proxy music — on the visual language of music

September 20, 2018August 8, 2019

Cutting Edge: The power and heritage behind Rosław Szaybo’s sharp-edged cover for Judas Priest’s British Steel

September 14, 2018March 15, 2019

The She-centaur: All the rage and outrage of Grace Jones and Jean-Paul Goude’s images

September 8, 2018October 24, 2018

In Frame: Behold the spectacle on Interpol’s Marauder sleeve

September 5, 2018October 24, 2018

Blonde Ambition: Sia’s wigs hide nothing and reveal everything

August 28, 2018October 24, 2018

Not Men: The story behind the devolved cover of Devo’s debut album, which turns 40 today

August 24, 2018August 8, 2019

Object Permanence: 4AD, Vaughan Oliver, and the making of objects to have and to hold

August 20, 2018March 21, 2019

Roll And Fall In Green: Kate Bush’s “Wuthering Heights” video is still moving

August 7, 2018October 24, 2018

Wild!: How RCA Records plugged Lou Reed’s subversion in 7 print ads

"Orgasm Addict" by Buzzcocks, 1977, art by Linder Sterling, design by Martin Garrett.

August 4, 2018October 24, 2018

A Woman With a Scalpel: Linder Sterling assembles and disassembles “Orgasm Addict,” a meat dress, herself

August 1, 2018August 8, 2019

More Than Meets The Eye: The psychedelic sleeve of The Psychedelic Sounds of The 13th Floor Elevators