The architecture firm of Carrère and Hastings designed the Beaux Arts main branch of the New York Public Library, which opened in 1911 at 42nd St. and 5th Ave. in Midtown Manhattan. The building was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1965.
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The Leader Building, located at Superior Ave. and East 6th St. in downtown Cleveland, was designed by Charles Adams Platt and erected in 1913 for the now-defunct Cleveland News.
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Looking Glass, a solo exhibit by Alice Pixley Young, is currently on view at the PAC Gallery. The exhibit juxtaposes elements of the forest and domestic space through found and altered objects augmented with sound, lighting and cast glass. Together, the disparate pieces explore the psychoanalytic notion of The Uncanny, described by Sigmund Freud as “something familiar and old-established in the mind that has been estranged only by the process of repression.”
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Cincinnati Museum Merger a Model for Other Cities?: in major local news, the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center is merging with the Cincinnati Museum Center.
Well, Not Exactly…: is Westwood engaging in a pissing contest with the Northside neighborhood of Cincinnati?
Charley Harper: A Bird’s Eye View: Drew of Kitsch Cafe checked out this Modern Minimalism retrospective before it closed yesterday.
Main Street Steps: a Cincinnati family makes their own fun while exploring Over-the-Rhine.
Goodbye Holiday: more on the closing of the best dive bar ever [rumor has it that Madonna's song "Holiday" was inspired by this place].
Czech Republic Landmark Refurbished: Mies Van Der Rohe’s Tugendhat to Open Again: great news about a Modern icon in Brno.
French Press Coffee Pot & a Cup of Steaming Coffee Bicycle Racks: fun bike racks in DC.
Movies Shot in Cincinnati: from Eight Men Out to Seabiscuit.
The True Cost of Commuting: You Could Buy a House Priced $15,900 More for Each Mile You Move Closer to Work: just that, suburbanites.
Floyd Bennett Airfield: incredible photos from a strange place in Brooklyn.
Frankenstein’s Castle in Dayton: it may or may not be haunted.
LEGO Architecture: Towering Ambition: a current exhibit at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC.
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps: amazing cartography and typography, all rolled into one beautiful, informative package [this archive includes only cities in Utah].
Rainbow House: just that, plus an amazing spiral staircase.
I’ve never watched The West Wing, but maybe I should start now. If this clip is any indication, I think I would enjoy it.
As promised, here is one of the awesome public art projects in the Detroit People Mover Financial District station. “D” for Detroit by Joyce Kozloff is a large-scale tile mural inspired by motifs in the Fisher Building, the Guardian Building and Diego Rivera Court in the Detroit Institute of Arts.
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Countdown to the Weston: Cincinnati painter Cedric Michael Cox is getting ready for his exhibit at the Weston.
Merchants on Main: some thoughts from Over-the-Rhine’s own Jessie of Mud on Main, J. Michael of RoHo Photo, and Mike of Another Part of the Forest.
Zoomable 1848 Panorama of Cincinnati: holy moly, 19th century daguerreotypes meet 21th century interactivity.
Union Square Newsstand: it’s the end of the funky independent newsstands in NYC.
Pearls Before Breakfast: “Can one of the nation’s great musicians cut through the fog of a D.C. rush hour? Let’s find out.” [This article is a few years old but still worth a read.]
Refrigerators on Michigan Avenue: Chicago’s Newest Display of Public Art: a funky new public art project on Magnificent Mile in Chicago repurposes old refrigerators into art.
Wringing Art Out of the Rubble in Detroit: more creative experimentation in Detroit.
seed bombs in Cincinnati
This post could be called Our Friends in Far-Flung Places Have an Almost Infinite Capacity to Humor My Ridiculous Requests. When I asked people we know to stop by their local Anthropologie stores and take photos of the seed bomb displays, I got replies from all over the US! Above is what we saw at our local Anthropologie here in Cincinnati.
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These subway map shower curtains by Izola include the systems for DC, NYC, Chicago, Boston, and London. If I were living in one of those cities, I would hang the shower curtain backwards, so that I could plan my daily trips while taking my morning shower.
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