The Smithian

Amazon employees in Germany have staged their first ever strikes, in a dispute over pay and benefits…Employees at two huge distribution warehouses…launched the one-day strike…Germany is a vital territory for Amazon. It is the retailer’s biggest market in Europe, with sales last year reaching more than €6.5bn.

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[meaningful glance]

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art: photograph by Ann-Christne Woehrl

…a vivid immersion in the hidden skateboarding culture of the former East Germany.

McDonald’s.

[look of the hour]

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art: photo by Thomas Demand

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art: photography by Loretta Lux

Not only was the subject of a slave revolt too hot to handle for American audiences in 1958, the interracial romance between Dorothy Dandridge and Curt Jurgens was perhaps even too much.

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Sheer experience forces her to question her previous blind certitude about a glorious Fatherland and the rightness of the Nazi cause, notions instilled in her by her parents since earliest childhood. It’s a moral and intellectual journey…

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Dolls were printed smiling with or without teeth and originally sold in envelopes with crepe and tissue paper in assorted colors for the costuming…

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Interview Germany.

In the short film Germany in Black and White…a mixed couple is discussing what actually is German…

more plus the film, here.

Volkskrant.

a magazine for contemporary drawing…

Black Antoinette is a collection of Olaf Hajek’s most recent work…a striking selection of personal artwork, editorial contracts, and commercial portraits…

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