Monday, September 7, 2015

Unseen




Theorists of postmodern architecture like Robert Venturi discovered Las Vegas in the 1980s and lustily promoted the everywhere-and-nowhere to be found there. Only thirty or so years earlier the city had been invented as a safe and special place where the traditional American figure of the cowboy could transform himself with magic ease into the traditional American figure of the gangster. Yet fate has never taken me there. I have never seen Las Vegas.