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Former Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon—aka Johnny Rotten—stomped into the galleries of the Museum of Arts and Design , in New York, in low-top Doc Martens, pleated black harem pants and a shirt of the same fabric but rendered in white.
“Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die: Punk Graphics, 1976-1986,” seen in this installation view, is currently on exhibit at the Museum of Arts and Design, in New York, from April 9 to August 18. Museum of Arts & Design In addition to that royal riff, the MAD exhibit, the majority on loan by private collector Andrew Krivine, celebrates the spirit of punk in every dot of its halftones: consciously broken rules of typography, with words scrunched together, stretched out or written upside down; confrontational color palettes of shocking pink, acid green and piss yellow; and repetition of offensive imagery reminiscent of Andy Warhol’s Car Crash and Race Riot series. For the show, Chris Scoates, MAD’s Nanette L.
“Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die: Punk Graphics, 1976-1986” is on exhibit at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York. The MAD show, the majority on loan by private collector Andrew Krivine, celebrates the spirit of punk in every dot of its halftones. Museum of Arts & Design Inherent in punk is the political—but not necessarily how we might see it exercised these days. Rotten advocates temperance in terms of cultural and political activism, which may come as a surprise to those thinking the Pope of Punk would be as extreme as his stage persona. “It’s like [the Sex Pistols song] ‘Bodies,’ about abortion,” he said. “It’s not totally for it or totally against it—it poses a question, and it deals brutally accurately with what abortion is: A screaming, bloody mess.
This type of challenge is what Rotten feels in every regard: Punk should never be comfortable, even if people in small towns don Doc Martens and defy their parents. Even Donald Trump is not extreme for the musician.
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