art, transformed

http://blog.art21.org/2009/09/01/transformation-of-williamsburg/

http://lorenmunk.com/writing/groundhog_day.html

"Perhaps an aspect of Post-Modernist thought is the attempt to transcend our obsession with novelty and the post-neo-newest, to jump the timeline and see history as a ball rather than a strip, an ocean rather than a river. After all, the Gothic style was vibrant for three hundred years. Surrealism, though perhaps not quite so durable, keeps coming back like a persistent skin rash. And rather that asking ourselves if it’s a failure of artistic originality that an image might echo something done decades ago, we might rather ponder what kinds of shared impulses an artist in Paris in the 1930s, San Francisco in 1969, or Brooklyn in 2008 would lead to such similar results?"