At first blush, Lydia Lunch and Umar Bin Hassan make for strange bedfellows. She’s the matriarch of the short-lived no wave scene, having scandalized and negated punk-era Manhattan with the jarring dissonance and minimalist caterwaul of her late-’70s band Teenage Jesus and the Jerks. In a few eventful years, she evolved from an adolescent malcontent…
Some Serious Business generously afforded me the opportunity to escape the city and to ponder life in the desert for two weeks. I am so grateful to Susan Martin, Quintan Ana Wikswo and Matthew Contos for choosing me to participate in SSB Away and their gracious welcome. I also thank Alex for allowing me to…
Hello from Rachel Levitsky at Podere Mallabiccia, Petroio, Italy, SSB’s first Tuscany Residency I choose this one above of the many photos I’ve take to begin to tell about the wonders of the casina at Malabiccia. I don’t like describing what is better being seen or as I wanted to write on a post on Instagram (I’m at…
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