Worst. Kid. Song. Ever.
The other day, my husband and I were talking about putting together a playlist for our nieces: a list of empowering, kid-appropriate songs in which women were treated with respect. We had fun thinking...
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Allen Ginsberg’s Accountant
Detail from a portrait of Ginsberg by Elsa Dorfman, 1980. In the early sixties, Don Wilen had just one tax client—Mrs. Sheftel, who ran the candy store on his corner. When Paul Krassner, radical...
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Robot Cars Are Totally Soulless, and Other News
“The Man Catcher,” an early effort at pedestrian safety. Remember the sixties? Me either—I was negative eighteen in ’68. Jesse Jarnow also wasn’t born yet, but his book on the psychedelic...
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Gunplay
Illustration by Eric Hanson. Click to enlarge. Indianapolis, 1964. My younger self owned a bandolier full of bullets; three revolvers, two with bone handles to fit a holster; a rifle; knives; a sword;...
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The Family Acid
This is the last week to see the photography of Roger Steffens and the Family Acid at Benrubi Gallery, in New York. Taken mainly in the sixties and seventies, Steffens’s self-consciously psychedelic...
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A New Machine
Don Buchla with one of his instruments. Don Buchla invented some of the first electronic instruments—not synthesizers, he insisted, but electronic instruments. To him, the word synthesizer implied some...
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Staff Picks: Border Towns, Brylcreem, Backstairs Intrigue
Matamoros, Tamaulipas, 1978. © Alex Webb / Magnum Photos, via Aperture. I’ve long felt that the best recommendations for photographic work come from other photographers. From Aaron Stern and Jordan...
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Bare Shouldered Beauty
Suellen Rocca’s “Bare Shouldered Beauty: Works from 1965 to 1969” is showing at Matthew Marks Gallery through October 22. In the late sixties, Rocca was part of the Hairy Who, a group of six imagist...
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The Fiestas Are Over
An exhibition of Beatrice Mandelman’s sixties-era work is showing through April 1 at Rosenberg & Co., in New York. Mandelman, who died in 1998, was among the modernists of Taos, New Mexico, who...
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Paula Wolfert at The Paris Review
Paula Wolfert with the chef André Daguin. I met Paula Wolfert in 2008, when Food & Wine sent me to Morocco to profile her. She never had a restaurant, a TV show, or any of the other contemporary...
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