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Category Archives: Art
Iceland Comes to NYC
If you are considering a visit to New York City, and if you love music, you should know that next month NYC’s fantastic Museum of Modern Art is launching an extraordinary retrospective on the work of Iceland’s greatest export, Bjork. … Continue reading
Who Is Eustace Tilley ?
This month the iconic magazine The New Yorker is celebrating its 90th anniversary. To mark the milestone, the publication is being printed with nine different covers. Popular artists, including Peter Mendelsund, Roz Chast, Carter Goodrich, and Kadir Nelson, have riffed … Continue reading
Posted in Art, History, USA, Writing
Tagged Kadir Nelson, Periodicals, Peter Mendelsund, Roz Chast, The New Yorker
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Straight Outta Silver Lake
Los Angeles-based writer and map enthusiast Eric Brightwell has been creating some wonderfully idiosyncratic, hand-drawn maps of his city neighborhood by neighborhood. Under the enigmatic sobriquet Pendersleigh & Son Cartography, the project explores the diverse enclaves and corners of the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Maps, USA
Tagged Compton, Echo Park, Korea Town, Los Angeles, Silver Lake
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The Traveler’s Eye
Hand-tinted tourist postcards are just a sample of the delightful items that make up the current exhibition at the Smithsonian’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of Asian Art in Washington, DC. Titled “The Traveler’s Eye”, the show includes travel souvenirs, maps, photographs, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Asia, History, Museums, Photography, Tourism, Travel Writing, USA
Tagged Mt. Fuji, Postcards, Sackler Gallery, Tokyo, Uyeno Park
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Walking Paris
Korean-born, Tokyo-based artist Hwan Lee wanted to get to really know Paris when she lived there as an exchange student. So she decided to create her own map of the city based on 261 metro stations. But instead of traveling … Continue reading
Judge Not Lest You etc. etc.
We have all heard that old adage “never judge a book by its cover”. Well the Amsterdam-based studios This Page Cannot Be Found and Moore have created an actual book that embodies the reverse of that hackneyed maxim. “The Cover … Continue reading
Like Bremen ?
Like Bremen purports to be a project advertising the historic German port city of Bremen and promoting “cultural integration”. I suspect that the students from the Hochschule für Künste Bremen are having a laugh with their hilarious short films. Somehow … Continue reading
Going, Going, Gone
If you are a regular follower of TBTP, you know that I’m a big fan of the peripatetic French street artist Seth Globepainter (aka Julien Malland). He recently spent some time in Shanghai working with local artists on a series … Continue reading
Love Letter To Libraries
Canadian artist/tour guide/urban geographer Daniel Rotsztain has been devotedly visiting every branch in the extensive Toronto Public Library system and documenting the project with wonderful, whimsical drawings of each branch. With 102 individual libraries to visit, it’s a big project. … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, Books, Canada, Libraries
Tagged Libraries, Library, Toronto
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Bike or Die Trying
French graphic designer Ladislas Chachignot has a passion for travel, biking and illustration. The Aix-en-Provence-based artist has combined all three in his crazy cool project “Easy Rider”. He created the series of illustrations set in eight locations around the world … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Europe, Tourism
Tagged Bicycle Touring, Biking, Paris, poster art, Tuscany
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Travel Between The Pages 