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Mar 19
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Looking back at the Armory Show 2017

By Exhibitions
The Armory Show has never been 'cool'.  At least, not in its current incarnation.  When it moved to the piers from a seedy hotel off-Gramercy, in nowhere Manhattan, it cast off the shackles of 'interesting' for the formal march towards profitability.  At the westside piers, The Armory Show became the…
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Dec 01
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Merry Cary

By 12dCG
Tonight it begins!  'Twelve Days of Cary Grant' begins tonight at 9pm est with 'The Awful Truth'. Chill the gin and pop those cuffs.  Let the magic begin. Looks like I'm off Twitter this year; follow along on FB.  #12dCG  
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Nov 25
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Robert Smithson, Intl. [Placement Archives]

By Placement
Originally published – JUNE 26, 2005 Robert Smithson, "Terminal Area Concepts," Tibbets, Abbot, McCarthy, and Stratton, c.1966 Robert Smithson’s distant, mythic, Spiral Jetty is his most familiar artwork. However, it was nearly eclipsed by an earlier and far more commercial proposal to develop the “Dallas Fort Worth Regional Airport” as…
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Nov 20
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Suffering from Comparison [Placement Archives]

By Placement
Originally published – MAY 25, 2005 Now grossly over-magnified, marketing is pivotal in exaggerating choice in western culture. It’s a tired refrain to remind that branders and advertisers gorge you on implausible and improbable variants of things you already own or likely never needed — a buffet of attrition culminating…
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Nov 19
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Lost in Tallman Park

By Cycling
  This is the view "back", after little racing bike with 23mm road tires and I fought in vain against a leaf strewn hiking path in an attempt to find the paved "bike path". The hiking path dead ended and me and all the carbon fiber in the world had…
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Nov 18
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Making Light [Placement Archives]

By Placement
Originally published – June 13, 2005 Though you can draw a diagram for the different axis’s that humor works on, you can’t really sit down and tell somebody what “funny” is. Humor is contextual, inexplicable and personal. Bob Mankoff has been working on a research project with the University of…
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