This book about shopping malls is excellent and is making me nostalgic for my early years hanging out at Northgate Mall @objectsobjects Matthew Newton

I wrote about LaToya Ruby Frazier and how she views her work as a counterbalance to "historical erasure and historical amnesia" for the latest issue of Homesick, my newsletter about the complicated nature of home. hmsck.com/p/latoya-ruby-…

IMHO, cutting 11 staff jobs and then enlisting students to pick up the slack is not a good solution—let alone an ethical one: wesa.fm/arts-sports-cu…

Thrilled to share my first piece for Aperture, which examines ‘Omen,' a new photo book that radically reframes the Depression-era photography of Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, and Gordon Parks—mapping a country of strangers and ghosts. aperture.org/editorial/a-hi…

So, it turns out Pitchfork won't be shuttered? Instead, it'll remain intact but under the wing of GQ Magazine? condenast.com/news/mano-sund…

"A Historic Archive’s Nightmarish Portrait of America - A new book reimagines the Depression-era photography of Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, and Gordon Parks, mapping a country of strangers and ghosts." #Archive #History #VisualLiteracy #Photography #Storytelling

Over the next week Pittsburgh should remember what the Seneca lost to keep our homes from flooding.

Just saying, any more in depth coverage of Monroeville Mall, past-present-future, should get a quote from: Matthew Newton

In this photograph from July 1992, during the Pittsburgh Newspaper Strike, Teamster Rich O’Malley uses a bullhorn to help coordinate picketers to block scab trucks from leaving the Pittsburgh Press building.

"To portray working class families as more than the collateral damage of globalism was a rarity in the 1980s...But that’s what Teemer, a Baltimore native, was able to do" A Portrait of Joy in the Shadow of Collapse Jack Teemer's photography hmsck.com/p/a-portrait-o… Matthew Newton

Yinzer protests are niche 😂 iykyk

Earlier this month, Los Angeles became ground zero in the Trump administration's extreme campaign to deport undocumented immigrants. A meditation in four parts. hmsck.com/p/los-angeles-…

While editing an essay about the Works Progress Administration (WPA), I came across this horrible footnote: "In 1942, the WPA played a key role in both building and staffing concentration camps to incarcerate Japanese Americans."