A look back on the life of guitar hero Tom Verlaine through his punk epic Marquee Moon. Between the late 1960s and early 1980s, the music industry underwent a creative renaissance. Folk, disco, soul, jazz fusion, rock, and all its new regenerations and reincarnations blossomed from coast to coast, laying the foundation for the next […]
Before pop came from bedrooms, it came from basements. Before Lana Del Rey, Phoebe Bridgers or Elliott Smith, there was Daniel Johnston. Pitchfork called him ‘The Godfather of Bedroom Pop’. Among many things, Johnston was the founder of Outsider music. In his ranks are the idiosyncratic folk trio, The Shaggs, who played each instrument on […]
Yusef Szafki’s paintings are brought together at Dovecot Studios for the first time, in part due to the completion of the textile piece The Stones are Whispering, 2018. The rug, created at Dovecot, was commissioned by Szafki’s wife, Sheila Szatkowski based on Szafki’s painting by the same title. The painting is unfortunately not featured in […]
Since escaping anonymity as a writer for various sketch comedies and short-lived TV shows through his debut Being John Malkovich, Charlie Kaufman’s filmography has proven to be in turns charming, perplexing, and completely unforgiving – sometimes all at the same time. In any case, he has proven himself one of the most imaginative and idiosyncratic […]