Articles Tagged with #history
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Realpolitiking
Grading the President
As President Obama enters his final days in office, a proper assessment of his tenure requires a variety of measurable, non-political categories: golf, offspring, homebrewing, and more.
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The Travel Desk
The Mother Wave
Before the days of GPS, sailors navigated using the feel of the waves. On a mission to learn the ocean’s secret rhythms, a researcher discovers a coded message in a ship logbook.
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Dispatches
The Kings of Simcoe County
At an Elvis festival in rural Canada, scores of tribute artists (not “impersonators”) pay homage to the King. When searching for the meaning of it all, try not to overthink it.
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Gallery
Ghosts in the Sunlight
Female subjects painted in classics by Old Masters—Diana After the Hunt, The Rape of Europa—get their voices restored, and with them new narratives and powers.
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Gallery
The Paint Storm
Images of ships and shipwrecks, ocean ice and fireworks, that are simultaneously hot and cold, and full of turbulence.
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Gallery
Going Nowhere
Mid-century magazine clippings find new life in collages that are just the right amount of weird and clever.
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In Plain Sight
Terrapin Station
All the magic of the Mojave Desert, or the Amazon rainforest, can be found in the salt marshes of New Jersey.
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Gallery
Yosemite
Paintings of Yosemite and other locales are full of place and history—and plenty of sex and weather, too.
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This Internet Life
A Brief History of Bloggering
Even a fake history of blogging—going back to the Old Internet, when HTML templates were so raw—offers insight into how we reached today’s web and survived comments.
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Gallery
Past Time
The business and madness of modern sports appear, through subtle augmentation, in classics of American art.
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National Colors
Remnants of the Underground Railroad
The Thirteenth Amendment passed 150 years ago, abolishing slavery. Today, little of the Underground Railroad still remains. A painter hits the road to discover what’s intact.
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Print Isn't Dead
This Is How I Post
Over the past decade, social media has made us all big communicators, but we’re giving off more noise than signals. An argument for the handwritten note.