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Category Archives: Europe
Who Would Call It Graffiti ?
Whether you call it street art, vandalism or graffiti, Portuguese artist Alexandre Farto, AKA Vhils, has spread his amazing architectural portraiture from Moscow to Milan. The 23 year old artist has been altering building facades and the walls of abandoned … Continue reading
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Memorial De La Shoah
The central Paris Memorial de la Shoah on Wednesday launched a moving exhibition in tribute to the French -Jewish writer Irène Nemirovsky.The extensive collection includes a series of letters she sent months before her arrest and deportation to Auschwitz and … Continue reading
Here Comes the big Frieze
The Frieze Art Fair is the London artworld’s largest, annual contemporary art event. This year the 8th edition of the Regent’s Park show includes 173 galleries from 29 countries, along with an enormous sculpture park, films, music, workshops, talks and special … Continue reading
Is This How We Really See The World ?
The daring, imaginative Bulgarian artist/graphic designer/illustrator Yanko Tsvetkov has created a terrific website to showcase his hilarious, but biting, Mapping Stereotypes.
Posted in Art, Europe, Maps, USA
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Remembering the Bookseller, Not the Books
I was saddened to hear this week of the passing of Dublin’s most genial bookseller, Mr.Enda Cunningham of Cathach Books on Duke Street. It’s been about four years since I last visited the bookshop, and I can’t recall the last … Continue reading
Anne Frank, A Graphic Biography
Many thanks to Nina Dijkstra for this timely post during Banned Books Week: Following the publication of Anne Frank – the graphic biography in the Netherlands at the beginning of July, publications in other countries will follow this autumn. The … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Europe, Freedom of Speech, History, Museums, Writing
Tagged Amsterdam, Anne Frank, Netherlands
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Campaign For Real Books
Many thanks to contributor Evan Smythe for this post: Over the past year, the media has reported over-the-top claims for e-book readers sales and the escalating sales of e-books. Clearly, e-books have a place in the book reading world but … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Bookstore Tourism, Canada, Europe, Freedom of Speech, Libraries, USA, Writing
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Covering Lolita
Many thanks to author and jounalist Dieter Zimmer for this post: Vladimir Nabokov’s modern classic, Lolita, has been banned many time since its first publication in the U.S. . Author Dieter Zimmer has put together an impressive collection of 150 book covers … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Europe, Freedom of Speech, History, USA, Writing
Tagged Banned Books, censorship, Lolita, Nabokov
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From Here to There
The Hand Drawn Map Association is an ongoing website project to archive user submitted hand-drawn maps and other interesting diagrams. The association was created by Philadelphia based artist Kris Harzinski who has collected his favorite maps from the collection to … Continue reading
More Burroughs, Aleister Crowley & Jimmy Page
With William Burroughs in the literary news again these days, a mind-bending article from the June 1975 issue of Crawdaddy magazine has surfaced: When I was first asked to write an article on the Led Zeppelin group, to be based … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Europe, History, Music, Writing
Tagged Aleister Crowley, Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin, Trance, United Kingdom
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Travel Between The Pages 