Begin the Begin
4 January 2013 | Hidden City Daily
100 years after Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, are we about to experience another radical shift in art and expression?
Posts tagged with “Art And The City”
Imagination in the City
4 November 2011 | Philadelphia Inquirer
But to drink the Kool-Aid, as we’ve all done for so long, is to engage in a damning misreading of history that says only the colonial, or early Federal, period matters. This is why the brick - symbol of one historical moment, metaphor for a shrunken imagination - is so dangerous.
Play House Shines Spotlight on Potential of Philadelphia’s Vacant Land
21 October 2011 | Philadelphia Inquirer
When Marianne Bernstein was a little girl, her mother eschewed regular toys. Instead, she was given a simple wooden cube with a hinged door - a playhouse - and there had free rein to invent her world. She has been reinventing her playhouse in city lots ever since.
Mural Fight
12 October 2011 | Hidden City Daily
I was struck by the architectural conservatism in the room, a conservatism that felt elitist and hostile at times. And clearly no one has made a cogent argument to neighborhood groups like this one that contemporary architecture has value in a “traditional” neighborhood. Least of all this developer, whose architect is working from Looney Tunes.
Feet In!
21 August 2011
“What do you think Thomas Eakins would think of this?” asked my father. We were standing on the Schuylkill Banks admiring Miss Rockaway’s Armada, the floating circus made entirely of trash docked under the Walnut Bridge.