City of the Soul: Rome, Las Vegas, and the Kintsugi of Cities

Two cities, one slide This spring I sat in a packed hall at SCI-Arc, under a ceiling that hangs like a fishing net, while Iwan Baan paged through his book Rome / Las Vegas: Bread and Circuses. One slide has stayed with me for months. On the left, the Sistine Chapel. On the right, CaesarsContinue reading “City of the Soul: Rome, Las Vegas, and the Kintsugi of Cities”

This Is Our Kintsugi Era

I keep coming back to the same exhibition. “Healing with Gold: The Art of Kintsugi on Ceramics & Beyond,” curated by Meher McArthur at the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center (JACCC), it was supposed to be a week’s worth of thinking. It has turned into a lifetime of it. Here is what I cannotContinue reading “This Is Our Kintsugi Era”