"EIN JAHR (ES GEHT VORAN)."
Subway to Studio 54
Skaters, dancers, hustlers, boxers … Swiss photographer Willy Spiller prowled the streets of the Big Apple from 1977 to 1985. Leroy in Harlem, 1984 Sunday Morning on Orchard Street, NY, 1980 Whether he focused his camera on subway rides,...
A Brief History of Transformers
This simple electrical device does much of the fundamental work of modern civilization, and it does so modestly and invisibly. An early AC transformer constructed by George Westinghouse in the 1890s. I have always disliked exaggerated...
Nightclubbing
Nightclubbing is the fifth studio album by Jamaican singer and songwriter Grace Jones, released on 11 May 1981. Like Josephine Baker nearly 50 years before her, it was when Jamaican-born Grace Jones left New York City and went to Paris in...
New York’s Graffiti Scene in the 70s and 80s
Subway Art, originally published in 1984, introduced New York City’s graffiti to the world. A new edition produced by Thames & Hudson features over 70 photographs by Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfont, not in the original edition,...
Sisters with Transistors
Inside the Film About Electronic Music’s Forgotten Pioneers They turned drawings into symphonies and made black boxes sing. Why were they never given their due? The maker of a new film, full of revealing archive footage, aims to put this...
Faceless Collection Pays Tribute to Idols by Way of Neorealistic Style with a Touch of Pop
Published to coincide with an exhibition at Maddox Gallery Westbourne Grove, Coco Dávez’s first book is packed with famous figures – all bright and boldly painted, all without a face. Dávez (the alter ego of Valeria Palmeiro) having...
Fad Gadget / Frank Tovey 1956 -2002
I Can’t Believe You Morons Actually Buy This Shit
London, UK Art handlers with Andy Warhol’s Queen Elizabeth II (part of his Reigning Queens series) during a preview of Prints and Multiples and Banksy: I Can’t Believe You Morons Actually Buy This Shit, for an auction at Christie’s...
Warhol Foundation Loses Prince Appropriation Appeal
An appeals court ruled that Andy Warhol violated a photographer’s copyright by appropriating her image for a silk-screen he did in 1984. Andy Warhol’s ”Prince,” which became the subject of a court case over copyright issues.The Andy...
Why Bands Are Disappearing
"Young people aren’t excited by them". Maroon 5’s Adam Levine was scoffed at for suggesting there ‘aren’t any bands anymore’ – but if you look at the numbers, he’s right. Wolf Alice, Maximo Park, and industry insiders ask why. “The moment...
The Cassette Tape Era
Lou Ottens, the inventor responsible for making music literally fit in the palm of your hand, has died at the age of 94. The Dutch native was the head of product development at Philips in the early 1960s when he began developing cassettes...
JAPAN’s Quiet Life Gets Another Listen
If ever there was a band who could have literally taken over the world but failed to do so as a result of “artistic differences,” it’s Japan. But that doesn’t mean their legacy should be any less celebrated. And Quiet Life – their third,...
Depeche Mode 20th Century Box 1981
'Oioi! We're from Basildon Essex and we are Depeshay fakin Mode you caants!' Should've been the introduction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npj31Wmg-aw
Transformer
Iconic pictures of Lou Reed, Debbie Harry and David Bowie become exclusive art prints Today the legendary Lou Reed of the Velvet Underground would have turned 79. To celebrate the anniversary, the famous music photographer Mick Rock (who...
Do Everything Feel Nothing
Dry Cleaning’s assembled observations capture the distortion of life on and off the internet, of spewing our deepest emotions into an anonymous void but biting our tongue when we encounter a real person. Type what you really feel, then...
Covid-19 x Valérie Belin
‘In light of the present crisis, I think back to this photograph. It is emblematic of the technological obsolescence of the yesterday world, but which paradoxically seems to foreshadow the future, in the form of a confined world populated...
David Bowie, Brian Eno and Tony Visconti record ‘Warszawa’
“I do not do heels, and the climate ain’t right.”
Billy Nomates has announced details of a new EP, ‘Emergency Telephone’, and shared the first track from it – ‘Heels’. The release follows the Bristol and Bournemouth-based artist’s self-titled debut album, which was put out last year. The...