Wednesday, April 24
Happy Birthday Woolworth Building!
-welcome to the “Centennial” club…
Tuesday, April 23
A million times yes…
“In PORTRAIT OF JASON Shirley Clarke is a goddamn genius. I hope people compare me with her someday.”
- John Cassavetes
“Says more about race, class and sexuality than just about any movie before or since.”
– Melissa Anderson, Village Voice
“The most extraordinary film I’ve seen in my life.”
– Ingmar Bergman
Monday, April 22
What would our fair city be like if the plan above (filing in the Hudson River from the West Side Highway to New Jersey) came to fruition?
What do you think?
(personally, I love the river…)
Robert Strati’s series “Creating Civilizations”… .the artist suffers with Labyrinthitis,a dizzying condition with vertigo like symptoms.
His series, evokes a certain formal-abstraction reminiscent of the building blocks of our world-a blue print of creation and life, but turned upside down, much like the artist’s world.
Take a closer look, peer through someone’s glasses and then ask yourself- … how do you see our world?
Wednesday, April 17
(Brooklyn Bridge)
Saturday, January 5
I used to live 2 blocks from this, I had no idea.
New York…full of little and big secrets.
Temple Court is no longer one of them, but I’m ok with letting this one go.
Saturday, December 1
“A forty-year-old photography project reveals a crime-ridden, urine-soaked subway system that makes today’s look downright luxurious.”-Brendan Spiegel
There might not be graffiti anymore… in fact I think a little color would be an improvement, color yes, the smell of urine…no.
Tuesday, August 28
Oy did I spend many an evening in this building… thanks Philip J. for creating a unique ‘monumental’ space thats granduer is so great it appears to urge students to end it all in the chasm that is the NYU Bobst Library.
The main question I have is why does this library (located in one of the most dense neighborhoods in the world) waste so much space? Was it a good idea to have a 12 story atrium?
It seems the answer is no, no it was not a good idea to have a 12 story atrium… so this is now the sad and ugly remedy to the NYU Bobst suicide problem.
Thursday, August 2
50 years ago today some of the brightest minds in the modern world (Norval White, Elizabeth Bliss Parkinson, Aline B Saarinen (wife of Euro), Norman Mailer, Jane Jacobs, and Phillip Johnson) staged a protest in attempts to save New York’s doomed Pennsylvania Station. This event (along with the demolition of the station) brought attention to historical preservation in America for the first time.
The station was lost, but I”ll bet many of this counties most important and influential structures still stand today because of Penn Stations ultimate demise. I call it…
Architectural martyrdom.
Monday, July 23
“Bi-Curious George”, Hansky
(The lighter, more satirically, even silly side of the art world-oyyy and don’t we need it!)
