At around 8 a.m. Tuesday, artist Brian Goggin rode a boom lift two floors up from Sixth Street, pulled a yellow easy chair out a window of the Hugo Hotel, and the deconstruction of "Defenestration" ...

One of San Francisco's most noticed works of public art, Brian Goggin's "Defenestration" (1997), has begun to show its age. Several of its components - lamps, tables, beds, couches and chairs pitching ...

It's a word you probably don't use all that often, so let's break it down. It's a noun and according to Merriam-Webster it means: "a throwing of a person or thing out of a window." If you live in the ...

Do we need a word for doing it in reverse? By John Hodgman David writes: My friend Tim and I watch a lot of action films. We agree on the definition of defenestration, but can’t agree on what ...