70s Archives - Ex-Plain

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The Tag That Changed New York: The Lasting Legacy of TAKI 183, Graffiti’s First Icon

Graffiti, one of the most pervasive aspects of spontaneous creativity in modern life has surprisingly simple stylistic origins, and while…

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In 1985, when Richard Avedon's In the American West debuted, it didn’t just surprise people, it unsettled them. Avedon, the…

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Big-name endorsements and sharp visual design from the classic era of Sunn amplifiers.

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Forget Japan—This small Baltic country is possibly the true master of surreal and weird animation, here are the films that…

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A new auction unearths classic works from Raymond Pettibon, frequent Black Flag collaborator and the foremost artist of the Southern…

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A revealing glance by one Spanish photographer into the halcyon early days of the Ibizan clubbing and party scene, where…

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Avant-garde surrealism and comic books come together in a little-known early graphic novel created by visionary artist Martin Vaughn-James.

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Rediscovered photos of the renegade pool skating phenomenon of 70s Southern California captured by Craig Fineman.