Yves Klein: the artist who invented a colour
“The blue sky is my first artwork.”
Author: Poppy Burton Archives: 10/2023
Who was Steely Dan’s ‘Kid Charlemegne’?
“A cab driver once told me that that was the stupidest line he’s ever heard.”
B.B King: The guitarist Carlos Santana called “chairman of the board”
“His one of a kind sound was an inspiration to an entire generation of musicians.”
The Ghost of a Flea: William Blake’s bloodthirsty nightmare
A gothic painting of a blood-thirsty, morally astute flea.
Maryanne Amacher and the strange study of psychoacoustic phenomena
“Your ears are not behaving strange or being damaged.”
The Band song that Robbie Robertson doesn’t understand
“I don’t remember where I sat down and finished the song.”
Who is Norman Rockwell? And what does he mean to Lana Del Rey?
“Those were the days when America believed in itself.”
Café de Flore: the Parisian haunt for hordes of great artists
The café that claims to be “the ‘birthplace of surrealism”.
The jazz musician Jimmy Page “learned a hell of a lot from”
“The was the best jazz guitarist in England.”
How thumbs proved that the most expensive painting in history was fake
Dodgy thumbs and dodgier deals.