Frida Kahlo and Henri Matisse Enter the Public Domain
A wealth of art and literature, from the work of Robert Capa to Mahatma Gandhi’s autobiography, is now available for public access in the United States.
by Rhea Nayyar 
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Lastly, Mahatma Gandhi’s autobiography The Story of My Experiments with Truth(1929), compiled from a series of his weekly Navjivanjournal entries between 1925–1929, is now in the public domain — as is the autobiographical novel Daughter of Earth(1929)by American writer and journalist Agnes Smedley, whose career included activism in support of the Indian Independence movement as well as Chinese Communist Revolution.
As we hurtle toward a future full of absurdities and atrocities, Public Domain Day is as good of a time as any to take a look at what came before us and reappropriate that knowledge in contemporary contexts.
So, with that in mind, we wish you a Happy Public Domain Day — and Happy New Year!
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