Author: Amber Frost

Dubbed the “father of modern neurosurgery,” Dr. Harvey Cushing had a brilliant medical career. In 1901 he discovered what was later called the Cushing reflex–basically,…

The popular history of animation starts with Walt Disney–a tragic oversight and a considerably US-centric misconception. In addition to the pre-Disney animation in America, the…

For better or for worse, our highest priority as a civilization is probably avoiding social faux pas–more than climate change, more than a cure for…

“Como en Viet Nam,” ca. 1970 Retrospectives on communist art and design are often dominated by some pretty inaccessible (and sometimes downright godawful) aesthetics. For…

The partisan animosity within The Ramones is arguably the most fascinating political subtext in punk history. Most famous is the story that “The KKK Took…

Apparently “Heavy metal Chic” is the hot new look, whether you like the music or not! First, retailer H & M created an affordable line…

Filmmaker Peter Adair is best known for his seminal queer classic, Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives, a 1977 collaboratively directed documentary…

Stanley Kubrick’s career took a winding path to him becoming one of the great auteurs of cinema history. Before he became a filmmaker, his street…

American Nazi sympathists were certainly not unheard of during the Third Reich, but it can be shocking to see how established and organized they could…

Hajime Sorayama’s porny futurism is one of those 1980’s aesthetics that is somehow simultaneously hilarious yet incredibly impressive. The cheeky pin-up “gynoids” are so sleek…