BUFFALO (AP).- Milton Rogovin, a social documentary photographer who built a life’s work by looking through a lens at people who were invisible to others, died Tuesday at age 101. Rogovin was in hospice care after a brief illness and died at his home …
Photographer Milton Rogovin Dies at Age 101 in New York
BUFFALO (AP).- Milton Rogovin, a social documentary photographer who built a life’s work by looking through a lens at people who were invisible to others, died Tuesday at age 101. Rogovin was in hospice care after a brief illness and died at his home …
Thai Khon Mask Maker Keeps Disappearing Tradition Alive in the Saphan Mai Area
BANGKOK (AP).- Any taxi can take you to one of Bangkok’s glitzy new shopping malls, but you’ll have to poke around and trod carefully down a crumbling, fetid old alley in a working-class district to find a true artifact of genuine Thai culture. The ne…
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…
While Digging in their Back Yard, Brothers Find 1,300 Year Old Pots
TILCARA, ARGENTINA.- Two brothers who were digging in the back of their house to lay the foundation of two new rooms found eight pots measuring 1.20 meters in height that have been estimated to be 1,300 years old. The discovery was made in the Carraza…
The New School Presents Amplify: Creative and Sustainable Lifestyles in the Lower East Side
NEW YORK, NY.- The New School presents AMPLIFY: Creative and Sustainable Lifestyles in the Lower East Side, an exhibition of sustainable community design, including innovative neighborhood gardening initiatives, in New York City’s Lower East Side. AM…
Frank Gehry’s Santa Monica Place Mall Deconstructed in a Green Renovation
SANTA MONICA, CA.- Santa Monica Place, a 1980 design by the renowned architect Frank Gehry, has been radically repositioned with a green renovation that opens Friday, August 6, announced Dallas, Texas-based architecture firm Omniplan (www.omniplan.com)…
Weeklong Fete Planned for Frank Zappa Statue in Hometown
BALTIMORE (AP).- The unveling of a statue honoring Frank Zappa in his hometown of Baltimore will feature a week of events including a concert by his son, Dweezil. The statue was donated by fans in Lithuania, a country Zappa never visited but one where…
Objects Found in Teotihuacan Neighborhood Exhibited
MEXICO CITY.- Most recent findings registered at the southwest part of the Archaeological Zone of Teotihuacan, Estado de Mexico, are presented for the first time in the exhibition La Ventilla, un barrio de la ciudad antigua de Teotihuacan (La Ventilla,…