“A large chunk of the Queens Museum is taken up by its most famous attraction: the permanently installed and periodically updated to-scale Panorama of the City of New York built for the World’s Fair in 1964. Commissioned by Robert Moses, the urban planner instrumental in engineering a postwar city that catered to an exclusionary class of day-tripping managers as a growing undercommons transitioned to a service or underground economy, its proximity to a current exhibition on housing injustice and urban planning, ‘After the Plaster Foundation, or, Where can we live?,’ makes for a rich historical and discursive combination. The miniature city’s production also roughly coincides with the timeline of the new exhibition, which begins with Jack Smith’s eviction from his SoHo loft (he called it the Plaster Foundation), undoing some of the mythologies about the free and easy lives of bohemian artists in the ’60s. ...”
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