Cars

Rudin Center conference on Transit Oriented Developments

In Cars, Development, Transportation on 21 November 2008 with no comments

Last Friday, the Rudin Center at NYU hosted a conference on Transit Oriented Development (TOD). Over the course of a few posts, I’d like to offer a summary of some of the best ideas that were thrown around the room that day. Here’s what keynote speaker Doug Foy—an environmental activist and former head of the [...]

Richard Prince’s car hoods

In Art, Cars, Sculpture on 29 August 2008 with no comments

Untitled (BR100CO), 1989
Oil, autobody compound, fiberglass over wood
62 1/2 x 56 1/2 x 3 inches
My new favorite sculptures are from Richard Prince’s Hoods series. In addition to his rephotography for this series, Prince created molds of car hoods and painted the resulting casts in Rothkoesque colors.
Can something be both a sculpture and a painting? Why [...]