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Tag Archives: 2020’s
2020: Ingathering
Joyce Brienza + Deborah Sukenic: Ingathering (2020); from an exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.
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1953: Description
A description of what we would now call a depressive episode from a 1953 story by Jean Ferry, “The Traveler with Luggage”: As a result of incidents still obscure to me, I suffered an absolutely atrocious mental breakdown in the … Continue reading
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5650: The Last Day of Manhattan
In 1905, the great comic strip artist Windsor McCay illustrated a series of satiric science fiction vignettes by the prolific author, humorist, and editor John Kendrick Bangs. The series ran in The New York Herald and other newspapers and featured … Continue reading
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Tagged 1900's, 1910's, 1920's, 1930's, 1940's, 2020's, 20th Century, 44th Century, 57th Century, Art, Boston, Cities, Illustration, John Kendrick Bangs, Libraries, New York City, Newspapers, Science Fiction, USA, Windsor McCay
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2020: Five-Dimensional Chess
In 5d Chess (released last month by Thunkspace), pieces can travel back in time. A rook in the eighth move of a game, for example, can be placed on the board as it was in move five. This then creates … Continue reading
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2020: City
Michael Heizer’s City is a massive artwork located in the Nevada desert; when complete, it will be one of the largest sculptures in the history of the world. Heizer began the work in 1972 and it will open to the … Continue reading
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