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RS:
The discoteque and go-go influence, sensibility, seems to originate in [[crossed out]]very[[/crossed out]]the morbid art of Andy Warhol and Marshall Mcluhan art[[crossed out]]indicative of[[/crossed out]]and is a kind of mask[[crossed out]]costume[[/crossed out]]covering[[crossed out]]of[[/crossed out]]the void that everyone fears[[crossed out]].[[/crossed out]], and everybody feels we should not have.

AK
The illustrations might have usefulness for comments, but is in addition to what we might say and I jotted down a number of things.

With museums outside and inside, I think the full heights might be useful. You could have a photograph of Guggenheim and a photograph of the Hadrian tomb; The Whitney Museum and a drawing of the Meridian, or an Army tank with Roman fortress, showing the windows [[crossed out]]b[[/crossed]]forbidding and threatening the outside world with aggression.

The inside of the modern museum showing a wall with some placement and next to that the Meridian. Then in connection with this a junk assembl[[crossed out]]ed[[/crossed out]]age from the last ten years in a museum or wherever you can get the photograph. The same assembl[[crossed out]]ed[[/crossed out]]age would have to be moved to a junk yard.

Photographs of Sears Roebuck appliance floor showing art lined up as refrigerators[[crossed out]].[[/crossed out]]- next to a shot of Les Levine's installation shots of non art environment as oil refinery (Elizabeth - N.J.) Cheetah, Bathroom display.

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A pho[[crossed out]]u[[/crossed out]]tograph of Univac or some hughe electronic operation. A big display place, IBM, Bell Laboratories, etc.

AK:
If we had photos of that kind could you contribute observations. These kind of comparisons would make the point almost without works, then we could
of comparisons would make the point almost without words, then we could amplify it.

It would be great if we could[[crossed out]]get into[[/crossed out]]photograph the Guggenheim[[crossed out]]s[[/crossed out]]one night when all the shows were removed.[[crossed out]]Photograph that.[[/crossed out]]

RS:[[crossed out]]See Susan's notes.[[/crossed out]] The Guggenheim is organic architecture, like intestines, it reduces everything in it to waste products."
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AK:
There is a whole theory[[crossed out]]type[[/crossed out]] of architecture + city planning in N.Y. and all over, which sees[[crossed out]]resembles[[/crossed out]]sees the city as the human body.
Metapho[[crossed out]]s[[/crossed out]]r:
The [[crossed out]]Met[[/crossed out]]crossed out]]MMA.[[/crossed out]]Museum of Modern Art is more like a department store, a swank department store. It is very boutique where you can't really buy anything. Frick is a personal collection which is a little palace. An American idea of aristocracy.

AK
Can you make a blanket statement that museums are an absolute waste of time?

RS:
[[crossed out]]I wrote about the Plan etarium as an object. I am really indifferent.[[/crossed out]]I do think they are obsolete, but I think obsole[[crossed out]]te[[/crossed out]]scenes is like a whole fertile area of inquiry. To begin with, the obsolete, instead of going toward obsolescence,