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Today is Rubber Eraser Day, because on April 15, 1770, Joseph Priestly first discovered that scratching paper with rubber would remove any pencil marks from said paper. Little did Priestly know that his invention would not only enable the correcting and improving of all manner of written and drawn art, but would in fact become [...]

While we’re still vague on what President-elect Barack Obama’s WPA (Works Projects/Progress Administration) will end up doing, we sure like the images conjured by these evocations of FDR’s sweeping set of reforms to keep artists and construction workers busy during the Great Depression. In anticipation of great state-sponsored (and therefore more or less propagandist) visual [...]