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  • 101 Best New York Movies Set in the Greatest City in the World

    The 101 best New York movies include classics like The Godfather and Serpico and romantic comedies like Annie Hall and Desperately Seeking Susan. — Read on www.timeout.com/newyork/film/best-new-york-movies

  • 101 Best New York Movies Set in the Greatest City in the World

    The 101 best New York movies include classics like The Godfather and Serpico and romantic comedies like Annie Hall and Desperately Seeking Susan. — Read on www.timeout.com/newyork/film/best-new-york-movies

  • All Tomorrow’s Parties: The Warhol Years 1965–1967| PopMatters|Peter Hogan

    In meeting Andy Warhol, the Velvets acquired what few fledgling bands have been lucky enough to achieve: a wealthy patron. In addition, Warhol’s Factory, populated by an enormous range of people of varying talents, provided a fertile cross-pollination of ideas and personalities, whilst also constituting a powerful PR machine. Enter Nico For John Cale, Andy…

  • The lasting influence of The Velvet Underground and Nico | Riley Fitzgerald

    The Velvet Underground and Nico embodies a seldom realised idea: that music really can change the world. A financial failure in its time, the loose collection of these New York artists’ self-titled debut took a decade to sell 100,000 copies. However, despite its commercial failings, The Velvets’ humble flop was a primitively bright conceptual spark. While simultaneously hitting the…

  • Overloaded: The Story Of White Light/White Heat | MOJO

    BY DAVID FRICKE (Mojo Magazine) “NO ONE LISTENED TO IT. BUT THERE IT IS, FOREVER – THE QUINTESSENCE OF ARTICULATED PUNK. AND NO ONE GOES NEAR IT.”– Lou Reed, August, 2013 BY MID-1967, ONLY a few months after The Velvet Underground’s debut album was released, their iconic ice queen singer Nico was a solo artist, and…

  • Richard Hamilton Late Works at the National Gallery

    I had a lovely time visiting London this week. Like New York it is a place that makes me feel good just by being there, walking around! This time I went to The National Gallery to see the Richard Hamilton exhibition before it closed. Richard Hamilton is one of the first artists to describe what…

  • Feeling nervous!

    Am sorting out the details for my trip. Feeling kind of nervous and excited. Not sure what is going to happen or even if I’m going to get there, but I’m sure I will!  Have practiced being a lone visitor in Berlin and it was weird but worthwhile. It’s not just about going somewhere far…