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High Times: Mary Jane Rathbun’s Marijuana Brownies

'If the narcs think I'm gonna stop baking brownies for my kids with AIDS, they can go fuck themselves in Macy's window' - Mary Jane Rathbun ...

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The Occult Art of Alchemist Wilfried Sätty, Illustrator of the Psychedelic San Francisco 60s Scene

Wilfried Sätty, German occultist, illustrator, and collage artist who moved to San Francisco in the early 60s and associated with artists and bohemians of the Beat Generation ...

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Home of the Beats: How City Lights Booksellers and Publishers Made Radical Poetry Popular

The combination paperback-only bookstore and literary publisher proved revolutionary in the 1950s and 60s. ...

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Flu Masks From 1918-1919

In 1918, influenza, the so-called Spanish Flu, or 91918H1N1, to give its proper name, claimed the lives of more than 50 million people in just 15 months. Masks were part of the drive to beat it ...

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Remembering Baron Wolman, Rolling Stone Magazine’s First Staff Photographer

Baron Wolman was man behind some of the most exuberant, unguarded photography of rock’s biggest superstars. ...

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The Harrowing Photographs and Eyewitness Accounts of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

Photographed by Arnold Genthe, George R. Lawrence, and others, the photos reveal the vast extent of the devastation and the scale of the military relief effort. They also sometimes show the breakdown of civil order, as in photographs of soldiers looting during the fires. ...

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Imogen Cunningham’s Sublime Close-Up Botanical Photos from the 1920s and 30s

Imogen Cunningham’s close-up botanical photographs, taken during the 1920s and 30s, have been compared to Georgia O’Keeffe’s abstract flower paintings made around the same time, but the resemblance may have little to do with influence. ...

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti : Poems and Paintings From The City of Lights

Lawrence Ferlinghetti's paintings finally get their own show ...

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From Nudes to an Earthquake: The trail-blazing photography of Arnold Genthe

Like many other photographers at the time, Genthe documented everything. He was a portrait photographer, a photo-journalist, and an artist. ...

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The Radical Art of The Black Panther, the Revolution’s Newspaper from 1967 to 1980

Every revolutionary movement has its graphic art—bold lines, eye-catching colors, slogans aplenty. It is a form so well-worn as to have become cliché, a mode of communication that evolved with advertising and newspapers and used the same technologies. So it was with the Black Panther Party for Self Defense... ...

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Burning Man Struggles for the Desert Against Ravers, New Agers, and Hippies in 1998

If someone takes their clothes off in the desert, it’s no more a political statement than it is an invitation to sex. It’s just another mode of experience. Get over it. ...

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One of the First True Monorail Systems Debuts in 1910, Wins High Praise from Winston Churchill, Then Fails

In the early 20th Century Irish-born inventor Louis Brennan invented a monorail inspired by a child's toy ...

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