Music
Digging Into Chile’s Punk Underground
With Hueso Records, artist Iván Navarro wants to bring back the music of his youth from legendary Chilean indie and punk bands like María Sonora.
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Art
‘‘We Paid For This Town”: The Legacy of Chicanx Punk in LA
In the 1970s and ’80s, the Bags, Vaginal Davis, Nervous Gender, and Los Illegals used music and performance to express their dissent of racism and gender violence, imagining punk as a possible utopia.
Books
Malcolm McLaren’s Life of Chaos, Music, and Art
In a new, in-depth biography, Paul Gorman offers a vivid portrait of the postmodernist impresario who conjured up punk’s angry pose, the Sex Pistols, and much more.
Books
A Contemporary Look at Punk From the Global to the Local
To understand what it is to be punk in the 21st century, a group of scholars who identify as punks, have gathered their research into an insightful book.
Books
The Magazine that Unflinchingly Chronicled LA's Nascent Punk Scene
Most people don’t associate Los Angeles with a thriving punk scene.
In Brief
Fuck the Queen! Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren’s Son to Burn $7 Million of Punk Memorabilia
Joe Corré — spawn of punk icons, social activist, and multimillionaire founder of British lingerie chain Agent Provocateur — has announced plans to burn his $7 million collection of punk memorabilia.
Art
In New York City, Punk Is in the Air
There was a week in high school when my mom begrudgingly let me stay out in New York City for almost three nights in a row.
Art
The Music to Soothe the Savage Beast May Be Punk and Metal
A few years ago, in Sweden, a self-proclaimed "heavy metal addict" was awarded state disability benefits after having his obsession with the band Slayer classified as a handicap. It's one of the weirder examples of the stigma attached to metal and other "extreme" music genres.
Art
The East Village Eye: Where Art, Hip Hop, and Punk Collided
Between May 1979 and January 1987, the East Village Eye breathlessly covered the East Village art scene. Indiscriminate in its interests, the magazine charted the rise of hip hop, graffiti, and punk, and is widely credited with contributing to the intermingling of several New York scenes.
Art
In Paris, Punk's Curatorial Redemption
PARIS — Unlike the widely ridiculed Costume Institute show PUNK: Chaos to Couture, a show that examined punk’s impact on high fashion from the movement’s birth in the 1970s through its enduring influence today, Europunk: An artistic revolution, recently closed at Cité de la Musique, was rigorously p
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Getting Punked: Protesting the Met's Decadent Appropriation
The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has forgotten that clothes and fashion are not art. When you go to see the PUNK: Chaos to Couture exhibit, which opened on May 9 and runs until August 14, you may think you stumbled instead into a luxury couturier's boutique. The outré fashions
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God Save the Met and Their Fuckin' Costume Institute
If there is but one cornerstone of “Punk” as fashion, it is what Dame Vivienne Westwood dubbed “confrontation dressing.” Swastikas, tampons, spray-painted swears, safety pins — these were the tools with which this particular postmodern machine of resistance, youth, and style were forged. The Metropo