by kitchensisters | Nov 20, 2020 | The Keepers
“I see America as a model for how…the assembly of images can serve as an archive of the past as well as a document of the present.” -Garrett Bradley Projects: Garrett Bradley opens this weekend at MoMA… According to the Library of Congress, around 70...
by kitchensisters | Nov 18, 2020 | The Keepers
“Donald Trump is not much of a note-taker, and he does not like his staff to take notes. He has a habit of tearing up documents at the close of meetings. (Records analysts, armed with Scotch Tape, have tried to put the pieces back together.) No real record...
by kitchensisters | Nov 16, 2020 | The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay: David Johnson Photograph Archive at UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library. Johnson spoke with pictorial curator Jack Von Euw about his photo “Boy and Lincoln” taken in 1963: “The NAACP was sponsoring a demonstration downtown in San...
by kitchensisters | Nov 10, 2020 | The Keepers
“Their deaths fell into a kind of archive of silence…” Listen to poet Valzhyna Mort talk about her new book, Music for the Dead and Resurrected, on NPR’s Morning Edition
by kitchensisters | Oct 15, 2020 | The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay – The Pearl Jam Archive. The Kitchen Sister Present… a story about two keepers from the Pacific Northwest, John Burton & Kevin Shuss, the official/unofficial archivists for Pearl Jam. Listen to Pearl Jam: It’s a Rock Band, Not...
by kitchensisters | Oct 7, 2020 | The Keepers
From the October 5, 2020 issue of The New Yorker: “The Anthology of American Folk Music” is probably the most significant example of how a particular collector’s preferences can shape a canon. Read the article here. And check out the new boxset from our pals at...
