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Celebrating Tony Vaccaro’s cinematic photography
Life behind the lens — A new exhibition is marking the photographer’s 100th birthday with a look back at his extraordinary career.
Written by: Miss Rosen
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Photos capturing British teen life over a century
Chaos years — A new exhibition chronicles the UK’s youth over the past 100 years, celebrating its role in shaping dominant subcultures.
Written by: Miss Rosen
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Celebrating the art of the album cover
For the record — Curator Antoine de Beaupré discusses his immense record collection and what it tells us about the intersection of music, photography, art, and commerce.
Written by: Miss Rosen
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Rave, punk and protest: a tribute to Plymouth at night
After dark — The curators of a new exhibition are hoping to shed light on Plymouth’s vibrant but often overlooked nightlife throughout the decades.
Written by: Jumi Akinfenwa
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Photos capturing the fraught nature of English identity
England Your England — A new exhibition wrestles with complex questions around what it means to be English at a time of strife and political upheaval.
Written by: Zoe Whitfield
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A visual celebration of the revolutionary Angela Davis
Power to the people — A new exhibition is celebrating the activist, abolitionist, and feminist, and exploring how she utilised her image as a tool in the fight for freedom.
Written by: Miss Rosen
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The anthology celebrating 45 years of hip hop and art
Sound of the streets — A newly-released multimedia collection chronicles the growth of hip hop and its surrounding culture from the parks of the Bronx to its becoming a global phenomenon.
Written by: Miss Rosen
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Photos capturing the defiant spirit of the ‘90s rave scene
Party as protest — Photographer Vinca Petersen recounts how a movement born of music and hedonism quickly became a vehicle for civil disobedience and defiance of authority.
Written by: Huck
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The forgotten radical history of London’s Rebel Dykes
Punk politics — A new exhibition is spotlighting a group of queer activists and artists who ran riot through 1980s Britain and would profoundly influence lesbian culture.
Written by: Rosie Hewitson
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Photographer Chester Higgins‘ African American odyssey
The Indelible Spirit — A new exhibition celebrates the photographer‘s early work, and shows his unwavering commitment to capturing the complexities of Black life across America.
Written by: Miss Rosen
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Grace Jones' pioneering gender play and Afrofuturism
Disco queen — A new exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary reveals how renegade Grace Jones subverted Western archetypes of Black women and gender binaries.
Written by: Miss Rosen