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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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Dick Higgins: Avant Garde Provocateur and Philosopher
Higgins was a participant observer of outrageous innovations in art, music, poetry, performance, and independent publishing for decades beginning in the 1960s.
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Sweet Little Cunt, a Long Overdue Tribute to Cartoonist Julie Doucet
Julie Doucet's 1990’s comic series Dirty Plotte was wildly imaginative and raucous, pulled no punches, and teetered constantly and surreally on the delicious edge between gross and fascinating.
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An Artist Finds His Muse in a Hallucinogenic Drug
Joe Roberts's latest book, filled with color and mystical symbology, connects creativity and psychedelics.
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Charles Bernstein's Poems Rethink Language
Bernstein often transforms accessible language into a visual puzzle.
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The Ethics of a Mother's Labor
MyOther Tongue offers up an elderly mother’s particular, business-like attributes for consideration in an extended meditation on her work ethic.
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Poems Written in the Company of Other Writers
Friederike Mayröcker's poems are often dedicated to specific people and thus constitute a very present act of communication.
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Shedding Light on the Messy Beauty of the Arctic
Artist Nancy Campbell's book The Library of Ice draws parallels between ecological breakdown and the loss of human culture.
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Dorothea Lasky's Provocative Poems about Motherhood
The poems in Milk combine snarky sense of humor with an edge of semi-bitter self-consciousness.
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Why Leftist Activists Should Learn to "Follow the Money"
In Rated Agency: Investee Politics in a Speculative Age, Belgian philosopher Michel Feher proposes strategies for activists in an age of unchecked finance capitalism.
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A New Collection of Saul Steinberg’s Influential Cartoons
The Labyrinth, originally published in 1960 and long out of print, is the perfect introduction or reintroduction to Steinberg's incomparable style.
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Franklin Furnace's Pioneering Performances Are Now Archived Online
By championing work in two perennially overlooked forms, artists books and performance art, often by artists who themselves are overlooked, Franklin Furnace’s archive is a repository of what doesn’t easily fit.