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“Distance and Desire: Encounters with the African Archive,” is a three-part exhibition of photographs from the Walther Collection, curated by the South African scholar Tamar Garb, with works that range from late-nineteenth-century photographs from southern Africa to pictures by present-day African and African-American artists. The final installment of the series, “Poetics and Politics,” is currently on view at the Walther Project Space, in Chelsea.
Click-through for a slide show of photographs from “Distance and Desire,” with captions abbreviated from the catalogue, followed by a Q. & A. with Garb: http://nyr.kr/10VCuoK
(Source: newyorker.com)
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The Iraq War in The New Yorker→
Click-through for a look back at ten years of Iraq coverage in The New Yorker: http://nyr.kr/16K4PRo
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The Business World in The New Yorker
”If you read The New Yorker’s business archive chronologically, you can watch the world of industry change in fundamental ways..” From KFC’s Colonel to a Lego design studio, here’s a look back at business writing in our archive: http://nyr.kr/XQCdOz
Photograph by Martin Schoeller.
(Source: newyorker.com)
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Pope Benedict XVI announced his imminent retirement yesterday morning; his last day as Pope will be February 28th. Here are three articles from our archive that explore his personality, his intellectual life, and his place in the long history of the Catholic Church: http://nyr.kr/12oLi40
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Our archive is full of strange stories about Richard Nixon, who would be one hundred years old this month. Here’s a look: http://nyr.kr/XFlSf6
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The Perfect Gift→
There’s a time of year, in late November and early December, when Christmas shopping is thoughtful, even contemplative. Then there’s this time of year….
A reflection on the art of giving the perfect gift: http://nyr.kr/WmAiCE
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A "Zero Dark Thirty" Reading List→
“Zero Dark Thirty” is two and a half hours long; in real life, the hunt for Osama bin Laden lasted for nine and a half years. Here are four fact-filled pieces from The New Yorker’s archives to help you fill in the gaps… http://nyr.kr/V7wwyp
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The jazz pianist Dave Brubeck died on Wednesday in Norwalk, Connecticut, one day short of his ninety-second birthday…
Looking back at Dave Brubeck, who was profiled in the magazine in 1961: http://nyr.kr/11MxnHr
Photograph by Guy Le Querrec/Magnum.
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"Last week, the N.Y.P.D. made a cheerful and unexpected announcement: on Monday, November 26th, for “the first time in memory,” there hadn’t been a shooting, stabbing, or slashing anywhere in the five boroughs. (One man, a teen-ager from the Bronx, shot himself in the leg by accident; that didn’t count.) There was almost certainly weaponless violence last Monday, and it goes without saying that there’s been plenty of violence the rest of the year. But it’s also true that the city is less violent now than it’s been for nearly fifty years. In 1990, there were two thousand two hundred and forty-five murders in New York. This year, there are likely to be fewer than four hundred."
— Throughout the nineteen-nineties, The New Yorker tracked this extraordinary turnaround. Joshua Rothman takes a look back: http://nyr.kr/WJCcvW(Source: newyorker.com)
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Congo in The New Yorker
A New Yorker reading list on Congo —its conflicts, but also its people, culture, and environment: http://nyr.kr/TmoxKf
