Alice Neel’s Great Depression
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Alice Neel painted tame city-scenes for the government during the Great Depression, but her nude paintings revealed the anxious and dark side of economic turmoil. My multimedia piece, Alice Neel’s Great Depression, studies these paintings alongside vintage footage from the 1930s.
Earlier this month I wrote about two poets during the Great Depression for Poetry Foundation. In May, I also finished a print and video story about Hunter S. Thompson’s adventures in Puerto Rico. Recently, I’ve written for Granta, Salon.com, and The Believer.
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