Brooklyn-born contemporary artist Martha Rosler explores social and political critique through a variety of media. She has worked with photography, video, performance, and installation, in addition to publishing a number of critical essays that examine issues of gender, violence, and public space within American culture. Among Rosler’s best-known works are the photomontages she produced between 1967 and 1972, collectively titled House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home, and her 1975 video Semiotics of the Kitchen. Rosler has exhibited at some of the most prominent art institutions in the United States and was the recipient of the 2010 Guggenheim Lifetime Achievement Award, as well as many other national and international prizes and awards.
If your brother, your own mother’s son, or your son or daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your closest friend entices you in secret, saying, “Come let us worship other gods”—whom neither you nor…
Alfred Eisenstaedt shot one of the most iconic photographs of the twentieth century in Times Square, where crowds were gathering to watch the electric news ticker for an anticipated announcement by U…
In his malodorous brain what slugs and mire,
Lanthorned in his oblique eyes, guttering burned!
His body lodged a rat where men nursed souls.
The world flashed grape-green eyes of a foiled cat
To him…