Top Links #165 Chaplin on the gold standard, North Korea's dapper cabinet, the value of a Russian life & NASA's art program

Great links, reading and images from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze

Robert Rauschenberg Stop Gap, 1963

Rauschenberg’s interest in space program photography is also evident in Stop Gap (1963). The upper portion of the silkscreen painting is dominated by an image of the Sigma 7 splashdown from Life magazine (October 26, 1962). The spacecraft housed astronaut Walter H. Schirra Jr., who safely returned from a six-orbit missi…