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John R. Hamilton / Trunk Archive The Impossible Politics of Johnny Cash
He was beloved by Americans who could agree on little else. Was he too eager to please?
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Fred W. McDarrah / Getty Warhol’s Bleak Prophecy
What a new retrospective reveals about the artist, and about our swerve away from humanism
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Photograph: 'Jean-Michel Basquiat Wearing an American Football Helmet' … The Enigma of the Man Behind the $110 Million Painting
Thirty years after his death, Jean-Michel Basquiat defies easy categories. Was he an artist, an art star, or just a celebrity?
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Juan Esteban Rodríguez / Folio Art How John Wayne Became a Hollow Masculine Icon
The actor’s persona was inextricable from the toxic culture of Cold War machismo.
