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Category Archives: Art
Reading 1932
Pablo Picasso, La Lecture (The Reading) 1932 : The artist’s “muse” Marie-Therese Walter asleep in a chair with a book in her lap.
There is no frigate like a book
There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away Nor any Coursers like a Page Of prancing Poetry – This Traverse may the poorest take Without oppress of Toll – How frugal is the Chariot That bears … Continue reading
A Love Letter To New York
Photographer Jonathan Higbee describes his ongoing street photography project Coincidences as a “love letter to New York City”. Higbee’s paean to his adopted hometown documents serendipitous moments of people on the streets of the city. Although the images sometimes seem posed or … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography, Tourism, USA
Tagged Manhattan, New York City, street photography
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The Shapes of Stories
The always spot on cartoonist Grant Snider created this terrific graphic representation of Kurt Vonnegut’s timeless lecture on the shapes of stories.
Posted in Art, Books, Film, USA, Writing
Tagged Cartoons, Grant Snider, Kurt Vonnegut
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Bowie In Brooklyn
Tomorrow the critically acclaimed traveling exhibition David Bowie is will open at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City. The retrospective on the late artist’s five-decade career began at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum in August 2013 and has been touring ever … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Film, Museums, Music, Photography, Tourism, USA
Tagged Brooklyn Museum, David Bowie, New York, NYC
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We Miss Them So Much
Earlier this month, the Smithsonian Museum of American Art and National Portrait Gallery unveiled the official portraits of former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. I wasn’t much impressed by the images of the paintings that I saw … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, Museums, USA
Tagged National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C
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Falter not O book, fulfil your destiny
Posted in Art, Books, USA, Writing
Tagged Heritage Press, Leaves of Grass, Rockwell Kent, Walt Whitman
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Mind The Gap
Those of you who visit this blog on a regular basis already know that I have an inordinate interest in travel posters, graphic design, and especially public transport system safety posters. So it will come as little surprise that I … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Europe, Public Transport
Tagged London, London Underground, poster art, TFL, The Tube, Travel Posters
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Middle Earth Parks
Dan Bell is a very talented amateur cartographer who loves J.R.R. Tolkien’s iconic Middle Earth maps and national parks too. He has combined his interests in a wonderful series of Tolkien-style maps of parks in the U.K. and the U.S.. … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Europe, Maps, USA
Tagged Cartography, J. R. R. Tolkien, Middle Earth, the Hobbit
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