The Sculpture Center in Long Island City has a show called
Puddle, pothole, portal. One room contains five drawings by Saul Steinberg, as well as a mixed-media construction: a desk with various tools of his trade.
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| Saul Steinberg, Bauhaus (1966) |
One of the drawings,
Bauhaus, made me think of my walk from the N train at Queensboro Plaza to the museum: The absurdity of nouveau housing units sprouting among the weeds.
And the building next door to the Sculpture Center itself.
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| Purves Street |
Another Steinberg piece,
Bauhaus Street (1982), not in the show, could be a map of the neighborhood to come.
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| The Saul Steinberg Foundation/Artists Rights Society, New York |
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