Thursday 25.05.17 12A Symbol ofdefiance ’s bee Morrissey’s hate Suzanne Moore of support weaving aweb The teen fans assemble Arianators Taste tested Croissants! Sgt Pepper art Judy Chicago Shortcuts

Symbolism Why the bee is

a perfect symbol Seen in Manchester … a card left after the for Manchester terror attack, graffiti on a gate, a bee tattoo and a city bollard

rom homemade banners F and badges to images of mosaics, cartoons and T-shirts posted online, one symbol has come to defi ne Manchester’s togetherness following Monday night’s terror attack: the worker bee. But, as even Mancunians may be asking, why ? Offi cially, bees have been part of the city’s identity since 1842 , when a new city coat of arms was unveiled which, in part, depicts bees swarming across the globe. This represented the industriousness of the “worker bees” then toiling in Manchester’s cotton mills, colloquially known as beehives. What Manchester’s impover- ished, slum-dwelling workers thought of this depiction is not recorded. The Co-operative Movement used beehives as a positive symbol of solidarity , but logo , on the clock face at the bespoke litter bins with a honey- What happened this week, that city crest must surely have Victorian Palace hotel, even comb design and luminescent bee however, embodies Manchester’s felt somewhat patronising in this referenced, obliquely, in the black logo . Suddenly, the bee was fl eet, instinctive . From then hotbed of Chartist revolt. and gold trim of Manchester everywhere, and, gradually, it factory chimneys to bucket hats, A city which, via a of City’s 2009/10 away kit . But the acquired cachet. Elbow’s Guy numerous symbols are closely heroes as diverse as - bee buzzed on the periphery of Garvey (in 2015, the band put out identifi ed with the city, but, from born suff ragette leader Emmeline Manchester’s consciousness. Far the Lost Worker Bee EP ) had a bee the subconscious depths of its hive Pankhurst and music mogul Tony more prominent, in recent years, tattoo, and Northern Quarter bar, mind, Manchester chose the per- Wilson, later defi ned itself as a city has been the “I Love MCR” brand- Cottonopolis , used the bee in its fect unifying symbol: secular, of spiky, independent thinkers. ing commissioned in the wake of logo. A website, Manchester Bees non-tribal, peaceful, community- That self-image may explain the 2012 riots, still visible on tote ( manchesterbe.es ), now maps the focused but not to be messed with. why, for more than a century, the bags and hoardings. city’s bees. There is also a beehive For the fi rst time in 175 Manchester bee faded from view. What changed? In 2014, as part on the roof of the Printworks years, the Manchester bee feels You could fi nd it: on bollards, on of a £14.5m clean-up, Manchester entertainment complex that authentically Mancunian. the old Boddingtons city council commissioned 600 neighbours Manchester Arena. Tony Naylor

Fitness when you’re a kid; your muscles is more of a role model than a as young as three. However, they get damaged,” warned one, below cautionary tale. “Given the obe- only introduce weights at the Bend it like Cruz: the video of Cruz on a rowing sity epidemic, I think it’s really “CrossFit Academy” level, for machine, viewed almost 200,000 positive that a 12-year-old boy those aged 11 to 16. is the gym OK times. “You are too young for is taking an active interest in a “The coaches are extremely for 12-year-olds? this,” wrote another. A third healthy cardiovascular life- aaware of making sure the kids suggested he “eat a donut and style,” he says. It’s area capable of doing what have a childhood”. fi ne for a young- tthey’re doing, But what’s more dangerous: ster to work out, and doing it ictures of a Beckham the rowing machine, or the Smith adds, as safely,” says P working out would doughnuts? British children are long as they seek AAnderson. normally be cause for some of the world’s least active, advice from a “Using their celebration, but when 12-year-old with a recent study fi nding that specialist before bbodies to gain Cruz (the third child of David and just 15% of girls and 22% of boys weight training. strength can be Victoria) posted a clip of himself do the recommended hour of Vikki Anderson rreally empowering. It can at the gym on Instagram this week , moderate physical exercise a day. manages the CrossFit All Out llead to a love of all kinds there were disapproving tuts from According to Chris Smith, a gym in County Durham with of sport. It’s not just about a certain sort of internet user. spokesman for the Chartered her husband Terry, where they ggoing to the gym.” “It’s actually bad to work out Society of Physiotherapy, Cruz off er fi tness classes to children TTim Walker

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Society 2000s that it’s got really bad. It Age: 55. seems to have something to do Appearance: The “after” pic from a Just For Men Doggers, drugs with the rise of the internet and Control GX advert. social media. I think it is listed in Occupation: presenter, Trump and Britain’s some site somewhere, but I don’t apologist. naughtiest wood want to ruin my browser history.” He apologises for ? He defends There are no public rights of Trump. He apologises for nothing. way across Uff moor, allowing Why does a flamingo What has he got to apologise for? Flogging a the wood’s gates to be padlocked stand on one leg? theory about the murder of Seth Rich . t’s Britain’s naughtiest until further notice. Anderson To save energy. Not What? Who? Seth Rich , a 27-year-old Democratic I woodland. Two hundred visited on a monitoring a terrible joke, but National Committee staff er who was murdered in acres of bluebell-covered expedition just the other day. a discovery by a US 2016, in what police suspect was a botched robbery. forest so bad that the Woodland “I saw six cars pull in, and then research team that, That doesn’t sound like a very good conspiracy Trust has taken the rare step of turn round, do a U-turn, because counterintuitively, theory. It isn’t one. The is that the birds employ shutting it down until it improves . we had a camera.” Rich was the source of the DNC emails said to no active muscular Uff moor Wood, near She points to walkers being effort when they’re have been passed to Wiki Leaks by Russia, and was Halesowen in the West Midlands, knocked to the ground by unipedal, meaning murdered because of this. is padlocked as of today, after anti social dog owners, and to they expend less What evidence does Hannity cite for this becoming a focal point for broader safety issues that mean energy. They also contention? None – there isn’t any. But Hannity sheep-worrying, dirt-bike they would now prefer wardens found that dead has joined a clutch of hard-right cranks and fake- scrambling, dog fouling, drug to patrol in groups of two or more. flamingos can still news outlets to keep the theory alive by pushing balance on one leg. peddling and sex dogging. At least Uff moor can draw it on his Fox show night after night. On the Woodland Trust’s page consolation from the fact that it Why would he bother? Because, as he said in for Uff moor , visitors expressed is not alone. Stapleford Wood in a recent tweet: “If Seth was wiki source, no mixed emotions . Some were Lincolnshire was visited by up Trump/Russia collusion.” mystifi ed . Others less so. “I have to 40 cars a day . In Livingston, Ah , he has his Trump apologist hat on. Yes, but seen many DISGUSTING sights,” pyromaniacs have lately been his insistence has embarrassed Fox News. pointed out regular walker setting fi re to trees, while Fox News? Embarrassed by lies? Are we talking Beverley Challinor. “The worst Horrocks Wood in had about the same Fox News? At fi rst, it went big on being in October 2013.” its car parking reduced by half to the conspiracy, but it has since removed the story “Who DO these men think deter amorous visitations . from its website, saying it “was not initially they are fooling,” she went on. Gavin Haynes subjected to the high degree of editorial scrutiny “In the lay by in their suits and we require for all our reporting”. pristine shoes?” Meaning it was rubbish. Exactly. Finally, after The Farmers’ Guardian also a threatened advertising boycott and a plea from reported several incidents where Rich’s parents , Hannity said o n Tuesday’s show : sheep on neighbouring lands had “Out of respect for the family’s wishes, for now, been attacked . I am not discussing this matter at this time.” Hollie Anderson of the That’s the whole sorry aff air concluded, then. Woodland Trust points out Not quite. He didn’t retract any prior claims, and that closing a Trust property is he didn’t apologise. unprecedented. “ It’s escalated Perhaps it is enough that he is keeping his mouth over the years. It’s a very sad shut. He isn’t. In a tweet posted a few hours later , case, but we think necessary.” Hannity wrote: “Ok TO BE CLEAR, I am closer to T he forest is one of the the TRUTH than ever. Not only am I not stopping, more urban sites in the Trust’s I am working harder. Updates when available. AFP/GETTY IMAGES; WOODLAND TRUST IMAGES; AFP/GETTY portfolio . But Anderson doesn’t Stay tuned!” believe it’s the geography alone Trump must love this guy. Oh, yes. They are pals. that is fuelling the bad behaviour. Do say: “Wake up, snowfl akes! Your liberal bubble “We’ve owned Uff moor since is about to burst!”

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25.05.17 The Guardian 3

Suzanne Moore Sorry Morrissey, but hate is not the answer to masculinity twisted by radicalisation. Love is our best weapon

ays later and it doesn’t get any The plea combat it. It seems that we can look at foreign easier. The blast, the momentary policy in all its complexity as providing fertile D terrible silence and then the screams to answer territory for jihadi recruitment, from the shatter- of the wounded. All of us are now with love ing of Libya to what’s happening in Yemen. But screaming into that silence because it’s not enough. We can pore over sacred texts to we can imagine it only too well. And what we becomes be told that jihad is not legitimate, but that’s not cannot imagine parts of the media will show us, right either. Indeed, this is to act as if all these even if we don’t want to see. Small bodies ripped hard to murdere rs are inspired by religion and a complex apart. The smiles of young girls, now dead. The take understanding of global politics. We know this superfan messages . The beautiful young gay man . not to be true. Excited selfi es of pure youth. All the love fl ows Often, however, the attackers are converts towards these people, to their families, to the to Islam or have only recently become devout. emergency services and to the city enduring this They do things that good Muslims must not do, tragedy. from smoking dope to visiting sex workers. Often We shall overcome and we shall overcome their families have been broken in some way. by carrying on as normal, by our small acts of There may be a history of petty crime. Domestic humanity. This is one reaction. Yet the presence violence fi gures strongly in the background of of soldiers on our streets is not carrying on as some of the perpetrators. normal. These men are not all lone operators. In fact For there is anger now and the message of love radicalisation is social whether online or face to as resistance is not enough for many. From those face. It is perhaps their only real connection. who troll for a living, from Piers Morgan to Katie They share a hatred of women and gay people Hopkins, there emerges yet more hate fi gures as less than human, as completely “other”. The and this hate spirals. Exactly the aim of terror. desires that they provoke means they must be Morrissey, who has made the strange journey destroyed. Deep-seated misogyny is not exclusive from icon to embarrassment, from Manchester to to the idiots of Isis. Think of the American high- LA, once more reveals he is closer to Nigel Farage school shooters who often express these feelings. then Oscar Wilde. Immigration is at the root of Often when men kill women there have been this horror, he suggests, though he is the son of signs and they have talked to other men about Fallen idol immigrants himself. … Morrissey it. The police know this. We see this pattern Does it matter what a fallen idol says? Not so criticised the over and over again: alienated young men much, but it certainly chimes with the view that reaction of withdrawing, unable to deal with their own good Muslims should drive out the bad Muslims. Theresa May and inadequacies, drawn into gangs that provide With Trump attempting to sword dance in Saudi Andy Burnham meaning and purpose. Am I comparing Isis to Arabia while he sells the country arms, it’s quite a criminal gang? Absolutely. One that we know hard to know who qualifi es as “bad Muslims” preaches extreme misogyny. sometimes, isn’t it? The plea to then answer this with love becomes What we do know for sure is that this attack hard to take. Resistance to this terror also has reverses the recent trend for low-tech terrorism to take the form of resistance to misogyny of all because a suicide belt is a more sophisticated isticated kkinds,inds, tot fi ght for the rights of women and gay way of killing than a stolen truck. However, wever, the ppeopleeople tthe world over. This can’t only be done by targeting of women and gay people iss not new. We cchoosinghoosin love, it is part of a longer struggle where saw it in a plot foiled 15 years ago, whichhich targe ted ttherehere nnevere is a return to normality. Sure, in the the Ministry of Sound nightclub. Thee aim wawass short term,te it would be better to have an election to kill “slags”. And last year we saw thehe terrible wwithoutithout the army on the streets. shooting in Pulse , a gay nightclub in OOrlando.rlando. But theret is a parallel politics of living in which When I fi rst heard the awful news wwee fi gght for the very things these murderers about Manchester, of course I thoughtht canncannot stand by being them: girls having fun it had been carried out by some dis- wwhilehil their dads wait for them. Young women turbed man. Male violence is a given.. ttakingak full possession of themselves. Gay This is not to say that all men are pepeople high on life. Mothers watching their terrorists, but if we cannot identify thehe daughters d a go wild. Our ability to do this connection between these acts of vio-o- nonow is because others have fought for these lence and the construction of a kind ooff “f“freedoms”.r So now we continue , all while masculinity that so -called “radicalisation”ation” grgrievingi and full of anger. And as we have in

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25.05.17 The Guardian 5 Pop’s rebel queen

The star who attracted so many young girls to the Manchester Arena on Monday started her career in a kids’ sitcom. But her spectacular voice and feminist convictions prove she is no industry puppet, says Sam Wolfson. Overleaf, how her loyal fans, the Arianators, have rallied round to support their idol on social media

riana Grande is an unusual junior prom, all slicked-back hair and star to be at the centre lipgloss. But that forms just a small A of a British tragedy in a part of the picture. In other ways she northern city. If Monday’s is a subversive star, who has an uneasy attack had taken place relationship with the rules of pop, at two days later, when Take That were times fi nding herself at odds with due to play the venue, their music her fans and her country, at others would have undoubtedly formed a unapologetically enjoying the central part of the coverage. As it was, trappings of celebrity. many radio stations chose to play Her career began as a teenager, Oasis following news of the attack, in kids’ television. In 2009, a 16-year- because of the Manchester connection, old Grande auditioned for a new rather than the music of Grande herself. Nickelodeon show. At the time, the She is obviously a very famous singer, channel was struggling. It had cornered but not in a way that the British, or the market among younger kids with at least Britons over a certain age, Spongebob Squarepants, but it was can really get a grasp of . She is from being trounced by the Disney Channel – Boca Raton, a small city north of which had Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato Miami, in Florida, a former Nicke- and the Jonas Brothers on their books – lodeon star who performs mostly with when it came to tweens. Still, Grande rappers, and is a product of the got the job and her show, Victorious , internet age. helped transform the channel’s

It is true that she ha s very young fortunes. LAB/SPLASH NEWS LA PHOTO fans. And it is true that, in some ways, Once they had her, however, Nickel- she is the dream pop star for children: odeon didn’t want to let her go. She even though she is now 23 years old, became trapped in their universe,

she looks like a Disney princess at a making various spin-off shows and PHOTOGRAPH

6 The Guardian 25.05.17 cheesy tie-in albums. She told Rolling time. Be My Baby, produced by the There for her fans: Stone that she hated the period, calling Her videos rack Norwegian dance artist Cashmere Cat, Ariana Grande it “inauthentic and fake”. She described and Hands on Me , featuring then little- performing in one video shoot as “the worst moment up hundreds of known Harlem rapper A$AP Ferg, were 2015; a young of my life … They gave me a bad spray both sexy and unusual pop songs, girl at a gig in tan and put me in a princess dress and millions of hits. enjoyed mostly by nine-year-olds. 2014 (left) had me frolic around the street.” She was taken on by Scooter Braun, Eventually, Grande worked through the manager superstar of Justin Bieber her contracts and, in 2013, released her She has 106m and Kanye West. In 2016, she tried to fi rst proper single, The Way , a duet with fi re Braun and have her mum take the rapper Mac Miller. In some ways, followers on over, but she quickly realised that it is a track typical of emancipated child was a mistake. Since he has returned stars, complete with sexual lyrics. But Instagram to her team, her career has rocketed: there is a romance and honesty that Grande’s videos rack up hundreds feels bigger than that. “You give me performers, too. A year ago, Miller of millions of hits – her song Side to that kind of something./ Want it all and Grande began dating, and are Side (another one that features Minaj) the time, need it everyday,” she coos now nearly always photographed has hit almost 1b n views on YouTube. at Miller. “You’re a princess to the at each other’s side. She has 106 million followers on public, but a freak when it’s time,” he Grande continued to perform with Instagram and is the platform’s third winks back. In the video, there is a hip-hop artists. Her next few singles – most popular user. She is a pop star fl irty, honest chemistry that seems to Right There with Big Sean, Problem of the Spotify age; the fi rst artist to go further than anything the director with Iggy Azalea and Bang Bang with score a UK No 1 once streaming was might have asked for. But what makes Nicki Minaj and Jessie J – propelled her accounted for. the track is her vocal: eff usive, delicate, career further, but on her albums she Yet it isn’t just the music that has as fi zzy as Coca-Cola, it sounds like was starting to make cool, aerated pop become interesting about Grande. the giddy feeling of falling in love. that sat away from the penchant for She spent so long on a cheesy kids Clearly the song rubbed off on the big chunky bangers popular at the sitcom, full of terrible gags and →

25.05.17 The Guardian 7 Like many stars, she preaches feminism and canned laughter, that it was isn’t always on-message – was clear. ← assumed she was a bore. Free empowerment. A vocal supporter of , from that, it soon became apparent Grande attended the Women’s March Grande is actually very funny. But she puts it on Washington with friends this year. She was one of the fi rst guests on Like a lot of stars, she preaches femi- Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show, where nism and empowerment. But she also she was asked to do musical impres- into practice puts platitudes into practice; she sions : her Christina Aguilera doing The recently admonished a fan who bumped Wheels on the Bus was both hilarious into her and Miller on the street in Los and vocally spectacular. Around the Angeles. The fan was excited to see same time she performed in Miley them, and said to Miller: “Ariana is Cyrus’s back garden, dressed as a sexy as hell, man I see you, I see you mouse, performing a cover of Crowded hitting that!” That night, Grande House’s Don’t Dream It’s Over. It feels explained on Twitter to explain how like the sort of thing that would happen hurt she felt by the incident. “This at 5am at Glastonbury in some dark may not seem like a big deal to some bizarre corner of a tipi fi eld, except that of you but I feel sick and objectifi ed,” her vocal is Mariah-level perfect. she said. “I am not a piece of meat that Perhaps the funniest thing Grande a man gets to utili se for his pleasure … has done, and the defi ning scandal of I’m an adult human being in a relation- her career last year, is lick a doughnut. ship with a man who treats me with In CCTV footage leaked from a US The diff erent love and respect.” She encouraged bakery, she was seen putting her sides of Ariana fans to speak up against this sort of tongue on a tray of baked goods while (from above): behaviour: “We are not objects or a member of staff wasn’t looking. You poking fun at prizes. We are QUEENS.” In an industry might question the hygiene of such an her TV past with in which women are still paraded act, but there was something wonder- comic Jimmy around as sex objects or told to get on fully laddy about it, the sort of gag you Fallon; with her their knees in hundreds of rap lyrics, would expect from some tattooed pop- boyfriend, the the value of that kind of sentiment punk band, not a made-up pop star. rapper Mac cannot be undervalued. In the same video, she takes a look at a Miller; onstage Since the attack, I cannot stop cream-fi lled, deep-fried, super-sprinkled alongside Jessie J thinking of the last time I saw Grande doughnut extravaganza and is heard and Nicki Minaj perform. I was with a friend, and as the saying: “I hate America.” It seems obvi- two of us turned around from the bar, it ous that the comment was aimed at the hit home that – parents aside – we were baked goods rather than the nation the oldest fans there by about 20 years. state, but in a country where anything There is always a mix of ages at gigs other than total patriotism is seized such as that, but everyone was so young. upon ferociously, Grande was hounded So we acted like kids, and the kids got for weeks afterwards. Emails from the hyper and acted like drunk adults. At Democratic National Committee leak one point, seeing a stressed-out parent in the run-up to the 2016 election unable to lift all her children to see the revealed that the incident meant she stage, my friend and I were holding was seen as too risky for a concert at children, one fi ve years old, the other the White House; she was removed seven, in our arms, bouncing them up from the bill of a concert planned and down while their eyes boggled in for President Obama. wonder at the stage. These have not been her only trans- When I was their age I loved Steps gressions. Following a meet-and-greet and S Club 7: fi ne music for children, with fans after a show, the New York but complete industry puppets without Daily News reported that multiple an opinion between them. All I could witnesses overheard Grande hating on think was how lucky these children her fans – something the star fi ercely were to have a pop star of such calibre denied. But the message – that she to call their own. STARTRAKS PHOTO/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK STARTRAKS PHOTOGRAPH PHOTOGRAPH

8 The Guardian 25.05.17 hero. An Instagram comment from Meet the selenaxvoice – “WE ARE WITH YOU” – is the gist of it, but social media is Arianators boiling. There are messages to Grande (“ We love you ari, we are a family and Grande’s fans are we stay together until the end”), and fan-to-fan reassurances (“Everything legion and fi ercely will be fi ne again”); a good deal of energy is also being expended on protective, dealing with the inevitable trolls. says Caroline Unaccustomed to having to defend her, supporters are slightly diffi dent Sullivan with them; a character who waspishly tweeted: “Pray for this, pray for that. You don’t get shit doing that” received the response: “You’re not a very nice person.” An Instagrammer who criticised the fact that the bunny ears Grande wears on stage have been used as a “pray4Manchester” symbol was politely shushed. They are sharing selfi es from the Manchester concert, and videos of Grande on stage that night Some have been uploaded to YouTube, which has been rapidly losing ground to Snapchat and Instagram where most Arianators congregate. Perhaps they want to recalibrate the way the evening ended; s anyone who has met Ariana loyalty. There were at least 100 fans Teenage fan club: the way it should have ended, with A Grande will confi rm, before outside her hotel, all of them school Grande with kids 18,000 happily exhausted Arianators you get to Ariana, you meet age and prepared to wait it out for as from a New York pouring out of the arena and safely the Arianators. They are the mainly long as it took to get a glimpse of her. day camp home. For a fandom who don’t go out teenage, mainly female fan base, who At that stage, she was a 20-year-old of their way to grandstand, Arianators have followed Grande since she was an actor who had released a couple of are off ering an impressive web of elfi n starlet on the Nickelodeon series singles and was following the Miley mutual support. Victorious. The Arianators are legion, Cyrus crossover path to a pop career. The cold shoulder they showed me bumping up her Twitter and Instagram But the Arianators are made of diff erent in 2013, I later realised, wasn’t so much followings, while her Snapchat posts stuff to Cyrus’s “Smilers”. Unlike most unfriendliness as protectiveness. also get millions of views. Grande was fandoms – the collective noun used by Whereas, for instance, One Direction’s prolifi c on social media and responsive fans themselves – the Arianators were For a fandom could be extravagantly to fans from the start, managing her reticent and unwilling to talk to the aggressive toward outsiders , and each own “socials” and maintaining a fl ow press. If they hadn’t fi lled the whole fandom other, Grande’s have always closed of warm, chatty posts. Thanks to pavement in groups of four or fi ve, ranks. Their devotion is no less fi erce, occasional “follow sprees”, during scribbling affi rmations of Ari-love in who don’t but there is an almost maternal which she befriends anyone who asks black pen, they could have been grandstand, quality to it, engendered by Grande’s on Twitter, 66,000 especially lucky described as keeping themselves to apparent delicacy. Physically, she Arianators can boast the ultimate themselves. They were a cross-section Arianators is even smaller than the average celeb- badge of fanship: Grande’s name of teenage London: black, white, are offering rity, and when her emotional openness in their list of followers. Muslim; even the odd boy, including is added, she seems vulnerable. That, Interviewing her in 2013 when she one who carefully studied his feet impressive perhaps, is what is sustaining the was in London to promote the release when I spoke to him. mutual Arianators now: the thought that she of her fi rst album, Yours Truly, I This week, the Arianators have risen relies on her fans more than most discovered the strength of Arianator and circled their wagons around their support pop stars do.

25.05.17 The Guardian 9 Meme team … the Boston protesters, one wearing a Based Stickman outfi t

his month, hundreds stormed mainstream consciousness of “alt-right” protesters by weaponi sing irony, using humour T occupied the rotunda at and ambiguity as tactics to wrong-foot a public park in Boston, No its opponents. Massachusetts, in the Last week, the Data & Society name of free speech. The protest Research Institute released a report included far-right grouplets old and on the online disinformation and new: from the Oath Keepers , whose manipulation that is increasingly membership is drawn from current and laughing shaping US politics. The report former members of the military and focused on the way in which far-right police, to the , who espouse actors “spread white-supremacist “Western chauvinism”. But there were thought, Islamophobia, and misogyny no swastikas or shaved heads in sight. through irony and knowledge of Instead, the protest was dominated matter internet culture”. by ostensibly comedic images, mostly One the report’s authors, Dr Alice cribbed from forums and social me- Gatherings of the so-called Marwick, says that fascist tropes fi rst dia. It looked a little like an animated ‘alt-right’ can look like the merged with irony in the murkier version of 4chan, a favourite far-right corners of the internet before being message board. At least one attendee memes of a message board adopted by the far right as a tool. For was dressed as the cartoon frog Pepe the new far right, “irony has a strategic (a character co-opted by the movement come to life. Is this troll function. It allows people to disclaim against the wishes of its creator). culture simply fascism a real commitment to far-right ideas Others carried the green fl ag of “Keki- while still espousing them.” stan”, the imaginary country created hiding in plain sight, Marwick says that since the early by members of 4chan. Kyle Chapman, asks Jason Wilson 00s, on message boards such as 4chan, the man who became the “Based calculatedly off ensive language and Stickman” meme after attacking anti- imagery have been used to “provoke fascists armed with a gas mask and strong reactions in outsiders”. Calling a Captain America shield, also all users “fags”, or creating memes addressed the crowd. The same crowd using racial stereotypes, “serves a gate- later confronted an anti-fascist keeping function, in that it keeps counter-demonstration in the street. people out of these spaces, many of Until recently, it would have been which are very easy to access”. hard to imagine the combination of In spaces drenched in adolescent street violence and internet memes. masculinity, violating the standards But experts say that the far right has of political correctness and the rules

10 The Guardian 25.05.17 of polite interactions also functions as an act of rebellion. This was asserted by in an infamous Breitbart explainer last year, in which he insisted that the movement’s circu- lation of antisemitic imagery was really nothing more than transgressive fun. “Are they actually bigots?” Yianno- poulos asked, rhetorically. “No more than death metal devotees in the 1980s were actually satanists. For them, it’s simply a means to fl uster their grandparents.” What Yiannopoulos left out, accord- ing to Marwick, is that these spaces have increasingly become attractive to sincere white supremacists. They off ered them venues for recruitment, and new methods for popularising their ideas. In other words, troll culture became a way for fascism to hide in plain sight. by fringe rightwing media. It asserted, ‘Irony Author Alexander Reid Ross agrees Marwick points to another guide on the basis of some of John Podesta’s that irony has been deployed by the far published last year, on Andrew leaked emails, that the restaurant was allows right in chipping away at whatever pro- Anglin’s prominent Nazi site the Daily the hub of an elite paedophile ring. people to hibitions have existed around publicly Stormer, that credited “troll culture” Last December, Welch drove to adopting far-right politics. His book, with bringing about “non-ironic Washington from North Carolina with strategically Against the Fascist Creep, published nazism masquerading as ironic three fi rearms. When he arrived, he distance late last year, explores the long history nazism”. It read: “Irony allows people texted a friend: “Raiding a pedo ring, of fascists attempting to mainstream to strategically distance themselves possible sacrifi cing the lives of a few themselves their ideas, or even sell them to the from the very real commitment to for the lives of many.” He fi red shots left. “Fascism is more or less a social white-supremacist values that many of inside the restaurant, but fortunately from white- taboo. It’s unacceptable in modern these forums have.” was arrested without harming anyone. supremacist society,” Ross says. “Humour or irony It also allows individuals to push “A lot of the people propagating is one of the ways that they can put boundaries in public and to back away the Pizzagate conspiracy were doing values’ forward their aff ective positions with- when they meet resistance. When the it winkingly,” Milner says. “But in the out having to fall back on any affi rma- US white supremacist Richard Spencer moment that somebody walked into tive ideological positions.” led a fascist salute to Donald Trump at that shop with a gun, then that playful, He adds: “They’re putting forward his National Policy Insitute conference buzzing participation around that con- the anger, the sense of betrayal, the in the wake of Trump’s win, he said spiracy turned into real consequences.” need for revenge, the resentment, the it was done in “a spirit of irony and More generally, every “ironic” rep- violence. They’re putting forward the exuberance”. etition of far-right ideals contributes to male fantasies, the desire for a national A compounding diffi culty for a climate in which racism, misogyny, community and a sense of unity and a opponents of the far right is that or Islamophobia is normalised. “Every rejection of Muslims. They’re doing all online, it’s always been diffi cult to tell time you see a viral video of somebody of that, but they’re not stating it.” the diff erence between sincerity and shouting down a person of Muslim The best response is to stubbornly satire. Ryan Milner teaches communi- descent in a supermarket line, what Alt-ered States … take the far right at its word. Angela cation at the College of Charleston in you’re seeing are the eff ects of an (above) Pepe Nagle’s book will be South Carolina, and is co-author of a environment where it’s increasingly the frog as released next month. She says that for new book called The Ambivalent Inter- normal, increasingly accepted and the president; trolls on the far right, online irony “is a net. The book ponders the implications expected to speak in this register, (below) Richard mechanism for undermining the confi - of Poe’s law, an internet adage that whether or not that started out as Spence and Milo dence of their critics”. “The thing that points to the diffi culties of distinguish- a joke,” says MMilner.ilner. Yiannopoulos ppeopleeople havehav to realise is that it isn’t ing extremist views from parodies. tthathat comcomplicated.pli We know what they “Unless you have an obvious marker bbelieveelieve in, aand if you say that you’re of another person’s intent, you can’tn’t ‘‘alt-right’, presumably you really gauge their intent,” Milner says.ays. bbelieve in those things, too.” “They could be messing around. TTheyhey RRather than getting lost in the could be deadly serious. They couldld be weeds of a fast-moving internet a mix of both.” cculture, Nagle saysulture, Nag we should be bear- But ironic, playful content can hhaveave ing down hharda on those core beliefs. real-life eff ects. Milner off ers the eex-x- “Journalist“Journalistss should be saying: ‘I don’t ample of Edgar Welch, who turnedd want to taltalkk about Pepe memes and up at the Comet Ping Pong pizza hhandand signs.signs. Tell me what are the lim- restaurant in Washington DC with its ofof what you’rey prepared to do.’ We a gun after imbibing too deeply shshouldould forceforc them to talk about what of the so-called “Pizzagate” con- ttheyhey reallyreally sstand for.” spiracy theory. The theory was gen-n- In future,future the best step may be to erated by forum trolls and amplifi ed meet ironyirony with sincerity.

25.05.17 The Guardian 11 Food Taste test

Which supermarket’s croissants can match the authentic artisan article? Tony Naylor sorts the puff from the guff Beurre necessities

he UK is home to a rapidly Morrison’s, The Tesco, Finest all- growing network of craft Best all-butter butter croissants T bakeries, but it is a small croissants 4-pack, £2 scene. Those 4,500 4-pack, £2.14 Last year’s bakeries nationally account A croissant should nontroversy about for just 5p in every £1 spent on bread Co-op, Irresist- have an even Aldi, Specially Tesco selling Asda, Baker’s and cakes in Britain. If you are lucky ible all-butter golden tan. It Selected luxury straight crois- Selection all- enough to live near, say, east London’s croissants should look like croissants sants (in France, butter croissants Yeast, Manchester’s Pollen or Hart’s 4-pack, £2.49 it has just spent 4-pack, £1.65 the mark of a 6-pack, £1.65 in Bristol, then use those artisan stars. Made with a two weeks on Big fellas these – superior product), Relatively dinky But for most of us, if struck by a sudden creditable 31% the Côte d’Azur. 18cm long with seems to have (13cm long), croissant craving on a Sunday morning, Normandy butter, Instead, these an 8cm girth – resolved itself in individually that is not an option. Rather than Co-op’s crois- have a mottled and, initially (the the supermarket wrapped and strolling along to a local craft bakery – sants nonetheless complexion, like dark, arguably now favouring with a longer the kind of place seeking to create crisp, fail to convince. the tan is already overdone colour; a straight-edged, shelf-life than billowing, lightly fl aky croissants with Warm from the peeling. Likewise, a worrying lack semicircular most packaged outrageous sweet, buttery fl avours (the oven, the over- the “lamination” of aerated layers shape. If only croissants, these notional 9/10 for this test) – we are far browned top has (the painstaking within), they they were putting chrysalis-like more likely to fi nd ourselves falling not coalesced folding of butter look all size a similar eff ort creations – they back on supermarket croissants. into a crisp, fl aky into the dough so over substance. into the recipe, have none of the Militant French foodies may fi nd shell, and the that, as the crois- Almost literally. as this crois- regal, endlessly such behaviour incroyable. But what can interior – dull, sant bakes, steam There is a cavity sant – golden layered curves you do? Even adept home-bakers are woolly and riddles it with running through tan; attractive of a grownup stumped. With all that turning, folding a little too dense airy pockets), the test croissant microlayers to its croissant – may and time-consuming proofi ng (incred- – delivers even has been poorly so huge it looks curving, twisted well be aimed at ible fact : the six turns of croissant dough less fl avour than executed. The like the start peaks; crisp shell; kids. Sure, they create a whopping 729 layers of puff if you eat them inner dough of a potholing moist interior – is taste sweet and pastry), this is not something you can cold. Straight tastes greasy, expedition. Once halfway to great- creamy, but in whip up on a whim. Which is why, this from the packet, undercooked, warmed through, ness. It just lacks a rather cheap month, we’re testing the packaged crois- you, at least, get light on fl avour. however, the fl avour. You want way, which, sants available at your local multiple a residual sense Overall, this is fl avour is not a croissant as combined retailer. Interestingly, while low-carb of the manufac- like chewing on bad at all. The rich and smooth with their soft, diets and an appetite for real bread turer’s sweet, a sponge that, shell (toasted, as Sacha Distel. brioche-like have sent supermarket sliced-bread buttery intent. slowly, sucks all savoury) anchors This? Faintly texture and sales into a nosedive, the croissant is Flabby and char- moisture from a well-judged sweet, faintly oily, lumpen one bakery product whose sales remain acterless, these your mouth. sweetness and buttery. dough, becomes buoyant. To an extent, as a nation, we croissants are 3/10 the dough, made 5/10 (six-year-olds

have swapped our daily bread for this defi nitely not from 31% Brittany may take a very JILL MEAD FOR THE GUARDIAN GETTY; continental indulgence. But are any of worth the guilt butter, boasts diff erent view) our supermarket croissants worth the of the carb-binge an assertive rich increasingly calories? Or are they an insult to centu- comedown . creaminess. unpleasant. 4/10 7/10 3/10

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12 The Guardian 25.05.17 Waitrose, Waitrose 1 Inspect a gadget croissants au beurre de KitchenCraft 5-in-1 Charentes M&S, 4 all-butter 2-pack, £1.50 Sainsbury’s, avocado tool, croissants Ooh la la! They Taste the Diff er- 4-pack, £1.80 are expensive ence croissants £8.99, amazon.com M&S’s in-store and with that 4-pack, £2 bakery croissants French label un These crois- (75p each, peu prétentieux, sants certainly By Rhik Samadder 7/10) are fairly but these Wait- look the part. impressive, rose dandies They are evenly What? a spoon”, so here is a 5-in-1 avocado ornate patisserie. – made with tanned across D ouble-ended multi-tool comprising tool that lets you “de-stone, scoop, They are a 32% traditional, their ascending, a cutaway scoop, a serrated blade and mash, slice and cut ”. “Slice” and “cut” light but fi rm cultured curvaceous a clamping jaw. Used to access and are synonyms, but whatever. The with a pleasant Charentes twists and the prepare avocado fl esh. gadget is shaped like a shark, for no interaction of butter – are interior is a lacy reason. The adjustable, toothed clamp deep-baked a real cut-above. kaleidoscope of Why? closes like jaws and the blade cover savoury and Warming them, random holes Can’t perform basic tasks without has a dorsal fi n. (If you are going go to almost custardy you perhaps – like some inadvertently self-harming? Now you that kind of eff ort, why not call it the fl avours. Its lose some of the ancient geolog- avocando! Great White Lunch Maker?) The blade packaged butter’s ripe, ical substrata. is sharp. The scoop scoops. Mash- croissants almost lactic Beneath their Well? ing the creamy green works fi ne. The have no such complexity, toasty, well- The avocado craze was always ripe for stone clamp, slid by thumb, is fl imsy, va-va-voom. but these light, baked exteriors, parody, but now things are legit ridic . however, and easily detaches itself. They are dense, superbly fl aky these are an inef- Hipsters have taken to drinking lattes A spoon is better. Or a knife, used with somewhat greasy croissants (the fably light, moist out of the shells. Millionaires use them care. Or your bare hands. I dare say in their bottom inner a reassur- croissant with a to belittle the less privileged. Perhaps a toe. This is a shark-shaped waste layers and any ingly irregular strong Normandy most disturbing is the reported spike in of space and money, but if you have sweet, buttery honeycomb of air butter-based “avocado hand” . When I heard about enough of both to spare, open wide. fl avours are holes), nonethe- fl avour. That avocado hand, I pictured a villainous The device mostly works , which is peripheral – like a less taste like the fl avour is sweet, Mexican wrestler, but it’s a serious a shame, since it doesn’t need to. If tantalising prize sun suddenly eggy almost, but problem. People attempting to cut you’re considering buying this mon- that, in a dream, appearing from with an unex- stones from the soft fruits are fi nding it strosity, avowordwithyourself. remains just behind a cloud. pected round- too easy – it’s literally like sliding a knife outside your Judiciously ness and depth, through nature’s butter – and stabbing Any downside? grasp. Ultimately, balanced with as if this dough themselves. Even Meryl Streep , famed That’s the guac sorted. But how will these are dull, sweet and has been treated for her versatility, has injured herself I sprinkle the salt, or remember which somewhat dry savoury notes, to an extended getting to the good stuff . It’s like a Jun- end of the fork to use, or know when croissants with that buttery fermentation. gle Book lyric. I’m not judg mental, but I’m hungry? The struggle is unreal. a markedly fl avour is not Not indie artisan if you can’t remove an avocado stone underdeveloped overbearing, baker quality, but without chopping off your hand, there’s Counter, drawer, back of the fl avour. either. sound. something wrong with you. cupboard? 3/10 8/10 7/10 I can’t review “common sense and Hardly Sophie’s Choice. 2/5

Winner! Waitrose’s ... taste like sun appearing from behind a cloud

Rhik gets to de-stoning with the 5-in-1 tool

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his Venetian speciality, and the Caldesis, I am resigned to traditionally made to the fact stirring gives a richer, thicker T celebrate the feast of San consistency. Marco in late April, when local peas are at their The fi nishing touches sweetest, is also the perfect way to Parmesan is a must, and fresh herbs a celebrate the start of our own season. desirable extra: parsley is traditional, though I prefer Lawson and Norman’s The peas Anglo-Italian mint. This is British pea The great Marcella Hazan says in season, after all. Essentials of Italian Cookery that fresh peas are the “essential quality of this Serves 4 dish” and Polpo’s Russell Norman 1kg young peas in their pods agrees in his cookbook of the same 1l good chicken or vegetable stock name: “ This is not one of those dishes where frozen peas will do. Absolutely 40g butter not. Sorry.” Nigella Lawson in Forever Can this Venetian dish only be made with 2 tbsp olive oil Summer, mindful of the sugars in fresh fresh peas or will frozen do? And that’s 1 small onion, finely chopped peas turning to starch, is unapologetic 100g pancetta (optional) in her recommendation of frozen before we get started on the fork or spoon 250g vialone nano or carnaroli rice petit pois . Even Katie and Giancarlo debate ... By Felicity Cloake (preferably the former) Caldesi’s tinned peas in their book Venice are surprisingly delicious. 50g parmesan, finely grated Neither recipe can boast the same How to make Small handful of mint or flat-leaf parsley intensity of fresh fl avour as those that leaves use the pods as well . Hazan adds them, peeled, to the the perfect Pod the peas. Fill a pan with 1.5l of dish. Peeling proves fi ddly – you get water and put just enough pods in more fl avour if, like Norman, you use there to be submerged. Discard the them to make stock. A dd the peas to risi e bisi rest. Bring to the boil, then turn down the pan just before the end so they the heat and simmer for 30-60 minutes don’t overcook. If you can’t fi nd fresh, until reduced by about half. use frozen, and cook and puree a few, Strain and discard the pods. Add as Lawson suggests . the pea liquid to the chicken stock and bring back to simmer. The base Melt half the butter with the oil Most start with onion, cooked in a in a saucepan. Soften the onion, add mixture of butter and olive oil, and The rice the pancetta if using and cook for 5 Elizabeth David, the Caldesis and Carnaroli is fi ne – Norman prefers it – minutes. Norman also add pork (pancetta or but if you can track down the starchier Stir in the rice and cook until fatty ham). Though not mandatory , it Venetian vialone nano, it will give you slightly translucent, then turn up the does pair very well with peas. a creamier result. heat and add a ladle of stock. Stir until it begins to look dry, then repeat The stock THE DEBATE The technique until the rice is tender, adding the You can continue the theme by using Lawson and David are both of the peas after about 10 minutes. It should ham stock, like the Caldesis – lighter To share your opinion that, unlike risotto, constant be thick and soupy – you may not tips, read more of than Hazan’s veal stock, and less stirring is not necessary for risi e bisi need all the stock. Felicity’s techniques aggressive than Lawson’s vegetable and join the – and their recipes prove you can get Stir in the cheese and remaining bouillon, it proves almost as popular as conversation, visit perfectly delicious results simply by butter, cover and leave for 5 minutes. David’s chicken variety . Avoid cubes ; theguardian.com/ covering the pot and leaving it . For Season, divide between bowls and top they’ll be too strong here. food perfection however, like Norman with the herbs.

14 The Guardian 25.05.17 Notes and queries

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that proved a temporary aberration, as Is there any logic Luckily, checkout staff in France Who or what was the House of Wessex was eventually applied by the haven’t yet been trained to ask restored to the throne in the form of guardians of the intrusive questions, because I hate Ethelred unready for? ferry queues at Edward the Confessor, Ethelred’s son. having to chitchat with strangers. a terminal? Why SubscriberXYZ does lane 5 load Even “bonjour” when I walk in bugs He was poorly advised and failed after lane 11 or me. The best saleswoman ever sold to keep the Danes at bay. It seems whatever? Why do me a gorgeous coat that I had no “Ethelred the Unready” is a his main defensive “strategy” was the cars in a lane intention of buying, simply by modern-English interpretation of prayer and piety, as he believed that get paused halfway slipping it off the hanger and his Anglo-Saxon nickname, Aethelraed the Danish advances were God’s through, only for helping me into it without saying Unraed. In Old English Aethelraed punishment for ’s sins. a totally different a word. lane to get star means “good counsel”, an appropriate Military preparedness would probably rebelwithmouseyhair treatment? I always name for a monarch. The nickname have been more eff ective. seem to end up Unraed, meaning “bad counsel”, was Regordane being last to board. given to him by people who disapproved George Foster, Why doesn’t my dog of his decision to off er payments to the Abergavenny catch my cold? Vikings to stop them raiding England. How do I deal with Emily Peqbody Which politician in checkout chitchat? history has been Sellar and Yeatman in their funny treated worst or history book 1066 And All That most unfairly? summed it up: “Ethelread the Unready Level Spirit I’ve got a streaming cold but my dog is ... was called the Unready because he unaff ected. Why doesn’t she catch my was never ready when the Danes were. What’s the best response to intrusive Send questions cold and why can’t whatever it is that Rather than wait for him the Danes used questions from supermarket checkout and answers to stops her getting a cold be used to to fi ne him large sums called Danegeld, staff who have been trained to ask nq@theguardian. com treat my cold? for not being ready. But though they personal questions rather than chat or online at theguardian.com/ were always ready, the Danes had very about the weather? I’m a middle-aged lifeandstyle/series/ Most viruses are species- bad memories and often used to forget woman and am at a loss about how to notes-and-queries. specifi c. Where they do cross that they had been paid the Danegeld respond to the youth who asks me if Please include name, between species, as in swine fl u and and came back for it almost before they I’ve “got any nice plans for tonight?” address and phone some strains of bird fl u, it can be had sailed away. By that time Ethelread number. quite frightening. was always unready again.” Deal with it in the traditional pavanne Echlin British way. Just make Dogs and people are diff erent The nickname was not coined noncommittal noises and redirect the species; but some viruses are until the 12th century, 150 years conversation into subjects like the better than others at crossing between after Ethelred’s reign. It was originally weather and how the Tories have been species. Rabies, for instance, can infect “Aethelred Unrede”, or “noble counsel, horrible to the disabled this week. many mammal species and in no counsel” – the implication being CrypticMirror laboratory tests can apparently infect that, contrary to the suggestion of his I live opposite a Co-op and many non-mammal species. given name, he was poorly advised. consider the staff friends (one tinyismynewt The nickname is somewhat unfair very nice lady found my daughter My cat gets colds – she gets as, despite Ethelred II coming to the many years ago when she wandered gummy eyes and a snotty nose throne at the tender age of 12, England outside the house). They ask me how I and sneezes non-stop. It’s rather cute,

ART COLLECTION/ALAMY ART only succumbed to the territorial am and I ask them. It makes my day, until you realise she’s spraying cat-snot ambitions of the Danish empire under and hopefully theirs, a little better. Unfair nickname? all over the place. Ethelred the Unready

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25.05.17 The Guardian 15 Arts

hen American artist Judy Chicago accepted W an invitation earlier this year from the Tate to paint a large-scale public mural as part of ’s Sgt Pepper at 50 celebration of the Beatles’ most popular album, she was amused to hear of an exchange between two of the curators involved in the project. One of them said, “What is Judy going to do? Paint a giant vagina?” The other replied, “I hope so.” It wouldn’t have been out of char- acter. Chicago’s signature image is of heavily stylised female sexual organs painted in vivid, almost psychedelic, swirling hues — like an op art Georgia O’Keeff e. She created these works by spray-painting canvas or hand-painting china plates; as she did for the place settings in The Dinner Party , her most famous and celebrated work. It sought to illuminate the contributions of 39 women who shaped world history and culture, from Ishtar and Kali to Virginia ‘The Beatles represent Woolf and Susan B Anthony . While her work is single-minded and serious, in person, Chicago is a riot; a tightly wired ball of energy, ideas things we have lost and enthusiasm who laughs loud and often . With her puce hair, blue-tinted glasses and baby-pink fl eece hoodie, – hope and freedom’ she personifi es the vibrant palette of her art. Of all the participants in the For Sgt Pepper’s 50th anniversary, Judy Sgt Pepper at 50 project – 13 commis- sions (one for each song ) including new Chicago – the great psychedelic visionary work by Jeremy Deller, choreographer Mark Morris and a fi reworks display by of feminist art – has created a giant mop-top French pyrotechnics company Groupe mural inspired by Fixing a Hole. After all, she F – Chicago is perhaps the unlikeliest . Chris Campion And that, according to Kasia Redzisz, tells , the song sums up senior curator at Tate Liverpool, was what she has spent her career trying to do precisely the point. Chicago, says Redzisz, is “an artist who, in quite a subtle and sophisticated way, under- mines what was happening back then”, and provides “a very strong female response to celebrate four male art- to me that that was all wrong and that mop-top prime. She has been watching ists”. And the Beatles weren’t exactly it was now time to fi x all of that.” anxiously on a webcam from her home feminists. Although, as Chicago points And this is how Chicago connected 4,800 miles away as Gary Jones, the out, “John was radicalised by Yoko”; with the song. She sees it as “about Liverpool painter tasked with realis- albeit resulting in the ham-fi sted (if not being discounted and wanting to give a ing her design, scurries up and down outright off ensive) 1972 feminist protest voice — ‘fi xing a hole’ of who counted”. a giant scaff old. When complete, the song, Woman is the Nigger of the World. That is what Chicago has been doing mural will be 60 feet by 40. The Sgt Pepper song Chicago was Given a almost her entire career as an artist, Chicago and her husband of 22 years, assigned – Fixing a Hole – is an odd says Redzisz: “Fixing the hole in art photographer Donald Woodman, live fi sh. So slight and inconsequential that choice of history with her works, to include in the small New Mexico town of Belen . fans and critics have worked overtime women artists in art history.” Their home is a red-brick 1920s hotel to fi ll it with meaning. It has been locations, Given a choice of three locations , that once served as a boarding house variously interpreted as a song about she picked a Chicago chose a large phallic building for railroad workers. Much of the wall heroin, or about Paul McCartney’s with a slit down the middle — the der- space is given over to watercolours and labours to fi x the roof of the Scottish large phallic elict White Tomkins and Courage Grain porcelain statuettes of their six cats. farmhouse he had bought in 1966 as building Silo, built in 1913 on the Stanley Dock, The remote town off ers her space to a tax write-off . McCartney told Beat beside the Mersey. “So that solved work and “a kind of psychic privacy”. historian Barry Miles, however, that with a slit my problem about the ‘hole’, right?” All the more necessary since, after the song was “about all those pissy down the she laughs. She designed a mural that spending 50 years as the consummate people who told you, ‘Don’t daydream, combined geometric shapes with styl- outsider and “femme terrible” of the don’t do this, don’t do that.’ It seemed middle ised silhouettes of the Beatles in their contemporary art world, Chicago sud- 16 The Guardian 25.05.17 denly fi nds herself feted as an elder cago, after her place of birth. She took stateswoman. Transparent creator out a full page ad in Art Forum parody- Jill Soloway is currently developing a ing the macho posturing of her male television series for Amazon around peers: Chicago as a street-tough in a Womanhouse, the 1972 women-only art boxing ring ready to take on all-comers. installation Chicago curated with artist Chicago’s anger pulsed from a series Miriam Schapiro. of unsparing photographic images One of the reasons Redzisz that she turned into litho prints: Red approached Chicago is because, at 78, Flag — a close-up of a bloodied tampon she is of the same generation as John, being pulled from between her legs Paul, George and Ringo. But the Beatle- ‘I’m not the she claims as “the fi rst image of men- mania surrounding the bands’ 1964 groupie type’ … struation in western art”; Gunsmoke, arrival in the US and their TV debut on clockwise from a portrait of the artist, head snapped the Ed Sullivan Show all but passed her left, Judy Chicago back from the force of a gun lodged by, she admits, because she didn’t own in front of her deep in her mouth; and Love Story, in a TV. In any case, she deadpans, “I’m boxing parody; a which a pistol is pointed menacingly not the groupie type.” sketch of her towards a woman’s nude behind . Chicago hinted at her own taste in mural, and Newly liberated from creating gen- music with 1965 installation piece Rain- webcam footage derless art, she sought to establish a bow Pickett, titled after Wilson Pickett, of it taking shape; language for her work that merged her but understands the signifi cance of Sgt Pepper’s “in your face” content with her love Sgt Pepper in that radical fl owering of album cover of craft — and came up with the psy- youthful invention that changed culture chedelic vaginas of her Through the forever. Not least, the way in which and paintings that resembled repro- Flower series. After that, the projects Peter Blake’s artful and iconic collage on ductive organs into geometric forms. became more complex and collabora- the record’s cover marked a merging of “I had stripped my work of as many tive, revealing hidden and neglected the music and art world. gender associations as I could, having stories of women in works such as The That late 60s explosion in permis- discovered that if my gender showed Dinner Party and the Birth Project, with sive creativity did not automatically in my art it would disqualify me from its needlework images of childbirth. extend to women. “Absolutely not,” being taken seriously.” But she soon When Redzisz contacted her, she was Chicago roars. Her memories of the started “getting really restive with just completing The End: a Meditation Beatles in 1967 are from hearing their what I call ‘male drag’,” she says. “Try- on Death and Extinction . music on the radio . “I was in my studio ing to paint and act like I was a guy.” If she once spearheaded a revolu- in Pasadena, working 60 hours a week, Fortunately, 1967 wasn’t just good tion, Chicago now sees the struggle for trying to make a place for myself in an vibes . It was also the year that radical change as something that takes place entirely male art scene.” She corrects feminism was born as Valerie Solanas in waves, ebbing and fl owing across herself. “Fighting for a place for myself published her Scum Manifesto, a call generations . “I’m not a conspiracy in an entirely male arts scene.” to arms by the imaginary Society for theorist,” she says, “however, I do feel She had been part of the group Cutting Up Men, and former child star like there’s a pushing forward and then surrounding LA’s Ferus Gallery that ‘In 1967, I Robin Morgan, Shulamith Firestone a push back. And that’s the story of included Ed Ruscha, Bob Irwin, John was working and Pam Allen formed feminist protest the human race. For me, that’s all the Altoon, Billy Al Bengston, and Larry Bell group New York Radical Women. Donald Trump win is — a push back for — himself featured on the Sgt Pepper 60 hours In her memoir, Chicago writes the white guys.” cover, tucked between John Lennon that she “shuddered with terror” on So Chicago’s mural celebrating the and Ringo Starr, in an image cut out a week in reading the Scum Manifesto, recog- Beatles feels timely. “They have come from a 1964 photo by his friend Den- my studio – ni sing aspects of her own rage at her to represent something that has been nis Hopper. Chicago, still going by her continuing struggle to be recognised . lost . Their music embodies hope and married name, Gerowitz, was accepted fi ghting for In 1969, she joined the faculty at Cal change and freedom. They had really as one of the lads, if not their equal. She a place in State Fresno and founded the fi rst ever authentic voices.” Just like the psyche- even looked androgynous, with boyish Feminist Art Program. One student delic visionary of feminist art herself. short hair, and dressed in beatnik roll- the entirely told Chicago’s biographer, Gail Levin, neck sweaters and jeans. she was like “Che Guevara”. In 1970, male arts Fixing a Hole, by Judy Chicago and Her art too had been de-sexed – she renounced her married name and Tate Liverpool, is unveiled on 29 May. from the early biomorphic sculptures scene’ adopted the nom-de-plume Judy Chi- Sgt Pepper at 50 runs until 16 June DONALD WOODMAN; JUDY CHICAGO; APPLE CORPS LTD CHICAGO; DONALD WOODMAN; JUDY PHOTOGRAPHS PHOTOGRAPHS

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o listen to Sally Rooney, ‘Drawn to intense people’ … Rooney you would guess she has T always been a great talker. experiences and thinking about them”. As an undergraduate at By “experiences”, she means having a Trinity College Dublin, she coff ee with a friend or reading a book – became Europe’s No 1 student debater. not backpacking in Peru. Now she has written her debut novel Still, she is only 26, so this fallow – Conversations With Friends – which period couldn’t have been that long. motors along thanks to its brilliant, Before the literature masters, she funny and startling dialogue, most of dropped out of a masters in poli- which is played out between two col- tics, also at Trinity. It was the year lege students (ex-girlfriends, now best between then and starting to write the friends) and an older married couple. novel that allowed her “to go on this One of the students – Frances, the incredibly prolifi c streak” in which narrator – specialises in barbed retorts she worked 16 or 18 hours a day, not and has an aff air with the husband. even planning or plotting, just writing. “Dialogue is the most fun to write,” “I can feel that winding down now,” Rooney says. “It’s like a tennis match. Fast and she says. “It’s going to be diffi cult to Do the fi rst one,” and then ping, ping, convince myself that I’m allowed to “it has to go back and forth.” Across just not do anything.” Why so busy? instant messenger, email, text and face- “I don’t think of myself as busy,” she to-face exchanges, her protagonists furious says, “because I don’t even have to get play out their relationships , sometimes dressed most days.” interested, sometimes opposed, yet Europe’s one-time champion debater is Rooney grew up in Castlebar, “a as stitched into each other as a thread now being dubbed the ‘Salinger for the run-of-the-mill small town in the drawn through a four-hole button. Snapchat generation’. Paula Cocozza west of Ireland”. Her dad worked for We are sitting in London’s Grosvenor Telecom Éireann, her mum ran the arts hotel (she has just fl own in from Dublin meets Sally Rooney, whose debut novel centre. The Rooney children – Sally, where she lives) and Rooney’s coff ee Conversations With Friends was written her younger sister and older brother isn’t getting much of a look-in. Has – “were always going to see plays and she always liked to talk? “That’s an in a fl at-out fever of creativity interpretive dance and visual arts”. At interesting question,” she says, which 15 she completed her fi rst novel, and sounds like the sort of reply you might while she cheerily damns it as “abso- fi nd in a champion debater’s armoury, lute trash”, it’s a pretty impressive feat. but in fact she is endearingly open. I suspect she has always been a high “I’m very introverted. Easily a few days But in their use of technology, the gen- achiever, because at Trinity she won could go by where I would not leave erations are more intricately bound. a “very lucrative” scholarship, which the house or talk to anybody other The book sold in a seven-way auction gave her space to write. Then, when than my partner.” But she has “always last year and Rooney worked with she decided she wanted to enter into been drawn to intense people who like “huge speed”, writing 100,000 words the “glamorous” world of debating, she to talk”. Conversations with real-life in three months, while also meeting became No 1 in Europe. “God, I know! friends about masculinity, gender and deadlines for her masters in American I’m such an intense person!” Her short politics that ranged over hours, helped literature. She had been approached story, Mr Salary , was shortlisted for the to fuel the book. by Tracy Bohan of the Wylie literacy Sunday Times award. Trusted friends Rooney is 26 and her youth, and agency, but held off sending her the ‘I’m now are already reading her second novel. the youth of her sharp-eyed, sharp- manuscript. “I would rather do two winding It’s hardly surprising Rooney is always tongued narrator, have led her editor things really, really, really well than being described as “precocious”. at Faber to describe her as “Salinger do 16 things and have 14 of them fail,” down. Is there, I wonder, an expiry date for for the Snapchat generation”. The she says. “I wanted to get the novel I don’t even precocity? She doesn’t hesitate. “I can older characters have money, hold as perfect as I could. I think it’s an get more mileage out of it. Defi nitely!” parties “full of people wearing long aversion to failure.” She thinks she was have to necklaces”(a brilliant condemnation of able to write so fast because she allowed get dressed Conversations With Friends is published on a generation’s day-to-night dressing), her mind “to lie fallow for several years 1 June by Faber. Sally Rooney is speaking at and cook with aubergine and chorizo. producing nothing, just kind of having most days’ Libreria, London, tonight XXXXXX PHOTOGRAPHS PHOTOGRAPHS

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My best shot Marvin E Newman ‘I wanted to show the well-off the underclass – where they lived, how they lived, what they did’

In 1952, I came back to New York after shuttered, but there was this harsh, I went back to Coney Island years studying in Chicago, keen to break brilliant sun. Why are these people later and did a set in the summer. new ground. I decided to use colour just sitting there doing nothing? Why THE CV It’s still a very inexpensive way to to document what people were doing, does that man have a refl ector under enjoy your day off – there’s no tax, even though colour was not what his face? They’re just soaking it up, no entry fee, you just have to get Born museums wanted. The other problem trying to get as much sun as possible. The Bronx, 1927. there. The groups going to the beach was that colour fi lm was so slow. “Photos While U Wait,” says the Trained were completely diff erent to 50 years You needed fast lenses and enough sign – but in the winter, no one does Brooklyn College; previously. There was a huge Hispanic sunlight. Still, I felt that I could not any of the things the area was made Illinois Institute of population, as well as people from only succeed, but do better than what for. Coney Island had a lot of public Technology. Ghana. It was fantastic how the scene had gone before. housing. There was unemployment, Influences had changed , even though the people The fi rst shots I took were at the the backstreets could be dangerous. Walker Evans, Lewis were doing exactly the same thing – Hine, Harry Callahan. Italian festival in downtown New York. But here you have a photograph saying High point getting some sun and going in the water. The second were at Coney Islandsland . In there’s there s life oout there. “A picture taken at That’s the biggest thing about New the summer, Coney Island wwasas like I’m alwalways looking at the world half-time in a football York: change. It never stops. They’re Brighton in England. We didn’tdn’t throughthrough a horizontal or vertical game, which Sports building it, knocking it down, building have air-conditioning back tthenhen – rectangle.rectangle I wanted to change the Illustrated considered it again. That’s why photography is so you’d have thousands on thee beach, world withwit my photographs – show best sports photo of worthwhile . It gives an understanding because it was the only way to ggetet thethe w well-off the underclass – the 20th century.” of what was once there. My photographs Low point out of the heat of the city. Therehere wherewh they lived, how they will live on after me. Everything I “I was in commercial MARVIN E NEWMAN 2017/ MARVIN were still remnants of the earlyarly lillived,v what they did. People for a spell. It wasn’t wanted to put in a photograph is here. 1900s: gardens, silent didn’td register them, but where I wanted to be.” movies, carousels. by taking a photograph Top tip Interview by Ben Beaumont-Thomas. In the winter, though, you had a n image to put in “ Don’t let anyone City of Lights, a Marvin E Newman limited- edition monograph, is published by Taschen. PHOTOGRAPH PHOTOGRAPH OF TASCHEN COURTESY GREENBERG GALLERY, HOWARD everything was closed and their . dissuade you.”

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rom the helicopter camera, There’s a riot goin’ on … police in Hyde it looks like a nature doc Park in The Met F – the Serengeti, or some- where like that, where huge the operation to fi nd the Park Lane gatherings of wildlife run stabber. Op San Marino is initially about in diff erent directions, scared approved – San Marino is the only because there are predators about . team England can beat at football. But these are not zebras and wilde- Then someone else points out that beest , they are people. And it’s not the San Marino is an area of LA and might Serengeti, but Hyde Park in London, the have a connection to the riots there 25 commentary not from David Attenbor- years ago. They settle for San Ma – ah, ough but a concerned-sounding police cunningly disguised. How about Op offi cer. “As you can see, there is mass Keystone next time? migration in all directions,” he says. Not Last night's TV But on the whole the Met cops come Planet Earth , but The Met (BBC1). out of this pretty well (although is a It’s midsummer and an impromptu Riots, stabbings, high-speed 70mph chase through the centre of full-moon gathering is happening. town to catch a 17-year-old who had When the cops tried to close it down, chases: the challenges of nicked his mum’s BMW really neces- scuffl es broke out. Now all hell is kick- sary?). From the trailers, it looks as if ing off and a couple of police offi cers there will be more from the other side have been injured. The crowd has dis- policing London in future episodes, from people who see persed, but the violence continues in them as the enemy. For balance. Already the surrounding streets. On Park Lane compulsive viewing, though. a man is stabbed. Someone captures It’s perhaps not surprising that it all on their phone. The victim is set White Gold (BBC2) – written by The upon by a gang and he runs through Inbetweeners co-creator Damon the traffi c, trying to get away. Some- Beesley and co-starring Inbetween- one kicks him over and someone else ers James Buckley and Joe Thomas, sets on him with a hunting knife, stabs By Sam Wollaston alongside Ed Westwick – has some- him repeatedly, right in the middle thing of The Inbetweeners about it. of the road, with cars and buses all ing with sex workers. Not arresting The same sort of hilarious but utterly around. them, but trying to get to the traffi ckers believable boyzy bantz. Is it a little It’s one of the most disturbing things who exploit them, plus the kerb crawl- more grown-up, given that Vincent, I’ve seen on television – shocking, ers and the drug dealers. Vicky makes Fitzpatrick and Lavender are in their brutal animal behaviour. If it had been a lot of sense. “They do not need me 20s? Maybe a tiny bit – but it’s still natural history, the fi lm-maker might standing there preaching to them about pretty puerile have got a Bafta. Instead, it’s crucial being a prostitute and how disgusting Set in the 80s, there’s something of evidence in an investigation . Amazingly that i s. For me, it doesn’t achieve any- Ashes to Ashes about its nostalgia, nice the victim survives the attack. Perhaps thing at all,” she says. cars and tunes (Laura Branigan, Lancia even more amazingly, given that he was But she does take a friendly interest Beta Spyder, Kim Carnes, Cortina) . wearing a mask, the attacker with the in their work. “Just out of interest, how They’re double-glazing salesmen: massive knife is caught. This engrossing much are you charging at the minute?” Essex, no ethics, wankers. AND ANOTHER series about the country’s biggest police she asks one woman. The woman tells THING Westwick’s asides to camera might force follows the hunt, from the party in her. “Thirty quid, for a blow job?” get tiresome. Otherwise, yeah, it’s the park, via hours of phone and CCTV says Vicky, casually, as if the woman funny. Best gag: when Vincent and footage, to the suspect’s door being had told her she gets only four weeks’ Why do the police say Fitzpatrick lay hats all round the offi ce, “left left” and “right bashed down in a dawn raid. There’s holiday a year. to help ex-musician Lavender through right”, instead of just the knife, a horrendous weapon, with There are a few comedy moments. left and right, during a diffi cult time when the struggling bloodstains inside the sheaf. A couple of American tourists try to a chase? Does it not band he left to sell double glazing, Paul It’s not all so high-octane. In east get a ride home in a squad car. There take twice as long Young’s , has a massive No1 hit with London, a sergeant called Vicky is work- is some confusion about what to call to say? Wherever I Lay My Hat. Ha. BBC PHOTOGRAPH PHOTOGRAPH

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