Spring has arrived, along with our third journal. In our Spring 2012 journal, we present the work of artists, photographers and writers who explore themes that force us to stop and examine the uncertain world around us, something our busy lives often prevent (or maybe save) us from doing.
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 at 12:43AM "Eagerly" is probably the best way to describe the way in which we have been awaiting Santigold's next album. And "brilliantly" is probably the best way to describe the way in which she, Jason Schmidt (the photographer) and Kehinde Wiley (the visionary artist) have created the cover art for this album.
Watch this clip on the cover's creation.
Thursday, March 1, 2012 at 10:41AM 
The New York Times has a new Tumblr. And it's not your everyday Tumblr. But that should be expected, for The Times is not your everyday paper or news source or art source or cultural arbiter or whatever else the paper has come to signify for so many different people. The Times is something singular and lasting and so is its new Tumblr, The Lively Morgue, which intends to publish "several [Times] photographs each week" in a characteristically archival and sentimental way.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012 at 11:05AM 
The Photo League, a pioneering group of Jewish photographers who conquered the streets of Manhattan in the 1930s, were desperate "in the[ir] desire to convey messages of sociological import" (Beaumont Newhall), and The Jewish Museum's exhibition of their documentary work reveals just that. Recently, two of our editors viewed the exhibition. The exhibit is, among many other things, a study of the way in which the camera was viewed more as a method of social criticism than as a method of aesthetic creation. We found the work of these photographers to be an exhilirating reminder of the oft-untapped social import that art can have. The exhibit runs through March 25th, but much of the work can be viewed by clicking the image above.
Sunday, February 12, 2012 at 03:41PM 2012 marks ten years after the beginning of the HBO television series Def Poetry Jam produced by Russell Simmons. Def Poetry ended in 2007, just five years after its creation; yet, despite its short tenure, the series was significant in that it helped to popularize slam poetry and spoken word in a way not seen before or since. Below, we have compiled ten of our favorites from Def Poetry Jam in commemoration of the series ten years later and as an interesting point of reference as to the stylings, rhythms and cultural content of spoken word a decade ago.
Caveat: As spoken word sometimes goes, some of our favorites below are meant for adult ears only.
1. Steve Colman - "I Wanna Hear a Poem"
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 10:22PM 
In 1963 (on Good Friday), King, along with other protesters, was arrested in Birmingham, Alabama. Here, he wrote his impassioned and literarily significant "Letter from a Birmingham Jail."
Monday, January 16, 2012 at 10:20AM