Word: painting
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Hellman titled her second book of memoirs Pentimento, meaning the brush strokes and old images that struggle to emerge from a repainted canvas. You see that a lot in New Orleans: advertisements for defunct brands of beer and coffee poking through the fading paint of old brick buildings. Indeed, it has always been a city of masks and painted faces, with past mysteries and glories lurking faintly visible underneath...
Like a pentimento, New Orleans has long been a canvas repeatedly repainted. Paint well, my artistic homeboys and girls, and carefully. Preserve the previous layers, and let them guide your brushwork. One false stroke, and the magic could disappear...
...leather banquettes - all in seven days. Meanwhile, the 52 rooms and 39 suites were being meticulously refurbished, with plush silk tones replacing swirly floral patterns that recalled the 1940s. One hallmark of the Bel-Air is that each room and suite is unique, and nearly 500 fabrics and 100 paint colors were used to give each space a different feel. Even the desk lamps vary from room to room. Lopes also tailor-made several suites for the guests who use them most often. These personal touches include a a hand-painted ceiling design, built-in bookshelves and hardwood flooring...
...Memorial Hall or a Widener Library for a new age. In searching for this new signature, the University ought not look at MIT or Stanford or at the latest design that—like the Science Center style of the 70s—will be dated before the paint is dry. It should look into itself to build the Harvard of tomorrow...
...more intelligent part of your brain.” But the Art First celebration was not limited to professional artists. With help from Jack Megan, director of the OFA, as well as the construction company itself, residents of Mather, Dunster, and Leverett House united to paint the gray wall seperating Cowperthwaite St. from the construction zone across the street.“People were a little fatalist about the construction, so this way we can own it more and make it ours,” said Dunster resident Erinn M. Wattie ’06, who helped organize the event...