Underground Culture Archives

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The Bulldozer Exhibition: When the Soviets Tried (and Failed) to Literally Crush an Art Show

In 1974, Soviet authorities used bulldozers, arrests, and violence to destroy an unsanctioned outdoor art exhibition, only to ignite an…

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Willingly spending two months in a Mexican prison and collaborating with the inmates, artist Scott Campbell built tattoo machines out…

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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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During the Cold War, access to music in the Soviet Union was tightly restricted by state censorship. Despite the risks,…

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

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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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The frenetic visual culture of the classic UK jungle and other underground rave scenes is preserved in zine form.