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Michael Rakowitz and the Afterlife of Destroyed Art
After terrorism and war erased centuries of Iraqi heritage, one artist began reconstructing the missing artifacts, creating ghostly stand-ins for…
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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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Getting High with Shakespeare? It Might Have Happened
From clay pipe residues to cryptic sonnet lines, a long-running theory proposes that William Shakespeare experimented with mind-altering substances, raising…
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When Sci-Fi and Body Horror Found Advertising: Chris Cunningham’s Commercial Work
Before retreating from the spotlight, Chris Cunningham, the elusive director behind the music videos for Aphex Twin and Björk injected…
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Longplayer: One Song, A Thousand Years, No Intermission
A quarter of a century ago, a Celtic punk musician started a performance of a song so absurdly long that…
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80s Youth Culture in a Dying English Industrial Town
Between 1979 and 1989, photographer Christopher John Ball documented the people of Blackburn, the Lancashire industrial town that shaped his…
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A City Dressing Itself: 90s London Fashion Through The Lens of Shoichi Aoki
Beginning the 80s, Japanese photographer Shoichi Aoki has quietly built one of the most revealing visual records of London street…
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Surrealism Meets Class Divide: Louis Pohl Koseda’s Art Is What the UK Feels Like Right Now
London-based artist Louis Pohl Koseda is emerging as one of the most distinctive chroniclers of contemporary British life. His intricate,…
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Documenting Euphoria: Peter J. Walsh’s RAVE ONE and the Rise of UK Rave Culture
Peter J Walsh was an eyewitness to one of the most transformative moments in modern British youth culture: the birth…
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Rough and Rude: Uncovering the Vivid Raver Art of 90’s UK Garage
The frenetic visual culture of the classic UK jungle and other underground rave scenes is preserved in zine form.