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SOMETIME IN 1975, Pierre Buraglio began gathering discarded windows from demolition sites in Paris. Pickings were plentiful. The fourteenth arrondissement, where he had a studio, was undergoing extensive redevelopment, part of a broader wave of modernization exemplified by the recently built skyscraper Tour Montparnasse. The artist had opposed this trend, heatedly decrying the likely consequences for the quarter’s working-class inhabitants.1 He was nonetheless drawn to the cast-off fixtures, w...

Blenheim Palace will call their Indian Room the Summer Terrace Room during a new exhibition on Sir Winston Churchill to avoid colonial connotations. Bosses at the country house in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, will use the alternative name for the show on the UKs greatest prime minister. They said they didnt want to provoke controversy and wanted to make it more accessible following calls to reassess Britains past. But the palace later issued a statement saying it was due to the Indian Room being in ...