Banerjee’s paribartan goals in Kolkata exhibit overarching trends of capitalizing the colonial history in the desire for a neoliberal profit-oriented capitalistic future.
Art-thinking refers to the epistemological possibilities that art pursues as a mode of examining and engaging with the world.
Attacked from the right and from the left, Richard Florida has always rolled with the punches.
Monuments are not passive, representational artworks; they present opportunities for collective conversation.
Disappearing Acts
Architecture, historically, has dedicated itself to permanence: in the 19th century to monuments and memorials, in the 20th century to symbols of corporate ascendance. Yet cities are in a constant state of formation & transformation—both physical and cultural.