Hello and welcome to Nothing is New via Art21. During my stint as guest blogger, you will see posts are very image-heavy with a brief, excited description explaining each set of pictures. The images are discovered while roaming around digital Internet archives of museums and libraries. Nothing is...

by Ryland Walker Knight —Quick, before we think.

Clare Crespo AKA YummyClare has spent a good portion of her adult life figuring out new and exciting ways to get kids interested in cooking. She’s written books, she’s prepared meals, she’s given speeches and now she’s started a club. The Yummyfun Kooking Club is an online/real life combo-pack...

It is possible to read the Court’s opinion … in a variety of ways. In saying this, I imply no criticism of the Court, which in those cases was faced with the task of trying to define what may be indefinable … I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I [...]

by Ryland Walker Knight —Don't look back.

Philippe Diaz's The End of Poverty? plays like a video version of "Neoliberalism for Dummies" in the best and worst ways. Exploring how different segments of the developing world remain in grinding poverty, Diaz traces the legacy of colonialism to...

Remember summer camp? Remember how fun that was? Now imagine going back to camp as an adult, but instead of making shoddy arts and crafts, you get to watch a few dozen mind-blowing musical performances. That’s what All Tomorrow’s Parties is– a series of festivals often thrown at off-season summer...

by Ryland Walker Knight [Spent a lot of last week running around town, and working on a non-cinematic (ahem, paid) writing project, so movies took a necessary back seat. I read instead. And, yeah, with this work and the basketball options in high definition (not to mention a visit to Oracle...

House reader Charlie C. sends along the sequel to "The Wire—100 Greatest Quotes" video. Mucho, mucho spoilers for newbies. "Links for the Day": Each day (more or less) the House editors post a link/links to items that we hope will spark discussion. We encourage our readers to submit candidates for consideration to keithuhlich@gmail.com and to converse in the comments section.