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another black farm house / osb interior


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the barn journal


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The glass exterior of Phillis Wheatley Elementary School in Treme was replaced with a plastic substitute in dull shades of blue and green decades ago. Rust collects on once-gleaming steel trusses, and dented air conditioning units leak condensation from the elevated, cube-like structure onto the littered schoolyard, which has been shuttered since Hurricane Katrina.

No one would argue that the eye-catching building could use some work. But as the clock ticks toward the August release of a final School Facility Master Plan for Orleans Parish, a debate has begun on exactly what kind of work is needed for the landmark Modernist building.

Wheatley is one of four mid-century architectural landmarks that could be demolished, according to the latest draft of the master plan released in January by the Orleans Parish School Board and state-run Recovery School District.

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Laurie Blazek (left) was thrilled when a team of researchers told her Frank Lloyd Wright had designed her modest, three-bedroom house on William Street in River Forest. Though the house has a ground-hugging profile, geometric art glass windows and other characteristic features of Wright’s Prairie Style, she always thought it was shaped by a lesser architect—someone from Wright’s circle, not the master himself.

“I never in a million years thought I would be lucky enough to live in a Wright home,” said Blazek. “Ever since I bought this house, my mother said I spent too much money. Now she’s less critical.”

Just down the block, a comparable Prairie Style home is for sale, but the real estate agent, Margaret McSheehy, is cautious about its authorship. “Research is currently being conducted to determine if this home was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright,” says the Internet listing for the property, a stucco-faced three-bedroom priced at $699,900.

Did he or didn’t he?

That’s the question hovering around 29 houses in Chicago’s suburbs—one each in Glen Ellyn and Wilmette, two in Berwyn, and 25 in River Forest, including 24 of the 26 houses in the 700 block of William Street—now that the researchers are going public with their claim that they’ve found “undiscovered works” by the man widely considered to be America’s greatest architect.

“We stumbled on this and said, ‘My God,’” said the leader of the team, William Allin Storrer of Frankfort, Mich., author of two respected books, “The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion” and “The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright: A Complete Catalog.”

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With "Jackson Pollock: How Installation Can Affect Modern Art," Newhouse tracks and illustrates the five legendary Pollock exhibitions at the Betty Parsons Gallery (1948, '49, '49, '50, '51) with particular reference to the dimensions of the artist's barn/studio in Springs, N.Y. The modest scale of the Parsons space favored the direct transplant of wall-size works from the studio. The 1950 exhibition, in which Pollock was assisted in the hanging by Tony Smith, forced an intimacy to which there was a stunning audience response. "The effectiveness of the exhibition," Newhouse reports, "has never been surpassed." For Alan Kaprow, "the effect was of an overwhelming environment ... assaulting the visitor in waves of attacking and retreating pulsations." The paradox of large-scale New York School painting was clarified: enveloping size forcing intimate viewing. For Pollock's work, as for Rothko's, the distance between viewer and painting determined its effect, a point repeatedly brought home by Newhouse in her comments on subsequent Pollock exhibitions. During the '50s, the uninhabited "installation view" became an indispensable photographic record, and Newhouse has assembled a revealing compendium of gallery and museum installations of Pollock exhibitions. Pollock's subsequent exhibitions at the Sidney Janis Gallery (1952, '55), lacking wall-sized works, were mounted with a more designed sense of presentation. The 1955 exhibition included the famous display of White Cockatoo (1948) on the ceiling, with Pollock's approval.

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A campaign to save the storied Miami Marine Stadium will get its first test on Tuesday, when the city's historic preservation board will consider a proposal to designate the long-neglected but architecturally dazzling structure as a historic landmark.

The effort has received a boost from the city's preservation officer, Ellen Uguccioni, who in a report to the board called the 1964 stadium ''a tour de force of modern design'' and concluded it is eligible for designation.

But the save-the-stadium effort must still overcome a significant hurdle, Uguccioni said: Generally, buildings must be 50 years old before they are eligible for historic status. Because the stadium is only 44 years old, proponents of designation must demonstrate it is ''of exceptional importance,'' she wrote.

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fallen angel

A glazed terra cotta relief by the Renaissance sculptor Andrea della Robbia came loose overnight from its perch above a doorway at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and crashed to the stone floor below, seriously damaging it, museum officials said Tuesday.

The shattered 15th-century sculpture, a 62-by-32-inch blue-and-white lunette depicting St. Michael the Archangel in a traditional pose, holding a sword and the scales of justice, was found early Tuesday morning by a guard on regular rounds.

Harold Holzer, a spokesman for the museum, said the sculpture, which had been on display over the doorway in the European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Galleries since 1996, may have done a back flip in the air as it fell, causing it to land relatively flat on its reverse side and sparing it “catastrophic damage.”

Officials said that a preliminary examination of the sculpture indicated that it could be repaired. Mr. Holzer said that large pieces, including the archangel’s face, were intact and that, late in the day, the conclusion was that the piece was “eminently restorable.”
damage control: “eminently restorable.”


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jacob riis how the other half lives


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schwarz-truck, a 1995 ford f150 with two 17 gallon tanks is more than happy to suck down over one hundred and five dollars worth of 78 in a single feeding this summer. IF THEY'D LET YOU! i was fueling up for a road trip last week that would require all but one quarter of one tank when the mandatory nj pump jockey quit half way through filling the second tank and handed me back my card requiring me to take issue and give some serious attitude. there were no signs indicating any limits by whom ever is in the business of making limitations on things. and since i had been using a self imposed $20 fill-up limit (recently raised to $30) and always used cash i had no prior personal knowledge of sale limits. it was only when the pump cut off at $75 on the return trip fill-up that i put 17 and 17 together. "its the banks" the maine quickie gas lady confirmed. i paid cash for the balance of the fill on both occasions. man, if it aint one thing... its two things.


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rip edith macefield

The Ballard woman who captured hearts and admirers around the world when she stubbornly turned down $1 million to sell her home to make way for a commercial development died Sunday of pancreatic cancer. She was 86. "I don't want to move. I don't need the money. Money doesn't mean anything," she told the Seattle P-I in October. She continued living in the little old house in the 1400 block of Northwest 46th Street even after concrete walls rose around her, coming within a few feet of her kitchen window. Cranes towered over her roof. Macefield turned up the television or her favorite opera music a little louder and stayed put.

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uncle henrys building materials and more


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outhouses of the east


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sancor envirolet the film


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But how to freshly document the life of a man who was his own Boswell, whose books and articles slavishly documented his own every tic, whoop and hallucination? A journalist who announced his arrival in American letters by riding with the Hells Angels and in the end choreographed a memorial from the grave that made the Burning Man bacchanal seem chaste?

Few writers have commodified narcissism so completely — his participatory style of journalism became its own genre and gives the film its title — but still we are invited to sit in the dark of the theater and have a flashback about his flashbacks. When the film opens on July 4, why will people, as Thompson would say, buy the ticket, take the ride?

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