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Fictional Urbanism
Brian Krier | Mon, Jul 28th, 2008 | Category: Reviews | City: Philadelphia | Tags: brian krier, review, satire, fictional urbanism, the city desk, fiction | 0
The City Desk devotes its pages to a city that does not exist, profiling a citizenry that is entirely fabricated, following a ceaseless cast of characters in an ever-expanding urban narrative that has no basis in fact. Strangely enough, it’s not entirely inaccurate.
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Weather Report: Art&Climate Change
Jeffrey Hill | Tue, Dec 18th, 2007 | Category: Reviews | Tags: jeffrey hill, review, art show, lucy lippard, judith hersko, boulder colorado, weather report, art and climate change, futurefarmers | 0
We believe what we see: that’s what renowned writer and art historian Lucy R. Lippard is banking on with her exhibit, “Weather Report: Art & Climate Change.” The exhibit, which opened in September in collaboration with Ecoarts, is on its last week of display at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. It will close on Friday, December 21st.
“Weather Report” provides the visuals that aim to activate personal and public change to the environment. Photo courtesy of First Pulse…(more)
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Berlin-New York Dialogues: Building in Context
Hayley Richardson | Fri, Nov 30th, 2007 | Category: Reviews | Tags: hayley richardson, new york, review, berlin, center for architecture, buidling in context, building in context, frommer's travel guide | 0
Berlin - New York Dialogues: Building in Context
The Center for Architecture
536 LaGuardia Place New York, NY 10012
Until January 26, 2008
-Upon entrance to the Center for Architecture’s current exhibit, The Berlin-New York Dialogues, visitors are immediately greeted with pair of silver parenthesis hanging from the ceiling. It’s a clear invitation to think of what follows as fitting snugly between the silvery white curves. This makes for a strange antecedent then, to the…
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Kid Nation: Lord of the Flies never looked so questionable
Matt Stroud | Sun, Oct 28th, 2007 | Category: Reviews | Tags: review, kid nation, j. rupert thomson, lord of the flies | 1
Kid Nation
Directed by J. Rupert Thomson
60 minutes (with commercials)
CBS, 2007Halfway through CBS’s new reality series Kid Nation, it’s not entirely clear why the network chose to dump 40 kids, aged 8-15, in Bonanza City, a ghost ranch in western New Mexico, for six weeks. To prove that parents aren’t necessary? To verify William Golding-esque theories about pre-pubescent politics? Leadership training?
“I think that what Kid Nation proves is that even though we may be…
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