John Heartfield, photomontage as a political weapon
“He inscribed the slogan ‘use photography as a weapon,’ which underlines his faith in the impact of this new medium and its ability to denounce the perversities of the modern world: fascism, war and its atrocities, Nazism or capitalism.”
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A Short Anti-Fascist Playlist
“To them, popular culture mattered, it was vibrant, and it was politically up for grabs.”
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ANEW Artist’s Alliance Group Show
A Group show of the beautiful artwork of the ANEW Artist’s Alliance.
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The Flickering Ghost: What Remains When the Projector Goes Dark?
“The greatest films, I have always believed, are empathy machines. They allow us to see the world through eyes that are not our own.” A beautiful love letter to cinema by Amir Zadnemat
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The Enduring Power of Minnie Evans
“By making and sharing such an extraordinary body of work, Evans determined that her world would not be lost.”
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The Smoking Fish (El pez que fuma, 1977)
“Frequently claimed by critics as the best Venezuelan film ever made, El pez que fuma, (1977) was produced in the midst of the Oil Boom era and has since become a potent metaphor for the decadence at the height of Venezuela’s economic splendor.”
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January Issue, 2026
A collection of all the articles we’ve published over the past month, for those who like to savor their Magpies’ tidings as an issue.
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Pipeline in My Pocket. The Waiting Game is Over
“On a more personal level, the work is also about dignity. About whose inner life is considered worth depicting and whose is treated as background noise. If that unsettles viewers or makes them feel implicated rather than reassured, that’s intentional.”
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Ignorance and Want
his boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom …
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Ellen Harvey: Winter in the Summer House
“He loved nature and the Hudson Valley landscape so much — and I think we all need to be inspired by that or there will be no icebergs left to paint.”
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The Emotional Shades of Ifeoluwapo’s Self-Portraits
“Ifeoluwapo applies this method because her work goes to the heart of what it means to be a woman in a world in which a woman has to conform to different roles within and outside the confines of what she calls home.”
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Seeing
“It delved into photographs’ potential as a way to arrive at a photographic vision and a photographic philosophy of seeing.”
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Cloud Moving Wind: Basho’s Travels
I myself have been tempted for a long time by the cloud-moving wind — filled with a strong desire to wander.
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December Issue, 2025
A collection of all the articles we’ve published over the past month, for those who like to savor their Magpies’ tidings as an issue.
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Miep Gies: What Any Decent Person Would Have Done
“I am not a hero. I am not a special person, because no one should ever think you have to be special to help others. I did what any decent person would have done.”
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The Curious Life of James Castle
Working with soot, spit, and found objects, James Castle produced beautiful art.
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The Brown Bag of Miscellany’: Zora Neale Hurston and the Practice of Overexposure
A beautiful and thought-provoking essay on the films of Zora Neale Hurston, by Autumn Womack.
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Candy, God, and Periods: Glitter Beneath the Rot
In the late 1980s, a local study claimed that, “in Baltimore, there is rot beneath the glitter.” Through her comics, Amy aims to show that there is also glitter beneath the rot.
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On the Verge of Surprise: The Wildly Strange Photography of Ralph Eugene Meatyard
The remarkable photography of Ralph Eugene Meatyard.
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November Issue, 2025
A collection of all the articles we’ve published over the past month, for those who like to savor their Magpies’ tidings as an issue.
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Magpies Mix Tape: Let Your Light Shine Bright
“Do good, let your light shine bright, let your light shine right, respect your fellow man as you should.” A MixTape on letting your light shine bright and your song be strong and loud.
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Of Legacy, Latitude, and Attitude
Autumn thoughts on inheritance, impermanence, and learning to harmonize.
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Stalin’s Toilet
“That brief meeting aroused my curiosity to such an extent that now, a year later, I find myself staring into the porcelain bowl of Stalin’s toilet.” – John Wreford
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The Man and The Crowd (1928) Photography, Film, and Fate
Gideon Leek rewatches King Vidor’s classic, in which a young man with big dreams moves to New York City and becomes an identical cog who learns to love the machine of modernity.
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Pat Perry: Mentor Wanted
“The flyer project is about confusion and uncertainty. I thought it might resonate with others as something open and vulnerable that doesn’t really prescribe any beliefs or answers.”
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My Heart is in the Making of the Work: An Interview with Neal Rantoul
“My heart is in the making of the work, in every frame shot, in every failed and successful image made over now a long career.” An Interview With Neal Rantoul
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The Strangely Familiar Art of Celia Reisman
I want my paintings to be worlds unto themselves, where you feel you are experiencing something for the first time even though it is familiar.” – Celia Reisman
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Stella Bowen Self Portrait, an Ekphrastic Poem
Mike Ladd’s ekphrastic poem in response to Bowen’s courageous self-portrait.
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