Haitians tend to build walls with light concrete blocks which are not reinforced and they then use heavy concrete slabs for roofs and ceilings.

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There's a fine, often surprising selection of large, angry, mature abstractions, with their jagged, flamelike shapes and troweled-on expanses of thick pigment, their labored surfaces seductive in the flood of light against warm concrete walls.

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The handsome, earthy building is superb, with glorious, changing, aqueous light diffused through a continuous concrete "web" in most of the second floor exhibition spaces.

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Given Kennedy's high profile, she could shed light on the issue and push for concrete action.

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The floors throughout are a polished gray concrete and the walls are white, while light floods in through the floor-to-ceiling windows.

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The house features walls of concrete blocks, many with a cross pattern that lets light through.

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