My American Dream Sounds Like Nina Simone

Hand-stitched typography, a skate park gallery, Nina Simone and more in our weekly look at the Web

UPenn professor Salamishah Tillet contributed a brilliantly written piece to NPR’s music blog on the indelible Nina Simone. Tillet guides readers through history, pointing out the copious ways in which Simone continues to not only influence music, but American culture at large.

At First We Take Museums

Hand-stitched typography, a skate park gallery, Nina Simone and more in our weekly look at the Web

Much like art, skateboarding is a product of its surroundings, always adapting as society’s perception of it changes. To address the issue of public space sculptural artist Rich Holland presents “At First We Take Museums”, a large scale skateable installation at Finland’s Kiasma Museum of Modern Art.

Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters

Hand-stitched typography, a skate park gallery, Nina Simone and more in our weekly look at the Web

Ten years of sporadic filming has come to fruition for director Ben Shapiro–his new documentary Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters explores and exposes the life and artistic conceptions of photographer Gregory Crewdson. Crewdson’s documentation of American life, in particular small towns and the people in them, has gained with the credit of “conceiving a new, expansive photographic language.” Shapiro’s documentary was an Official Selection at the …