In an essay for New York magazine on the renovated Whitney, Jerry Saltz pines for "the museum's Platonic ideal: a communal effort, conducted over centuries, to preserve, interpret, and commune with artistic ancestors, archetypes, traditions, genres, and methods".
As Scandinavian comedies go, it pales in comparison with the recent Swedish film "Together," which gazed wryly into the heart of a 70's commune and its crumbling political ideals.
Novels about communes are very rare and this might be because the ideal of "the communal" is at loggerheads with the bias towards "the individual" in the novel.
Big online communes full of shareable tools are ideal centers for Italy's young unemployed, who cannot afford to leave their parents or travel and live on their own.
It's an ideal worthy of a 1960s commune, but this kind of rolling living space seems a long way from the rolling papers many might more readily recall in connection with the first VW bus.
About thirty hospitality houses soon opened nationwide, along with rural communes that embodied the growing movement's ideal of decentralized power and self-sufficiency.
In the Arts and Crafts ideal, self-reliant family groups communed with nature or gathered around the fireplace in the evening and read poetry, played the piano, wove cloth or crafted timber for the houses they helped build with their own hands.
Today's ideal social form is not the commune or the movement or even the individual creator as such.
Today's ideal social form is not the commune or the movement or even the individual creator as such; it's the small business.
Annares has been described as an ideal vision of a 1970s hippy commune, and there's definitely a hint of yoghurt-weaving worthiness to it – but it remains an impressive thought-experiment.
