Star Wars Modern

Alfredo Brillembourg presenting Torre David  at this year's CTsummit Last week I wrote a post for ArtFCity titled "A Look at ...

Whitey on the Moon , Neil Armstrong, looking exhausted; Gil Scott-Heron, mad as hell. (Return to Part 7 ) Had NASA engineers been less enamo...

Peter Seville,  New Order, Substance  (1988); Matrix Code (1999) ( Part 6 ) The art blogger,  Hrag Vartanian , pointed out at a party recent...

Parthenon Frieze; Telephone Switchboard ( Part 5 ) When Corbusier wrote in 1923 that, "Architecture can be found in the telephone and t...

T he look of control:  Alen Shepard suiting up (1959); Offutt ICBM Air Base Control Room (1957) (Return to Part 4 ) In the postwar year Émig...

Charlie's Angels (2000); Bauhaus ( Part 3 ) The architecture theorist Mark Wigley argues that architects designing white buildings today...

The hand of the shooter; Jacob Riis, Scrub Woman (1892); Unforgiven (1992) ( Part 2 ) The post War embrace of the NEW was a very re...

Full Metal Jacket (1987); Parthenon (438 BCE) ( Part 1 ) The eighteenth century archaeologist and art historian Johann Joachim Winckelma...

Sigourney Weaver, Aliens (1979); Otto Apel, Former American Embassy, Frankfurt Germany (1955) A day or two before Apple announced they wo...

Combat Archaeology In a discussion of the methods he laid out in his book,  The Archaeology of Knowledge ,  the French philosopher Mich...

Joshua Glenn's final revision of my  Star Wars Klein group diagram  Above is another variant on my  Star Wars Klein Group Diagram . I...

Batman Begins  (2005), Friedrich Nietzche (1844-1900), Superman Returns  (2006) In his book about the creators of golden age comics,  Men o...

I love this photo. I am kneeling beside my grandmother. I love it because it was our last visit together, I love it because we are standing ...