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Back to your regularly scheduled programming.
The folks over at Eyebeam (you remember them; they held a high profile competition for a new facility just as the air was being let out of the internet bubble) have launched a new project that tracks street ‘memes’ (via Kottke). The most interesting (and useful) aspect of it is being able to upload photos […]
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But, we digress.
This is clearly way outside what we normally discuss, but an exception will be made based on some tortured logic that there was a stadium/sports post (making it sort of a ‘sports’ day) as well being really fucking annoying. Hampton Roads is now in the running for a MLB franchise because the folks at Smithfiled […]
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Dolans threaten to hire foreigners. Hilarty ensures.
Respecting the middling quality of their existing facility, and perhaps a belief that Midtown is not Canadian enough, Cablevision has apparently contracted Brisbin Brook Beynon, regional specialists in “entertainment architecture,” to spruce up the Garden. Perhaps I’m being unfair those particular Canadians, but, boy, isn’t that the worst web site you have ever seen? They […]
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A flash of green.
A few months late, the renovation of Tribeca Park is very nearing completion. Though some paving still needs to be installed, they removed the barriers sometime yesterday afternoon, so I guess it is ‘open.’ Tribeca Park (now fairly named) is the double triangle formed when Beach Street splits and interrupts West Broadway. Previously, it was […]
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Run out on rails.
It turns out that Pataki’s threat to hijack the last billion dollars of LMDC money to finance the JFK rail link may be an empty threat. A Downtown Express recap of a talk by Kevin Rampe, president of the LMDC, though, curiously, not a voting member (“I think at the end of the day, my […]
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Bloomberg to homeless: Drop Dead.
After years of dumping unused properties to private developers, the city has announced it is damn tired of putting up homeless people who just won’t get an apartment already. A new plan, which the Times has an advance copy of, recommends charging shelter residents. I don’t know if anyone has told the sharp tacks who […]
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Whitney procures services of big name architect. Hilarty ensues.
The Whitney is ready to give it another go, this time hiring Renzo Piano to take a crack at developing an expansion plan. It certainly seems to be a good time to be a name architect with a fading, repetitive oeuvre, but aren’t there, oh, a hundred or so firms out there that maybe are […]
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At least everyone has passed on the fat lady jokes.
Terry Teachout offers a response to the short list for Cultural venues announced for the WTC site. His main point is that the selected finalists are relatively small potatoes. Given the short list, this isn’t the hardest charge to level. Working with available materials, he observes that the decision is somewhat a slap in the […]
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It’s big, it’s a little confusing. It must be public art.
I came across the Victor Matthews installation in Battery Park last night. It consists of a field of umbrellas painted with Monarch butterflies. It was a ‘surprise’ and therefore an interesting diversion as I simultaneously tried to determine what snarky comments I could make (minor league Christo warm-up?) while also applying my ill-gotten art education […]
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But where’s the bread?