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Brad Pitt's Pink House art installation ends Sunday
by René | January 6, 2008 at 03:15 pm | 1493 views | 2 comments
Brad Pitt's Pink House art installation ends SundayPosted by Doug MacCash, Art Critic January 05, 2008 4:20PM
AP PHOTOActor Brad Pitt points to the Make It Right Pink House art installation, representing sites where he hopes to eventually build homes for displaced residents of New Orleans.
Say goodbye to Make It Right's Pink House art installation Sunday (Jan. 6) at 3 p.m., with a free closing concert by the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the 9th Ward's own Lastie Family Gospel and Choir.
The 150 startlingly pink fabric houses appeared in early Dec. as an attention-getter for star Brad Pitt's altruistic project to bring affordable homes to the flood-ravaged neighborhood. Donors have sponsored 65 homes so far and the fund-raising continues. The pink fabric houses will now be used to make collectible hand bags and -- possibly -- umbrellas.
Self-guided tours of the Pink House installation that begin at the corner of Claiborne Avenue and Reynes Street, continue through dusk Monday (Jan. 7).
For information, visit www.makeitrightnola.org.
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January 6, 2008 at 03:15 pm by René, 1493 views, 2 comments
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at 01:53 on January 7th, 2008
striking images.
at 10:13 on January 7th, 2008
The Pink House Exhibit raised an additional $10 million in just five weeks for Make It Right 9 foundation. Brad did an excellent job of publicizing it.
There were exhibits of the architects' models and diagrams of the 'green tech' to be used in their construction, with solar and rain-water collectors.