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Author Archives: Brian D. Butler
Art Everywhere (almost)
Inspired by the UK Art Everywhere project, the Outdoor Advertising Association of America launched Art Everywhere US this week in Times Square NYC. The program will be placing posters and billboards of fifty eight curated paintings at sites throughout the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, History, Museums, USA
Tagged Edward Hopper, George Tooker, James McNeil Whistler, Mary Cassatt, Richard Diebenkorn
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Change at Crossroads for Casterly Rock
Designer Michael Tyznik has produced a set of terrific maps imagining a fully developed Westeros rail transit network. If you’re not a George R. R. Martin fan, this will mean nothing to you. If you are, check out all of … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Maps, USA
Tagged Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin, Song of Fire and Ice, Westeros
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Vienna Hangout
The Flederhaus is the newest addition to Vienna’s wonderful Museum Quarter education and entertainment district. Based on a pun of the word fledermaus, which means bat in German, the Flederhaus is an open five floor structure containing 28 hammocks free … Continue reading
Gifs Go Wild
The prankster street art duo known as In Return (aka Guus ter Beek and Tayfun Sarier) have taken their latest project to the streets of London. “Gifs Go Wild” consists of framed animated installations attached to bus stops, light poles, … Continue reading
Stockholm’s Neoteric Travel Guide
Stockholm’s popular cab company Taxi Stockholm has created a website for visitors that aims to offer a novel approach to the city travel guide. Taxi Trails uses data from thousands of cab trips to highlight spots where people are actually … Continue reading
Louvre’s New Attraction
This summer the Louvre is featuring an extra added attraction for visitors who linger in the Carrousel and Tuilerie Gardens—a herd of rats. Not quite as cute and cuddly as the cast of Ratatouille, these rodents have proliferated throughout the gardens … Continue reading
Just Books, No Cookies
h/t to the Greene County Public Library
Posted in Animation, Books, Libraries, movies, Writing
Tagged Ghost Busters, Muppets, Seinfeld
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Small World Big Art
Small World Books is a haven for book, music and art lovers in Rochester, New York. Last month, the secondhand bookshop owner Rocco Pellegrino commissioned this lovely wall mural by peripatetic Italian artist/illustrator/designer Alice Pasquini for his city’s 4th annual Wall\Therapy … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Bookstore Tourism, Tourism
Tagged Book stores, Mural Art, Rochester, Street Art
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Discover London
Transport for London has released a marvelous series of retro travel posters and ads that hopes to inspire Londoners —and visitors too —to spend time exploring one of the world’s greatest cities. The campaign encourages folks to get out and … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Europe, Tourism
Tagged London Tourism, London Transport, Transport for London
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Art Appreciation 101
After listening to the world news I needed a good laugh. So many thanks to TBTP reader Vernon Coram for the link to Scorpion Dagger. James Kerr, the artist wiz kid behind the blog, reworks Renaissance paintings into hilarious, irreverent, … Continue reading
