IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD AND I FEEL FINE - Artforum International
I just wanna get radical! —Matt Archbold, professional surfer, 1987I want my future work to operate in the interchange between Robert Smithson’s unfinished project and Michael Jackson’s face. —Ashley Bickerton, 1988IN FRANCE THEY CALL them enfants terribles. In Italy you might hear duri. Here in America, we call them bad boys. We find them in our movies, we find them in our literature. Rock music, since its inspired invention back in the ’50s, has perhaps been the most comfortable home for our bad boys. Its thesis is one of giving it all—chills, thrills, passion, and pathos—and b...