Art
The Vanishing of America's Historic Mental Asylums
Between 1848 and 1890, dozens of grand mental asylums were built around the United States under the Kirkbride Plan, designed by Thomas Story Kirkbride.
Preservation
Art
How Public Tours Helped Save NYC's Most Futuristic Air Terminal
Closed in 2001 with TWA's absorption by American Airlines, the TWA Flight Center designed by Eero Saarinen at JFK has been vacant ever since.
Art
South Street Seaport, Manhattan's Oldest Intact Neighborhood, Faces Uncertain Future
Cut through by the rumbling FDR Drive and shadowed on one side by the towering skyscrapers of Lower Manhattan, the South Street Seaport is still surprisingly transporting to New York City's maritime past.
News
Museums Join Campaign to Preserve Land Art Opus
In 1972, the Land Art pioneer Michael Heizer began buying up tracts of land near Nevada's Garden and Coal valleys.
News
Archaeologists Are Creating a Database of Endangered Sites
Scholars estimate that in North Africa and the Middle East alone, there could be up to five million archaeological sites. The majority are still unknown or else have never been officially recorded.
News
Behind the Battle to Save a Brutalist Building
MONTGOMERY, NY — Noted Modernist architect Paul Rudolph’s beautiful, historically significant, so-called “Brutalist” Orange County Government Center in Goshen, NY, will be rehabilitated and turned into the seat of government for Orange County once again.
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Restoration of Civil Rights Landmarks Included in Obama's FY16 Budget
A $50 million restoration of sites associated with the Civil Rights Movement is included in President Obama's fiscal year 2016 budget, released Monday.
Art
How Louis Kahn's Last Commercial Work Fell Quietly in Philadelphia
Last year, the only surviving commercial work designed by architect Louis I. Kahn was torn down with little fanfare in Philadelphia.
News
Neighborhood Founded by Freed Slaves Rallies to Save Its Brick Roads
Century-old brick streets in a historically black neighborhood in Houston, Texas, are under threat of demolition, the culmination of a years-long debate over the preservation of Freedmen's Town.
Art
Saving the Only Building Painter J.M.W. Turner Ever Completed
"Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed," J.M.W. Turner once said.
In Brief
Artists Paint the Town of Johannesburg Pink
When is unauthorized street art actually art, and when is it vandalism? It's a question the city of Johannesburg has wrestled with since last summer.
News
Earthquake-Proofing Michelangelo's Statue of David
After more than 250 small earthquakes shook Italy last week, the Italian Ministry of Culture announced it will spend €200,000 (~$245,000) on an anti-seismic base to secure Michelangelo's statue of David, the Agence France-Presse reported.