All Stories
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An apocalyptic chat with Manuel Ocampo: Swastikating between art and death
Manuel Ocampo, between Bosch and Cracked magazine: an apocalyptic conversation on painting, death and the institutional critique of himself.
Mamba No. 3
Kobe Bryant in his Mamba years: from ball hog to facilitator and orchestrator, with the eternal Jordan comparison hanging overhead.
The return of the claw daddy
Hugh Jackman comes down a steel cable onto Cockatoo Island, an entrance only Stan Lee could have written, for the Wolverine press junket.
Black is the color and none is the number
Autumn in Sydney, the bluest skies, and a DVD-store crawl through gallows comedy, Cheech and Chong, and documentaries about dictators.
Moscow and the morning after the night before
Bogatyrs, troikas, Ivan the Terrible and Rasputin, from a tour guide who will not discuss Rasputin. Plus a Moscow hangover, richly earned.
City of blinding light
To run or not to run, I ask myself, rushing past the Winged Victory of Samothrace and Eva Mendes, also touring the Louvre, herself a work of art.
The devil, the Danes and the damned
We are listening to an old man talk about the day the devil went to Denmark, in a Jutland manor five hours from Copenhagen.
The filth, the fury, Makuhari
The Sex Pistols at Summer Sonic in Chiba: four old punks who should have been dead by now, playing tight to a thousand trembling Japanese lambs.
Daddy Groovy
The colonel who sketched a dream house that was never built, and the son who has started to see him in the mirror every morning.
Baroque and roll in Heidelberg
‘Put your foot here and you will return to Heidelberg and live happily ever after,’ our guide says. I stepped into the impression. (Narrator: It would.)
Dead thoughts about death and dying
A real human skull inside a bookcase, mortuary curiosities, and a middle-of-the-night meditation on Damien Hirst and why death spares no one.
La Luz in my religion
Inside La Luz De Jesus on Hollywood Boulevard, the gallery that turned lowbrow art into a congregation, with a gift shop of relics and toys.