Bizarre Coincidence: Donald Judd edition.
Donald Judd’s Untitled, wood boxes from 1976, at the Dia: Beacon. (Image by the Dia Art Foundation, via ArtInfo.) A boutique display window in SoHo. Making me think those Judds in Beacon would look...
View ArticleBizarre Coincidence: The proposed Apple HQ, inflatable hemorrhoid ring.
The design schematic for Apple’s corporate headquarters in Cupertino, Calif. (reportedly conceived by the Dark Lord Foster, the same architect who was ready to mar a pristine stretch of the Bulgarian...
View ArticleBizarre Coincidence: L.A.’s High School #9, meet Godzilla.
A while back, Edward Lifson and I were riffing on what L.A.’s High School #9 — designed by the fancy pants Coop Himmelb(l)au — looks like. After my most recent visit to SoCal, I’ve changed my mind from...
View ArticleBizarre Coincidence: The High Line goes Orlando.
The Friends With You installation at the High Line in NYC bears an uncanny resemblance to… …the Nickelodeon Hotel in Orlando. Where I once spent the night in the Danny Phantom suite. (Photos, from top,...
View ArticleBizarre Coincidence: Francis Alÿs meets Cheech Marin.
A screengrab from Francis Alÿs’s 2002 video, When Faith Moves Mountains (now on view at MoMA). In which volunteers shoveled pieces of a Peruvian dune. The line across the dune is the advancing row of...
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