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Williamsburg has experienced dramatic growth since 2007. Using Google Maps' new Time Machine program, users can now look at Google Street View scenes as far back as 2007. WSJ compared five Williamsburg street views from Aug. 2007 and compared them to what they looked like in Sept. 2013.

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 Cyprien Gaillard, Cities of Gold and Mirrors

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Official web site for the Estate of Robert Smithson, renowned earthwork artist, presenting images and text of earthworks/land art: Spiral Jetty, Amarillo Ramp, land art, nonsites, slide works, conceptual writings and more...

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Past Exhibition: 

MARKO LULIĆ

Psychogeography

3 May - 15 June 2013

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One-bed flats on the former Heygate Estate to go on sale this week for £350k (Photo by Rowan Lubke http://lubke.net/)

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Sitting in the library and thinking about other libraries.

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SHARED SPACES: SOCIAL MEDIA AND MUSEUM STRUCTURES 

TUES, JAN 14, 2014  6:30–9:30 PM

This two-part symposium addresses the transformation of the museum in the age of social media. How does the presence of networked digital devices affect our experience of art in the museum’s galleries? In what ways do these historical shifts in the mediation of our perception reflect our beliefs about the function of the museum in our society? How can we understand the role that the numerous corporate digital platforms utilized by museums and their publics play in the presentation of art? We will explore the ways in which rapid public sharing from within the museum transforms our attitudes toward works of art and the spaces that house them, seeking to assess the stakes of this affective digital economy. 

Distinguished scholars, curators, and artists discuss these questions in two sections—a panel of long-form presentations followed by a fast-paced series of short creative lecture propositions, followed by discussion among audience and participants. 

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From 'The Decalogue (pt I)'

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A resource of the Electronic Poetry Center, an edited site devoted to the presentation of full-text resources for innovative writing.

These poems! 

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"Isn't it true that a pleasant house makes a winter more poetic, and doesn't winter add to the poetry of a house?" 

- Gaston Bachelard, 1958.

Happy Groundhog Day [for yesterday]! The groundhog saw his shadow and predicts 6 or more weeks of winter.  

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Georges Perec, 'Species of Spaces: The Bedroom, 3' 1974. 

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Ian Hamilton Finlay's 'Homage to Malevich'

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My knowledge of architecture is constrained to a coupler of idiosyncratic data: my love for Ayn Rand and her architecture novel The Fountainhead; my admiration of the Stalinist ‘wedding-cake’ baroque kitsch; my dream of a house composed only of secondary spaces and places of passage—stairs, corridors, toilets, store-rooms, kitchen—with no living room or bedroom. The danger that I am courting is thus that what I will say will oscillate between the two extremes of unfounded speculations and what most is already known for a long time.

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Hansaplatz, Berlin.

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— Truman Capote

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Venice is sinking. To save it, Rachel Armstrong says we need to outgrow architecture made of inert materials and, well, make architecture that grows itself. She proposes a not-quite-alive material that does its own repairs and sequesters carbon, too.