the opposite of tourism is not "staying at home" but the involuntary travel
associated with the predicament of the immegrant. if the tourist travels, for
the most part, backwards in time, then the immigrant, the exile and the
diasporic travel forwards with no promise of a restored home. curtis and
pajaczkowska.

art tourism, currently booming with the proliferation of international
exhibitions and new museum construction, is the lens through which many of us
experience the world. while not entirely benign art travel is a sort of
parallel universe - a way of immersing oneself in other landscapes. You Land,
learn as much as you can about the terra firma, and then, standing upon the
foundation of someone else's history, you view the art and attempt a reframing
of your own vision for just that moment. Cornelia B.

much as we urban dwellers drive nature away, we also always try to reintroduce
it into the metropolis. for all our efforts to control, to order, to be
mechanical and technological, one could say that "nature" - in the many roles
it plays, the many ways we imagine it (from the beautiful, pastoral,
opposite-of-culture, or the unconscious) -is the repressed of the city, which
inevitably returns - lee weng choy

there is, within the city, an ongoing discourse of race and real estate; between
the west and the east side of the city... Cornelia B

Khadija Z Carroll, History of Art & Architecture, Harvard University, Sackler
Museum, 485 Broadway, Cambridge MA
ph: 857 928 2005