In this very special live episode of The Last Bohemians, as part of Tate Lates, host Kate Hutchinson talks to actor, model and activist Lily Cole and Amrita Dhallu, Assistant Curator of International Art at Tate Modern, to discuss the life and work of Swedish pioneer of abstract art, Hilma af Klint (1862-1944). Cole stars as one of De Fem ('The Five'), af Klint's Stockholm-based spiritual group who communed with spirits during séances in the late-1800s, in Lasse Hallström's brand new biopic...

An audio addendum to our LA season this year, The Last Bohemians hopped over to Santa Fé to meet the one and only Julia Cameron. Our series is dedicated to creative women who've lived their lives outside the norm. Julia has spent hers guiding others, with her creativity manual The Artist's Way. Very sadly, Julia had just lost her beloved dog when we arrived one afternoon, but she soldiered on. It's a whistlestop tour through her early days, breaking into the boys club of 1970s journalism,...

French fashion disruptor Michéle Lamy is known as the wife of designer Rick Owens but she's is a chameleonic creative in her own right, forever staging art happenings and musical collaborations around the world, as well as co-designing the furniture for the Rick Owens line. She’s so in-demand that she’s tricky to track down: we did this interview partly in London, at Claridges, and partly at the Chateau Marmont in LA, where Michéle lived until the early 2000s. In those days, she was better...

Penny Slinger is the British feminist surrealist whose work in the 1960s and 70s was groundbreaking – but then she disappeared. Now living in Los Angeles, she talks to The Last Bohemians about her incredible life: being pals with Lee Miller, living in a turret with pet falcons, finding her way in a male-dominated art world, how tantra revitalised her life and work, performing a real-life sex scene in the only feature film directed by a woman in the 1970s, sensual and sexual liberation – and...

The Last Bohemians LA, supported by Audio-Technica, meets the “hyena of performance art”, whose transgressive spectacles of New Wave theatre, experimental noise, elaborate and crude costumes, chaotic rituals, gory props like pig heads and blood – lots of blood – built a cult following in the 1980s LA punk scene and predated Lady Gaga’s meat dress by decades

Lynn Castle was one of the first women in Hollywood to cut men’s hair and known as the first lady barber of LA – which she immortalised in her song 'The Lady Barber' with Nancy Sinatra producer Lee Hazlewood. Little is known about Lynn today but back in the acid-drenched 60s she hung out with movers and shakers of the era like Jim Morrison, the Byrds, Sonny Bono and Neil Young (and trimmed their long locks). In this episode of The Last Bohemians: LA, supported by Audio-Technica, she...

Our LA series, supported by Audio-Technica, returns this week with a Last Bohemians first: in a very special episode, we speak to three generations of an American artistic dynasty up in the leafy hills of Laurel Canyon: Alison Saar, her daughter Maddy Leeser and her mother, 96-year-old Betye Saar, whose 1960s and 70s work was so revolutionary that Angela Davis credited it with launching the Black women’s movement. Join us around the garden table as the three women discuss their encouraging...

The Last Bohemians: LA heads up to the valley and to meet the wife of the late Johnny Ramone – guitarist in one the greatest punk bands there ever was – and custodian of the Linda and Johnny Ramone Ranch, a paradise of countercultural curios, movie memorabilia and Elvis collectables. Over a morning aperitif, Linda talks about growing up with NYC punk, dating bandmates and younger men, what Lisa-Marie Presley thinks of her themed Elvis room, the importance of fandom, her musical obsessions,...

The Last Bohemians: LA continues with Bond Girl, Gloria Hendry. She made film history with Live and Let Die, becoming Bond's first Black love interest, and took on edgy roles in what were known as the blaxploitation films of the 1970s. She talks about being a trailblazer, raunchy sex scenes, what being a Playboy Bunny taught her about life and how she paved the way for Black women in film

The Last Bohemians: Los Angeles kicks off with LA legend Angelyne, the blonde bombshell who rose to fame in the 1980s when her billboards started mysteriously appearing around the city (and about whom Peacock released a major, hugely hyped biopic in 2022). Get to know the real Angelyne as host Kate Hutchinson takes an eventful ride in her hot-pink Corvette, is schooled in the difference between mystery and mystique, and control and allure, and finds out how she laid the groundwork for the...

Get in the mood for our upcoming LA series with this classic episode from series 1 featuring the OG Hollywood bohemian, Pamela Des Barres

The Last Bohemians has gone to LA for a brand new series, supported by Audio-Technica, starting on 6 July and starring LA icon Angelyne, subversive fashion disruptor Michéle Lamy, punk-rock widow Linda Ramone, feminist surrealist Penny Slinger, punk performance artist Johanna Went, artists and sculptors Betye Saar, Alison Saar and Maddy Leeser, cult musician and LA's first female barber Lynn Castle and Bond girl Gloria Hendry

Cleo Sylvestre is a woman of many firsts: she is the first Black woman to play a leading role at the National Theatre in London, one of the first Black actors to have a recurring role in a primetime British soap and one of the first Black Brits to release a single in 1964 – with none other than her friends, The Rolling Stones. The Guardian called her “the Black actor who should have been one of Britain’s biggest stars”. So why isn’t she a household name? It wasn’t easy breaking through in the...

Dana Gillespie (1949-) is one of the few remaining women who was at the centre of the Sixties and Seventies in London and in New York. She's lived a life as starry and storied as Marianne Faithfull and Anita Pallenburg – so why hasn't anyone heard of her? In the 1980s, she reinvented herself as a blues singer, founded the Mustique blues festival and has now released upwards of 70 albums, including 13 in Sanskrit. You can still see her performing every month at a venue called the Temple of...

The legendary British artist reminisces about her bohemian art school training, her love affair with Francis Bacon’s muse, how she feels about being a national treasure and queer icon, how she deals with bad reviews and why, at 76, she still refuses to conform – with plenty of surprises along the way

In this special episode for International Women's Day 2021, the queen of performance art talks about creative fearlessness, the importance of failure, why she never had children, what she has in common with the opera singer Maria Callas, the sacrifices she made to be an artist, life in her seventies, her obsession with stillness and why you need a sense of humour to survive. This interview was recorded via Zoom from Marina Abramović's home in upstate New York at the start of 2021.

Maxine Sanders was at the centre of Britain's witchcraft boom in the 1970s, pictured in the tabloids every week carrying out one of her dramatic rituals and dubbed the "Witch Queen". She talks about why we need witchcraft today and how she and husband Alex Sanders sexed up its image

Tilley is one of London's best-known club kids, the best friend and biographer of iconic performance artist Leigh Bowery and a muse of the painter Lucian Freud

The textile designer and fashion powerhouse reflects on life, loss and relevancy in this intimate episode, recorded at her apartment in London

The First Cut Is The Deeper singer recalls her escape from domesticity, her sexual awakening among London's movers and shakers, touring with Tina Turner and her friendship with Jimi Hendrix

Vivienne discusses the importance of place, her work with punk-poet Lydia Lunch, her unique approach to cinema, defying categorisation, and being creative in her seventies

The anarcho-punk originator gives a tour of the open-house she runs in Essex, England, with Penny Rimbaud and considers her bohemian lifestyle and her confrontational art, which is in demand now more than ever

The frank and funny folk legend looks back at her career, from Greenwich Village's 1960s folk scene to now, at 80, as she continues to tour worldwide, with pearls of wisdom on everything from female friendship to being an artist

The Last Bohemians returns for series two with eight maverick women and fearless firebrands in arts and culture: folk legend Judy Collins, iconic British designer Zandra Rhodes, soul survivor PP Arnold, anarchic punk artist Gee Vaucher, witch queen Maxine Sanders, experimental film-maker Vivienne Dick, 80s club kid Sue Tilley and literary maven Margaret Busby.