Post AkIr9jIyitFYHfZley by tb@tldr.nettime.org
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 (DIR) Post #AkIr9fwXDsVxrC3IlE by tb@tldr.nettime.org
       2024-07-25T22:04:11Z
       
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       If you’re in NYC, the Friedrich Kiesler exhibition at the Jewish Museum is one of the most boggling exhibitions I’ve ever seen. I knew he was fascinating, but I can’t think of anyone else who sat at the nexus of so many cultural transformations: surrealism, ergonomics, architecture, vitalism, education, theatrical design, and — for lack of a better word — the emerging cultures of diagrammatics. It closes in a few days, so run don’t walk — and leave time, because it takes time. The explanatory texts only scratch the surface of what he was up to.
       
 (DIR) Post #AkIr9gawncqBsWxZke by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
       2024-07-25T22:39:35Z
       
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       @tb Wow. I wish.
       
 (DIR) Post #AkIr9jIyitFYHfZley by tb@tldr.nettime.org
       2024-07-25T22:10:58Z
       
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       When I first moved to NYC, I was lucky to work on a play, “Serves You Right” — written and performed by my then-neighbor in the East Village, Steve [Buscemi] and Mark [Boone Junior] — that Kiesler’s widow, Lillian, acted in, along with her close friend Maryette Charlton. Her improbably great line, which she bellowed with amazing gusto for such an elderly person: “WAITRESS, I’M HOT — I’M BURNING UP!” I was way too young and callow to have a clue about what wild characters she and Maryette were.