LAURA NYRO: THE MIRACULOUS MAGIC OF HER MUSIC
Though Laura Nyro’s songs are familiar to millions of people–through hit versions by Three Dog Night, the 5th...
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AUTOMNE ZINGG: THE MANY STRINGS OF HER ART
Automne Zingg is an artistic force. The New York City-based visual artist creates funny, surreal, psychedelic portraits and...
NICK REYNOLDS: ALABAMA 3, THE SOPRANOS, THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY, SEX PISTOLS AND DEATH MASKS
The resume of Nick Reynolds has many fascinating facets—son of the mastermind of The Great Train Robbery, abstract...
CARTOONIST PETER BAGGE: BEYOND PUNK, GRUNGE AND HATE
Music defined the punk and grunge eras, but comics played an essential role, too. Cartoonist Peter Bagge, an...
DAVID HENDERSON: BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT CO-FOUNDER AND THE ‘VOODOO CHILD’
David Henderson, poet, writer and voice, knew and worked with giants like Ornette Coleman, Langston Hughes, Sun Ra,...
AS NEEDED FOR ANXIETY: RICHARD KERN’S PHOTOGRAPHS OF PHARMACEUTICAL CHIC
A unifying thread weaves through the work of ‘trangressive’ filmmaker and photographer Richard Kern. In this interview with...
ANDY WARHOL: THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW #7
In a new biography this year, the New York Times art critic Blake Gopnik called Andy Warhol the...
DAVID GODLIS: HISTORY IS MADE ON THE STREETS
Photographer David Godlis is one of the foremost chroniclers of downtown NYC in the 1970s. His unique, flashless...
CARLA BLEY: LIFE GOES ON, SO DOES MUSIC
Composer, pianist and activist Carla Bley was, from an early age, a rebel, turning her back on music...
WEEGEE: NEW YORK’S FIRST PUNK PHOTOGRAPHER
Arthur Fellig (1899-1968), aka Weegee, was a hustler, carny barker and photojournalist all rolled into one rotund, cigar-chomping...
REMEMBERING CAMERON AND THE LATE BOHEMIAN WORLD OF L.A.
Marjorie Cameron (1922-1995)—better known as ‘Cameron’—was a renegade even by the standards of L.A.’s various bohemian subcultures. An...
THE DAWNING OF AQUARIUS: AN L.A. ARTIST REVISITS THE 1960S
The Sixties never died, at least not on the palette of Dawn Aquarius. Steeped in the music, lore,...
SAVAGE IMPRESSIONS: BRUCE LICHER & INDEPENDENT PROJECT RECORDS
Bruce Licher’s rise to the top of post-punk graphic design began in 1980 as a means to package...
WHAT IT IS: LYNDA BARRY AND THE WHY OF COMICS
We can’t think of anyone more deserving of a MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’ than cartoonist Lynda Barry, who was...