Art

Art

Incredible plasticine animation imagines the worrying effect of overpopulation

Crowded, a dystopian narrative — Andrew Khosravani and Cristina Florit Gomila collaborate on a year-long animation project that looks at the effect of industrialisation on the natural landscape.

Written by: Shelley Jones

Activism

5 things we learnt from Pussy Riot's first visit to Britain

Did the Cold War ever end? — Colourful resistance to Putin's far-right regime.

Written by: Shelley Jones

Film

Neck Face: The Pin Hoarder

Collector's corner — The most notorious face in street art breaks open his vast pin badge collection.

Written by: HUCK HQ

Surf

Short film 'Counterculture' explores relationship between art and surfing in Europe

Why do surfers make pictures? — Benjamin Jeanjean, Oh Dawn, Elisa Routa and others explain how the days of crass board graphics may be over.

Written by: HUCK HQ

Opinion

Iconic music critic Byron Coley looks for traces of NYC's No Wave in contemporary culture

Jim Jarmusch, The Julie Ruin, Magik Markers and more — Is the spirit of the Lower East Side's anti-capitalist underground still alive?

Written by: Byron Coley

Art

HandpaintedType is reinvigorating Delhi’s sign-painters with a new life online

Virtual home of ancient art — Will the internet save this dying skill?

Written by: Amrita Riat

Art

Is provocative Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan a genius or just a hellraiser?

New doc gets unprecedented access to the enfant terrible — Long-term project by director Maura Axelrod scheduled for a 2015 release.

Written by: HUCK HQ

Art

Is Lebanese cartoonist Mazen at the forefront of resistance culture in the Middle East?

Radical art and music in Beirut — A wry take on life in Beirut into hard-edged comics and bomb-fuelled jazz.

Written by: Steve Turner

Art

Inside the graphic mind of Chocolate Skateboards main art man Evan Hecox

Abstract landscapes — Chatting geometry with Evan Hecox, the Mission School graduate who sees abstract shapes in urban spaces.

Written by: Andrea Kurland

Film

Best DIY culture documentaries

Grass roots art and culture — New York street photographers, DC punk activists and Basque skaters star in the best documentaries about do it yourself culture.

Written by: Alex King

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