Scribbled in marker on a postcard-size slip of paper in 1973, the anarchitect Gordon Matta-Clark wrote: “Making the right cut somewhere between the supports and collapse.” The tenor of this note is duly reflected in two recent New York building developments: the Whitney Independent Study Program space, now permanently housed at the newly renovated Roy and Dorothy Lichtenstein former studio and home, and the multidisciplinary fabrication facility, Powerhouse Arts, located in a converted early-twentieth-century power plant in Brooklyn.
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