Monthly Archives: February 2011

ghosts

Ohio University’s Kennedy  Museum of Art, occupant of the central administrative core of the Athens Lunatic Asylum, has in its magnificent Kirkbride spaces put up a show entitled Phantoms Shadows and Phenomena. I attended the opening a few weeks ago … Continue reading

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windows

Dr. Thomas Story Kirkbride, nineteenth century superintendent of the Philadelphia Hospital for the Insane and codifier of the architecture and design of the American moral treatment movement in psychiatry, would have felt himself on familiar ground reading Scott Carlson’s Buildings … Continue reading

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