The Coney Island Gift Shop now offers pieces of the destroyed boardwalk in a bottle. Visualingual calls it "a useless fetish object that capitalizes on the nostalgia surrounding Coney Island." [VL]
Life inside a Greenpoint trailer. [NYS]
On the Bowery, Koolhaas argues against preservation: "If you preserve something, it becomes conserved and then something artificial." [WOBA]
Tattooing on the Bowery. [BB]
Sign the petition to support Max Fish. [TLD]
Answers to the Flaming Pablum before and after NYC photos quiz. [FP]
Boating the lake in Prospect Park. [CR]
Read artist Donald Judd's 1989 essay about his cast-iron building on Spring Street. [DO]
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2 comments:
An architect railing against building preservation is just as self serving as Dunkin Donuts when they rail against mandatory displayed calorie counts.
Presentations like that remind me of why I can't stand the fucking New Museum.
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