1+ hour, 25+ min ago   (15+ words) 10 bafflingly awful British statues and murals of rock and pop stars Far Out Magazine...

2+ week, 23+ hour ago   (593+ words) It was just one of countless instances in which Archer and Wippell were met not just with incredulity about their ambitious debut but with a complete lack of comprehension. Some distributors who professed to love the finished product asked if…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (446+ words) In 1826, a French scientist by the name of Joseph Nicéphore Niépce sat down at the precipice of a century’s worth of developing chemistry and optics. Time reported in 1976 that Kodak had sold 75 million Instamatics since their 1963 introduction. Meanwhile, Kodachrome had…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (212+ words) 100 years ago, a radical silent film emerged before falling into relative obscurity. While Sergei Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin was released the year prior, ushering in some pioneering editing techniques immortalised in the form of the ‘Odessa Steps’ sequence, Dimitri Kirsanoff’s Ménilmontant…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (611+ words) “I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.” – David Bowie (1947 – 2016) We always imagine that all art is as the artist intended it. A critic can never concern themselves with whether a splitting headache…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (672+ words) Anton Newcombe and the music he creates is the modern equivalent of the pyramids. We see them, we recognise their beauty, and we can somewhat comprehend the fact that a genius mind is involved, but what goes on inside, the…...

3+ mon, 3+ day ago   (316+ words) Far Out Magazine The erotic single cover designed by Nan Goldin “I lived with them; it was my whole focus,” she explained to BOMB magazine in 1991, “Everything I did, that’s who I was all the time. And that’s who I…...

3+ mon, 6+ day ago   (457+ words) There are countless New York institutions that have housed, fed and hosted the performances of music and culture’s greatest artists, whether they be musicians, painters, writers or other eccentrics. When finished the following year, the building’s earliest tenants were within…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (825+ words) Far Out Magazine Shooting for the red stars: How the space race sent Soviet art to the cosmos The Soviet Union travelled many creative courses throughout its shifting visual identity, from the early constructivist burst of bold, revolutionary impact illustrating…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (837+ words) The distorted face of Donald Trump, Margaret Thatcher’s skull etched onto a banknote, Mark E Smith lugging around a carrier bag (presumably full of cans): welcome to the political art world of Wefail. Using social media as a gallery wall,…...