Art round-up: Punk in its heyday: which side were you on?

There is an exhibit in Punk 1976-78 which made me break out in (nostalgic) smiles. It is a T-shirt called You’re Gonna Wake Up One Morning And Know Which Side of the Bed You’ve Been Lying On, made by Malcolm McLaren. On one side it lists names of enemies of the punk state: Peregrine Worsthorne, John Betjeman, Bryan Ferry, Nicky Weymouth, Antonia Fraser, Rose and Anne Lambton. On the other side, it lists the names that have less offended: Christine Keeler, The Sex Pistols.

In 1929, the poet Brian Howard attempted a similar list, under headings “J’Accuse”, and “J’Adore”: Missionaries and Eligible Bachelors in one list; Jazz, Acrobats and DH Lawrence in the other.