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Is Any Modern Porn Worth Preserving?

by Justine Smith January 21, 2021January 25, 2021

There are many issues with keeping pornography in the historical record. Was anything of value lost in Pornhub’s recent massive video purge?

Posted inIn Brief

Lincoln Center Scraps Richard Lippold’s Chandelier Sculpture in $550M Renovation Plans

by Monica Castillo December 6, 2019December 6, 2019

Preservationists have voiced their concerns about eliminating Lippold’s “Orpheus and Apollo,” one of the original pieces of public artworks at Lincoln Center, installed in 1962.

Posted inArt

Explore Over 30,000 NYC Historic Sites Newly Uploaded to the Landmarks Preservation Commission’s Map

by Claire Voon January 30, 2018August 3, 2021

Complied from 50 years of documents, the map allows you to discover facts about structures you may walk by every day.

Posted inNews

Developer Bulldozes Frank Lloyd Wright Building as Preservationists Rushed to Save It

by Claire Voon January 17, 2018

The demolition, which occurred overnight on January 10, came as a shock to preservation groups who had been working to save the building.

Posted inNews

US Civil Rights Sites and Aleppo’s Old Souk Among 25 Threatened Places Around the World

by Allison Meier October 16, 2017October 16, 2017

The World Monuments Fund announced the 2018 World Monuments Watch, listing 25 sites, from the hurricane-hit Caribbean to modernist architecture in India.

Posted inNews

New York’s Island of the Dead Included in List of 2017 Preservation Priorities

by Allison Meier January 17, 2017January 17, 2017

The Historic Districts Council included New York City’s mass grave, Hart Island, among its Six to Celebrate neighborhood preservation priorities.

Posted inArt

Sites in Tucson, Milwaukee, and SF Make List of America’s Most Endangered Places in 2016

by Allison Meier October 6, 2016October 6, 2016

The National Trust for Historic Preservation announces its 2016 list of America’s Most Endangered Places.

Posted inNews

England Gives “Pride of Place” to Historic LGBTQ Sites

by Allison Meier September 29, 2016September 30, 2016

Historic England’s Pride of Place project aims to recognize overlooked sites of LGBTQ history and protect them as part of the country’s heritage.

Posted inNews

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.

Posted inArt

An Icon of Midcentury Organic Modern Architecture Is Destroyed

by Allison Meier May 11, 2016May 11, 2016

A spiraling 1955 house that was considered one of the icons of 20th-century organic modernism has been destroyed.

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A Noguchi Ceiling in a U-Haul Showroom Is Restored to Its Former Glory

by Allison Meier May 5, 2016May 7, 2016

In the 1940s, artist Isamu Noguchi experimented with a series of “lunar landscapes,” embedding lights in undulating magnesite cement. While some were freestanding sculptures, three were site-specific pieces installed in two buildings and a boat. This month, the only one of these architectural projects to survive was revealed in a U-Haul store in St. Louis, Missouri.

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As Met Breuer Opens, Two of the Architect’s Buildings Face an Uncertain Fate

by Allison Meier March 24, 2016March 31, 2016

Prominence of name has never guaranteed the preservation of architecture. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Park Avenue Showroom was demolished in 2013 just blocks from his iconic Guggenheim Museum, Louis Kahn’s Philadelphia commercial storefront was torn down in 2014, just a couple of years after the grand unveiling of his Four Freedoms Park in New York.

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