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Comedian, a banana duct taped to the wall at last year s Art Basel Miami Beach, inspire this year s Pantone colors. Image by @DocPop.
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The Owners of the Banksy Bristol House Will Sell After All – The owners of the Bristol house that Banksy graced with a seasonal mural last week pressed pause on their plans to sell for 48 hours after the artwork’s surprise appearance. But after installing protections like a plexiglass sheet to keep the mural intact, they have put the house back on the market. They are considering attaching a restrictive covenant to the deed that would ensure the mural stays put or goes to the local city council or museum. (
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Posted By Ruth King on December 12th, 2020
The Montefiore Home in the Melbourne suburb of St Kilda is a Jewish residential aged-care facility that opened in 1897, and was named after Sir Moses Montefiore, 1st Baronet (1784–1885), a philanthropist, British banker and Sheriff of London.
Montefiore was from an Italian-Jewish family and had no children of his own, but his long and active life got him a mention in the letters of George Eliot, the diaries of Charles Dickens and James Joyce’s
Ulysses. His great-grandnephew Leonard G. Montefiore (1886–1961) was the founding member of the Central British Fund for Jewish Relief, and the driving force behind the Windermere Children Project, a scheme in 1945 to allow young Jewish concentration camp survivors into Britain.
Philip Johnson s first building renamed amid protest over architect s white supremacist views
US architecture and design school Harvard GSD has removed Philip Johnson s name from a house he built while studying at the institution in response to a campaign calling for a rethink of the Nazi-supporting late architect s legacy.
Harvard Graduate School of Design announced this week it has renamed the house Johnson designed and built in the 1940s as his GSD thesis project.
Formerly known as Philip Johnson Thesis House, the single-storey dwelling is now named after its address, 9 Ash Street.
Philip Johnson is an inappropriate namesake
The move is a response to a campaign by activist organisation The Johnson Study Group that has also called on New York s Museum of Modern Art to remove Johnson s name from a curatorial post in light of the architect s commitment to white supremacy .