Weird Science

 

In this issue of [the New Yorker], Elizabeth Kolbert writes about the life of Buckminster Fuller and about an exhibition about Fuller at the Whitney Museum of American Art. "By staging the retrospective, the Whitney raises—or, really, one should say, re-raises—the question of Fuller's relevance," Kolbert writes. "Was he an important cultural figure because he produced inventions of practical value or because he didn't?" Here is a portfolio of images from the magazine and the Whitney exhibition.

 

Fuller flying in a helicopter over Ohio in 1959. "Fuller's schemes often had the hallucinatory quality associated with science fiction (or mental hospitals)," Kolbert writes. "It concerned him not in the least that things had always been done a certain way in the past."

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