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{ Friday, August 1, 2003 }

Anti-Newtonian Architecture

Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future...They are not built for the ages, but rather against the ages. They are involved in a systematic reduction of time down to fractions of seconds, rather than in representing the long spaces of centuries. Both past and future are placed into an objective present. This kind of time has little or no space; it is stationary and without movement, it is going nowhere, it is anti-Newtonian, as well as being instant, and is against the wheels of the time-clock.

-- Robert Smithson, Entropy and the New Monuments

(Pointed out by Chris). After Burning Man (! -- I haven't been since 1996) I am going to spend a month in San Francisco, and then I am going to be headed to New Mexico to see the Lightning Field with Emily and Miles and Sasha -- staying right by the field, and hopefully also seeing Spiral Jetty and Marfa on the proposed Land Art Tour of the Southwest with Shana. It seems as if Roden Crater is still not open. Seems like we've been waiting for decades.

LINK | 9:15 PM | TB

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{ COMMENTS }

You may be interested in a bunch of pictures from a trip I took with some friends to Marfa in May. But there are pictures of the Chinati Foundation in there, so you may want to not look at them before you go, lest you spoil the experience.

Marfa's a pretty neat town for being so tiny, and the book store has a pretty good selection of art books. Also, everyone there seems to know everybody else.

Nathan | August 1, 2003 11:15 PM

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Marfa is wonderful. I've been there once before, and seen the Chinati stuff, but it is very much worth going again.

I accidentally disarranged a Carl Andre piece that was lying on the floor -- I kicked a 10-inch length of chain, not knowing it was -- *coff* -- art.

The Judd cubes were great.

caterina | August 1, 2003 11:52 PM

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