Low popular culture and social activism blend together in this magazine of three issues by Gruppo Strum, commissioned by Moma in 1972. The three … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2012
The Walled City of Shibam, a ‘Manhattan of the desert’
Sometimes ago we wrote about the walled city of Kowloon, a spontaneous, unregulated urban development near Hong Kong. Whereas that one was a … [Read more...]
A False Paris Outside Paris: a ‘City’ Created to be Bombed
With exactly the same title, on 6 November 1920, the story of Sham Paris was revealed by The Illustrated London News. Located in the northern … [Read more...]
dOCUMENTA13: Francis Alÿs’ REEL/UNREEL (2011)
"On the 5th of september 2001, the taliban confiscated thousands of reels of film from the Afghan Film Archive and burned them on the outskirts of … [Read more...]
