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Anthony Barnett’s
Notes On Now
It Was the City of the Future
I feel an intense sense of foreboding within the enjoyably familiar as I stroll in New York.
It’s a city I made my own in 1962. Today, there is much less steam coming out from the roads while young women with backpacks stride purposefully, drinking coffee from disposable cups, and talking on their phones. Its towering wealth, degraded poverty, and diverse humanity radiate its updated American normality.
New York, the economic capital of the world-transforming energy of might, skill, abundance, generosity, politeness, and ever-present ruthlessness and domination, has shaped my generation. I love it. And four exhibitions in three days bring home the success of the progressive ambitions of inclusion that began in the 60s.
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