The Norwegian band Mayhem is usually credited as the most important second wave ‘black metal’ band. This is partly because their sound was innovative but mostly because the lead singer (known as ‘Dead’) killed himself and the guitar player (‘Euronymous’) was murdered by a rival in the scene (‘Count Grishnackh’
Another sort of protest song by the jazz greats Les McCann and Eddie Harris which in 1969, could have been considered treason. A crime which was perpetrated not by the performers, but by the one who wrote the song – the late Eugene McDaniels. Here’s an excerpt: I love the
Delivery is everything, especially in language and art. Nuance, tone, cadence and an all-out verbal assault is primordial if you’re French rapper (born Cameroon) MC Jean Gab’1. Charles M’Bouss (his real name), chose the MC moniker from watching 1960’s and 70’s French cinema and in particular from Jean Gabin, one
I have no doubt that this will be the first of many, many posts on the complexity of graffiti. In La Mesa, CA, where I live, the act of making graffiti is unlawful, as is possession on public property of anything deemed an instrument of graffiti (spray paint, oversized markers,
Pussy Riot should probably be the inaugural post on the Art/Crime Archive. These are the young women currently residing in prisons in Siberia (well, two of the three of them; one was released) for playing a political punk rock song inside the Church of Christ the Savior Orthodox church in
In a campaign to highlight the tortuous treatment inflicted upon animals in cosmetic lab testing, Lush, a ‘cruelty-free’ make up chain, along with the Humane Society International put on display a re-enactment of cosmetic testings on a woman, instead of an animal. A social sculpture student volunteered to be tortured
Gangland is one of the—if not the—most egregious peddlers of ‘crimesploitation’ consumed in America these days. What is crimesploitation? Crimesploitation is a portmanteau of the words ‘crime’ and ‘exploitation,’ and it describes a particular type of media text that exploits crime. I propose that crimesploitation is a genre with the
I was intrigued when I heard about this in the past and the controversy that is obviously tied along with it. Andres Serrano did this art piece and photographed it, and since 1987, when it was released, there has no doubt-ably had many controversies tied along with it. The Christian