Hot Nights at the Barbican

Click Here to Read:  Hot Nights at the Barbican  by Paul Levy on his Plain English blog on July 1, 2019.

Studio floor used by Jackson Pollock at the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in Springs, New York. The studio is in an old barn behind the house. Pollock had the building moved, put a wood floor down and used it as his primary painting surface from 1946 until his death in 1956. When he renovated in 1953, he put down a masonite covering. Krasner started to use the room in 1957. Upon her death in 1984, ownership was transferred to Stony Brook University, who removed the covering, discovered the old surface, and had it restored in 1987-8.15 August 2015, 15:39:06
Photo:  Rododendrites.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

A Whitewashed Monument to Women’s Suffrage

Click Here to Read: A Whitewashed Monument to Women’s Suffrage: A sculpture that’s expected to be unveiled in Central Park next year ignores the important contributions of black women By Brent Staples in the New York Times on May 14, 2019.

Women suffragists picketing in front of the White house. The first picket line – College day in the picket line line, 1917.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

The Hospital on Main Street: Human Dignity and Mental Health at Austen Riggs

For Immediate Release:  The Austen Riggs Center to Open “The Hospital on Main Street: Human Dignity and Mental Health,” A Special Exhibition in Stockbridge, Massachusetts

Public Opening Set for Sunday, May 26, 2019

Exhibition Chronicles 100 Years of Austen Riggs, Explores the History of Mental Health Treatment, and Aims to Help Diminish Stigma that Often Surrounds Mental Illness

Stockbridge, MA – April 30, 2019 – The Austen Riggs Center is proud to announce the new exhibition, “The Hospital on Main Street: Human Dignity and Mental Health,” over Memorial Day Weekend. The exhibition will be located in the newly renovated annex of the Old Corner House in Stockbridge, and chronicles the history of Riggs, from its founding by Dr. Austen Fox Riggs in 1919, to its current position as a leading psychiatric Continue reading The Hospital on Main Street: Human Dignity and Mental Health at Austen Riggs