Capitalism: A Love Story. Michael Moore takes aim at corporate-backed government-sponsored corporate greed (yes you read that right) and calls for a revolt against the capitalist system in the US, something that came about – to a degree – when Obama was elected. The question still remains though, will it make any difference in the [...]

Even though it has formally closed, and is no longer 100 per cent intact, Route 66 – also known as “Will Rogers Highway” – has to remain a bucketlist sort of road trip.

Incredible. Two very detailed and intricate LEGO representations of the inauguration of US president Barack Obama.

May take a little while to download, but well worth it: “Running the Numbers”, an American self-portrait by Chris Jordan, and a stunning visual representations of the use, and abuse, of commodities, oil, energy, and even human rights.
Running the Numbers looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays [...]

A matter that has become topical again in recent weeks…
A short history of the so-called “hot line”, a communications system that linked the leaders of the erstwhile USSR and the US, set up in the aftermath of the Cuban missile crisis, to reduce the possibility of an “accidental” nuclear war between the two superpowers.
The hot [...]

Yevgeniy Fiks is a Russian born portrait artist who now lives in New York. What makes his work a little different from other artists is his subject matter, members of the US Communist Party no less.
“My intention is to inform. These paintings portray those who identify as Communists in the present-day United States. It’s about [...]