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Borderlands: Alex Niven on Harry Lawson’s Stepney Western
At Newcastle Contemporary Art gallery, an exhibition featuring a new film by Harry Lawson plus archival photos by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Martine Franck, Chris Killip, Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, Tish Murtha and others, draws links between the fabled American West and England’s North-East
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Beryl Cook, Tom of Finland & The Horny Complexity of the Bisexual Gaze
The ribald, hot and at times hilarious art of Tom of Finland and British artist Beryl Cook are currently part of a joint exhibition at London's Studio Voltaire. In an essay originally presented as an reading at the gallery, Luke Turner explores how their work relates to the assumptions, fantasies and at times harsh realities of his bisexual identity.
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Curious Digressions: The Sensuous Sci-Fi Of Apparatus 22
In shows at Bucharest’s SUPRAINFINIT Gallery and an ongoing series of domestic interventions, Romanian collective Apparatus 22 offer a more intimate approach to the vexed question of art and artificial intelligence, finds Andra Amber Nikolayi
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Strong Silent Type: Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt Configures Language, Art & Politics
An enigmatic East German artist used a typewriter and stamps to quietly disrupt the boundaries of poetry and graphic design. Geoff Cowart travelled to Potsdam to examine her creative disobedience and find out why she quit
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Collectors’ Editions: The Curious World Of Box Art
Featuring more than a hundred artists from twenty-one different countries, Tom Buchanan’s *Out of the Box* celebrates the significance of objects and the lost art of collecting. Here, the author talks us through eight of its subjects, including Richard Johnson, Nancy Fouts, and Mohamed Hafez
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Thee Hypnotics And The Breakthrough Album That Never Was
With 1993’s The Very Crystal Speed Machine set to get its first UK release as part of their Righteously Remastered box set, reunited rock & roll preachers Thee Hypnotics tell Julian Marszalek about the album that should have made them but instead wore them down
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In Between Zones: An Interview With Julia Kent
Cellist Julia Kent uses the instrument to evoke complex interplays of emotions that touch both on inner experience and the rhythms of the physical world. With latest album Character out now, she speaks with Russell Cuzner about collisions of ancient and modern technology
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‘I Never Want To Play Those Songs’: Fabulous Diamonds Interviewed
Fabulous Diamonds' heat-hazed mix of punk, psych and dub ranks them among the most original acts in the Australian underground. As Steph Kretowicz discovers when they meet to discuss recent LP Commercial Music, their creative impulses are tempered by a contrary streak
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Discordant of Tunbridge Wells: Joeyfat Interviewed
With a reputation as bricks-and-mortar shorthand for Little England conservatism, you might be surprised to know that Tunbridge Wells has long had a thriving musical underground. Alexander Tucker speaks to scene stalwarts Joeyfat, currently being celebrated with a compilation and reissues on Wrong Speed Records
