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SEVEN DECADES

Shadowland – Surveying the Human Desolation of North Korea in 2005

Guy Delisle’s graphic novel from two decades ago still resonates during Trump 2.0.

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1976 Village Voice article by Greil Marcus about the American bicentennial

SEVEN DECADES

Last Refuge of a Rock Critic: A Bicentennial Search for Patriotism

In 1976, the culture critic asked, “What is it that Americans share?”

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Jerry Rubin’s Weird Road From Yippie to Yuppie

As the Sixties staggered into the Seventies and beyond, the political activist followed the money.

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SEVEN DECADES

Four-Color Revolution: Underground Newspapers Of, By, and For the People

Protest that got your hands dirty: “DESTROY THE MUSEUMS — our struggle cannot be hung on walls.”

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VOICE OF THE AGES

Remembering Jim Ledbetter and His Exposé, ‘The Unbearable Whiteness of Publishing’

In his monumental investigative piece from 1995, a longtime New Yorker contributor told Ledbetter, “the closest I ever got to a person of color was a young white fact-checker with dreads.”

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SEVEN DECADES

“Seaguy” Explained – In One 210-Word Sentence

Grant Morrison and Cameron Stewart have got humanity's eternal quest for meaning well-covered.

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BOOKS ARCHIVES

An Airborne Literary Event?

"Falling Man" is a powerfully written and compulsively creative work, but falls short.

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ART ARCHIVES

Golden Age TV + Warhol + Macintosh Ads = Towering Bodies at MoMA

Best In Show: There's little doubt that had he not died in 1987, Andy would nowadays be dutifully pecking away on a Macintosh keyboard.

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Harlem When It Sizzled

“For contemporary Afro-American professionals and intellectuals, the Harlem of legend is at best a Utopian cultural myth.”

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ART ARCHIVES

The Handmaid’s Tale

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