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Situationist Funhouse: Art?s Complicated Role in Redeveloping Cities

This article was originally published on Common Edge.

Courtesy of Stephen Zacks. ImageHovagimyan collaborated with Gordon Matta-Clark on Day?s End, in which Matta-Clark illegally cut a half-moon through the Navy Pier at the end of Gansevoort Street in 1975

This article was originally published on Common Edge.While Stephen Zacks? new book, G.H. Hovagimyan: Situationist Funhouse, is ostensibly about the life and work of the artist, there?s an intriguing and seemingly topical subtext looming in the background: the role of art and culture on the development and redevelopment of cities. It?s a complicated and sometimes fraught issue, prone sometimes to simplistic, even binary thinking. Zacks, a friend and former colleague at Metropolis, has always had a more nuanced view of the issue. Last week I reached out to him to talk about the work of Hovagimyan, the historic lessons of 1970s New York, and why ?gentrification? needs a new name. Read more »

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