Imagining a new New Deal…
It was almost 80 years ago that Franklin Roosevelt’s administration initiated the New Deal. Recognizing that those days have a poignant resonance with our own, Ready Made asked a number of contemporary artists to “reimagine the populist poster art of the first Great Depression”…
Christoph Niemann
See the others at Ready Made.
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As we recall our roots, we might send heartfelt birthday wishes to Alexandre Dumas fils; he was born– the illegitimate child of Marie-Laure-Catherine Labay, a dressmaker, and novelist Alexandre Dumas— on this date in 1824. A novelist and playwright, Dumas fils is probably best remembered for his romantic novel The Lady of the Camellias (La Dame aux camélias); adapted into a play, Camile, which became the basis for Verdi’s 1853 opera, La Traviata… and then for any number of plays and movies, including Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge.
Business? Why, it’s very simple: business is other people’s money.
– La Question d’argent (1857), Act II, sc. vii
