Home Delivery outside of MoMA (digital)The MoMA exhibition Home Delivery, Fabricating the Modern Dwelling continues outside on the asphalt vacant lot next door. This lot is the site of a proposed 75 floor tower designed by Jean Nouvel which the local community board rejected as out-of-scale with the neighborhood. The neighborhood being Midtown Manhattan, the […]

The Dali exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (digital)Continuing my visit to MoMA. I find it increasingly difficult to deal with the crowds of people in the museum, and though the building’s design has been generally hailed, I find it less comfortable than any of the museum’s previous incarnations. The circulation area where the […]

Photographs by Bernd and Hilla Becher at MoMA (digital) I went to the Museum of Modern Art yesterday to see Home Delivery, the exhibit on pre-fabricated housing, but along the way, cruised through the photography galleries. I was dismayed to see yet another major Bernd and Hilla Becher exhibition, at least at first. Don’t misunderstand, […]

Wave Hill greenhouse Just a summer interlude. A visit to Wave Hill, an estate turned into public garden and cultural center. A showery day, we ducked in to the greenhouse to avoid some raindrops. Wave Hill greenhouse

Fly’s Eye Dome by Buckminster Fuller (digital) New York has much great public sculpture of the traditional kind–generals on horseback and solitary figures standing proudly against the sky or beneath a canopy of trees. But much less of the modern kind. At least not permanently installed. What we have instead–and it’s probably a good thing–are […]

(Rose/Fausty)After working on the new incarnation of the Lower East Side project for a number of years–not as intensively as I’d like, but gradually building up a sizable body of work–I decided to put it all together in book form using Blurb, the online DIY book publisher. As I began the process, downloading the software, […]

Houston and Bowery (4×5 film) A 4×5 variation of an earlier digital shot. This one with Hummer.

Colonial Williamsburg Fifes and Drums, 1967 (CW photo)I am fourth from the left in the front next to George Carroll the corps leader. On Friday and Saturday I traveled with my family to Williamsburg, Virginia for the 50th anniversary of the Colonial Williamsburg Fifes and Drums. I was a member from 1964 to 1972. The […]

Abandoned gas station near Chincoteague, Virginia (digital) It’s a six hour drive down here from New York along the New Jersey Turnpike, and then Route 13 through Delaware and Maryland. Much of the landscape along 13 has been ruined by an excess of strip malls, fast foods, and gas stations. One wonders where this is […]

From our hotel balcony • Chincoteague, Virginia (digital) Headed south for a week’s vacation. Chincoteague, Virginia. A scruffy fishing village adjacent to Assateague Island with its beach and wild ponies.