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Author Archives: Brian D. Butler
Lost Libraries
In an age of data retrieval, when just about anything ever printed can be seen online and is eternally preserved there, and when modern anxiety is fuelled by too much information, we would do well to remember that the loss … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Europe, History, Libraries
Tagged Batrachomyomachia, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Crispin, John Evelyn, Musaeum Clausum, Public Domain Review, Thomas Browne
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Magic in Landscape
Dutch artist/sculptor/photographer Scarlett Hooft Graafland has traveled the globe, from the Arctic Circle to the Andes, and from China to Israel, producing an intoxicating body of work grounded in magical realism and humor. She creates idiosyncratic , site-specific installations that … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, Art, Photography, Canada, South America
Tagged Israel, China, Magic realism, Andes, Arctic Circle, Site-specific art, Scarlett Hooft Graafland
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When the Warming Comes…
Pablo Genovés is a Madrid and Berlin-based multi-media artist who uses found vintage postcards, prints and other ephemera to create magical, and disturbing, digital collages of European museums, palaces, performance spaces and theaters inundated by a rising tide of flood … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Europe, Museums, Photography
Tagged Antiques and Collectibles, Art, Berlin, Ephemera, Madrid, Pablo Genovés, Postcard
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The Last Train to Urville
Urville is the little known capital city of a seaside province of France. It has a population of almost 12 million citizens and is the largest city in Europe. Starting to wonder why you’ve never heard of Urville ? That’s because … Continue reading
Lincoln in Books
The brand new Center for Education and Leadership at Washington DC’s Ford’s Theater Museum sports a ten meter-tall tower of 6,800 books all about President Abraham Lincoln. The books are all histories or biographies about the 16th President, along with … Continue reading
Posted in Books, History, Libraries, Museums, Tourism, USA
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Ford's Theatre, Washington DC
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What’s a Rare Bookman
The exhibition “Ray Safford, Rare Bookman,” which opened yesterday at the Grolier Club, New York City, offers a look into the famed New York firm of Charles Scribner’s Sons and the literary, publishing, and rare book worlds in turn-of-the-century New York. … Continue reading
Posted in Books, History, Libraries, Museums, USA, Writing
Tagged Edward W. Bok, Grolier Club, Lewis Carroll, New York City, Rudyard Kipling, Uncle Remus
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Photographers: Know Your Rights
Actor/activist Joseph Gordon-Levitt, the Gregory Brothers and the ACLU have produced an entertaining and informative little video , with the assistance of the animated ghost of Benjamin Franklin, to inform photographers about their legal rights. This timely film applies to … Continue reading
Travel Guidebook News
Well it was inevitable, the co-stars and co-creators of the sweet and wacky sketch comedy show Portlandia Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen have a book deal. Grand Central Publishing, a Hachette imprint, will release PORTLANDIA: A Guide for Visitors this … Continue reading
A Valentine’s Day Kiss
As today is Valentine’s Day , I thought it would be an appropriate time to bring you the story of Auguste Rodin’s erotically charged masterpiece, The Kiss. The video below from the Tate museums, explains how The Kiss was originally … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Europe, Film, History, Tourism, Uncategorized
Tagged Auguste Rodin, Tate, Tate Modern, Valentine Day
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