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Simon Coates

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Covers:  art, music, film, theatre, books, human rights, censorship, the Middle East, geopolitics
culture writer @discogs @observer & more | artist | producer | "utterly cretinous" - man on Facebook "brilliant work" - Amnesty "finally..." - Dua Lipa

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Based in London, UK, Simon Coates writes on art, music, culture, civil rights and geopolitics, and is a member of the writing team for Dua Lipa's Service95 site, an art critic for the New York Observer and has bylines in Discogs, The New World and more.

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How can small and medium-sized music venues harness AI? - Live DMA

How can small and medium-sized music venues harness AI? - Live DMA

Independent music spaces often lack the budget and manpower to spend time working out ways to use AI. How can…

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Can Rock Royalty Really Make Art Worth Owning?

Can Rock Royalty Really Make Art Worth Owning?

With demand for works by Bob Dylan to Bowie and Thom Yorke, the market for musician-made art is more serious …

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Rough Trade at 50

Rough Trade at 50

London, February 1976. Former drama teacher Geoff Travis had left his job, weary of a life spent encouraging …

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The cult of cute: The strange drama of corporate mascots

The cult of cute: The strange drama of corporate mascots

While they remind us of our childhoods, mascots are as much a part of corporate culture as ever. Simon Coates…

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The inside story of the controversial Southbank skate park

The inside story of the controversial Southbank skate park

Saved from closure, the Undercroft skate Park on the Southbank, an icon for the capital's skate subculture, t…

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David Cleaton-Roberts On Editions, Authenticity and Printmaking's Place

David Cleaton-Roberts On Editions, Authenticity and Printmaking's Place

"I am always advocating for prints to be seen as important artworks in their own right," he told Observer.

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Can Rock Royalty Really Make Art Worth Owning?

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The Beatles, Images of a Woman. Courtesy BNPS Last year, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, staged “This Is What You Get,” an exhibition of artwork by artist Stanley Donwood and Thom Yorke, the lead singer of Radiohead. Critics’ reactions were mixed. The Guardian said of the artwork, “Does it stand up to scrutiny when removed from the context of the records and merchandise it was designed for?
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Rough Trade at 50

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By Simon Coates
London, February 1976. Former drama teacher Geoff Travis had left his job, weary of a life spent encouraging students to pretend they were trees and speak from the diaphragm. The UK music charts were boring. Country and western yodeller Slim Whitman’s collection, ‘The Very Best of Slim Whitman’, was number one in the album charts. The Four Seasons had the number one single, with ‘December ’63 (Oh What A Night)’. But there was hope.
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The strange drama of corporate mascots

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By Simon Coates
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