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Visit Tamara de Lempicka’s First U.S. Retrospective in San Francisco This October

Visit Tamara de Lempicka’s First U.S. Retrospective in San Francisco This October

Nearly one hundred years after Tamara de Lempicka (1894-1980) first exhibited her work in San Francisco, a sweeping survey of the storied and glamorous artist opens again in the city. This October, at the de Young—part of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco—the show marks the artist’s first U.S. retrospective and illuminates new details about her life.
de Lempicka’s bold, stylized figures have become synonymous with the 1920s, an era characterized by opulence, sophistication, and youthful optimism. More
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Glass Sculptures by Norwood Viviano Cast Iconic City Skylines Atop Emblems of Local Industry

Glass Sculptures by Norwood Viviano Cast Iconic City Skylines Atop Emblems of Local Industry

“I find myself looking at the world as a surveyor—telling stories through objects,” says Norwood Viviano, whose kiln-cast glass sculptures map iconic city skylines through each location’s recognizable industries. Houston oil, Pittsburgh steel, and Portland timber are represented alongside odes to Detroit “Motor City” and Toledo, “The Glass City.”
Through conversations with historians, urban planners, demographers, climate scientists, and statisticians, Viviano studies layers of data and lore to build an understanding of each city. More
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U.S. Landfills Are Major Sources of Airborne PFAS Pollution, Study Finds

U.S. Landfills Are Major Sources of Airborne PFAS Pollution, Study Finds

Landfills in the United States — one of the country’s biggest sources of pollution — have been found to contain large amounts of toxic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) “forever chemicals.” A recent study has found that PFAS likely make their way into the surrounding environment through gas emitted from landfills, since treatment systems at […]
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