RNC Protest Pictures

Gothamist has a good list of RNC Protest Photoblogs.


Categories: photography, politics

Fred Wilson Show

The mother of one of my friends in high school would scour flea markets for those ghastly mammy dolls, and I could never understand why. Finally, the artist Fred Wilson gives the dolls a much deserved beating in his show at the
Chicago cultural Center.
In the show Wilson examines how museums shape stereotypes in such displays as skeletons labeled "someone's mother" and "someone's brother" and a display of Pre-Columbian Colombian (does that make sense?) artifacts next to a display of cocaine production paraphernalia. And the smashed mammy doll? The pieces get glued to the bat that smashed it.


Category: art

RNC Protest Map

As a map fanatic and a protest fan, I love this New York map to help RNC protesters.


Category: politics