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Category Archives: Art
How A Bookshop Cat Copes
Posted in Animation, Art, Books, Bookstore Tourism
Tagged bookstore cats, Cartoons, Comics
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Mystery, History & some Cartography
One of the joys of being vaccinated against Covid-19 has been the ability to return to bookstore browsing. On my most recent visit to our local indie bookshop (shout out to Newtown Bookshop ) I picked up a copy of … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Europe, History, Maps, Writing
Tagged book illustration, Cara Black, Cartography, Le Marais, Paris, World War II
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Flipping Brilliant
If you ever wax nostalgic for the old iconic railway station flipboards like the one pictured above from Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station, you are going to love this story. Chee-Kit Lai, founder of Mobile Studio Architects, has created what may … Continue reading
Irish Blessings
© Grant Snider Incidental Comics
Mad For Alice
I’ve been mad for Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland books since I borrowed my first copy from my local library as a young child. Any museum or library show on the beloved classics is sure to get my attention. So, I sat … Continue reading
The Best of France
Like many North Americans, I had a romantic notion of France before I actually visited. Growing up with a Francophile Mother who spoke fluent French, read French literature, and played Edith Piaf and Charles Aznavour records daily, I was conditioned … Continue reading
True Grit
By now, regular visitors to TBTP are well aware of my fascination with all forms of printing and printmaking. So it will be no surprise that I was impressed by this brilliant, short demonstration of stone lithography. In the video … Continue reading
Age is just a state of mind (or not)
Inspired by his own series of giant paste-up portraits, the French street artist known as JR started a scheme back in 2011 encouraging people around the world to participate in his Inside Out project by doing their own pastings. They … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Art, Asia, Books, Europe, Middle East, Photography, South America, USA, Writing
Tagged JR, Mural Art, Street Art
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Paris For Free
Every time that I visit Paris, I go to the Louvre. In fact, on some trips I have gone twice in a week. It doesn’t look as though I’ll be popping in to France’s most iconic museum for quite a while. … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, Europe, History, Museums, Tourism
Tagged France, Johannes Vermeer, Musée du Louvre, Paris
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