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Manhattan et alia 

The right to housing according to Hans Haacke

Shapolsky et al. Manhattan Real Estate Holdings, a Real-Time Social System, as of May 1, 1971 documents the ownership and control of urban space. The work exposes the properties and transactions of Shapolsky et al. Manhattan Real Estate Holdings, which in 1971 represented the biggest concentration of real estate in New York under one group. The information was culled from New York City public records. The work includes different data on the properties such as the photography, its address, the type of building, the size of the lot, date of acquisition, owner, or its assessed land value. Haacke then synthesized this material into diagrams revealing how the system was made up of an obscure network of family ties and dummy corporations. The work was part of the Haacke’s individual exhibition programmed for 1971 at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. The director of the museum called this work ‘inadequate’ and the exhibition was cancelled when the artist refused to remove it. This historic work, which is part of the MACBA Collection, has traveled to Frankfurt to be part of the exhibition Hans Haacke. Retrospective, which is being presented at the Schrin Kunsthalle in this city until February 2025. 

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