All articles tagged with #wpa
A San Francisco couple unearthed a 150-pound limestone statue buried in their Russian Hill yard, dating it to the 1930s and suggesting a link to WPA-era artists near the San Francisco Art Institute; they plan to display it publicly while they search for its maker.
The 16-panel Alice Mural (1938–40) by Abram Champanier, created for Gouverneur Hospital’s pediatric ward as a WPA project, has been fully reassembled after decades of partial restorations and a dramatic 1981 rescue. It is now exhibited in Another Wonderland: Abram Champanier’s Alice Mural at the Museum of the City of New York (June 6–Sept 20), with two lost panels recreated, before a long-term relocation to NYC Health + Hospitals/Gouverneur, highlighting art’s healing role in public hospitals and ongoing philanthropic support.
An analytics-driven take argues kickers are among the most high-leverage players in football: using Win Percentage Added (WPA) the piece defends Green Bay’s decision to trade up for a kicker, insisting that a reliable, late-game kicker can swing playoff outcomes and that teams should pursue a better kicker via any route—even if kickers are hard to value historically.