"The first time we screened the film was at the Writers Guild in L.A. and this woman stood up and said, ‘How dare you glorify these heathens!’" says Penelope Spheeris following the screening of her newly restored punk rock documentary The Decline of Western Civilization at Brooklyn Academy of Music.…

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In the same season we’ve been presented with two different comprehensive documentaries of two of our most iconic and tragic, gone-too-soon figures in recent decades. Brett Morgan’s Montage of Heck depicts the slow unraveling of Kurt Cobain in the preamble to his suicide, Asif Kapadia’s Amy depicts a…

Frits Gierstberg is the Chief Exhibitions Curator at Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam and one of the judges for this year's Solas Prize . Trish Lambe of Gallery of Photography Ireland asked him about his thoughts on contemporary photography and his advice for photographers submitting work. Trish…

What is the chemistry of collaboration? What enables creative pairs like Pierre and Marie Curie , James Watson and Francis Crick, or John Lennon and Paul McCartney to soar above their individual limitations and become mutual muses, inspiring one another to the highest achievements? Jazz greats Duke…

I never actually met Amy Winehouse , but I met her side-eye once. It was May 9, 2007, and Amy was performing at the Highline Ballroom in New York City. This was before the Highline threw V.I.P.’s and press in the balcony and allowed them to sit side-stage in an area the size of a baby’s fist. I was…