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hifructosemag: Lene Kilde, a sculptor based in Norway,…

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Lene Kilde, a sculptor based in Norway, creates works in which disparate body parts create fanciful scenes. At first glance, these sculptures may appear ominous or bleak, but further time spent with the work offers hints at wistful and youthful action. Or as Kilde says in a statement,“her intention is to invite the audience to use their own imagination so that they can complete the sculptures and fill in the lines and volume by themselves.The sculptures consist (of) concrete, metal mesh and air.”

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archatlas: In the Jar by Ayumi Shibata  Ayumi Shibata, born in…

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In the Jar by Ayumi Shibata 

Ayumi Shibata, born in 1982, in Yokohama, Japan. She moved to New York in 2007 and started making art pieces by paper. For her series “In the Jar” she created ethereal cities entirely cut out by hand and installed into glass containers

 Working within this cultural framework, she uses the traditional method of Japanese paper cutting to bring attention to the delicate relationship we as humans have with the environment. Within her work, she wants to create a discussion about how we relate and care about the world we were given.

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Did Harry Thaw shoot the wrong architect?

Who knows!

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Thaw shot and killed Stanford White as a result of his jealousy over the relationship between his wife, Evelyn Nesbit, and White. After one hung jury, he was found not guilty by reason of insanity. Years later, White’s son Lawrence Grant White would write, “On the night of June 25th, 1906, while attending a performance at Madison Square Garden, Stanford White was shot from behind [by] a crazed profligate whose great wealth was used to besmirch his victim’s memory during the series of notorious trials that ensued.” via

Stanford White was an American architect and partner in the architectural firm McKim, Mead & White, the frontrunner among Beaux-Arts firms. He designed a long series of houses for the rich, and numerous public, institutional, and religious buildings. His design principles embodied the “American Renaissance”.

Here are some of Stanford White’s most famous designs:

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Washington Square Arch

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Second incarnation of Madison Square Garden

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NYU library in the Bronx,

now part of Bronx Community College

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Goelet Building