Pop Culture

Barney Hoskyns is the co-founder and editorial director of Rock's Backpages, the archive of music journalism. He began writing for NME in the early '80s and is a former contributing editor at British Vogue and U.S. correspondent for MOJO. He is the author of Hotel California (2006), Lowside of the Road (2009), Trampled Under Foot (2012) and Small Town Talk (2016). He has written for The Guardian, the New Statesman, Uncut, Spin, Rolling Stone, GQ and many other publications. Alex Godfrey is currently Features Editor at Empire, the world’s biggest-selling movie magazine. Since beginning his journalism career in 2000 he has been a regular feature writer for The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, GQ and Esquire, covering culture, sport and science, but specialising in film; over the past few years for Empire he has conducted major interviews with David Lynch, Robert De Niro, Daniel Day-Lewis, Martin Scorsese, Christopher Nolan and Paul Thomas Anderson. In 2023 he won the British Society of Magazine Editors award for Best Feature Writer, and has been shortlisted for many of the industry’s top awards. If he could have bought anything from Julien’s David Lynch sale it would have been the hot-pink velvet sofa. Booth Moore is a Los Angeles–based fashion critic, writer, and editor whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, The Hollywood Reporter, Women's Wear Daily, Vogue Business, and many other publications. She is the author of three books, including American Runway: 75 Years of Fashion and the Front Row (Abrams). Berlin-based Arsalan Mohammad is Publications Director at Julien’s Auctions. He was previously Editor at Sotheby’s, and Harper’s Bazaar Art Arabia. He has worked as an arts and lifestyle journalist and editor in Germany, the Middle East and London since 2003. He also produces and presents “David Bowie: Albumtoalbum” a long running show featuring celebrity guests discussing their favourite Bowie album.