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Brad Pitt's Pink House art installation ends Sunday

Posted 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.

Source: blog.nola.com via René

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