LABA On Mythical Spaces and the Practice of Drawing by Tirtzah Bassel For me, mythical spaces address the gap between the world I see and the world I feel. As a visual artist, I use the practice of drawing to navigate these breaks, or openings, in my experience. On my studio
How Woody Allen Found His Way into My Ark by Elissa Strauss Myths are stories that explain the inexplicable. They answer questions like: Where did we come from? And where should we go? There are the classic mythological places, like Atlantis, Shangri-La, Eden and Noah’s Ark, which for centuries colored human understanding about
A Brief Debate by Basmat Hazan and Ruby Namdar Did Noah turn to drink after leaving the ark because he was sad to have left the heaven? Or traumautized from living in hell? “Drunkenness of Noah” by Giovanni BelliniBasmat: Ten generations after humans were created, not long after
A native of Israel, Ghiora Aharoni moved to New York in 1993. Before opening his design studio in 2004, he worked at several distinguished architectural firms including Polshek Partnership and Studio Daniel Libeskind. He is a summa cum laude graduate of the City College School of Architecture and Environmental Studies, with a Master of Architecture
Spotify and Its Infinite Towers of Songs by Stephen Hazan Arnoff In her song “Land,” rocker Patti Smith once sang: “At that Tower of Babel they knew what they were after.” I am not sure what she was after in saying those words, but I do know that in the ears of an
On how we can’t stop turning the space around us into place. by Elissa Strauss Given space, we create place. We just can’t help ourselves. The whole endeavor starts pretty broadly. We move to a city, space, and find a neighborhood, place. We move to a neighborhood, space,
The Tower of Babel and the heroic futility of all human endeavors by Ruby Namdar Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder The story of the tower of Babel – an opaque, mysterious and highly idiosyncratic tale – is, somewhat surprisingly, one of the most resonant and formative