Dream the End

An online gallery streamlines the interaction between users and content

Hastening to bridge the gap between traditional media’s tendency to over-curate and the Internet’s overflow of content, Melissa Jones has relaunched Dream the End, an online space for art, music, poetry and film. With a homepage curated by guest editors, the site will update regularly as new virtual “editions” are released. The content comes from a mix of emerging artists and lesser-known figures from the …

We Can Be Heroes

An insider's perspective on London's clubland 1976-1984

There’s a seductiveness that surrounds the London club scene of the late ’70s and early ’80s. It was an era that spawned a host of new music, a few new drugs, some serious fashion and Boy George. With his new book, “We Can Be Heroes,” Graham Smith packages the nostalgia for those who romanticize or actually remember it. As a young man, the untrained photographer …

Bergenz Festival

Olaf Breuning's boobs, Twitter scatterplots, skin writing and more in this week's look at the web

Get ready for a mind-blowing, floating culture fix this summer. The annual Bergenz Festival takes to Switzerland’s Lake Constance to stage wildly re-imagined performances for “Opera on the Lake.” Since 1946, the flamboyant festival has floated tricked-out jumbo sets on massive barges for traditional opera scores, elevated to fantastical levels.