Monthly Archives: June 2018

(Agitated) Philosophy and Art (Adrian Piper)

Posted on June 28, 2018 by zjb

Check out the big Adrian Piper exhibition currently at MoMA. Her work goes back to the 1970s. Piper worked at the intersection of art, philosophy, and politics. I am going to write more about her later, but for now I’m … Continue reading →

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Everything #6 (Adrian Piper)

Posted on June 27, 2018 by zjb

(Adrian Piper, Everything # 6, 2004)  On an incredibly sad day thinking about the new Trump Supreme Court, the six digital prints on wallpaper by Adrian Piper were particularly apropos. “Everything will be taken away.”

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This Amazing Asian Supermarket in Morningside Heights (H Mart)

Posted on June 27, 2018 by zjb

For gastronomes and Food and Foodway Studies people: Speechless, I wandered aisle after aisle, struck by the vastness of varieties and options –produce, meat and fish, noodles, kimchi, mushrooms, desserts and snacks, and also cookware and kitchenware. When I have … Continue reading →

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(Democracy) Little Forest and Garden Parks (Harlem)

Posted on June 26, 2018 by zjb

The neighbors who tend this little park in Harlem turned it into a forest. A white gravel path takes you into the cool, dark shade. There are cats here at the Joseph Daniel Wilson Gardens at W. 122 Street between … Continue reading →

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Irate on the Upper West Side

Posted on June 25, 2018 by zjb

“Feeling or characterized by great anger.” Posted on 108th Street or something like that just off Riverside Drive.

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Red-tailed Hawk Fledgings & Angel’s Horn (St John the Divine)

Posted on June 24, 2018 by zjb

Would someone versed in Christian/Episcopal iconography please help me identify the angel on the back end of the roof of St John the Divine overlooking Morningside Drive down below.  The cathedral being St John, is the angel one of the … Continue reading →

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(Then When) If Not Now (Response To Professor Miriam Elman)

Posted on June 22, 2018 by zjb

A dire threat to the Jewish community? If Not Now (INN) is a Jewish protest movement that has put its critical focus on opposition to “the occupation.” They have recently gotten a lot of critical blowback from inside the organized … Continue reading →

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(Hatred) Tender Age Internment Camps

Posted on June 20, 2018 by zjb

It is entirely unclear which is the worse name to call these things. Are they “concentration camps” or “tender age shelters”? This is the searing picture on the front page of today’s New York Times. No words can quite match … Continue reading →

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Jerry-rigged Church Space (Rescue Baptist Church)

Posted on June 12, 2018 by zjb

Walking down W. 123rd Street between Adam Clayton Powell and Frederick, you are at first not sure what you are looking at. Illuminating a basic point made by Durkheim about the sacred, the only thing that distinguishes Rescue Baptist Church … Continue reading →

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Harlem Green Space (New West 123rd Street Block Association Garden)

Posted on June 11, 2018 by zjb

Harlem is full of community gardens that humanize the urban landscape and preserve it from developers. This one, the New West 123rd Street Block Association Garden, has a particularly lush layout with generous places to sit, places to plant, and … Continue reading →

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