David Hartt
Corbett vs. Dempsey
David Hartt’s exhibition “For Everyone a Garden” took its name from a 1974 book of the same title by Moshe Safdie, architect of the iconic Habitat 67 apartment complex in Montreal. Safdie’s democratic proclamation more generally echoed the utopian modularity of late-1960s architecture (both “paper” and realized). In Hartt’s hands, Safdie’s phrase became a slogan appearingin one of two sixty-by-eighty-inch framed illustrations by Marvel Comics draftsman Kalman Andrasofszkyas the message on protesters’ signs in a march through a generalized urban setting derived from Katsuhiro Otomo’s