19 February - 25 February 2024
Waiting for the movie to start. San Francisco, California. Photo Robert Gumpert 19 February 2024
Photography
The Guardian: Backstage at the 2024 Baftas | by Sarah Lee
Sage Sohier: Photographs
Polka: “AUTOPSIE D’UN SPECTACLE”, LE LIVRE QUI RÉSOUT L’ÉNIGME WEEGEE | by Dimitri Beck
Joseph Bellows Gallery: Bevan Davies
Oceanographic: On seals, champagne and thick ice blankets | photos Alex Dawson
Wallpaper*: What happened when Spike Jonze met Björk | by Hannah Silver
WeTransfer: The day I met Björk, a free download. | photo by Spike Jonze
Creative Boom: Photographer Jack Kenyon discovered the spirit of India after missing a camel fair | by Dom Carter
The Guardian: The best of photography by Black female photographers | by Sarah Gilbert
The Guardian: ‘A picture of hell’: inside the UK’s nuclear reactors | by Michael Collins
Field of View: The Violent End of Malcolm X - Intimate rarely-seen photos from the assassination of the enigmatic civil rights icon, taken by a close friend. | by Patrick Witty
Lorraine Turci: Une vie de chalut
Colin Delfosse: Zairians
PDNB: Earlie Hudnall, Jr.
Lens Culture: Beggar’s Honey, photos by Jack Latham | review Erik Vroons
BJP: Edward Burtynsky on climate, abstraction, and hanging photos like paintings | by Ravi Ghosh
Culture, Art and Design
Westbourne Bridge near Paddington Station. London, England. Photo Robert Gumpert 12 September 2023
McSweeney’s: My Comments Are in the Google Doc Linked in the Dropbox I sent in the Slack | by Gwynna Forgham-Thrift
NY Times: How Long Is Too Long to Stay in Bed? | by Elizabeth Passarella
LA Times: ‘It’s a lot of UFO stuff and a lot of healing’: Inside L.A.’s wackiest spiritual convention | by Deborah Netburn, Photos Me Melcon
Aeon: There was no Jesus | by Gavin Evans, edited by Marina Benjamin
National Gallery of Art: Conversations: Kerry James Marshall and John Singleton Copley
Wallpaper*: New York artist Christopher Astley showcases an alternative natural world | by Tianna Williams
Print: The Daily Heller: 20 Years, 600 Concert Posters, a Legacy of Music Design | by Steven Heller
Poor Man’s Feast: When she asked me for chicken parmigiana - The Importance of Making Comfort Food | by Elissa Altman
Meanwhile: Coastal Gothique - Behold, your semi-regular supply of distracting hyperlinks. | by Daniel Benneworth-Gray
Ninu Nina: Exploring the Multifaceted Artistry of Joe Taveras
The Blue Moment: ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ at 100 | by Richard Williams
Hyperallergic: Kayla Powers Weaves Sensory Maps of Detroit - The fiber artist forages local plants to create delicate urban-agrarian weavings. | by Sarah Rose Sharp
Print: A Tower of Graffiti Takes Center Stage In Downtown LA | by Charlotte Beach
Books
PhotoBook Journal: Tom Griggs – A Creature Obeys A Creature That Wants / La criatura sigue a su animal interior | Guest Review by Lee Halvorsen
Hyperallergic: Giulia Paoletti - Seeing Photography as an African Art For | book review by Sarah Rose Sharp
Print: 15 of the Best Book Covers of the Month | by Zachary Petit
Blake Andrews (IG): Division Street | reviewed by Blake Andrews (@swerdnaekalb)
Podcast
Westbourne Bridge near Paddington Station. London, England. Photo Robert Gumpert 12 September 2023
Jonathan Pie: Dear Rishi Sunak
A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers: #224 Edward Burtynsky
Print: Revision Path: Katrina Lenzly - Host Maurice Cherry chats with award-winning art director, Katrina Lenzly on the realities of advocating for Black-centric narratives and DEI initiatives in the design industry.
Points South: Part 2 about Mitchellville - Daisy Bates in Mitchellville
NPR: Does Portugal Have The Answer To Stopping Drug Overdose Deaths?
Straight White American Jesus: Christian nationalism in the United States
Headbanging Headlines:
The Marshall Project: Medical Marijuana Is Legal, But Oklahoma Is Charging Women for Using It While Pregnant
USA Today: Sylvester Stallone hired Navy SEALs to train daughters to live in NYC
NBC News: Hunter Biden's lawyers say prosecutors confused a picture of sawdust with cocaine
ProPublica: St. Louis Police Chief Receives $100K a Year From Local Group, Raising Concerns
LA Times: To fix Ozempic face (and Ozempic boobs), weight-loss patients are turning to plastic surgery
Tulsa World: Girl Scouts threaten legal action over troop's fundraiser for children in Gaza
Washington Post: Florida surgeon general defies science amid measles outbreak
Other Stuff
PetePixel: OpenAI Has Us Asking: What Happened to Ethical Software Development? | by Jaron Schneider
El País: Brad Smith, president of Microsoft: ‘We must have a way to slow down or turn off artificial intelligence’ | by Patricia Fernández de Lis
McSweeney’s: How Far We’ve Come Since 2016 | by Rachel Keller, Katy Maiolatesi, and Meg reid
Nautilus: Unraveling the Evolution of Flight | by Elena Renken
The Guardian: Notting Hill residents’ capital gains exceed people of ‘three cities combined’ | by Rupert Neate
Dissent: Labour Under New Management | by James Stafford
Bloomberg Law: Alex Jones Estate Liquidation Gets Sandy Hook Families’ Vote | by Alex Wolf
SF Chronicle: A teen was shot dead on a quiet SF street. Now, new details emerge | by Annie Vainshtein
Dezeen: Scientists develop hybrid "beef rice" as future meat alternative | by Rima Sabina Aouf
Psyche: Rubber hand illusions shed new light on our bodily sense of self | by Shayla Love, edited by Christian Jarrett
Pulitzer Center: Pulled From the Deep: Scientists Found a ‘Lost’ Deep-Sea Mining Site off the SC Coast. What Secrets Does it Hold? | by Clare Fieseler
Labor
Copper miner on strike, Morenci, Arizona. Photo Robert Gumpert 1985
Huffpost: 21 Starbucks Stores Plan To Form Unions In 1-Day Blitz | by Dave Jameson
Courthouse News Service: New Labor Department rule could turn many freelancers into employees | by Thomas F. Harrison
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism: Ban on family members “will force migrant care workers into poverty” | by Vicky Gayle , Emiliano Mellino , Natalie Bloomer
Labor Notes: Ford’s Battery Flagship Socked by Mold Sickness, Workers Say | by Schuyler Mitchell and Keith Brower Brown
Portside: How Four Black Women Changed Homecare Organizing Forever | by Irma Sherman, Chair of McMaid Workers Organizing Committee,
Social Issues - 2024 Elections
NY Times: Those $399 Gold Trump Sneakers Are About a Lot More Than Shoes | by Vanessa Friedman
Business Insider: An Alabama judge ruled that frozen embryos are people, and reproductive rights advocates are sounding the alarm | by Alex Nicoll
Washington Post: Opinion | Fani Willis takes the stand | by Jennifer Rubin
TPM: No. Ezra Klein is Completely Wrong. Here’s Why. | by Josh Marshall
Boston Review: When W. E. B. Du Bois Was “Un-American” | by Andrew Lanham
Social Issues
Brian Howey: How a ‘Goon Squad’ of Deputies Got Away With Years of Brutality
The Irish Times: Care workers won’t be allowed bring family to Britain as part of immigration crackdown | by Mark Paul
South China Morning Post: Britain bans international students from bringing families to UK
Division Street
Once occupied by a steel plant and then a large hardware store this vacant site along side the onramp for I 280(S) has for years been a site of the unhoused setup camp. Being next to the onramp and the train line running below the roadway, the air quality is always bad. Photo Robert Gumpert 16 February 2024
Blake Andrews (IG): Division Street | reviewed by Blake Andrews (@swerdnaekalb)
Sage Journals: The Second Demolition of Wood Street - Photos and Text by David Bacon
JSTOR Daily: The Tiny House Trend Began 100 Years Ago | by S. N. Johnson-Roehr
The Guardian: Revealed: 300% surge in deaths of unhoused people in LA amid fentanyl and housing crises | by Sam Levin in Los Angeles and Will Craft in New York
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