Category Archives: Europe

Steam Returns to the Underground

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

I was dead chuffed to hear that on Saturday night Transport for London (TFL) carried out tests designed to demonstrate the feasibility of running a steam locomotive on the London Underground for its 150th anniversary next year. Locomotive Met no. … Continue reading →

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RedBall (not Bull) Project

Posted on February 23, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

New York City-based Kurt Perschke ia an artist who works in collage, print, sculpture, video and public installation. His best known work, the very fun RedBall Project, is a global, traveling street art project that has playfully infiltrated Chicago, Toronto, … Continue reading →

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Lost Libraries

Posted on February 22, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

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 →

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Magic in Landscape

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

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 →

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When the Warming Comes…

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

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 →

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The Last Train to Urville

Posted on February 19, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

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 →

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A Valentine’s Day Kiss

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

As today is Valentine’s Day , I thought it would be an appropriate time to bring you the story of Auguste Rodin’s erotically charged masterpiece, The Kiss. The video below from the Tate museums,  explains how The Kiss was originally … Continue reading →

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Running Paris

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

The very clever folks at Le3 Paris created this terrific video of a running tiger on the streets of Paris at night. They claim that it was accomplished with absolutely no post-production trickery whatsoever. I don’t know if that’s entirely … Continue reading →

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All the Books in the World

Posted on February 12, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

This heartwarming short story by Croatian author/illustrator Darko Macan and Tihomir Celanovic will bring a tear to the eye of any bibliophile. All the books in the world, except for one:

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Mapping Charles Dickens

Posted on February 10, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

If you follow this blog you are well aware of the varied events, exhibitions and publications celebrating what would have been Charles Dickens’ 200th birthday. You can discover many of the happenings surrounding the Bicentenary by visiting the Museum of … Continue reading →

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