April 19: As Trump orders tightening of visas for highly skilled foreign workers, Minus Plato are in New York City learning about the connection between Persian couriers and US mail-workers. April 20: As Minus Plato travel the subway in search of the Minotaur of the subway, we learn that a Russian Putin-linked think tank developed […]
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 […]
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 […]