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Probes into Architecture and Politics

20040731

Public Radio: Talk about Beauty

Studio 360 of WNYC features a broadcast on beauty in contemporary art this weekend. It is broadcast Saturday at 10am and Sunday at 6pm.

WNYC Radio

.: gisela 5:32 PM

Our friend Susan just sent us this quote:

"When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong"
- Buckminster Fuller

.: gisela 5:27 PM

In On Beauty and Being Just Elaine Scarry not only defends beauty from the political arguments against it but also argues that beauty does indeed press us toward a greater concern for justice.

.: Jonas 10:24 AM

20040730

Virtual Worlds Meet the Real One
Manhattan high-school students have discovered that computer games can affect the real world (wired)

.: Jonas 11:59 AM

20040716

Outfoxed examines how media empires, led by Rupert Murdoch's Fox News, have been running a "race to the bottom" in television news. This film provides an in-depth look at Fox News and the dangers of ever-enlarging corporations taking control of the public's right to know.

.: Jonas 1:11 PM

20040709

Paul Rudolph Building in Manhattan

15 years after the master's death, Paul Rudolph's last building was opened in East 58th Street.
NYTimes

.: gisela 10:52 AM

20040708

Dom: Cologne cathedral is now the only World Heritage site in Europe officially listed as in danger. (guardian)

Spider-Man 2 video game: "I also went down to ground zero, curious how the game would handle such a sensitive issue. It is a concrete plaza that contains only the powerful spotlights that shone straight up as a memorial." (NYtimes)

.: Jonas 10:52 AM

20040705

NYtimes.com/Groundzero

.: Jonas 11:26 AM