Lydia Lunch sells out*
Photo by Jasmine Hirst *As if. As reported at Pitchfork and elsewhere, Lydia Lunch is selling the rights to her life’s work. According to a…
Feminism
‘Beware! Beware! We are not to be trifled with’: The work of pioneering genderqueer artist Gluck
Gluck, circa 1924. Hannah Gluckstein preferred to be called Peter or Hig but liked “Gluck, no prefix, suffix or quotes” best. Gluck. A functional name.…
The remarkable story of the pioneering Renaissance artist Sofonisba Anguissola
‘Self-Portrait’ (1556). You don’t have to be no punk rock star or drug addled cult writer to earn the tag of a dangerous mind. A…
Watch some ball-kicking self-defense with seventies pop princess Lynsey de Paul
Down these mean streets a pop star must occasionally go. Though they may not be mean themselves, they are sometimes trained in martial arts like…
The Mama & the Dadas: The pioneering feminist artwork of Hannah Höch
‘Untitled’ (1930). Hannah Höch was the only female artist included in the Dada movement that flourished after the First World War. Art was then still…
Witchy women and leggy ladies: Halloween in Hollywood
Audrey Totter While most folks around Halloween want to revel in horror films and gore, I find myself acknowledging the fact that, well, I kinda…
The career of Penny Slinger, intrepid surrealist artist of the 1970s, is ripe for rediscovery
Penny in frame from 16mm film Lilford Hall, 1969, by Penny Slinger and Peter Whitehead My reaction upon recently being exposed to the work of…
The Artist as Frankenstein ‘piecing together the sublime’: The paintings of Carrie Ann Baade
Carrie Ann Baade paints pictures that link “the power of historical masterworks with [her] own experience as a contemporary artist.” Her work is fragmentary using…
Medicine Women: Photographs of the pioneering students at the world’s first medical school for women
Though many women worked as nurses in hospitals and within the medical profession, it was deemed “inappropriate” for a woman to become a doctor. This…
Ladykillers: Murder ballads and the country women who sang them
Country music is my favorite genre to listen to if I want to hear really dark shit. My favorite tunes should probably come with warning…