303 Magazine, “Denver’s Strange Dirt Applies Art to Fashion with Botanical Patches”
“When I moved to Denver I tried to live in collective houses and met a lot of people who were anarchists. I saw a lot of patches on hats, denim jackets and backpacks and they all meant something very important to the people carrying them, and they were so dirty and so loved,” she said. […]
Autostraddle, “Follow Your Arrow: Graphic Designer Soof Andry on Punk-Rock Freelancing”
In this interview for Follow Your Arrow, Soof shares their journey from newly-qualified graphic designer to anarcho-punk freelance creative, exploring the paradox that is ‘niching without borders’: focusing the kind of work you most love to do without getting boxed in or typecast. We also discuss productive mornings, the inevitability of burnout when you’re finding your groove, and the creative freedom a […]
LA Weekly, “Quetzal Urge Artists in the Era of Trump: ‘Say Something That Means Something'”
It’s been a little over two months now since Donald Trump took the oath of office. His first week in office saw numerous protests worldwide, with people of all backgrounds blocking highways in Los Angeles, anarchists punching trust-fund Nazis in the face, and millions of women marching in defense of their rights with the power […]
The News York Times, “Skip Williamson, Underground Cartoonist, Dies at 72”
Mr. Williamson was one of those anarchists. He aligned himself in the 1960s with the Youth International Party, better known as the Yippies. He knew its leaders, Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin. He edited a comic book, Conspiracy Capers, to raise money to pay the legal fees of the radicals known as the Chicago Seven […]
Out Magazine, “Justin Vivian Bond’s LIVE IDEAS Series ‘Mx’d Messages’ Reimagines a World Without Binaries”
Justin Vivian Bond: My entire perspective on life changed at an arts and music festival at the York Theater on Mission St. in May, 1989. It was a two-day festival called “Homocore,” and it was my first exposure to the queer anarchist scene that led me to become the performer I am today. Two of the […]
Financial Times, “Pissarro in Paris: sunlight, fog and feeling”
Between these poles, changes in French society and culture from the beginnings of Second Empire industrialisation to fin de siècle modernity find an unlikely chronicler in an artist who was outsider, Jew, anarchist and avant-garde pioneer. Continue Reading
Fact Magazine, “Mary Ocher leads the people’s revolution in her kraut-infused dreamworlds”
This year marks a decade of living in Berlin for musician, multimedia artist and professional anarchist Mary Ocher, who releases her fifth full-length album, The West Against the People, on March 10. It feels like a moment on the precipice for Ocher, who has barely paused for breath during the last decade. Since her early […]
The New York Times, “Mike Kelley’s Underground Afterlife”
The artist was a self-described “blue-collar anarchist,” and cited Iggy Pop and Sun Ra among his primary influences. His impact has been widespread and profound and perhaps unexpected. Kelley’s subjects were marginalized figures — janitors, comic book characters, lonely teenagers. His work rested somewhere between conceptual art, pop culture and the foggy memories of his […]
The New York Times, “Gustav Metzger, ‘Auto-Destructive Art’ Provocateur, Dies at 90”
Mr. Metzger was a committed radical by his teens and for a time lived in an anarchist commune near Bristol. “In the early 1940s I planned to be a full-time revolutionary who would move around like they did in Russia,” he told Arts Monthly in 1999. “I really meant this and was preparing myself for […]
Boston Magazine, “The Life and Death and Rebirth of Boston’s Counterculture”
Drifters, squatters, and anarcho-collectivists colonized Boston Common—suburban flight had already decimated the city’s economic base—triggering breathless Globe coverage and pearl-clutching moral panic. After witnessing antiwar protests and clouds of reefer smoke hanging over his city, Cambridge Mayor Daniel Hayes in 1967 actually declared a “War on Hippies.” Continue Reading