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22/11/2008

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O'Hagan, Sean

2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.

The Observer - United Kingdom | 07/06/2007

An exhibition of punk art in London

"Punk rock burst into the mainstream during the feverish summer of 1977, and was the most explosive movement in popular culture since the birth of rock 'n' roll in the Fifties. But, as a new exhibition illustrates, its underground ethos and shock tactics were reflected as much in the art world as in its music", writes musician Sean O'Hagan regarding 'Panic Attack! Art in the Punk Years' at the Barbican Art Gallery, London. "Anyone arriving at the Barbican expecting a survey of punk-related graphics, from record sleeves to posters, fanzines to T-shirt designs, will be deeply disappointed. The thrust of this wilfully subversive show is towards artists who, as co-curator Mark Sladen, puts it in his introductory catalogue essay, 'embody the punk zeitgeist'. That, as it turns out, is a very broad church indeed, and includes artists as disparate as Nan Goldin, Keith Haring, Derek Jarman and Cindy Sherman. Even Gilbert & George have slipped in here among much less well known British artists such as Victor Burgin and Stephen Willats."

The Observer - United Kingdom | 10/12/2006

Radical art on London's high street

The Sunday paper takes a look at a shop on central London's Oxford street that has been squatted by artists. "'Santa's Ghetto' is the brainchild of Banksy, the suddenly ubiquitous but still invisible graffiti artist, whose work also graces the more august Serpentine Gallery across town, part of the Damien Hirst 'Murderme' collection. Part art gallery, part print shop, part good old-fashioned happening, 'Santa's Ghetto' has been a fixture in the capital for the past five years but this is its first pitch in the West End. It is organised by a collective called Pictures On Walls ... The art is determinedly 'street', edgy in tone, and brutalist in form. ... They are currently trying to trace the interventionists who spraypainted the front windows of the shop with anti-globalisation graffiti in the early hours of last Sunday morning - just to credit their work on the website, you understand."

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