This piece was first published in HERO Issue 24, on sale now. Enter any gallery or museum and the four-word configuration ‘please do not touch’ crops up more than any other. …

Whoever is responsible for tracking down and persuading the New Radicals to reform for the Biden inauguration deserves a medal. Tomorrow, on Wednesday January 20, one-time frontman Gregg Alexander will get the old band back together for the first time in twenty-two years to perform their one and only hit…

Microphones in 2020 is the latest release from Washington-based songwriter and visual artist Phil Elverum. …

Richard Linklater once said that all films are about time. As a visual art, film suspends and edits time to showcase an alternative to the constant flow of reality, playing with memory and sense of place as a gateway to tell stories. It moves into the future and it goes…

The only thing bigger than the sound of Arcade Fire is their ambition. After five albums and hundreds of live shows it’s easy to take their extravagance for granted, but rewind one whole decade and it wouldn’t be considered hyperbole to state that they’d already approached seriously operatic heights with…

“The close-up, the correctly illuminated, directed and acted close-up of an actor is and remains the height of cinematography. There is nothing better. That incredibly strange and mysterious contact you can suddenly experience with another soul through an actor’s gaze. A sudden thought, blood that drains away or blood that…

‘Best of’ lists are not really important, are they? Yet at this time of year they are everywhere, endlessly organising a chaotic glut of music, film, television and literature. The end of 2019 affords us the opportunity to put a cap on the decade that has just been, soon to…

Compiling an end-of-year albums list always feels like a slightly futile idea. The music is still present. It feels unfinished. Listening to music is never a done deal, but the ubiquitous end-of-year list seeks to rationalise a year’s worth of music and box it away. Yet rarely does there come…

Christian Marclay’s The Clock (2010) is a 24-hour long video installation composed of instances in film and television where clocks or watches are either visible in shot or just out of shot, or where someone is asking/telling the time. …