A Cautionary Tale about Wind Power

A Cautionary Tale about Wind Power

27. Jan, 2012 2 Comments

Filmmaker Laura Israel isn’t tilting at windmills – but she does want to cast a critical eye in their direction. And she’s done that with “Windfall” – her first documentary film, art directed within an inch of its life – and one that delivers a profound message:...

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In Asheville, a Week of Arts & Crafts

In Asheville, a Week of Arts & Crafts

26. Jan, 2012 0 Comments

Perhaps no Southern city ever found its fate so entwined with the Arts & Crafts movement as did Asheville, N.C. Its moderate summers appealed to tourists from the South and its short winters were a balm to their counterparts up North. A visiting George Vanderbilt liked the...

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Jerry Uelsmann, Father of Photoshop

Jerry Uelsmann, Father of Photoshop

25. Jan, 2012 0 Comments

Truly one of the giants in post-World War II experimental photography, Jerry Uelsmann perfected the art of combining negatives in the darkroom to create new compositions. “He took a different tack – that the negative didn’t have to be the departure point,” says Phillip...

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Daryl Thetford’s Jungian Landscape

Daryl Thetford’s Jungian Landscape

24. Jan, 2012 0 Comments

Chattanooga-based artist Daryl Thetford’s work has evolved in the past six years, from photographs of vintage southern Americana like juke joints, Mississippi Delta scenes and roadside attractions, into mixed media informed by his own language of signs and billboards. It’s...

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A Dog House by Frank Lloyd Wright

A Dog House by Frank Lloyd Wright

23. Jan, 2012 1 Comment

Jim Berger was 12 years old in 1956 when he put pencil to paper, wrote to Frank Lloyd Wright and asked a favor. He had a paper route, he said, and hoped that the architect might design for Eddie, his black Lab, a house “which would be easy to build and would go with our...

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On Long Island, a New Campus is Born

On Long Island, a New Campus is Born

20. Jan, 2012 1 Comment

Sometimes, adversity stimulates a sharper focus. That’s certainly the case with the new 57,000 square foot campus center at Molloy College on Long Island, designed by BRB Architects. They started out designing a 75,000 square foot building in 2005, only to get tangled up...

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A Lyrical Home for Poetry in Chicago

A Lyrical Home for Poetry in Chicago

19. Jan, 2012 0 Comments

Underwritten with part of a $100 million gift from philanthropist Ruth Lilly, the Poetry Foundation embarked in 2007 on a journey to establish a home for poetry at the intersection of Superior and Dearborn in Chicago’s River North neighborhood. Proposals from 50 architecture...

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In St. Louis, the Pruitt-Igoe Myth

In St. Louis, the Pruitt-Igoe Myth

18. Jan, 2012 1 Comment

In his third film in a decade, documentary filmmaker Chad Freidrichs has tackled one of the most well-known failures of post-war modern architecture in American society. “The Pruitt-Igoe Myth,” opening on Friday, Jan 20 at the IFC Center in Manhattan, explores the hugely...

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In Los Angeles, Celebrating Wearables

In Los Angeles, Celebrating Wearables

17. Jan, 2012 2 Comments

If clothing was indeed the first architecture, then a spring fundraiser for the Architecture + Design Museum (A+D) on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles promises to celebrate its 21st-century evolution. From 7:00 to 11:00 PM on Saturday, March 10, a salon-style runway event at...

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M.J. Sharp and the Power of Night

M.J. Sharp and the Power of Night

16. Jan, 2012 0 Comments

From the 1920s until the mid-’60s, the nearly indestructible Speed Graphic was the camera of choice for photojournalists around the world. Now, photographer M. J. Sharp has found a new application for the long-retired camera once produced en masse by Graphlex in Rochester,...

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Shooting Zumthor, Among Others

Shooting Zumthor, Among Others

13. Jan, 2012 0 Comments

Matt Clayton started working with black and white film and prints up in the attic when he was a child, but it wasn’t until he finished school at the London School of Communication that he really got started photographing architecture. For about seven years now, he’s been...

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Paintings Inspired by Holl & Calatrava

Paintings Inspired by Holl & Calatrava

12. Jan, 2012 9 Comments

After stints in advertising and running a gourmet ice cream business in Miami Beach, Julie Davidow sold out to her partner, travelled for a year, came back and, at 32, studied art at the New World School of Art. “I’ve been happy ever since,” the minimalist painter says. It...

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Tour Frank Lloyd Wright’s Oak Park

Tour Frank Lloyd Wright’s Oak Park

11. Jan, 2012 0 Comments

January’s not too soon to make reservations for a late spring tour of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Oak Park neighborhood in Chicago. Last year, 3,000 guests had signed up by early April for the wildly popular excursion into late 19th and early 20th century vernacular architecture...

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