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Jane Benson's Dead Swan Wallpaper

Art

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Jane Benson, Dead Swan Wallpaper, 2009
cut Laura Ashley Wallpaper

Sadly, the show is closed now, but check out the artist’s website for more images. Best use of messed-up plinths I’ve seen in a gallery!

Here is Where

Culture

Thanks to the NY Times I learned of Here is Where whose mission is

to find and spotlight little known and unmarked historic sites throughout the United States.

I really love this story from the article:

The Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, Mr. Carroll’s hometown, has agreed to install a marker that commemorates a moment on Nov. 27, 1925, when the poet Vachel Lindsay was timidly approached at dinner by a busboy who placed three poems he had written next to Lindsay’s plate. Lindsay was so impressed that he shared them with his audience at a poetry reading that night, prompting journalists to report on the “busboy poet.” His name was Langston Hughes.