Keep Indianapolis Beautiful: Asethetic Priority in Old Indy

Posted by on March 31, 2010 · 1 Comment 

(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=131733823518196"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, "script", "facebook-jssdk")); We applaud Indiana for the overall efforts to beautify its principal and capital city.  Furthermore, we would like to give five flames to the not-for-profit Keep Indianapolis... Read More

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Procurement of the Week: Utility or Art…Sculpture of Wood

Posted by on March 29, 2010 · 1 Comment 

(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=131733823518196"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, "script", "facebook-jssdk")); Is this a mold of some kind for utility?  Or is this a work of sculpture? Either Way, the sculptural quality is there and the piece is very well made of wood and metal. ... Read More

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Are these $55 or $78 Million Wedding Environs?

Posted by on March 29, 2010 · 2 Comments 

(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=131733823518196"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, "script", "facebook-jssdk")); Conflicting sources report that the wedding for Vanisha Mittal, heiress to the Lakshmi Mittal steel fortune (recently ranked fifth richest man in Britain), cost roughly $55 million... Read More

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High Art in Norfolk, Virginia–HOLY CHRYSLER!

Posted by on March 27, 2010 · 4 Comments 

(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=131733823518196"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, "script", "facebook-jssdk")); Why did the Chrysler go from this progressive model: in 1961 to this more normative style: in 1971?  The world has always wondered…  Finally, we think that our labors... Read More

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Procurement of the Week: Funky or Folk Painting Related to the African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968)

Posted by on March 25, 2010 · 2 Comments 

(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=131733823518196"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, "script", "facebook-jssdk")); Call it funky or call it folk, we enjoyed procuring this expressive painting (oil on paper, 12 by 18 inches), which obviously dates to the African-American Civil Rights Movement... Read More

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Building of the Week: Liberty Memorial (WWI) Kansas City, Missouri

Posted by on March 25, 2010 · Leave a Comment 

(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=131733823518196"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, "script", "facebook-jssdk")); One of the great things about education and, as a result, business-related travel is the opportunity to see places that one might otherwise never have seen.  We will honestly admit... Read More

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La Grange Terrace or Colonnade Row: One (New York) City’s Trash is the Same City’s Landmark…

Posted by on March 24, 2010 · 1 Comment 

(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=131733823518196"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, "script", "facebook-jssdk")); While we love New York City, we are not always as fond of New Yorkers and their crimes against the metropolis’ great built environment.  We begin our harangue with this... Read More

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…and in the name of god…Religious Architecture (Monuments to Jesus) of Indianapolis, Indiana

Posted by on March 23, 2010 · Leave a Comment 

(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=131733823518196"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, "script", "facebook-jssdk")); Today initiates what we plan to be an ongoing series: “…and in the name of god…”  Here we will highlight the “unbelievable” and, in some... Read More

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Interior of Interest: Not the Museum Portion of the Program, but the Art School at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Posted by on March 19, 2010 · 2 Comments 

(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=131733823518196"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, "script", "facebook-jssdk")); Ever been to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)?  If the answer is yes, you probably have no recollection of the life size plaster copy of Michelangelo’s... Read More

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Absurd Mansard: Alley Life in the District with a Volvo SC90 Executive and a 1920s Garage…

Posted by on March 18, 2010 · 2 Comments 

(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=131733823518196"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, "script", "facebook-jssdk")); Wanderin’ through an alley in the Columbia Heights section of Washington D.C.,  we were pleasantly suprised when stumbling upon these awesome old metal garage buildings,... Read More

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