Army Centers Vandalized in Bronx and Manhattan

New York Post

February 1, 2005 -- Two Army recruiting stations, one
in The Bronx and one in Manhattan, were hit by vandals
in unrelated attacks yesterday, a law-enforcement
source said. David Seigel, 19, of Litchfield, Conn., was arrested
and charged with vandalism for allegedly throwing a
burning rag at the recruitment post in Parkchester at
around 7:30 a.m. yesterday. The rag caused some charring and minor damage to the
building. Fire marshals are investigating, and Seigel could face
additional charges.

Five hours later, an employee of an Army recruiting
station in the Flatiron section of Manhattan noticed
that the front door had been cracked by a rock. Someone also had used red paint to scrawl an anarchist
symbol and an expletive that mentioned the war in
Iraq, authorities said. Police have no suspects in the afternoon attack. The
Joint Terrorism Task Force is also investigating the
incidents, Channel 2 News reported. The source said that there was no indication that the
two attacks were connected.

Fascist-Symp Pomo Whore, Architect Philip Johnson, 1906–2005

New Criterion

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News just came down the wire that the architect Philip Johnson — erstwhile disciple of Mies van der Rohe, more recently full-time architectural prankster and doyen of Postmodernism — died yesterday at the age of 98. Johnson had been a force in the architectural world since 1932. Although he did not begin practicing architecture until the 1940s (and did not manage to pass his licensing examination until well into the 1950s), his collaboration with Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Jr., on "The International Style: Architecture Since 1922" at the fledgling Museum of Modern Art in New York was a ground-breaking event. The exhibition, which opened in February 1932, toured thirteen American cities after closing at MOMA. A model of serious and innovative scholarship, it introduced American viewers to such important European modernists as Mies van der Rohe, Corbusier, and J. J. P. Oud, baptized one of the most influential architectural movements of the century ("The International Style" soon became a slogan for both friends and foes of modernism), and instantly established the intellectual reputation of its rich, dashing twenty-six-year-old co-curator.