What makes an artefact?: How Warren Ellis transformed chewed gum into an idol
Meaning is something we give.
Art
Conspiracy of Women: Lydia Lunch’s feminist manifesto still echoes louder than ever
It still feels like tomorrow’s headlines.
‘The Bald Soprano’: Take a look at one of the most beautiful (and eccentric) books ever published
Eugène Ionesco’s The Bald Soprano skewers language.
Salvador Dalí’s muse Amanda Lear in her first TV commercial, 1967
Already radiating the surreal, gender-fluid mystique Dalí adored.
Hell on Wheels: Raw colour photos of New York’s subway in the 1970s and ’80s
Willy Spiller’s subway photography in Hell on Wheels.
Gorgeous covers of the Japanese magazine ‘Teen Look’ from the 1960s
When the Japanese decide to do something right, they really do it right.
Astonishing rarely-seen illustrations from the set of Stanley Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’
Design sketches reveal the visual planning behind Kubrick’s sci‑fi masterpiece.
Occult paintings and mystical visions of female surrealist Ithell Colquhoun
Visionary paintings rooted in ritual, automatism, and mystical symbolism.
The totally bizarre world of James Bond comic books from India
Day-Glo 007 has been shaken, stirred and put up wet.
“The one who buggers a fire burns his penis”: Lewd graffiti from ancient Pompeii
Pompeii’s walls weren’t just messages—they were filthy diaries