Frida: The Making of an Icon, part of the Exhibition on Screen series, opens with a recording of Kahlo’s painting El Sueno (La cama) – or The Dream (The bed) – selling at the Exquisite Corpus auction of Surrealist art at Sotheby’s for a staggering $57.4 million. The painting depicts Frida sleeping on a wooden […]
The ‘Satanic Panic’ of the latter decades of the 20th Century serves as a deeply unedifying lesson in paranoia, exploitation and groupthink. It also reminds us of the human capacity to ignore the overt to fantasise over the covert: this impulse is still with us, now aided and abetted by the internet and social media; […]
Writer Joe R. Lansdale has played an important part in both horror literature and later, film: without a doubt, his career to date is of interest to a wide range of fans. For my part, my first encounter with his fiction didn’t fill me with the instant enthusiasm shared by many of the contributors to […]
By Matt Harries Roky Erickson’s passing on May 31st rightly saw a wave of recognition from those touched by his life and works. Musicians especially have been quick to acknowledge the influence of his band, The 13th Floor Elevators, as progenitors of psychedelic and garage rock, as well as Erickson himself as a shining example […]