New America(futureworld)



I left Beijing after my first visit almost one year ago when the CCTV Tower was unlinked, just two spires of steel on the verge of collapsing on each other. From the Getty wire service I would check every week or so to see what I had missed. Sometime in January just after the beginning of this year, 2008, the two arms met. This moment passed with little notice. It did not have the same impact as lets say the meeting of the First Transcontinental Railroad in 1869 with the golden spike, but maybe this is just because it did not make for such a good photo op. I have yet to run into Rem around town, but if I were to just bump into him I imagine it would be a bit like the first time Colin and I spotted Tillmans at the Hirschhorn. Koolhaas is in the genre of celebrity that can probably fully anticipate exactly what type of person would instantly recognize him on the street. He would with great certainty be able to imagine what type of books I own, the type of art I study, the type of furniture I want to buy, and the people that I would want to meet.