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Category Archives: Art
Song Map
The Song Map is a “road map made-up of song titles: from Highway to Hell to Penny Lane, Itchycoo Park to Heartbreak Hotel.” The cleverly imagined map, which looks suspiciously like a London map, is the creation of the very inventive design … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Maps, Music
Tagged Heartbreak Hotel, Highway to Hell (song), Itchycoo Park, London, Penny Lane, Song Map
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In March, Read Books You’ve Always Meant To Read
In 1935, President Roosevelt initiated the Works Progress Administration to both create jobs and to encourage community spirit. The much respected New Deal agency recruited millions of Americans from all walks of life and launched thousands of valuable public service … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, History, Libraries, USA, Writing
Tagged Franklin D. Roosevelt, Works Progress Administration, WPA
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Mapping Moby Dick
The Voyage of the Pequod is one in a marvelous series of twelve literary maps based on American and British classics produced by the Harris-Seybold Company of Cleveland, Ohio between 1953 and 1964. The Map of Moby Dick was created … Continue reading
NYC: The Water Tank Project
An impressive roster of New York City artists have signed-on to participate in a consciousness-raising project dubbed The Water Tank Project. Designed to draw public attention to the urgent need for water conservation and the myriad threats to the world’s … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, USA
Tagged Mexico City, Mumbai, New York City, Rio de Janeiro
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Found Libraries
Even though there are still more than 13,000 public payphones on New York City sidewalks, they are seen by most residents as dead technology, if they are noticed at all. But NY architect and civil society activist John Locke, the … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, Books, Libraries, USA
Tagged New York, New York City, Payphone
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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 Art, Canada, Europe, Photography, South America
Tagged Andes, Arctic Circle, China, Israel, Magic realism, Scarlett Hooft Graafland, Site-specific art
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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
