Oh Bondage! Up Yours! My piece in the latest issue of MacGuffin
I’ve returned to the excellent MacGuffin magazine with a piece in their latest issue, which adopts the theme ‘The Chain’.
Category: Books
Post-Pistol – a timely look at Malcolm McLaren’s London at Fora Soho tonight
What with Pistol and all, it seems timely to discuss Malcolm McLaren’s place in the scheme of things so tonight journalist Helen Barrett and I will be in conversation at a London Society event about the late cultural iconoclast’s relationship with the city of his birth. Here is a selection of visuals from this evening’s […]
‘He used the city as a playground for artistic expression’: Mapping Malcolm McLaren’s London life on June 9
Rare and exclusive images will be on display during the forthcoming event about the late Malcolm McLaren’s London life at Fora Soho on June 9.
Malcolm McLaren’s London Life with Helen Barrett at the London Society on June 9
In the evening June 9 I’ll be in Soho for a London Society event about the London life of the late cultural provocateur Malcolm McLaren. At workplace venue Fora in Broadwick Street writer Helen Barrett and I will be discussing the ways in which the man born in Stoke Newington and buried in Highgate Cemetery […]
A selection from my archive in Subscribe, the exhibition about artists and alternative magazines at the Art Institute of Chicago
Beginning in the early 1970s—as under-represented groups were demanding new forms of visibility following the emergence of political movements such as Black Power and the Stonewall Rebellion—a handful of British and American photo-driven alternative magazines came on the scene. The Face, i-D, Rags, Out/Look, and other new publications amplified marginalized voices, especially those of queer […]
Creative Review celebrates A Box Of Bubbles
British design media outlet Creative Review has reported on the publication of A Box Of Bubbles, the forthcoming limited edition boxed and enhanced edition of the new monograph The Wild World Of Barney Bubbles.
The Rise & Fall of the Music Press: The brilliance of Black Music, Carl Gayle and Alan Lewis
Working on my forthcoming book The Rise & Fall Of The Music Press has brought home to me the brilliance of publications and journalists who have been marginalised in the story of the media sector inaugurated by the launch of The Melody Maker (as it was then known) in 1926.
A Box Of Bubbles: Limited edition up for grabs now
A Box Of Bubbles is the special edition of the forthcoming book The Wild World of Barney Bubbles.
The Wild World of Barney Bubbles is out this summer
My next book, The Wild World of Barney Bubbles, is published around the world this summer by Thames & Hudson. This is the enhanced and revised third edition of my monograph of the late graphic artist, who died in 1983 and would have been 80 this year.
Too Too Utterly: Malcolm McLaren’s film pitch by fax to James Bond scriptwriters
These faded pages constitute a film pitch Malcolm McLaren sent by fax to screenwriters Neal Purvis and Robert Wade way back in 1991. Purvis and Wade are responsible for many film successes including the astounding run of screenplays for the seven James Bond movies from 1999’s The World Is Not Enough to the recently released […]