The Experiments in Motion exhibition is opening tomorrow! These photographs by Michael Moran provide a sneak peek at what is to come.
The exhibition is open to the public at the Essex Street Warehouse in New York City September 15-27. More info here.
A fun little article a friend sent me. The author essentially looks at city maps from above, separates out all the blocks, and stacks them in rows to show either consistency or inconsistency. Compare New York and Istanbul, for example.
New York City (well, part of it):
and Istanbul:
The article is an interesting read.
It’s not that I’m disappointed in New York, not at all. I love walking Manhattan’s grid system, but now that I’ve seen Armelle Caron’s bottom-up version of Istanbul, all those crooked, lopsided, curvaceous streets, going off in so many directions, I can’t help wondering, what would it be like to wander there? Would I be constantly lost? Would every turn be an adventure?
Suddenly I can’t help it. I want to go.
He’s certainly right about the curvaceous streets going off in so many directions. Add to that the ubiquitous hills, and general deficiency of signage telling you what street you’re on or facing, and the wandering experience really becomes that - wandering, whether you intended for it or not :).
A last bit: the Istanbul she references as the capital for centuries is actually more accurately the Sultanahmet district. The map of Istanbul used here is a small section of the city on the Asian side. So it’s not really representative of the city as a whole or even the classical core of the city, but nonetheless quite interesting.
Creative Time is heading to Far Rockaway to host its inaugural artist sandcastle competition at 3pm on Friday August 17th!
Artists including Ricci Albenda, Jen Catron & Paul Outlaw, Jen DeNike, William Lamson, Marie Lorenz, Mary Mattingly, Ryan McNamara, Kenya (Robinson), and Dustin Yellin will gather on the beach beneath the 86th Street Boardwalk on Rockaway Beach in Queens to battle it out for special prizes from esteemed judges.
Local food vendor favorites, including DiCosmo’s Ices, The Big Banana, Santa Salsa and more will be onsite to keep artists and audiences alike well provisioned with summer snacks and refreshments.
Starting at 6PM, we’ll move the party from the beach to the boardwalk for burgers and beer at Rippers, featuring tunes by DJ iDEATH. Just take the A train to Broad Channel and then the Shuttle to 90th Street for a fun-filled day in the sun. See you on the beach!
Click through to RSVP on Facebook. Questions? Email: events@creativetime.org.
Photograph from David’s Gallimauphry via Flavorwire.
A Curios Place: Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin
Been to Berlin? If, yes, no need to read this little piece, unless of course, you’ve got a minute or two to kill. But, this will be old news to you:
Berlin is being yuppified. By the second. Everyone knew it was going to happen. A place can only be so cheap and so cool for so long before everyone finds out. The age-old example: KunstHaus Tacheles, a bombed out former factory turned prison camp turned squatting house/ informal art/drug space until it was properly incorporated into gallery in the late 1990s on Oranienburger Strasse in the East. The space has had to finagle a balancing act: being true to its gritty roots while bringing in money and shows. We love Tacheles for her history and for holding up gritty appearances, but let’s be honest, the main audience for the past few years has been mostly Japanese tourists. There’s nothing wrong with that. Let’s just admit that the answer to the question WO IST KAEPTN’ NEMO?, (which is graffitied to the building’s exterior in reference to the a USSR deep-sea movie) can be answered with a resounding “Long Gone, Comrade. Back East, perhaps.”
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I do find it interesting that access to water and restrooms almost comes to a halt north of 130th st. on the West Side Highway. As an aside, Robert Moses detailed in the book, Power Broker, was rumored to have put little brass monkeys in the only park bathroom above 130th st on the WSH. Years later, service segregation seems to remain. NEW YORK CITY’S MISSING PUBLIC RESTROOMS Posted with Percolate |
