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Borderlands: Alex Niven on Harry Lawson’s Stepney Western
At Newcastle Contemporary Art gallery, an exhibition featuring a new film by Harry Lawson plus archival photos by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Martine Franck, Chris Killip, Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, Tish Murtha and others, draws links between the fabled American West and England’s North-East
Books
An Extract from Exterminate/Regenerate: The Story Of Doctor Who by John Higgs
John Higgs, author of books about the KLF, William Blake and James Bond, has now turned his eye to Doctor Who. In this fabulous extract from Exterminate/Regenerate, he considers Ben Wheatley's snow globe and the Tommy Westphall Universe Hypothesis...
Books
Echoes on the Common: South Wales, Horses, and Celtic Folk Traditions
In this exclusive extract from Ecoes #7 – a new magazine issue exploring ‘the art of listening and unveiling the unseen,’ published by Sonic Acts – editor and writer Hannah Pezzack ventures into Wales' post-industrial hinterlands
Books
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Books
The Music Machine: Alan Jones’s Top Ten Disco Movies
Was disco the hated antithesis of all that was punk? Not according to OG punk rocker, Vivienne Westwood collaborator and Sex Pistols DJ Alan Jones. With his new book Discomania recenly published, here he picks his all-time top ten celluloid stompers
Books
Between Fine Art and the Total Environment: At Home with Mondrian
In an exclusive extract from his new biography of the artist, Nicholas Fox Weber peeks inside the Paris home of Piet Mondrian to find “a unique combination of poetry and toughness”
Books
The Music Machine: Alan Jones’s Top Ten Disco Movies
Was disco the hated antithesis of all that was punk? Not according to OG punk rocker, Vivienne Westwood collaborator and Sex Pistols DJ Alan Jones. With his new book Discomania recenly published, here he picks his all-time top ten celluloid stompers
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Notes On True Detective: Night Country By Eugene Thacker & Tariq Goddard
The pessimistic philosophical text In The Dust Of This Planet was an influence on Season 1 of True Detective; its author and publisher settle in for the long dark night of Season 4. Contains some light spoilers for early episodes of Night Country
Television
Trumpidation: Reviewing The US Election TV Coverage
Brit Sean Kitching and American StarLynn Jacobs’ marriage has to date spanned the four-years of Donald Trump’s chaotic presidency - they sat up through the night to review the television coverage. Words: Sean Kitching and StarLynn Jacobs
Television
Notes On True Detective: Night Country By Eugene Thacker & Tariq Goddard
The pessimistic philosophical text In The Dust Of This Planet was an influence on Season 1 of True Detective; its author and publisher settle in for the long dark night of Season 4. Contains some light spoilers for early episodes of Night Country
Television
Trumpidation: Reviewing The US Election TV Coverage
Brit Sean Kitching and American StarLynn Jacobs’ marriage has to date spanned the four-years of Donald Trump’s chaotic presidency - they sat up through the night to review the television coverage. Words: Sean Kitching and StarLynn Jacobs
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Beryl Cook, Tom of Finland & The Horny Complexity of the Bisexual Gaze
The ribald, hot and at times hilarious art of Tom of Finland and British artist Beryl Cook are currently part of a joint exhibition at London's Studio Voltaire. In an essay originally presented as an reading at the gallery, Luke Turner explores how their work relates to the assumptions, fantasies and at times harsh realities of his bisexual identity.
Art
The Future Is Birkenhead: Cultural Regeneration On The Wirral Peninsula
With a trail being blazed by innovative venues and galleries like Future Yard and Convenience Gallery, one former shipbuilding town on the south bank of the Mersey may well be on the verge of a moment, finds Kenn Taylor
Art
Beryl Cook, Tom of Finland & The Horny Complexity of the Bisexual Gaze
The ribald, hot and at times hilarious art of Tom of Finland and British artist Beryl Cook are currently part of a joint exhibition at London's Studio Voltaire. In an essay originally presented as an reading at the gallery, Luke Turner explores how their work relates to the assumptions, fantasies and at times harsh realities of his bisexual identity.
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How Air’s Moon Safari Made The World Take French Pop Seriously
Change was in the air in 1998 when a duo from Versailles released an album that did better internationally than it did in France. Jeremy Allen wonders if Moon Safari by Air was the point where Anglo Saxons stopped ignoring the surreptitious delights of French pop
