Star Wars Modern

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...

Fat Bastard : end of sixth day of installation (2010).  (Return to Part 7.5 ) In his book, What Technology Wants , Kevin Kelly explains th...

US Dollar; Johannes Adam Simon Oertel,  Pulling Down the Statue of King George III , (1859) (Return to Part 7 ) When I introduce myself as ...

The author happily washing down a serving of crow and theorizing with a little Kittler at my elbow. The folks at Hyperallergic decided the ...

The 1967 desire and the 1977 affect.  "On August 6, a torch was lighted in Hiroshima, where the first atom bomb had been dropped in 19...

Bill Cunningham New York (2011); Between The Folds (2008) I saw the Bill Cunningham documentary the night before last, and last night w...

3B6-RA-7 (1977); Frank Gehry, Beekman Tower (2010) Frank Gehry is an architect I do not feel should be a guilty pleasure, but for some re...

Ed Harris playing Jackson Pollock as the  genius  of the Hamptons; Patrick Stewart playing Gurney Halleck as the war hero of Dune. Movies d...