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Montrealers Stumped After City Commissions Pricey Tree Sculptures

by Claire Voon June 6, 2016June 6, 2016

A public art project to put granite sculptures of trees in a park is blossoming into a major controversy in Montreal.

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UNESCO Report Details How Climate Change Threatens World Heritage Sites

by Carey Dunne May 30, 2016May 31, 2016

The Statue of Liberty is a favorite victim of Hollywood’s climate change disaster scenarios.

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The Photographers of 1870s London Who Documented Their Disappearing City

by Allison Meier May 23, 2016May 24, 2016

The idea of capturing something in photography before it disappears dates back almost to the dawn of the medium.

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Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s Restored Studio Opens for Public Tours

by Allison Meier May 17, 2016May 23, 2016

When Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney set up her sculpture studio in Greenwich Village’s MacDougal Alley, one 1907 newspaper headline blared: “Daughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt Will Live in Dingy New York Alley.”

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A New Database Will Document the Burial Sites of US Slaves

by Allison Meier May 10, 2016May 11, 2016

A new project is giving slave burial grounds in the United States something they’ve long been deprived of: visibility.

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Despite Developer’s Plans, a Manhattan Clock Tower Will Stay Mechanical

by Allison Meier April 1, 2016April 1, 2016

Tribeca is one of the few neighborhoods where you can tell time by a 19th-century clock tower, as the mechanical timepiece at the top of 346 Broadway has been hand-wound every week since its restoration in the 1980s.

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James Baldwin’s Longtime Home in Southern France Faces Demolition

by Joseph Nechvatal March 23, 2016March 31, 2016

The acclaimed writer James Baldwin moved from New York to Paris in 1948 and then to Saint-Paul de Vence in the south of France, where he eventually died with his longtime lover, the obscure Swiss painter Lucien Happersberger, at his side.

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Poll: What Does This Aggressively Restored 9th-Century Moorish Castle Look Like?

by Claire Voon March 23, 2016March 23, 2016

An architect’s restoration of a 9th-century Moorish castle in southern Spain has drawn outcry from locals and historians, with many drawing comparisons between the registered national monument’s new look and the infamous case of Beast Jesus.

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Conservators Work to Open the Forbidden City’s Secret Garden to the Public

by Allison Meier March 15, 2016March 15, 2016

When China’s last emperor departed Beijing’s Forbidden City in 1924, the imperial palace was shuttered, and along with it, an 18th-century garden.

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Preserving South Carolina’s Greek Revival Ruins with 3D Modeling

by Allison Meier March 10, 2016July 20, 2016

Sheldon Church would be at home in a Caspar David Friedrich painting, its Greek Temple–style ruins crumbling in the shadows of moss-laden oaks like an apparition of Romanticism.

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The Most Endangered Heritage Sites of 2016, from Cuban Art Schools to the Oldest Underwater City

by Allison Meier October 22, 2015November 3, 2015

The World Monuments Fund has announced 50 sites around the globe that are in danger of disappearing due to development, war, neglect, natural disaster, or deliberate destruction.

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City Council Bill Could Limit NYC’s Landmarking Power

by Allison Meier September 2, 2015

At a public hearing next Wednesday, New York City Council’s Committee on Land Use will consider a bill that would majorly impact landmarking in the city.

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