THE SOURCE at CUBITT: Public Lecture Fri 13 November Nov 10, 2009
Featuring work by artists Andreas Bunte, Mary Ellen Bute, L;szl; Moholy-Nagy, Paul Sharits, Mark Titchner and Jennifer West, with literature by Aldous Huxley, Robert Lynd, Lewis Mumford, John Ruskin and William Grey Walter. Limited capacity, no booking required. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Leisure History Sep 7, 2009
" That hardly describes the modern weekend. Work Versus Leisure hat is the meaning of the weekday-weekend cycle? Is it yet another symptom of the standardization and bureaucratization of everyday life that social critics such as Lewis Mumford and Jacques Ellul have warned about? Is the weekend merely the cunning marketing ploy of the materialist culture, a device to increase consumption? Is it a deceptive placebo to counteract the boredom and meaninglessness of the workplace? Or is this the... (The Atlantic Online)
In ‘Wrestling With Moses,’ taking on Goliath in Gotham Aug 31, 2009
Working the media like the expert insider that she was, attracting big name supporters like Lewis Mumford and Eleanor Roosevelt, and developing solid political relationships with up-and-coming leaders like Ed Koch (who d become mayor of New York) and John Lindsay (who d also become mayor), Jacobs was able to stop Moses and preserve the park. But the stubborn Moses just kept coming up with more plans to renew Greenwich Village with massive building projects that would leave countless people... (Boston Globe)
MFA display recalls the designs of Greene & Greene Aug 2, 2009
In 1947, the same year the Blacker House contents were sold off in a yard sale, critic Lewis Mumford saw modern California houses in the spirit of Greene & Greene as a native and humane form of modernism, according to a catalog essay by Edward R. Bosley. The brothers parted ways in 1916, and their individual projects never measured up to their collaborative efforts. (Boston Globe)
LETTER: Obama should have vetoed big spending bill Mar 21, 2009
Lewis Mumford, The Conduct of Life, p. 44. On March 11, 2009, President Obama signed a 410 billion (KKK) spending bill into law. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
