
Unlikely Pastel Interiors of the Hermit Kingdom
“Let us turn the whole country into a socialist fairyland" declares one of the 310 official patriotic slogans issued in 2015 year on behalf of the leader. In 2015, Guardian journalist and photographer Oliver Wainwright travelled to Pyongyang, North Korea. The images taken on assignment reveal surprising interiors of a notoriously secretive country. In an interview with Taschen, Wainwright remarks, "The most striking thing is the sheer amount of color; I had this preconceived

MoMA to auction over 400 classic photographs at Christie’s
More than 400 works from MoMA's photography department will be sold at Christie's over the next nine months. Christie’s will preview highlights of the MoMA collection during multi-city tours in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York beginning in September. The cache is expected to realize more than $3.6 million, and the proceeds will go toward the department’s acquisition fund. The photographs are by some of the best-known names from the early 20th century to the postwar pe