Posts Tagged ‘architecture’
Paul Villinski’s Emergency Response Studio is a sustainable, aesthetic trailer designed to be a mobile artist’s studio (opening today at Ballroom Marfa in Marfa, TX). In many ways, it is the opposite of the actual FEMA trailer seen in the post-Katrina Gulf states: in place of a toxic, claustrophobic substitute for a home is a [...]
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Tags: architecture, ballroom marfa, critique of judgement, emergency response studio, FEMA, installation, kant, new orleans, new orleans museum of art, paul villinski, prospect.1, sculpture, trailer, use, useless
Use, Part 1: Retail/Commercial
Lead Pencil Studio’s Retail/Commercial installation is full of useless items. There are rows of plastic hangers without clothes, a pile of size rings separated from their hangers, illuminated empty jewelery cases, and decorative display stones without merchandise (see review of opening night by Jen Graves in The Stranger). The entire installation is housed in a vacated Italian [...]
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Tags: aesthetics, architecture, art criticism, critique of aesthetic judgement, critique of judgement, economy, immanuel kant, installation, lead pencil studio, retail, retail/commercial, sculpture, use, useless
Sorry, Out of Gas
I rarely can muster enthusiasm for architecture exhibitions. In the past, I have occasionally admitted this to colleagues, and I am typically met with a look of mystified offense as I continue on to explain how elevations do little for me and how models, while often the marks of excellent craftsmanship, have never inspired [...]
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Tags: architecture, critique, environment, exhibition, museums
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