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 NORFOLK, VA.- The Chrysler Museum of Art showcases a snapshot of historic Norfolk in Portraits of a City: Views of Norfolk by Kenneth Harris. The exhibition is on view August 24, 2011 to January 29, 2012. Admission is free.
A selection of 30 of Harris’s beautifully crafted watercolors from the Chrysler Collection provides a nostalgic glance at the bustling seaport in the 1950s. In 1949 Norfolk became the first city in the United States to take part in the newly enacted federal Housing Act, which was designed to replace decaying urban buildings with new construction. Norfolk was soon in the throes of wholesale urban renewal, which involved the razing of decaying neighborhoods, construction of public housing, and a massive redesign of the city’s commercial core. Arriving in Norfolk in the midst of this transformation, Harris began painting watercolors of the city’s monuments and areas of decay. He quickly caught the attention of John David Hatch, the director of the Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences (now the Chrysler Museum). Noting that Norfolk possessed little visual material documenting its history, Harris was commissioned to create a series of contemporary topographical views of the city. After an exhibition at the Museum in 1952, the watercolors traveled to museums and galleries in the Southeast until 1954. When the paintings returned to Norfolk, several of the sites had already been demolished.
After years of waiting, Norfolk’s light rail system (called “The Tide”) will officially begin service on August 19th, 2011. This will be the first modern light rail system in Virginia!
“A key part of traveling is delighting in surprises you find. Norfolk, Va., provided that recently on a trip, a place with a terrific culinary, arts and sports scene. I’d gone thinking, “Well, old, southern, mid-Atlantic city, big deal,” and came away realizing I’d hit one of the mid-Atlantic’s best-kept secrets, at least to us northerners.”
-Paul Kandarian, The Boston Globe
A flickr set of Norfolk by xGrendelx
Of the three rulings that are wrong, it is the best written of the three.
- Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli • Speaking to Regent University about a judge’s ruling that the health care reform law is constitutional. An unexpected compliment, if somewhat damning the ruling with the faintest of praise, Cuccinelli apparently has the most passing respect for the argument advanced by Washington Judge Gladys Kessler, who seems to suggest the insurance mandate is legal because hospitals are themselves legally bound to provide emergency care to those who can’t pay, which is a money drain that is abysmally downplayed in these cost-cutting discussions. Cuccinelli, however, had this final say: “I still don’t think the distinction that the judge relies on holds up. I don’t find it compelling.” source (via • follow)(Source: shortformblog)
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5PM, Nov 16 2011
