Category Archives: Kenneth Goldsmith

Ancient Sites of New York City 2: Herodotus at the Post Office

19th April 2017Ancient Sites of New York City, Herodotus, Kenneth Goldsmith, Minus Plato Today, Post Office, UncategorizedAncient Sites of New York City, Herodotus, Kenneth Goldsmith, Post OfficeMinus Plato

The same architect firm who designed the penthouse Greek temple on Wall Street, McKim, Meade & White, also created the General Post Office on 8th Avenue. According to Meyer Berger’s New York (p. 202) it was William Mitchell Kendell, senior architect at the firm, who translated a passage from Herodotus to make the comparison between […]

Ancient Sites of New York City 1: A Greek Temple in the Sky

18th April 2017Ancient Sites of New York City, Greek temple, Kenneth Goldsmith, Minus Plato TodayAncient Sites of New York City, Greek temple, Kenneth GoldsmithMinus Plato

I am heading to New York City today and so for the next week I will be posting about how this great American city has appropriated ancient sites illustrating the entries on ‘Antiquity’ in Kenneth Goldsmith’s epic New York: Capital of the 20th Century. (Here is an earlier post on the same work) Here is […]

Hell’s Kitchen: Daedalean labor in Kenneth Goldsmith’s Capital

9th December 2015Daedelus, Kenneth Goldsmith, New York City, VirgilMinus Plato

On Saturday I am making a very brief visit to New York City and I thought that the best way to prepare was to pick up a copy of poet, artist and activist Kenneth Goldsmith’s immense new book Capital: New York Capital of the 20th Century (Verso 2015). On opening the pages of this gilded […]