New MoMA PS1 Director Leans Into Social Justice and Reaches Out to Long Island City
Kate Fowle, who arrived in 2019, is carving out an independent identity for the Queens institution distinct from that of MoMA.
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Kate Fowle, who arrived in 2019, is carving out an independent identity for the Queens institution distinct from that of MoMA.
Concrete spikes under a road bridge in Guangzhou city, Guangdong, China (Photograph by Imagine China) Various anti-homeless architecture or defensive architecture have cropped up online recently. Spike-laden floors, steep benches, and rocky pavements are some of these modern-day torture devices incorporated in the streets and streetcorners of cities that have anti-homeless policies such as loitering laws and sit-lie ordinances. The trend, as many millennials and Gen Zs would put it, is unsympathetic and cruel. For sure, there are other means to keep the homeless away from loitering in pub...