‘Dear Julia’ exhibit honors mosaic master’s muse

Philadelphia mosaic artist Isaiah Zagar in his Magic Gardens. Image by TexasDex. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
Philadelphia mosaic artist Isaiah Zagar in his Magic Gardens. Image by TexasDex. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

 

PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens is a mirrored mosaic dream scape, the culmination of the art that Isaiah Zagar has tiled on alleyways, storefronts and townhouses along the city’s funky South Street corridor.

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Recast of ‘Standing Lincoln’ to be installed at Saint-Gaudens site

Original 'Abraham Lincoln: The Man' monument in Lincoln Park Chicago. Statue by Augustus Saint-Gaudens installed in 1887. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Original ‘Abraham Lincoln: The Man’ monument in Lincoln Park Chicago. Statue by Augustus Saint-Gaudens installed in 1887. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

 

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) – More than a century after the promise of “plenty of Lincoln-shaped men” attracted one of the greatest sculptors of the late 19th century to rural New Hampshire, a replica of his famed monument to the fallen president is being installed on the grounds of his former home and studio.

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Chrysler automobile museum reopening to public

1915 Dodge Brothers Touring Car photographed at the Walter P. Chrysler Car Museum in Auburn Hills, Michigan. Photo by Douglas Wilkinson for www.RemarkableCars.com Copyright 2006 www.RemarkableCars.com
1915 Dodge Brothers Touring Car photographed at the Walter P. Chrysler Car Museum in Auburn Hills, Michigan. Photo by Douglas Wilkinson for www.RemarkableCars.com Copyright 2006 www.RemarkableCars.com courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

 

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) – The Walter P. Chrysler Museum in suburban Detroit is reopening to the public for several days a month for the first time in several years.

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