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  • May 2008
    • 10 Easy Breezy Summer Reads

      10 Easy Breezy Summer Reads

      (Newser) - The perfect summer read is like a breathmint: light, refreshing, and available for purchase at the airport. Cosmopolitan book editor John Searles dishes his top 10 titles  of the season to MSNBC. The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein: a family tell-all—from the dog’s POV The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer: a woman learns dark secrets about her husband More »

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      book   reading   summer   Frank Lloyd Wright

  • January 2008
    • Mahony Griffin: Unsung Genius

      Mahony Griffin: Unsung Genius

      (Newser) - You may never have heard of her, but you have seen her work. Marion Mahony Griffin illustrated much of Frank Lloyd Wright's early work. She also illustrated the work of Walter Burley Griffin, her architect husband. She may have been one of America's greatest  architects in her own right, the New York Times reports, overlooked because of her self-effacing nature and the tendency of scholars to pursue "great men" theories of history. More »

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      Chicago   architecture   Frank Lloyd Wright

  • November 2007
    • Guggenheim Won't Be Turning Yellow

      Guggenheim Won't Be Turning Yellow

      (Newser) - When the construction wrappings come off, the Guggenheim Museum will be off-white again, not yellow, after an unusual preservation debate was settled by New York City's landmarks commission. Frank Lloyd Wright's iconic Upper East Side museum was painted a buff yellow for its first four years—the architect famously hated white—and some wanted it restored to its original color after its $27-million facelift. But the Gugg has been gray-white for most of its life, and after months of testimony, it'll stay that way. More »

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      Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum   Frank Lloyd Wright   Thomas Krens

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