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F. John Beech, Coated Drawing/Harrison
Place, Brooklyn (detail), 2008
Aluminum enamel on inkjet print
11 x 8 ½ inches
B. Hybrid Dumpster Drawing #9
(detail), 1997
Black and white RC phototgraphs, tape
9 2∕3 x 13 2∕3 inches
Courtesy the artist and Peter Blum
Gallery, New York
6 Questions for Boris Groys
Of what relevance is the term / idea of utopia to the contemporary urban landscape? On what scale, if at all, does this concept inform design / planning today?
Silence and Void: Cage, Fuller, and Urban Space
In 1948, John Cage staged a play at Black Mountain College. The production, The Ruse of Medusa, was an early bit of surrealism written by Erik Satie in 1913.
The Image of the City: Notes on Mark Bradford’s Help Us and Liz Glynn’s 24 Hour Roman Reconstruction Project
A city is an unknowable thing. We can only know our cities: not “Houston” or “Los Angeles” or “New York” but, rather, our personal paths and roads and restaurants and bars, neighbors and galleries and corners and mailboxes—those things we experience and register directly.1 Only that which is phenomenologically present is truly knowable.
Against Architecture
Architecture is the simplest means of articulating time and space, of modulating reality, of engendering dreams.
The City, Naked
The revolutionary transformation of the world, of all aspects of the world, will confirm all the dreams of abundance.
Immersion in the Land of Oil
A visit to the Houston Ship Channel is a compelling activity, highly recommended for anyone interested in current events. Here in this petrochemical Mecca, the largest petrochemical complex in the United States, the full extent of our saturation in the oil economy can be seen, felt, smelled and fathomed.
Workspace 08: In Katrina's Wake
An Exhibition/Report/Call to Leadership
How do artists respond to calamity? In New Orleans, in the almost three years since Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent levee breaks of August and September 2005, many resident artists—and a number of artists observing from the outside—have been moved by the still-urgent need for individual and community relief and recuperation.
