A while back State of the Art looked at Lee Friedlander’s photo ‘Los Angeles’, an image that does a fine job of capturing the city’s curious atmosphere – a strange mixture of superficiality and indefinable nostalgia, of brashness and melancholy. In the course of writing that piece, we stumbled across … Continue reading
Sinister… embroidery? To be honest, State of the Art never thought it’d use those two words together in a sentence, but that was before stumbling across the work of Italian artist Angelo Filomeno, whose new exhibition – the perhaps just a wee bit pretentiously titled The Marquis and a Bearded … Continue reading
To an outsider, America is a curiously infantilised country at times. Every country values its children, but the USA can take its love of childhood to faintly hysterical levels. The idea that children’s “innocence” must be preserved at all costs is used as a pretext for arguments on everything from … Continue reading
Sleeping with the NME: a piece about going on the road for a couple of days with Of Montreal and Janelle Monaé. One day I’ll publish the full story of this trip, but in the meantime… Published in NME, October 2010. Continue reading