Matthew Newton
@newtonmatthew
Writer, editor, arts worker. Editor of the newsletter http://hmsck.com, a biography of place. Author of SHOPPING MALL. East Ender. Always cold. Views are mine, duh.
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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."
This book about shopping malls is excellent and is making me nostalgic for my early years hanging out at Northgate Mall @objectsobjects @newtonmatthew
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-…
"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… @newtonmatthew
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.
Just saying, any more in depth coverage of Monroeville Mall, past-present-future, should get a quote from: @newtonmatthew
A Texas-based real estate firm says the 186-acre Monroeville Mall property is well suited for a “major redevelopment,” which it plans to lead. triblive.com/local/monroevi…
Over the next week Pittsburgh should remember what the Seneca lost to keep our homes from flooding.
"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…
So, it turns out @pitchfork won't be shuttered? Instead, it'll remain intact but under the wing of @GQMagazine? condenast.com/news/mano-sund…
Thrilled to share my first piece for @aperturefnd, 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…
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…
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-…
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