How Jimmy Carter’s Face-Off with The Rabbit Changed the Presidency By Jim O’Grady Of all the crises that President Carter faced in 1979 — gas shortages, hostage-taking, runaway inflation — his bizarre encounter with a crazed swimming rabbit on a Georgia lake was as damaging as any to his image. The incident crystallized an emerging […]
Read More The President and the “Killer Rabbit”Soviet fabrics from the 20’s and 30’s If you walked by a set of curtains made from one of these fabrics, you might not pick up on a communist star or the CCCP acronym. Many of the designs below are thematic of classical Russian art; you see lush color, dense scapes and even the odd […]
Read More Communism in TextilesBurroughs’ Work as a Photographist Acknowledged in London Patricia Allmer and John Sears, the curators of Taking Shots: The Photography of William S. Burroughs, talk about the man and the genesis of this exhibition at The Photographers’ Gallery. Despite his prolific achievements as a novelist, essayist, spoken word performer and painter, Burroughs’ work as a […]
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