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Punk art exhibit planned to commemorate 30th Anniversary

Posted by aubin on Thursday, September 21, 2006 at 6:35 PM (EDT)

The famous Barbican Gallery in the heart of London, England, will be playing host to Panic Attack: Art in the Punk Years, an exhibit designed to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the summer of 1977, when "punk became an international phenomenon." It was notably the year the Sex Pistols released the "Anarchy in the UK" single.

Running from June 1st to August 31st, the show will feature memorabilia from The Clash and Sex Pistols including the band's distinctive clothing and graphic design.

The gallery adds:

This exhibition examines the influence on punk on the visual arts on both sides of the Atlantic. The punk phenomenon is most closely associated with music, fashion and graphics, but this exhibition argues that the punk label can also be applied to the art of this time.

Sex Pistols (52 comments)

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Someone (September 21, 2006)

First!

Someone (September 21, 2006)

this is STUPID

TraumaSponge (September 21, 2006)

I'm sure Malcolm McLaren will be there to talk about how it was all him.

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ABedForLiars (September 21, 2006)

Fuck Malcolm

Ike_Ness (September 21, 2006)

http://reel-style.com/images/screens/ashlee-punktank.jpg

Musi c - check, fashion - check... so this must be the epitome of punk art right?

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thewolfmechanic (September 21, 2006)

now you're getting it. good for you.

FuckYouOiOiOi (September 21, 2006)

say what you want about her talent but she is cute as hell.

daved4 (September 21, 2006)

hey nose could poke out the sun

FuckYouOiOiOi (September 21, 2006)

she can tickle you and give you head at the same time!

android (September 22, 2006)

I´d do her.

Sirens (September 22, 2006)

fuckin a

ABedForLiars (September 21, 2006)

And this is the exact reason why I need to live in England!!

psychosis_cheer (September 21, 2006)

this is brutaly bad..........

Someone (September 21, 2006)

,,l,,

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Someone (September 21, 2006)

is that a butt?

Someone (September 21, 2006)

I think a butt would look more like this: (,,I,,)

kingofsuck (September 21, 2006)

Hahaha

Someone (September 21, 2006)

art is soooo gay.

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FuckYouOiOiOi (September 21, 2006)

agreed.

Badger_Legion (September 21, 2006)

How much art can you take?

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Someone (September 22, 2006)

hahaha you slimy motherfucker. YOu just took my line. I will fucking kill you.

-kliph

Badger_Legion (September 22, 2006)

Ahh. Why are people always threatening to kill me?

FuckYouOiOiOi (September 21, 2006)

punk rock does not belong in a fucking gallery. fuck this.

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Someone (September 21, 2006)

you're not very bright. you give punk rock a bad name cause of your stupidity and close-mindedness

Someone (September 21, 2006)

Punk rock can do whatever it wants, it don't need your fancy rules.

Someone (September 21, 2006)

you're right. we should keep punk stereotypical and put it in basements! that'll show them how open minded punx are!!!!

-colin at work

-also you're incredibly stupid

FuckYouOiOiOi (September 21, 2006)

you just don't fucking get it. punk is not about standing well-behaved and civilized in a gallery looking at precious artifacts. and if you don't understand that there is no way i can explain that to you cause your a fuckin poser.

Someone (September 21, 2006)

So punk is about setting up pathetic little rules?

colin (September 21, 2006)

you're retarded if your opinion of galleries is limited to such high-class superficial natures.

ever been to a DIY art show? it's like prints thumbtacked to walls.

also, the fact that punk can get mainstream appreciation is good. you're so close minded.

FuckYouOiOiOi (September 22, 2006)

mainstream appreciatino of punk is good?!? your a fucking dumbass. but, i guess when you open your mind too wide your brain falls out.

Enemy_Will (September 22, 2006)

"-also you're incredibly stupid "

Hilairious. Colin, you live in Portland, right? Next show we're both at I need to buy you a beer, and I know I've said that before, but I mean it. Were you atTLA?

colin (September 22, 2006)

yeah. def. i dunno thet next show i'll be at, probably thursday/rise against

SenorPotpourri (September 21, 2006)

FuckYouOiOiOi is opposed to this for two reasons.

1.) Art galleries no doubt contain security gaurds and/or cops who "unjustly" protect the pieces of art.

2.) He does not live in London.

- Senor Potpourri

Archangel (September 21, 2006)

Why not? There's no denying that it became a counter-cultural phenomenon after the flower children were incapacitated by drugs or promiscuous sex. Its influence in terms of musical aesthetic and attitude has stretched to the present day in a wide variety of forms since the 70's. I'm sorry if you subscribe to the "Nothing is good if other people like it" mentality regarding music, but the rest of the world is going to look at things with a broader view.

It had to move out of the basements eventually.

FuckYouOiOiOi (September 21, 2006)

thats not my point. the very nature of a gallery is contradictory to punk.

Someone (September 21, 2006)

LOL, you fail.

Archangel (September 21, 2006)

A gallery exists to display art.

If punk was never meant to be displayed, then it never would have been recorded or played in bars and clubs.

SalsaShark (September 21, 2006)

You like Green Day, right?

So shut up.

FuckYouOiOiOi (September 22, 2006)

i like their music not how they use their music.

Someone (September 21, 2006)

Wouldn't it make more sense to have something like this in NYC?

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Someone (September 21, 2006)

i was thinking more like detroit, we have the bands credited with creating punk rock do we not? or creating the basis for it anyway i guess. the british can have their fun, they were the ones who ruined it for the ramones. face it, if it hadn't been for the sex pistols giving "punk" a bad name, rockaway beach would have been a huge hit

feeeding5000 (September 21, 2006)

I agree that there is very distinctive art in punk, but I think that focusing on the Clash and Pistols is just a shitty retread of every book, movie, etc. about those bands. Were they influential? Yes. Were they groundbreaking? Yes. But does the music still hold up today? For the most part, no. The Sex Pistols kinda suck, and the only Clash albums I can still stand are the S/T and London Calling (only as a Elvis Costello-y pop album). The art style is so cliched and generic at this point--I know that if I see a band name in ransom-note letters, I better stay the fuck away from it. Stop focusing on '77, dammit! U.S. hardcore (DC, Midwest and Norcal--not so much Boston, NY, LA) was much more interesting, and UK anarcho-punk was more interesting than that.

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Someone (September 21, 2006)

Enough of this "it doesn't hold up today" bullshit. If Crass stands up today (which I'm not arguing they do or don't), then some band that ripped off the Small Faces sure as hell does.

I don't even listen to modern hardcore bands that totally dismiss 77 punk music. The best US hardcore wasn't influenced by just Minor Threat and Black Flag... Good hardcore is 77 punk on speed (which is why you can mostly exclude late 80's Youth Crew shit from the shortlist of good hardcore- it was a copy of a copy with a dull rulebook included). And Anarcho Punk isn't even a real music genre seeing as how most of those bands sound completely differnet (albeit sharing the common theme of being intensely boring).

FuckYouOiOiOi (September 21, 2006)

"Good hardcore is 77 punk on speed "

oi! oi! oi!

feeeding5000 (September 24, 2006)

'77 punk on speed is not exactly what I would consider hardcore. Sure, I like the Zero Boys and Reagan Youth, but that's really just "punk". When I think of hardcore, I think of a more metallic influence, i.e., later Black Flag, Discharge, etc. Youth Crew was just an extension of Minor Threat, but with more metal. And Anarcho-punk was incredibly intersting, simply because the bands sound so different. You could have a '77-style band, a metal band, a grind band, an audio collage group, and something that sounds like the Smiths all on one bill, because they all share the same politics.

daved4 (September 21, 2006)

AND THATS WHY I LOVE MUSIC BETTER THAN ART!

good Randy song

JayTee (September 21, 2006)

Why can't there be a real punk rock art gallery? Like for instance a gallery where OTHER art is on fire or something.

Someone (September 21, 2006)

The funny thing is that the style/graphics of the Pistols and the Clash are so played out and uninteresting now... I'd rather see a gallery full of Metal Urbaine artwork or Wire or the Swell Maps.

-Will

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Someone (September 21, 2006)

Look who knows their history. Well done sir.
What about Plastic Bertrard, Rockt from the tombs, The Monks, ? and the mysterions...?

Someone (September 22, 2006)

You forgot the Electric Eels, Black Randy and the Metro Squad, the Screamers, and Destroy All Monsters.

~Petro

Someone (September 22, 2006)

stupid

Someone (September 22, 2006)

"It belongs In A Museum"

Indiana Jones was wrong!

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