In the News

Selected Recent Articles about REBAR:

			CNN (October 15, 2007) Watch the video on PARK(ing) Day from CNN's "News to Me" program. By CNN/REBAR
			The New York Times (September 23, 2007) Another NYC take on the local PARK(ing) Day activities in that fine town. By Elizabeth Giddens
			Los Angeles Times (September 22, 2007) PARK(ing) Day LA is . . . contentious. So it goes in the land of the autos. Watch the video! By Hector Becerra
			The New York Times (September 22, 2007) PARK(ing) Day NYC goes off without any shots fired! By Jim Dwyer
			The Seattle Times (September 22, 2007) PARK(ing) Day Seattle. Parking spaces to PARK spaces. By Christina Siderius
			The Wall Street Journal (September 21, 2007) Protesters are playing ping-pong in your parking space. Ping-pong? Protesters? Check out the nifty (if incomplete) interactive map. By Hannah Karp
			Seattle Post-Intelligencer (September 21, 2007) PARK(ing) Day Seattle. Fake parks are fun, but how will Seattle pay for the real thing? By Jennifer Langston
			Which Way, LA? KCRW 89.9 FM (September 18, 2007) PARK(ing) Day LA discussed on Los Angeles' pre-eminent NPR affiliate. By Jennifer Langston
			The Next American City (Issue 16 - Fall 2007) COMMONspace explores San Francisco's "privately-owned public open spaces" - are they coming next to your American city? By Marianne Amoss
			Plenty Magazine (September 2007) Unpaving Paradise! A succinct disputation on the problem with pavement. By Sarah Parsons
			ARTL!ES 53 - The Texas Contemporary Art Journal (Spring 2007) A horde of artistic Texans attempt to conquer the Cabinet National Library. . . and are repelled by the very sky itself! By Anjali Gupta
			San Francisco Chronicle (July 27, 2007) PARK(ing) Day is announced! Rebar is an architectural firm! Wait . . . By Leah Garchik
			Architect Magazine (July 23, 2007) Art, architecture and junk converge in the form of the Panhandle Bandshell. By Stephani L. Miller
			San Francisco Chronicle (July 9, 2007) Much more on the Panhandle Bandshell. By Justin Berton
			San Francisco Bay Guardian (June 20, 2007) Rebar, the Finch Mob and CMG Landscape Architecture build a public bandshell in the Golden Gate Park Panhandle. By Molly Freedenberg
			Metropolis Magazine (June 15, 2007) Metropolis online covers Southern Exposure's year-long Offsite program of "New Situationsim" - including Rebar's Commonspace project.
			Berkeley Daily Planet (March 7, 2007) Rebar presents a proposed project for the Berkeley Art Museum to the Berkeley Landmarks Preservation Commission, wears black, smiles. By Richard Brenneman
			Dwell (March 2007) Dwell magazine profiles Rebar's PARK(ing) Day and COMMONspace projects. By Chelsea Holden Baker
			San Francisco Bay Guardian -"Annual art events to look out for" (January 3, 2007) PARK(ing) Day is named one of the SFBG's "AAETLOF" - So, look out! By Katie Kurtz
			CNET (November 3, 2006) CNET details our COMMONspace "counterveillance" paraformance. Surveillance cameras may have a "chilling" effect on public behavior, but in the hands of private actors, can cameras have a countervailing "warming" effect? By Elsa Wenzel
			PLACES Journal 18.3 (October 15, 2006) PLACES covers PARK(ing) Day - transforming spaces into places! Published by the U.C. Berkeley College of Environmental Design. Read the PDF here. By Catriona Stuart
			San Francisco Chronicle (September 26, 2006) Chronicle urban design critic John King discovers PARK(ing) Day. By John King
			National Public Radio - All Things Considered (September 21, 2006) NPR considers all things PARK(ing) Day. By Amy Standen
			KALW-FM - Artery (September 14, 2006) Bay Area PBS affiliate profiles Rebar's Encanment, invites you to PARK(ing) Day. By Steven Short
			Guardian (U.K.) (September 12, 2006) PARK(ing) Day is chosen as the "Campaign of the Week." Quite! By Bibi van der Zee
			BBC World Service Radio - Culture Shock (August 14, 2006) John Bela discusses PARK(ing) in the very spot where PARK(ing) first obtained, then the Brits discuss it amongst themselves. By Ben Trefny
			SPARK* (KQED-TV) (July 2006) Rebar makes its television debut . . . in tyvek suits! By KQED television
			ReadyMade Magazine (June/July 2006) Our comrades in the cause of "Re-ing" the planet, on Rebar's examination of land "ownership." Remix, remake, reconfigure, reconsider. By Tina Barseghian
			Art Forum (May 2006) Art Forum reviews the "Between the Walls" show, calls our canned art gallery "provocatively bittersweet." We can't believe he ate the whole thing! By Glen Helfand
			San Francisco Chronicle (May 25, 2006) On Rebar's evolution into an industrial canning concern for Southern Exposure's "Between the Walls" show. By Reyhan Harmanci
			Utne Magazine (May 18, 2006) The PARK(ing) project is included in Utne's Short Takes section. By Karl Rosengarth
			Flair (Italy) (Maggio 2006) The Italian fashion industry takes an interest in inventare il verde che non c'e. Extremely questionable English translation coming soon. By Angelo Sica & Silvia Mapelli
			Landscape Institute (U.K.) (April 14, 2006) From Vista, a publication of the U.K.'s Landscape Institute, Her Majesty's landscape architects. By Ellie Tennant
			SF Weekly (March 22, 2006) Rebar's first cover story by our first-ever imbedded reporter. By Ryan Blitstein
			Landscape Architecture Magazine (March 2006) From parking space to "parkette," the American Society of Landscape Architects breaks it down. By Susan Hines
			Cabinet Magazine (Issue 20 - Winter 2005/6) Wherein the Cabinet National Library sustains heavy flood damage during the 100 Year Storm in New Mexico! Appropriately thematic for this issue on "Ruins." By Cabinet
			Associated Press (AP) (February 1, 2006) On "a brash band of art commandos." Who, us? By Hillary Rhodes
			New Mexico Magazine (January 2006) Unearthing the Cabinet National Library. By Stephen Ausherman
			inhabitat (January 19, 2006) On turning a parking space into a PARK(ing). By Sarah Rich
			Boing Boing (December 20, 2005) Didn't say much, but gave us 5 million hits. In a single day. Thanks, Boing!
			Cabinet Magazine (Issue 16 - Winter 2004) Wherein we report on the successful construction of the Cabinet National Library. By Matthew Passmore
			Cabinet Magazine (Issue 12 - Winter 2003) Wherein we first propose to build the Cabinet National Library. By Matthew Passmore

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