Belize, a character in HBO’s Angels in America, describes his vision of heaven:
“A big city, overgrown with weeds, but flowering weeds. On every corner a wrecking crew, and something new and crooked going up catty-cornered to that. Gusts of gritty wind, and a gray, high sky alive with ravens. Piles of trash, but lapidary like […]
Architecture Against Architecture
by Roemer van Toorn, 1997
“The greater part of the critical tradition attempts to ignore the spectacle. It is a criticism of despair. The critic seeks the authentic, the spiritual, the bodily, the craftsmanlike or the unsullied. He believes in a better world that is unaffected by the technological revolution. This is the criticism […]
Archilab 2004 - The Naked City
October 13-25, 2004
Orleans, France
“The radically increased mobility of individuals and whole populations produces new relationships between parts of the city, cities among each other and between the individuals that inhabit them … In the contemporary city a multitude of different groups and organizations exist next to each other … The […]
Bruce Nauman - Raw Materials
Tate Modern, London, 12 October 2004 - 28 March 2005
“Language has always played a central role in Bruce Nauman’s work, providing him with a means of examining how human beings exist in the world, how they communicate or fail to communicate. For Raw Materials, he has selected 22 spoken texts taken […]
Online exhibitions of the Musee McCord:
“Urban Life Through Two Lenses invites you into a unique virtual space where two daily realities coexist, raising questions about each other…”
Andrzej Maciejewski re-photographs William Notman’s turn-of-the-century photos of Montreal - with commentary by an historian, a museologist and a photographer.
“There was a time, in bygone days, when the […]