Tag: culture

• Rare original proof of David Bailey’s 1965 Box of Pin-Ups discovered

  July 29, 2025

  Exclusive: Near-mint condition preprint copy features 36 portraits of stars including John Lennon and Mick Jagger https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/jul/27/rare-original-proof-of-david-baileys-1965-box-of-pin-ups-discovered?utm_source=semafor more ›

• Van Gogh from Lagos: John Madu

  July 27, 2025

  Nigerian artist John Madu drew on his home country’s experience to revisit the paintings of Vincent van Gogh. Madu’s work is now on show at the Van Gogh Museum in… more ›

• The life and times of Dennis Morris, the man behind some of music’s most iconic photographs

  July 27, 2025

  Bob Marley, Sex Pistols, Lee Scratch Perry and Patti Smith – the photographer Dennis Morris has captured some of music’s biggest stars. But despite rubbing shoulders with cultural royalty, the… more ›

• Why Won’t the Speakeasy Die? | PUNCH

  July 26, 2025

  The speakeasy aesthetic was once so ubiquitous it became a punchline. But long after the Edison bulbs have burned out, the hidden bar continues to flourish. https://punchdrink.com/articles/why-wont-speakeasy-die-breakroom-milk-honey-pdt-nyc/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20250726_Punch_Content_Another%20Round:%20Why%20won%E2%80%99t%20the%20speakeasy%20die?&utm_term=Punch%20-%20Latest%20%28LIST%20TO%20SEND%20TO%29%20%2A%2ASecond%20Attempt%2A%2A more ›

• Nick Drake, Long a Folk Mystery, Is (Partly) Revealed

  July 24, 2025

  A 42-track collection built around two found recordings helps illuminate the creative process of the revered but elusive icon, who died in 1974. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/arts/music/nick-drake-making-of-five-leaves-left.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Y08.qzpm.btVVKyHwJqmL&smid=url-share more ›

• Chanel Launches Arts & Culture Magazine in Indie Book Stores

  July 23, 2025

  The fashion house hopes the new title, Arts & Culture, can extend Coco Chanel’s legacy of surrounding herself with “audacious creatives.” https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/style/chanel-arts-and-culture-magazine.html?unlocked_article_code=1.SU8.aBuf.OQr_toiCtvB1&smid=url-share more ›

• ReynoldsRetro: John Lydon’s Jamaica jaunt 1978 / Dennis Morris interview

  July 18, 2025

  Film by Don Letts of Johnny Rotten in Jamaica (look out for a glimpse of the lovely Vivien Goldman)    JOHNNY ROTTEN IN JAMAICA, 1978 – INTE… http://reynoldsretro.blogspot.com/2022/07/john-lydons-jamaica-jaunt-1978-dennis.html more ›

• ‘The British have always liked the certainty of club membership’: The controversial UK clubs that kept women out

  July 13, 2025

  Three hundred years since they first appeared, the capital’s traditional members-only clubs have endured and evolved. Now a new book explores this peculiarly British phenomenon. https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20250708-the-controversial-uk-clubs-that-kept-women-out more ›

• Art Basel Qatar names Wael Shawky as artistic director of unconventional inaugural edition

  July 9, 2025

  In a left-field move, Art Basel has appointed the Egyptian artist Wael Shawky as the artistic director of its inaugural Doha fair. Art Basel Qatar (ABQ), a partnership between the… more ›

• Childhood’s End

  July 8, 2025

  The digital revolution progressed through five stages: the repurposing of war-surplus analog vacuum tube components into the first generation of fully-electronic stored-program computers; the era of large central mainframes; the era of… more ›