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Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.
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Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.
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History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy
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One's mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion, mental rivers wear away abstract banks, brain waves undermine cliffs…
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When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation…
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The memory of what is not may be better than the amnesia of what is.
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The slurbs, urban sprawl, and the infinite number, of housing developments of the postwar boom have contributed to the architecture of entropy.
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Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set…
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In fact, the public will accept any city plan and skyline provided that its architecture is traditional.
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And hate the bright stillness of the noon without wind, without motion. the only other living thing a hawk, hungry for prey,…
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