All In The Family

The great Norman Lear passed away on December 5th at the age of 101. Over his eight-decade career in showbiz, the television wizard developed over 100 shows, many of which presented a more idealistic vision for America: All in the Family, Sanford and Son, Maude, Good Times, The Jeffersons, One Day at a Time, Diff’rent Strokes. Lear’s shows tackled hot-button issues like racism, sexuality, misogyny, and abortion with brutal honesty, thrusting important conversations into the cultural zeitgeist, while remaining…

Lynn Goldsmith’s photo of Prince (left) was used to create a series of 16 silkscreen prints by Andy Warhol.Screenshot: Collection of the Supreme Court of the United StatesIn 1981 the photographer Lynn Goldsmith took a portrait of Prince. He sits alone on a white background, wearing a blank expression with a glint of light in his eyes. In 1984 Andy Warhol used that photo to create art. Warhol altered the image, adjusting the angle of Prince’s face, layering on swaths of color, darkening the edges, and adding hand-drawn…