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American History X  (1998); The   Pruitt-Igoe Myth (2011) I often use the word "apartheid" to describe pre-Civil Rights America...

The Fifth Element  (1997);  Satellite Photo of Earth at Night  (2000) ( Part 9 ) Wil...

Apple's whiteness device guru, Jonathan Ive; Weissenhofsiedlung door bell ( Part 8 ) There is no greater contemporary symbol of modern e...

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...

Padmé Amidala looking uninviting; Cathy de Monchaux, Red (1999) The other day I was thinking about a sculptor who's work had made an i...

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...