
The filing cabinet was critical to the information infrastructure of 20th-century nation states and financial systems. Like most infrastructure, it was usually overlooked or forgotten. Read on Places Journal
The Filing Cabinet — Places Journal
A collection of writings about place space writing and art …
The filing cabinet was critical to the information infrastructure of 20th-century nation states and financial systems. Like most infrastructure, it was usually overlooked or forgotten. Read on Places Journal
The Filing Cabinet — Places Journal
For half a century Hans Haacke has devoted his art practice to unsparing critiques of wealthy and powerful institutions. His work has never been more relevant.
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A System Is Not Imagined — Places Journal
J.B. Jackson’s 1976 essay on the evolution of the American garage displays his rare ability to combine deep erudition with eloquent and plainspoken analysis.
Citation: “The Domestication of the Garage,”: Introduction by Jeffrey Kastner. Archival text by J.B. Jackson, “The Domestication of the Garage,” Places Journal, February 2019. Accessed 07 Feb 2019. https://placesjournal.org/article/j-b-jackson-the-domestication-of-the-garage/
Photography is a ship carrying light and space and heading toward the future. Read on Places Journal
Sometimes you see a picture and you can tell that something’s missing, but you don’t know what it is …
Or you could try to fill the emptiness with something you love, as I love Walker Percy’s renderings in The Moviegoer:
The street looks tremendous. People on the far side seem tiny and archaic, dwarfed by the great sky and the windy clouds like pedestrians in old prints.
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