Blouin Artinfo | Michael Wilkinson Reflects on Repression, the Boston Bombings, and Pink Floyd in China

SHANGHAI — In the late ’70s, Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood’s punk culture store Seditionaries was decorated with wallpaper depicting Dresden after it was firebombed by the British during World War II. Michael Wilkinson drew inspiration from the wallpaper for his “Dresden” series, which, despite the name, shows images of his native Liverpool after it had been bombed by the Luftwaffe in 1944.