WASHINGTON, D.C (AP).- Jazz musician John Coltrane’s home on Long Island, N.Y., a cloverleaf-shaped Chicago hospital building and a Pillsbury plant in Minneapolis that once was the world’s most advanced flour mill are among America’s 11 Most Endangered…
Winterthur Museum Acquires One of the Earliest Known American Depictions of the Easter Bunny
WINTERTHUR, DE – Winterthur Museum recently acquired one of the earliest known American depictions of the Easter Bunny, which was sold at Pook & Pook auction house in Downingtown , Pennsylvania . Together with the Christmas tree, the custom of t…
Winterthur Museum Acquires One of the Earliest Known American Depictions of the Easter Bunny
WINTERTHUR.- Winterthur Museum recently acquired one of the earliest known American depictions of the Easter Bunny, which was sold at Pook & Pook auction house in Downingtown , Pennsylvania . Together with the Christmas tree, the custom of the Easter r…
Hand-Sculpted Goat Atop a Stack of Packing Crates Presented as Winner of Spitalfields Sculpture Prize
LONDON.- Kenny Hunter’s hand-sculpted goat stands atop a stack of packing crates to create the 3.5metre high I Goat, which was inspired by Spitalfields’ rich, ongoing social history. I Goat is sited in one of London’s most high profile public spa…
New Exhibits at Chicago’s Hull House Museum
CHICAGO (AP).- At the turn of the 20th century, thousands of immigrants sought out Jane Addams’ Hull House in Chicago. There they received medical treatment at settlement house clinics, learned job skills through training classes and found community at…
Artists Design Sheep Wagon for the 21st Century
By: Ivan Moreno, Associated Press Writer
DENVER (AP).- Colorado artists want to give a futuristic makeover to the rustic sheep wagons used by immigrant workers across the West. Immigrants from Peru, Chile, Mexico and Nepal who come to the U.S. sometime…