Photography by Danielle Bartholomew
Ballet, Pig Farming, and Art-Making Through her photographs of uncanny domestic scenes, Laurie Simmons has been holding a mirror to the charms and deceits of bourgeois life since her first show at Artists Space in 1979. Molly Ringwald attained teen stardom after Sixteen Candles, John Hughes’s 1984 homage to the false promises of American adolescence, and has shaped and critiqued mainstream culture through film and writing ever since. Keen arbiters of the American spirit, both grew up immersed in the materialism of suburbia. The pair reunite here to discuss the blessing—and the curse—of embracing a single craft at a tender age and explain why it’s the pendulum, not the Bald Eagle, that best represents American culture. 70 culturedmag.com
