Books
With His Camera, Lewis W. Hine Changed How We See American Labor
Lewis W. Hine. America at Work, a new book from Taschen, chronicles Lewis W. Hine's early 20th-century career photographing the problems and triumphs of labor.
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Film
A New Film Offers Us a Group Portrait of Sex Workers
Petra Bauer’s new film Workers! documents an occupation by sex workers, a group in a marginal profession that Trade Unions rarely stand up for and which the public hardly ever sees at work.
Art
Vintage “Soviet Santa” Postcards Were Propaganda for the Space Race
Vintage Soviet postcards reveal a sophisticated political project, one that uses the allure of nostalgia to create a vision of a utopian, space-age future.
News
The Signature Dish at Banksy's Bethlehem Hotel Is the "Walled Off Salad" (Hold the Mayo)
Both the Walled Off and the Waldorf salads are topped with walnuts and originated in hotels. Their similarities end there.
Art
A Musique Concrète Landmark Closes Its Doors
Composer Pierre Henry's home studio in Paris has been sold. Until recently, the walls were still covered with musique concrète assemblage sculptures and post-cubist bas-reliefs of printed circuit boards.
Art
When Chairs Become Extraordinary Sculptures
The chairs in When Attitudes Become Chairs reveal how a decidedly utilitarian object can become something inspirational and new.
Art
Drawings of Fantastical Flora Adapted from Advertising
Artist Anne Percoco has created an herbarium of imaginary plants collected from advertising, food packaging, and other objects of human design.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the Ivory Bill is passed in the UK, Banksy delivers a sinister holiday message, women artists dominate LA museums, and more.
Music
A Compilation of Commercial Christmas Jingles
Enjoy these Christmas recordings while you can, for humming these tunes is forbidden after the new year.
Performance
Social Climbing in Lynn Nottage's Comedy
The playwright's protagonist rises to the pinnacle of society only to fall back down to the housing project where she grew up.
Art
The One and Only Jenny Snider
Snider easily qualifies for such categories as “neglected” and “overlooked,” but her work cannot be contained by these terms.
Art
The Young Firebrands of Indian Modernism
The Progressive Artists’ Group represented a microcosm of class, caste, and religion, making them the perfect poster boys for the Nehruvian ideal of secularism.