WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) presents The Guerrilla Girls Talk Back, an exhibition featuring more than 70 works by the gorilla-masked crusaders, including posters, newsletters, stickers and erasers. The Guerrilla Gir…
New Jersey Recycling Center to Change Guns into Art
By: Samantha Henry, Associated Press
JERSEY CITY (AP).- Police officials from New York and New Jersey were on hand Tuesday to receive more than 900 illegal weapons that will be shredded for use in a statue. The “Peace Angel” statue will be donated to…
Last of Frank Lloyd Wright-Trained Architects, Edgar Tafel, Dies in New York at Age 98
NEW YORK, NY (AP).- New York City architect Edgar Tafel, an original Taliesin fellow credited with saving some of Frank Lloyd Wright’s most important works, has died. He was 98. Tafel, who was instrumental in helping save two historic interiors from a …
Last of Frank Lloyd Wright-Trained Architects, Edgar Tafel, Dies in New York at Age 98
NEW YORK, NY (AP).- New York City architect Edgar Tafel, an original Taliesin fellow credited with saving some of Frank Lloyd Wright’s most important works, has died. He was 98. Tafel, who was instrumental in helping save two historic interiors from a …
Whitney Site-Specific Installation Designed by Barbara Kruger Now On View
NEW YORK, NY.- Barbara Kruger designed the third Whitney site-specific installation at 820 Washington Street on the corner of Washington and Gansevoort Streets. Kruger is producing a dramatic intervention that addresses the viewer with powerful and eni…
President Obama Forcefully Endorses Mosque Near Ground Zero
WASHINGTON (AP).- President Barack Obama on Friday forcefully endorsed allowing a mosque near ground zero, saying the country’s founding principles demanded no less. “As a citizen, and as president, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practic…
9/11 Memorial Preview Site Reaches One Millionth Visitor
NEW YORK, NY.- The National September 11 Memorial & Museum welcomed its one millionth visitor to the 9/11 Memorial Preview Site, a space devoted to educating the public about the Memorial and Museum under construction at the World Trade Center site. Th…
Leopold Museum Pays a $19 Million Settlement for Egon Schiele’s "Portrait of Wally"
NEW YORK (AP).- A 12-year dispute that illustrated the difficulty of proving art was stolen by Nazis in World War II ended Tuesday with an agreement that a 1912 oil painting entitled “Portrait of Wally” will be returned to a Vienna museum and displayed…
Experts Work to Free Buried Ship Hull at World Trade Center Site in New York
NEW YORK (AP).- The ship was buried as junk two centuries ago — landfill to expand a bustling little island of commerce called Manhattan. When it re-emerged this week, surrounded by skyscrapers, it was an instant treasure that popped up from the m…
"Mixed Use Manhattan" ~ Photography and Related Practices 1970s to the Present
MADRID.-
Mixed Use Manhattan, the title of this
exhibition, refers to land-use zoning – specifically, to neighbourhoods
or
individual buildings in which a combination of commercial and
residential
functions is permitted. In the early…