Artist and RAGGA NYC founder, Christopher Udemezue aka Christina, has been in the studio connecting the dots between history, romance, the macabre, and community for some time in his work. Our last coverage of his practice was an introduction to his RAGGA NYC collective show, RAGGA NYC: All the threatened and delicious things joining one … Continue reading
“I’m not a big fan of the ‘Goth’ label. I much prefer ‘Sad Bastard Music.’” So reads a meme featuring my beloved Nick Cave, holding a cigarette with his hand to his head, possibly wondering why the hell his image has been used for a meme. Of course, Nick never said this. He’s as likely … Continue reading
“He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.” This quote by 18th-century English writer Samuel Johnson opens the Good Doctor Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas as an epigraph. There, it foreshadows a number of essential elements that make up Hunter’s classic manic eulogy … Continue reading