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Glenn Lowry to the young philistines of Manhattan: Drop Dead.
In case no one told you, MoMA is a damn important place, and those who work there are pretty damn important too. And serious. And worthy of endless hagiography. If you try really hard, you might be good enough for them someday. In case you were wondering just what particular path of improvement would be […]
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But what do you do when you take the kitchen to work?
Yesterday was officially the first day of Riding the Subway Sucks. The condition does not merit a more clever appellation. I christen the day when I first note the absurdity of the way the subterranean work spaces are cooled: namely, with wall units that exhuast into the public spaces. I never cease being amazed at […]
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Capitalism: now safe, and attractive.
There is now visible progress of renovation underway on Broad Street. Undertaken to make permanent the security put in place after 9/11, the City and the LMDC commissioned Rogers Marvel (forgive their website — you can find the project in the ‘On the Boards’ section) to develop less intrusive security (right now it’s pickups and […]
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Lordy.
All my yammering about what a piece of shit Scott Rednick is like to foist on to TriBeCa, and it turns out to be Foster. Yes folks, that there are the stylings of Lord Foster his bad self. You woulda thunk Rednick pimped this fact a little more when greasing the Community Board (except they […]
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Move over Clock Tower.
That should tell you how cool I am: I have to reference DUMBO developments from five years ago. Anyway, if I was cooler, and had a better memory, I could link you up to the best opportunity to come your way (especially if your name is Ratner, Resnick, Rudin, Rose, or any other ares I’m […]
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The only thing missing from downtown: downtown chic.
Just as many of the critics in the Times are arguing that force-fitting a cultural district on downtown will be a bigger and badder version of the Lincoln Center, Alan Gerson is stumping hard for that very effort. This week, he released a map to accompany a report issued earlier in the year that outlines […]
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Critical Art Ensemble grand jury and protest.
You may have heard a bit about this story (also here) last month. Steve Kurtz, SUNY Buffalo associate professor of art, and noted member of the Critical Art Ensemble, awoke a couple weeks ago to discover his wife had died of cardiac arrest during the night. He called 911, and upon arrival, the police noted […]
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Muschamp phones it in.
I’m sure there are any number of days one could say this, but I would hazard this one will be hard to beat: today, Herbert Muschamp opines to the obvious effect that he finds critical thinking has no place in his job. The Times, with a strange neurotic glee, has asked its critics for programming […]
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421 E 6th Street
A typical lament of aging is the observation that the hallowed places are being uprooted by less authentic interlopers. One sad effect of modernity is that many of our landmarks are merely places of commerce from which spring material transactions that are the process of sanctification and meaning in a captial driven society. But, what […]
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Tree Falls, etc.