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Huck 83: Life Is A Journey Issue

Wu-Tang Clan forever, and ever

The Final Chamber — RZA, the spiritual leader of one of the most important hip hop groups of all time explains why they won’t rest until their legacy is secured.

Written by: Yoh Phillips

Music

Lisette Model’s ’50s jazz pictures were nearly lost to McCarthyism

The Jazz Pictures — A landmark new book edited by Audrey Sands uncovers nearly 1,500 photographs from the genre’s golden age previously thought to be lost. Featuring the likes of Billie Holliday, Miles Davis and Louis Armstrong, they tell both a story of music and resistance in the face of oppression.

Written by: Miss Rosen

Culture

Greer Lankton’s dolls are more human than you think

Could It Be Love — A staple figure in New York’s ’80s East Village scene, her art shocked and confronted. Now, three decades after her death, a new monograph anthologises her work, which explores the darker sides of human life, but also finds beauty within the strange.

Written by: Miss Rosen

Culture

“I have always been consistent in my insanity”: Vaginal Davis is a countercultural treasure

Magnificent Product — An expansive retrospective diving into the work of the artist, Blacktress and trailblazer in modern queercore is showing at the MoMA PS1. We took a look inside.

Written by: Miss Rosen

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Culture

Coreen Simpson’s sweeping, half-century archive of Black America

A Monograph — A go-to photographer for several outlets, she captured stars such Grace Jones and Jean-Michel Basquiat, but also church ladies, club partygoers and b-boys. Her debut photobook provides a wide-ranging survey of her work.

Written by: Miss Rosen

Three black and white portraits of elderly man with glasses and grey hair in dark shirt, shown in different poses against plain background.
Culture

Richard Avedon’s complex portrait of ageing in a disposable society

Immortal — Bringing together the legendary fashion photographer’s shots of artists, directors, musicians and more, a new photobook explores the work in his archive that interrogate, critique, and celebrate the passage of time and its effect on people.

Written by: Miss Rosen

Man in hoodie walking two dogs on leads down urban street with brick buildings and tower blocks in background. Black and white image.
Culture

In photos: ’00s Brooklyn on the cusp of gentrification

I Give You Power — Rulx Thork began photographing in his local borough in 2005, after a stint living and hanging out in the East and West Villages. His new photobook revisits his archive, and preserves a slice of New York City life and history.

Written by: Miss Rosen

Young Black man in white shirt sits beside older white-haired man in dark jacket against warm reddish-brown background.
© Richard Schulman
Culture

Who was the real Jean-Michel Basquiat?

The Making of an Icon — A new book by art world insider Doug Woodham aims to illuminate the near-mythical artist’s life, via the friends, family and collaborators who knew him best.

Written by: Miss Rosen

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Culture

Unseen portraits of high school teenagers in ’70s New York

White Plains — While teaching photography in a school for students who had encountered trouble in the education system, Larry Racioppo took portraits of them as part of his classes. Now, in an exclusive Huck first look, he revisits his recently rediscovered archive.

Written by: Miss Rosen

Man in black t-shirt sitting in art studio with colourful abstract paintings and mixed media works on walls behind him.
© Stanley Lumax
Culture

Lee Quiñones: “We need privacy again”

Outside Is America — For Huck’s final newsletter interview of 2025, the New York graffiti legend reflects on arts from the fringes, his city’s crossroads moment, and the importance of community in a digital age.

Written by: Isaac Muk

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