They have always found a way of combining a rebellious punk attitude with an experimental avant-garde approach. This explains their presence in the galleries of Museion as protagonists of an exhibition produced by the Bolzano-based museum in collaboration with LiFE, St.Nazaire and curated by Roland Groenenboom. The show presents (until 4 January 2009) a quarter of a century of transversal projects by this New York cult group, highlighting their collaboration with artists (such as Vito Acconci, Dan Graham, who has created a special pavilion in the exhibition for listening to the band’s sound archives, Raymond Pettibon and Mike Kelley); writers (including William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg); filmmakers (Spike Jonze, Todd Haynes); and photographers (Cindy Sherman, Richard Kern). The records, videos, posters, T-shirts, musical instruments, fanzines and photographs reveal a lively alternative to mass culture. Elena Sommariva