While my introduction set up an initial framework for analyzing contemporary interiors, this post will sketch out the broader social, politi...
The interior is a fluid and often disputed territory claimed by architects, interior designers and decorators. In his provocative essay, “Cu...
In the closing years of the Bush era, poetry from the Flarf collective emerged as one of the most challenging creative responses to contempo...
In my last blog entry, I mentioned a possible connection between architect William Lescaze’s house on East 48th Street and designer Russel W...
While reading Sidewalk Critic: Lewis Mumford’s Writings on New York recently, I came across a 1934 article by Mumford on William Lescaze’s M...
Kenneth Goldsmith’s “conceptual writing” has been the subject of some debate in recent years, much of it fuelled by Goldsmith’s provocative ...