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Going for the Jugular: On the Recording of the Velvet Underground & Nico
In an exclusive extract from his new book, Do What You Fear Most: The History of the Velvet Underground, author and music journalist Richie Unterberger re-assesses the role played by pop artist Andy Warhol in one of the seminal rock albums of the late 1960s
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Books
Smashed Glass, Smack & Dog-Throwing: the Anarchy of early Clock DVA
Adapted from his new book – Groovy, Laidback & Nasty: A History Of Independent Music In Sheffield – Daniel Dylan Wray tells the story of the Rainy City's premier post punk band. All portraits by Pete Hill
Books
Portraits of the Artist: Künstlerromane in an Age of Uncertainty
From Goethe to Novalis, nineteenth-century novels about artists offered stories about self-invention and self-discovery, but what happens to the artist-protagonist in an age where no-one any longer feels in control of their own destiny? Gabrielle Sicam looks to recent books by Anika Jade Levy, Brandon Taylor and Stephanie Wambugu
Books
Portraits of the Artist: Künstlerromane in an Age of Uncertainty
From Goethe to Novalis, nineteenth-century novels about artists offered stories about self-invention and self-discovery, but what happens to the artist-protagonist in an age where no-one any longer feels in control of their own destiny? Gabrielle Sicam looks to recent books by Anika Jade Levy, Brandon Taylor and Stephanie Wambugu
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Film
How Sheffield Film Tales From A Hard City set the Scene for Pulp’s Different Class
Daniel Dylan Wray argues that the depiction of Steel City life in a little-known 1995 film (currently being celebrated in an art exhibition and series of screenings) acts as a "companion and contrast piece" to Jarvis Cocker & co's commercial breakthrough, released the same year. Black and white still photography by Bill Stephenson.
Film
How Sheffield Film Tales From A Hard City set the Scene for Pulp’s Different Class
Daniel Dylan Wray argues that the depiction of Steel City life in a little-known 1995 film (currently being celebrated in an art exhibition and series of screenings) acts as a "companion and contrast piece" to Jarvis Cocker & co's commercial breakthrough, released the same year. Black and white still photography by Bill Stephenson.
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Communism, Sex & Cruelty to Animals: 40 Years of Hail The New Puritan
Featuring The Fall and Leigh Bowery, Charles Atlas's revolutionary mockumentary on dancer and choreographer Michael Clark first aired forty years ago this month – looking back at it shows how far Channel Four has fallen, argues Samuel Cox
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
Television
Communism, Sex & Cruelty to Animals: 40 Years of Hail The New Puritan
Featuring The Fall and Leigh Bowery, Charles Atlas's revolutionary mockumentary on dancer and choreographer Michael Clark first aired forty years ago this month – looking back at it shows how far Channel Four has fallen, argues Samuel Cox
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
Art
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Art
Anguish Models & Empathy Machines: Mensch Maschine Musik at E-WERK
John Quin attends a festival of interdisciplinary performances at Luckenwalde, featuring Bendik Giske, Rae Hsu, Nazanin Noori, Discovery Zone and more
Art
How Lies The Land? Deep Time at Folkestone Triennial
John Quin hears rumblings from deep beneath the earth at this year's Triennial, with works by Dorothy Cross, Emeka Ogboh, Cooking Sections, Hanna Tuulikki, and others
Art
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
Art
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
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