Pat Magnarella represents bands such as Green Day, the Goo-Goo Dolls, and Broadway Calls. Now he’s repping artists. Is this a breakthrough? The following is my interview of Pat Magnarella via...

Excerpt fr. John A. Walker's Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed. Rock Art / Rock Design / Rock Fashion Various kinds of visual art and design are associated with rock...

Time for a little history (c. 1985) about a man who knew a thing or two about Crackdown, from a ballsy art historian who carries on this tradition to today. Blatant contradictions abound in Pop...

Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed. Rock Video / Music Video These are short films or videos designed to promote the sales of records of...

Excerpt from John A. Walker's now-classic book. Sam Taylor-Wood (b. 1967) was trained at Goldsmiths College in the late 1980s and then gained an art world reputation for her films and panoramic...

Excerpt from John A. Walker’s book, Cross-Overs: Art into Pop, Pop into Art. No one doubts that music, in its highest manifestations at least (Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Sebastian Bach, etc.)...

Excerpt from John A. Walker's book, Cross-Overs: Art into Pop, Pop into Art. Laurie Anderson in performance, 1986. Laurie Anderson : music + art A besetting problem of the avant garde artist is...

ADP staff; Text by Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia artdesigncafé | music + art room | Published 28 November 2010 Press Release 18 November 2010 ABBAWORLD ABBA returns to Sydney! Powerhouse...

ADP staff; Text by Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Cleveland artdesigncafé | music + art room | Published 26 November 2010 Press Release Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum welcomes...

After the creative discussion of their Crackdown remix and protest video for Billie Ray Martin's cover versions of Cabaret Voltaire's classic Crackdown, Jez and Kieron talk about copyright and...

They're interested in murdering the idea of celebrity, and to regain the people’s trust in the social creative power of music and art. CMP's Jeremy (Jez) Biggs talks about the remix—with Kieron B...

With the The Crackdown Project, disco diva Billie Ray Martin referred back to two classic songs by Cabaret Voltaire, Crackdown and Just fascination, offering multiple versions and collaborations...

Billie Ray Martin. The Crackdown (Light Programme Remix) featuring Stephen Mallinder. Protest music-journalism video art by Nick Guls of Digital Drift. Click "HD" for better quality. To learn...

Review by John A. Walker, author of Art & Artists on screen (1993/2010). On Sunday 13 May 1990 London Weekend Television transmitted an hour-long film "Midnight Angel" in the "Celebration"...

In a letter to his sister Pauline, Stuart Sutcliffe (1940-62) remarked how nervous he felt about strangers looking at his work. At Sotheby's in January—fifty-five of his paintings, drawings and...