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Five Issues Threatening the Destruction of Cultural Heritage Sites
Yesterday, the World Monuments Fund announced their 2014 World Monuments Watch, launching a two-year advocacy for 67 sites in 41 countries.
Preservation
Art
Six NYC Places Most in Danger of Disappearing This Fall
As anyone who spends a few months watching a New York neighborhood knows, things change. Buildings disappear or suddenly spring up with glass and steel towers. This fall, a few of the city's more interesting places are in danger of disappearing completely, including a mid-century futurist airline te
Art
Destroy the Brutalism, Leave the Picasso: A Debate Over What's Worth Saving in Oslo
After being damaged by a 2011 car bomb, some Brutalist architecture in Oslo is up for demolition. While the debate between the protection of Brutalist architecture and those who see its heavy concrete designs as ugly and bleak is not infrequent in preservation, these buildings include five murals by
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Orson Welles: Lost and Found
The only surviving copy of Orson Welles' 1930 silent film Too Much Johnson was long thought totally lost after a fire devastated Welles' home outside Madrid in 1970, yet yesterday the George Eastman House not only announced it had been recovered, but that a screening would be held this October.
Art
See America's 11 Newest Endangered Historic Places
The National Trust for Historic Places has released its 2013 list of endangered historic places, adding 11 new buildings and locations to hundreds of heritage sites around the country that have been threatened with demolition or decay.
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The Heart of Tibet Is Being Radically Changed into a Shopping Center
The city of Lhasa, up on the Tibetan Plateau, is the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region in China, as well as a spiritual center as the home of the Jokhang Temple, the most sacred of Tibet's temples. As such it is an often clamorous place of both protest and prayer. Yet much of that may be silenc
Art
The New Frontier of Space Preservation
Some of the most historic sites of human history aren't even on our planet. On the moon are the six lunar landing sites left from NASA's 1969 to 1972 trips to the moon, and traveling somewhere out in the distance of the universe are interstellar objects like the Voyager probes. There are even closer
Opinion
Pending Post Office Sale Threatens Depression-Era Murals
Although the US Postal Service is now being forced to scrap its plan to end Saturday mail delivery, it's still looking for ways to cut costs. Selling buildings is one option, and in February, the organization put forward a proposal to sell the Bronx General Post Office, a Depression-era building fro
Opinion
What Should MoMA Do With the American Folk Art Museum?
There is a growing uproar over the news, first reported in the New York Times yesterday, that the venerable Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) will be demolishing the 12-year-old former American Folk Art Museum designed by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien to integrate the site into its masterplan.
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Retro-Futuristic Pan Am Worldport at JFK in Danger of Demolition
Part of aviation architecture history may soon be lost if Delta's expansion project at JFK airport goes forward as planned. Terminal 3, built in 1960 and designed by Ives, Turano & Gardner Associated Architects as the Pan Am Terminal, later renamed the Pan An Worldport, is expected to close this May
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What's Happening to Culture in Europe?
The latest news from Europe this week is that everything is falling apart — at least in terms of arts and culture. And it's depressing.
Art
Downton Abbey and the Perils of Preservation
Downton Abbey is downsizing — or at least it was, for a hot second. If you’ve been following the post-Edwardian miniseries, you’ll know that the Crawley family, who lives in the show’s eponymous grand estate house, was in danger of losing their lavish lifestyle. The show’s patriarch Robert Crawley,