Reimagining Norman Rockwell’s America - The New York Times

In 2012, Hank Willis Thomas saw a poster of Norman Rockwell’s painting of a family seated around a holiday table, the matriarch presenting a turkey to her guests. For Mr. Thomas, a 42-year-old black artist raised in Manhattan, the pale complexions in Mr. Rockwell’s 1943 masterpiece did little to represent his experience of a diverse America. So he decided to create a tableau of his own.

Read the full article by Laura M. Holson here.

On our mindsNew York TimesNovember 15, 2018Norman Rockwell, Hank Willis Thomas, Freedom From Want, For Freedom, the new york times, Laura M. Holson

A Map of Every Building in America (NY Times)

Traces of Distant Culture

South of New Orleans This arrangement of buildings along a narrow spit of land on either side of a Louisiana bayou shows the imprint of the region’s history under France: “long lot” development, which stretched skinny holdings laterally away from important waterways. Geography shapes settlement, but culture does, as well.

On our mindsNew York TimesOctober 16, 2018the new york times, maps, new orleans, tim wallace, derek watkins, john schwartz, a gathering of the tribes, Steve Cannon