Archive for September, 2006

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Friday, September 15th, 2006

The photo on the left is from the June 06 Martha Stewart Living, on the right is the Baldizzi kitchen as recreated to c.1935 in the Lower East Side Tenement Museum.
The Museum is an imaginarium of immigrant struggle and veers, unfortunately, into quaint nostalgia. Its cleaned-up, prettified tableaux are irritatingly appealing to me. “People suffered […]

Contemporary psychogeography

Wednesday, September 13th, 2006

CONFLUX 2006 - “the annual NYC festival for contemporary psychogeography where international artists, technologists, urban adventurers and the public put investigations of everyday city life into practice on the streets” - starts tomorrow in Brooklyn, NY and runs until Sunday. The project line-up looks great, but here are a couple that sound interesting, and […]

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