You might be surprised by the "Top 10 Myths about #HistoricPreservation" by Ken Bernstein, principal city planner and manager at Office of Historic Resources @Planning4LA.
https://t.co/JtzZD32XrW
"For millennia, people slept in two shifts – once in the evening, and once in the morning. But why? And how did the habit disappear?"
https://t.co/Y6KvwnYF9k #speeping#history#sleephistory
The annual Leicester B. Holland Prize goes to the best single-sheet measured drawing of an historic site, structure or landscape prepared to 🇺🇸Historic American Buildings Survey (#HABS) standards.
The first winner, from 2011, shows a #BuckyFuller dome.
https://t.co/mgR4VDUyIS
.@Harvard is now considering #denaming more of its buildings, programs & professorships.
The committe cautions that “neither hagiography nor raw condemnation is likely to encompass & explain the full complexity of a life a name may represent.”
https://t.co/WBIDilQPiX #Harvard
🔎 Marvelous piece of sleuthing around this still life by Isabel Agnes Cowper, the @V_and_A's Official Museum Photographer from 1868 – 1891.
📖 READ >>
https://t.co/bf4hvWsPLR #museumeducation#museumphotography#womeninmuseums
“When COVID-19 shut down museums in March 2020, the Met projected a likely $150 million revenue shortfall. That hefty figure has been repeated in the press ever since. Unreported before now, however, is the 33% spike in the Met’s endowments, [now] pegged at $4.4 billion.”
Future museums should be domestic scale, not monumental says Orhan Pamuk.
<< WE HAD:
Epics
Representation
Monuments
Histories
Nations
Groups and teams
Large and expensive
WE NEED
Novels
Expression
Homes
Stories
Persons
Individuals
Small and cheap >>
https://t.co/PDYKx7eKp3
"In 1881 a group of high society women gathered in London to form a new organization. They named their group the Rational Dress Society, intending to reform Victorian women’s dress ..."
Full story >> https://t.co/cm3BmZCdVe #cycling#history#fashionhistory#women#rationaldress
The Armory Show (NY, 1913) introduced Americans to the art of the European avant-garde (cubists futurist, &c.). This caused a stir among traditionalists, including Mary Mills and Earl Harvey Lyall, who satirized it with a spirited children's book.
https://t.co/mSwur1pOmb #cubies