Art
The wild story of Basquiat's original partner in crime
Resurrecting an icon — Al Diaz and Basquiat rewrote the rules of street art before taking different paths: one as a hard-grafting musician, the other as an iconic artist. Both would be ravaged by drugs. Four decades on, the story is far from finished.
Written by: Cian Traynor
Turning the media’s most disturbing images into art
Haunting hyperrealism — From pornography to tragedies – in his new book, British artist Craig Boagey turns confrontational photography into intricate pencil drawings.
Written by: HUCK HQ
Exploring sex through zombies, skinheads & misandrist nuns
Bruce LaBruce — Ahead of his first UK exhibition, iconic queer filmmaker and artist Bruce LaBruce talks taboos, personas, and staying in your discomfort zone.
Written by: Biju Belinky
The secretive siblings creating beautiful, defaced artwork
Portraits of a life — Eddie and Charlie Proudfoot use their pictures as a way of communicating with the outside world, that doesn’t impose on their self-enforced isolation.
Written by: Niall Flynn
Protest artist arrested after setting fire to Paris Bank
Up in flames — Petr Pavlensky, who nailed his scrotum to Moscow’s Red Square in 2013, was protesting ‘the economic system in Europe.’
Written by: Niall Flynn
Exposing the everyday eccentricity of British life
Wish you weren’t here — For his new postcard series, artist James Springall pieces together collages highlighting the anxieties of the UK’s small towns.
Written by: HUCK HQ
The woman who shares a body with 14 different artists
Kim Noble et al — South Londoner Kim Noble has multiple personalities, 14 of whom are artists with their own distinct styles. Next month, their work will hang alongside Salvador Dali, Francis Bacon and Andy Warhol in a powerful new show about mental health.
Written by: Alex Robert Ross
The women changing the face of the comic book industry
Page turners — Is the male-dominated world of comic art becoming a fairer and more welcoming place to work for women? We headed to Thought Bubble – Leed’s annual Comic Art festival – to find out.
Written by: Becca Caddy
Using film to face up to the devastation of climate change
Time is running out — In Purple, John Akomfrah uses six screens to convey a message, combining archival footage with haunting shots of modern landscapes, and asking humanity to look at its relationship with the planet, before it's too late.
Written by: Biju Belinky
The radical art of Shangri-La is coming to London
Part art, part rave — In a collaboration with The Other Art Fair, the Glastonbury staple’s unique blend of art and activism is becoming a new interactive installation.
Written by: Niall Flynn
