Sound and vision from the past, present and future
Over the last 30 years Stephen Petronio has established himself as one of the most influential names in American dance. His iconoclastic works fuse eclectic elements of pop culture to often explosive effect. He talked to Civilian about some of his landmark productions
From Hitler salutes to Aleister Crowley, Neil Stewart looks at the singer's darkest period
Could any book live up to two years’ worth of buildup as “the possibly final book by the writer widely acknowledged as the greatest teller of short stories in the world”?
Silvia Gallini splits her time between Italy and L.A, her choice of medium between the brush and the camera and loves "Anna Piaggi, garlic, fairy godmothers and marrons-glacés"
"Everybody is dying, by the way. The difference is that I know it, and you don’t"
Performed live and reissued a decade after it was first recorded, The Disintegration Loops by William Basinski remains a remarkable, peerless and haunting elegy to 9/11
"Let me tell you, there are some really rotten people in schmoozy class"
Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s new material and accompanying European tour is loud, visceral, visual, contemporary and strangely moving
Jonathan Kemp on his love of the $1 books that line the sidewalk outside New York's landmark bookstore
