The feisty singer was as bold as ever as he opened a new show of punk graphic design in New York. John Lydon—aka Johnny Rotten—at the opening of "Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die" at the Museum of ...

Afro-Punk is a documentary from 2003 directed by James Spooner, exploring the roles of African Americans within what was then an overwhelmingly white punk scene across America, and taking place as the ...

This Thursday, the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) will host a panel discussion on the impact of punk graphic arts on American design. Moderated by design historian Steven Heller, the talk coincides ...

Before the Sex Pistols and Vivienne Westwood popularized eardrum-shattering guitar riffs and safety pin-laden garb, a new cultural movement was born across the pond. “New York is really the roots of ...

We dissect the art of the legendary Black Flag. From the iconic four bars symbols, to the many coveted and collected gig flyers, singles, and band t-shirts, all depicting the distinctive Indian ink ...

Between the premise and the creative team involved, the new Top Shelf graphic novel Punk'n Heads is immediately on our radar as one of the first must-read graphic novels of 2026. This new book about ...

When punk supposedly “died,” it imparted new life into its sister genre, post-punk, which has its own derivative forms, including new wave and goth. These are ultimately meaningless distinctions, but ...

Pop culture goes through changes decade after decade, but true pop revolutions orbit on a less frequent apogee. Perhaps the last great pop-cultural zenith came during the punk/new wave scene of the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Former Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon—aka Johnny Rotten—stomped into ...