Chris Wiley

I wrote about Joshua Citarella’s podcast “Doomscroll” for @NewYorker

Upper East Side apartment, Manhattan, New York City, 2000

The Flutist by Fan Ho 1962

Business dinners in the city

Tempelhof Airport, Berlin, 1987

A leather chair. A wooden desk. A blonde secretary. A pound of cocaine. These were simpler times

Home of Actor Wesley Snipes, Windermere, Florida, 1997

in the 1970s, a nigerien-ghanaian musician recorded a dreamy futuristic synth-folk lofi album and pioneered west african electronic music. his work was obscure and almost lost until being rediscovered in a music archive at a museum in niger in 2013. it’s hauntingly beautiful.

The Voight-Kampff Testing Machine from Blade Runner, 1982

Honda Chopper Concept

. Mark Rothko's studio in New York at 222 Bowery, 1960 Herbert Matter .

Inventor Hugo Gernsback demonstrating his television eyeglasses, 1963

Publicity photograph of Calder during the installation, 1943. Courtesy, The Museum of Modern Art

I love how the planets are depicted in medieval Islamic art in general but this happy little Moon is my favorite because they look so chill hanging out with their pet rabbit

File clerks working at their electric elevator desks in Prague, former Czechoslovakia, 1937.

Elger Esser Eggleston II, 2007 .

This is a Persian fritware dish from Kashan, Iran, featuring a swirling shoal of fish design from circa 1260–1350 CE.

Bone Chairs by Muddycap

Veja Celmins Blackboard Tableau #14 2011–15 One found object and one made object .

Undercity by Japanese artist Tomoaki Okada.

Taiwan’s forgotten Northern Sanzhi & Wanli UFO Villages