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Photo: Marshall LaCount/Swoon Studio A roving public art installation that explores the American experience has hit the streets of New York City. As part of the “American Portrait” initiative from PBS, Brooklyn-based artist Caledonia Curry, also known as Swoon, has designed a diorama-inspired sculpture on top of a 14-foot box truck. The installation, titled  The House Our Families Built, features paintings and cutouts portraying domestic life. The sculpture debuted at Brooklyn Bridge Park last weekend and will travel to Prospect Park on February 6-7, Flushing Meadows Corona Park on ...

Rick Lowe's collaborative G.A.P Van memorialises the centennial of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre Photo: Marlon Hall/Greenwood Art Project As part of its American Portraits initiative, an ongoing crowd-sourced project in which participants respond to prompts on the American experience, PBS has launched a roving public art initiative with the artists Carlos Ramirez, Swoon and Rick Lowe that reflects on American culture and identity. The multi-media installations, made from repurposed vehicles, will be shown in different locations across three US cities for several months, and will...

WeblogBahamas.com CESRA turns up the heat. The boiling frog dilemma anecdote describing a frog slowly being boiled alive is an apt description of what is happening here in The Bahamas over the past couple decades. The political class keeps ratcheting up regulations and taxes without much fuss from the frogs (business community and the taxpayer), as if the economy is their personal stove and pot of water, and we continue sliding toward darker days. The governing party – the banner does not matter – keeps assuring us, if they just add a few more regulations that effectively tie the hands ...

A Houston Family Home Combines Warm Comfort With a "Modern Edge" See how Chandos updated the house to suit both its owners. By Alia Akkam JULIE SOEFER Since 2010, a Houston couple had happily lived and raised a brood of four kids in their renovated 1960s ranch-style house in the Memorial Villages. But, “over time we simply needed more closet and bathroom space to accommodate our growing children," explains one of the owners. So, when the lot directly next to them became available, "we jumped at the opportunity to be able to design a custom home where we could stay put in our neigh...