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An Unreconstructed Nation: On Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s “Stony the Road”

A new history of Reconstruction traces the roots of American “respectability” politics through artwork.
by Robert D. Bland via Los Angeles Review of Books on May 10, 2019

The History of L.A.’s African American Miniature Museum

How and why a Los Angeles folk artist created a vast array of intricate dioramas to form the African American Miniature Museum.
by Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman via Atlas Obscura on April 30, 2019
“Two Guns Arikara” (1974-77) painting of a Native American man, by T. C. Cannon.

T. C. Cannon’s Blazing Promise

The painter, who died at the age of thirty-one, vivified his Native American heritage with inspirations from modern art.
by Peter Schjeldahl via The New Yorker on April 6, 2019

Signs of Return

Photography as History in the U.S. South.
by Grace Elizabeth Hale via Southern Cultures on April 1, 2019

How a Small-Town Navy Vet Created Rock’s Most Iconic Surrealist Posters

The story of one of rock's most prolific poster artists.
by Ben Marks via Collectors Weekly on March 28, 2019

The Artist-Activists Decolonizing the Whitney Museum

Protesters at the Whitney and other museums are demanding radical changes to the way the art world is governed.
by Daniel Penny via The Paris Review on March 22, 2019

Atlanta's Famed Cyclorama Mural Will Tell the Truth About the Civil War Once Again

One of the war's greatest battles was fought again and again on a spectacular canvas nearly 400 feet long.
by Jack Hitt via Smithsonian on December 1, 2018

'We Dissent' and the Making of Feminist Memory

Understanding the politics behind Cooper Union's 'We Dissent' exhibition.
by Haley Mlotek via Jezebel on November 26, 2018

The Erotics of Cy Twombly

Poet Joshua Rivkin’s new book about Cy Twombly is “stranger and more personal than a biography.”
by Catherine Lacey via The Paris Review on October 17, 2018
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Mum’s the Word

In the height of the Cold War, the NSA created a series of posters to keep its secrets from leaking. They're both wonderful and creepy.
by Benjamin Breen on October 5, 2018
Black dolls.

What the Black Dolls Say

These rare survivors of early African-American art can illuminate much about our difficult history.
by Elizabeth Pochoda via The Nation on September 17, 2018
Bottles of powdered pigments.

Treasures from the Color Archive

The historic pigments in the Forbes Collection include the esoteric, the expensive, and the toxic.
by Simon Schama via The New Yorker on August 27, 2018

Tattooing in the Civil War Was a Hedge Against Anonymous Death

Hidden tattoos captured soldiers' pride and patriotism, but also had a practical use.
by Aïda Amer, Sarah Laskow via Atlas Obscura on August 13, 2018

An Outline of Over 200 Years of Silhouettes

The oldest object on view shows on brown paperboard one of the earliest known images of a slave in the U.S.
by Claire Voon via Hyperallergic on August 13, 2018

In Search of Arborglyphs

A look into Basque tree carvings in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
by Tim Hauserman via The Tahoe Weekly on June 13, 2018

John Wesley Harding at Fifty: WWDD?

Bob Dylan's confessional album resisted the political radicalism and activism of 1967.
by Anthony Chaney via U.S. Intellectual History Blog on June 13, 2018

An Oral History of Voguing from a Pioneer of the Iconic Dance

"This is not just a fad. This, for us, was a dance of survival, but it was also a social dance."
by Ja'han Jones via HuffPost on June 4, 2018
Mural painting of people on a subway.

The Muralist and Enumerator

How a census taker and an artist were participants to the grand project of displaying and explaining America to itself.
by Dan Bouk via Census Stories, USA on June 2, 2018

When Walt Whitman’s Poems Were Rejected for Being Too Timely

"1861" is just so 1861.
by Emily Temple via Literary Hub on May 31, 2018

The Premiere of 'Four Women Artists'

In this 1977 documentary, the spirit of Southern culture is captured through four Mississippi artists who tell their stories.
by Nicole Rudick via The Paris Review on May 29, 2018

Rarely Seen 19th-Century Silhouette of a Same-Sex Couple Living Together Goes On View

A new show, featuring the paper cutouts, reveals unheralded early Americans.
by Roger Catlin via Smithsonian on May 25, 2018

Henrietta Lacks, Immortalized

Henrietta Lacks's "immortal" cell line, called "HeLa," is used in everything from cancer treatments to vaccines.
by Allison C. Meier via JSTOR Daily on May 17, 2018

Willful Waters

Los Angeles and its river have long been enmeshed in an epic struggle for control.
by Vittoria Di Palma, Alexander Robinson via Places Journal on May 1, 2018
Garry Winogrand book on a shelf.

Garry Winogrand’s Photographs Contain Entire Novels

A photographer whose work resembles that of a realist novelist, we observe a cast of characters as they change over time.
by Geoff Dyer via Literary Hub on April 25, 2018
Civil War era envelope with a political cartoon with Confederate leaders hung as traitors.

When the Government Refused to Use Slavery to Recruit Soldiers, the Media Had No Qualms

With questionable motives, America finally saw black Union soldiers living and dying alongside their white countrymen.
by Brendan Seibel via Timeline on April 17, 2018

The 100 Pages That Shaped Comics

From Mickey to Maus, tracing the evolution of the pictures, panels, and text that brought comic books to life.
by Jeet Heer, Abraham Josephine Riesman, Sarah Boxer, Heidi MacDonald, Fred Van Lente, Brian Cronin, Charles Hatfield, Christopher Spaide, Joshua Rivera, Klaus Janson, Mark Morales, Richard Starkings via Vulture on April 16, 2018

The Heart of the Matter: A History of Valentine Cards

A digital exhibit from the collections of the Strong National Museum of Play.
by Strong National Museum Of Play via Google Arts and Culture on April 11, 2018

The Ambivalence of Appropriation

A new book by Eric Lott frames white appropriation of blackness as containing the possibility of greater racial solidarity.
by Noah Hansen via Public Books on March 29, 2018

Organ Grinding

When the audience revolted at Carnegie Hall.
by Sudip Bose via The American Scholar on March 29, 2018

Where to Score: Classified Ads from Haight-Ashbury

From 1966-1969, the underground newspaper 'San Francisco Oracle' became exceedingly popular among counterculture communities.
by Jason Fulford, Jordan Stein via The Paris Review on March 14, 2018
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