The New City Reader

The New City Reader: A Newspaper Of Public Space
The New City Reader is a temporary newspaper that will be published from October 6, 2010 to January 9, 2011 as part of the Last Newspaper exhibition at the New Museum, 235 Bowery, New York.

The New City Reader is a performance-based editorial residency conceived to take place in the context of The Last Newspaper, an exhibition at the New Museum in New York in fall-winter 2010.
It proposes to temporarily transform a portion of the museum's galleries into an active editorial office combined with forum for discussion. In this space, an editorial team will execute — for the duration of the exhibition and in full view of the public — the entire process of conception, design, and production of a weekly newspaper. This newspaper's content will derive from a series of discussions, debates, interviews, and research into the spatial implications of epochal shifts presently occurring in the information industry.
What is replacing the newspaper's voice in the debate around the definition of urban policy? Is architectural criticism (as practiced by the great newspaper critics such as Martin Pawley, Wolf von Eckhardt, or Ada Louise Huxtable) dead, and if so what critical influences shape the built landscape today? How are today's content-gathering systems—diffuse yet micro-subjectspecific — and the arrival of ultra-portable, permanently networked information platforms (such as the iPad), that make information accessible everywhere, changing the way we experience and inhabit public space?
The New City Reader adopts the traditional format of the weekly newspaper, but only in part. Taking inspiration from a custom of hanging entire newspapers on boards in the streets or pasting them on walls in public places so they can be read collectively, this newspaper will be affixed in a multitude of locations around Lower Manhattan. Each week's edition‭ (‬of approximately 1,000‭) ‬will address a specific question or topic related to the spatial implications of the disappearance of the newspaper‭; ‬the majority will be disseminated in the New Museum‭; ‬20-30‭ ‬will be affixed in specific locations chosen either for their prominence and visibility to a large audience‭, ‬or for their proximity to sites mentioned in that specific issue‭. ‬The current issue will also be visible to the public on the wall of the‭ ‬'editorial office'‭ ‬in the New Museum‭.‬
A crucial aspect of this project is the scalable design of the newspapers‭. ‬They will be legible in two distinct formats‭: ‬as normal broadsheet-sized papers‭, ‬and as billboardsize posters‭, ‬designed to grab the attention of the passing public‭ (‬large type‭,‬ multipage graphics‭). ‬The content of the newspapers will be not just textual but also graphical‭: ‬illustrations‭, ‬photographs and supergraphics will be used as well‭.‬ This project is seen as an opportunity to take‭ ‬The Last Newspaper‭ ‬beyond the walls of the New Museum and out into public space‭, ‬engaging a broad audience and raising public awareness of the debates taking place in the museum‭.‬

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