The Five Points, c. 1827. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, bequest of Mrs. Screven Lorillard (Alice Whitney), from the collection of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, 2016.
• A history of waterfront access discrimination in Louisiana and the beach that emerged as “a site of Black joy.” (Places Journal)
• The Washington, DC boardinghouse where abolitionists plotted a takeover of the legislature. (Zócalo Public Square)
• The Manhattan lane where a generation of artists found inspiration. (The Guardian)
• Meet María Kodama, “the woman behind Borges.” (The Dial)
• “Is the History of American Art a History of Failure?” (The Nation)
• Documenting Newark’s long hot summer of unrest, 1967. (The New Yorker)
• Remembering New York City subway life in the 1970s, and “that Mary Tyler Moore hat-in-the-air sense that I was making it on my own.” (InsideHook)
• “There is no stable archive, knowledge does not flow from more to more. It cycles and morphs. The concerns of its practitioners change. This mechanism of change is the failure of a given system of thinking to account for what it beholds. It is also a very fine history of philosophy, as such.” (Cleveland Review of Books)
• This week in obituaries: Angus Cloud, Paul Reubens, Jess Search, Louise Levy, Martin Walser, Jean Fagan Yellin, Randy Meisner, Carl Davis, Edward Sexton, Dorothy Tapper Goldman, Lois Libien, Sheila Oliver, Henri Konan Bédié, SunRay Kelley, Roger Sprung, Alan Roland, Bill Geddie, Tom Durden, Mark Seiler, and Nitin Desai.