.@wmmna [2016] ::: The #DEATH of the #city, World of #Malls. #Architectures of #CONSUMPTION… #Nosotros_hacemos_dinero_no_arte.

#Nosotros_hacemos_dinero_no_arte. Publisher Hatje Cantz writes: The catalogue World of Malls is devoted to a type of building that was invented in the United States just less than sixty years ago and quickly spread throughout the world. Due to urban planning’s increasing orientation toward the automobile, the mall became a substitute for lost urbanity. Yet what...

.@swajones ::: The RETURN of #Yma_Sumac: label to showcase #SINGER to new generation. @Guardian via @soniagoldenberg.

#Peruvian_singer #Yma_Sumac in the 1950’s. She #boasted an #extraordinary #fiv_octave_range and claimed to be #descended from the #last_Inca emperor. #Peruvian_vocalist’s album will be first in a series of reissues by Madrid-based label aiming to #highlight #female_singers from #Latin_America. Few popular singers have boasted a five-octave range. Even fewer have claimed they were descended from the...