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An Exhibition Inspired by Walter Benjamin's 'The Arcades Project'

James Welling, “Morgan Great Hall” (2014), inkjet print, 21 x 31.5 in, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, purchased through a gift from Nancy D. Grover in honor of Robinson A. Grover ...
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Walter Benjamin on How to Stop Worrying and Love Late Capitalism

Around 1925, the Passage de l’Opéra in Paris, a glass-roofed structure housing shops, known as magasin de nouveautés, was slated for demolition. This particular arcade contained a bathhouse, itinerant ...
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The arcades project / Walter Benjamin ; translated by Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin ; prepared on the basis of the German volume edited by Rolf Tiedemann

Translator's foreword -- Exposés. "Paris, the capital of the nineteenth century" (1935) ; "Paris, capital of the nineteenth century" (1939) -- Convolutes. Overview ...
Publishers Weekly

WALTER BENJAMIN: Selected Writings Volume 4: 1938–1940

The appearance of this volume marks the completion of a grand project, bringing a fully representative set of texts by German critic Benjamin (1892–1940) into English; volume 4 joins the first three ...
Untapped Cities

Exhibit “The Arcades” at the Jewish Museum Connects 19th Century Paris to NYC

Museums do more than just teach us about things. At their best, museums provide us a way to think critically, a way to see the world, a way to move through our towns and cities and nations and global ...