beaux arts

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For their next waltz, Mr. Rockwell and Lasvit have partnered on Constellation, a lighting collection inspired by New York City’s night sky — and the Beaux-Arts celestial ceiling mural at Grand Central Terminal.

From New York Times

“We are entering the era of dictatorship,” said Maia Laffont, 23, a third-year psychology student, standing beneath stone busts of notable French scientists rising from the facade of the Beaux-Arts building, now scrawled with anti-Macron graffiti.

From New York Times

Built in 1928 as part of a beaux-arts civic center, it sits in the heart of Duluth’s now-blighted downtown, where cocktail bars and coworking spaces form a checkerboard with abandoned storefronts.

From Seattle Times

When removed, Mr. Blanton was championing an ill-conceived plan that, if realized, would damage significant historic interior spaces in the grand Beaux-Arts building.

From Washington Post

The gilded and marbled Beaux-Arts Biltmore Hotel rose that year to lord over Pershing Square like a glamorous Vanderbilt debutante; its own legend holds that the Black Dahlia drank perhaps her last drink here, and that the fan-besieged Beatles arrived perforce by helicopter, landing on the roof.

From Los Angeles Times