Articles Written By Rosecrans Baldwin
Rosecrans Baldwin co-founded TMN with publisher Andrew Womack in 1999. His latest book is Everything Now: Lessons From the City-State of Los Angeles. More information can be found at rosecransbaldwin.com.
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Come Hell
Alyssa Monks’s paintings have an unsettling power after first glance. Perhaps it’s the water—you’ve been in a pool before, the look of skin’s familiar, and then you stare a little longer and it no longer makes sense.
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Kirsten Kay Thoen
Brooklyn: Debbie Desmond
Name: Debbie Desmond Hometown: Middle of Nowhere, Conn. Current residence: Grand Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn Occupation: Founder of Namaste Yoga and Tranquility Center How did you enter the world of so-called...
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Holidays on Display
What is December in New York, or most any town mall across America, without some sort of animatronic display featuring elves, snowflakes, and the latest hazardous plastic toys?
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Lisa Whiteman
New York: Shimshon Stüart Siegel
Name: My name keeps changing. I was born with the name Stuart Bennett Siegel. In high school, I added an umlaut to the “u,” so, Stüart. In Israel, I...
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Tony Day
London: Marc Perrin
Time of birth: 1979 Hometown: Weymouth, Dorset, U.K. Occupation, both real and desired-in-another-lifetime: Post-operative, drummer Obsession: Guitars What’s your favorite piece in your guitar collection? 1973 Guild Starfire I hear...
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Reader Letters
Not All Doom and Gloom
I’m a longtime reader of themorningnews.org and normally I find your news section to be very well chosen and insightful. I was surprised you posted a link to “...
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Hidden and Unfamiliar
Taryn Simon documents secret places in America that have rarely been seen by the public eye: the bureau of engraving and printing, a cryogenics facility, a hymenoplasty, a site for testing fireworks.
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Christina Clusiau
The Bronx: Rocco
Time of birth: 1961. But I run circles around guys half my age. Hometown: The boogie-down Bronx, New York. Occupation, both real and desired in another lifetime: Fireman. And an entertainer,...
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On the Beach
Richard Misrach puts the dread back into sunbathing. Perhaps it’s that people are so small in Misrach’s pictures next to the dunes and waves, or that we’re so trivial.
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The Laptop Club
A wonderfully crafty collection of construction-paper laptops designed by seven- to nine-year-olds in North Carolina that are both heartwarmingly personal and frighteningly tied to pop culture.
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Lisa Whiteman
Wall Township: Rachel & Arch
Names: Rachel Elizabeth Brower Albertson Pettit and Arch T. Pettit Time(s) of birth: 1913 and 1916, respectively Relation to the photographer: Grandparents Occupation title(s), then and now? Rachel: Housewife, mother,...
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Paris Changing
Between 1888 and 1927, Eugène Atget photographed thousands of Paris scenes, cataloguing the city as it grew into the modern era. Christopher Rauschenberg spent a year in the 1990s revisiting many of Atget’s locations to see what had changed.