How many times have you imagined what artists talked about as they worked? What questions did they ask, what observations did they make, how did they work with others? Well now one writer has got into the heads of two medieval monks as they work on their manuscripts, one more senior and experienced, the other…
The Los Angeles Office of Historic Resources (OHR) has partnered with the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) to create and launch HistoricPlacesLA: Los Angeles Historic Resources Inventory, the “first online information and management system specifically created to help inventory, map, describe, and protect Los Angeles’ significant cultural resources.” HistoricPlacesLA is published through Arches, a open-source geospatial…
Pazzi Chapel, a 15th-century landmark within Florence’s Santa Croce complex, is reaching out to potential donors around the world to help fund a much-needed restoration of the chapel’s loggia. The loggia, by Filippo Brunelleschi (but completed by Michelozzo and Guiliano da Maiano) and adorned with colorful tin-glaze terracottas by Luca della Robbia, is deteriorating due…
The second annual New Urbanism Film Festival will be November 6-9 at the ACME Comedy Theatre, 135 N. La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles. The festival was created last year “to move the conversation about urban planning out of the text book and beyond the council chambers and into the movie theater.” You can find more…
Places Journal, dedicated to public scholarship on architecture, landscape and urbanism, has a new responsive website. Browsing the Explore Places tab yields sections grouped by columnists or keywords such as Reputations, California, Ecology, Sustainability, Critical Practice and many others. h/t SAH
Yes, you read that right. The Sistine Chapel can be rented out for select corporate charity events as a part of Pope Francis’ “Art for Charity” initiative. The first takers: Porsche. On Saturday, October 18, 2014, forty of the car maker’s enthusiasts paid $5,900 per head to be among the first group of people treated…