“All the animals come out at night: whores, skunk pussies, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies, sick, venal. Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.” This is Travis Bickle’s monologue on the decaying state … Continue reading Taxi Driver and 1970’s New York: capturing a city at its darkest period
Acclaimed New York director Ira Sachs reflects on the impact of his new film, Love is Strange on the perception of marriage as an lifestyle and the poignancy of intergenerational storytelling. Continue reading Till Marriage Do Us Part: Interview with Ira Sachs
Stephen Moloney speaks to notorious Club Kid Michael Alig about his post-prison art portfolio, youth culture and New York as the centre of art and excess. Continue reading Addicted to Glamour: Interview with Michael Alig
The first instalment in our new photo essay series. Continue reading Photo Essay: September 2014
Although punk has come to be seen as something intrinsically British following the success of bands like the Sex Pistols and the Clash, its sound was born in New York in the mid 1970s. Continue reading Sounds of the City: No Wave, New York