Sid Vicious and the aesthetics of punk rock

'SID: Superman Is Dead,' an exhibition from Shepard Fairey and Dennis Morris, is a vivid reminder of the radical, transformative nature of the Sex Pistols and their self-destructive bassist Sid Vicious. The hotel room was destroyed. A television lay shattered on the ground, surrounded by a shredded pile of photographs and Bible pages, soda cans and broken furniture. On the mangled hotel bed, the sheets were coiled up in a corner, still holding the form of the human responsible for this mess. Jus...

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