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I wish I were…in Liechtenstein
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, photo via Wikipedia
Liechtenstein’s capital Vaduz has a population of 5.000. Other than the castle (upper left of the image), the main tourist attraction of this village is the Kunstmuseum. In the neighboring countries of Switzerland and Austria or even Germany, almost every larger town has a Kunsthalle or two. Most of them are [...]
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Home is where the art is…
Graffitti on the walls of 475 Kent Ave. Williamsburg, sprayed on during evacuation. Photo via BruceLabounty802 on flickr (see here for the entire set.)
It’s called gentrification. You take a bad neighborhood with low property values and good location. You set up a squat with a public kitchen run by anarchists. You rent out the surrounding [...]
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Tags: New York, urbanism
At the panel discussion at NCCA, left to right: me, artist Anatoly Osmolovsky, critic and curator Ekaterina Degot, artist Dmitry Gutov. Click on the image for more photos.
Last night, the NCCA hosted an evening devoted to documenta 12. Surprisingly, the house was packed. I say surprisingly for two reasons.
First, because the NCCA is somewhat autistic [...]
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Tags: documenta, NCCA, panel discussions
