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A Walk Through Times Square with Glenn Weiss
by Urban Omnibus • October 26th, 2011
On the eve of his departure from New York, the outgoing manager of public art for the Times Square Alliance discusses community engagement, urban placemaking and contemporary art practice at the iconic site.
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Notes on a Reception: Goodbye Performa, Hello Performa’s First Architecture Commission
by Sarah Snider • November 24th, 2009
Drinks with performance artists tend to keep you on your toes. You’re always wondering if something they say, the way...
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Sirens Taken for Wonders
by Samir Shah • November 23rd, 2009
As the plaintive wail of an ambulance drifted up 2nd Avenue last Friday night, a group of about 30 people at...
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Oppositional Architecture
by Rachel Aland • November 18th, 2009
I stopped by the Camp for Oppositional Architecture Friday night.  It was a “bar+” night; lectures are held in the...
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Public Art with a Sound-Machine
by Veronica Kavass • November 12th, 2009
Approximately one million people trample through Times Square everyday - some incessantly pausing to snap pictures of all the chaos while others beeline without ever looking up. On November 11 at 2pm on the corner of 46th and Broadway, Tony Conrad, clad in a neon green T-shirt, used a power drill to open a wooden box half his size that featured a wooden lever, a doorbell, and a sound hole.
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