80s Archives - Ex-Plain

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Outsiders as Drawn by an Outsider: Jo Brocklehurst and London After Dark

A reclusive artist hidden behind dark glasses, Jo Brocklehurst moved through London’s underground as both a witness and accomplice of…

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In 1985, Hanatarash frontman Yamantaka Eye drove an excavator into a Tokyo venue, turning a noise performance into an act…

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Each year on August 16, Elvis fans gather at a Melbourne cemetery on the anniversary of his death, observing the…

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Between 1979 and 1989, photographer Christopher John Ball documented the people of Blackburn, the Lancashire industrial town that shaped his…

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In the summer of 1981, Japanese photographer Joji Hashiguchi left Tokyo on a self-directed journey through Liverpool, London, Nuremberg, West…

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Founded in 2018, COMRADE Gallery has grown into one of the most compelling new archives of Eastern Bloc visual design.…

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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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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…