Category Art
Labor Day: Art from the Great Depression — WhoWhatWhy
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe Great Depression was characterized by unemployment, homelessness, hunger, bankruptcies, home foreclosures, dust, drought, and inequality in the distribution of wealth. And America’s infrastructure was crumbling. Sound familiar? Some grim current statistics: Although the unemployment rate fell to 8.4 percent, late last month, over one million Americans filed for unemployment. And 24.2… Labor […]
Labor Day: Art From the Great Depression — WhoWhatWhy
Reading Time: 5 minutes(Published originally 9/1/2014) Here, in honor of Labor Day, is a collection of paintings and prints from the Great Depression. Images from the gorgeous to the grim, all fascinating. The Depression was characterized by unemployment, homelessness, hunger, bankruptcies, home foreclosures, dust, drought, and inequality in the distribution of wealth. And the infrastructure… via […]
The Neo-Black National Monument
February was an interesting month. This year. Most years I barely acknowledge Black History Month, but when I do I celebrate it as Neo-Black History Month. Because of the neoliberalism that has overtaken this generation –the neoliberal subversion of black America. They do it through the art. They do it with the movies and TV. […]
Assassins of the Image: the CIA as Cultural Gatekeeper
Assassins of the Image: the CIA as Cultural Gatekeeper by MARTIN BILLHEIMER “There was a conversion of cultures between the milieu of the underworld and the world of the clandestine operative.” – Alfred McCoy “I would like to say to those who think of my pictures as serene… that I have imprisoned the most utter violence […]
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