I know you love Manhattan, but you ought to look up more often (D)

hand-drawn map of a day trip to New York to see Marina Abramovic's performance, The Artist is Present, at the Museum of Modern Art
Krista Shaffer, Trip to New York, May 24 2010, 2010 [New York, New York]

The Museum of Modern Art features prominently in Shaffer’s map above. In it, she strips away the grid of the city to focus our attention on a series of specific events that took place as she visited MoMA in 2010. We also get a sense of how navigating a city while underground results in much of it being mysterious. Here the white space between Midtown in the upper left and the Lower East Side in the bottom right represents the unknown city experienced from inside a subway car.

hand-drawn map of a day trip to New York to see Marina Abramovic's The Artist is Present
Krista Shaffer, Trip to New York, May 24 2010, 2010 [New York, New York]

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