Category Archives: Europe

Travel By Design

Posted on October 27, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

Many thanks to reader Ed Moss for the link to this terrific travel ephemera site. David Levine’s online gallery of 1920s, 30s and 40s travel related ephemera has preserved hundreds of fragile travel brochures, advertisements, maps, time-tables, tickets and various … Continue reading →

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First Billboards, Now..

Posted on October 25, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

First they put up billboards in San Marco, now the Italian government is moving ahead with plans to impose an entry fee on all visitors to Venice who arrive by air, rail or cruise ship. The fee is likely to … Continue reading →

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Who Would Call It Graffiti ?

Posted on October 19, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

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

Posted on October 15, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

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 →

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Here Comes the big Frieze

Posted on October 12, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

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 →

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Is This How We Really See The World ?

Posted on October 3, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

The daring, imaginative Bulgarian artist/graphic designer/illustrator Yanko Tsvetkov has created a terrific website to showcase his hilarious, but biting, Mapping Stereotypes.

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Remembering the Bookseller, Not the Books

Posted on October 2, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

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 →

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Anne Frank, A Graphic Biography

Posted on September 28, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

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 →

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Campaign For Real Books

Posted on September 27, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

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 →

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Covering Lolita

Posted on September 25, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

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 →

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