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'The People's House': Donald Trump's East Wing Demolition Sounds an Echo of Havana's Desecration
Trump’s ballroom will stand as a reminder in limestone, marble, and undoubtedly gold, of what was taken from us. By Rosa LowingerNovember 19, 2025 Change by decree: Donald Trump's East Wing demolition substitutes individual vanity for public vision and replaces stewardship with spectacle. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images Great government houses are never still. They grow, age, and change with their nations, each alteration leaving a trace of the ideals and anxieties of its time.
Commentary: The East Wing’s demolition is a lasting scar of Trump’s America
Great government houses are never still. They grow, age and change with their nations, each alteration leaving a trace of the ideals and anxieties of its time. Architecture is the archive that never stops recording. To tear down a part of it is to edit the story of who we are as a nation.
Commentary: The East Wing's demolition is a lasting scar of Trump's America
Great government houses are never still. They grow, age and change with their nations, each alteration leaving a trace of the ideals and anxieties of its time. Architecture is the archive that never stops recording. To tear down a part of it is to edit the story of who we are as a nation.
Contributor: The East Wing's demolition is a lasting scar of Trump's America
An excavator sits on the rubble of the White House's East Wing after President Trump had it demolished in October to make room for a 90,000-square-foot gilded ballroom on the property. (Alex Wong/Getty Images) Great government houses are never still. They grow, age and change with their nations, each alteration leaving a trace of the ideals and anxieties of its time. Architecture is the archive that never stops recording. To tear down a part of it is to edit the story of who we are as a nation.
Free Clinic Teaches Angelenos How to Repair Damaged Art
LOS ANGELES — Art conservation is usually thought of as a specialized practice that happens behind closed doors — tucked away in museum basements or labs — not something you’d associate with pop-up events or community gatherings. But after the devastating January wildfires tore through parts of Southern California, that image is getting an inspiring shake-up through free art conservation clinics designed to help people save and restore the things they love.
Jagged wounds bleed orange rust: Family dysfunction viewed through art - review
Rosa Lowinger, author of Dwell Time, grew up in a family that provides added meaning to the term “dysfunctional.” She is an art conservator, who looks at her family through the prism of her profession. Concrete is one example of the interplay between the two. “Reinforced concrete is a perfect metaphor for marriage,” Lowinger writes. Like a couple providing mutual support, the steel strengthens the concrete; the cement’s alkaline nature keeps the steel from corroding.
Life as a Art Conservator: Learning to Be Grateful for Failure
I’d been in practice as a conservator of art and architecture for about twenty-five years when I had my first big, bona fide failure. Before then I’d made only minor errors that could be easily fixed and disclosed—as our profession requires us to do—with little fanfare or consequence. My irreparable blunder came in 2009, when the world was in economic freefall and there was little work to be had.
In Art Conservation, There Is No Perfect Solution
Editor’s Note: The following text has been excerpted with permission and adapted from Dwell Time: A Memoir of Art, Exile, and Repair by Rosa Lowinger, published by Row House Publishing on October 10 and available online and in bookstores. I am often asked why contemporary art needs conservation. Sounds like a fair question. All works of art were once contemporary, and many were conserved within years of being made.
Monsters, Magic, and Imagination: Writing Jewish Fantasy
I’m a Jewish author. I always have been, in the sense that I have always been Jewish and have been a professional author for close to twenty years. I write fantasy for adults, teenagers, and younger children — stories of magic, imaginary lands, mythical creatures. Stories of heroes and monsters and wars and romances. In the past I’ve spoken occasionally about how my Jewish identity and upbringing have contributed to the way I write and to the things I write about.
Returning to Cuba: Art Conservation and Family History
In the early 1990s, about a decade after I started my professional career in art conservation, I decided to attend a preservation conference in Havana. This decision came out of nowhere. Though both my parents and I had been born in Cuba, my childhood had been fraught with stresses that were rooted in our Cuban past. My mother, for example, had grown up motherless and destitute in a Havana Jewish orphanage.
DWELL TIME | Kirkus Reviews
A mostly compelling account of one woman’s struggles within Trumpworld. An insider’s account of the rampant misconduct within the Trump administration, including the tumult surrounding the insurrection of Jan. 6, 2021. Hutchinson, who served as an assistant to Mark Meadows, Trump’s former White House chief of staff, gained national prominence when she testified to the House Select Committee, providing possibly the most damaging portrait of Trump’s erratic behavior to date.
Randy (Randolph) Becker
Randy (Randolph) Becker was the founder and president of Becker Construction PDR Inc. Randy impacted many people during his too-short lifetime. But a group of us have a special relationship with him—those of us who hired Randy to work on our houses and businesses. For Pacific Palisades resident Monica Christie, that began way back in the early 2000s. Monica called Randy to help fix a few things in the spec house they moved into.
Bridges to/from Cuba: Lifting the Emotional Embargo
Hola Reader-Friends, As this is our first post in 2016, we want to begin by wishing all of you a very happy new year! We thank you for your support and look forward to hearing from you. This month we are delighted to have Rosa Lowinger blog for us; she is a renowned conservation specialist, curator, and writer.
Tropicana Nights|Paperback
9780156032605 Tropicana Nights available in Paperback ISBN-10: 0156032600 ISBN-13: 9780156032605 Pub. Date: 10/01/2006 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN-10: 0156032600 ISBN-13: 9780156032605 Pub. Date: 10/01/2006 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt At Tropicana you could play the roulette wheel, dance to the latest mambo or rumba, or simply ogle the parading goddesses of the flesh.
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