\u201d by the Washington Post, Gadfly was selected in 1999 by the Utne Reader\u2019s Eleventh Annual Alternative Press Awards for Best Cultural Coverage. Utne commended the magazine\u2019s diversity of coverage, saying, \u201cGadfly\u2019s stupendous eclecticism makes this glossy bimonthly second only to the Library of Congress as a warehouse of American pop culture … And number one when it comes to fun reading.\u201d<\/p>\n In an old Greek myth, Zeus, king of the gods, loved a mortal woman, Io. When Hera discovered her husband\u2019s infidelity, Zeus was forced to turn Io into a cow in order to shield her from his wife\u2019s wrath. Not to be deterred, Hera sent a tiny gadfly to nip and tickle the cow, a prickling torment that some believe continues even today. You, reader, are the cow.<\/p>\n __<\/p>\n Gadfly is a publication of\u00a0Gadfly Productions<\/strong>.\u00a0Gadfly Productions, Gadfly, and the associated graphic images (e.g., capital G with fly superimposed and Gadfly cartoon character) are marks of Gadfly Productions, owned by The Rutherford Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Created to provoke readers to recognize the day-to-day relevance of art, we use the\u00a0lenses of pop and high culture to challenge the assumptions of a sprawling America. We strive to provide our readers with thoughtful coverage on everything from completely unknown independent artists to the kingpins of pop culture from bygone generations. We also provide […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-with-sidebar.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/146"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9765,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/146\/revisions\/9765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Masthead<\/h2>\n
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