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Rebecca McNamara

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WIDOWS UNVEILED: FASHIONABLE MOURNING IN LATE VICTORIAN NEW YORK

Publisher: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum/Parsons, DesignFile e-book series
Publication date: 2016

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It was a pleasure and honor working with @ephraimasili on “Elevator Music 35: Ephraim Asili—Jazz Salt.” The multimedia installation transforms the elevator from a liminal, functional box into a space to sit, look, listen, and contemplate. Effie’s 30-minute cassette of sampled sounds, primarily from the 1960s through 1980s, celebrates the music and poetry of black Americans while confronting 20th-century racial politics. The combined and layered sounds of film, music, spoken word, and animal recordings further ask us to examine sampling as an art form unto itself and to question at what point a sound can—or should—be defined as original. It ruptures the linearity of time and place, reintroducing us to carefully chosen moments of our own American history in a fresh, unexpected, and sometimes challenging way. Come see it—and purchase (by donation) the last of Effie’s limited-edition artist books and cassettes—before the show closes on Sunday, May 20! . . . #jazzsalt #tangteachingmuseum #ephraimasili #contemporaryart #multimediaart #artinstallation #elevatormusic #soundart #samplingart #cassetteculture #lookhard
Wall of chairs et al at @mbamtl. . #montrealmuseumoffinearts #museedesbeauxartsdemontreal #furnituredesign #design #designhistory #designgallery #permanentcollection #curatorlife #tejoremy #robertventuridenisescottbrown #aamc2018
Now that William Lescaze’s 1934 Manhattan townhouse is on the market(!!!), I’m thinking back to seemingly endless grad school projects on the meaning, function, and aesthetics glass block—one of my favorite materials. Also thinking about @cooperhewitt’s & @nypl’s Lescaze materials. . #objectoftheday post: https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2013/03/11/william-lescazes-townhouse-blueprint-creating-a-new-look-for-new-york-residences/ . Images: 1) William Lescaze, Perspective rendering, 211 East 48th Street, New York, NY, September 1933, CHSDM 2) William Lescaze, Elevation of Townhouse, 211 East 48th Street, New York, NY, 1933, CHSDM 3) Berenice Abbott, sponsored by the NY Federal Arts Project, Glass Brick and Brownstone fronts, 209 and 211 East 48th Street, Manhattan, 1938, NYPL . #williamlescaze #williamlescazehouse #architecture #modernistarchitecture #curbednewyork #curbedny #newyorkarchitecture #glassblocks #iheartny #bereniceabbott #historicpreservation #landmarkscommission #historicbuilding
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