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Public housing v. private housing.
Penn South, a housing development in Chelsea, and the ill-fated Pruitt-Igoe project in St. Louis shared a type of housing stock but little else.
The art: Ed Ruscha, from “Thirtyfour Parking Lots in Los Angeles,” 1967, also as a set of gelatin silver prints Ruscha made in 1999.
The news: “Taking Parking Lots Seriously as Public Spaces,” by Michael Kimmelman for the New York Times.
The source: In the collection of many institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, has a complete set of the gelatin silver prints.
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George Shaw, nominee for 2011 Turner Prize. Unfortunately he did not win.
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