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Powerful painting belongs in South Dakota, where the event occurred — The South Dakota Standard

(Editor’s note: Oscar Howe’s painting ‘Wounded Knee Massacre’ – seen above, slightly cropped to fit this space – is at a museum in Kansas. A group is seeking its return to South Dakota, and sent this letter to the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum and Boyhood Home in Abilene, Kan., last summer. Their request was rejected, but they still …

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Review: At MoMA, a look at modernist architecture of post-colonial South Asia

Placeholder while article actions load NEW YORK — Images of construction are among the most arresting details in the Museum of Modern Art’s deep look at modernist architecture in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. “The Project of Independence: Architectures of Decolonization in South Asia, 1947-1985” has a heavy-duty title that suggests an esoteric subject. But this exhibition makes an …

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A Sunny South End Home with a Two-Story Glass Wall

The double-height living room opens up to a private garden that serves as the perfect outdoor entertaining space. Sign up for our weekly home and property newsletter, featuring homes for sale, neighborhood happenings, and more. Photos by Jack Vatcher 122 W Concord St. #1, South EndPrice: $2,675,000Size: 1,810 square feetBedrooms: 3Bathrooms: 2.5 After a long and nippy spring, Boston is …

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Chicago real estate market: Near South Side properties are gaining value, selling faster than those on Near North Side: data

CHICAGO (WLS) — An analysis of property values reveals new insight about the real estate market on Chicago’s South Side, which is also home to some of the city’s largest new development plans. Alexandra Roman and Justin Zamarripa recently married after meeting at work on a project together. Then they bought their first home, a condo in Bronzeville. “We were …

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MoMA’s South Asian Architecture Retrospective

Charles Correa’s Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Stadium in Ahmedabad. Photo: Randhir Singh, Courtesy of MoMA Modernism, like English, belongs to everyone. As an architectural language, it has been hammered into dialects, hybridized almost beyond recognition, and enriched by those who have scant use for purity. On the Indian subcontinent, it was the idiom of the colonial powers but also a crucial …

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MoMA explores decolonization in South Asian architecture

MoMA celebrates South Asian architecture in the postcolonial era The Museum of Modern Art’s latest exhibition, ‘The Project for Independence: Architectures of Decolonization in South Asia 1947 – 1985’, takes us through the aspirations, innovations and visions of South Asian countries after the end of colonial rule in the region Emancipatory politics in the first decades after the end of …

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Emerging Painter Patrick Alston on How His South Bronx Home Infuses His Abstract Art

This article is part of a series of interviews by Folasade Ologundudu exploring the evolving conversation about abstract art among Black artists across different generations.   At just 30, the art of Patrick Alston is already immediately identifiable, with a signature materiality and use of gestural marks to create dynamic and colorful abstractions. The central themes of his varied body …

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University of New South Wales spotlights 10 landscape architecture and design projects

A desk that transforms into a space for quiet study and a vessel that lets people grow mushrooms at home are included in Dezeen’s latest school show by the University of New South Wales. Also included is a project that explores the benefits of marine habitats and farming, and another that looks at the regeneration of Sydney’s Bays West Precinct. School: University of …

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