https://alexandratell.info Alex Tell Mon, 05 Jan 2026 19:50:01 +0000 https://alexandratell.info en https://alexandratell.info/Christian-Hincapie-Decisions-at-a-Desk Fri, 11 Apr 2025 17:16:23 +0000 Alex Tell https://alexandratell.info/Christian-Hincapie-Decisions-at-a-Desk Christian Hincapié: Decisions at a Desk9/25/25 - 12/19/25 Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College Curator More Information PressNew York Review of Architecture <img width="4417" height="3212" width_o="4417" height_o="3212" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e16a70d8ef366a27337ecdd3bd63ffdfdfbbc3a0dee37a0ffb9bf6dbbef7f569/CH_DAAD_website.jpg" data-mid="242457764" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e16a70d8ef366a27337ecdd3bd63ffdfdfbbc3a0dee37a0ffb9bf6dbbef7f569/CH_DAAD_website.jpg" /> Christian Hincapié, Mosaic with Park-goers at the Entrance to Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens, NY, 2019. Diazotype, diptych, 24 x 36 inches (each). Courtesy the artist. https://alexandratell.info/On-Ornamental-Palms Mon, 05 Jan 2026 19:50:01 +0000 Alex Tell https://alexandratell.info/On-Ornamental-Palms On Ornamental Palms Essay &nbsp;&nbsp; Are.na EditorialOctober 2024 Read Online I started this channel without really having any idea of what to do with my thoughts about palms. It stemmed from a memory, and my particular affinity for this species of trees. I smile whenever I see them. I guess I was trying to build a narrative around these trees, trying to put language onto the plants. <img width="3264" height="2448" width_o="3264" height_o="2448" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7d0cce7d837b399387251510357fa037c5f760319833aeec02a661f0a5f2dd4e/original_bcbcd370a9ba766d03a741b80685487f.jpg" data-mid="242467062" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7d0cce7d837b399387251510357fa037c5f760319833aeec02a661f0a5f2dd4e/original_bcbcd370a9ba766d03a741b80685487f.jpg" /> https://alexandratell.info/Visible-Communication Fri, 11 Apr 2025 17:16:28 +0000 Alex Tell https://alexandratell.info/Visible-Communication Visible Communication3/28/25 - 6/6/25 Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College Co-curator Series BookletMore Information Drawn almost entirely from the Baruch College Art Collection, Visible Communication explores our relationship to communication technologies as tools for worldmaking, socially, culturally, and politically. The works on display are all concerned with some form of media and its mis/use, from traditional mass media (books, newspapers, TV) to experimental sound machines and instant cameras. The artists engage with these media technologies as subject matter, raw material, and apparatuses for image-making. Inspired by the title of Juan Downey’s work Do It Yourself: Invisible Communication, this exhibition asks us to look at the structures of communication around us, whether it’s complex networks of production and distribution too vast to behold, or everyday objects so common that we don’t stop to notice them. Featuring work by Mary Ascher, Sarah Charlesworth, Juan Downey, Jannis Kounellis, Martha Rosler, and Andy Warhol. <img width="4500" height="3750" width_o="4500" height_o="3750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7a59838494901dc74f20cf6f86faa8b3e3386f8423cb237403bf5b7f0d4c16aa/PleasureoftheText.jpg" data-mid="229684521" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7a59838494901dc74f20cf6f86faa8b3e3386f8423cb237403bf5b7f0d4c16aa/PleasureoftheText.jpg" />Sarah Charlesworth, Pleasure of the Text, 1992–1993, Cibachrome with lacquered wood frame, 33 1/2 x 41 1/2 in. Baruch College Art Collection, © The Estate of Sarah Charlesworth, Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. https://alexandratell.info/The-Right-to-the-City-Public-Space-on-Film Sat, 03 Feb 2024 16:30:39 +0000 Alex Tell https://alexandratell.info/The-Right-to-the-City-Public-Space-on-Film The Right to the City: Public Space on Film 1/29/24 - 3/1/24 Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College Curator Series BookletMore InformationPressNew York Review of Architecture The Right to the City: Public Space on Film presents a series of cinematic works that both take place in, and take as a subject, the public sphere. The spaces in these films act as sites of leisure, labor, protest, surveillance—topographies of everyday life. We see how architecture, real estate, and public policy can determine the structure of the built and natural environments—but just as often, how people can improvise and deviate, and creatively misuse these shared spaces. Staged at the Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, CUNY—a public university—this program will pose the question: what does it mean to truly be public? Featuring work by Charlie Ahearn, Ayo Akingbade, Danielle Arbid, Dora Budor &amp; Noah Barker, Tony Cokes, Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, Onyeka Igwe, Charles Lane, Morgan Quaintance, Claire Read &amp; Nora DeLigter, Józef Robakowski, Margaret Rorison, WangShui, and John Wilson. <img width="1670" height="1217" width_o="1670" height_o="1217" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c92402931b1ffe265bca6b81f6f5e0f08c27edde12d518d746cc5a86f29a33e9/PHOTO-SIDEWALK-STORIES-2.jpg" data-mid="203782712" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c92402931b1ffe265bca6b81f6f5e0f08c27edde12d518d746cc5a86f29a33e9/PHOTO-SIDEWALK-STORIES-2.jpg" />Charles Lane, Sidewalk Stories (film still), 1989. Courtesy Kino Lorber. https://alexandratell.info/Rohmer-Fits Thu, 08 Jun 2023 16:02:35 +0000 Alex Tell https://alexandratell.info/Rohmer-Fits Rohmer FitsEst. 2023 Instagram NYTimes Appreciating the best outfits in the films of Éric Rohmer. <img width="2500" height="1831" width_o="2500" height_o="1831" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b70a5357ecc1c44c469e072775dfaf24f8c2abbc3f678066ff6b08f27d3278bb/Screenshot-2023-05-22-at-8.53.42-AM.jpg" data-mid="181492308" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b70a5357ecc1c44c469e072775dfaf24f8c2abbc3f678066ff6b08f27d3278bb/Screenshot-2023-05-22-at-8.53.42-AM.jpg" />A Summer’s Tale (1996) <img width="2273" height="1655" width_o="2273" height_o="1655" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1ae268dd0154899d5c1fae5d98a05f51e07fac85fbe3194b859c14937a6f8490/Screenshot-2023-05-27-at-4.31.08-PM.jpg" data-mid="181492307" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1ae268dd0154899d5c1fae5d98a05f51e07fac85fbe3194b859c14937a6f8490/Screenshot-2023-05-27-at-4.31.08-PM.jpg" />Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (1987) <img width="2362" height="1655" width_o="2362" height_o="1655" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1a635355d547e5cd124424a4cd5b316aa2be6c0744eb69a8a8a0c29c9edf86b8/Screenshot-2023-05-18-at-9.54.18-PM.jpg" data-mid="181492309" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1a635355d547e5cd124424a4cd5b316aa2be6c0744eb69a8a8a0c29c9edf86b8/Screenshot-2023-05-18-at-9.54.18-PM.jpg" /> Boyfriends and Girlfriends (1987) <img width="2513" height="1818" width_o="2513" height_o="1818" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/397b2409c7cd1ee86f2d0c98211eb381beed65634cccc7c208619b1b0505b978/Screenshot-2023-06-01-at-6.04.39-PM.jpg" data-mid="181492306" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/397b2409c7cd1ee86f2d0c98211eb381beed65634cccc7c208619b1b0505b978/Screenshot-2023-06-01-at-6.04.39-PM.jpg" /> Claire’s Knee (1970) https://alexandratell.info/Book-Review-Exteriors Tue, 09 Apr 2024 13:33:15 +0000 Alex Tell https://alexandratell.info/Book-Review-Exteriors Book Review: Exteriors by Annie Ernaux Review PIN-UP MagazineIssue 35 / Fall/Winter 2023-2024 Print PDF Programmed in the early 1970s, Paris’s new towns were to be independent, self-contained satellites that would absorb expanding populations, many of them immigrant communities, without disrupting the historical character of the city’s immediate suburbs. In Exteriors, the hyper-planned new town fades into the background of a din of passing characters and conversations until Ernaux, who has lived in Cergy since 1975, brings it into sharp focus. By turns critical and adoring, she is deeply attuned to the spatial and psychic nuances of this environment, Cergy’s stark Brutalist architecture possessing a disconcerting aura — a “one-dimensional place,” she writes — but also offering a grand stage for contemporary culture. “A hypermarket can provide just as much meaning and human truth as a concert hall,” Ernaux tells us. https://alexandratell.info/Book-Review-When-Eero-Met-His-Match Tue, 09 Apr 2024 13:38:37 +0000 Alex Tell https://alexandratell.info/Book-Review-When-Eero-Met-His-Match Book Review: When Eero Met His Match by Eva Hagberg Review PIN-UP Magazine Issue 34 / Spring/Summer 2023&nbsp; Print PDF In When Eero Met His Match, scholar and Columbia GSAPP professor Eva Hagberg posits that the role Louchheim created for herself at ESA shaped the contours of modern architectural public relations. The invention of PR as a profession is generally credited to Edward Bernays, a nephew of Sigmund Freud’s who, in the 1920s and 30s, drew upon his uncle’s theories of the subconscious to nudge American opinion on behalf of his corporate clients. Bernays saw that, along with advertising, PR could trigger emotions and desire in order to influence the public’s mindset. Perhaps it’s no wonder a lover and a PR agent might be the same person. Hagberg’s book is, among other things, a primer on how PR works in architecture. As she explains, Hagberg herself worked as an architectural publicist for many years, a profession she fell into, had success in, and felt shame about. Moving between the contemporary and the historical, the author touches on the business of architectural media, the golden era of glossy magazines, the gender dynamics of public relations, professional relationships and their blurry boundaries, and the psychological yearnings of fame — as a way to stave off death. But Hagberg mostly writes about Aline, who she refers to by her first name, conferring intimacy between writer and subject, and by extension, reader. https://alexandratell.info/Curtains-NYC Sun, 30 Apr 2023 22:02:09 +0000 Alex Tell https://alexandratell.info/Curtains-NYC Curtains NYCA research project/concept storeEst. 2023 More Information <img width="1400" height="1051" width_o="1400" height_o="1051" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a941fc7f3b390259f4a402f8170755898a000638382f8b27f502a4bee1e5c6e1/silk-and-velvet-cafe.jpeg" data-mid="177217035" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a941fc7f3b390259f4a402f8170755898a000638382f8b27f502a4bee1e5c6e1/silk-and-velvet-cafe.jpeg" /> A multi-pronged research project and concept store drawing upon the history of “window dressing” in interior decoration to inform a contemporary approach to getting dressed. Vintage housewares and clothing collections complement research-based digressions into episodes in the history of curtains. <img width="3611" height="2601" width_o="3611" height_o="2601" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f50acc28ee8ed7e3c7a0c06b5ad73c9b945b7687cd91b5289a522d1680bd4ff9/met04.jpeg" data-mid="177216351" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f50acc28ee8ed7e3c7a0c06b5ad73c9b945b7687cd91b5289a522d1680bd4ff9/met04.jpeg" /> https://alexandratell.info/Aura-Rosenberg-What-Is-Psychedelic Fri, 21 Apr 2023 14:22:11 +0000 Alex Tell https://alexandratell.info/Aura-Rosenberg-What-Is-Psychedelic “The Dialectical Landscapes of Aura Rosenberg’s Porn Rocks”&nbsp;in Aura Rosenberg: What Is Psychedelic Essay 2023 Published by Mishkin Gallery and Pioneer Works Press (Also Assistant Editor and Curatorial Assistant for the publication and exhibition of the same name.) More Information <img width="1940" height="1456" width_o="1940" height_o="1456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/418196d9a0a193d58ee59aecc7bbfa2af37338112bb056c260ad2459ace9cc8d/Screenshot-2023-04-21-at-10.23.46-AM.png" data-mid="176161834" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/418196d9a0a193d58ee59aecc7bbfa2af37338112bb056c260ad2459ace9cc8d/Screenshot-2023-04-21-at-10.23.46-AM.png" /> Aura Rosenberg: What Is Psychedelic, 2023. Edited by Alaina Claire Feldman. Published by Mishkin Gallery and Pioneer Works Press. https://alexandratell.info/Review-Scaled-Down Mon, 16 Jan 2023 19:11:21 +0000 Alex Tell https://alexandratell.info/Review-Scaled-Down Scaled Down ReviewNew York Review of Architecture Issue #32 Read Online For his recent HBO series, The Rehearsal, Nathan Fielder, the comedian who adopts the persona of an absurdist life and business coach, constructed a life-sized model of the Williamsburg dive bar The Alligator Lounge in a local warehouse. Fielder’s Alligator Lounge, reproduced meticulously with torn vinyl seats and identical drinking glasses, was a stage set for Fielder’s counselee, a trivia-buff named Kor, to rehearse a difficult conversation that he planned to have at the real Alligator Lounge. Rationalizing his time-consuming and costly commitment to replicating the bar, Fielder explained, “Any aspect of this space could radically transform his big moment … and I didn’t want to leave anything to chance.” I was thinking of Fielder’s theory of architecture as I walked through Model Behavior, a disarmingly ambitious exhibition curated by the Anyone Corporation. Model Behavior, as the title suggests, is as much about behavior as it is about models. And like Fielder, the exhibition suggests that the two are very much entwined. Architecture, as is the case with other disciplines (science, math, and fashion are all represented in the show), relies on models to conceptualize, iterate, and realize its aims. <img width="2000" height="996" width_o="2000" height_o="996" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f92c224b1806301ababa0557df2a9a1036553b1af17d87a8da24494d17eec6c5/model-behavior-triptych.jpeg" data-mid="164911660" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f92c224b1806301ababa0557df2a9a1036553b1af17d87a8da24494d17eec6c5/model-behavior-triptych.jpeg" /> Model Behavior at Cooper Union. Photography courtesy OLYMPIA SHANNON.