Pretty Babies
Paul Laster is the editor of Artkrush.com, a contributing editor at Flavorpill.com and Art Asia Pacific, and a contributing writer at Time Out New York and Art in America.
Photographer Susan Anderson captures the bizarre glamour and excess of child beauty pageants in her new exhibition and book, High Glitz. VIEW OUR GALLERY
From High Glitz by Susan Anderson, published by powerhouse Books
The Yes List – Wes Anderson's Fantastic Fox
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Each week, The Daily Beast scours the cultural landscape to choose three top picks. This week, Wes Anderson's magical Fantastic Mr. Fox, a provocative Man Ray retrospective, and the Newport Jazz Festival goes digital.
Vintage gelatin silver print Rosalind and Melvin Jacobs Collection AŠ 2009 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.
Shanxi Province is China's main coal-producing region, in a country that mines and produces far more coal than any other nation on earth. Coal mini...
Kirstine Roepstorff's Scorpio's Garden offers an alluring and telling snapshot of contemporary Berlin. The "Scorpio" in the title is Berlin itself...
Bruce Davidson's True Grit
Philip Gefter writes about photography for The Daily Beast. He previously wrote about the subject for The New York Times. His book of essays, Photography After Frank, was recently published by Aperture. He is currently producing a feature-length documentary on Bill Cunningham of the Times, and working on a biography of Sam Wagstaff.
From photographs of a Brooklyn gang to civil-rights workers in the South, a powerful new retrospective celebrates 50 years of a groundbreaking social documentarian. VIEW OUR GALLERY
Coney Island, 1959.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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