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Sarah Morris’s art is touted for its allusions to and interpretations of the urban environment. With deft mimcry of the grids found in cityscapes, her Midtown series of paintings (1998-99) recall the green-glass-windowed facades of a Gordon Bunshaft building. She followed these up with the series Los Angeles (2005-06), in which her Mondrian-like abstractions were more frantically paced and garishly colored, referencing architectural icons in Los Angeles.
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This week, through Friday, Diana Lind will be answering questions about architecture and the interior design of Brooklyn brownstones.Ms. Lind is the author of “Brooklyn Modern: Architecture, Interiors & Design,” which takes a look at the innovative architecture and interiors from Bedford-Stuyvesant to Brooklyn Heights and Cobble Hill to Ditmas Park. She is also the editor in chief of Next American City magazine, a quarterly examination of urban issues, community activism, culture and politics. She was a freelance architecture and design writer for Architectural Record, Art + Auction, Plenty and other magazines.Ms. Lind edited “Designing the Hamptons: Portraits of Interiors” (Edizioni Press, 2006) and founded the short-lived magazine, Work. She received her B.A. in English from Cornell and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Columbia. Ms. Lind was born and raised in Manhattan, lived in Fort Greene for three years, and moved to Philadelphia this month.
Photographer of Brooklyn Modern (Rizzoli, 2008).
Diana Lind is an urban advocate and writer.
Diana is executive director and editor in chief of Next American City. During her tenure at Next American City, the magazine’s subscriber base and website traffic has doubled, and sponsorships and advertising have tripled. She added the annual urban informatics conference, Open Cities, and the leadership conference, Vanguard, to the organization’s activities, as well as oversaw the Dan and Joanna Rose Fellowship program. In addition, she hosted a monthly podcast called Metro Matters in collaboration with the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program.
In 2010, Diana left Next American City to help launch New Cities Foundation, a new non-profit organization with the mission of aligning corporate, public and civic sector leaders to improve urban life. In 2011, Diana was a Van Alen Institute fellow, and joined the advisory committee of the Greater Philadelphia Innovation Cluster and the program committee of the Ed Bacon Foundation. She returned to Next American City at the end of 2011.
Born in Manhattan in 1981, Diana has received degrees from Cornell University (B.A., English) and Columbia University (M.F.A., Creative Writing). She is the author of Brooklyn Modern: Architecture, Interiors & Design (Rizzoli, 2008), which is in its third printing. She also edited Designing the Hamptons: Portraits of Interiors (Edizioni, 2006). She has published her writing in The New York Times, Architectural Record, Grist, Paper, and many other publications. She recently finished a draft of her first novel.
She lives in Philadelphia’s Washington Square West neighborhood.
Upcoming:
02/23/12 - Urban Highway Removal: Panel Discussion, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
04/01/12 - Belonging: A Conversation about Cities in Flux, Philadelphia Museum of Art
When Paul Chan visited New Orleans for the first time in November 2006, the digital media and video artist expected to hear the sound of jackhammers and to see evidence of post-Katrina progress. He instead witnessed a far different scene: “The streets were still, as if time had been swept away along with the houses. Friends said the city now looks like the backdrop for a bleak science fiction movie. … I realized it didn’t look like a movie set, but the stage for a play I have seen many times. It was unmistakable. The empty road. The bare tree leaning precariously to one side with just enough leaves to make it respectable. The silence.”What the streetscape reminded him of was the setting in Samuel Beckett’s classic work Waiting for Godot. In the play, two men grapple with their nonsensical wait for a third; its philosophical reflection upon man’s uncertainty in the world seemed to Chan an apt metaphor for New Orleans’s precarious condition. Read more…