Red Lines, Death Vows, Foreclosures, Risk Structures: Architectures of Finance from the Great Depression to the Sub-Prime Meltdown, is an exhibition organized by designer Damon Rich and the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP). The exhibition explores  relationships between finance and buildings through an installation of models, videos, photographs, and drawings.

Red Lines immerses visitors in a landscape of pulsating capital and city buildings. The immense head of a pioneering real-estate appraiser gazes over a field of floor-mounted house portraits. A jagged free-standing graph of the 20th century’s prime rate reflects a flickering neon sign advertising the process of block busting. A paired set of projected videos features interviews with mortgage stakeholders including financiers, anti-foreclosure counselors, and government regulators - and their voices haunt the gallery

The Center for Advanced Visual Studies and the MIT Museum’s Compton Gallery
77 Massachusetts Ave. Room 10 - 150
Cambridge, MA
Opening Reception, September 9, 5:30 p.m.
Exhibition September 10 - December 21, 2008Daily 10am – 5pm

“Anti-war Protester Confronts National Guardsmen at Grant Park, Chicago, August 28, 1968” © Ron Pownall courtesy of Panopticon Gallery, Boston, MA

The Whole World Was Watching: Images from the 1968 Chicago Riots. Photographs by Ron Pownall

The Whole World Was Watching at Boston’s Panopticon Gallery features dramatic black and white photographs taken by Ron Pownall during the 1968 Chicago Riots. The raw and gritty images immediately transport the viewer to a turbulent time in American history and serve as a striking juxtaposition to the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado.

August 21st - October 6th, 2008
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 18th, 5:00pm-7:00pm

Review in the Boston Phoenix.