Mick Jones: Bringing Punk to Venice

In three small rooms off an alleyway running next to the Metropole hotel in Venice, a sprawl of agitprop literature, punk fanzines, and Boy’s Own comics, stacks of VHS movies, vinyl records, and books, stage outfits, posters, paintings and artworks all vie for attention, crammed across walls and hanging from ceilings.

In the midst of one of the art world’s premier events, The Rock and Roll Public Library offers a cartoon vista on pop culture collected over 40+ years…