# Saul Steinberg

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Andreea Mihalache: Modern architecture and boredom.

In the 182nd episode of the A is for Architecture Podcast, Andreea Mihalache joined me to discuss her new book, Boredom and the Architectural Imagination: Rudofsky, Venturi, Scott Brown, and Steinberg, which she published with the University of Virginia Press in 2024.   Exploring the boundaries of …

19. Das Vulture Ans Ein Nutter-Wain

We continue our European travelogue through our misadventures through Berlin and Leipzig last summer, and to accompany it we chose to discuss The Fall’s “Das Vulture Ans Ein Nutter-Wain”, a song whose title in German means absolutely nothing. We also discuss our old bugbear Patti Smith (the bleeper…

When California Was an Island: Peter Keating on the Cartography That Maps How We See the World

“Maps are communicating vast quantities of new knowledge that was only estimated. They convey this imaginative energy — an imaginative energy that maps today have lost, because today maps are so functional, so utilitarian.” — Peter Keating   In the sixteenth century, Spanish cartographers represent…

Multitudes across a life

A therapist once told me about the Integrated Self - a vast room of chairs for every version of a person - and warned that you can never assemble the whole. The idea has kept coming back. It surfaced in an improvisation scene with Keith Johnstone, where Steve Chapman played me at sixteen and asked…

Camille Henrot: Dogs. Public Art Fund. Doris C. Freedman Plaza, Central Park, New York

Camille Henrot’s first public exhibition in New York City places a group of dog sculptures at an entrance to Central Park. Expanding an existing series, the installation includes new outdoor works in bronze, stone, steel, and concrete. Each piece assembles visual references ranging from Saul Stei…

DMA #58: Paul Noth... He Tells It Like It Is

Thursday, midday. Paul Noth is in Milwaukee, where he moved back after 20 years split between the Upper East Side and the Princeton area, and where he now has, as he put it while wandering to another room mid-stream to chase better WiFi, multiple rooms. (We get it, Paul. You don’t live in Manhattan…

Disney’s 1984 Takeover Battle and the Road to the Eisner Era (Ep. 91)

Jim Hill and Len Testa continue their chronological Disneyland series by examining the corporate upheaval that reshaped Disney in the mid-1980s. Jim traces Roy E. Disney and Stanley Gold’s push for new leadership, the takeover threats facing the company, and the events that brought Michael Eisner a…

DMA #58: Paul Noth... He Tells It Like It Is

Thursday, midday. Paul Noth is in Milwaukee, where he moved back after 20 years split between the Upper East Side and the Princeton area, and where he now has, as he put it while wandering to another room mid-stream to chase better WiFi, multiple rooms. (We get it, Paul. You don’t live in Manhattan…