It seems that with every Whitney Biennial there is a rush to define the theme of the exhibition and by extension, the current state of
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EXHIBITION/SITE REVIEW – Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream – February 15–August 13, 2012 at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
EXHIBITION/SITE REVIEW Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream February 15–August 13, 2012 at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) The exhibition I will outline within this
Read moreBeing, Singular, Plural
Being Singular Plural is an artistic expression of Jean-Luc Nancy’s seminal work of the same name, Being Singular Plural. The exhibition was first presented in
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"Triumph" exhibition review
“A post-industrial Rococo master, Kris Kuksi obsessively arranges characters and architecture in asymmetric compositions with an exquisite sense of drama. Instead of stones and
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Institutional Voices – Obrist + Koolhaas at the NYPL
Over the millennia, architecture has found no better suitor than the institution. They are an appropriately well-matched pair. Their symbiotic relationship is based on a mutual
Read moreReading Response Week 12 – Architecture, Print, and Abstraction
Victor Hugo’s essay, “Ceci tuera cela [This Will Kill That]”, points to a recurring anxiety about new developments in expressive technology – that as societies
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Analyzing through this week’s reading, I would like to concentrate on Victor Hugo’s interpretation of archdeacon thought “This will kill that. The book will kill
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Reading Response Week 12: This Will Kill That
I’ll admit that when we first touched on Victor Hugo’s “this will replace that” (the idea that the advent of the printing press lead to
Read moreReading Response, April 17, 2012
Reading Response, April 17, 2012 The articles for this week focused on the advent of print as a medium and its affects on architecture. The
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An argument that I found to be repeatedly mentioned in this week’s readings was the idea that the printed word destroyed the art or architecture.
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